Melou - "Bound"

Noir, indie, female voice. Not Vaya Con Dios, and yet. The way of singing, yes. Not the style of the songs.

• Ribbon and a Crown

post rock playlist

http://8tracks.com/vatsan/the-ultimate-post-rock-study-playlist

• Tunturia - "Sinking"
  cannot find anything on spotify (which is a good thing), but fairly interesting sound scapes

Beans & Fatback - "Heroine Lovestruck"

Surfy.

• "Gilda" : catchy
• "Heroine Lovestruck" : ghostlike

Richard Brautigan - "Your Catfish Friend"

If I were to live my life
in catfish forms
in scaffolds of skin and whiskers
at the bottom of a pond
and you were to come by
   one evening
when the moon was shining
down into my dark home
and stand there at the edge
   of my affection
and think "It's beautiful
here by this pond.    I wish
    somebody loved me,"
I'd love you and be your catfish
friend and drive such lonely
thoughts from your mind
and suddenly you would be
   at peace,
and ask yourself, "I wonder
if there are any catfish
in this pond?   It seems like
a perfect place for them."

Diane Coffee - "Everybody's a Good Dog"

Very seventies sound to it. Can't describe it otherwise. Pleasant to have in the background. Very ... melodic.

Low - "Ones and Sixes" (2015)

Songs are ok.

• The Innocents: quite intrigued by the low flarfy "beat"

Loin des Hommes (Far From Men) (2014)

Beautiful quiet film with Viggo Mortensen and Reda Kateb about a schoolteacher and a man in Algeria 1954, who, against the backdrop of rebellion, are thrown together for a lonely journey.

Based on the short story "The Guest" (le visiteur?) by Albert Camus.

Amazing emptiness.

Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Written and directed by David Oelhoffen, somebody to keep looking for.

Nick Cave in ... Russian?? Hungarian?? who cares!

"W moich ramionach" by Przyjaciele

Cave's most famous songs, totally incomprehensible, from a textual point of view. Awesome.

Mark Lanegan - "Houston: Publishing Demos 2002" (2015) and "A Thousand Miles of Midnight - Phantom Radio Remixes" (2015)

• from the demo's: Blind
• from the remixes: The Killing Season (UNKLE remix)

FilosofischeStilte - "I Forgot About it, When I Thought About It" (2015)

Instrumental, electronics. Good sound & beat (not fast). The Hague.

Actually, some songs have voices, but the words are hardly recognizable and do not intrude.

Very nice.

Predestination (2015)

Right up there with Looper in the the ultimate time-travel she/he is his own father/mother loop. Wonderful film. What I loved is how she tells her story in the beginning, taking quite some time to do so. No constant scifi time travel magic. Just true story.

Ane Brun - "My Lover Will Go"

I'm grabbing a bottle of wine over you

I'm craddling a bottle of wine over you


either way... although it's not one of her best songs.

Slow West (2015)

Beautiful western with Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Written by John Maclean. Supposedly Fassbender signed up before a single letter of the script was written. Keep an eye on that Maclean guy. Great music, great shots, great pace (yes, slow, as some of the best films are)

Great OST by Jed Kurzel.

As well as "The Minstrel's Song" by Brian Michael Mills.

The film, the story and the music: all are good for writing.

Kongos - "Lunatic" (2014)

Americana + African roots, the Ars Technica dude described them.

Not sure, but they have an accordeon, it is slightly punky and gypsy.

• I'm Only Joking - woooooh
• Come with me Now - nice!

Eddie Vedder - "Long Nights" (Into the Wild, 2007)

Shivers.


Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah...

I'll take this soul that's inside me now
Like a brand new friend
I'll forever know
I've got this light
And the will to show 
I will always be better than before

Long nights allow me to feel...
I'm falling...I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah...

La Femme - "Psycho Tropical Berlin" (2013)

Nice enough songs, though not many of them jump to your attention.

• Antitaxi - instrumental, surfy
• La Femme Ressort - strange, nice

Apparat - "The Soft Voices Die" (The Devil's Walk, 2011)

Intriguing slow song, with a nearly-irritating high weeeeep effect. Soft electronic tingles, violins.

Taylor Swift swallows the world

https://samkriss.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/taylor-swift-swallows-the-world/

They follow her, while Taylor Swift is one of those dangerous rarities: a person that doesn’t look like anything. Not strange-looking, exactly, not amorphous or indistinct, but vast: a trackless and uncharted infinity. Something hungry.

Taylor Swift has always resisted the crude general categories that female recording artists are usually shunted into: never quite succumbing to the coruscatingly coquettish malice of the teen icon, or steatopygous sexual auto-objectification, or modish androgyny.

...

For years now, she’s made a point of never showing her navel, carefully engineering various crop tops and swimsuits to keep it hidden from paparazzi and their slobbering navel-crazed public. Fine: I don’t tend to make a point of parading around my naked umbilicus either. It’s a revolting hole, a foetid salty lint-clogged scar, a gaping absence that’s only a reminder of something irretrievably lost. With only that hole remaining the condition of humanity must always be one of absolute disconnection; we’ve been snipped apart from a primal unity, and it’s not coming back until the day we die. Our genitals tell us that we can bring ourselves together, and even create something new; our navels whisper bitterly that we will always be alone.

acheiropoieta

Acheiropoieta (Byzantine Greek: ἀχειροποίητα, "made without hand"; singular acheiropoieton) — also called Icons Made Without Hands (and variants) — are a particular kind of icon which are said to have come into existence miraculously, not created by a human painter. Invariably these are images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary. The most notable examples that are credited by tradition among the faithful are, in the Eastern church the Image of Edessa or Mandylion (depending on the version of its origin story followed) and the Hodegetria, and in the West, the Veil of Veronica, the Manoppello Image and the Shroud of Turin.

Although the most famous acheiropoieta today are mostly icons in paint on wood panel, they have been in several other types of technique, such as mosaics, painted tile, and cloth. Ernst Kitzinger distinguished two types: "Either they are images believed to have been made by hands other than those of ordinary mortals or else they are claimed to be mechanical, though miraculous, impressions of the original".[1] The belief in such images becomes prominent only in the 6th century, by the end of which both the Mandylion and the Image of Camuliana were well known. The pilgrim Antoninus of Piacenza was shown a relic of the Veil of Veronica type in Memphis, Egypt in the 570s.[2]

the Fifty Dollar Band - "one Hundred Years of Grace"

Wonderful spaghetti western music.

• Where Do You Go (ft Teus Nobel) - trumpet, female voices...