Saudade: ‘is a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for and/or loves.’ you know that music has to have this, and it has many sound manifestations, but here we look at a simple form: slow songs. it is not like I needed to discover the…
Author: singlyphoto
sometimes I carry a camera, and often with headphones to listen and tune out. along with photo books and concerts a wider context for photography and music is offered.
Put It Directly Into My Veins – 8
Rust. as in, an intense grit that shaves off any patina and takes hold of one’s senses. not “tin roof! rusted”, perhaps more along the lines of “rust never sleeps”… for these songs do precisely that, often in conjunction with the album, and other same-era releases from the artists. “You’re Gonna Miss Me” : one…
Put It Directly Into My Veins – 7
the Gospel. or is it Soul? maybe Jazz? there is some kind of connection here to those well-established genres. yet, of course, aside from the obvious artists in that genre, they are not obvious in songs in this grouping. “Pastime Paradise” : was this the first album I bought? I would tape off the radio…
Put It Directly Into My Veins – 6
it is inevitable that at some point it gets dark– arguably, there is more songs of the ilk scattered about. well, there is this notion that Joy Division is depressing, and I see it as poetic and introspective. this grouping is set off by “She’s Lost Control”, which Massive Attack into a darker atmosphere, while…
Put It Directly Into My Veins – 5
what is this grouping? I don’t know, they may be classified as “mood sensing songs”. I just sense these belong together… er, hmmm… by mood. Post-Rock? noooo! perhaps it is the atmosphere they create, and how they each affected the comfort with groups that were to followed– not according to their release date or influence,…
Put It Directly Into My Veins – 4
we left off in the previous segment with electronic music, and one can definitely dance to those. here, we look at the actual dance songs preferred because of their, sometimes unusual, beats. of course, the songs are also critical to the listening habits, beyond being great for the purpose of a being superb to dance….
Put It Directly Into My Veins – 3
indeed, post-punk was to dominate my choice in music (or how I would be informed), and it would need some help from those bands (like New Order), or the other band I was lucky to catch when Trans Europe Express came out. beginning to go out to clubs helped in sampling much of the “New…
Put It Directly Into My Veins – 2
in this second segment, the songs that mattered from the late 70s, with the post-punk explosion. well, a small segment of them, since the list is dominated by this genre, and it is the most defining era of music that would impact my listening habits. I cannot define what exactly about the genre made it…
Put It Directly Into My Veins – 1
Let’s start with a random beginning, but naturally, with the root of (most) all as the first track. it is not like I heard the song when it came and was changed forever, but it is perhaps the song that I can find embedded in most of the dearest music over all this time. “Heroin”…
IBTABA Nº 49 — The Chameleons Vox
I never ask. you know, when you walk into a record store and ask “what are you playing?” and then proceed to buy that record. (Just as it plays out in High Fidelity [link].) well, ok, there was this one time, when I walked into Tower Records (Mountain View) and the CD for Script of…
IBTABA Nº 48 — Rank/Xerox
Rank/Xerox is one of the groups with David West in it. by sheer coincidence, a year prior to this concert or so, he worked at a corner shop from where I lived in San Francisco, and he noted that I was the only one to come in with band t-shirts, and this got us to…
IBTABA Nº 47 — Cult of Youth
opening for Rank/Xerox Nº48. more information at this The Vinyl District. as with the previous post, a challenge as the low-light test with a newly released Micro 4/3rds sensor camera (the Olympus EP-1).
Box of Fallen Leaves 
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