Here are two recordings I merged that caught the ambience of the day. I was walking down the street and noticed the rhythm of my friend’s foot steps and jingling keys. It was late afternoon and people were out and walking about. Then a woman pulled out an accordion just down the street from us so I had the recorder going and just allowed the accordion to filter into the recording as we passed on the street. It was a wonderful 13 seconds captured in space and time.
Driving home through northern California and ended up right in the middle of a fog bank that was hanging in the redwoods clouding the sun. It was so lovely I stopped and took a few pictures.
Silver Wilkinson By Bibio
I woke to an email from Bleep Records with a link to my preorder download of Bibio’s Silver Wilkinson. Happiness. This man’s music has grown to be some of my of my very favorite. Not only do his sounds and textures weave into something I swear I could have dreamed in my childhood days but I love how at the end of many of his tracks he slips into some other ambient reverie. He moves between emotional worlds so effortlessly.
This album feels a bit like a return to a different time previous to his Warp outings but it isn’t. It is just the attention to more acoustic stylings here but again he shifts seamlessly between electronic and acoustic forms that is so indicative of his own style. I imagine there was a time when some commented that he was like an acoustic Boc, Pitchfork called him a one trick pony which they had to rescind after Ambivalence Ave but really more to the point he has more than proven no one can do Bibio like Bibio.
The Bside track.
I just finished these while on vacation. It’s nice to catch a creative wave while experiencing new environments, people, and places.
mrbibio: I Just love this. I don’t know why but yeah.
Quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone.Stories like this are what make reality better than fiction. And we are the more rich for it.
This is the code hidden in the banner on Twoism.org. It link to two soundcloud audio files which had to be merged to reveal the next code. Pretty awesome.
(Source: boardsofcanada2013)
It looks like another transmission came through Adult Swim last night. This is the most fun, genius marketing campaign for an album release I’ve ever seen. After an 8 year absence a solitary record appears in a NY record store. 30 sec snippet and vocoded numbers. Other codes start to appear in various places. Then on twoism, a forum solely dedicated to BoC of which I’m a member, a change is made to the banner. Another code is hidden there leading to two soundcloud links that have to be combined to get the next code. We now have 5 of the 6 codes. Then last night this happened placing the NPR code:
699742 / 628315 / 717228 / 936557 / —— / 519225.
Now we are waiting on the last golden wonka ticket. I love this.
