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Kevin Drew - Age of Consent (New Order cover)

Dark Was The Night will be released today, Feb 17th. It’s comprised of 31 exclusive tracks and it will be available as a double cd/triple vinyl/download and will benefit the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for HIV and AIDS.

So many GREAT artists included on this thing. Seriously. Check out the track listing:

THIS DISC
1 Knotty Pine – Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
2 Cello Song (Nick Drake) – The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez (playing above)
3 Train Song (Vashti Bunyan recorded, written by Alasdair Clayre) – Feist + Ben Gibbard
4 Brackett, WI – Bon Iver
5 Deep Blue Sea – Grizzly Bear
6 So Far Around the Bend – The National (arrangement by Nico Muhly)
7 Tightrope – Yeasayer
8 Feeling Good (popularized by Nina Simone) – My Brightest Diamond
9 Dark Was the Night (Blind Willie Johnson) – Kronos Quartet
10 I Was Young When I Left Home (Bob Dylan) – Antony + Bryce Dessner
11 Big Red Machine – Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
12 Sleepless – The Decemberists
13 Stolen Houses (Die) – Iron and Wine
14 Service Bell – Grizzly Bear + Feist
15 You Are The Blood – Sufjan Stevens

THAT DISC
1 Well-Alright – Spoon
2 Lenin – Arcade Fire
3 Mimizan – Beirut
4 El Caporal – My Morning Jacket
5 Inspiration Information (Shuggie Otis) – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
6 With A Girl Like You (The Troggs) – Dave Sitek
7 Blood Pt 2 (based on original song “You are the Blood” by the Castanets) – Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)
8 Hey, Snow White (Destroyer) – The New Pornographers
9 Gentle Hour (Snapper) – Yo La Tengo
10 Another Saturday (traditional song) – Stuart Murdoch
11 Happiness – Riceboy Sleeps
12 Amazing Grace (traditional song) – Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues (playing above)
13 The Giant Of Illinois (Handsome Family) – Andrew Bird
14 Lua – Conor Oberst + Gillian Welch
15 When the Road Runs Out – Blonde Redhead + Devastations
16 Love vs. Porn – Kevin Drew (playing above)

More info here: http://www.darkwasthenight.com/

Order the CD here

Edward Guglielmino - Fail With Me from Jaymis on Vimeo.

Wow. I am just finding loads of good stuff on Vimeo today - I am completely in love with this song by Edward Guglielmino. The video for it, created by James Loveday (Jaymis), is phenomenal.

Both the song and the video are released for free download and use under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

A little bit about the process behind the video from Loveday:

“Shot in my screening room, I used stage blacks instead of a green screen to keep the shoot simple and compact, tiny low powered LED lights from Ikea, and recorded the video to hard drive in Onlocation to obviate capture time.

The shoot itself took about 2 hours. This was followed by 3 hours of fast editing in Vegas‘ efficient workflow, and then transferred to After Effects for around 8-10 hours of post-production. To keep production, preview and render times down I steered clear of keying, noise-reduction and other processor-intensive effects, instead focussing on the quickest techniques I could find to produce the video I had in my head. Despite having up to 20 layers of HD and SD video on screen at various times, the project only took 2 hours to render at 1920×1080, 25FPS (After Effects CS3, Windows Vista 32bit, 2.4GHz, Quad-core, 4GB ram).”

Very cool.

(via: createdigitalmotion.com)

A couple of years back I stumbled upon a cover of (David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six by Paper Jones. I wish I had his version to share - it was really wonderful. Apparently the only way to get it at the moment is off the Four Eyed Monsters compilation CD

Although, I am almost positive this video I just found has the Paper Jones’ version (though they do not site his name):

The original track is by Brian Jonestown Massacre

(Play) Brian Jonestown Massacre - (David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six

Just one of those songs that I have always loved immensely

Lyrics:

Does she love you, you suppose
With somebody who would know
Who believes in what you are
You’re my favorite thing by far

There’s a fire in your eyes
I see it all sometimes
In the darkness of the night
I see it many times
Yes I’m sure it shines in you

There’s no warm place left to go
When I’m feeling kind of slow (slow down sir)
Do you like the way you are
Yes it is, ’cause you’re the star

It’s the brightness in your eyes
I see it all tonight
In the darkness of my light

fucking beautiful. watch the whole thing and scream along dammit……

My sister and I sitting in my car, blaring this song and singing along loudly, windows down and no destination. Just driving. Best memories ever.

(Thank you for the reminder Emmabean)

God this movie was so good. That’s all. I just felt like remembering it…..(and the Jarvis Cocker song is also brilliant).

One of the songs featured in Children of Men was this version of Ruby Tuesday by Franco Battiato. I kinda love it:

There’s no time to lose, I heard her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away…..

Quiet but productive day at the gallery today….staying late to get some extra work done for the upcoming Equus exhibit and stumbled across this wonderful song by Sarah Jaffe:

Two Intagibles Can’t Be Had by Sarah Jaffe

Enjoy!

Just heard this version for the first time. Lovely.

Great song by Don Cavalli. Great video directed by Korner Union. Enjoy!