Hindustan Times
It’s the curse of plenty. When collecting tends towards hoarding, choice becomes a real problem. And that has been happening to me. The rate at which I’m amassing music—courtesy the scores of feeds from mp3 blogs that I subscribe to and the huge number of podcasts that unfailingly land in my iTunes each week—is far higher than the rate at which I can listen to them all. Some weeks back, a reader and occasional admonisher, Sanjay Ghosh, while commenting on the web version of this column, observed how when you have hundreds of albums, your attention per album gets really small. I couldn’t agree more. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 69 Love Songs, Alessandro Moreschi’s Ave Maria, argus48, Audrey Hepburn, Band of Horses, Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday’s All of Me, Bloodbuzz Ohio, Breaksfast at Tiffany’s, Check The Door, Dinah, Django Reinhardt, Download Central, Go, High Violet, In The Dark, Infinite Arms, Iron Maiden, iTunes, Jon Birgisson, Jon “Jonsi” Birgisson, Jonsi, Keller Williams, Keller’s Cellar, Killers, Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday, Moon Moon River, Moon River, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Ponys, Sanjay Ghosh, Sanjoy Narayan, Sigur Rós, The Beatles, The Contrast Podcast, The Magnetic Fields, The National, The Roadhouse Podcast, The Whigs, Tony Steidler-Dennison, Twitter
The first Sigur Rós album I heard was Ágætis byrjun, which means ‘an all right start’ in Icelandic. Sigur Rós are an Icelandic band that plays a genre of music that is classified (by those who love to classify such things) as post-rock, minimalist, ethereal music. I found Sigur Rós’s music mainly downtempo and soothing but also sad at times. I heard several of their albums, including the curiously named () (released in 2002), Takk (in 2005) and Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008). That last title translates into ‘with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly’. Nice, isn’t it? I don’t know why, but the band’s music sometimes reminded me of a huge, widescreen film where the camera is static and the visual is of a wide open landscape.
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(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged (), Ágætis byrjun, All Songs Considered, Audience of One, Behave Yourself, Bobby Charles, Boy Lilikoi, Britt Daniel, Cold War Kids, Contra, Daniel and Eno, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, David Edwards, ethereal, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Gimme Fiction, Go, Hospital Beds, Jim Eno, Jónsi Birgisson, Loyalty to Loyalty, Martin Scorcese, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, minimalist, NPR, Pitchfork, post-rock, Radiohead, Roamin' and Ramblin Blues', Sigur Rós, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Street People, Takk, The Band, The Last Waltz, Thom Yorke, Transference, Vampire Weekend
