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And quite simply, a new regular feature at the bottom of the links post some non-music things that just deserve to be looked at because they will enrich you lives or make you think that little bit harder.
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Sufjan Stevens in Manchester on Thursday - Anyone going?
Morvern Callar is Jane Abernethy, an artist in her own right, as well as a collaborator to the 50 mintues project. 50 artists are contributing a track of 1 minute in length to a charity album. The album is released on CD and Itunes tomorrow, the 30th October. Jane was kind enough to let me share her contribution - 1 of the 50. You can hear one track every week on Huw Stephen’s One Music show on Radio 1, he is slowly making his way through all the music. All proceeds from the album go to the Medical foundation for the victims of torture and the album features tracks from Piney Gir, Jeremy Warmsley, Emmy and Great and 47 other artists including Morvern Callar’s contribution that you can sample below.
“The Lover’s Stone” is a track about a ritual on the island of St Kilda, out in the Atlantic north east of the Scottish mainland. The island is now unhabited, but, as Jane explains “Before a couple would marry the man would have to climb ‘the lover’s stone’ and stand on one foot at the very edge and catch abird to show he could provide for a family…”. The song is a floating folk acoustic ship travelling between ports that welcome it, but are equally happy to see it leave.
MP3 Morvern Callar - The Lovers Stone (1 minute version)
Morvern Callar have more, longer but just as nice music @ myspace.com/hazeyjane
Buy the 50minutes album @ .exercise1.net/50minutes/ from tomorrow.
Things are going well in the Sky Larkin universe - lots of live gigs and exciting support slots as well as some well deserved main-stream mu-sic media suport (msmsms). Now here’s your chance to get your grubby mitts on some signed Sky Larkin artwork by Mr Jay Cover from the noUS voUS Collective.
The winner will recieve the #1/50 print of the picture above (click it to view full size) signed by the artist and by the band. To be in with a chance of winning simply describe Sky Larkin song “Somersault (Notes!)” (listen/download at their myspace) in the most cliched way possble. Be outrageous, mix your metaphor and be over the top - but keep it faithful to the sound and any feeling it evokes in you. NME say it’s “like Black Sabbath and Broken Social Scene colliding, but with vocals akin to the guy from Grandaddy gargling wasps”. I think you can do better - and create something special in the process.
Leave your answer in the comments. The competition will run until Halloween 23:59 (31-10-06) and the best answer will be chosen by me and possibly Sky Larkin.
The Artist is Jay Cover, 23 and he’s Leeds Based Artist/ Music Video Director. He works as part of “the noUS voUs collective” providing engaging and innovative art/design work for a multitude of Leeds based bands as well a few London based bands. www.jaycover.co.uk. His art is showcased above and below.
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Sky Larkin play:
Nov 1st 2006 | Club NME @ The Faversham w/ THE GOSSIP Leeds
Nov 18th 2006 | NASTY FEST VI @ The Faversham w/hot club de paris, more TBA Leeds
Nov 22th 2006 | Water Rats w/ The Isles London
22/10/06: Apologies for the delayed absence and lack of posts as late…. blahdy blahdy blah-daa….. posting will resume tomorrow. New podcast soon too. And a superb competition to win some signed artwork! And more new music.
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MP3: Jh - Apart
Indecisive “could slide one way or the other” acoustic guitar and a welcoming casio tone greets your arrival. In ‘Apart’ soloist jh, who has been sat in front of you for the last two expeditions might just turn around and speak to you for the first about the most important things in his life, of his favourite colours, of his favourite guitarists of the last 20 years, and he might even reveal what really happend in the Arctic last spring, but not for the first 107 seconds, he needs time to think.
Mr Jh cites dylan, elliott smith, banhart, little wings, neil young, sufjan and hefner as influences. There’s a smoothed British edge, no romantisising about vast open spaces; just everything relative, in its right place and proportioned. It’s song that could simply drift in and out of view, peduluming imprecisley with no pivot point.
"...Afrobeat has gone all desert-storm, with instrumental precision: an assault of funk and drum... the sandstorm churned up behind it betrays kilowatts of energy and a solar rhythm" [11th May: more] | [Photo credit]
