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Elbow - Mirrorball (Slideshow made with Picasa 3 )

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A cover art slideshow made using Picasa 3 desktop application, featuring music by Elbow from their album The Seldom Seen Kid.

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The Low Anthems' Latest Album

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Oh My God Charlie Darwin by The Low Anthem

The group's Nonesuch debut, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, offers an elegant sort of Americana. Its songs about long-ago travels and romantic travails, eternal longing and inevitable leaving are often hushed, dreamy and mysterious. Simple folk-song structures are uplifted by hymn-like, chamber music arrangements. The three young multi-instrumentalists Ben Knox Miller, Jeff Prystowsky and Jocie Adams recorded the album in the most remote place they could find near their Providence, Rhode Island, home: 'In the ghostly stillness of a Block Island winter,' as they put it. The intimacy of the makeshift studio they created in their chilly off-season environs is palpable; Paste declared, 'The Low Anthem's harmonica-and-string-flavored ballads are as haunting as they are gorgeous. This group of Providence up-and-comers knows how to break your heart and make you smile at the same time.' Not everything is understated, though: on 'The Horizon Is A Beltway,' they raise an exuberant acoustic clatter that recalls Bruce Springsteen's work with his Seeger Sessions Band. They also cover Tom Waits' 'Home I'll Never Be,' a raucous adaptation of a Jack Kerouac poem. Oh My God Charlie Darwin by The Low Anthem - MixPod (12 July 2009) http://www.mixpod.com/album.php?id=598200 http://snipurl.com/n2z52

The Bad Plus - MixTape.me Playlist

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The Bad Plus is a collective made up of bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and drummer David King. All three are from the Midwest and they have known each other since their teens. Nonetheless, with the exception of one unimpressive meeting in 1990, it is only after spending their formative 20s apart -- King as a session player in Los Angeles, Iverson as the musical director for the prestigious Mark Morris Dance Group, Anderson as a prominent up-and-coming player on the New York jazz scene -- that they reunited in late 2000 to play a weekend club date in Minneapolis. The chemistry was immediate and obvious. They planned a second gig and a one-day recording session for the indie jazz label Fresh Sound and The Bad Plus was born.
On this same first gig, the nascent group played their first rock cover, Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Thus began The Bad Plus trademark of complementing original repertoire with their takes on mainstream pop “standards” including ABBA, Black Sabbath, the Bee Gees, Queen, Blondie, Aphex Twin, Neil Young, and Bjork.
While the covers helped to spread their reputation, they comprise less than 20% of the band's live repertoire. Anderson, Iverson, and King are all superb composers in their own right, each boasting a distinctive style. Iverson’s music is the more intellectual and complex, Anderson's the more melodic and romantic, and King’s the more rhythmic and surreal.

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Jamendo Widget

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Jamendo is a site for up & coming music bands. After The Ice are such a band, which I consider is one to watch for in the future. Here's the Jamendo music player listing the tracks from their first E.P. released in April of 2008.
  

Grooveshark Widget

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Just trying out "grooveshark". Here is a widget for a single track:

Zero 7 on Vimeo

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A Wondershare Slideshow from Take3DVD on Vimeo.

A few months ago, I wanted to try out some software from "Wondershare". I created this slideshow with some of my own pics taken in Devon, UK but due to the softwares lack of time/frame control I had add a few extras from the web so that the background music could be played to completion.

8tracks - Chanteuses Mix

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