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A couple of quick ones for Easter Monday.

First up Soul Ballet you can read a bit about them at Wikipedia the track is NYC Trippin

Soul Ballet is a musical project of producer, arranger, programmer, and multi-instrumentalist Rick “R.K.” Kelly. Music is smooth contemporary jazz with pulsating electronic beats, characterized by a dark, moody atmosphere.

I spotted this on a recent “Mellow Monday” from tartanpodcast. I thought it was rather good.

Next up (and from somewhere about as far from “Soul Ballet as you can go) have a look and listen to Semiconductor at www.myspace.com/semiconductorfilms or FatCat Records : Semiconductor

Semiconductor are from Brighton, England and make Sound Films. The films feature images like, cities in motion; shifting landscapes and systems in chaos. Since 1999 UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt have been pushing at the edges of digital animation to produce experimental films and live animation. But for us it’s the sounds that help define the images that they are creating. They run a fine line between analogue processes that can border on the chaotic as they exploit the errors and randomness that analog offers.

Semiconductor’s work is at the forefront of an emergent, hybridised practice that blurs the lines between sound and image and confounds the viewer/listener as they attempt to determine the etymology of the work. “We have sought to physically tie the senses of sight and sound in an attempt to transcend their difference and possibly find a place where they have no distinction.” Sound cinema is one currently used to describe this process though it seems like a weak articulation of an evolving practice that refuses such neat categorisation. Inaudible Cities, part-commissioned by Lighthouse, is a visual/aural architecture where the audience become the occupants of a space that is unfamiliar yet feels like home.

(Evelyn Wilson Director of Lighthouse: Brighton: UK)

Great quote isn’t it.

I feel we should create a new category called “Hard Listening” or maybe “LIsten Hard” for the music that Semiconductor create.

We will be back tomorrow.

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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