Two of my best friends in the world mailed me a handmade tape from across the continent and it has seriously added to my long term happiness. Posted it here on bandcamp for them. Now it is possible to share it with people without having to force them to listen to my walkman(although I’ll still definitely do that if I see you).
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photo by David Moore
Anne Laplantine lives in Paris, France, and spends her time making gifts for the world out of whatever musical instruments and sounds she can get a hold of. She also makes websites, animations, videos, games, and whatever else happens to compel her. She has also created a passionate and amazing network of musicians and artists of all types via her netlabel. I always sense overwhelming feelings of compassion in everything she does, and humor and playfulness are also never too far away. Her music always hits me deep down and is magical stuff to me. It is something I’ll always come back to. The folks at Lexi Disques were kind enough to put out a 7″ of some new material of hers and I think it would be an easy thing to miss, so I wanted to let you know.
Here is a song from it.
photograph by David E. Moore (artist based in Seoul, South Korea)
Not Jeremy Jones- Untitled(Deprivation)
Performing in a foreign culture seems romantic, but can also often be met with quite a bit of confusion. Not Jeremy Jones, based in Daegu, South Korea, has been making noisy drone experiments and freaked out pop songs for some years now and performing them regularly, although often to some strange responses. He’s faced insensitive ex- pats fake grind dancing to his atonal, arrhythmic noise, and people literally trying to punch him in the face in the middle of his set. Luckily this has not influenced him to water anything down. Staying true to himself on his newest album, 시신시대(meaning: the corpse generation), he rants about a mouse in his house who insults his wife, but is also his friend. He also beckons his listeners to dance until we nuke our parents and ponders how he can kill the dead.
Fortunately, even though experimental/ indie music is quite unknown to the general public in South Korea, there are many interesting musicians and artists working there. The independent music scene is also changing and more and more international acts are coming through via people like Super Color Super and Rad City. Because of this, he was able to recently perform with Lymbyc Systym.
My head immediately made a story for this track from 시신시대, which is a really pretty one and performed with some desperate guitar strumming and a keyboard at his feet. I would rather not influence your interpretation of the song though, so if you’d like to share what the song does to your brain or know what my imagination created just email me at mmdannyg@gmail.com and we can have a convo and maybe even become friends.
(Dalmaji. Busan, South Korea)
Tifanta World lives in Daegu, South Korea. He quietly posts his wonderful songs, covers, thoughts, photos, and musical/ other finds on his tumblr page. Check out his newest track, a Mort Garson-y dedication to September.
Picture by Kyra
A best friend who is always up for encouraging and making amazing things happen. Max, aka Brian O’blivion, has been making and tweaking with beautiful, detailed, crazy films and electronic music for as long as I’ve known him. Not too long ago he finished his most recent album, “cinematic feelings,” which you can download here and it is definitely elaborate, emotional, exciting, yet comforting stuff. Check him out. There’s a lot to catch up on.
brian o’blivion – from a low perspective
brian o’blivion – close to home
