mine.not.mine

anathallo smells like content

2006-03-28T14:02:00.000-08:00

recently michigan-based band anathallo released a new cd titled floating world
it is an extraordinary cd, although it is perahps debatable whether recording is the ideal anathallo vehicle...
truthfully these folks are an extraordinary band to experience live
while the vast majority of what they do is totally original, here is a poorly recorded, but still pretty interesting cover of the books song smells like content from a performance at the abbey in chicago last summer
(incidentally the laughter you hear mid song is in response to one of the band members percusively popping balloons held by audience members in the front row)

smells like content - anathallo covers the books

and here's to ctasls for the first anathallo blogging that i've seen

you gotta give to get

2006-02-03T09:33:00.001-08:00

a lovely song by el perro del mar :
god knows

on quite another note...
i will be playing a set with anathallo and cedar av at schubas in chicago on march 6
this will be the cd release gig for the fabulous anathallo, so it will probably sell out
get your tickets asap

what you see...

2005-11-25T09:40:00.000-08:00

painting (n.) as document of receptivity [seeing] and performance [painting (v.)]

Gary Godbee

Christine E. Huck

José Luis Alguacil

Pierre Lussier

Anthony Palumbo

Sigmund Abeles

Robert C. Jackson
.................

Anthony J. Ryder

Santiago Paulós

Michael Allen

Harry Holland

Elizabeth Kauffman

Heather Horton

"this may be the last beautiful day"

2005-10-31T06:06:00.000-08:00

here's a lovely, wistful song by Sally Seltmann project New Buffalo:
i've got you

the lord god bird

2005-10-22T00:57:00.000-07:00

"let your work be rooted in love and stay small"
Murphy Davis (from a talk she gave years ago)

there is little about the new Sufjan Stevens project (Illinoise) that would initially evoke the word "small", and certainly the response to the cd has been very big

but that pithy statement by Murphy Davis suggests the aesthetic of humility that has characterized much of Mr. Stevens work to this point

the lord god bird is a very sweet song that came from an npr proposal

if you're a Sufjan nut you might want to check out this forum

where there is smoke

2005-10-20T05:56:00.000-07:00

three singers that i've been listening to alot recently...

Imogen Heap

hide and seek is a wonderful a capella (well if you don't count the heavy effects on the voice) piece from her soon to be released solo album. (mp3 courtesy of salon.com)
a nice interview at aurgasm has a few mp3s including let go which Heap sang as singer for Frou Frou.

Sia

there is less of Sia's music hanging out on the internet, but perhaps you've heard her song
breathe me
as this post at stereogum notes the song played significantly on six feet under

Lali Puna

of the three Lali Puna's singer Valerie Trebeljahr is probably the most esoteric, dark and distant
groovy!
a tellingly odd video
you can find mp3s at
epitonic and insound
(thanks to swens blog)

it's all painted red...

2005-08-24T17:51:00.000-07:00

2 songs by Laura Veirs that i like very much
Fire Snakes (courtesy of Aurgasm)
and
John Henry Lives (from her website)

photo by Sophie Jarry

959

2005-08-18T13:17:00.000-07:00

a soundscape from a new lowly recording project
(now playing... go to bottom of page to turn off sound)
959 - the length of the piece
959 - one minute before curfew for the kids in the
dorm at kca
959 - mp3

painting by Tatsuo Takayama

if paint can reveal the soul

2005-07-05T20:35:00.000-07:00

for a while i have admired the work of
Sophie Jodoin
so it was with considerable pleasure that today
i found she has a website...

representational minimalist (of sorts)

2005-06-23T22:02:00.000-07:00

just completed designing a site for the painter
Steven Carrelli

art in chicago

2005-06-04T22:20:00.000-07:00

went to a few openings last evening
surprised by the number of good shows...
Walsh gallery
gescheidle
Perimeter

highlights for these eyes:
Jiwon Son's paintings at Byron Roche
and especially Irene Hardwicke Olivieri's
marvelous pieces at Carl Hammer

trioon I

2005-06-03T08:17:00.000-07:00

I've been listening to a couple cds by Alva Noto + Ryuchi Sakamoto (Vrioon and Insen) and must say that, while much of it is interesting, nothing surpasses the piece Trioon I which you can download for free.
Courtesy of raster noten

nobody knows

2005-05-30T20:22:00.000-07:00

Kore-Eda Hirokazu
i don't know if this marvelous film-maker had in mind the
african-american spiritual when he titled his latest film
but there could hardly be a more fitting allusion
the three films by him that i've seen are all extraordinary:

nobody knows

after life

& maborosi

to a marvelous graduating class...well done!

2005-05-17T09:06:00.000-07:00

...and thanks

on the east side of wilson hall
where i work (teach, curate and paint) at
north park university

naked

2005-05-12T20:37:00.000-07:00

(or how to get your attention on the internet)
from my favorite album of last year Our Endless Numbered Days
by one Iron and Wine
naked as we came
a minimal marvel of a video of a happy song about...
well, note the fish

finally...

2005-05-11T16:31:00.000-07:00

my friend Louise LeBourgeois has a website on-line.

a radio show

2005-05-10T07:33:00.000-07:00

morning becomes eclectic

a lesson

2005-05-10T07:24:00.000-07:00

shinbashi!

art sites to check out 5.9.05

2005-05-09T08:37:00.000-07:00

Maggie Taylor

Charles Matson Lume

Michael Engelhardt

José Marchi

Daniel Dove

Pedro Campos

Michael Berrryhill

Jared and Jessica Joslin

Stuart Pearson Wright

William Lazos

Nina Levy

Sabrina Raaf

Christian Tedeschi

Tom Lauerman

Alejandro Decinti

Isabel de Frías