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October 24, 2006 at 10:20 am · Filed under Music

Over the last week, I’ve ordered some new music and DVDs.

The first CD is “Live at the Jazz Bakery” by Sara Gazarek. Last year, I was listening to NPR and was about to head downtown. Her song “All or Nothing at All” came on and I had to stop what I was doing. I zoned out and waited for NPR to tell me her name. After that, I went to her website and listened to a couple of her other songs. I think I ordered her CD a day later.

So “Live at the Jazz Bakery” is a recorded live performance with her singing some new and oldie songs. I ordered this as soon as I saw it. The website said it was only available online with limited pressings and autograph, which I got thank-you-very-much.

Then, last week, I ordered “DVD by Sexy”, “Sabbia”, and Ten East.

“DVD by Sexy” is a rock-umentary of The Eagles of Death Metal. It’s directed by Liam Lynch (the “Whatever” guy, who is also directing the new Tenacious D movie.) I’m not exactly sure what’s on the DVD, but I’m sure it will be sexy. QOTSA had something similar to this in their deluxe edition of Lullabies to Paralyze.

Sabbia” is the result of a 2 year collaboration between filmmaker Kate McCabe and musician Brant Bjork. While being neither a visual album or traditional documentary, the experimental and trippy film takes you on a California journey from “high” desert to low desert showing a beautiful and mystical landscape through many perfectly lovely and some stoney weirdo moments. Hope to see you there!

In the last 2 years, Brant Bjork has become one of my favorite artists. He recorded some music just for this DVD, and I’m excited to hear and watch it.

Ten East is a musical side project with collaborating artists, which should be similar to “Sabbia”. Brant makes an appearance along some members of Yawning Man, which is another desert band.

Hurry up mail man!

~Mers said,

October 27, 2006 @ 9:15 am

I got my stuff yesterday. The Sabbia DVD and Ten East album are even more amazing than I’d thought. The DVD by Sexy is just ok. It is what it is.

I should also add to the list that I’ve been listening to Bonobo. He’s a British/composer/DJ and most of his work is instrumental. His music is really laid back with groovy beats. You can listen to some tracks at his myspace.

clear :) said,

November 1, 2006 @ 10:56 am

Doug recently “found” a CD that arrived for me who knows how long ago that he unearthed from his Doug room. I’d been wondering if I needed to contact FLute World and whatdyaknow, it was here! It’s a CD of a flutist I’ve heard good things about, but haven’t heard yet. She also plays a piece on the CD that I’ve had trouble getting into so hopefully I’ll find her interpretation helpful.

I also picked up some CD’s the last time I was at the library– mostly classical-ish (not classical like Mozart, but like what you might hear on the classical station, if you have a classical station that plays stuff besides Mozart!).

Susan Milan (flutist), concertos by Joan Tower (renowned contemporary classical composer), Laurel Ann Maurer (the newly found), a CD of two piano pieces by Shostakovich and maybe others, the Third Angle contemporary ensemble playing music by Bryan Johannson, and i think that’s it but there may have been one more thing…

I also met a semi-local flutist (who is from here and does gigs here, but might live in Brooklyn…not sure), John Savage. I haven’t checked out too much of his stuff but what I’ve heard so far sounds pretty cool…

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jcs297/savagesounds.html

hmmm lately when I’ve been putting links into texts it isn’t automatically underlined. I’ve noticed this when I post in my own comments too…is it something I said? :(

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