These days are great...there's work to do

Always loved this video by Alien Ant Farm, I always find the song really inspiring too. Enjoy

New Leaves Studio

Visit us, www.newleavesstudio.com and share this poster! 
If you're in Huddersfield or the surrounding areas in the UK, you might be able to find one hanging about in some cool venues.

New Leaves Studio Promotional Poster - 2010

Typographic Music and The Sound ABC

I recently wrote a feature for the upcoming issue of it's nice that's publication, You can pre-order the next issue now: Issue 4

The article is about visual music, the sounds of colours and some information on my exploratory work on the subject. if you check out the Music page on my site there are a few pieces of work up to have a look at. 
I have a number of pieces on my site which maybe are a little hidden away, you have to delve deep to find them. This piece is one of them, and one of my favorites it's based on recorded sound and typography.

Villagers, Conor J. O'Brien

I've had a few albums on rotation this past week or so, but mainly 'Becoming A Jackal' by irish band Villagers, founded by Conor O'brien. 

The album seems to creep in through the floorboards, and make it self at home uneasily on your shelf, I say uneasily in that the album is at times quite haunting and sinister, like you're being asked to enter a secret doorway which has just appeared in your house, not knowing quite what to expect on the other side.

Here is a beautiful acoustic rendition of Pieces.  Also i noticed he's using a Yairi Parlour guitar, I saw a nice Yairi on ebay the other day, brazillian rosewood and amazing inlays. 

Dusty Kid - America

It's august, the weather in the UK is kind of typical at the moment, it rains then its sunny then it rains then you get blown away in a gale then its nice again etc etc, this is the summertime that i've come to know and love. There isn't really a point to the story. Anyways I Came across this track from Dusty Kid, amazing.

Dusty Kid - America from Amue on Vimeo.

Have you Forgotten

Do you have a video you like to play on youtube a lot? this is mine. The song is by the Red House Painters, I've posted about Mark Kozelek before (read back) it's a great version of the song, slower than the original. The second reason it's amazing is because it's from the french film A la Folie... Pas Du Tout, with Audrey Tautou, need I say more.

Cass McCombs

Cass McCombs has been quietly creating some masterful albums for the last few years. I picked up Dropping the Writ a few years ago and was instantly drawn to the hazy dreamlike quality of his music. It's a 'close your eyes and your taken somewhere else' sort of sound.

From the perfect That's That, to my favourite Windfall, with it's simple yet sweeping ethereal melody.

This is You Saved My Life, from Catacombs which came out last year. very very nice.