Daughter are an indie folk band from England. From the album, If You Leave, 2013.
Daughter are an indie folk band from England. From the album, If You Leave, 2013.
from the scottish post-rock band’s third album, Rock Action, 2001
from the album: Mono – Holy Ground: NYC Live With The Wordless Music Orchestra (2010)
MONO is a japanese post-rock band, formed in 1999 in Tokyo. Pure As Snow was originally recorded on the 2009 concept album by Mono, Hymn To The Immortal Wind. The album was recorded and mixed in June and November 2008 at the Electrical Audio Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois, by Steve Albini. A music video for “Follow the Map” was released to promote the album. There is a short story enclosed with the CD to go along with the music. Continue reading MONO :: PURE AS SNOW 2010
Bonnie “Prince” Billy in the 100th episode of Black Cab Sessions. In this edition of the long-running series, he performs Wolfroy Goes To Town cut “Black Captain” and childrens’ song “My Nurse Smells Like Coconuts.”
Black Cab Sessions started in 2007, inviting artists to play one or two songs while riding around London in the back seat of a cab. Since then the format has expanded and is now taping artists performing in cabs within their hometowns.
Personnel:
John Zorn: Alto Sax
Bill Frisell: Guitar
Wayne Horwitz: keyboards
Fred Frith : Bass
Joey Baron: drums
Yamatsuka Eye: vocals Continue reading JOHN ZORN’S NAKED CITY live @ The Puck Building, New Years Eve, 1989
from the album: “The Decline And Fall Of….”
In 1969, composer John Cage compiled and edited, with Alison Knowles, Notations, a book containing the graphical musical scores of 269 composers.
‘The book is made up of a large collection of graphical scores, facsimiles of holographs, from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, with text by 269 composers, which are presented in alphabetical order, with each score allotted equal space, and in which the editor has no more authority than the reader in assigning value to the work.[3] The book includes the manuscript for the Beatles song “The Word” (song lyrics, but no musical notation) from the Rubber Soul album (1965). Continue reading NOTATIONS :: A Book by John Cage, with Alison Knowles, 1969
Live @ Le Divan du Monde, Paris March 26, 2013