Band Of Horses - Mirage Rock

There have been many years that I have lived according to Band Of Horses. I still remember when they released "Everything All The Time" on Sub Pop Her fame skyrocketed like crazy after the release of a single - 'The Funeral' - which even today is remembered as the greatest work that the band has composed to date. After a couple of years and a few moves in their training, Seattle released a second LP titled "Cease To Begin" following the path of indie rock crystal that is appreciated on the debut album. With songs like 'No One's Gonna Love You' or 'Ode To LRC' managed to establish itself as a strong and enduring reality.
In 2009 the story changed radically with "Infinite Arms". Where had once glassy guitar riffs, now there was a new feeling rustic and dreamy, which agglutinated from winding up lines guitarfish slide guitars-style "country road" ('Dilly'). This drastic change in the core sound of BOH became positively surprise the audience and critics, leading to even Ben Bridwell & Cia llevasen incredible Grammy nomination. Who would have said in 2005 that that formation of dilapidated former Carissa's Weird member would fill the front pages of most of the music media in Europe and the United States. Half the world already knew and fame only seemed to be growing.
Then came 2012, the year in which the formation of Ben Bridwell resubmitted new album. Until then expectations had soared into the clouds and the audience was looking for something almost orgasmic. Fortunately the result of that waiting would be well pleased: "Mirage Rock" is as much or more than what we expected from these international indie rock monsters.
There is a technical level differentiating factor between "Mirage Rock" and previous work BOH: live recording. With producer Glyn Johns as captain, the horses have been led on this occasion by his stage energy. That roll halfway between dream and dreamer what we saw in "Infinite Arms" has given its prominence largely (not quantified 'Shut In Tourist) to a more mechanical, more rhythmic and more dinamatizadamente country. The key to this happening by Ryan Monroe, who is no longer so much the keyboard abetting Tyler Ramsey on guitar.
In "Mirage Rock" shines above all the voice of Ben Bridwell, who fits both sober records ('Dumpster World') and some extremely versatile and changeable ('How To Live'). For daring leader dares Band Of Horses up with new surprising new ways to express their voice, the surprising case of 'Heartbreak 101' in which we identify a stranger and brooding Bridwell.
As good BOH album, "Mirage Rock" has something for everyone. Flogging rockers like 'Feud' (included in the soundtrack of Fifa 13) and 'Knock Knock', melodic pieces and meandering pace that refer to the past as 'Long Vows' or 'Dumpster World' ... and above all, flexible pieces that transform speech sound as the seconds pass. That is the specialty of Seattle, and is well reflected in 'How To Live', a dazzling cut in which the pace of Monroe guitars and galloping Ramsey seconded to a majestic vocal outbursts Bridwell. Another great piece is 'Shut In Tourist', probably the most beloved of all the disc that features an exquisite melancholy aura that move us again, as in "Infinite Arms" to beautiful lush landscapes and night.
"Mirage Rock" is the best way to understand why the success of Band Of Horses has no trap or cardboard. Production? The just and necessary. Here what matters is that the engine gets nostalgic rock dive into the ecclesiastical life experience one of his live. And after almost 45 minutes of flashes of quality left the room with a smile on his face and thinking when the next Grammy Awards.

Nave of music / Red Bull Music Academy (Slaughterhouse, Madrid)

