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.
FREEwilly and S&S have joined forces to bring you a special night of communal vibes at Glasslands Gallery on Wednesday, October 20th.
We start celebrating this music at 6pm. And we won’t stop till 4am (with the DJ help of Awesome Tapes From Africa‘s Brian S).
More details to follow on the FB page. Hope to see you there!
Blooming Summer came and lifted this cloudy Sunday thanks to a tweet-lead from brother GOBBLE GOBBLE. Montreal’s Blue Hawaii describe their sound as “beach storm & morning after” and that fits, as does the airy artwork. Arbutus Records has the full and free download.
They recently stripped down “Castle Of Clouds” for nomag and prefaced it with:
“At the beginning, this song was an upbeat computer song, with midi sounds. […] It was originally super dancy, and we took it apart, and it became really ambient and slow. […] We went to Guatemala for two months together, and we got samples of kids playing soccer and fireworks, and we put tons of reverb and delay on those, and compressed the whole song. Yesterday, we got excited that “Felix wants us to do this acoustic thing!” so we came up with this arrangement.”