Check out the latest Kutiman song that he created by shooting video of musicians while wandering around Jerusalem. I love Kutiman’s previous work with YouTube videos. This track sounds haunting and beautiful and is a pleasure to watch. A very special piece indeed!
Early last week a student showed me Thru-You.com, a collection of YouTube video mashups by Israeli, neo-funk artist Kutiman. I was thoroughly impressed with his work, but soon afterward the site went down due to bandwidth limits. Since then it’s been up and down several times. Hopefully they’ll have their bandwidth problems sorted out soon, so If you can’t view these videos straight away, bookmark the site and check back because they’re worth the wait. Update: The videos have been moved to YouTube, so there should be no more bandwidth issues.
Unearthed Music artist ten72 has completed a luscious album of sonic experiments titled Transdimensional Bypass (full length previews). This gapless collection of pieces has astonishing textural depth and sonic complexity; something that I’ve come to expect from ten72’s music, but surprising in this case since every bit of audio on the album was recorded on a mobile phone.
To make this a possibility ten72 has ingeniously used a profusion of processing to metamorphose the lofi, metallic sputterings of his mobile field recordings into an opulent dream scape of illusory audio. A single part of this anthology out of context is not the best way listen, but here’s Folds of Color to give you a tiny taste. The release will be available from Unearthed Music and major online distributors as a high quality download on January 8, 2009.
Folds of Color
from Transdimensional Bypass by ten72
Keston and Westdal’s latest release, One Day to Save All Life (ODTSAL), has been reviewed in Signal to Noise, The Journal of Improvised and Experimental Music. This review from “The most respected journal of experimental, improvised and otherwise interesting music” (DustyGroove.com) is the highest praise yet for the release. Please visit Unearthed Music to read the review.
Unearthed Music makes full-length 128kbps MP3 previews of every track in their catalog available on their website. So, in light of the review I am including one of my favorite tracks from ODTSAL, Electric Sheep, as today’s sound on AudioCookbook.org. If you like what you hear consider purchasing music from our independent and artist owned label. Why? Because without your support we and others like us would not be able to continue providing you with the music you love. And what kind of world would that be?
Electric Sheep