Music Archive
Posted by Michael Curran on October 27th, 2008 - Read comments and add your own
I want to riff on birds, riffing as a way of exploring morphic resonance between different kinds of material. Out there in the world, in art, music and literature, birds are ubiquitous. See Max Ernst’s Two Children Are Threatened By A Lark or re-run Hitchcock’s The Birds. Listen to Patti Smith’s Birdland while reading The Raven by Poe. Recall the Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie, Tennessee William’s Sweet Bird of Youth, Jim Morrison’s Bird of Prey, Leda’s Swan, Coleridge’s Albatross and perhaps the saddest bird of all Lewis Carroll’s Dodo. The augurs of ancient Rome would interpret the will of the gods by studying the behaviour of birds, their flight patterns, eating habits and songs. I make no such soothsayer’s claim for my activities, which are more akin to an open play of fanciful pattern matching.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on August 9th, 2008 - Add a comment
From 8th to 31st August 2008, the Arnolfini in Bristol is running a Directors Focus season on the disfigured wunderkind of the new German cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. As part of this season they will be screening The Daily Moods of the Final Certainty, a video portrait of Fassbinder by Viralux, drawn from his writings, screenplays and interviews.
In honour of the life and work of Fassbinder, LoveHowlMuse is offering a free MP3 download of the soundtrack to The Daily Moods of the Final Certainty during the Arnolfini’s season.
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Watch the video »
Fassbinder Directors Focus season overview »
The Daily Moods of the Final Certainty will be screened before these films:
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (8th Aug)
The American Solider (16th Aug)
Fox & His Friends (24th Aug)
Fear Eats the Soul (31st Aug)
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on July 29th, 2008 - Add a comment
Selfish Cunt are coming! See their tour dates below.
You can also get a free MP3 of Feel Like A Woman by clicking here (you’ll need to give them your email address). Feel Like A Woman is a track from their forthcoming album English Chamber Music, which will be released on 20th August.
See photos and videos on their LoveHowlMuse page, or find out about the album on their MySpace page.
1st Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Kendal - Kendal Calling Festival w/ Dizzee Riscal & British Sea Power
2nd Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Wigan - The Tavern (Club Underground)
4th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Aberdeen - Tunnels (14+)
5th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Glasgow - TBC
7th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Edinburgh - Edinburgh Festival Caberet Voltaire (sick note) - FREE ENTRY
8th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Wakefield - EscoBar
9th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Blackburn - Cellar Bar - MARTIN’S HOMECOMING SHOW
12th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Manchester - Ruby Lounge
13th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Cheltenham - 2 Pigs (16+)
14th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Bath - Moles
15th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Cardiff - Barfly
18th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Southampton - Joiners
19th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Brighton - Freebutt
20th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - London - 100 Club - ALBUM LAUNCH
21st Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Exeter - Cavern Club
23rd Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Plymouth - Hubb
24th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Bristol - The Croft
25th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Tunbridge Wells - The Forum (16+)
26th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Colchester - Arts Centre
29th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz
30th Aug 2008 - 20:00 - London - Offset Festival (Last FM Stage)
5th Sep 2008 - 20:00 - Olso, Norway - Garage
6th Sep 2008 - 20:00 - Stavanger, Norway - Cementen in Stavanger / NuMusicfestival
19th Sep 2008 - 20:00 - Paris, France - La Mechanique Ondulatoire
26th Sep 2008 - 20:00 - Vienna, Austria - Icke Micke @ Planetarium Vienna
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on July 5th, 2008 - Add a comment
The 6th of July is George W. Bush’s birthday. To celebrate this infernal occasion, for one week only Viralux are making their song Happy Birthday Mr. President available to download as a high-quality MP3 - just click below…
[Edit: Unfortunately the week has come to an end. Subscribe to the blog using RSS or the email subscription box on the right to receive updates as soon as new blogs like this are posted.]
Happy Birthday Mr. President:
Music: Gordon Dawson and Heather Jones X
Lyrics and vocals: Trish Lyons
Produced by: Viralux
See more about Viralux on LoveHowlMuse »
Send us a message if you want the lyrics…
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Posted by Trish Lyons on November 21st, 2007 - Add a comment
Patron saint of musicians, composers and church music
trismos
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Her name means ‘blind’, she lived for three days after the executioner failed to de-capitate her. He struck his blow three times and ran away in fear when he had failed in his task. Blindfolded she lay and waited for death all the while singing hymns for her true love.
Sounding a trismos, the steady whistling noise that is a sound reserved exclusively for dead souls. Oh Cecilia you’re breaking my heart. You’re shaking my confidence daily. Shakin’ my cocaine and saltine. A misheard lyric. A misplaced sound. It’s much more important how language sounds than what its concrete content is. Oh Cecilia I’m down on my knees and begging you please to come home.Your blood pearl necklace of tangled fences. A song heard in dreams that carries us across the breach of sleep. A bridge, the middle 8. Richard Pryor’s funeral pyre. Bob Dylan’s burning guitars and boxcars. Clickity clack clack, don’t step on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back. Bridges burned and backs turned. A structure seeks stasis by balancing forces in tension and compression. Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Verse Chorus Verse again.
Sea shanties, football chants, cowboy songs, church house songs, song of songs, protest songs, drinking songs, poor ol’ me songs and ballads.
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