drag city - ANIMAL MY SOUL

Tag Archive: drag city

E-MUSIC – LEAVING A SINKING SHIP

Filed under: Blogging, Music — Leave a comment

November 30, 2011

I signed up for e-music in April 2005 and according to my profile history, I have downloaded tracks from a grand total of 1,185 artists but today I decided to cancel my account.

In the six and a half years I have been a member the download and online streaming options have changed radically. For example, in 2005, there was no Spotify (launched in 2008), no Soundcloud (2007) and no Bandcamp (2008). Also, it was not so easy to find tracks and albums on blogs and I was not so genned up on P2P sites like e-mule or Soulseek.

I am grateful to e-music for helping me to discover artists like Jack Rose, Charalambides and Acid Mothers Temple but I have decided to leave what I regard as a sinking ship. Continue reading →

Tags: Amazon, Bandcamp, drag city, EMusic, i-tunes, Soulseek, Soundcloud, Spotify, Streaming media, wordpress

RESURRECTION FERN

Filed under: Poetry — 3 Comments

July 9, 2007

Cover of Shepherd's Dog

fern

Unable to wait until the release date of the new album by Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) – Shepherd’s Dog – until late September. I don’t understand why labels delay like this as it only increases the number of people who will (like me!) grab a leaked copy via the many p2p sources on the net rather than buy the cd or use a legal download site.

It’s a great album and well worth not waiting for!

The stand out track for me is called Resurrection Fern which you can hear by following this link

The mood of the song reminds me a lot of ‘The Trapeze Swinger’ which has not been released on an Iron & Wine album, only on the soundtrack album to the movie ‘In Good Company’. ( An excellent live version of this track can however be found on the concert with Calexico which can be downloaded from NPR here ).

Resurrection Fern is equally ambiguous in terms of meaning being couched in highly poetic language that I find very moving even if I would be hard pushed to explain what the song means.

Continue reading →