Last week, we were treated to a new album release from Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions, Until The Hunter. The new album breaks a seven-year silence from Hope’s last recording with the Warm Inventions. Joining her on vocals this time around is Warm Inventions member, Colm O Ciosoig of My Bloody Valentine. Continue reading New Release-Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions :: Until The Hunter
An arresting debut release from The Homie (Cole MGN & JNadya) which evokes a past that comes directly to mind, even if it actually never happened. Premiered on GorillavsBear.net in October. This one hits the nail on the head. Hard.
“Too Late also possesses a haunting, eerily classic vibe, like Sade getting raw over the illest underground sound clash ride you’ve ever heard.” – gorillavsbear
Here’s some very fine pop, of the euro persuasion. And I can’t help but notice the parallels between her plaintive voix and that of Laetitia Sadier/Stereolab. France’s Laure Briard released this song this past July.
And fyi- a new single and video, “Dreams” dropped today.
Yesterday, A Tribe Called Quest released their first album in 18 years, and it appears to be getting the ubiquitous nod for album of the year. Appearances from Kanye West, Andre 3000 and Kendrick Lamar with Busta Rhymes and Consequence as well. Continue reading New Release: A Tribe Called Quest :: We Got It From Here
a great playlist of early-70s psychedelia from 3rd Eye Sounds
Continue reading Music Playlist: Holy Trips – Late Era Psychedelia, 1970-72 by 3rd Ear
Frederick Hammersley was perhaps the most critically acclaimed of the first generation west coast hard-edge painters. Having been one of the four participants in the landmark Four Abstract Classicists exhibition in 1959, his place within the history of the art movement was firmly established. The show’s organizer, Jules Langsner coined the term “hard edge” in his essay for the catalogue: Continue reading Frederick Hammersley: West Coast Hard Edge Abstraction, Pt3
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead is a documentary, produced by The National Film Board of Canada in 1994. It explains The Bardo Thodol, Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State, referred to in the west as The Tibetan Book Of The Dead. The close to 700 year-old text, composed in the 8th century is a text from a larger corpus of teachings, the Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones. The text is intended to guide a deceased person through the experiences that his or her consciousness faces in the bardo, the interval between their death and their next rebirth. Continue reading Documentary: The Tibetan Book Of The Dead (narrated by Leonard Cohen)
In Search of Wabi Sabi is a BBC Documentary in which novelist & broadcaster Marcel Theroux travels across Japan, attempting to understand the japanese aesthetic theory, Wabi Sabi.
Wabi-sabi (侘寂?) represents Japanese aesthetics and a Japanese world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”.[2] It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印 sanbōin?), specifically impermanence (無常 mujō?), suffering (苦 ku?) and emptiness or absence of self-nature (空 kū?).Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes. – wikipedia
The following is a transcript of Gabor Mate’s speech, “Psychedelics and Unlocking the Unconscious; From Cancer to Addition,” which he delivered at the Psychedelic conference in Oakland California on April 20, 2013
My subject is the use of ayahuasca in the healing of all manner of medical conditions, from cancer to addiction. And you might say what can possibly a plant do to heal such dire and life-threatening medical problems? Well, of course, that all depends on the perspective through which we understand these problems. Continue reading Dr. Gabor Mate On The Healing Power Of Ayuhuasca
Composer Julia Wolfe’s Big Beautiful Dark and Scary was written in response to her experience witnessing the 9-11 tragedy, standing two blocks away from the Twin Towers as the planes hit them along with her two young children. The piece was written in 2002 for amplified sextet: clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion, piano, electric guitar, cello and double bass. Gargantuan slabs of tone clusters hover and fuss, then begin their brutal climb, ascending in pitch, intensity and volume. Continue reading Julia Wolfe :: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
The Incubator 