Month: November 2014
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Bears Have Claws
If I was a wanky music reviewer (call me! good rates! :-P) I’d say the 2 Bears have claws with this album, whereas the first one was just about having a good time (Bearhug) this is about the down side, the come down, getting your own back. Not deciphered the spoken lyrics to Get Out…
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Nigel Stanford – Cymatics
This video is all kinds of amazing – I knew about the effect of frequency on powder and fluid (Cymatics), but not the flame, water and the ending is just, well you’ll see. There is whole albums of this, and it makes others messing with library style music and found samples seem, well, much less…
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Philae O’ Fish harpoons a Soup Dragon
Rosetta are you better are you yeah, yeah, yeah…well hanging on a falling star, well Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko I guess it is! (Philae and Rosetta are great names, Karamazov-Geriactrico 69/P less so, can’t you call it Boris or Moby Dick or Space Nugget or something?). Wow and the comet double-barrelled is a Singing Comet? Sounds more…
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Songs of freedom
Never knew that Joe Strummer’s Redemption Song was originally a duet with Johnny Cash? (The Strummer version is one of my favourite covers of all time). This version seems much more up, much more defiant and hopeful than the solo version. (thanks to Christopher Benedict for bringing this to my attention) Now finally released on…