Back to basics: some photos & some music
PHOTOGRAPHY
Back on my regular bullshit this month — some black and white images captured in the streets of San Francisco over the summer. Nothing great here, but of the half dozen rolls I processed in the kitchen sink a couple weeks ago, this is a handful of images I’m not too embarrassed to share. Still just trying to stay focused on putting in the work.
All photos were made with Kodak Tri-X 400 35mm, shot on a Leica MP and a Summicron-M 50mm f/2 lens, developed and scanned home.
MUSIC
Still working through the backlog on my BandCamp wishlist, but I recently picked up these albums, all of which have had prominent spots in the regular rotation for the past month…
Unwound, A Single History 1991 - 2001
What to say about this band…a GOAT in the noisy indie rock genre. This collection was originally released as A Single History 1991 - 1997 on the Kill Rock Stars label back in ’99, and was recently reissued by the Numero Group with a few extra tracks on it. It’s an excellent evolutionary timeline of this great band’s most active period.
These purveyors of modern Brazilian psych rock are known in American hipster circles for their association with Build To Spill, but don’t hold that against them if you’re not a Built To Spill fan (I don’t and I’m not). The jams are extremely groovy, dripping with songcraft, at once mellow but heavy, dense but buoyant.
I’ve always thought French soundtrack music from the 1970s is immeasurably cool, and this compilation delivers all the deep drums and percussion, funky bass and guitar, and big horns and strings arrangements that make up the reasons I find it so compelling. Heaters from the likes of Janko Nilovic, Michel Mange and of course Alain Goraguer made this record an automatic buy.
Drugs Beats, The Gift: Volume 10
High grade instrumental hip-hop. If your head’s not uncontrollably nodding while this is on, you might actually be dead.
