Really enjoying Josh Pyke’s new album, Chimney’s Afire at the moment which very much continues similar themes of his previous album. I loved Memories & Dust when my sister introduced me to it last year as it was one of those albums that really stays with you long after you’ve heard it. Chimney’s Afire has some superb tracks, especially ‘The Summer’ and ‘The Lighthouse Song’ and well worth a listen.
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Listen to ‘The Summer’
Angela Little – my friend who wrote/recorded and performed “the Boab Song” on the Australia credits – was doing a recording session for her new EP the other day. I tagged along as official photographer for the evening and now the set’s up on flickr.
Pictures from the live show by Ophelia of the Spirits the other night at The Basement in Sydney.
My friend – and now flatmate – is developing a music show under the title of ‘Ophelia of the Spirits‘. This is a poster that I put together recently for her. There were multiple versions of the poster that will go up around Sydney and Melbourne, but this is the bare-bones version.
My music tastes seem to be dictated heavily by the seasons. When spring and summer come around I tend to listen to the down-tempo electronica. When the weather gets colder, I tend to more radiohead, NIN and so-on. I bought the epic (4.5 hours long) Nah Und Fern by GAS few months ago after seeing it being recommended on the iso50 blog, but being a very chilled ambient electronica album, it was out of my seasonal music sync. I tried listening to it, but just couldn’t get into it. It was too cold, too relaxed, to enjoy in the middle of winter. Then today, as winter starts winding down and we see some sun here in Australia, I give the album another listen, and it suddenly works. It’s actually a collection of four albums, with long, slow-moving tracks that gently ebb and flow, with deep, repetitive beats, each track bleeding into the other. Certainly, if I was introducing someone to electronica, this would not be the album; it’s inaccessible unless you know the language and the forms that it uses (some would say boring). But if you do understand this form, you are in for a very relaxing and enjoyable album. Highy recommended.
