“Take a walk in the crystal city…”
The phrase comes iced-over and encouraged to the utmost sublime by Montreal’s Sea Oleena. It’s just one excerpt from “three seasons’ worth of endless nights and half-lived days”, otherwise known as Sleeplessness.
Growing since winter, this pastel dreamland continues to reward with each visit—so much that my silence is no longer acceptable. From the same imaginations that once spoke of lands Hidden, these narrated vistas skew like a raised-relief map dipped in liquid. Strangely persuasive, they should be channeled only when mental periphery is primed and ready to soar.
Candy Claws | The Cliff on the Water
The Candy Claws in Dreamland soundtrack updates weekly at bandcamp.
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Formed via email, encouraged via blog love, and funded via kickstarter, the creative relationship between Brooklyn’s Holy Spirits and visual artist, Nathaniel Whitcomb, defines what’s been special about our community in 2010. Above is the latest piece of The Afternoon’s Blood to start moving, and in the next few weeks all of it will (as mentioned by The Road Goes Ever On‘s Cameron Book).
Thanks to a successfully backed project, Nathaniel was flown out from Cleveland to meet the band for the first time and perform together last Saturday at Space Space with fellow collaborators Gem Club accompanied by visual artist BriAnna Olson (pictures below), and again tonight at Issue Project Room. The act will then go west in January.
We all (Aaron, Michael, Nathaniel, Victoria and I) found ourselves hanging in one room on Monday, so naturally this thing called for a snapshot and came out like a roundtable interview:
A big thank you to all the musicians, FREEwilliamsburg friends/co-hosts, Glasslands staff, and everyone who shared in the spirits on Wednesday. This night was a dream come true.
Here’s what it looked like (we’ll let others do the words). Note: Victoria arrived just after two excellent sets from Kohwi and Zambri and there’s a mysterious lack of shots from Pujol‘s electric showing (they played during open bar), so we’re hoping FREEwilly has some earlier ones in their forthcoming batch.