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….check this out on YouTube
Probably the best music video I’ve seen.
Beautiful, inspirational, a perfect marriage of music and visual art.
Enjoy
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Boards of Canada are terrific – purveyors of mysterious, haunting, beautiful instrumentals laden with found sounds and wonderful ideas.
They’ve already released four albums, with a fifth anticipated in 2008, but this promo video for Dayvan Cowboy is the first and only one they have ever done. It has been a staple of MTV2’s 120 Minutes strand for the best part of 18 months now, and still I fail to tire of it.
The tired old indie fart that I am, it also brings to my mind Tilting at Windmills, a rare departure into instrumentals by the criminally ignored 80s / 90s janglers The Field Mice. No Youtube clip of that piece, alas – they were even more reticent where promos were concerned than BoC are.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Christ on a bike!
Simply my favourite band of all time, and now my favourite video.
Now just trying to figure out how to get it onto the iPod that Santa Claus got me for Xmas.
A nice marriage of vid and ‘new age mood music’ but uncomfortably reminiscent of Jean Michel Jarre, aka Monsieur Fastidieux
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Not a great fan of the video. The music reminds me a lot of one of the groups of the late 70’s early 80’s……my mind can’t think who at the moment…..it’s been a hard day!
It’s still good though and I’d like to hear more – which is their best album?
Pete
Mixed feelings on the video although it is lovely to watch. The music reminds me of a cross between ‘Air’ (A french outfit I think) and very slightly less so. ‘Morcheeba’ (spelling?!). But a super thread all the same, thank you. I hope more members have a look and post their opinions.
Boards of Canada are quite well-known in a non-Top-of-The-Pops sort of way and made their first proper breakthrough around 10 years ago. I saw them in 2001 headlining All Tomorrow’s Parties, which, although undoubtedly an alternative festival, is not a small gig. You’ve probably heard them many times (without necessarily knowing it) on tv adverts.
I think all of the albums are brilliant – Campfire Headphase as much as any of them – though they are not everybody’s cup of tea, mixing harmony and disharmony in equal measures at times. It’s not always easy listening, though it can be utterly haunting and beautiful all the same.
While I also like Morcheeba, I don’t think the comparison really holds true. Both Air (to a degree) and Morcheeba do singing. Boards of Canada do not. This is most decidedly NOT pop music in the conventional sense.
A nice marriage of vid and ‘new age mood music’ but uncomfortably reminiscent of Jean Michel Jarre, aka Monsieur Fastidieux
rock’n’roll
Everything in its place, I reckon. Today it’s Boards of Canada for me, yesterday it was a blast of Ex Orkest (Dutch anarcho-punk legends teaming up with demented 20-piece orchestra), the day before that Paul Robeson, tomorrow pronk legends Cardiacs.
My take on music in general has always been this: there are millions of songs released very year, so why are so many people content to listen to just half a dozen albums’ worth? Go out and explore some more of it, dagnabbit!
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn – tough on Dido, tough on the causes of Dido)Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
The music reminds me of a cross between ‘Air’ (A french outfit I think)
Yep, Air are French alright. It’s been a bit of a case of diminishing commercial returns for them since the “Moon Safari” album in 1998, and to a certain extent justifiably so, as subsequent albums have been patchy. Last year’s “Pocket Symphony” was another such effort, but there was at least one terrific single from it in the form of Mer du Japon, for which a video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjzVSRpRfOg
In addition, and actually a bit more appealing, is last year’s solo album by one half of Air, recorded under the name of Darkel. This is a bit more chamber-poppy, with nods to Fugu, High Llamas and the Beach Boys among others. At The End of the Sky was the unutterably gorgeous single taken from it;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrMxHYbpbeU&feature=related
Enjoy.
As for favourite BoC albums, I’d go for Music Has the Right to Children, but the preference is marginal only.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Everything in its place, I reckon. Today it’s Boards of Canada for me, yesterday it was a blast of Ex Orkest (Dutch anarcho-punk legends teaming up with demented 20-piece orchestra), the day before that Paul Robeson, tomorrow pronk legends Cardiacs.
My take on music in general has always been this: there are millions of songs released very year, so why are so many people content to listen to just half a dozen albums’ worth? Go out and explore some more of it, dagnabbit!
