Music + Images

Having an iPhone, thus, an iPod for the first time ever, I've been getting to listen to music so much more, and I realized how seperated I've been from music in such an intimate way for some time now. In the 2 years and some months we've lived here, sometimes I have my little crappy CD player in the bedroom and sometimes it moves to the craft room, and I forget about it. Thusly, I cut my listening down a lot, unintentionally - I used to listen late into the the night every night ever since I was in Jr. High probably. There isn't much extra room in our bedroom, and I sort of forgot about it, and now, I've been listening endlessly, meditatively as before on my little phone when I'm at work and the gym; I take it in the kitchen while I'm doing dishes, and I love it. I've been shmutzing around on iTunes, and downloading some new stuff, and falling back in love with the old stuff. I opened up some of the digital booklets for albums I've bought, and thought I'd share some of what I've been listening to with the images in the books.

Lykke Li
I heard her on Morning Becomes Eclectic, and I love it. It's awfully poppy, but it's foreign, so that make it ok! I believe she's from Sweden, and her voice is so barely there, breathy and sweet. Little Bit and Time Flies are my favorite tracks.

Q-Tip
I confess, I just bought this tonight, so I don't have too much to say on it, except I'm really excited. I bought an issue of Wax Poetics magazine this summer that had a great interview with Q-Tip in it, and it made my mouth water for his fun, clever, playful hip-hop. Remember that time, when hip-hop was funny and sweet and smart? Yeah, thank him for it. I can't wait to get this into rotation with my Tribe Called Quest albums.

The Cinematic Orchestra
These are mostly instrumental songs, and they all feel like they're movie soundtrack songs somewhat. But from a movie you've never seen, from a movie that happens as you move though your own life, something that isn't attached to any other reference in your mind. It's very clean and sweeping and makes me feel open and hopeful. It's little booklet contains a series of photographs the group wanted to include as a visual supplement to the tracks, something to inspire the mood for listening. I love them, all full of interesting light.

Zoe Keating
Once upon a time, Zoe was in Rasputina (a group of rock-cello ladies) - but now she's solo and she has a process of recording and looping her self so she creates rich sound texture on her own. I discovered this album because she was featured on a small segment of Radio Lab - and as a Rasputina fan it made me take a chance on it. Another great album to go abstract too - simply lovely. I love the track Sun Will Set most of all. The whole album makes me feel like I'm in a forest full of light and leaves.