Isaac Shepard - Deep Joy
Everybody has their own favorite instrument. My happens to be the piano closely followed by harp and cello but I'll always rather listen to a piano rather than a cello and so on. Well this album is all about the piano. From what I read Shepard tends to switch to several genres with every album but he made this and another one (can't remember the name) that's solely composed for piano. I found about him through a (good) video game actually, some indie crap on IGN.
The music itself is very soft, sometimes a little energetic but mostly calm and relaxing. Perfect for this autumnal time of the year and wrist cutting. ;D
Tracklist is messed up a bit, the songs aren't numbered.
But anyway:
01. Back to Basics
02. Before Dawn
03. Evening Chat
04. Facing the mirror
05. Felicity
06. Fleeting Moments
07. Gentle
08. Leaves in the Wind
09. Letting Go
10. Romance of the Seas
11. Softly, Sweetly
12. Struggles
13. Triumph of Love
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Junji Ito - Lovesick Dead
Undying love or Lovesick Dead, whatever you want to call it is a pretty much overlooked work by Junji Ito. I think it's overlooked because most people who eventually find this somewhere they have already read the popular ones and are thus let down by this one. Is it bad? No. It's definitely not horrible or bad. Ok, maybe the scanning could be better but that does not mean you can't enjoy the story. I'd say it's good, not as great as is Uzumaki but still good.
In this work Junji Ito explores the urban legends and superstition. The story takes place in a small port town in Japan. Nothing special about it, ordinary people, ordinary happenings but the teenagers in this town have their own special little game. The game goes something like this: you wait on a foggy day on a street, cover your face with something so that people can't recognize you and ask the first person who goes by to tell you your future and then leave. Childish little game but soon events start to take off in an interesting way because it is rumored that a handsome young boy goes around town telling future to other teens but those futures aren't so bright and they die in *seven dayssssss*. Ok not seven days, but they die; a hideous death. :D
That would be a somehow crude explanation of the plot. Of course there are also main protagonists and much more in depth plot twists but everything seems to focus on that game and that mysterious boy. How will it all end? Well it's up to you to find out. ;P
Art like in many other Junji Itos mangas is amazing. Especially the facial features. There are good scares in every chapter of the story and it won't let you down in that department. The only real downside is that this isn't scanned very well. By this I mean that the scans aren't in a large or medium sized resolution which sometimes damages the overall enjoyment of the reading but it's not that terrible so that it should be avoided. The resolution is usually 500x700 (give or take smaller changes). If you can get pass that minus I'm sure you'll love it as much as you loved his other works.
I cought a deer...
... with my camera today during my usual walk through the woods. :P
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Toshio Maeda - Ogre Hunting
Ah here's something that does not require a brain to read. :D This is just some pure old school beast smashing fun. It has women with big boobies, tough guys, bad beasts and lots of action. Just what a no brainer needs. They are all put together nicely so you won't get bored (assuming you didn't get this for the sake of story). It's kinda like those thrash horror movies from the nineties. Except this one has huge ogres that eat people and rip them apart among other things.The art is pretty much the same as is in his other work that previously posted.
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Bill Evans Trio - Moon Beams
You know those lonely nights when you sit in a bar, staring down in an empty glass? Then a few steps away you barely see from all the cigar smoke three people playing. One sits on a piano, one on a bass and one on drums. They play a sad melody as if it came right out of some noir film and you relax with deep introspection.
Yeah, this album is pretty much like that. The legendary Bill Evans trio! It was formed by one of the most influential pianists of our time. Evans’ focus in this trio was jazz standards and original compositions, with an emphasis on interplay among the band members that often bordered on collective improvisation and blurred the line between soloist and accompanist. A truly marvelous work of art. Sometimes it's smooth and cool and sometimes it's fiery and non melodic. Just what jazz needs. Just what I need for my hangover. :P
Tracklist:
01. Re: Person I Knew
02. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
03. I Fall in Love Too Easily
04. Stairway to the Stars
05. If You Could See Me Now
06. It Might as Well Be Spring
07. In Love in Vain
08. Very Early
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My Little Airport - because i was too nervous at that time
A recent band that's hip among the in (indie) crowd.
The music is very simple, not much instruments. Some broken down synths, guitar and drum machine (me thinks) followed by a gentle female voice. It actually sounds very nice in that little simple form. Surprisingly they come from China. I never thought the Peoples party allows such capitalist western music to influence their people. :P But oh well, capitalist or not it sounds good. They also sing mostly in English, which is kinda cool.
Tracklist:
01. Gi Gi Leung is dead
02. I don't know how to download good av like Iris does
03. I was too nervous at that time
04. Song of depression
05. Take me as Rucheng Zhang
06. Bai Tian shopping center
07. Leo, are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?
08. Your smile is like a flower
09. Spring is in carriage
10. My little fish
On monday, I don't want to go to schooooooolllll.
You can get their other album here.
Kanno Yoshihiro - Angel's Egg Soundtrack
Wow. When I first saw this anime I wasn't sure what I just watched all I knew is that something like this will not happen again very soon in anime world. Sometimes you just make something for your own well being and for your own soul. It is ones view on religion and his relation with it. To me that is the most accurate description of this anime. Naturally the screenwriter never made any public explanations of this anime. Written by Mamoru Oshii and coupled with Yoshitaka Amanos superb animation and amazing architecture and background drawings this little deviant child that was made in 1985 is perhaps my most favorite anime of all times along with Cowboy Bebop.
Just like the anime the soundtrack is also amazingly done. It sounds like a huge mechanical god that screams in orchestral and choir music. Chilling and eerie which fits perfectly with the scenery of the anime. It sounds so surreal that it feels like a dream, especially when you listen it at night, like myself. :D Therefore I offer you to listen this wondrous sounds of somehow sad beauty. Perhaps you'll like it as much as I do.
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