▲MBIENT F▲MILLY G▲THERING

Things that I make by reinventing existing ideas.

Music Nova Scotia: Do It for the Story

musicnovascotia:

Last time Nova Scotia Music Week was in Liverpool, it was a month after I started working at Music Nova Scotia in 2007. Jonny Stevens (now ED at the Halifax Pop Explosion) and I basically had a trial by fire as we were both newbies and did our best to help keep the festival and conference running…

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—Hold Your Breath (A.A. Wallace Remix) Preview

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A.A. Wallace

—Feels Too Real

Submission for the P.A.L user initiative. Drones and THXish sound made using the PAL 198X. Bass created with a Gakken SX-150. Drum sounds from a stylophone beatbox and a Roland 808. Tom solo performed on a BOSS Dr. Pad. Chord samples from an undisclosed 80’s movie score. Dialogue provided by Thomas Jerome Newton (the visitor). Recorded and sequenced using Ableton Live. Recorded by A.A. Wallace on Fern Lane in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. Back up vocals by Myles Deck from Myles Deck and the Fuzz and the Motorleague. Back up vocals also by Matthew MacDonald of the A.A. live band and ex-Superfantastics/Sleepless Nights

For more original music check out aawallace.bandcamp.com

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—A. A. Wallace - "Shake It Out" (Jaguar Knight remix)

jaguarknight:

Here is my remix of “Shake It Out” by A. A. Wallace. Enjoy ~ ^^

(via shakeitouthalifax)

trustyacht:

YACHT collaborated with Portland-based Into the Woods to film a live performance of their song “Beam Me Up” in a suburban laser tag arena. It looks amazing, and premiered today on NPR. 

Maybe YACHT wouldn’t be that sad if the complete and total annihilation of the human race happened tomorrow. The video for their song “Beam Me Up,” off their recent album Shangri-La, finds the band playing around with the upsides of doomsday in a laser tag arena. Think of a future where cyber-soldiers fight each other in the smouldering metallic ruins of society, except with children shooting fake lasers.

“Beam Me Up” begins like the opening to an “invaders from outer space” sci-fi and ends with a yelp of exasperation. Singer Claire Evans, sounding like a new-wave Siouxsie Sioux, sings, “High above the clouds somewhere / The cold of space spreads thin / We endeavor to look out / They are looking in.” The sentiment in the chorus — that one day the narrator will watch her planet burn — sounds unfortunate. By the last stanza, however, it’s obvious that the first impression is faulty. This narrator can’t wait for the whole crummy Earth to blow up: “There are nights that I burn out / I drink deep from my cup / I look all around me / and think, ‘Oh god, beam me up!’”

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dontthinkdontthink:

jaguarknight:

Drunk horse in Montreal.

This is who we went to Montreal with - a horse. 
We stayed in a fancy hotel that had a grand piano!