Ambient Music Links, September 8th
- Sigur Ros: censored by the US and fined by the Russians - Times Online
"Once upon a time, back when they made records so ambient and open-ended, they might have been designed to send the masses into contented catatonia, Sigur Ros would have been music to the security guard?s ears."
There's more where this came from at del.icio.us/ambientmusicblog.
Sigur Rós Remix Contest
Remix this instrumental track of Gobbledigook (.mp3) and win a signed deluxe copy of their latest record. More about the contest at YouTube.
Taylor Deupree "Sea Last" Book
Taylor Deupree is set to release a book containing photographs and a 3" disc of music. Not sure exactly what the details are, but I always kind of appreciate the creative output of Deupree and the artists on his 12k label. Here's a little bit more about it:
In each Sea Last book printed, there is one missing image; in the back of the book you will find a sleeve containing the original photograph for that missing page along with the 3″cd. Every printed book is missing a different image, making each copy unique and by default limiting the entire production to 238, which was the number of photographs taken.
Tinysong.com
Interesting site I came across today. Tinysong.com is kind of like a TinyURL for streaming music. It looks like it pulls from the apparently new Grooveshark, which I'm not too familiar with. Type in a song title, artist, album, etc, and it lists songs available. Choose one from the list and it copies a short URL to your clipboard to use as you choose. Well done, and from the digging I did, it has a fair amount of ambient music from some of the more popular artists.
Help Joy Wants Eternity Book Some Shows
Just passing along this note from Joy Wants Eternity. Perhaps some of you reading from these locations can help out.
We need your help. Joy Wants Eternity is heading out on a month long tour in a few weeks and we need help booking a few remaining shows. If anybody wants to help out with a show we'd greatly appreciate it! Any suggestions for venues, bars, art spaces, DIY spaces, house shows, college dorms, in-store appearances, people to contact, bands, to play with, etc. would be awesome as well. We'd like to fill these dates with something rather than having a day off, so any ideas you have are encouraged! Here's the dates we need to fill:
Sept. 11th - Preferably Missoula, MT but we'd also do something in Spokane,WA Sept. 12th - in or around Billings, MT.
Sept. 17th - in or around Detroit, MI Sept. 29th - Nashville or Murfreesboro, TN.
Oct. 4th - Omaha or Lincoln, NE Oct. 7th - Boise, ID
Windy & Carl Music in New August Evening Film
Got a note about upcoming film August Evening featuring music from Windy & Carl. It opens in New York City on September 5th at Village East Cinema.
Here's the site for the film: August Evening
Ambient Music Links, August 28th
- The Circular Ruins
Discography of work by Anthony Paul Kerby. Lots of stuff available for free download.
There's more where this came from at del.icio.us/ambientmusicblog.