microphones in the trees: June 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

mike tamburo


"You must LISTEN. You must listen through the noise. You must listen through the chaos. If this song is yours then it is in your heart. You must play from your heart, listen from your heart. Then you will hear your music. It will play through you and you will not miss a note. What is going on outside does not matter. What matters is that you can be in this moment, that you can be truly with yourself and not out there. To be a great at anything, you must be able to listen. Beyond that, you must always find a pleasure in listening. You are not here to please this crowd. You are here to play through this chaos and please yourself and through this you shall attain an infinite awareness of the present. " SAYAS


somos un híbrido de universos y la música nos desdobla en el latente aquí*

fotola: árbore

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

mv & ee

"a collection of massively dosed studio recordings, Liberty Rose opens with beams of elegiac solo guitar before dropping into a classic slow-burning jag with puffs of echo/delay damaged vocals melting into hallucinatory afterimages while Erika slides quicksilver runs all the way down your spine. “Crow Jane Environs” has a deep desert feel that could almost be Mu if it wasn’t for Erika’s oracular vocals and Matt Valentine’s post-Takayanagi soloing. The stark, stripped down version of “Death Is My Friend” features a stunning/chilling vocal performance from Erika and Doc Dunn joins the duo for the last two tracks, with “Out In Space” as dazed and lonely as anything on Skip Spence’s Oar and “Streams” featuring clouds of lucid unison vocals that you could disappear inside. Dedicated to Dr Ragtime. Highly recommended." volcanic tongue

Friday, June 18, 2010

two-lane blacktop


Porque es la más auténtica road movie americana de todos los tiempos.
Porque es como una película para ver en el autocine dirigida por un autor francés de la Nouvelle Vague.
Porque lo único que puede entrometerse entre un chico y su obsesión por los coches es una chica, y Laurie Bird desarma perfectamente la unidad entre el Conductor, el Mecánico y su coche.
Porque Dennis Wilson lleva a cabo la mejor interpretación de un conductor jamás hecha.
Porque James Taylor parece un refugiado salido de una película de Robert Bresson.
Porque una vez un Dios llamado Warren Oates caminó sobre la Tierra.
Porque hay una prolongada controversia sobre quién lleva realmente las riendas en esta película. Hay diferentes posiciones. Algunos dicen que es el Chevy modelo ´55; otros, el Gto.
Porque tiene el final más puramente cinematográfico de la historia del cine.
Porque es como un western. Los tipos son como los viejos cowboys, listos para vencer al pistolero más rápido del pueblo. No hablan de viejos esplendores, más bien de viejos coches que tuvieron.
Porque Warren Oates tiene un suéter de cashimira diferente para cada ocasión. Y, por supuesto, un minibar en el maletero.


Porque al contrario de otras películas de la época, con una alienación preestablecida de la cultura de la droga y de quienes protestan contra la guerra, la película se ocupa de la alienación de todos los demás, como America Comes Alive, de Robert Frank.
Porque Warren Oates, como gto, pide una hamburguesa y un Alka Seltzer y dice cosas como “Todo está yendo muy rápido y no lo suficientemente rápido”.
Porque es la última película de los 60, aún siendo de 1971, y a la vez la primera de los 70. Ya saben, la época de las películas estilo “¿Cómo demonios pudieron hacer una película así en un estudio?/ Hollywood nunca haría eso hoy”.
Porque nunca sonaron mejor los motores en una película.
Porque estos dos jóvenes en su viaje a ningún lugar en realidad no saben hablar. El Conductor no conversa cuando está al volante, y el Mecánico no habla cuando está arreglando el coche. Así que se trata de una experiencia sobre todo visual, atmosférica. Verla correctamente implica ser absorbido por ella.
Y, lo más importante, porque Two-Lane Blacktop se mantiene fiel a sí misma hasta el final. Y eso es algo raro en el cine; una película completamente honesta.

Monday, June 14, 2010

moonwood


"70 mins. Limited edition of 25. Lino block printed and hand-stamped discs. Fuzz and feedback blend with free-jazz, post-rock, delicate acoustic guitar, mantra-like vocals and ethnic rhythms as acid-folk guitarist Moonwood (also of New Yaki and Babel) collaborates with friends, lovers and strangers. Guests include Andrew MacGregor (Gown/The Bark Haze/New Yaki), Stephen Wolf (Summer Amp/New Yaki/Partli Cloudi) and Ameen (Healthy Animal) plus others." jakob rehlinger


fotola: TIOM

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Thursday, June 10, 2010

the magic carpathians

the magic carpathians • acousmatic psychogeography [world flag records, 2010]

"The new Magic Carpathians album is finally out on our own World Flag Records. Somehow it means coming back to our roots, since the Magic Carpathians Project first album, "ethnocore" (1999), was self-released as well. "Acousmatic Psychogeography" is the outcome of almost fully improvised session we have recorded back in 2008 (I mentioned it here already I guess) - we've had immense pleasure to share the space with Eric Arn and Andrzej Widota. Without their creative contribution the outcome would be entirely different I guess and we think this album is our common effort. Staying for two days at the mountain lodge (where all the studio equipment has been provided by extremely skillful and entrepreneurial Piotr Pietrzak of NS Studio) and playing for almost 48 hours with just a few moments of short sleep definitely was one of the most beautiful ways to celebrate: in 2008 the Magic Carpathians Project hit the 10th anniversary and were really surprised to realize it. Ten years flashed like one short moment, the only thing that reminded us about time passing by was the memories of how many wonderful people we have met on the way and these are global connections for the most part." the magic carpathians


foto: hui+

Monday, June 07, 2010

keijo

"The Finnish free folk elder statesman Keijo Virtanen is back with another album in his vast discography. However, this work is titled "First Time". The album follows his recent output of his own very open approach to blues. But no W. Guthrie covers here, only Keijo's own pieces, with help from friends on two tracks. This is where free folk meets blues in the most beautiful and stunning way. Cardboard sleeve with photocopied collage pieces, hand-stamped cdrs. 100 copies." full of nothing

foto: vamitos

at night, at night, at night....

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

plankton wat

plankton wat • shadows cs [sloow tapes, 2010]

"Late-night brooding acoustic guitar arpeggios by Eternal Tapestry’s Dewey Mahood. Cosmic raga’s moonlit by deep earthmagic awareness, invoking the spirits of Jack Rose, Robbie Basho, Sandy Bull etc. 70 copies." sloow tapes