Today I realized all posts at this blog so far has concerned music. Of course this isn’t weird in any sense at all since I’m the one who’s writing, but I guess I tend to dig myself into matters not very appealing to the whole spectrum of potential blog readers here in the binary world. I mean, hey, it’s important for me a as an economic student to satisfy all my visitors, (?) their needs and desires to ensure that they still find this blog of mine interesting and emotionally attractive. Therefore, I also understand that my writings obviously should include topics not only discussing perfect drifting ambient or earlier never-heard songs of one of the worlds greatest IDM groups. It is, so to speak, my responsibility as an aspiring economist to evolve readable attention as well as a constant interest ”in the hearts of minds” of the followers of mine. Frankly speaking, I have to sell myself a bit. Uh, I think.
Anyway, yesterday I watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Can’t say I’m a Woody Allen connoisseur, and before VCB I haven’t really seen anything of his later work since Zelig (yes, I am aware I most surely will make a complete fool out of myself by stating this), but despite my lack of knowledge of the directors’ work in the span of his early 50’s to late 70’s, I found Vicky Cristina Barcelona a very sweet film and a natural development of Allen’s film-making as I have witnessed it. As usual in the world of Woody Allen, it’s the characters themselves and their interaction towards each other that stands for the film itself, and I have to say he really worked it out with that one. Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall has a personality contrast that easily can be compared to the likes of Thelma and Louise, which shows the ins and outs of a flirty, flighty, hard-pleased girl as well as a conservative soon-to-be-loving-wife as they’re getting pursued by the Spanish emotion load that is Javier Bardem. And yet we haven’t even mentioned Penelope Cruz’s stunning appearance as a femme fatale in the words most complete sense. It’s a curious adventure of do’s and don’ts, faithfulness, spontaneous love affairs and mental ex-wives in a distant cultural society. And it’s friggin’ good. See it if you got the chance.
Next post will probably handle rocket science. Or Dinosaur, Jr.
Twiggy Frostbite’s ”Through Fire” is a remarkably beautiful album. We’ve known that for a while, haven’t we? However, I can’t recall to have heard the music from this sweet band associated with moving pictures. Therefore happiness struck me earlier today when I noticed a directed video of their stunning tune ”Heroes” at Vimeo. The video itself is made by RadarMusicVideos and the concept is a kind of sad story about a girl and a robot, love and rejection. Gaze and love. And don’t forget to visit their label Despotz Records while you’re at it!
I’ve been associated with the free music community CLLCT for a while. As a forthcoming writer to the first issue of the dedicated magazine, I was asked by Luke to write some reviews of the community’s releases. And my, what did I find if not one of the finest ambient records all year. ”Enemy, Enemy” by Automobile, Swift is a definitive must in the rain and storms of fall. Download immediately at CLLCT and wait for the physical edition over at Heat Death Records. Lush and wonderful – that’s my autumnal soundtrack.
I have a friend whom I’ve never met. I don’t know very much about him, but my friend almost solely listens to noise music and old english indie pop (preferably the likes of Sarah, Creation and Cherry Red, I seem to recall). At first this combination felt utterly divided and inconsistent, but the more I reflected upon the fact, the more logical it actually seemed. He told me that whenever he’s fed up with Dead Machines’s brutal doomsday noise, he gives the magnificiently wonderful Blueboy a go, furtherly accelerating against Sunn O)))’s massive sound walls only to drift into dream land with ambient techno master Axel Willner in his ears. ”It’s a nice contrast”, he explained. Considering these arguments, I feel more people’s listening habits should be like my friend’s.
Among the genres above, I’d like to emphasize the ambience part and a song which I got sent to me by another friend. I’ve never listed to Brock Van Wey’s work under his own name before (Bvdub is amazing as well), but this surely caught my interest. This post will also function as the first one of the blog, but without all the ramblings about what got me into designing this blog. Because nothing special really did. So let’s just skip the formalities and instead enjoy plain good music, shall we?. This is Brock Van Wey – White Clouds Drift On And On (Echospace, June 2009).
(I know the sound quality won’t justify the song, but have a listen anyway.)
Morningside Heights is a blog run by Björn Ekström, student at Music & Event Management in Kalmar, Sweden. Here I write about the music I adore and things that goes by my everyday life. It's quite humble stuff. Reach me at info@bjornekstrom.se. Morningside Heights is a part of bjornekstrom.se. Photo used in header taken by Emmy Woksepp.
