This piece by California based animator and film maker Andrew Thomas Huang is supposedly almost entirely made of practical effects, with computer generated imagery sprinkled on top. Huang pitches a beautiful tone and somehow I am reminded both of Fever Ray’s ‘When I grow up’ video and Bjork’s ‘Wandelust’. Solopsism: […]

french directing duo Jul and Mat achieved an amazingly playful textured and relentlessly dynamic video for the song ‘She wants’ by Metronomy.  At times shot backwards at times forwards always perfectly intended, the effect is a seamlessly stitched together piece that is always just as it should be yet free […]

Lhasa De Sala, Born in Big Indian In new York, Died of cancer in Montreal Canada at the age of 36. Spent much of her childhood in Mexico, Sang in French English and Spanish. Named for the city of Lhasa in Tibet. Below is her explanation of the song soon […]

Greek born French raised Romain Gavras created two of the most striking pieces that I have come across lately. Of course there was the M.I.A. ‘Bad Girls’ that takes the snippets of Saudi Arabian motorway sandal skating (that have been floating around on youtube for years) and jacks it up […]

Tel Aviv born video artist and music video director Alma Har’el (famed in my mind at least for her video for ‘Elephant Gun’ by Beirut) has made another piece I only recently discovered. It is for the Sigur Rss song ‘Fjögur Píanó’ and is part of a collaborative experiment where […]

Long ago it was a session on La Blogothèque that first introduced me to St Vincent. Vincent moon shot her through a handheld grainy dv camera, and although raw and imperfect, or perhaps because it was so, that piece filmed on the streets of Paris remains one of most haunting […]

  Trentemøller Dj hailing from Zealand (old Zealnd in Denmark) invites the intriguingly named  Katja Boom Philip to direct a stage shop for the track entitled  “Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!!” and this is what happens. Here is Trentmøller’s face book page. http://www.facebook.com/trentemoller

Jeff Buckley, Son of Tim Buckley singing here Dido’s Lament, from Purcell’s Dido and Anaes. This, the first opera composed in English, has always had a very special place in my heart. Usually for some unknown reason I find Opera in English trying, threatening on the edge of a musical. […]

Meredith Monk, Turtle dreams. The kind of dreams the little girls have in bathtubs. The kind of echoes that ripple off the churning of a wheat field in the wet of a storm. She is definitely not for everyone, nor is she for all times. But there are some moods […]

The first dose of Persian music today comes from the Kurdish group the Kamkars. The Kamkars are a single family, siblings. Kamkar is the family name. Here they set some of the poems of the ancient Persian mathematician/philosopher/poet Omar Khayam to classical Persian instrumentation. They are undoubtedly one of the finest classical ensembles […]