Ideas and Etc.
Pop Montreal Mini Tour
| 09/29 | September 29th Ithaca | Castaways | w/ Bear in Heaven |
| 09/30 | September 30th Pop Montreal | La Sala Rossa | w/ Bear in Heaven, The Luyas |
| 10/01 | October 1st Winooski | Monkey House | w/ Paper Castles |
August Tour with Memoryhouse
It gives us great pleasure to announce a slew of dates in August with Memoryhouse. We will be making our way down the east coast and winding back up through Texas and the midwest. Hope to see you soon!
The Other Side of Your Face Stems
Georgy Kozubov - Schriftomahia
All Around and Away We Go Stems
Feeling bored today? Why not make a remix of a Twin Sister track. All of our music is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, so you can use these stems for whatever you want, as long as you're not charging money. Personally, I've always wanted to hear Ghostface, GZA, Raekwon and the rest of the Killa Beez over our music. We'll be posting the stems from the rest of Color Your Life over the next couple of weeks.
Kind Spirit
George Kalivas of Kind Spirit.
George Kalivas has been a good friend of ours for years. I actually grew up in the same town as him and had a lot of the same friends before I ever got to know him well. He plays bass guitar for another good friend or ours, Lost Boy but also just released a free digital EP entitled "Nectar" under the guise, Kind Spirit. Visit his blog here and get the "Nectar" EP along with a ton of his amazing artwork.
Summer Tour with Bear in Heaven
Amelia, Photo by George Kalivas
We're going on tour again, this time as support for the fantastic Bear in Heaven. This tour is especially exciting for us, as none of us have ever been west of the Mississipi River, well except for that lovely night we spent across the river in Iowa after Daytrotter. Can't wait to see the West Coast.
Lady Daydream (Cassette Version)
The demo version of "Lady Daydream," from side B of our Alternates cassette, available at shows (sometimes) and through The Curatorial Club.
Tour Log pt. 2
The sleek, nocturnal counterpoint to pt. 1:
So Good - Electrik Red
Love Has Come Around - Donald Byrd and 125th St, NYC
Something About Us - Daft Punk
Take Me Take Me - Perfume
Neon Lights - Kraftwerk
Tour Log pt. 1
Here's a little handful of songs that got a lot of play in our big blue van on tour last month. Part 2 to follow in a day or so...
I Hear a New World - Joe Meek
Ongaku - Yellow Magic Orchestra
Darkroom - Paul McCartney
Journey in Satchidananda - Alice Coletrane
The Platform on the Ocean - Arthur Russell
All I Wanna Do - The Beach Boys
Orientalism: A Mix of Indian Film Music
My father, an emigrant who left India in 1991, collected all of these songs over the years, digitizing old tapes, ripping CD's from midwestern libraries, and spending long nights reclaiming bits and pieces of a past life via a 28.8 kbps modem connection. Some of them are really bad quality rips, but I guess that emphasizes the distance these songs have had to travel to make it here.
The songs themselves are mostly taken from the 70s, a heady time for Bollywood films and their music. Growing up in a house where I only really heard this music through the conduit of late night tipsy singalongs, I've had minimal exposure to the recordings themselves. Listening to them again now, what's clear is how amazingly weird some of the sounds are. Moog synthesizers, surf rock guitars, big band inspired horns, and a distinctly Indian rhythm section and sense of melody make for some really interesting experiments. The giant who stands over most of this is RD Burman, as he had a hand in writing, producing, and performing in almost every song on the mix. So, if this music is new to you, and you like what you hear, he is the best place to start. The tracklist is below:
Color Your Life
- The Other Side of Your Face
- Lady Daydream
- Milk & Honey
- All Around and Away We Go
- Galaxy Plateau
- Phenomenons
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Live at WNYU 3/8/10
We played The New Afternoon Show at WNYU today. Thanks to Jenn Pelly for having us on.