"Crammed"

"Aksak Maboul already contained some of the key elements of the Crammed æsthetics: eclecticism, internationalism, deliberate and playful mixing of forms, cultures and genres."

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Crammed Discs : Genre-bending Around The Globe

"Crammed is recognized as one of the most exciting, adventurous and boundary-breaking independent labels worldwide. Crammed has kept reinventing itself, and has been coming up with new forms of fusion, mixing elements of world music, rock and electronica ever since its inception in the early ’80s, often anticipating the musical movements which bloomed during the next two decades."

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--Via LastFM

The Ann Steel Album

Another album straddling the line between avantgarde and pop music. Love it.

"This music can be utilized in many ways and listened to by different people, which is what makes me happy because I want it to be accessible to everyone. I would like it to be even more simplistic, in fact, and my aspiration is to uncover it on a weightless day – so weightless, in fact, as to have it fly away like a balloon."

-- Roberto Cacciapaglia on The Ann Steel Album







Collaboration between Roberto Cacciapaglia, "a prominent figure on the more innovative Italian music scene and a point of reference in Italy and abroad, for his musical research between classical and experimental electronic and direction towards music without borders that goes beyond divisions," and Anne Steel--- who I really don't know much about actually. Would love to if anyone has any info! She's fantastic. I really enjoy her lyrics on this album and her vocal stylings.

I would write more about it, but you should just listen to it. It's fantastic. You can find more HERE on the blog Mutant Sounds. Great resource. Recently, he even wrote something on Zom Zoms!

Pierre Cardin

I can't even begin to tell you how aesthetically pleased I am feeling right now looking through these images. It's like he's inside my brain.


1970: From the book Pierre Cardin: Past, Present, Future










Special thanks to Will Kane's flickr photostream which triggered this latent obsession.


Oh how I wish Nanobangbang costumes came close to this. Give me time.

Low Red Center Album in the words of Gary B

This Low Red Center album is number #3 on the KVRX Charts right now. Limited addition realease on Instincto Records, only 50 copies left! As the most recent member of the Low Red Center collective, I am on track 1, 3, 5, 8.



From Gary B's blog:

On The Presence of Absence

On November 17th, 1966, shortly before eight in the evening, a man left his favorite café on the Place Saint-Jean in Brussels, to go to a restaurant on the Grand-Place where it was his costume to take dinner. As the weather was mild, he left his coat at the café, intending to return for it later.

Arriving at the restaurant, he died of a heart attack. For several months his coat continued to hang from a peg at the Petit Rouge, as though to demonstrate that, just as a gesture may give an object special meaning, so the absence of a gesture, a gesture interrupted or uncompleted, may have the same result. Thirty years before, that man had written a story entitled Le Rite du billet de chemin de fer.

Job Hunting

Sometimes this is what it begins to feel like when you're searching for a job...

look up!

Go / Don't Go

Trying to think about these oscillations:

1. Please don't go because I don't want it to be too crowded.

2. Please go because I don't want it to be empty.

regarding events I want to go to