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Here We Go Magic

eoinvincent — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:45:10 +0000

Here We Go Magic’s new CD Pigeons many not be for everyone, but there is something here that I am really enjoying. The texture, the highs and lows. It just seems to fit the place that I am in today.

Dark was the Night

eoinvincent — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:29:59 +0000

This is a collection of songs that 4AD has released with profits benefitting the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS.
Dark was the night, has something for everyone. It really is a who’s who of alternative music. The first disc I am really enjoying the tracks Train Song, Cello Song and Knotty Pine, but I for see that it will be only a matter of time that the rest starts growing on me.

let the cold wind blow

eoinvincent — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:02:24 +0000

It must be that time of year. Everything is colder and the New England weather chases me to emotional epic music. The work has pilled up and the need to think and work, during these times I often find the dramatic based music, works the best. In 2009 or should I say this end of 2008 has left us with some great emotionally centering music.

To start your winter of 09 collection of emotional classics, we should start with Johann Johannsson “Fordlandia”. This is a large work that at times reminds me of the music of Arvo Part, ebbs and flows of strings and emotions. Very moving music, is based on string arrangements that can take you to dark places, giving us places to reflect and pushes us forward.

If strings are not for you and you prefer the beeps and cracks of the modern electric sound. Fennesz “Black Sea” takes you for a ride if amazingly full textures of sound, what weave melodic states and emotional friction of sound. This is probably Fennesz most excess-able CD since Venice.

I can not forget looking a Sigur Ros for some emotional solstice. Their CD “Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust” that came out this year hits every energy source know to our being. Laughter and forgetting, reflection and pain can all be found in these tracks that I can not understand vocally, but I don’t need to. I have been hovering around the song Festival and the title track a lot lately.

Happy New Year! and hear is to the hope of more great music in 2009.

Peace.

Why am I smiling…Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

eoinvincent — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:06:08 +0000

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/

Free Tom Waits!

eoinvincent — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:47:07 +0000

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.

Bang on a can

eoinvincent — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:01:46 +0000

Artist: Bang on a can

Album: Music for Airports (Live)

Rating: 5 out of 5

Media: CD

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.