I thought that last week’s Italian shoegazer entry worked well enough that we should go back to the boot for this week’s entry, Abiku’s “Bocciòlo”L
See how easy it is to do a music video? All you need is a hot girl jogging and swimming!
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Shoegazer Sunday: Abiku’s “Bocciòlo”
Sunday, August 26th, 2012Shoegazer Sunday: Starframes’ “Cielo Drive”
Sunday, August 19th, 2012Starframes’ “Cielo Drive” seems like a beautiful, upbeat song if you don’t recognize the context of the address (which the video gets to a bit over two minutes in).
This is off their album Ethereal Underground. The band itself is out of Naples, Italy, but their main domain seems to have expired.
I’m getting a bit of a Neutral Milk Hotel vibe from them, which is a good thing.
Shoegazer Sunday: Tokyo Shoegazer’s “Back to My Place”
Sunday, August 12th, 2012A while back I put up Tokyo Shoegazer’s “Bright.” Here’s “Back to My Place,” another long song, that starts off all ethereal but just after 2:30 in turns back into a soaring, reverb-drenched wall of shoegazer guitar goodness.
Off their debut album 「crystallize」, which is available through iTunes.
Shoegazer Sunday: Lemon Chair’s “Vividness”
Sunday, August 5th, 2012I thought the previous dose of Japan’s Lemon’s Chair worked pretty well, so here they are with “Vividness.” The beginning and end are soft and noodly, but the center is jam-packed with magisterial sludge of rich, gooey Shoegaze goodness.
Happy Birthday Louis Armstrong
Saturday, August 4th, 2012Today is the birthday of the greatest trumpeter, and one of the most distinctive vocalists, who ever lived, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, who would have been 111 today. He didn’t invent Dixieland Jazz, he only perfected it.
I don’ see a live video of him performing “Someday You’ll Be Sorry,” so here is singing “Adios Muchachos,” which shows both his trumpet and vocal prowess to good effect.
Shoegazer Sunday: Lily of the Valley’s “IOK-1”
Sunday, July 29th, 2012Here’s another obscure Japanese Shooegaze band, Lily of the Valley, with “IOK-1” performed live at the Apple store in Shibuya. I think the echoey acoustics of the place actually adds to the song’s charm.
They hail from Sendai, which was the region hardest hit during the earthquake/tsunami. This tune, and some others from them, are available on iTunes.
Shoegazer Sunday: Dreamend’s “Magnesium Light”
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012I liked last week’s dose of Dreamend so much that I’ve been trolling through their various YouTube offerings, including this offering, which sounds less Shoegazer than some sort of demented bluegrass by way of Neutral Milk Hotel, with maybe a soupcon of Jane’s Addiction thrown in for good measure.
Oh, the video is plenty strange too, which is always a plus.
Shoegazer Sunday: Dreamend’s “New Zealand”
Sunday, July 15th, 2012The long guitar intro to this song sounds so much like that from A Beautiful Machine that I had to check and make sure it wasn’t the same guy. No, the band consists of Ryan Graveface, who’s also the guitarist for Black Moth Super Rainbow. No only did Andrew really like them at Psychfest, but he’s been communicating with Graveface (who has his own record label), and says he’s a swell guy, which is good enough for me.
“New Zealand” is long, noodly, a bit self-indulgent, and very pretty.
Off-Brand Mahler
Thursday, July 12th, 2012Although I’m not completely ignorant of classical music, the work of Gustav Mahler isn’t something I’ve bumped into terribly much, despite assurances from my hardcore classical music loving friends (which is to say, Mike) that he is Teh Awesome. I’ve always felt a vague urge to correct this oversight, but not enough to actually spend any money doing so. That is, until today.
That’s because Amazon is offering up a Big Box of Mahler today for 99¢. How big? Some 13 hours worth. That’s a lot of Mahler for your buck. Granted, you have to download the icky Amazon downloader, but once you’ve jumped through those hoops, it’s easy to select the files and pull them into iTunes.
I’m sure that this is off-brand Mahler which might be sneered at by some purists. (I doubt the Utah Symphony is at the top of the classical music food chain.) But I’m listening to it now, and so far it doesn’t suck.
Shoegazer Sunday: Echodrone’s Gravity
Sunday, July 8th, 2012Can’t let another Sunday go by without a dose of Shoegazer, so here’s Echodrone’s “Gravity.”
I’m guessing the video is from a movie. Anyone know what it’s from?