On a winter day where we tend to stay in and watch the small piece of the world framed by our window, our imagination flow into some far away nature, seaside, woods, fairground, fantasy world etc easily.
Here are my friends from old times who make music perfect to accompany those fantasy-driven minds. It really is so magical how these music can change the settings we are in, and the moods.
Directorsound is Nick Palmer, Dorset resident who creates magical fairy music with various instruments, accordion, glockenspiel, banjo, guitar, piano, drums and what's not! Some may feel its Silent film music, Gyspy films, old French imagery, Victorian fun fair etc.
To me, listening to his music make what I do, what I see, things around me wherever I am, turn into something with sparks, with gentle and warm feeling to otherwise-not-cared-for objects and any smallest movements such as trees moving by wind, door opening, birds flying so special... It even gives me a wicked imagination that my small rabbits, dogs ornaments would start moving to the music, as if they were centre of the unknown films!
To me, listening to his music make what I do, what I see, things around me wherever I am, turn into something with sparks, with gentle and warm feeling to otherwise-not-cared-for objects and any smallest movements such as trees moving by wind, door opening, birds flying so special... It even gives me a wicked imagination that my small rabbits, dogs ornaments would start moving to the music, as if they were centre of the unknown films!
You can listen to his albums on myspace, and see what kind of world you can be drawn into.
And here is a very beautiful video shot in Lapland for his tune, out from latest album Oct.2010 "Two Years Today" (Tona Serenad label)
Michael Tanner is another old friend, a close pal to Nick, also Dorset resident makes music under the name Plinth, sometimes Cloisters, also plays in United Bible Studies and Agitated Radio Pilot, Irish folk bands with various members.
He is also a multi-instrumentalist with the strong affinity to old things (as supposed to technology and modern world), crafts and nature, which reflect greatly in his music in which he undertakes a lengthy and painstaking recording and edit process, something we all used to do, but now easily done in minutes e.g. film printing photography, compose music on computer etc.
You can see it in his releases, he binds photos, old book pages, old wallpapers, to make limited books, CDs making every listener a special treatment of sharing his passion and inspirations.
His music is like a soundtrack to my mental imagery world. Slow motioned dreams, long shot nature scenery like tides moving, leaves falling, stars shooting etc
No wonder he picked "Decasea" film by Bill Morrison, a film consists of old found film strips (so old and decayed, we see some illusions made by its natural decay) bind together.
Originally this film is accompanied with Michael Gordon's music "Light Is Calling" in which Michael Gordon scored its "decay" process in music with his orchestra.
I had a chat with Mike (Tanner) about Decasea and he said, "I love the film but I have a problem with the music, it's too uneasy. To go with the beautiful imagery, it doesn't have to be that.. scary!"
True, so this is his take on the film music
You can see it in his releases, he binds photos, old book pages, old wallpapers, to make limited books, CDs making every listener a special treatment of sharing his passion and inspirations.
His music is like a soundtrack to my mental imagery world. Slow motioned dreams, long shot nature scenery like tides moving, leaves falling, stars shooting etc
No wonder he picked "Decasea" film by Bill Morrison, a film consists of old found film strips (so old and decayed, we see some illusions made by its natural decay) bind together.
Originally this film is accompanied with Michael Gordon's music "Light Is Calling" in which Michael Gordon scored its "decay" process in music with his orchestra.
I had a chat with Mike (Tanner) about Decasea and he said, "I love the film but I have a problem with the music, it's too uneasy. To go with the beautiful imagery, it doesn't have to be that.. scary!"
True, so this is his take on the film music
I would normally just use the music stream, but you'd gotta enjoy the imagery also for his music.
Directorsound and Plinth's (Cloisters) music both have a strong sentiment for long-forgotten, good ol' times, is that our way of trying to slow down this ever so rapid modernization in which we come to live in?
Aren't we all nostalgic and love to embrace memories with these beautiful music? even those memories not being our own, but our ancestors' or sheer strangers', just like flipping through old photo albums of those brown faded photo papers..
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