BODY LANGUAGE.
Body Language is going to be here THIS SATURDAY AT 10 PM AT THE MILL.
Holycrap.
As Big Stereo puts it, Body Language is like “worn out cassette tapes playing back big pop tracks, not quite chillwave but not quite club — a beautiful healthy mix.”
Body Language is a 5-piece outfit from Brooklyn (because who isn’t these days) who are being hailed all over the place as a move-your-feet act that can bring the noise. Comparisons with Friends Electric, Little Boots, Crystal Method, Toro Y Moi, Hey Champ, Treasure Fingers, and Yes Giantess (who has rocked TrinColl twice already) abound, so you know what you’re getting yourself into… In other words, prepare to sweat. At the same time, though, they’re subtle - you decide how hard you want it to hit.
Here are some tracks not to miss from their 5-song release Speaks EP…
“Huffy Ten Speed”
A nonsensical hymn for our generation, featuring hypnotically dark synths and a build to boot that erupts in an addicting chorus.
“Work This City”
Barry White with synths - laid back electronica that is simultaneously sexy, incredibly well layered, and fun to move your feet to.
Yes Giantess - “Demons” (Body Language Remix)
This is how Yes Giantess would sound if they were zombies playing in the middle of an empty ampitheater for the last time before the apocalypse hit. This is absurdly good.
So stop by. Gaffney, Fadil, and Austen will all be DJ-ing hard starting at ten before Body Language hits it. Tickets $2 and can be purchased in advance by e-mailing miltix@gmail.com. Get them fast - they will sell out.
La Blogotheque- Les Concerts à Emporter
Check out this music/film project from the French music blog La Blogotheque. Since the spring of 2006, director Vincent Moon has been putting together short films of “Take Away Shows,” or semi-impromptu concerts featuring a great mix of artists. Moon explains (and I roughly translate, sorry): “Each week, we film with an artist or band that we’ve invited to play in the city, a bar, the street, a park, an apartment, and we leave in all the accidents, the hesitations, the ‘moments of madness’. Without much editing, with raw sound: to capture an instant, to film the music as it comes, without preparation, without tricks.” The videos are really beautiful, and they give us the opportunity to see and hear some of our favorite bands in unexpected ways. Most of the filming is done in Paris, but recently La Blogotheque has been traveling to other cities. For now the blog appears to favor the indie rock/folk scenes; I’ll be interested to see if they diversify as the project grows…
Anyway, I’ve posted one of my favorites from the site: Fleet Foxes playing Sun Giant and Blue Ridge Mountains. Enjoy, and check out all the other great artists on the site:
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Fleet Foxes - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
