Great to see record stores so full. What a great day, I’m so glad I could go along today. Rough Trade East was great even though they’d sold out of what I was after.
Never mind.
Tag: music
I love music. Making music, listening, talking about it and anything else too.
A thing of beauty …
Something new from Blancmange
OMD, Metroland, and playing things to death
I listened to this on Spotify and was really impressed by how good it was. Very well produced synth pop music. In many ways what you’d expect from OMD. So I played it for a few days and now I’m starting to move on again. I’ve probably over listened to the Metroland remixes and had enough, for now anyway.
So i makes me wonder what is it that gets us to obsessively listen to something for a while, a few days usually in my case, and then move on. Of course, it could just be me, but I don’t think so. I do know that a few of my friends are like this too. It comes in cycles usually. I’ll listen to something intently for a while then put it down, then in a few months or years I’ll come back to it and rediscover just how good it is. I suppose that’s the thing with ‘pop’ music isn’t it.
My soundtracking stuff
I’ve added a little button thing in the sidebar, at the bottom, for SoundTracking. If you want to follow me on SoundTracking, click it. Couldn’t be simpler really.
Revisiting Nine Horses
I had a 40 minute drive to do (each way) today and realised that my iPod was completely out of charge, so I had no choice but to take a couple of CDs with me for the journey. One of these was Nine Horses ‘Snow Bourne Sorrow’, which, in hindsight, as it’s been a snowy day, perhaps wasn’t such a good idea.
Anyway, I listened to Snow Bourne Sorrow on the way home, and I was so pleased that I did. It has amazing songs, but most of all I was impressed with the quality and poignancy of the lyrical content. I’d forgotten these songs, and they deserve a listen quite regularly. So I think a Nine Horses re-listen is on the way for me very soon.
Laurie Spiegel
I couldn’t resist getting a Laurie Spiegel t-shirt after discovering her music and work recently. So here they are, both together.
By the way, Lauris Spiegel’s album “The Expanding Universe” is excellent and well worth a listen.
First ‘patch’ with molecule synth
Starting to try this out with something simple. The analogue into the speaker module controlled by the pressure sensor. Let’s see how it goes.
I don’t know if ‘patch’ is the right word for this though?
Checking through the Wire’s top albums of 2012
This is an annual event where I see just how many albums out of the Wire’s top 50 I have bought or have listened to. I’ve not done too badly at all this year so far, and for the first time I’ve got the no.1 album in the Wire top 50 already! It’s Laurel Halo’s Quarantine, and it is a great album, of that there’s no doubt.
So overall I’ve not done too bad for 2012.
I am Ashley Elsdon 