Bach

At the office, late, doing work on brand architectures. This is nice music to have on, and from time to time, actively listen to. I like the calming rhythms of Bach. This is the Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor

Alva Noto

I haven't posted any music for a while now, and I have been enjoying this tonight, slowly working my way through emails and some personal admin. Every so often a delicate crescendo slowly takes hold of my attention, without me really noticing, and I am pleasantly lulled away for a few seconds.

I really like Alva Noto. Here is his website, and here, is his wikipedia entry.

Now, I think the music should be left to speak for itself.

Trout Music

I have been listening to more classical music recently. But then again I have also been listening to more BBC 6Music also. I think it is a function of having a little office at home to sit and work in. The little office will be the subject of a separate post as for this one I'll talk about music.

In the little office I have put a radio (we have radios in every room in the house and they are usually tuned to speech radio) which is set to BBC Radio 3, 6Music or ClassicFM. I put it on low volume, turn the desk light on and start doing paperwork or work. It is quite therapeutic.

I have also been listening to music downstairs as well. I have all my father's records (and my grandmother's as well, come to that) and I am slowly working my way through them. The old vinyl ones are fun; they are SO thick compared to the vinyl records I bought as a teenager. My current favourite is The Trout Quintet by Schubert. I like the music, but I like the name even more!

I had a look online for some of it, and I found this 55 minute documentary of five classical superstars coming together in London in the 1960s to play it.

Everything Everything

Everything Everything's first album is out this month. This is a single that was released last year entitled "My Keys, Your Boyfriend" and the video above accompanied it. I think they are re-releasing it with a different video very soon. The new video is at their facebook site, here, but I don't like it is as much. This is just a little more nuttier. The song is also being renamed for this release as "MY KZ, UR BF".

The lyrics are indecipherable, so I looked them up. They are also pretty potty:

Lucifer you're landing
Cross-hairs on the kitchen sink
Barb-wire in the bathroom
I can't make new memories since

Flashbacks to the time
this shell-shocked apartment was the place
i met with your boy
it's a mortal
thing, yeah it's a mortal thing
oh! he looked at me funny and a
oh! oh! think
our secret's out and a
oh-ooh-oh i try to explain
but then munitions rain,
and we're the epicentre

It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine,
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine

And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cos he was looking at me like "woah..!"
Yeah right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
everything just coming through the windows
and half the street was under my nails
it's like we sitting in the Faraday cage,
when the lights all failed

i fly through the walls
all pieces colliding and i
see raymond apart
he'a a frowning now, wagging a
finger at me
"boy!" his knees bend the other way and
"boy! boy!" are you guys together honey?
"b..b..boy!" oh but now i can't find his torso, mmhmmhmm i
guess you're seperated ooh,
Monica i just wanna know...ooh

It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine,
[Monica I just wanna know..]
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper taking over the guillotine

And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cos he was looking at me like "woah..!"
Yeah right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't forget how
everything just coming through the windows
and half the street was under my nails
it's like we sitting in the Faraday cage,
when the lights all failed

Lucifer you're landing (6 cars the
driveway oh i do believe it will be business inside)
Cross-hairs on the kitchen sink
(it's a real spanner into my works i think i kicked the bucket)
Baby's on the bullseye (...do believe it will be business inside..)
I can't make new memories since, ..ries since, ..ries since.

And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cos he was looking at me like "woah..!"
Yeah
right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossing me the keys and I can't
forget how
everything just coming through the windows
and half the street was under my nails
it's like we sitting in the Faraday cage,
when the lights all failed

And now everybody gotta go hungry
and everybody cover up their mouths
And I haven't seen the bodycount lately
but looking at your faces it
must have been bad
and if everybody answered their phonecalls..
but people
say the army's on fire
it's like we sitting with our parachutes on
when the when the
airport's gone


I like the song so much I found this live version. It is also good and you get to see the band play it for real.

You could even watch them simultaneously.

Zero 7 - Give It Away

Lovely lilting track. Chilled and melodic. Dreamy. This track is the type that makes me want to dabble in music.

Scandinavian Pop Videos and Presenting Data

The reference on my last post to Junior Senior video reminded me of Royskopp's 'Remind Me' video. Apart from the track being used to great effect in a Geico 'Caveman' ad, it is a brilliant video, and given how it presents data in a such a compelling way, I think Edward Tuft would appreciate it as well.