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"Moleskine Song" by Domingo Martín

Mike Rohde alerted us to this cool tune by Domingo Martin on YouTube:

"All sounds are the moleskine

I used:
-Moleskine
-AKG 3000B
-MicroKorg
-EDIROL UA-25
-Ableton Live
-Kodak M753
-PC.."

Sightings: Leo's Song

Reader Angela Miller wrote:

"I found this video online and at 1:50 into the video, there are two
animated notebooks which strongly resemble Moleskines.

"During the trip, I filled two notebooks with notes and sketches."

Seeing how artistic and creative the video is, it's very possible the
creator is the type of person to use Moleskines..."

Watch the video

Send a message, Dylan-style

The young Mr. Bob Dylan is available to send any message for you, Subterranean Homesick Blues style.

LINK

[via Design Observer]

Little Black Book (The Moleskine Song)

who knows what's under

your minimalistic skin

the way you just close in

the mystique within


The butter colored pages

and the perfect round edges

wrapped up together

in a solid black cover


Oh little black book write

little black book write

write down the thoughts of our lives

the doodles of our sights


They say that Van Gogh

Hemingway and Picasso

fell for your beauty

many years ago


And on their black books

created classics for years to go

and now my book is lying beside me

waiting quietly.

By Steve.

" I'm a 22 yr old Moleskine user in Taipei, Taiwan. Several days ago I just picked up my guitar and wrote a song for my Moleskine, because I simply love it a lot. I want to share my song with you.."

Listen.

(A special shoutout to Kathy Sierra and visitors from her blog, "Creating Passionate Users":)

Halloween Mood Music

Here's elegant ghoulish music to write by.

Selections from their acclaimed score to F.W. Murnau's 1922 vampire classic "Nosferatu," conjuring up creeping shadows and gorgeously sinister landscapes with hints at Satie, Debussy, Tom Waits and Bernard Herrmann. Elegant Halloween mood music.

Into the Land of Phantoms
Jill Tracy and The Malcontent Orchestra

Drums Of Passion

Blank notebook? Here's music to open ears, increase pulse rate and stir your passion:

Photo: Jay Blakesberg

"Legacy Recordings is proud to announce the re-release of the groundbreaking debut from Babatunde Olatunji — Drums of Passion — an artist and album that showcases the musical influence Africa has had on the global music scene.

Originally released in 1960, Babatunde Olatunji's Drums Of Passion is considered to be the first world music album recorded in the U.S. Drums Of Passion is just that — an album of towering rhythm and deep mysticism. Drums Of Passion has gone on to sell over 5 million copies and has influenced a diverse array of musicians including, John Coltrane, Carlos Santana and Mickey Hart."

LINK

"One World, One Kid"

"When Skyler Pia's friend Erik was very ill, Skyler thought music might cheer him up. Even at 6, Skyler knew music can be good medicine. After all, music had always made him feel good. Surely it would work for Erik.

The two of them had just visited the Pixar Animation Studios in the Bay Area. What might have been the perfect field trip was too much for Erik, then 8, who was tired and not feeling well at all.

"He was undergoing chemotherapy," Skyler's mother, Cheryl, explained, for a rare brain tumor.

It hadn't been a good day. So back home in Carlsbad, Skyler had an idea. "Dad, I would like to do a radio show," Skyler recalled last week, while spinning in the chair in his dad's office. That radio show is now Skyler's first CD, "One World, One Kid," to be released Tuesday as a fundraising effort for Make-A-Wish Foundation, which helps seriously ill children like Skyler's friend."

"One World, One Kid" One Wish
By Jane Clifford
San Diego Union Tribune

Related links:
KPBS TV Interview (Google Video)
NPR Feature
Putumayo
Make-A-Wish-Foundation
....
I especially love 'Nyangi Matilda,' by Trevor Adamson, an Aborigine version of the English classic. It reminds me of the Radio Australia interval signal with Jacko, the broadcasting kookaburra (way before  the name became synonymous with "wacko").   

