Saw this in a lecture I attended recently. A collaboration between Ira Glass (from This American Life radio and podcasts) and wonderful cartoonist Chris Ware. A sad story of buildings destroyed, and the way they haunt the architecture that is constructed where they once stood.
Lost Buildings |
VIDEO: Gabriel Bruce – ‘Sleep Paralysis’ |
Directed by Ferry Gouw
Sleep Paralysis will drop via Off Modern Records on December 5th. A hybrid of book and record release Bruce’s debut 7″ is incorporated into a fifty page illustrated book which looks into the phenomenon of the songs title. Pictures to follow but if you’re already convinced…
Pre-order here!
KARP LIVES |
On Thursday 20th, Sound-maker records are happy to announce that they will be screening “Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary Film about a Band Called KARP”, at the Victoria pub, Mile end. The film is touring the UK and Europe and we will be screening the documentary before it’s taken up to supersonic festival in Birmingham at the weekend.
“Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary Film about a Band Called KARP” is the story of three friends overcoming odds through rock n’ roll music.
Set in the Pacific Northwest against the backdrop of the Olympia, WA post punk and Riot girl movements of the early 90′s, the film details the joys and tragedies of a band called KARP as each band member’s life serves as a lightening bolt to a separate destiny.
This film is not to be missed if your a fan of DIY music/rock ‘n’ roll/Big business and the Melvins.
Click here for more details via their facebook event page, and watch the trailer below….
Enjoy!
Champion Sound |
Discover a bit more about where we do our radio show in this video from Boiler Room affiliated ISYS. I’ve never seen Dalston looking so idyllic. It’s also probably a good thing I didn’t put myself forward for the NTS football team, I think I would have been out of my depth. Look out for some serious skills on show near the end of this video.
NTS – CHAMPION SOUND from ISYS on Vimeo.
AQUARIUM |
There’s a lot of video art around at the moment, especially in Peckham, and a lot it seems to be composed of retro 80s effects, baffling found footage from YouTube, and throwback analogue noodling. All well and good, and there have been some great things in this inaugural PAMI (Peckham Artist Moving Image) festival, the best in my opinion being a showing of the awesome Gabriel by Agnes Martin in the Hannah Barry Gallery. However it wasn’t until I took a rare trip to Shoreditch on Friday that I encountered a piece of video work that was inspiring, clear, clever, original and beautiful. You can watch Tobias Zehntner’s Aquarium here, and until September 18th at The Alekano Club on Kingsland Road.
S.C.U.M – “Whitechapel” |
Beautiful simplicity or simply beautiful? YBAs Tim Noble and Sue Webster add their aesthetic twist on S.C.U.M’s new single Whitechapel to brilliant effect. S.C.U.M played the first ever Off Modern at Corsica Studios and seem to have been touring Europe and honing their sound ever since. We’ve been lucky enough to hear a sneak peak of the album and it’s a stormer, out next month via Mute. Go forth and purchase!
OM FILM CLUB: LONDON |
Patrick Keiller is in conversation with Owen Hatherly at the ICA on the 14th of July. Tickets and more information are available here.
My Panda Shall Fly – “Injury” |
We’ve shown you the video for ‘Yoyo’ and then ‘Xerox’, third and finally we give you the video for ‘Injury’ the premier track on the debut EP from South London’s My Panda Shall Fly. Our guy Suren has done it again, coming up with the concept for the video with director Jeremy David Hunt this cat-narrative is the final reminder from Sorry I Took So Long that interesting videos can be created with little budget.
Another State of Mind |
We live in a time when major labels will sign snotty teen rebels at the drop of a hat, ‘hot punk hairstyles’ are lovingly analysed on America’s Next Top Model, and on English TV Johnny Rotten mugs to the camera to advertise butter and Iggy Pop hocks insurance. This love affair between mainstream consumerism and punk aesthetic is a relatively new and conceptually bizarre situation, much as these nostalgia-laden icons would suggest otherwise. In the music’s halcyon days of the late 70s and early 80s, there was a genuine and quite specific hostility shown to kids who coloured their hair, cut up their clothes, kicked against the pricks and thrashed out rackets on battered guitars. Punk road trip documentary Another State of Mind is a classic snapshot of this long lost era. Read more…
CAMELS |
New video by Ciaran Wood for Vondelpark’s ‘Camels’ off the soon to be released NYC Bags & NYC Stuff on R&S.
Gabriel Bruce: El Musgo |
El Musgo DEMO – Gabriel Bruce from Gabriel Bruce on Vimeo.
First taster of Gabriel Bruce’s brilliant contemporary crooning. Wait till you here the rest of it. Watch this space.
OM FILM CLUB: DOWNTOWN 81 |
Downtown 81 (1981/2000)
Directed by Edo Bertoglio, Written & Produced Glenn O’Brien, Starring Jean-Michel Basquiat & featuring DNA, Fab Five Freddy, Tuxedo Moon, The Plastics, James Chance and the Contortions, Kid Creole and the Coconuts & Deborah Harry.
Yoyo |
Video for ‘Yoyo’ from My Panda Shall Fly’s debut EP Sorry I Took So Long which will be launched on the 30th April at Off Modern.
Variable 4 |
Made by Martian Labour’s film of Variable 4, the surround-sound instillation premiered on Dungeness Beach by artists James Bulley and Daniel Jones.
