Comments on: Desert blues http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/2009/01/desert-blues/ Politics, culture, and travel | San Francisco and the world Sat, 19 May 2012 03:17:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Chris Smith http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/2009/01/desert-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Chris Smith Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:08:11 +0000 http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/?p=64#comment-71 damn, thanks--this is great. i've got some listening to do... damn, thanks–this is great. i’ve got some listening to do…

]]> By: Larisa http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/2009/01/desert-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Larisa Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:16:48 +0000 http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/?p=64#comment-70 Finnish music: If you’re into High on Fire type metal, check out Wyrd—The Ghost Album, Reverend Bizarre—So Long Suckers, Horna, and Azrael Rising Also Kampfar (Norwegian metal) Heavy prog/doom rock stuff: Fleshpress, Steel Mammoth’s album Atomic Mountain (good stuff for winter nights: “lonely banzai rhino blackout leather/volcano hideout of the mountain owl” “black diamond thunder dragon/beast of vampire torture/silver locusts on the desert sky” ), Pharaoh Overlord, and Circle. Folk/jam stuff: Kemialliset Ystavat (highly recommended). weird funny “polka-metal” that is good to drink and dance around to: Finntroll. I'm not a photographer, just an amateur, getting more and more into it. Finnish music:
If you’re into High on Fire type metal, check out Wyrd—The Ghost Album, Reverend Bizarre—So Long Suckers, Horna, and Azrael Rising

Also Kampfar (Norwegian metal)

Heavy prog/doom rock stuff: Fleshpress, Steel Mammoth’s album Atomic Mountain (good stuff for winter nights: “lonely banzai rhino blackout leather/volcano hideout of the mountain owl” “black diamond thunder dragon/beast of vampire torture/silver locusts on the desert sky” ), Pharaoh Overlord, and Circle.

Folk/jam stuff: Kemialliset Ystavat (highly recommended).

weird funny “polka-metal” that is good to drink and dance around to: Finntroll.

I’m not a photographer, just an amateur, getting more and more into it.

]]> By: Chris Smith http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/2009/01/desert-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Chris Smith Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:55:47 +0000 http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/?p=64#comment-68 i did know tinariwen is coming back here soon--a friend of mine is supposed to get us tickets, but i doubt they're on sale yet. looking forward to that. don't think i know anything about finnish music, actually. if you've got recommendations, i'd love to hear them. as for the photo, i still shoot film, and i use fuji, which seems really good with the blues. plus, i often use a polarizer (pretty sure i did here). besides that, i just did the typical +5 or whatever in photoshop saturation. so nothing special, really. i take it you're a photographer, too? i did know tinariwen is coming back here soon–a friend of mine is supposed to get us tickets, but i doubt they’re on sale yet. looking forward to that.

don’t think i know anything about finnish music, actually. if you’ve got recommendations, i’d love to hear them.

as for the photo, i still shoot film, and i use fuji, which seems really good with the blues. plus, i often use a polarizer (pretty sure i did here). besides that, i just did the typical +5 or whatever in photoshop saturation. so nothing special, really. i take it you’re a photographer, too?

]]> By: Larisa http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/2009/01/desert-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Larisa Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:15:20 +0000 http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/?p=64#comment-65 with the photo--did you do something to up the saturation of the indigo? i find it hard to get indigos like that. with the photo–did you do something to up the saturation of the indigo? i find it hard to get indigos like that.

]]> By: Larisa http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/2009/01/desert-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Larisa Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:12:16 +0000 http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/?p=64#comment-64 yes that John Lurie. he did an album that he disguised as a long-lost find of some grizzled Malian/bluesman. much of it was godawful, but there were a couple songs where something new and interesting shone through. i have heard group inerane--they're actually one of my favorites! also, did you know tinariwen is coming to the SF jazz festival in april? are you into finnish music at all (forest folk, black metal, any of it?)? yes that John Lurie. he did an album that he disguised as a long-lost find of some grizzled Malian/bluesman. much of it was godawful, but there were a couple songs where something new and interesting shone through.

i have heard group inerane–they’re actually one of my favorites! also, did you know tinariwen is coming to the SF jazz festival in april?

are you into finnish music at all (forest folk, black metal, any of it?)?

]]> By: Chris Smith http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/2009/01/desert-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Chris Smith Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:54:16 +0000 http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/?p=64#comment-63 thanks, larisa. that is my photo (i'm also a photographer). you mean john lurie the soundtrack guy? if you haven't heard them, definitely check out group inerane. they're like tinariwen but far less polished. and your dream band sounds good to me--i'd listen to it. thanks, larisa. that is my photo (i’m also a photographer). you mean john lurie the soundtrack guy?

if you haven’t heard them, definitely check out group inerane. they’re like tinariwen but far less polished.

and your dream band sounds good to me–i’d listen to it.

]]> By: Larisa http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/2009/01/desert-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Larisa Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:02:32 +0000 http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/?p=64#comment-62 And if you took that picture, it's f'in amazing. And if you took that picture, it’s f’in amazing.

]]> By: Larisa http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/2009/01/desert-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Larisa Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:01:41 +0000 http://www.ca-smith.net/blog/?p=64#comment-61 I was just thinking about this and how it was coming up. Oh, to be there. I love Tinariwen. And skin dyed indigo. My dream is to combine Nigerien style guitar playing with English lyrics in a blatant appropriative ripoff of terrible, beautiful music that shreds everything around it. Kind of like John Lurie tried to do in one of his Marvin Pontiac songs, but actually good. I was just thinking about this and how it was coming up. Oh, to be there. I love Tinariwen. And skin dyed indigo. My dream is to combine Nigerien style guitar playing with English lyrics in a blatant appropriative ripoff of terrible, beautiful music that shreds everything around it. Kind of like John Lurie tried to do in one of his Marvin Pontiac songs, but actually good.

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