October 3rd, 2008
Yep, listen. There is something here that is about to break out into brilliance.
If you are from Cape Ann, you should download it, for all the cross references to our lives and the understanding of the underling stories.
Thought the stories were not what caught me, it was the Kate Bush cover of Suspended In Gaffa, it is brilliant. If you are a fan of Vampire Weekend, run, don’t walk and take a listen.
And I leave you with some of the lyrics of “St. Peter’s Day Festival”
If I go to Gloucester you know I will
wait there for you
The Rhumb Line is waiting there too
you know it’s worth the nights we wait there
it all falls apart, apart
come on
come on
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August 6th, 2008
Brian Eno and David Byrne are coming out with a new CD this month.
Byrne is going on tour with the new music and they have offered a free track for your e-mail address. Well worth the e-mails, it’s a great track.
Learn more and get the free track at their new website.
http://www.everythingthathappens.com/
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July 29th, 2008
There is a pun in there somewhere.
If there is one man that changed the way that I listen to environments it would be Tom Waits. Complete, with raw sounds and voice. He takes story telling to a new level of life. Mr. Tom has just finished up a tour in the USA and has graced us with publishing a 2 hour show on NPR for us to download.
It is a great selection of old an new classic Tom.
The easiest way that I found to download it is through the iTunes link above released on 7/28/08.
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July 1st, 2008
I am giddy, just by the thought of have more people on board to write on sounds and zounds. Steve and Eric have join me in writing about music and music reviews. They are both great musicians and collectors of music and I can’t wait to hear what types of new and old music that I will be exposed to.
Till then - let the beat go on.
Welcome guys!
-Eoin
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July 1st, 2008
I had a great summer surprise, “thao, We Brave Bee Stings and All”. This is musically fairly simply pop, with nice streaks of atmospheric textures, that give the music a intimate feel. What caught me was her story tell with lyrically frame works that make you think twice about what she is singing about. Bag of Hammers is my pick from the new CD, complete with great runs of words. “Shake the frame of this house /distress the wood make it shout / And as sharp as I sting /As sharp as i sing / It still soothes you doesn’t it / Like a lick of ice cream
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May 23rd, 2008
Sorry for the very long absence. I have been very busy, but more than that, I have not heard any music that really has had any impact on me.
I ran into a bunch of interesting music for short interludes, but no long running classics.
Things to look at if you have not.
Vampire Weekend is the summer music selection for right now.
Daniel Lanois “Here is What is” has been the thinking music, with touches of Eno.
and Sigur Ros “Hvarf - Heim” has been my writing music. With memories of travels.
I will write more soon. Sorry for the delay.
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March 11th, 2008
For the last 4 years, SXSW publishes free music for us to enjoy and consume. This years 3.4 GB of music, being distributed by a torrent file, can be found here. http://hewgill.com/sxsw/
This like all promotions, if you like it suport the artists and buy their music…
I am downloading it now…
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March 2nd, 2008
When I first heard of the Bang on the Can cover of the classic Brian Eno CD Music for Airports I was very skeptical that anyone could rework this selection of music and bring something new to it without ruining it. After the first listen, I felt like I was hearing this masterpiece for the first time again. They brought something new and creative, bringing it into there world, without destroying the core of the tracks. In the days, of today, when everyone is doing covers, it is nice to hear one that lives up to the original.
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January 19th, 2008
In 2005 we lost one of the more interesting blues guitarist of this era. His 1998 album “Dirt Floor” does a brilliant job of describing his sound. Textured and simple, clean and dirty, brilliantly simple with the complexes creates brilliant story telling. Dislocated blues was started at Jeff Lang studio before his death and thankfully published by Rounder. Jeff Lang is a slide guitarist, but there balance is perfect between Chris guitar. Perfect cold weather blues.
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January 7th, 2008
More Surprises. At least that is what a long trip to Tanzania will bring out in a ipod. I have for some time been a fan of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan music. This is due mostly to the work he did with Michael Brook before his death. So, before I left I noticed that Gaudi (who I had never heard of before) had done a CD of Dub music with his sing over lad it. At first listen I was not very impressed by it, but I put it on my ipod for a future listen.
On the first night of my trip this CD was found and from that point on every night it became my sleeping music. To note this music is not for everyone. If you do not like the Qawwali chant sound one might feel like it sounds like someone crying, but I find some amazing emotion and peace in this type of music. Plus the mixture of Dub and Qawwali is a pleasant surprise.
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