Upward

Bell Orchestre - the upwards march

Bell Orchestre - Band Website

"Bell Orchestre was born in a cave raised by a bearded, toothless hag."

That is on the biography page of the Bell Orchestre, my jam of the week. There album "Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light" came out way back when in 2005 and was recorded at the same time and in the same studio as Arcade Fire's Funeral. There must have been some osmotic exhange of ideas, because this record is amazing. They sound like Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene without any lyrics. A plend of frenetic post-rock-pop awesomeness. Simply amazing instrumentation. They are coming out with a new album in March of 2009 and I can't wait.

I really hope you guys enjoy this song. Put this song on your ipod and go for walk and you'll be surpirsed how everything you see transforms into a beautiful experience. The dumpster with stylized grafetti finally speaks to you. Then that homeless guy you pass on your way to work, you realize is your lost lover of a past life. Ah the harmony. Seriously though, just listen to the song. Without doing anything else. It starts slow but ends with a cosmic explosion that other people around will feel and promplty ask, "What the hell rocked your world?"

Funk or Die

Budos Band - Mas O Menos

Bartel - Summer in the City

Lately I've been on this huge Funk and Afrobeat kick thanks to certain leather jacket doctor. So, listening to these tracks over the course of three weeks I've come to realize why Hip Hop and French House sample from this genre all the time. It all starts with the bass. Get a nice pair a of speakers and really hear it. It's alive and so energetic. There probably is some physiological explanation why booming low frequency = booty shaking. It gently rubs up next to you and caress you into a rhythmic slide. Then we come to the drumming. If you seriously want to know how influential funk drumming watch the video. Then we have guitar playing its rhythmic hooks and occasional soulful solos.

Funk represents balance. A balance so strong that can shake the sands of time covering up our petty differences. Funk.

Ease

Tycho - Sunrise Projector

The wrestling match is and over and you can't remember who won. A mellifluous vibration lifts you out of bed. As you slide your feet into your woven slipper; you can feel all the the strands, all the patterns within patterns taking shape and form. The ease settles in as the wind plays with your curtain. You saunter towards the window and you finally see it. You try to touch for distance has lost its meaning.

Tycho is a musican and graphic artist that hails from San Franscisco. I've fallen in love with this music. He sounds like a poppy more accesible Boards of Canada. Tycho serenades you with a dreamlike prehistoric soundtrack where when all things where in raw elemental form. Check out his website. Support this Artist.