Archive for the "Modern Classical" Category

in the lab w/ dr. shim: kale, cambozola, mushroom and bacon pasta salad

  -crisp 6 slices of quality bacon, cool and crumble -crumble 1/2 a cup of cambozola -pan fry (in butter) 1 cup of baby bella mushrooms (or chanterelles ) -prepare 1 pkg of fiber gourmet rotini pasta -grate 1 cup of gruyere de comte -1/2 cup of whole cream -saute 1 large bunch of dino [...]

blackened heart stew: demdike stare’s elemental

  i’m a touched irked that some of the smoldering nuggets on this deliciously colored vinyl, very limited edition will not be included on the 2 disc cd (later this year) but this drop is just so damn hot; either way you see through the eyes of a killer.   it’s like the soundtrack to [...]

go with god: chimay grande reserve

maybe it’s just me but after tasting this vonder-beer, i can only say: shave your head and pack your bags for belgium. these felonious monks have basically solved pi in beer form. good for what ale’s you-get thee to a monastery, bitchez.

king of the wild frontier: mark deutsch and his bazantar

Bazantar, techne follows psyche (2007) from Fey Adelstein on Vimeo. ok so i’m a sucker for stuff like this, but WOW! just gorgeous! more here.

alva noto and ryuichi sakamoto-summvs: so shim recommended

as always the album art is a little grandma-esque for my taste but dammit this just may be the finest yet in their oh so fertile collab. “dreamy” doesn’t even come close. beg, borrow or ask for it for xxx-mas.  

he be bangin’: new diego stocco

Diego Stocco – Dustland from Diego Stocco on Vimeo. freaking TIGHT!!!!! the always amazing diego does it again!!!

dziga vertov and biosphere: man with a movie camera

Biosphere: Man With A Movie Camera from Geir Jenssen / Biosphere on Vimeo.

otherwise they wouldn’t need the lights: advice from thelonious monk

word.

france, i love you: very shim recommended: fleur du maquis as cheese of the week

oh hell yes! i submit to your ravenous desire the one, the only fleur du maquis. a semi-soft corsican ewe’s milk cheese of otherworldly delights. especially for a non raw milk/lowly pasteurized cheese. so it looks like something you tripped over in the woods. dudes, it’s all rosemary, juniper and bird’s eye chilis. you know, [...]

shim recommends: emahoy tseguè-maryam guèbrou

hey interwebs! here’s another unknown classic of pure molten soul and piano goodness by way of ethiopia: this fine lady goes by emahoy tseguè-maryam guèbrou. she’s had the kind of stranger-than-fiction life that only an ass-kicking jewish nun piano virtuoso born into the exile of 1930s ethiopian politics and then mussolini’s occupation could. and damn, [...]