Remote Possibility strikes again! They have just posted a new, must-hear song: Underwater Groove. The smartest guy in America says: It has everything going for it. It’s catchy, snappy, quirky, with superb arrangement. Good forceful singing. I love the xylophone and fat, lush bass. Yes, it’s that good, right up there with Mystery Snack‘s delightful…
Catégorie : Making Music
SoundClick artist: Remote Possibility
I don’t usually plug bands on sknoblog, but I have to make an exception for Remote Possibility! If you go to their music page on SoundClick, you might recognize a few Sons of Sarookh songs that I’ve mentioned before on sknoblog. But I’m really glad to report that they have posted three new songs that…
Chanson française, suite, suite
Il y a six mois, j’ai inscrit des chansons françaises sur Dogmazic (ex-musique-libre.org), un site de musique français, pour voir. Je suis ravi de constater qu’à ce jour, ces 7 chansons ont été écoutées plus de 3000 fois et téléchargées plus de 700 fois. « Maîtresses » est toujours en tête, toujours suivi par s’assoupir, qui continue…
Good Times/A Snowboarding Movie
I was contacted a while back by a Finnish movie production company who said they wanted to use Dark Indigo (which they found on Opsound) for the soundtrack of their upcoming snowboarding movie, Good Times. I said sure. Well today, as part of the deal, I received a few DVDs of the finished movie, and…
Rock, real estate and Alan Greenspan
Matt Love recently sent me this link: Marketplace: Rock, real estate and Alan Greenspan. The sound of the rock and roll underground recently is defined by two genres: a psychedelic folk revival and what the kids call electroclash. Why this, and why now? Ian Svenonius explains. This makes perfect sense. I don’t know if my…
Trust – Johnny Unicorn Remix
[kml_flashembed movie= »http://vincent.knobil.free.fr/media/tinyrv_32_trust_jur.swf » height= »178″ width= »150″ /] Johnny Unicorn is an L.A. based songwriter who got to review one of my songs on GarageBand.com one day. He later contacted me to express his appreciation for my music, and asked if I might agree to let him remix some of it. I’m always up for musical experiments and…
Exquisite Cadavers
Cadavre exquis is a game where you draw (or write) something on a sheet of paper, fold the sheet over the drawing, letting only a little bit of it show, and somebody else then continues the drawing (or sentence), and so on (it’s a game that was invented by the Surrealists, appropriately enough). I’ve been…
Complicity
[kml_flashembed movie= »http://vincent.knobil.free.fr/media/tinyrv_31_complicity.swf » height= »178″ width= »150″ /] I recently expressed my outrage at the lack of outrage in the US at how low the US has sunk, and how it rendered me speechless (or songless to be more precise). But all these pent-up sentiments simply had to find an outlet, just as children have to spend their…
Speechless
The political situation in the US, the war, the hijacking of democracy, global warming, and the apathy of the American public towards these issues have me frothing at the mouth. My usual technique to modestly weigh in and to express my outrage is to write a song (see Flag Etiquette, Dark Indigo, Dinosaur, The Playground…
Chanson française, suite
Il y a un mois, j’ai inscrit des chansons françaises sur Dogmazic (ex-musique-libre.org), un site de musique français, pour voir. Je suis ravi de constater que ces 7 chansons ont été écoutées 826 fois et téléchargées 138 fois. À ma grande surprise, « Maîtresses » est en tête, suivi par s’assoupir, qui m’a quand même valu deux…