TAG: Michel Gondry

Jun27

New Bjork :: “Crystalline” (MP3)

When Bjork announced that her new project, Biophilia, wouldby “aesthetically, sympathising with sound and how sounds move and the physics of sound. And how notes in a room behave; how they bounce off walls and between objects and is kind of more similar to how planets and microscopic things work,” we held our breath and hoped that the whole thing wouldn’t end up a certain conceptual Icelandic backside. …MORE

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Oct12

Badly Drawn Boy, It’s What I’m Thinking Pt. 1-Photographing Snowflakes (Review)

Badly Drawn Boy

It's What I'm Thinking Pt. 1-Photographing Snowflakes

Released by The End Records


Much like Chris Rock's bit about finding the right mate, ("you're never gonna find someone that likes Seinfeld and The Wu-Tang Clan..."), music aficionados often have staunchly guarded lines of genre demarcation where never the twain shall meet. A recent discussion with a few fellow hip-hop heads produced the unlikely postulation, "is it possible to like M.O.P. and Morrissey at the same time?" The answer is a resounding yes especially in these metro-musical days of blog-fed mass information. Therefore, the quiet melancholy of Badly Drawn Boy's latest effort is the ...

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Jan25

Charlotte Gainsbourg On Music, Film, Self-Identity (Video)

Charlotte Gainsbourg earnestly and affably discusses her life and self-perception, noting that despite a nearly life-long career acting, singing and modeling, she doesn’t consider herself an Artist, and she reflects on how this may actually be reassuring and maybe affords her a healthy distance from the trappings of the compulsory creation of work. She also speaks — with a visible, heroic poignancy — about returning to music 20 years after the death of her father, with whom she recorded the controversial “Lemon Incest” at age 12; her work with Lars Von Trier on Anti-Christ, for which she was voted Best Actress at Cannes in 2009; recording with Beck.

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Dec12

Mia Doi Todd video dir. by Michel Gondry + classic Flying Lotus {remix} (Video)

As part of the quarterly Flux Screening Series showcasing innovative film and music, the Hammer will debut the World Premiere of Mia Doi Todd’s new video “Open Your Heart”, directed by Michel Gondry. The evening of shorts and videos will include videos for Grizzly Bear, Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck, Ramona Falls among others. Filmmakers Michel Gondry, Keith Schofield, Allison Schulnik and Stefan Nadelman will be in attendance. The evening will conclude with a reception featuring a very special live performance by Mia Doi Todd herself!

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE.

Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy …

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