Listening log: mostly epic post-rock sounds
Whoa... a whole year has gone by, and more -- I spend most of my listening time on SOMA FM, where I tune in to Suburbs of Goa.
My latest favorite place for discovering new music is gogoyoko, which has a great selection of post rock sounds (lots of other stuff there too). I've also spent time at The 61, which recommends music, based on how you respond to music you hear.
Haven't downloaded music in a long time now.
Heard this on the latest Lost Children compilation ( Volume #13). Elemental Gaze is from Indonesia.
Michael
Waters returned to the Duncan Garage Showroom last week... another memorable concert. This time it was extra special, because it was an incredibly balmy evening in Duncan, the first of the year really, and there were just a handful of us in there gathered around the stage. Michael engaged us during the break. We talked about what part music takes in our lives. Michael made a comment that will stick with me for a long time: You are a success if you can do what you love to do. I like that, to make the standard for success personal, and to reject any other standard.
For an encore, Michael played some music from his upcoming CD. He gave me some tracks to share:
Mind Bandits
Farmers Cathedral
You'll find more to listen to at Ladybird Music.
I recently rediscovered OUIM net.label, loaded with psychedelic listening pleasures. The home page has 3 music streams and between the releases and DJ sets, almost 100 well curated psychedelia titles to download.
I'm reminded of an old favorite by Fairytale, released the week before Christmas, it sounds like a drunken Christmas party at first. Soon it wanders into my neighborhood in Vancouver, with a dialog about our seabus transit ferries and lo fi soundscapes that's accompanied by a joyful thumping sound and the ancient chanting of First Nations people that used to make the crossing in canoes.
I stumbled upon the mixes at the Cardamar Music website the other day. Hours of listening pleasure there.
From insubordinations, a netlabel for improvised music, this release:
[insubcdr02b] PLAISTOW : Los Criminales Reciclados En Conductores De Autobuses
Labels: jazz
Michael Bates' Outside Sources: On Equilibrium
I'm back on The Island, and finally made it to the Duncan Garage Showroom. The Man (Longevity John) himself, told me I should come hear Michael Bates, and so I did. Such a memorable show. And suddenly I'm listening to jazz again.
Saw this article about the iPod generation's future hearing problems. Hearing aids will cost thousands -- get custom earbuds: listen better, and protect your ears at the same time.
Labels: news
I heard this on the recent Blocsonic compilation netBloc Volume 9.
Labels: music
The San Jose Mercury News offers this interview with the founder of Creative Commons. Lawrence Lessig remains as CEO, but he's started work on something new.
Labels: news
Vacation, travel and other distractions... and I'm not sure I'm even back yet, but I did make it to the Vancouver Folk Festival... wow... Ganga Giri knows how to put on a show... though I'm not sure everyone would call this folk music. Festival rules say no dancing in front of the stage -- but for Ganga Giri, that's impossible -- everybody was dancing.
Labels: video
Google Earth is getting an audio layer. Bernie Krause has been recording the planet for 40 years. He has released part of the collection under a Creative Commons license, for listening on Google Earth.
Tim O'Reilly has published a lot of books... I've been buying them since the 80's. Now he's written a case study of sales vs. free downloads for one of his titles. The free downloads are under a Creative Commons license.
Larry Lessig says in this interview, that there are now over 100 million objects licensed under a Creative Commons license. He participated in a panel discussion at the recent "copyright summit" in Belgium.
Other items: Know your rights with this simple chart that explains copyrights. An open source film project has over 1000 members. The Creatives Commons license, applied to dance.
Global Giving offers many ways to share your love. Check out the music related projects.
Michael Franti and Spearhead are a great band to watch, and they do great work. This song from years ago is still so relevant today. Check it out. Buy it.
Sample: Yell Fire
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Happy treasure hunting!
Earhead#101111 began as a list of safe to download music files. A lot of it came from acrhive.org. But streaming is easier than downloading, so now you'll find embedded players that stream music from band websites.
This earhead's current musical addictions are radio from SomaFM, and treasure hunting at gogoyoko.