This week we focus on The Books, who were a band whose music's been repeatedly described as "collage music" ... I am constantly intrigued by and fascinated with the concept of collage ... Some of my favorite examples of the art form are the amazing paintings of abstract expressionist, Robert Rauschenberg, the intriguing tape collages of composer John Cage and the mysterious pastiche music of The Focus Group ...
The Books fall perfectly alongside these other "collagists" ... They were a New York City duo consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. Their releases typically incorporate samples of obscure sounds and speech.
The Books are commonly cited by critics to be of a genre of their own. Their music usually consists of acoustic instrumentation of folk melodies usually played on guitar, cello, banjo and more, combined with a diverse range of samples obtained from cassettes found in thrift stores, which are digitally processed and edited.
Paul de Jong described The Books sound as "the new folk music... we make our own instruments, use our own libraries of sound bites while trying to create something universally human."
As always ...
*** ENJOY ***
The Books are commonly cited by critics to be of a genre of their own. Their music usually consists of acoustic instrumentation of folk melodies usually played on guitar, cello, banjo and more, combined with a diverse range of samples obtained from cassettes found in thrift stores, which are digitally processed and edited.
Paul de Jong described The Books sound as "the new folk music... we make our own instruments, use our own libraries of sound bites while trying to create something universally human."
As always ...
*** ENJOY ***
Here are several of The Books' excellent videos.
It's interesting to actually see the corresponding visuals to many of the songs' sampled sounds (which were culled from other existing video sources)
It's interesting to actually see the corresponding visuals to many of the songs' sampled sounds (which were culled from other existing video sources)
and now for a spot of
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1st up, listen to the hilarious author, David Sedaris on "unwelcomed duck tongues and accidental activism"
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If you ever wanna catch up on Psychic Tuesday past cloudcasts, below is a nice way to do so!
Yes! Here's the good n creepy video to Julian Lynch's "Gloves"
Here's an intriguing interview / short film with The Knife, centering around their new masterpiece "Shaking The Habitual"
A bizarrely mental slightly NSFW one from The Flaming Lips (with Bon Iver) ... Spoiler: the ending = YIKES!
Yes! A wonderfully trippy new one from Besnard Lakes!
Speaking of "Yes!", Dig this new ambientish one from Ant'lrd! Go, Colin!
Cat Power goes to "Manhattan" to play
Speaking of Manhattan, check out this rather beautiful bit from Symmetry
And speaking of beautiful, this Implodes video is just filled to the brim with beauty
Wow. This sinister one from The Soft Moon will make you wanna lock yer doors at night!
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Weston Flippo posted this 1st one ... It's Banksy doing Paris Hilton!
Thanks, Weston!
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Haha! Check out Thor: worst music video ever, posted by Keith Goodwin!
Vielen dank, Keith!
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Yikers! It's a horror workout slumber party, if you can imagine that!
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And finally, I wanna be Woody Allen for next Halloween, so I should start now on perfecting the imitation of his famous nervous stammer! Haha
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