StopMakingSense: janvier 2010

1.28.2010

Earth > Power > Cosmos

2 tracks from Super Record (1975), the first album of the veteran underground musician from Japan Magical Power Mako.

Magical Power Mako, Sound, Mother Earth

Magical Power Mako, Cosmos Sandglass

Heroica ! (ultimate heroism in music)

Johann Heinrich Füssli, Perseus Returning the eye of the Graii

Alessandro Brugnolini, Anna

Teeth of the Sea, Swear Blind the Alsatian's Metling

Zombi, Spirit Animal

Riz Ortolani, Day of Anger

Danava, Eyes in Disguise

Giorgio Moroder, Rotwang's Party

Space, Secret Dreams

François Bréant, Chase Along the North Freeway

1.27.2010

Mort à la poésie

Brigitte Fontaine, Il se passe des choses

Alain Bashung, J'ai longtemps contemplé

Katerine, Mort à la poésie (Black session)

1.26.2010

Le futur n'est plus ce qu'il était

Adrien Missika, Postcards

Leyland Kirby, Not Even Nostalgia Is As Good As It Used To Be, from "Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was" (2009)

1.25.2010

Tout le bonheur du monde

Eugène Chrevreul, Light Spectrum, 1864

David Daniell, The Hideout, 38'23'', 2008

1.14.2010

Soft Power vol. 2

BMW M3 Race Version Art Car by Ken Done, 1989

Following my first post from November 2009 (Soft Power vol. 1, 1968-1988), here are 21 contemporary Soft Rock anthems for entering the new decade, updating the research up to 2009. + As Nick Hornby writes, about compilations, that it is absolutely forbidden to put 2 tracks of the same artist in one selection, a special bonus track by Steely Dan playing an heroic live version of their masterpiece Do it Again.

Get part. A here and part. B here.

Tracklist:

01. David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours

02. Dire Straits - So Far Away

03. Hall & Oates - Romeo Is Bleeding

04. Prefab Sprout - The Sound of Crying

05. Bruce Sprinsteen - The River (live in Stockholm)

06. Big Star - Thirteen

07. Eliott Smith - Angeles

08. Tortoise - TNT

09. Jim O'Rourke - Ghost Ship In A Storm

10. Death Cab for Cutie - Kicked In

11. The Shins - Sleeping Lessons

12. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

13. The High Llamas Put Yourself Down

14. Gonzalez - Slow Down

15. The Magic Numbers - This Is A Song

16. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (adult contemporary easy listening version)

17. Midlake - Roscoe

18. Joan of Arc - Just Pack or Unpack

19. Wilco - Impossible Germany

20. Elvis Costello - In The Darkest Place (Burt Bacharach cover)

21. Sébastien Tellier - La Dolce Vita

22. Bonus track : Steely Dan - Do It Again (Live at The Record Plant, Los Angeles)

1.10.2010

Best of Video Clip (-06.2-)

Best of Video Clip (-06.1-)

Best of Video Clip (-07-)

Islanders part. 2

Robert Smithson, Detail of Mirror and Crushed Shells showing map of Sanibel Island, Florida

On July 9, 1969 Robert Smithson wrote the following letter to Andy Warhol about Mirror and Crushed Shells:

"Dear Andy, This is to certify that the Mirror with Crushed Shells (Sanibel Island) is an original work of art. It consists of three mirrors which may be restored if broken, and one burlap bag of crushed shells collected by the artist at Sanibel Island, April, 1969. If any shells are ever lost, the owner has the right to restore the work by collecting more shells from Sanibel Island (northern part of island – see map of site which is part of the work). The three mirrors are held in place in a corner by the pressure of the shells only. (See photo). The work is owned by Andy Warhol, and can not be duplicated.

Signed Robert Smithson"

Michel Genest, "Islands of Paradise", from Ascension

Polwechsel/Fennesz, "Framing 8", from Wrapped Islands

Ducktails, "Island Flavor", from Backyard

Pocahaunted, Ashes Is White, from Island Diamonds

Stellar Om Source, "Island Best", from Ocean Woman

Beach House, "Turtle Island", from Devotion

Deerhunter, "Calvary Scars", from On Platts Eyott Island (Platts Eyott Session)