ENCYCLOPEDIA PICTURA

After watching a couple of videos I thought they have some things in common I realised that they both are from the same collective that is called Encyclopedia Pictura. If you go to their website there's not a lot of information of the people who are working under this name and you just can find their creations and some pictures of animals instead. Another thing you can find is some of their leitmotivs or Fields of Interest: Virtual Reality, Psychokinetic Energy, Cryptozoology, Natural Geometry, Psychedelic Shamanism and Fruit Sandwiches. Strange but maybe reasonable when you watch their creations. Anyway, I think they are doing the most interesting and original music videos I've seen for a long time. One of these video is the Grizzle Bear clip for Knife I posted some weeks ago and here you have the other one:

SEVENTEEN EVERGREEN - HAVEN'T BEEN YOURSELF


These are the only two music videos they've made but you can see other projects they've done in their website:
http://encyclopediapictura.com/

GILBERT AND GEORGE RETROSPECTIVE AT THE TATE MODERN

Today Luis and me went to the Tate for the Gilbert and George exhibition that is taking place there from 15Th February to 7Th May. We didn't have great expectations but at the end we both enjoyed it so much. The exhibition is a retrospective of all the different periods these subversive artists have gone through, from the end of the sixties to nowadays, maybe not so clear at first sight but different enough once you read all the information of the program. I also have to add that they have not lost the power of subversion and they will probably continue making interesting things in the future.
Here I adjunct the webpage link that the Tate Modern has dedicated to them with interesting video interviews where they explain some of the aspects of their creations.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/gilbertandgeorge/

Album of the week: DAVID KARSTEN DANIELS - SHARP TEETH / BENJY FERREE - LEAVING THE NEST

and yes...two records together again. And two folky records again... but...
Do we need more folk-pop troubadours? If they are like those two the answer is YES!!!
David Karsten Daniels' new record, the first one published in FAT CAT,has some of the ingredients that makes me love a record. For example, the first song starts little by little, and develops in a final crescendo of violins and choruses singing LA,LA,LA...; the second one starts nude with an acoustic guitar and suddenly a trumpet orchestra is added in the middle of the song; the lyrics of the fourth song are classic but irresistible, and so on...
Benjy Ferree's album is the cause Domino Records have signed up for the first time in their long life an American artist in exclusiveness. Only for that, you can imagine that is worth. But I also can add that his sound, songs and voice are different and personal doing something that millions have done before.

And here you have the video for David Karsten Daniels' Jesus and the devil

New LOW video

mmm...No comments for the new Low video for their song BREAKER. Judge yourself



As you maybe already know, last year Alan Sparhawk started a new project called Retribution Gospel Choir. They made some concerts around the States and sold a couple of EPs during that shows. Their sound was an extension of what Low were doing in their The Great Destroyer period, more noisy than in their previous records; a project that after hearing the new LOW album that escapes from these raw sounds, has even more sense now. Most of the songs that they were playing during that shows ended up in LOW's last record, DRUMS AND GUNS, but in a very different version. Here you have a visual proof of how they made that same song live.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM'S SOUND OF SILVER REMIX PROJECT

Here we have the umpteenth example of the Internet terrorism: the appearance of a free-to-download remix project of the new LCD SOUNDSYSTEM record before its date of release (it was upload a couple of weeks ago). I have to say that the project, called SOUND LIKE SILVER, is enjoyable as a complement of the record but also in isolation. You can dowload it song by song or as a Bit Torrent file at http://lcdremixed.com/

ARCADE FIRE live at the Brixton Academy

Last Thursday, Luis, Susanna, Eva and me went to see the quickly sold out act that is an Arcade Fire concert nowadays. One week after its publication, the new record is already number two in most of the sales lists worldwide, an incredible thing taking into account that the first single has not been published yet and the popularisation of the first record was a mouth to mouth process that nobody expected to rise that way. Once again, we have here another example of the power of the new technologies to spread the word. They performed all the songs of the new record and remembered three of the most emblematic songs of Funeral. Now they are even more people on stage, the performance is great, the new record too but I couldn't avoid to have the sensation that something has been lost in their way to heaven...

Album of the week: FEIST - THE REMINDER

Three years after she published Let it Die, the record that made her famous after including her song Mushaboom in a TV advertisement, the whitest voice alive comes back with another great record. Not many new things: the habitual collaborations(Mocky, Gonzales and Jamie Lidell) and her voice as the main protagonist. White soul, white pop and even the white soft gospel of Sea Lion Woman. The first single, My moon my man, is already out in the shops but we'll have to wait until the end of April to get the record and see her live at the Shepperds Bush Empire.