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Early tones of beauty

Here are some color tests from the nineteen twenties. Much like the first time color footage from world war two was revealed, these give a strange new vitality to a time that has been relegated to having always been the past. Four minutes and thirty four seconds of chicks posing. […]

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Venus in tires

Tony kaye, famed advertisement director and some time feature director (American history X) created this very beautiful piece for Dunlop tires. Advertisement as art he claims. I would say this takes more from haute couture than from anything you might find presented in a gallery, be it modern or traditional. […]

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Ghosts in the Guggenheim

NikaSaya = Nikaido Kazumi and Saya (of Tokyo) in the Guggenheim house in Shioya. The above is a track from there album “one summerheim” supposedly encapsulating their recordings one summer in the Guggenheim. NikaSaya is a collaborative project between Nikaido Kazumi and Saya (of the Tokyo based duo “Tenniscoats”), These […]

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London as Paris

One of the most touching works of the great Vincent Moon of La Blogotheque. In fact one of the early motivations of the Anormal Sessions. Paris is burning says St Vincent…. Meanwhile this moment out there in the night, there are indeed flames on the streets of London.

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Noise mechanics

  Gakken, is Tokyo based company that makes a nifty little analogue synth kit, a Theramin kit, and this little beauty. It is a hand cranked record cutter (just speak into the cone and crank, it will cut some vinyl for you). They also make a bird song organ, more […]

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Memories of the garden

Check out this unembeddable link of 16 15 14, as performed in KCRW radio station. Polly Jean Harvey and John Parish evoke memories of colonial childhood. Like Alice lost within the walls of a great estate. barefoot estimations of sanity are measured by the tablet. Fractures of a cool and […]

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Loneliness of the passions

A perfect rendition of  ‘Le Vent Nous Portera’ by Noir Desir. This was recorded a year before Lead singer Bertrand Cantat’s fatal altercation with his girlfriend Marie Trintignant. Life and death are so very tightly intertwined, there is a loneliness in the passions that can only be expressed through music. […]

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Distant forests of Japan

A transcendental performance from the highly rated, yet underrated Cure Featuring a 25 year old Robert Smith. Robert Smith+Japan+1984 all melted together  through the lens of video distortion creates a highly futuristic retrospective. I could have really posted anything from this concert, or any other live performance of theirs for […]

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Grannies and nieces

Check out the now sadly deceased Vic Chestnutt’s compelling performance of Granny. The singer songwriter from Georgia (Athens to be exact) was left partially paralyzed after a car crash at the age of 18.  As a result he could only form simple chord structures to accompany his rather unique and […]

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Paper wings

Bringing to mind the cocteau twins, Hannah Moriah’s rendition of ‘Paper wings’ is haunting in a Nordic kind of way. It is instantly familiar and deeply touching. Chris Musgrave Shoots her simply and intimately. It is this intimacy first and foremost in the music that conjures conceptions of lost loves […]