Just a quickie today, on the tail end of a very hard week I think the chill out tunes are on order today.
From the category archives:
Music Relations
There was an excellent documentary on BBC 3 the other night about the rise of Blues music in South London in the 60s. It got my foot tapping on numerous occassions, and as a result I found myself digging out a few of my favourite tracks from Irish and British blues bands in the 60s [...]
In light of what is happening in Japan at the moment I thought I would post a reminder of just one of the numerous great things that they have given the world… and will no doubt give again when they are back up on their feet…
Sad news in the music world this week with the passing of Joe Morello, one part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, at the age of 82.
Sun is pushing hard through the cold air. Feet are once again crawling along one after the other, the other before the next, perpetual forward motion towards the sea and the center.
Wrap your ears around this classic jazz album from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers from the late ’50s…
Volume 1, 2010 This latest installment of experimental, electronic music created between January and April 2010 is yet another substantial exhibition of dynamic work from the Dublin based producer In The Black Box. A product of and reaction to everything and anything that occurs in the artists life, this release is the continuation of an [...]
I just want to react to the ongoing attack on Irish Music blogs by IMRO.
About Train Tracks God knows where it started
Time – holding on movement over static rivers of souls and seven more reasons to go home.
As the sun set on another frozen thirty… there was a lot of thought in the fabric of what was happening. Whether it was the man on the street with a briefcase full of ideas… or the tired eyes with ideas full of men with briefcases…. there was much to consider. And so the sound [...]
… it pushes through anything… if you give it oxygen.. pushin through air. New yet nobody cares .. the numbers are counting down down and below the usual. Everyone break for the door the wheels are coming off. And in the darkness where lights are temporary and constant there is no doubt that the look [...]
In 2009 the aims were simple: make as much of whatever happens as humanly possible… And it started quite well. My time in Paris gave me the time and space to work on my music without much distraction. I was surrounded by a whole new world to photograph and the stuff i was seeing was coming through in the music. [...]
Few More Kicks (Inhale)(Live) by In The Black Box Few More Kicks (Exhale) by In The Black Box Small Creation by In The Black Box … and i liiiike it. It’s fairly simple really when you think about it. Gonna stroll on in, and break them over the back of a low wall. Nodding the [...]
29 Bars of Sunday by In The Black Box H.O.T.S.JAM (Live) by In The Black Box (Lighting fires….HOTSJAM GO!!) The Belly of the Beast never sleeps… cooking everything from food to good beats… and eventually out of the haze came a joy so rich it was worth the lack of sleep… … were going to [...]
… reason to believe in the snow .. …and this is what happens when you click on that part of your brain…smash it up… don’t care… never did …. wonder why it is all the way it “should” be when it comes out like this… painful… harsh… pins…needles… crashing cacophony.. nothing makes sense… droning [...]