)Quite agree. My taste in music may not as eclectic as yours but has nevertheless become evermore catholic as the years go by. Where once it was solely the broad spectrum that can be filed under ‘Pop’ it now encompasses Classical, Trad Jazz, Big Band, Dance Band, and much that is classed under the disparaging term ‘Easy Listening’ Sinatra light-weight, do me a favour.
Paul Robeson: a voice that never fails to take you on a journey from warm elation one minute to moist-eyed melencholy the next. A top man both as a singer and ‘politician’
The BBC may have many problems but as long as there’s night-time Radio 2, Radio 3 and Henry Ayrton’s Real Music Show on Radio Humberside, they can be forgiven the dubious direction they’re moving in on the goggle box
‘fraid I don’t listen to Radio 1 now Peel’s shuffled off
‘fraid I don’t listen to Radio 1 now Peel’s shuffled off
Can’t say I do all that much either, other than the Top 40 for pub quiz purposes.
I never quite got why the "replacement" programmes for Peel tried to split his erstwhile musical agenda into three distinct fields, such that none of them is quite as wildly eclectic as his had been – it just seemed to be missing the point as to what he was all about.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
That is just the type of psychological buid up I need for my punting to be successful at Cheltenham, and along with some prodigy I shall be watching this over and over again before some 40/1 yoke wins the supreme.
A very wise course of action, marb. I intend playing the video clip at full blast next time I back a winner. Hopefully some time this bleeding century…..
You mean you don’t listen to that genius of a broadcaster Chris Moyles!!!!! I Have to say, i’ve nout against Chris, and i’ve got a lot of respect for anyone who gets up at that time of morning, but just who are the other 7,999,999 people apart from me who listen to the bloke?
Daytime Radio 1 always was crap Marb with the possible exception of Johnnie Walker, who’s now happily ensconced in the Sunday afternoon Charlie Chester slot on Radio 2. Who’d a thought it.
At the risk of being labelled prejudiced, I find overweight, unshaven men such as Mr Moyles a mega turn-off, so in that respect at least "he has the perfect face for radio"
You mean you don’t listen to that genius of a broadcaster Chris Moyles!!!!! I Have to say, i’ve nout against Chris, and i’ve got a lot of respect for anyone who gets up at that time of morning, but just who are the other 7,999,999 people apart from me who listen to the bloke?
Even though I’m always annoyingly awake and chipper as soon as the alarm goes off at 6am, I still find that self-aggrandising, lager-sodded, boisterous gibbon the last thing I want playing on my drive to work. Besides, said drive (75 mins on a clear run) is usually my window in the day to continue working through the mountain of unplayed CDs – contrary to previous intentions, it was the best of Split Enz today.
all to often I find myself banging my head against a brick door and jumping up and down to Tim Westwood!
Can’t we just bang Tim Westwood’s head against a brick door and then jump up and down on him instead?
“One extra” sounds good though, “the best in black music” and all that, might have to get that.
I appreciate the shows on UK independent / underground hip-hop and grime, but for me it doesn’t cover dub, roots reggae or Detroit techno enough – there’s a bit too much R&B and beeyatches-and-hos stuff, sadly.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
just got to see/hear it on my daughter’s computer …wondered what comes first the video or the music – once you’ve seen a video you can no longer listen to the music without seeing that image…so if the video didn’t exist what would the music make you think of…presume that’s why the band don’t make a habit of doing videos…having bought Sigur Ros I have to admit to only really listening to it after it was used on the BBC for Planet Earth so now can only see snow leopards when I listen to it [not a bad image, however, but not very icelandic…]…..
having bought Sigur Ros I have to admit to only really listening to it after it was used on the BBC for Planet Earth so now can only see snow leopards when I listen to it [not a bad image, however, but not very icelandic…]
I hope it doesn’t taint things for you too much, but the genuine Sigur Ros videos tend to be rather more quirky – and in some cases controversial – than snow leopards cavorting.
The one for Viðrar vel til Loftárása features two gay schoolboys kissing passionately after one scores a goal, much to the dismay of the assembled villagers; whilst Hoppipolla features two gangs of OAPs pretending to be kids and having a fairly aggressive bows and arrows fight in a graveyard.
Whatever you may make of the vids (I happen to love them both), the songs they promote are both absolutely magnificent.
As with the BoC promo, both have been staples on (very) late night MTV2 for quite a while now.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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