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September 1st, 2012 6:31am

The Sad Bastard Book Club, “Fuck Heart Attacks! Attack Hearts!” from 2009’s You Gave it Your Best… Unfortunately, that’s not Saying Much:

Crying wolf and crying foul,
all of the sob stories and the scowls.
It’s hard to think objectively
with all these songs of pity.

Your heart is not needed here anymore.
(Your thoughts only confuse you.)
Keep filling it up and you’ll leave through the floor.
(Keep moving forward.)

Ironic detachment
gives you the leeway
for all the careless things
that you and your friends say.

Mocking the broken and fucking around—
(your thoughts always elude you)—
it’s a small comfort, it’s the only type we’ve found.
(Keep moving backwards.)

Of what we’ve become, we are not proud—
(Your thoughts define you.)
just another hungry face in a blood-thirsty crowd.
(Keep moving backwards.)

The heart’s just a muscle—
it always fails—
causing us weakness,
and no end of ails.

August 27th, 2012 2:00pm

Well, now. After seeing this 4-year-old boy play, I suppose I can retire and give up any further aspirations to music.

August 19th, 2012 2:42am

mexicaneliteintraining:

“Este canto, es un canto de fe, esperanza, causa y amor. Nosotros somos músicos y perseguimos nuestros sueños, pero también perseguimos la felicidad de un país que necesita ser manejado con amor.

Por un México mejor, por un México que lo vale, por un México que puede brillar tan fuerte como el sol.

Nosotros tenemos el poder de crear esos cambios que nos harán respirar un aire mejor y nos llenen de alivio, luz y amor.

El movimiento somos todos.”

“This is a song of faith, hope, cause and love. We are musicians pursuing our dreams, but also pursuing the happiness of a country that needs to be handled with love.

“For a better Mexico, for a Mexico that’s worth it, for a Mexico that can shine bright as the sun.

“We have the ability to create the changes that will let us breathe better air and fill us with relief, light and love.

“We are all the movement.”

—

“Es un derecho de nacimiento. Es el motor de nuestro movimiento. Porque reclamo libertad de pensamiento. Si no lo pido es porque me estoy muriendo.” (“It’s a birthright. It’s what drives our movement. Because I demand freedom of thought. If I’m not asking for it, it’s because I’m dying.”)

An mp3 is available on soundcloud.

August 11th, 2012 3:33pm

These guys are great!

Charles Yang (violin), Michael Thurber (bass) and Eddie Barbash (hiding under the table). Donating all tips to Wingspan Arts, they took donations in different jars; the jar you chose to tip changed the music being played (different artists/songs, different styles, different tempi, etc.)

July 28th, 2012 2:56am

Rushad Eggleston (cello) and Graham Terry (guitar), “Grape Fields”.

Also worth the watch and listen is their “Imaginary Soundtrack”.

June 30th, 2012 11:27pm

A new recording and slightly different interpretation of an earlier work.

June 24th, 2012 6:25pm

Yesterday, I discovered the Klavins 370i and wrote briefly about it here. Googling revealed a synth built on a sampled 370i, which naturally I had to try. It’s going to take a bit of practice to get the feel for it, especially the sustain, but here’s a small initial offering: one of the tracks I had here in the past, which Tumblr removed when they removed directly embedded players a while ago, but which I haven’t yet had the chance to replace, “A Educação do Estóico” (originally described here). It’s inspired by the music of Erik Satie and the eponymous work of Fernando Pessoa.

“We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history—that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.”

—Fernando Pessoa, writing as “the Baron of Teive” in The Education of the Stoic

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