"Journal Burning Party"

"well the party's no fun if you're not drinking
and the bar is no fun if you're flyin' straight
sittin' in the corner with a pen and paper
like a journalist with a deadline date.
got an old suitcase full of journals,
and i used to try to use them as a reference point.
now i kinda realize that i run in circles,
run in circles with a black ballpoint.
well, i've got an idea, if you wanna try it.
meet me in the yard by the barbeque pit.
we can take everything that we've ever written,
make a great big pile and take a match to it.
we'll have a journal-burning party.
we'll get a clean slate, honey,
at the journal-burning party.
see, we'll write it down and then we'll burn it up.
we're going page for page
up into flames.
march 28, 1993.
those words mean nothing to me.
november 5th, 1994.
i don't wanna read it no more.
you see, i tried to reflect,
it just made me depressed.
so let's have a journal burning party.
we'll get a clean slate, honey.
come on.
i always wanted to write a song
and say "come on",
so come on.
come on.
all right.
come on.
come on.
come on.
come on.
come on."

"Journal Burning Party"
David Dondero
"South of the South" Album

Visit David Dondero's website.
Listen on NPR's "All Things Considered."

Care for Caruso?

"A big chest, a big mouth, 90 percent memory, 10 percent intelligence, lots of hard work, and something in the heart."

Enrico Caruso

The Collected Works of Caruso
MP3 @ Archive.org

LISTEN

Rebekka Bakken

"”The ”art of how to fall” is the art of how to fall in love, as in the song”, explains Rebekka Bakken of the title of the album. ”But it is also very much the art of letting go. Not holding on, not controlling, is a beautiful art.” The Norwegian born artist knows a thing or two about this. Raised in Norway in the Seventies, without a radio or stereo, but lots of homemade music in the house, she started singing in Pop and Rock bands in her teens. She moved to New York in October 1994. ”That wasn’t courageous. It was just something I wanted to do”, she says with a laugh. ”I went to New York to make music. And was shocked, because nobody called to make me a big star. So I started walking around the city, cleaning my apartment five times a day. Until I realized that if I wanted something in my life, I had to go out and get it. I can’t expect others to get it for me.” She started writing - stories, poems, lyrics. By and for herself, without any intention of ever showing or reading, let alone singing, them to anybody else. ”I wrote because it was the only nice thing I could do during the daytime. The only thing that gave me some pleasure. I didn’t write for other people to hear it, but because I wanted to write. That’s when I started being comfortable with who I am.”

Emarcy

Rebekka Bakken, Official Site.

[Thanks JC in Wein.]

Ipod: the New Wedding DJ

  "Wedding music, without the dumb jokes and cheap suits... More and more budget conscious brides and grooms are cutting costs of expensive weddings by forgoing the traditional wedding DJ and master of ceremonies, and instead using an Apple iPod to take care of the music mix. Reporter Derek John examines whether the personal music devices and other digital technologies could eventually make wedding DJs obsolete."

Ipod: the New Wedding DJ
by Derek John 

Day to Day, August 17, 2005
NPR

Listen

Image: ABF

OK Go

Ok Go "is like a boy band that got seduced by Queen and wound up in college instead of Orlando."

Ira Glass

Watch: "A Million Ways" [QT]

Official Site

Write Music: White Moth

Whitemoth is the pseudonym by which I compose and perform ambient, experimental, and new age music. Shikantaza  is the first cohesive recording that I am making available, and it is yours at no charge. It was designed as a guided meditation.

James Bickers
LINK

Topic: "What music do you write to?"

Frances Mai-Ling

"In the world of music with guitar driven angst, somewhere floating in the air, are the soaring piano scores of a pianist that touches your inner emotions.

"Frances Mai-Ling has the ability to create hauntingly beautiful and vibrantly wonderful music. Each piece has a true life of it's own and envelops the listener completely. It is a fabulous amalgamation of flavors owing to Mai-Ling's great versatility." Lorissa S., All Things Girl

A classically trained pianist, her music is a mix of classical, ethereal, eclectic and new age with a twist of rock & pop added in. Often being compared to the likes of Blonde Redhead, The Residents, early Brian Eno, old Tori Amos, Billy Joel, Kate Bush and Amiee Mann . . . yet defining a style all her own. As one listener wrote, "A musical sound like none other that I have heard before. You must hear her music for yourself."

Frances Mai-Ling is always treading forward in new territory...always learning...studying.. expanding her music horizons. Her Chinese-Polish heritage allowed her to be presented to ethnic music before she began piano lessons.

Mai-Ling started her stage career with her parents established magic show. Her proud parents brought her out on stage at 10 days old and everyone stood to their feet to catch a glimpse of her in her mothers arms. Show business was destined to be her future and the first lady magic, Frances Marshall even wrote in the Tops Magazine "that she hopes it isn’t the last standing ovation SHE gets."

