There’s been quite some chatter about Neil Young’s new portable music player (set to release in October this year) that pipes high quality, ‘immersive’ sound to the human ear. The Pono music player got massively crowd-funded on Kickstarter. The well-meaning yadda-yadda about the name – it means pure, righteous etc. in Hawaiian – doesn’t provide…
Ah! Sweet Release
A couple of weeks back I came across news of the long-awaited album from Spoon. Four years since the last release and a lot of rumours later, it’s come down to this – a tweet and a sound byte about 30 seconds long that reminds a bit of Pink Floyd, heavily distorted. No other news…
4 Starters
And so like Robert the Bruce’s spider, I’m back once again climbing the wall…of sound. Although in my observation of spiders, that one of legend must’ve been pretty high to fall so many times. Scotch, you say? That wouldn’t be surprising. Anyway, I usually write this blog during periods of sobriety and so hopefully unlike…
Music Of Giving
I got shot…and it’s all for good 🙂 A few weeks back when I was at the NH7 Weekender festival, I saw what I think is a great chance to bring together music and the art of giving. And so this little film.
Linking In: Rumble Of Tribal Thunder
That has to be one of the most familiar tunes in popular music. Used, lifted, interpreted by many an artist. And it’s not the only one. Take this for instance. Yet too few have heard of the man who created it.
Linked In: A Powerful Chord
Your personal discovery of music so often takes you on a trip to the past. Maybe I’m bored and jaded but I don’t go leaping over the moon listening to a lot of music today that others wax eloquent on. And then I pull out my CDs, sift through them and let the act bring…
goMAD? I Did
But I almost didn’t. The hills, cool weather, 3 days of what promised to be great music. A temptation that I nearly desisted biting into. The thought of going alone and that this was right before a vacation break that I was taking with family kept me on the fence despite having booked the festival…
As In Life…
I was travelling when I read about the death of J.J. Cale. I’ve not been entirely up-to-date on doings in the cyberworld these last few days but I’ve not been completely out of it either. I’m astounded at the silence in the musical circles that I’m part of – musicians, enthusiasts, writers – on the…
The Song Says It All
You could call this a lazy piece but if you knew the amount of effort I’ve had to expend against my recently acquired surly resistance of memory, you’ll turn a more kindly eye to this post. And all that for a rapidly hardening bunch of cells to yield but one captive. Still, well worth it…
DyingNote 