Category Archives: Music

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

Posted on February 27, 2013 by hamer the framer

There was a lot of fuss last week about Edward Gorey’s 88th birthday, even though he died at the age of 75. There was a Google doodle and he featured in The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times and at … Read more…

For Kevin Ayers

Posted on February 26, 2013 by hamer the framer

Kevin Ayers & Bridget St John – The Oyster & The Flying Fish A favourite song from his Shooting At The Moon album from 1970, The Oyster & The Flying Fish, a duet with Bridget St John.

Shenandoah & Cape Cod Girls

Posted on February 18, 2013 by hamer the framer

First there was Rogue’s Gallery in 2006, now followed by Son of Rogue’s Gallery, both compilations of pirate ballads, sea songs & chanteys, from an idea by Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean … Read more…

Organizing The Bookcase

Posted on February 8, 2013 by hamer the framer

Stop motion animation by Sean Ohlenkamp with music by Rodrigo & Gabriela.

Winter Trees

Posted on January 24, 2013 by hamer the framer

First there was this Christmas card from a painting by Mick Moon, made with oil paint & string on board and called simply Tree. Then I heard the three Staveley-Taylor sisters (aka The Staves) singing Winter Trees: The Staves – … Read more…

Winterlude

Posted on January 23, 2013 by hamer the framer

Bob Dylan – Winterlude

Casals & Bach

Posted on January 20, 2013 by hamer the framer

August 1954, aged 77, Pablo Casals performs Bach’s G-Major Suite for solo cello at Abbaye Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa near Prades in the French Pyrénées. In an ancient abbey in the south of France I once heard invisible plainsong. I realised eventually that … Read more…

Landfill Harmonic

Posted on January 19, 2013 by hamer the framer

When these children in Paraguay were given the opportunity to learn music there were more students than instruments. Cateura is Paraguay’s biggest landfill with a resourceful tradition of recycling. It seemed only appropriate to make musical instruments from waste materials. … Read more…

MERZsonata

Posted on January 16, 2013 by hamer the framer

Christopher Fox – MERZsonata ‘MERZsonata is a homage to Kurt Schwitters’ sound-text masterpiece, the Ursonate…Every sound…has a biographical connection to Schwitters (for example, he wrote a sneezing poem, and he used to bark like a dog each night during his … Read more…

Notting Hill Gate

Posted on January 14, 2013 by hamer the framer

This is how Notting Hill Gate looked in the 1920s. It was described as one of the most fashionable shopping areas in London. The Metropolitan Railway station can just be seen on the right and the Central Line station is … Read more…