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11.11.08 - Soundscapes at the Montreal Biennale 2009
In May 2009 Montréal is holding its biennale of contemporary art bringing together the fields of visual arts, architecture, graphic design, music, video and cinema. A few days ago I was asked to take part in a remix project called SOUNDSCAPES.
It all started with a painting from Montreal artist Rick Leong. Dancing Serpent in Dawn’s Quiet was a part of Leong's MFA thesis at Concordia University, and was bought by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and added to its permanent collection. They subsequently commissioned Montreal pianist/composer David Ryshpan to orchestrate an original piece of music based on the painting, which was recorded on May 15th 2008 at McGill University. From this piece of music they are looking to generate as many remixes and reinterpretations as possible over the next year, making the original recording, all of it’s individual tracks, and even the sheet music available for the general public to download and work with from http://www.biennalemontreal.org/soundscapes
Well because I got a nice heads up direct from Montréal I got to work on it pretty fast. Surprisingly, I really love the painting and something about working from a visual suits me. It's not a final mix and the Biennale is a long time away but I thought I would let you hear the work in progress. So, here you go - Dancing Serpent in Dawn's Quiet, remixed by Dom Sum, The Blessings, LuckyMe.
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- Dominic Flannigan
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21.10.08 - 21st Century Maroons
I got back from my tour with Hudson Mohawke, Rustie & Mike Slott yesterday. We went to Montreal, Los Angeles, San Francisco & New York. It was ridiculously good fun. We had no idea who was listening out there and it was great to meet people face to face. Well as you hopefully have put together now I'm also part of the team here at Oddities and I thought I'd share some love to the fashion label 21MC who gave our NY show a notable mention on their website. If you haven't seen the label before please get familiar. There is something refreshingly authentic about their use of african textile prints and burned out colour palette. I hope they creep over to Europe soon.
- Dominic Flannigan
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21.10.08 - Proto Spring Time
Somebody needs to bring the Sun back. It's October 21st. It's 4:30pm and Scottish Winter is already getting me down. But I guess like they say - If you can't last the Winter, you don't deserve Summer.
- Vixy Rae
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21.10.08 - Mike Slott & Muhsinah
Dropping in the next few weeks is a limited 7" on All City Records featuring two new songs by Mike Slott. The flip features the vocal talents of soul singer / producer Muhsinah who is one of our favourites round here. She's touring as part of Common's band at the moment which keeps her busy. I was honoured to make the artwork once again by scanning and adapting thirty individual woodcuttings from a 1950's deck of tarrot cards I found in my Grandmother's shed. Catch this rare little record before it's gone. Available in all the usual hot spots, including itunes for those who hate physical possession.
- Dominic Flannigan
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01.09.08 - New Site for New Season
Mornin. So we have relaunched our website for our new season of Fall / Winter 08. The current design is paired down for the moment so we are taking all website orders over paypal and email. It's easier and more secure for you this way but we will be adding full shop capability soon.
Our new styles are in store at the studio and the place is looking good. Ashleigh Arrel from Vice still has her selected Vintage Store upstairs and downstairs is about to get a new look in the next few weeks. The festival has left Edinburgh for another year and we're all loving the silence of the street. It lets us catch a breathe and get our heads into the next thing.
- Dominic Flannigan
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01.09.08 - Zaitochi
Selected stills from the original Zatoichi film series. We should really credit Lindsay Todd from Firecracker Records for taking all the time to find these amazing films and hooking us up. I've been falling asleep to a different epic every night for the last month.
I really like the quality of the old film stock ripped down to cheap digital colours.
- Vixy Rae
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01.09.08 - Ballers 5ocial Club Birthday Weekend with the Platinum Pied Pipers
LuckyMe are putting on a weekend of shows in Glasgow over the 12th & 13th of September to celebrate a year of our Ballers 5ocial Club parties. As special guests we have Andrew Meza from BTS Radio in L.A, The Platinum Pied Pipers from Detroit, Michigan, London beatmaker Lukid and some exclusive new sets from me and my main homeboy FineArt as The Blessings, Rustie has some new music to demo, and we just got an exclusive listen to the new work of Hudson Mohawke and it's absolutely crazy.
So come see us at the Glasgow School of Art on September 12th with Platinum Pied Pipers, Andrew Meza BTS, Hud Mo & The Blessings. Then come to the basement of The Ivy the following night for Lukid, Rustie & Eclair Fifi. It's gonna be great. Trust me.
- Dominic Flannigan
