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Rainywood - “River Day”
MUSIC I LOVE = Rainywood - Rainywood E.P.
This album is the first by the group that later went on to form BrightBlack Morning Light and release a couple of albums on Matador. They were originally a group of a couple folks from Alabama who made this amazing and amazingly chill album. I am from the South and this captures the laziness so well.
Originally I heard them as they opened for Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy on a hot springs tour (they based the tour on the locations of hot springs they wanted to go to). I actually used to see the piano player, Rachel, at the Farmer’s Market all the time in Berkeley. They lived in the woods somewhere near Bolinas and last I heard they were living in a teepee in New Mexico.
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In another year where artistic-electronic manipulation of sound rules most of the music we know and Love, it was this track, by the San Fran natives “il gato” that continues to blow me away with it’s “Indie-Baroque-Folkness”.
There are so many angles I could take to explain why I like this track: the instrumentation, the ups and downs, THE VIDEO, the fact that it has moved me to tears on more than one occasion. This piece is beautiful in every sense of the word. It’s tracks like this one, and Ray Charles’ “Georgia“, and Atmosphere’s “God’s Bathroom Floor“, and Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre“… I listen to these works and truly feel the joy, via the synapses popping off in my head.
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The Bay Bridged's 2011 Mix-tape featuring il gato
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Not an Adele fan, but this was awesome. The whole Emma Stone SNL episode is pretty funny. She impressed.
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“On Feathers & Arrows (on Burnt Pine)” by il gato
Live at the Crepe Place opening for David Bazan. Featuring accordion!
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Someone just went to Southern California.
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Live at Hotel Cafe, LA
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NEW SONG ALERT
“Slap your Tongue” - Live at the Great American Music Hall. Soooooo fun!
