What a fantastic weekend at the inaugural Camden Crawl Dublin. Highlights for me were Ghostpoet, Fionn Regan, Sertone, REID, Alarmist and We Are Scientists. Some pictures below…
The Lost Continent
Explorations in music, media and art
Come On Live Long – Elephants and Time Music Video
We’ve just finished the cut on a music video I directed for the band. I’m pretty pleased with how its come together.
Big thanks to all the guys involved. We’re playing for the Camden Crawl Dublin tomorrow night, May 11th, in Whelan’s.
Lorn – Ghost
Lorn released his debut album Nothing Else on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label back in 2010.
Now he is firmly at home with London based Ninja Tune records and is preparing to release his second LP Ask The Dust in June. Ghosts is the first cut to be taken from that release.
Sigur Ros – Ekki Mukk
Taken from the new album Valtari to be released on May 28th Sigur Ros return in true ethereal fashion with Ekki Mukk.
Daniel Rossen – Silent Song (from ‘Silent Hour/Golden Mile’ EP)
New single from Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen. Following on from the release of “Saint Nothing”, this new track “Silent Song” is a gorgeous blend of rugged guitar and raw drum sounds combined with warming vocals to make for a great listen. Rossen’s debut album Silent Hour / Golden Mile is out now via Warp.
Daniel Rossen – Silent Song (from ‘Silent Hour/…, posted with vodpod
Mux Mool: Planet High School
The new album by Mux Mool available now through Ghostly International
Nicolas Jaar: “And I Say”
Featuring a vocal contribution from Scout LaRoue, daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Wilis, Nicolas Jaars latest offering is a slow burning, seductive offering. Looking forward to a lot more from this man in 2012.
John Talbot: “Destiny” Ft. Pional
New music from Spanish dance producer John Talbot.
Out now on Permanent Vacation.
Porcelain Raft: “Unless You Speak From Your Heart”
From Strange Weekend, out now via Secretly Canadian; also from the “Unless You Speak From Your Heart” 7″, out 02/20/12
Porcelain Raft – Unless You Speak From Your Heart by DOJAGSC
Apples Of The Golan
Warmly received at this weeks JDIFF.
Directed by Keith Walsh and Jill Beardsworth, Apples of the Golan – filmed entirely in the Golan Heights over four years – poses many questions about the clandestine occupation of Golan. Israel seized the Heights from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six Day War, during which time most of the Syrian Arab inhabitants fled the area. Today, surrounded by electric fences, landmines and trenches the area is home to about 20,000 Syrian Arabs who share Israeli-occupied Golan with an estimated 20,000 settlers who live in more than 30 Jewish settlements.
Prior to the occupation there were 139 villages in the Golan. Today, only five remain and one of these – Majdal Shams – is the backdrop to this fascinating documentary in which a myriad of characters, from shepherds to rap singers, speak. Apples, brought to the region by a holy man in 1945, are both the lifeblood of the Druze Arabs and a metaphor for survival: “we cling to our homeland like the apples cling to the trees”. The Arabs of Golan are neither Israeli nor Syrian and are classed as ‘undefined’. As one person puts it, “we are like birds in a cage: you give the birds food and water, but the birds cannot escape.” – Barrie Dowdall, Documentary filmmaker
