Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The Unwinding Hours - Acoustic Tour CD (The Full Moon Updates)



The Unwinding Hours have risen from the ashes of the great Aereogramme. In their first album Craig B. and Iain Cook didn't forget our needs for haunted ballads and emotional outbursts with a scottish accent. Not only that (treat), but in their spirng tour they visited Europe with a mini-album in their bags. It continues the tradition of acoustic versions and b-sides during the tour like they used to do as Aereogramme. Turn down the lights, get your glass and if you're lucky enough to read this tonight go to the window and watch the full moon...

The Unwinding Hours, 06.04.2010, Werkstatt, Cologne

Mark Lanegan - Live At Leeds (The Full Moon Updates)



I was thinking about it the other day... What are really the most important concerts I have gone to? If you are a constant concert-goer and a music enthusiast, it's really hard to pick one. Or ten. So I'm gonna forget about that for a moment and just tell you that if you see Mr. Lanegan alone singing to an acoustic guitar is an experience you will never forget. I even think Sr. Cartmanez was looking for his whiskey when listening to him from my cell phone. Luckily for us, there was an acoustic CD from the same tour on the Merch-table from his performance in Leeds. It really doesn't capture the real vibe, but we must learn to live with substitutes, bootlegs and FLACs.
Enjoy.

Take a look at these. They're from Berlin, from the same tour.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrAroy24#grid/user/2E4F0E87C5FD5E8B

Full Moon Updates



It had to be the night of the famous August full moon to grab a bottle of wine and start typing. Well, our updates have become as rare as werewolf sightings...
But because laziness is the mother of many great things, we're not going to feel to bad about it. And when my computer is fixed and the evil forces of teeth charlatans don't gaze upon me, I promise you a nice radio show. Something for us to kick back with after the annual post-summer depression.

For now, some interesting news from our side of our musical woods.

Crippled Black Phoenix are emerging again with a mini album, coming out on September 6th. We will surely come back to that when it's released. Until then...


Myspace Band Player Generator

Blonde Redhead's new album is coming out on September 14th. The album is already somewhere out there if you can't wait. Here are some tracks on YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Boris has made a mini album with Ian Astbury (yes, that's right...). Didn't listened to it yet. But here it is.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

There is no romantic love.

The only Bright Eyes song I would care to quote.
It captures a lot of the despair and resignation I would associate with growing up and emancipating oneself from youthful naivities.
In the real world there is friction.
Gravity drags everything down at some point.
Who are we to expect a noble life to work for us?
Why should we be the princes who are exempt from the cruel laws of nature?
Didn't we know in our ignorance that there are no happy endings?
That our fears and struggles are only the suppressed reflections of reality within ourselves?
Why do you hope and fight, little man... vain little man.
Didn't they tell you the better of it?
Remember to be, it's all there is.
And remember to only ever hope to be able to let go and live with your losses.
And if you want to be free, start running away....

Στο καλό, καλή τύχη στα σταυροδρόμια σου.

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We will pick up the slack a bit soon.
It's been too long, I guess.

Paris got fashion, we got music.

Check it.

Sr.C

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit


This is our second new year's gift to you. No, I apologize and correct myself. Motorpsycho's gift to you. Cause every release of these crazy Norsemen is an event. I haven't even listened to it, it gets uploaded while I'm writing this post, so there's no review. But the review should anyway go like this...
THIS IS THE NEW ALBUM BY MOTORPSYCHO!

(Get trippy while downloading...)

MOTOR PSYCHO live in Leuven, BELGIUM 18-10-08 part 3 from bernie van hecke on Vimeo.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Tracker - Blankets, Murder By Death - Finch




As you already know by now, soundtracks hold a special place in this blog. In that spirit we have a special treat for you. Two mini albums, both of which are the musical background of a typically mute medium. "Blankets" and "Finch" are the soundtracks for the respective books (or for Blankets to be exact, the graphic novel). The first one is composed from a band I really don't know anything about. However they present a really nice accompanying setting for reading the book by the one and only Craig Thompson. Which by the way is awesome! I really should write something sometime about this graphic wonder...
"Finch" is the soundtrack of the book with the same title by Jeff Vandermeer. In this case, I have no info about the book, but if you followed the blog you'll know by now our endless admire for Murder By Death. In a few words, "Finch" is the soundtrack MBD should have in their discography and I really hope the get the chance to make a full-length one for a movie (a really haunting one of course). Here are a few words from the band itself, since it doesn't seem proper to do a review for this kind of release.
"It is an instrumental soundtrack to a book called "Finch" by Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror author Jeff Vandermeer. He approached MBD about doing a soundtrack to go with the limited edition of his new book, and we thought it was such a strange idea we had to do it. The book reminds us of Bladerunner- with spore-faced bad guys. Bitchin'. We locked ourselves up in our friends studio (Farm Fresh) in Bloomington, IN for 5 days and wrote and recorded an instrumental album inspired by the book. We have used a lot of crazy techniques that we have never tried before on this record. Our old pianist Vincent Edwards lent his hand(s) at the piano, organs, and Rhodes. Each song is attempting to recreate a scene or mood from the book- the release shows the page numbers in the book that correspond to each track on the CD."

Click here to get both!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Welcome to the 10s...


Happy New Year, ho ho ho and so on. Not very relevant and up-to-date. A little weird writing again here. The 00s are gone (or "The Noughties" as a friend recently told me -or "The Ohs", the "2Ks", "The Zips"... Now that I thing about it we should make a musical evaluation of the decade here...). But back to the point. As I just saw, it has been almost four months since we updated our little corner. Inexcusable really... But I must explain to you the recent situation of your two favorite bloggers in the whole wide world. Well, concisely said, we kinda changed our everyday lives. There was a lot of moving involved, some academic adjustment, long hours, new cities, no internet (always a life changing event!), new people in our lives and suddenly no time. So we unwillingly took a little break. But the time that this blog gets erased, will be the time that "The Man" has taken us down and that's not going to happen soon. So we'll be here, doing our thing whenever we can and at the same time trying to keep "The Man" happy. So I'd like to awaken your interest (if any) and tell you to keep visiting cause we are back. Above you will find our new year's posts. The first one is something that I wanted to post for a couple of months now. Hopefully we will also have a web radio show very soon!
Wish you all a healthy 2010 full of music in the background and lots of luck ('cause as someone told me, it's the only thing you can't control).

* "The Man" (as of 2009-2010): Paranoid dentists with masochistic inclinations. Crazy ass computer scientists with computer-controlled monkeys in their basements...