Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Monday, March 30, 2026
The Listening Centre Modern Art's Underwater Kites
I can't stop listening to this cd since I got it off Return To Analog a couple of weeks ago. It's by the group Modern Art and the album is Underwater Kites.
This whole album is wonderful. I originally bought the digital album from Bandcamp, but when I was exploring music releases on Return To Analog records, I loved the digital copy so much I had to have the physical. Also this game with a bunch of extra bonus songs.
If you love that sort of cold nowave type of synthy goodness, you will really enjoy this band.
TV Screen, Landscape From A Dream, 46 Botanical Species, Underwater Kites and Theme For A Programme are my favourites off this album, but all are great.
I bought their mp3 discography from Bandcamp, but hopefully Return To Analog releases their other works. I'll have to keep eyes out on Discogs for any cassettes that come out under a resonable price. There is something out of all audio formats, I love cassette a little more than records and CDs. There's something to that muted sound of the tape that just adds something more to music like Modern Art, and it takes on a different listening experience.
Happy listening this week everyone.
~Nadette
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Friday, March 27, 2026
Behind The Glass
Photo taken with Lumix DMC-FZ28, manipulated in GIMP for more black and white contrast, then printed out on a dot matrix printer, and then scanned again on my old flatbed for more haze.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Paper
Instead of a daily doodle, I did this quick animation this morning that came to my mind waiting for my coffee to brew. I shot the images on my Lumix camera, stuck them all together in Kdenlive, and threw in some free song from youtube's editing option.
The images are not the brightest, but not too bad for something I threw together quickly before work.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
The Listening Centre: David Pritchard Nocturnal Earthworm Stew
I ended up last week receiving my order from Return To Analog Records in Montréal, who are an awesome record shop who reissues sometimes out of print and hard to find bands. I ended up buying the Coil CD called Astral Disaster Sessions, and thought to pick up one of my favourite Nash The Slash albums And You Thought You Were Normal. I have it on vinyl, but wanted a CD copy to play in my car, and besides you can never have enough copies of Nash's music in many formats.
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| Little Nash |
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| My other Nash The Slash albums. Yeah, you could say I'm a bit of a fan. |
So on Return To Analog, I saw the artist David Pritchard listed in relation to Mr. Slash. I thought that the name sounded very familiar to me, but couldn't think why. I threw caution to the wind, saw he was an experimental artist, (one of my favourite genres of music) and get it.
So later in the day as I was at work, just doing some monotonous task, which is kind of great because it lets your mind wander as you go automatic in your actions to get the job done, that I thought, wait! Didn't David Pritchard work with Nash?
The CD soon arrived, surprisingly very quickly! Within days of ordering my little haul.
First off, this whole album is amazing. It's experimental like David using things like scissors and a coffee jar for example, as instruments. To then tracks that were just great synthy ambient goodness to drift you away. Then came the section that was the a-ha moment. His Earthworm Stew was a project with Nash The Slash, and Martin Deller.
The rest of the CD booklet has a great story of how he met Nash, and their collaboration. That part filled me with a bitter sweet feeling, as you could tell that it was written by someone who is reminiscing about the friend that has passed on. The world lost a huge talent when Nash The Slash passed.
So if you are a fan of experimental, and dreamy synthy ambient, you may want to check out this CD.
So if you are a fan of experimental, and dreamy synthy ambient, you may want to check out this CD.
You can get it right here from Return To Analog, or David Pritchard's Bandcamp.
Happy listening, and hope you enjoy discovering, or re-discovering this awesome artist.
~Nadette
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Thrift shop/record shop purchases
So as mentioned earlier, I went to the thrift shops to see what I could find. I didn't find much, but a cool case to put tapes in, and some Garfield books
However I went to the record shop and got a couple of tapes and cds.
That's about it. A great way to spend a rainy morning/afternoon.
CDs:
Skinny puppy-12 Inch Anthology
The Stranglers-Greatest Hits 1977 - 1990
Tapes:
Strange Advance-The Distance Between
Strange Advance-The Distance Between
The Payolas - 2 album cassette Hammer on a Drum and No Stranger to Danger
Venom- Possessed
That's about it. A great way to spend a rainy morning/afternoon.
~Nadette