In March 2011, an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan. In June of that year, the Red Bull Music Academy, a traveling musical school which since 1998 has been, among others, Berlin, New York, Sao Paulo and London, was to land in Tokyo. The disaster caused them to change plans quickly. "We needed a site and a project to build the space of five months," says Carmen, part of the team of the academy. "The Madrid City Council was ready, we made it very easy and gave one of the ships of the old slaughterhouse." In record time was enabled and was born "the ship of music": more than 4,000 square meters, a radio studio, recording another, a concert stage and nine rehearsal rooms surrounded by trees.
"It is proposed as a temporary structure (...) The order passed by creating, under emergency conditions, an infrastructure that, in addition to responding to needs and acoustic techniques, and enriqueciese acelerarara a series of intense artistic relations that would occur between musicians and in turn add a stage, "he says, architecturally this blog design. "This is as basic housing architecture, which is used to quickly rebuild devastated areas (Haiti, for example), as the first solution," he told his architect friend once.
It's been several months since the RBMA went through the capital (to give you an idea of ​​how it was) for a month, a camp of artists from around the world lived the music hall and put the note in many electronic Madrid rooms. Then the place, and great part of the rehabilitated Slaughterhouse Madrid, which devotes each of its ships to an art, was closed.
"What is to be done with something as amazing when you finish school?" Asked (repeatedly) when we had the chance to visit last November. Shared management between the City and the organization of LILW, the ship hosts events like the Day of Music. Also recently opened a call for him to use studies: musicians and bands Madrid "to develop its business in the city", indicate the bases, can be presented to the contest to use the facilities and record there.
For the rest of the public, however, and as explained from the slaughterhouse, is closed exceptions. Next, for example, free days during the middle of September Nordic. And we're sure not to be the only ones who would love the ship was permanently open.

Kitten: the definitive approach to success of Chloe Chaidez

His father was a drummer in the punk scene of Los Angeles. Grew combining his love of fitness with listening to some of the best albums of their favorite artists: Moot The Hoope, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie. And formed a first group with just 12 years of age who opened for big as Midlake and Conor Oberst. Now that little rebel who surprised by their ability to under has grown - 17 are the years are there now - and finally decided to address the success with "Cut It Out EP" (August 28), the first EP which publishes with Kitten, his last band.
If I'm honest I acknowledge that this petite and had heard him make just under a month. But I refused to talk about it until you get a moment, like today, in which Chloe put an hog the drawing as single 'G', undoubtedly the most catchy and captivating piece of all that has the launch. And what better to ensure a big shot with a video post-apocalyptic epic of love and sex in desert terrain?
"'G' is a great song that needed a great video that secundase" - commented Chaidez Spinner. "The clip is like a mini movie. Something like if somehow mingle two classics as "Apocalypse Now" to "Rebels". About the cast used in the clip, Chloe is very clear, "People tend to ask where we draw the actors, but the reality is that they are all close friends, and couples in real life. That made the recording process was even more fun than it could be. We shot in extreme conditions in the Salton Sea desert experience could have been a mess, but ended up being a great thing. "
The reality is that 'G' is the only single released to date for this EP. 'Cut It Out', released by early summer, was the first. This piece showed the vein formation sensual looking set their music to a pop indie alternative rock with droplets falling into the tendency networks more "mainstream".
Kitten are one of those bands that will be loved and hated in equal measure. There will also be some time to let them to see if in the future, and with a full-length album under his arm, can be sustained, as they are doing so far, in the axis that separates the commercial alternative.

"Open End" - presentation from the Goetz Collection in the House of Art

From 28.09.2012 to 07.04.2013 can be in the Haus der Kunst in Munich, admire the fourth presentation of film and video works from the Goetz Collection. The title of this presentation is "open end" and a total of 14 well-known artists are works contributed. Treats the aspect of open narrative, both in visual terms and regarding the use of language. As in the modern and contemporary novel, which forms a very open form of literary narrative, freer narrative forms take the place of conventional, linear running and focused on an endpoint action. Together is also the films that they have an open end.
Here is an overview of the 14 artists and their contributions:
Emmanuelle Antille, Radiant Spirits, 2000Pierre Coulibeuf, The Warriors of Beauty, 2002/06Sue de Beer, The Quickening, 2006Sebastian Diaz Morales, The Man with the Bag, 2004Stan Douglas, Journey Into Fear, 2001Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tristan Bera, Belle Comme le Jour, 2012Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler House with Pool, 2004Isaac Julien, Paradise Omeros, 2002Ross Lipman, The Interview, 2004Montaron, Balbvtio, 2009Saskia Olde Wolbers, Day-Glo, 1999Clement Page, Hold your breath, 2010Ann-Sofi Sidén, QM, I Think I Call Her QM, 1997Yang Fudong, Honey (mi), 2003
The exhibition is curated by Goetz.
Also visit the open end in the period from 28.09.2012 to 07.04.2013 in the Haus der Kunst in Munich.