No, seriously. This is literally the best blog in the world.



Drawn! is an amazing look throughout illustration and design. Foddling back through classics and recent finds, Drawn! is a spectacular blog for those who covet rich illustration, and those that produce it.

Look now! Do it!

Another beautiful, thorough and fascinating aural document from Dust To Digital. Field recordings of traditional American folk music from the past 50 years documented in sound by Alex Rosenbaum and in photographs by his wife Margo. There's a sampler CD out now, with a box set to follow this year.

Bert Hare - I'm Dying, Mother

designed by macoto yanagisawa

i ve been floating around the net to grab inspiration and came across this:

http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~macopism/noct/data/

kinda pretty. kinda neeat. (dont forget to try moving the cursor too)
and best while mellow.. ha ha;) i ve looking at it at the same time as listening to Brij Brushan, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Shiv Kumar Sharma "Call of the Valley"... which i will upload to this blog as soon as i figure out how!..
until then ..

well ... it's factually margarine.
bought in king of prussia, pennsylvania
this photo is not doctored whatsoever.

quote from my friend:
"update 1: my brother just scooped out the butthole to make a grilled cheese sandwich.
update 2: update 1 is the worst thing i have ever typed."

The latest collaboration from Boris, this time with the guitarist from Ghost. Came out during the end of December on Pedal Records in Japan and I had my copy waiting for me on my desk when I got back to work this week. This is nothing like you've heard from Boris before, much more restrained and I guess a lot more like Ghost. The tracks on Rainbow feature Wata a lot more than anything prior to this and her vocals lead a lot more to the psyche-pop on here.

Boris w/ Michio Kurihara - 不透明度

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Yet another installment in the amazing Ethiopiques series. Born in 1923 into a learned Ethiopian family, Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou was educated in Switzerland (where she first learned piano) and Cairo as well as in her native country. At the age of 24, having been denied the opportunity to study piano in England, she became a nun. Even after leaving the monastery and taking up teaching, she devoted her life to religion and helping the poor. Four solo piano albums, from which are drawn the contents of this disc, date from 1963 (two), 1970, and 1996. Her compositions are sometimes modal or pentatonic, sometimes redolent of the romantic harmonies of salon music, but always gently meditative, exuding an undulating calm that sometimes suggests Impressionism with its feverish purple patches replaced by a quietly mournful resignation or a patiently peaceful religious acceptance.

The Homeless Wanderer

This is the funniest SNL thing I've seen since More Cowbell.

Norwegian electronic composer better known as Biosphere climbed Cho Oyu, the 8th higest mountain in the world, and made this series of field recordings from his trek. The track below is the first on the album, with subsequent tracks documenting the entire journey from village to base camp to summit. Not dissimilar to some of the field recordings put out by Sun City Girls on their Sublime Frequencies label (eg Leaf Music, Distant Drums) but with a definite trajectory.

Zhangmu - Crossing a Landslide Area

MV & EE with the bummer road green blues... not sure what to make of it just yet. J Mascis plays mellotron.

East Mountain Joint

http://www.redicecreations.com/earthwatch.html

No nonsense, just great videos from some Swedish cat. An amazing one on there for me is Husker Du on Late Night with Joan Rivers, who surprisingly seems to have some awareness of independent music.

Mr Dante Fontana's Visual Guidance LTD

Steve Kille's new artwork project..



http://www.rumpleville.com/
http://www.myspace.com/rumpleville

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indeed i'm really mouthing words like "frick!" and "you!" and shaking fingers..
oh, and sometimes just to pick bogies.. so make sure you check the sleeves for cling ons..
(trivia: thanks to a six year old friend of mine, i was informed that bogies in fact taste like chicken..)
anyway,
listens of the day:



(((~~Sinoia Caves 'the enchanter persuaded'

thanks, jarin for reccomending this to me!.. BALDY'S FRESHNESS!
ambient psych solo debut full-length analog synth wizardry from jeremy schmidt of Black Mountain.
think it is officially released in three days (only compact disc format:((baa! ) watch out for the bogies..!




(((~~Death-Spell Omega "Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice"

Some of the grimmest, most hateful Satanic black metal ive ever heard. from france, this record on Norma Evangelium Diaboli label
Initially producing raw, traditional black metal ala Darkthrone, this album is their turn to more a more droney, unique and progressive avant-garde sound inspired by Gregorian Chant and choral music. massive and well-crafted.. will slowwly tear you apart..if you like this also check out Xasthur. perfect for the khyst-mass spirit.

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Been putting a lot of uh... effort into this recipe. Enjoy.

Two bottles of red wine
1 cinnamon stick
a few cardamom pods
a good chunk of fresh ginger (sliced)
An orange (sliced)
a couple of pinches of cloves
Orange juice (to taste)
Brown sugar (to taste)

Chuck (no "plunging" or "tossing" here) everything into a saucepan and simmer. (Be sure not to bring this wonderful concoction to the boil and risk losing essential alcoholic content!)

Sometimes it's pretty if you stick the cloves into the peel of the orange.

Keep an eye on the pan and stir/taste/add as you go. It's impossible to put a timescale on these things - as a general rule, when you can smell the spices from any room in the house, it's done....

A bunch of German rural psychonauts have been reissuing a slew of amazing unheard and barely-heard 60s/70s jams over the past few years. The ones I have are pretty amazing. The other cool part of this label is they're based on a beautiful Frisian island in the North Sea. I bet it's a great place to listen to extended psychedelic grooves while tripping your brains out on the dunes. More info about the label here. Some tracks on the next page...

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