Drawing a Song

The agency Herraiz & Soto has created a gorgeous interactive videoclip for the band Labuat. The idea is so simple as beautiful: the user draws a line with a chinese-style brush stroke that synchronizes with the music and the mouse movements, all peppered with some nice animations triggered at predefined timestamps in the song.



+ Info: direct link to Soy tu aire videoclip.

Omar Souleyman

Omar was a very nice surprise at the Sonar'09. European electronic scene seems to have not very much fresh things to offer when some of the best performances of a so called advanced music festival are veterans such as ethiopian Mulatu Astatke or the same Omar, from syria...

Christian Marclay - experimental turntablism

Before the first hip-hop turntablists there was Christian Marclay. Marclay's work explores connections between sound, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramaphone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collage, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the "unwitting inventor of turntablism." His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the mid-1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument.



I've seen him performing in Sonar'05 and it was quite impressive...

Wildbirds & Peacedrums - There is No Light

Suggested by The Muz, a couple of simply energy...

Kitty Daisy & Lewis - Going Up The Country

This was the cutiest concert from Primavera Sound'09...



Kitty Daisy & Lewis are no ordinary band. The three siblings -- now aged 15,18 and 17 - first came together onstage at a country and rockabilly jam in a North London pub. Over five years later the 50s music, fashion and technology obsessed family have built a massive word of mouth audience through a stream of rapturously received gigs and festival appearances and are ready to release their first long player on Rob da Bank's Sunday Best label on 28th July 2008.

The single 'Going Up The Country' is a perfectly rounded summer holiday feel-good jam, full of harmonica solos, handclaps and lyrics about leaving the city smog for fairer country hills. Coming out on 7", authentic 78rpm 10", CD and download on 7th July 2008.

Stevie Wonder - Drum solo

By suggestion of Carlos Babler, the best drum solo ever. Simply supernatural...

Nina Simone - Feelings

I hated this song so much, until...