Frances Mai-Ling
Visit her website.

...
 Best wishes to our friend Hans Friedrich at Moleskinerie/ORKUT who is celebrating his birthday today, January 6.

Elegant Halloween mood music

Selections from their acclaimed score to F.W. Murnau's 1922 vampire classic "Nosferatu," conjuring up creeping shadows and gorgeously sinister landscapes with hints at Satie, Debussy, Tom Waits and Bernard Herrmann. Elegant Halloween mood music.

Into the Land of Phantoms
Jill Tracy and The Malcontent Orchestra

ArtistShare

"ArtistShare is the first and only company of its kind. ArtistShare is completely redefining the way people purchase and experience art.

At ArtistShare we firmly believe that the true value is found in artists and their creativity. The creative process is a timeline. It is a living, breathing thing. An artistic product (CD, photo, painting, etc.) is just a quick snapshot of that timeline. The moments of brilliance an audience hopes to experience when purchasing that artistic product exist throughout the entire process. Through today's technology there is no need to limit the experience to one snapshot. Best of all, the artist's creative process is something that cannot be copied or pirated.

ArtistShare also believes that allowing the fan to become part of the process leads to an intensely personal experience for both the artist and the fan and a lasting long term relationship."

ArtistShare

"The technologies that record companies blame for the downturn in retail music sales -- computers, CD burners and the Internet -- are allowing musicians to do more of the things that record labels used to do. In a three-part series, NPR’s Rick Karr profiles some of the artists and Internet sites embracing these emerging business models:

Part 1: Searching for a Patron

Looking for someone with deep pockets to finance an artist's creative impulses is a time-honored tradition -- Johann Sebastian Bach, for example, attempted to enlist the help of the Margrave of Brandenburg to pay for his household expenses and the salaries of an orchestra. His request for help came in the form of the now-famous Brandenburg Concertos. Nearly three centuries later, modern composers are looking to do the same. Karr profiles an artist connecting with patrons through an Internet site called ArtistShare, which provides a viable patronage business platform for artists who have a core of die-hard fans, but not the million-selling appeal that major labels require. He also looks at another artist who's gone the patronage route outside the ArtistShare network..."

Paying for Music in the Internet Age
Morning Edition, NPR

Stormy Weather

"Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain’t together,
Keeps rainin’ all the time

Life is bare, gloom and mis’ry everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can’t get my poorself together,
I’m weary all the time
So weary all the time
When he went away the blues walked in and met me.
If he stays away old rockin’ chair will get me."

"Sheet music to Lena Horne's signature song,"Stormy Weather ," from the 20th Century Fox Production "Stormy Weather," starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and His Band. SUPER NICE COVER IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. Inside sheet music is complete and unmarked. A GREAT PIECE OF MUSIC MEMORIBILA!"

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Genghis Blues

"In an evening's discourse with Paul Pena, you're liable to learn these things: he's been a blues musician for thirty years (and he's played with B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, and T-Bone Walker). He is blind. He's a student of Spanish, Hawaiian, Korean, French, and Russian, though he gravitates to "wingwalker," or endangered, languages. He's a Cape Verdean-American, born on Cape Cod. And in 1995, he made his way to Tuva, in the high, arid steppes southwest of Siberia, where he trounced contestants from fourteen countries to win his division in UNESCO's International Throatsinging Competition.

If you live anywhere within earshot of NPR, you've probably heard a few minutes' worth of Tuvan throatsinging. It can sound something like a gale wind blowing over the top of a steamship's funnel, accompanied by the oscillating moan of a European ambulance siren, or like a vacuum cleaner/pennywhistle duet. Most throat music is overtone music, in which one voice provides drone or harmonics and another the melody, both emanating from a solo vocalist. As a formal musical style, throatsinging is integral to traditional Tuvan culture; almost predictably, it's an endangered form in its own land. But the technique isn't confined to northern Central Asia; given a world full of people with music in their heads and time on their hands, varieties of overtone singing were certain to be heard elsewhere. Such as in the Mississippi Delta, the source of Paul Pena's first taste of throat music."

From Tuva to Tupelo
An American bluesman takes throatsinging home to Central Asia.

By Allison Levin and James Donnelly
(Whole Earth Summer 1997)

Related links:

fotuva.org

genghisblues.com/

paulpena.com

[Thanks Tatsuo]

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