rotation

the number of times i can listen to a piece or pieces of music has become the best barometer of how much i truly love something.

i can still listen to tobin sprout's album carnival boy even after playing it well over a couple of hundred times. i never tire of it. his tone, his melodies.

the band or artist that i listen to most often these days is by far do make say think

i had a lot, i mean a LOT of time for tortoise, especially the twenty minute epic 'djed'

i suppose in a way, do make say think are a continuation of that interest.

instrumental music (which i would have to class dmst as, even though they use vocals, they mostly do so as harmonies) is good if you are doing either nothing or something at the time.

songs which i have to drop everything and focus on are great, but if we're talking about band of horses 'funeral' for example, then it's not always appropriate to be bursting into tears and closing my eyes...

do make say think's long tracks, like my two favourites 'white light of chinatown' and 'end of music' are winding, undulating, organic sorts of tracks and i have gotten to know them so well it feels like my heart beats in time with them.

i have to go now, but i found this beautiful video today, for one of my other favourites, another piece of music which i don't think i'll ever tire of, it's harold budd and brian eno's 'above chiang mai'

enjoy

~ the unknown listener

time and space

autechre - foil

always makes me space out, in the nicest of ways. some tracks are like mathematical patterns. like fractals.

also been listening to swan lake - all fires, do make say think, amiina, eluvium, balanescu quartet

it's a sunny day outside the room of the unknown listener. cooling down a bit now the sun is setting. the music has moved on to 60 seconds by audio deluxe now. brilliant track.

the list

lately:
aphex twin, growing, explosions in the sky, dianogah, ui, tortoise, trans am, wire, ii, loscil, eluvium, philip glass, steve reich, arvo part, andrew wk, kings of convenience, the brother kite, do make say think


at the moment: aphex twin, selected ambient works vol. 2, cd 2.

i hope i actually write in this blog. i've tried before. i'm a bit more of a talker, but i do like writing. i hate mistakes though, and i like the english language too much not to know when i'm making one. i prefer lowercase simply because it's quicker. the shift key always threw me in typing class and no less so now.

i'm at home, the man who was mowing the lawn and making it impossible to have a nap i quite badly need has just finished. maybe i was only starting a blog to pass the time.

i wonder about blogs. do we really need to know what someone is thinking? i suppose there's always the chance that someone reading your witty posting will offer you a book contract or a film.

maybe it's nice just to talk to someone.

but what if noone ever reads your blog? what if it sits there and noone ever cares about it, noone leaves witty little comments, or links to your blog from theirs, or remarks about something you've written in their real life (like when they're standing around the water cooler, refreshing themselves amongst their co-workers and at a loss for something idle to chat about... it could happen).

i'll tell you one thing though, one thing in confidence (perhaps risk is the missing element in writing a blog)... i have a scar on my tongue.

truly. i was about nine. my mum was running late to collect me from school and i fell and bit my tongue really badly. three stitches. i kind of enjoy freaking more squeamish persons out with it.

if you know that story, then you already know me, if not, then now you do.

welcome to my blog.

i wish it all the luck in the world. like leunig's vote. off into the world little blog.