Last December Sincerely Yours unveiled the latest clip from Avner’s album “Lyssna”, a video directed by Annika Aschberg & Jenny Palén which may have not become an instant hit (none of SY artists have) but raises the Swedish music scene prestige even higher.
Avner’s debut album is like gliding, or even better… like any of those floating experiences from the retro-futuristic 80s sci-fi films filled with existentialist Nexus-6 androids, moon miners & big brothers. Classic yet modern music from a past time which comes to demonstrate & claim (once again) how prolific & creative the Vikings have gotten lately. Those Jens Lekmans, Nordoplens or Tough Alliances caress melodies with very particular arrangements that seem to have defined the instantly recognisable melodies northern Europe (especially Sweden) keeps releasing.
Atractivoquenobello saw the light 8 months ago just when the year of the Ox begun (yes, we’re not even a year old), and now that it’s over we’re really looking forward to 2010, the year of the (metal) Tiger.
The Ox moved us away from that “ugh-but-simple-to-use” blog platform called Blogger (our 3-week test laboratory) to this flexible standard called Wordpress; we initiated 2009 reviewing rocky-experimental albums, watching the Watchmen, or warning about our friendly but scary pal Google.
We’ve written about so many ideas, topics, artists, designers, animators, curators their thoughts, conceptions, products & creations we’ve lost count. But each time we see one of their works or simply talking, performing or acting aqnb feels honored for having portrayed, referenced or even talked about them.
Lads & ladies, rock & roll. The latest invention from the music industry, the “music evolution revolution”, the newest portal to kill MTV or the “Hulu for music vids” just saw the light yesterday night… and there is so much to tell…
Vevo hasn’t generated as much buzz as Hulu did (barely 5000 facebook followers vs 300.000 for Hulu) during its public launch because the music industry is not what it used to be 10 years ago (probably since the MTV stopped being “music” and became a “reality show”); studios are struggling to find their way into the digital business model and users now prefer to use social networks & applications like last.fm, deezer, lala & so on rather than dedicated portals or tv channels. Once again the Internet swallows TV’s natural environment.
After the launch of the Hulu bomb, a desperate but successful move, the next logical sector was music. No more illegal video downloads? Maybe no more illegal mp3s?
We’ve been waiting for it like another messianic product since it was introduced back in July. One of the biggest Google announcements from the past 10 years… yep, probably the most envisioning project since Larry & Sergey started it all.
Chrome OS just confirms one of Google’s several new ambitions… becoming the next cloud computing giant and replacing Microsoft as a software referent. They control the web advertising business & lead the creation of new web applications, will control the mobile market (and its advertising delicious pie) and if that weren’t enough they’ve just decided to control your pc (… netbook) and the way you access the internet (another potential advertising source?).
This is not the first time Msft launches an expensive campaign for their Bing “decision engine” or that they position themselves against the “information overload” you get from Google search results, but it is a first for the UK, where big G holds an even higher market share than in the States…
Most European bands (and by European we don’t mean Brits) have very little visibility outside their home-countries, even more if they don’t use the Queen’s language….. and there is so much good stuff out there….. We just received a little message from Lonski and Classen today asking if we liked their vid by by Britt Dunse…. well, what do you think?
Alberto Vasquez and Dániel Lőrincz are behind igendesign and this great “nissyoku” lamp concept for those relaxing & intimate moments / rooms. A double light “inspired by the solar eclipse”… which reminds us of Sony’s Rolly (don’t ask why).
You can’t deny Disney is still the most powerful dream-machine in the film industry (they own Pixar….), and 27 years after the original light cycles, Jeff Bridges will star again in this Legacy sequel… just watch this 2nd trailer will you!? Can’t wait!!!
We find Brendan Wenzel’s human illustrations are funnily enough similar to Hugo Pratt’s style… a mere coincidence that he studied at the Pratt Institute? (although it’s not related at all). He’s probably more well known for his fauna & flora illustrations…
