music and tales
Rock and roll, NASA! Hats off to you folks and this historic day. The rover is down and we’re exploring Mars! That fills me with happiness. To celebrate we’re going to dedicate today’s post to my top 10 favorite uses […]
I’ve been researching bands that use a cello and a bass guitar at the same time, since the band for the Steampunk Opera performance in Nov may in fact have some cello in it. I debated whether, if that’s the […]
The newest episode of my favorite podcast is out, which means i’m going to take a minute and go all fanboy over it. Did you ever have band in high school or college? Ever do theater in high school or […]
Today we shall feature a little music. Moody and mellow for your melancholy Monday. Back when i lived in NY i was working on a project and ended up with an extra track that i was unable to use at […]
And finally we end with the full album. Fairy Tales for the Lost and Wandering is a series of short, melancholy, original fairy tale-esque stories set to music. They are sung, they are spoken, the music ranges from simple to […]
Well, we can safely assume the Americans in our audience will be out of commission today as today is the sacred Day Of The Mixing Of Beer And Explosives (and honestly, it’s basically as awesome as it sounds). We shall however continue […]
Let’s listen to something a little more upbeat today, shall we? As mentioned before, what started out as some simple piano and voice demos has now become a fully produced album. This week i shall play some selections from it […]
A little while back i posted a few demo tracks featuring original fairy tales made into song form with acoustic piano. I liked the idea, the stories but other than one song (Diedre) the tracks with only piano left me […]
Today we feature an excellent band making modern noir music, Bohren & der Clud of Gore. It’s ambient jazz technically, but it sounds like what youo would think heavily chilled, dark modern noior music would sound like. Sparse, slow, moody […]
Putting the punk back in Steampunk. The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing are a London quartet and they are not mamby pambying around. They are not goth. Guitarist and vocalist Andrew O’Neil may be a crossdressing metalhead, […]