music and tales
After all this talk about that new subculture song for Act 3- the Steampunk Voodoo song, the song that showcases this new subculture in New Albion which has appropriated Voudon much like British youth appropriated the blues in the 60s- wouldn’t you like to […]
Let’s start the week off (okay, it’s Sunday, but for me it’s the beginning of my week back) with a wonderful song by the Dresden Dolls. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90OU2q7BEc] Just in case you really want to hear the lyrics and found the […]
Formed in 1980, in the relatively early days of the industrial music scene, Laibach is a stunning example of a concept brought about to exemplary fruition. They make music that is exactly what one would initially conceive as “industrial” is one […]
Haitian drumming comes directly from the West African drumming tradition, an amazing and diverse musical tradition going back beyond historical record. My intention for this post is to give a very, very basic overview of Afro/Haitian percussion for non musicians. […]
“”If you don’t like dramatic, gothic tales of madness and intrigue set to carnival waltzes all fueled by operatic female vocals and great piano playing, then move along. But if you do, then step right up to The Wheels of […]
What does this video have to do with anything? Nothing really. However, since this blog is about anything that, in my head at least, tangentially relates to The Steampunk Opera, including music, theater, artsy stuff, victorian and weimar era stuff, steampunky […]
So on April 25, 2011, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, Ben Folds and Damian Kulash, the drummer for OKGo, decided to try to write and record an entire album, that is 8 songs, in 8 hours. And they webcast the entire […]
Today we’re going to listen to an immensely fun album i did rather recently which tells a completely ridiculous story featuring some classic H.P. Lovecraft monsters. It pretty much speaks for itself. The story arch occurs over the first 8 […]
Today we’re going to listen to some songs from a dreamy, downtempo album i made (as Mocha Lab of course) called Subduction. (this first one is My Dream Of You, but some awesome person i don’t know took the song […]
Since i am banging my head against the wall trying to write this 2 persony song (sometimes called a duet i believe), i figured i’d make a post spotlighting some completely awesome duets. Maybe it might help me. My problem […]