(OPEN) books, Thursday evening

Hosted by the truest Brain, Shea, (OPEN) books hosted a reunion of sorts - Lili De La Mora, Michael Wysong and DJ Fando Y Lis (he spins the best, rare psychedelic finds!)

(OPEN) is a gem of a book shop - a home in Long Beach, California, to art installations, gigs , screen printed posters, toy dinosaurs, handmade trinkets and shelves upon shelves of books - old,new,rare, used...lots and lots!

One of the most beautiful evenings,

if you're ever out and about in Long Beach, do swing by!
xo

SXSW Q4MUSIC BLOG

On my first ever day at SXSW I set up camp at the Radio Room on 6th Street. Sandwiched between the sets of Port 'O Brien and Loney Dear, I was pointed in the direction of Heartless Bastards - [click here for a photo] a favourite discovery! They filled up the Paste tent with their beautiful soulful rock. Led by Erika; a lady who beholds with a voice as powerful and pretty as Karen Dalton's. Hailing from Dayton, Ohio - this was their first show at SXSW ... they were a real treat for the ears. Listen to The Mountain and others gems on their Myspace page now.

click here to read more...

click the image for the gallery....

busking

the folks at Bandstand Busking have put up some songs!
www.bandstandbusking.com
fill 'yer ears!
xo

ICA

warmest thanks to every soul that come down to the ICA show - it was a lovely evening and such a treat to see so many good folks...Anika - your comic is so wonderful! timo took a picture of us checking our instruments - - the ark is prone to backache!

xo

The art of Andrew Schoultz

I first came across Andrew's artwork on a postcard in a parcel from a friend. It really stood out to me and here's some of his work below, i hope it plucks at your mind strings too....





The drawings, murals, and installations by San Francisco artist Andrew Schoultz (1975) are populated by symbolic figures that recall past eras and cultures. Armored horses with banners burst through the image, and Mongolian warriors conjure up notions of the overly powerful, strangely misplaced in time, in a world full of smokestacks scattered among simple log cabins, pylons, and fragmenting nature.

Schoultz develops his works out of the problems of modern, consumer-oriented life. In using his murals to work with either public space or the art space, he tries to trigger processes of association and thought that in no way require a corporate identity, but instead offer the viewer a wide-open field. Schoultz attempts to awaken in the viewer a consciousness based upon an individual sensibility for a responsible treatment of natural life, in order to (re)activate knowledge about nature in our present, culturally characterized time. - The Koln Show



www.andrewschoultz.com


Anika. a brain.

(Brain) Anika came along to Bandstand Busking and it was a real treat to meet her..

her blog is something rather special and worth a visit indeed!

http://anikainlondon.wordpress.com/

may EYE recommend?

Hello!

Hello!

Here is a favourite, taken by (brain) Rebecca Miller, a sweetheart with a tremendous eye!

To see more of what she's seen visit : http://www.weareinvolved.com/RebeccaMiller/Portfolio.html

Also...a tale!

Matthew Orr, a fine brain, came across an issue of Brain Bulletin in Texas quite a few moons ago and has kept in touch pointing me in the direction of all kinds of treats that i just don't think i would've come across without him.... my most favourite probably being Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan's album 'Pullhair Rubeye'

anywho and anyhow, he has a lovely new site of his own - do take a look!

www.porchofthemystics.wordpress.com

xo