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The Big Flood

2007-11-09T17:32:00.000-08:00

"Thousands of people who left their homes amid fears of flooding are returning after the biggest tidal surge for half a century."

News line from back home in sunny Suffolk.
Feel bad as i knew nothing of this rather serious happening to my little seaside home.

a rather wonderful photo from the BBC site showed the extremeness...for Suffolk where the biggest waves i've seen couldnt knock over a small child (usually).

On this theme i thought i would post a few relatable tracks about water.. these 3 artists are often unknown i seem to find yet normally go down exceptionally well.
have a wee listen.

I Am Kloot - 'The Same Deep Water As Me'

Matisyahu - 'Got No Water'

Von Südenfed - 'Flooded'

if i came across a blog with those three tracks next to each other i would be very impressed at the abviously mad skillz of the author who blates would have such an amazingly wide musical interest.

Current Favourites

2007-11-03T18:01:00.000-07:00

i just had to redo this all as the computer crashed..

so here we are..
just thought i would post a few pieces of music/film that i am currently highly enjoying.
not sure the direction of this blog..may be for my academic (if you call 'art' academic..) work, as well as music/film/artists/photos/personal interest...etc so just read/listen/watch as you do so wish.

Right click and 'save link as' or click to preview.

Jahcoozi - "BLN"
Jahcoozi - "Takin' Your Street"
Jahcoozi - "Rainbow Coloured Rizzla"
Jahcoozi sounds like Kate Nash/Princess Superstar/Dub Pistols mixed up with a little dose of humour..

www.myspace.com/jahcoozi

Seabear - "I Sing I Swim"
Seabear sounds like the perfect film score for any film ever made with that lovely recognisable acoustic arty touch.

visit their myspace page for a beautiful rendition of 'teenage kicks'.
www.myspace.com/seabear

Zap Mama - "Call Waiting"
Zap Mama sounds like a Belgium Bjork singing over meditative break-beats.

www.myspace.com/zapmama

I came across this video on Filter-Mag, its a great piece of film and choreographed dance to Feist's song 1, 2, 3, 4 i really really like it, the way it evolves and gets better and better and isn't made from loads of flashy camera special effects or nothing. anyway thought it was well worth a post. If you are not familiar with Feist then click the link yeahhh ?

Director - Patrick Daughters
Choreographer - Noemie Lafrance

enjoy

h x

"Wooden Shjips"

2007-11-02T17:32:00.000-07:00

An Essay I Wrote Without My Parents Consent.

We see the eyes. And they wander, trying to find safety in the music that repeats itself. Yet it is always evolving. SHRINKING MOON. The voice echoes over the droning guitars bringing the focus back in on the set drum beat, set by the rhythm of the song which is setting itself by the space they are performing in. feet start to tap, fingers tap. It is ‘nice’. No: Confusing, what does it mean though? It has nothing behind it to make you listen but you do because you can and you want to see through it and be understanding and knowledgeable but maybe you’re not supposed to.
Just see where it goes.
FALL, THE SUN RISES, CUTS THROUGH THE BLACK CLOUDS.

The piece has changed it had captured me enough so that when I see myself watching it I was so concentrated and focused I didn't notice the instruments changing the voices sticking in your mind. “What does it all mean?” Is not a question it seems to be a fact of what the genre is.
A sound starts to be played in the perceived reverse of what may just be a sound pan in an inverted way. Our ears pick up the harmony and melodies sounding correct and the music sounds like music to our ears. Yet the me I am watching is looking deeper perhaps he has a deeper understanding of this strand of noise and sound than i do. He says “A Sound Is Not A Sound”. This is what I say but he understands it. He thinks this music has more than just a nice harmony that makes it sound good as I said, he believes it has a feeling a sense of place, perhaps a preset atmosphere.

"The composer was weeping onto the paper", he says.
Now we read it and we learn it but we do not cry.
We just think its 'nice'.

My Face On A Green Door.

2007-11-02T14:28:00.000-07:00

Hi. This is me. I am tall, most probably taller than you.
Apparently this passport photo actually looks like me
unlike the usual strange passport photos that people seem to have,
i just look strange.
I am a first year student at Middlesex University.
I am studying the BA Sonic Arts degree.

Its basially a course for prententious musicians and artists.

Though I'll probably get the beats for saying that.