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.

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!

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...