Given the current environment, I feel this could be my last opportunity to do a grand song cycle in the spirit of double album favorites. It will be released vinyl-only (with a download) and we are aiming for a Summer 2012 release date. Right now the expenses are all on battered and bruised credit cards and this project can’t move forward without real assistance.
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Built to Spill - Built to Spill
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Robert Pollard - Love is Stronger than Witchcraft
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
“The so-called “harmony of the spheres” led a drummer I once had beers with to say that if the harmony of the spheres ever came near him he’d ‘pop it upside the jaw.’ In this town you don’t have to listen long to realize that the music coming from on high can’t be heard for the noise the police helicopters make.”
Nathaniel Mackey, from Bedouin Hornbook
"I once asked Han Bennink if he gets frustrated playing other peoples odd drums on the road. His response: ‘No man, I always take my drums with me…they’re in my head!’"
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The Radio Dept. - Worst Taste in Music
"Look at our society. These are risky times. To me the question shouldn’t be is the music atonal. It should be, is it atonal enough?"
— Ken Vandermark, from Musician
Said the gramophone
The compact disc. It doesn’t wear out, even if you use it. Terrifying. It’s as though you’d never used it. So it’s as though you didn’t exist. If things don’t get old any more, then that’s because it’s you who are dead.
When it reaches perfection, music technology becomes a dark room, musical delight becomes posthumous delight.
In time, they will no doubt reintroduce acoustic interference and viruses, to provide an illusion of life and wear.
Jean Baudrillard, from Cool Memories II (1987-1990)
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The Cure - Why Can’t I Be You?
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Gil Scott-Heron—“Lady Day and John Coltrane”
Pieces of a Man (Flying Dutchman 1971).
Notes toward the supreme fiction.
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“I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” - The Four Tops
(Source: iamsangsouvanh)
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Julie Doiron - Snow Falls in November
