According to Simon Reynolds (Writer for The Wire) Creel Pone is a mystery project that started around 2005. To the uninitiated music lover, but serious art lover, this project struck me as beautiful and exciting. For all I know, music lovers do this sort of thing all the time. UP until recently, I was a […]
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Listening to music over and over contaminates it.
posted by lisathatcher
Listening to music over and over contaminates it. Repeated listening robs the music of autonomy. Listening is stealing. Reading is a collaboration. Music soaks me up. It absorbs me. When I go back to a piece of music over and over I erode its inner direction and I colonize it. The music loses its […]
Sun Ra: the sun always rises
posted by lisathatcher
“What’s the difference between a man and a human being?” In early 1971 Sun Ra was artist-in-residence at University of California, Berkeley, teaching a course called “The Black Man In the Cosmos”. Rather few students enrolled but the classes were often full of curious persons from the surrounding community. One half-hour of each class was […]
The Weeknd – House of Balloons: R&B chic horror
posted by lisathatcher
I’ve been listening to this chilling album for a few days now – I was introduced to it on Monday, downloded my free ‘mixtape’ Monday night. At that stage there were one hundred thousand or so hits on the song on You Tube and my boyfriend was saying “you’ve got to hear this! Everyone is […]
My favorite Leonard Cohen Album: Songs of Love and Hate.
posted by lisathatcher
(I have also reviewed Leonard Cohen’s latest album.) So what’s your favourite Leonard Cohen Album? We are told that a new album is on its way, due January 2012. The Net-town is a a-buzz with chat about which album is the best, and I confess to it being a delicious way to fizzle away time. After all, […]
The deep Freeze Mice – music for the future of somewhere.
posted by lisathatcher
Just a little plug for The Deep freeze Mice ’cause I’m blissing out to My Gerainiums are Bulletproof and falling in love with this kewell Brit new wave band all over again. This is such a great album. Check out the blurb from the cover: Credits from MOLE 1 – photocopied sleeve Sherree Lawrence Alan […]
Bad as Me: Tom Waits and the new jazz.
posted by lisathatcher
Bad as Me is Tom Waits fist studio album in seven years and the great news for Tom Waits fans is that it is a proper and decent return to style. On Bad as Me we have the return of that tinkly piano we love so much. There is also more guitar work than more […]
Midge Ure
posted by lisathatcher
I’m in an 80’s mood today so I wanted to toss in two of my favourite 80’s songs. Remarkably both of these have the phenomenal Midge Ure at their nexus. I happen to think Vienna was one of the most progressive songs of the 80’s – or at least the early 80’s period. It was […]
Getting In League with the Humans
posted by lisathatcher
In 1977 something very exciting happened. Two young dudes – Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh were working on one of those youth arts projects (Meatwhsitle – a prime feeder of Fringe festivals from what I can gather) as computer operators and … they met. A mutual love of avant guard music and being interested […]
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