Archive for the 'music video' Category

Video: Hot Sugar - “Ice Queen”

Normal people are weird, and I love this video.. Love - gaR

PS - Thanx “Hot Sugar” and Pitchfork TV. You katz rawk.

Video: A_Scissors - “Fourteen Cups Of Tea”


Muzak and Video Editing by none other than: A_Scissors

Dig this?… Well, he’s got a ton of free music for you and yers ears over at Hairy Sloth Records. Look for his new full length LP entitled “Approaching Sunlight” to appear on the web pages of Tha SLoTH in the very near future as well. It will include the track above and be just as immaculate and then some. Count on it.

Videos: Animal Collective - “Brother Sport” + “In the Flowers”

In my humble opinion.. AC are hands down some of the most creative, exploratory, influential experimental auditory artisans of the past 10 years, and their accompanying music videos and the directors they w3rk with to create these visual accompaniments to their futuristic soundZ have only fostered and expanded upon their already incredible visionary and immaculate artistic talents.

Animal Collective - “Brother Sport”

Animal Collective - “In the Flowers”

You can also read and an interview with A.C. and view their 2009 underground cross-over smash hit video for “My Girls” by clicking This Link to a past Gar Lives blog post.

Video: Lusine Feat. Vilja Larjosto - “Two Dots”

Geometry never sounded or looked so beautiful as in Lusine’s -”Two Dots” track off of 2009’s LP
A Certain Distance“.

Wanted to share this video/song with my GarLives peeps for a few months now. Finally got around to it. Props to Ian Monroe to turning me on to this album last year. Mad love n’ respect to you, your ears, and your eyes hombre.

Videos: Atlas Sound, No Age, w/ Jim Jarmusch

Atlas Sound” aka Bradford Cox in his hotel room during 2009’s ATP/All Tomorrow’s Parties Music Festival. He’s showing us how it is done when one man, his guitar, his voice, & his toys are used properly in conjunction with live looping aka infinite tape loop simulation layering.

Presumably from the same hotel complex where many of the ATP fest’s artist were staying.. Here Bradford Cox is joined by No Age’s Randy Randall and esteemed film director and occasional musician Jim Marmusch for an impromtu version of an old Neil Young song - “Cortez the Killer”.

*Props to the artists involved obviously, and to Pitchfork TV for helping document the A/V goodness

Music Video: Grizzly Bear - “Ready, Able”

Magical.
Beautiful.
Stunning.

-I mean what else can one say after seeing/hearing a piece of music and accompanying visuals of this magnitude?

Film: Allison Schulnik
Lighting: Helder King Sun

Music: Grizzly Bear - “ready, able”
Off of their 2009 album: “Veckatimest

The Books -”Group Autogenics” | Live Video

I don’t throw the term “genius” around lightly, but the musically-oriented video/sound collage duo of “The Books” are about “there” in my humble opinion. See for yourself in this “altered” bootleg of a recent performance they did at the St. Louis’ Luminary Center for the Arts. Continuing in a similar subliminal, transcendentally-laced A/V sample-based artfoRm as that as the godfather’s of the genre “Negativland” or as the marvelously mischievous masters from down under “The Avalanches”. No mistaking them for either of those outfits though, “The Books” are most certainly their own entity, and do “it” with their own unique brand of subtlety, grace, & musicianship. Which coincidentally is right up my proverbial artistic alley.

The Books ~ Group Autogenics from Ciao Music on Vimeo.

Burial vs Four Tet - “Moth” | Music Video

*Looks like the original music video has been removed. Lame-asses! Prolly by some pencil-pushin’ dird niffer who enjoys flourescent lighting no doubt. Here’s a streamable version of the song none the less.

Nothing mind-blowing or revolutionary here, but still a chill track and pretty damn cool accompanying video footage none the less. Solid outting from two icons in each of their own respective genre’s…
Burial and Four Tet. I know a particular few of my friends/readers out their are gonna flip over this collab, while many of the rest of ya will prolly be more of a collective sigh and “feh.”

To each his own, no?