basement music #5!

In Basement Music #5, Richard returns for more punishment with Azed, Pedro and Tim for a reasonable discourse on songs and soundtracks in the movies.

How soundtracks shape movies, and how movies can in turn reshape timeless favourites, from "Singin' in the Rain" to Apocalypse Now. Wendy Carlos to Wes Anderson, Herbie Hancock to Henry Mancini, this show covers all the bases.

Plus the guys put their Lobo knowledge on the line in the latest installment of Stump Tim.

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The playlist:
Wendy Carlos - Suicide Scherzo
Real Estate - Beachcomber
Atlas Sound feat. Noah Lennox - Walkabout
Three Amigos - My Little Buttercup
Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
Mark Mothersbaugh - Rachel Evans Tenenbaum (1965-2000)
Kevin Shields - City Girl
Fantomas - Experiment in Terror
Tommy Roe - Sweet Pea
Prince - Mountains
Herbie Hancock - Bringing Down the Byrds
Lobo - I'd Love You to Want Me

Three For Thursday

#1) My new favourite band; Real Estate at CMJ.

#2) My other new favourite band; Family Portrait.

#3a) The Original

#3b) The Homage

Thanks for the idea Carrie.

RP

Hocketing with the Dirty projectors

I was blown away by a video of the Brooklyn band Dirty Projectors casually playing a new song backstage. The vocal arrangement is so beautiful and complex!! Really sublime. Check it out here: LINK.

The musical trick or technique the female vocalists use in the video is called hocketing. It's where a single musical line is shared between a number of people to create an infinitely more complex and beautiful sound. You hear it everywhere from panpipe music of the Andes, to Medieval vocal Music, to the clapping patterns in flamenco. The leader of the Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth, talks about it in this video: LINK (It's a little meandering, but worth checking out).

To me, this band's insular devotion to creating new and interesting sounds gives them an air of a cult or something - in a good way! I mean, what other band would work so hard to create something so odd and beautiful? Maybe cult is the wrong word, but they do remind me of people in early 1970's who lived communally and saw their endeavors as part of a larger Utopian experiment. (There's a song on the album Bitte Orca called "Temecula Sunrise" that imagines a suburban development being taken over by an pseudo-Utopian group that lives communally). Don't they even look the part?