After spending the day watching the DNC Convention implode (and it’s just getting started), I thought I’d add a soundtrack to distract from their misery. Here’s Renato Carosone for your amusement.
Month: July 2016
[Music] Hypnopazūzu (David Tibet & Youth) – Magog at the Maypole
Hypnopazūzu are a brand new group pairing the legendary producer and Killing Joke bassist Youth and Current 93 frontman David Tibet. Their first album will be released through House of Mythology.
[Music] Measuring The Sound Of Angels Singing
UCLA professor Sharon Gerstel’s work in studying how Byzantine church architecture helped to enhance the sound of liturgical chants was featured at UCLA’s Newsroom blog.
[Music] Jönsson Tõll & Mauno Koivisto – Mulla Ei Oo Aavistustakaan Mitä Tää Kaikki Paska Suomeksi Tarkoittaa
Two identities, one artist. Jönsson Tõll is a composer who is based out of Portugal. This release features some of his own work, plus more under his working monicker, Mauno Koivisto. Of of the most beautifully bleak techno albums I’ve heard in ages.
[Music] Enrico Coniglio ~ Bragos series: Astrùra / Solèra — a closer listen
There are different schools of thought when it comes to the production of “soundscapes.” There is R. Murray Schafer, who coined the term, and his World Soundscape Project, which approaches the soundscape as “acoustic ecology.” Some have criticized his approach as nostalgic, with romantic notions of pre-industrial life, constructing a division between nature and […]
via Enrico Coniglio ~ Bragos series: Astrùra / Solèra — a closer listen
[Music] Josef K – Sorry For Laughing (‘Only Fun In Town’ Version)
Though Josef K would re-record this song and make a hit out of it, this original version has a more raw, jittery feel to it.
[Typography] Sites We Like: Lu Yu & Brandtpunt — The Typekit Blog
Fonts in the Freight collection are popular picks, and it’s easy to see why. Check out how two very different sites create their own unique looks with thoughtful pairings of varied weights and styles. Lu Yu Lu Yu‘s portfolio site makes gorgeous use of Freight Big — not a usual choice for longer text sections, but […]
[Music] Shocking Blue – Send Me A Postcard
Beat’s hottest singer, Mariska Veres, tearing it up for Shocking Blue at a club in 1968.
[Music] Greek Psychedelia — The New Elastic Infinite
Why haven’t I done a show on Greece before now? It is senseless! Greek psychedelia is the super most wow I’m blown away! Turn on and tune in to Global Psychedelia this Saturday from 2-4PM central (WEFT 90.1FM and streaming at weft.org) for these two hours of inner-cosmic freak outs from Greece. Acid Baby Jesus […]
[Music] WAHNSINN — VINYL CONNECTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGtiXfLOGc
Tarot by Walter Wegmüller is one of those wonderful, dotty follies of vinyl packaging that transcend normal expectations with bravura wackiness. Released on the Cosmic Couriers label ((Die Kosmischen Kuriere, for those who do Deutsch) in 1973, it hovers near the very peak of my LP Grail list. I’ve never held a copy, never […]
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 