September 3, 2007
LABOURING THE DAY
NICO/Nicolas Jaar - "Little Stone". From nothing, from nowhere, 2007 has brought me another favourite song. Sent to me by a boy who seems to maybe call himself NICO, who's 17 and from New York and definitely not the German femme fatale. It sounds like a song first dreamed, then made; like NICO spent two months in fields & attics & alleyways, trying to find the sounds he dreamed those weeks before, in black and white. Rattles, rolls, trembles and toms - the whispers of that "little stone", of the first foreshadowings of autumn. It's Hood, Liars, Amnesiac, Animal Collective, and a phone ringing down the wire. I'd give my heartbeat to this man and ask him to find the counterpoint. Wonderful.
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Maryam and I wrote a silly list for McSweeneys.net, and it went online last week.
Posted by Sean at September 3, 2007 3:01 PMPhoto Cred?
nice find, sean...
perfect soundtrack for monday morning office non-sense
it's a cropped version of an antique (found) photo of blind girls playing, I believe at a school in NYC. it was sent to me, stray, so I don't have any kind of further credit unfortunately.
Posted by: sean at September 4, 2007 7:57 AM