music and tales
Ghost were a wonderful Japanese psychedelic band that released a small string of albums from 1990 to 2007. The music is often spacey, dynamic, and rather timeless in my opinion, not sounding like it can be pigeonholed into any one […]
Collected all together here in one post is a 5 song experiment in storytelling: telling 5 original, melancholy fairy tales using only piano and voice. How well it’s pulled off is up to you to decide. But not only can […]
For the next few days we’re going to do a track a day of a different dark tinted fairy tale. It’s a… it’s a series of tracks of a work in progress. I honestly have no idea what i’m actually […]
In 1902, the very first science fiction film was made, A Trip To The Moon. It was made in France, written and directed by Georges Melies with help from his brother Gaston. Being science fiction it is also therefore the first […]
While i suffer through an eastern european winter of epic proportions that has folks in villages around mine dropping like flies and almost all of us trapped up here in the mountains under a mound of snow and in record […]
Fiona Apple meets The Dresden Dolls. That is what this first track from the Dark Cabaret band Harlequin Jones sounds like. Which is a good thing. Check it out: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPi1490lvE] Pretty sweet, right? Harlequin Jones are the duo of singer/pianist Amanda […]
We must stop all posts immediately and play 3 David Bowie videos. Why? Because he made ******** Life On Mars. Do you NOT like Life On Mars? Whatta you, some kind of douchebag? It’s ******* Life On Mars. We need […]
Let’s see…. wordy, wordy… time for some visual oriented posts. Y’all have seen this, right? I meant to post this MONTHS ago but you know how it is. The endless prostitutes, hyperspace excursions, blasphemous experiments, bodies to bury… So here. Have some […]
Merry Christmas almost everybody (X-Mas here isn’t for another 2 weeks, but the rest of you knock yourselves out). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw]
Here is another song i wrote a little while ago that exists in the same vein as the falsetto song will. I’m not saying the 2 will sound similar or that the new track will be in any way derived from this […]