This is a new session. Following the advice of Leonardo, one of my roomates, I decided to create a new category where I'll be featuring exclusive videos and music videos I'd created (or will create).
For the past 4 years I've been making official (and unofficial videos) for bands that I like or bands that asked me to create something for them.
To start, I have a video (shot by Fernanda, the other roomate) during The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart's first show in Brazil. After the show, Kip came back to the stage with his guitar and played 'Contender' alone. Personally, the best moment of the show.
nightswimming (1980-2011)
R.E.M.
So R.E.M. is over. I haven't really payed attention to their whereabouts in the past 4-5 years but they were one of my favourite bands when I was a teenager.
Actually the history goes way back to 1992 or 1993 when my dad bought Automatic For The People (my absolute favourite R.E.M. album). I had 8 years old and I think my relationship with that album was the first "conscious aesthetic" relationship I had with music... the feeling that I could tell why I liked it, if asked.
Sure 'Drive', 'Everybody Hurts' (with its phenomenal video), 'Man On The Moon' are great songs but the song that elevates me in unspeakable/indescribable ways is 'Nightswimming'. Got me the first time I heard it and it still gets me, 20 years later.
So R.E.M. is over. I haven't really payed attention to their whereabouts in the past 4-5 years but they were one of my favourite bands when I was a teenager.
Actually the history goes way back to 1992 or 1993 when my dad bought Automatic For The People (my absolute favourite R.E.M. album). I had 8 years old and I think my relationship with that album was the first "conscious aesthetic" relationship I had with music... the feeling that I could tell why I liked it, if asked.
Sure 'Drive', 'Everybody Hurts' (with its phenomenal video), 'Man On The Moon' are great songs but the song that elevates me in unspeakable/indescribable ways is 'Nightswimming'. Got me the first time I heard it and it still gets me, 20 years later.
fountain's head
PORCELAIN RAFT. FOUNTAIN'S HEAD (Independent, 2011)
Intricate relations between guitars and electronics, sometimes creating a creepy (good creepy) atmosphere . That's the cinematic music of italian musician (and movie maker) Mauro Remiddi.
Fountain's Head was released earlier this year and contains 4 songs filled with dreampop tension between the fragility of his voice and the harder electronic elements.
Actually the EP contains 5 songs but the closing track 'Everything From Your Hands' deserves to have its own paragraph. This 2 minute song is Remiddi's best (greatest!) moment. While the previous songs have some austere and severe elements mixed with something more subtle, 'Everything From Your Hands' features only a guitar line and Remiddi's voice creating a heartbreaking, memorable song.
You can get Fountain's Head on his bandcamp page.
Fountain's Head was released earlier this year and contains 4 songs filled with dreampop tension between the fragility of his voice and the harder electronic elements.
Actually the EP contains 5 songs but the closing track 'Everything From Your Hands' deserves to have its own paragraph. This 2 minute song is Remiddi's best (greatest!) moment. While the previous songs have some austere and severe elements mixed with something more subtle, 'Everything From Your Hands' features only a guitar line and Remiddi's voice creating a heartbreaking, memorable song.
You can get Fountain's Head on his bandcamp page.
china blue
ELEN NEVER SLEEPS. CHINA BLUE EP (independent, 2011)
Elen Never Sleeps comes from Tokyo but also from a dreamy landscape between shoegaze mountains and dreampop oceans.
Soothing, somehow ethereal and with a certain 80s feeling.
China Blue EP was released last June and can be downloaded on bandcamp.
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Elen Never Sleeps comes from Tokyo but also from a dreamy landscape between shoegaze mountains and dreampop oceans.Soothing, somehow ethereal and with a certain 80s feeling.
China Blue EP was released last June and can be downloaded on bandcamp.
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wuts going thru yer head
LITTLE JUNGLES. WUTS GOING THRU YER HEAD (independent, 2011)
"You're always telling me all the negative things that I know I could change but it takes a long time to change". When you get a line like that on the opening track of an album from an artist that you've never heard before you simply know you're listening to something -at least - promising.
Little Jungles is lyrically disarming and filled with an honest take on modern angst and agony.
An upbeat mix of shoegaze, reverbs, distortions and electronics only makes the package more shiny and dreamy and sugary and bubbly.
Ok, the 9-track release has its down moments (why's Please Put the Knife Away among such a strong collection of songs?) but the overall feeling is just so involving and addictive...
Alongside the sensational opening track Drive Yerself Crazy - did I hear someone say 'song of the first half of 2011'? - the last 4 tracks create a strong tour de force on noise, psychedelia and richness of sound. Old Love Fading is the most accessible with its pop catchiness squirting from the distorted guitars. Blue Heron goes deeper into reverberations and noisepop, delivering a complex construction of sounds, strong bass drums and echoey vocals. New Girl is a beautiful "acoustic" song formed by claps, strummed guitars and Matthew Niemann's voice echoing praising his new girl.
Drilling, affecting and addictive. Matthew, I want more.
(Little Jungles' new album will be called I Would Kill for Some Sunlight and it'll be released on January 1, 2012.)
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Little Jungles is lyrically disarming and filled with an honest take on modern angst and agony.
An upbeat mix of shoegaze, reverbs, distortions and electronics only makes the package more shiny and dreamy and sugary and bubbly.
Ok, the 9-track release has its down moments (why's Please Put the Knife Away among such a strong collection of songs?) but the overall feeling is just so involving and addictive...
Alongside the sensational opening track Drive Yerself Crazy - did I hear someone say 'song of the first half of 2011'? - the last 4 tracks create a strong tour de force on noise, psychedelia and richness of sound. Old Love Fading is the most accessible with its pop catchiness squirting from the distorted guitars. Blue Heron goes deeper into reverberations and noisepop, delivering a complex construction of sounds, strong bass drums and echoey vocals. New Girl is a beautiful "acoustic" song formed by claps, strummed guitars and Matthew Niemann's voice echoing praising his new girl.Drilling, affecting and addictive. Matthew, I want more.
(Little Jungles' new album will be called I Would Kill for Some Sunlight and it'll be released on January 1, 2012.)
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