Friday Fling #240 for July 12th 2013 We’re waxing nostalgic this week on the Fling. Unfortunately we already overwaxed our nostalgic and it’s all sticky and gooey in this heat. No I’m kidding. We really ARE waxing nostalgic, for Flings gone by. And so we’re reprising one we did two years ago […]
Music for Mystics : Melody Myers 1 Lux Aurumque Virtual Choir by Melody Myers “Ave Maria” sung by Melody Myers “The Phantom of the Opera” by Melody Myers “We Go Together” Multitrack A Cappella Embraceable You – Multitrack – A Cappella In the Arms of the Angel “The Voice” by Melody Myers “Swing Down Chariot” […]
The Culture Blogs Five Classic Soul : Digest Two Classic Cartoons : 100 Bugs Bunny Cartoons Classic Comedy Digest Five Classic Country Digest One Classic Jazz : 100 John Coltrane Tunes! Classical Music Digest Volume Five Hollywood Musicals : Digest Five Music for Mystics Digest FIVE Psychedelic Rock Digest FIVE Science Fiction/Fantasy TV Digest Special […]
Music for the Soul and Let the Music Play
Five years ago today, I posted the video blog you’ll see here. I re-post it today because I want to get back to doing this kind of thing. The day before this was made, I was going through some old papers and I happened across some lyrics to a song I had written some 12 […]
The Album Leaf is a Californian band, formed in 1998. These guys combine guitars, keyboards and real drums with subtle electronic elements. The music is very mellow. If you like Mum and/or Sigur Ros, you’ll probably enjoy The Album Leaf. It is ‘lo-fi’ or ‘leftfield’ music (not to be confused with Leftfield, the electronic duo […]
Richard D. James (AKA Aphex Twin, AFX, Polygon Window and Caustic Window) started making music in his bedroom, in his mid-teens; impressing his Mom and his mates with forward-thinking ambient soundscapes. After releasing two collections of his works, he tried his hand at techno. He found an audience with underground dance classics such as Digeridoo […]
Autechre’s debut album (Incunabula) was brilliant! Sean Booth and Rob Brown were still going strong, in the mid-nineties – after two more albums and four EPs. However, their ‘music’ became increasingly abstract and abrasive towards the end of the decade. Their descent didn’t stop there. Each subsequent album has been worse than the previous one. […]
Bernard Sumner’s last project, Bad Lieutenant, released Never Cry Another Tear in 2009. Fans of New Order’s last album (Waiting For The Sirens’ Call) may like it. It is very melodic but mainly acoustic. This seems a shame, because Bernard Sumner really excels when he is working with synthesizers – as evidenced on most of […]
What can I say about Bjork that hasn’t already been said? Love her or hate her, you have to admit that she is truly one of a kind. She has been involved in the music industry since the age of twelve. Before her ‘proper’ debut solo album, she was one of The Sugarcubes (the band […]
