Frou Frou
277 days ago
Occasionally music comes along that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
The last time this happened it was a completely different genre to this (Arvo Part), but it serves to illustrates that I do not have fixed conceptions about what I like.
I’ve heard the name before, but shied away from it because I thought it sounded a bit shallow. Not a bit of it.
Details is a collaboration between the electronics of Guy Sigsworth, who has worked with Bjork, and singer/songwriter Imogen Heap. It is electronic music with soul and feeling, and I’m feeling as though I’m probably one of the last to realise this, as it was released in 2002, but I discovered it from chasing down a copy of the Garden State DVD – not only because I liked the film – but because the track “Let Go” was used for the ending and I had to find out what it was.
Still, it’s that good I had to tell.
Arvo Part
470 days ago
I pick-up a lot of what my friends term useless information, as an avid listener of BBC Radio 4, but Kirsty Young’s castaway this week on Desert Island Discs was the conductor Vladimir Jurowski.
His very agreeable playlist included Arvo Pärt and Tabula Rasa, a composer new to me and one that ‘struck a chord’. So, I was off to iTunes and downloaded the album.
Sometimes things seem to come together and so it is with this music and the way I’ve been thinking about my paintings over the last year or so. Since I have been using alkyd paint, which is allowing a greater freedom of working the medium on the surface, I am finding it much more satisfying to blend areas of tone and colour, rather than draw in every little bit, which is in turn helps to focus the direction of the painting. Well that’s what going on in my head – seeing is believing!