Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Grizzly Bear

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Kimster_P
on June 21, 2009
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‘Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Grizzly Bear are a four piece psychedelic/experimental band.  Grizzly Bear’s music is seductive and intimate, deep with hazy-eyed choruses, whistles, piano, banjo, and several woodwind instruments.  In their music, melody and ambiance are necessary complements. ‘ That’s what Last.fm says about this band.

Been listening to their album ‘Veckatimest‘, almost every other day for a little over 2 weeks. I truly truuuuuuuly utterly enjoy this album! It’s different than the stuff I usually listen to, but I already said that my musical taste has shifted and broadend throughout the years. Grizzly Bear fits right in the massive growing forest of Kimster’s musical journey.  If juggles well with those other forest animals I learned to love recently , Fleet Foxes, as well as Bon Iver & Soufjan Stevens. This is my weekend-sunday-morning-cup-of-chamomile-tea-relax-unwind-music. I love the artwork by William J. O’Brien.

The first time I heard a song by Grizzly Bear was on the latest Red Hot compilation Dark Was The Night. On which they are joined by Feist, Bon Iver, My Morning Jacket, Sufjan Stevens, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings and that’s just naming a few. A nice double disc compilation album worth spending your Euros/Dollars on. (proceeds will benefit the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for HIV and AIDS through popular culture)

Anyway back to the Grizzlies, This morning I saw the music video to one of my favorite cuts on the album ‘Two Weeks‘. A nice song and a well a very peculiar video. It kind of freaks me out, but that’s because it reminds me of porcelain dolls and the scared the living daylight out of me when I was 5.


If you live in the region of the Netherlands and you were smart enough to get tickets to this sold out festival,you can catch them on Lowlands on August 21. If not just join me on November 9th at one of the ‘bestest’ venues in this tiny country the Melkweg.

North Sea Jazz ‘09 Prep

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Kimster_P
on June 20, 2009
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If I checked my calendar correctly I have 21 days left to get in the mood for North Sea Jazz 2009. 21 Days! Just 21 days that’s 504 hours, 30240 minutes or 1814400 seconds until it’s July 10, deduct around 6 hours of sleep a day that’s leaves about 378 hours I have left, to do my prep work for the festival. Considering I actually have to work and well still need to graduate, ow yeah  occasionally try to attempt a social life, there isn’t a lot of time to check out the music of the bands, artists I want to see.

Matterfact, I haven’t even really checked the full program yet. Unlike previous years as soon as the program became public the first week of May, I would start analyzing and dissect the 3 days stuffed with jazz related music. Who should I see, who do I know, who sounds interesting? Accumulate all the music I don’t know and start listening and seeing If I should take a peek in the room that band would be performing.

True, the best way to do North Sea Jazz is to just walk around the premises and whenever you hear something cool just pop in. That’s how I started out in my early teens, when my uncle dragged me allong. I didn’t know much at all, about this genre, but I was interested. Unc took me to his favorite trompet/bass player/trio or whatever and then he let me go flutter around with the sentence: “Open your ears, mind & eyes, wonder around, ENJOY see you at *insert location* at ten”. He’d go off with his band mates and me.. I was free to wander around. I brought a little notepad with and the  money I saved. And just walked around the Statenhallen, hop in the sweaty halls and pen down the bands I liked. When I finished my northseajazz massive chopped up pancake with powdered sugar I’d go to the music stand and pick out the 5 CD I wanted.

As I grew older things changed; I  no longer go with my uncle, North Sea Jazz changed cities and Kimpeezy changed up her strategy. :-)

Fast forwarding to June 2009 with less than a month to go, I still haven’t really grasped who will be performing. Although I already found out that two of the people I was looking forward to seeing have cancelled (Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed and Robin Thicke). Who I have spotted and have been looking forward to for a long time (ever since she cancelled her performance at last year’s NSJF and I didn’t get to her in Paradiso, HMH or Groningen) is ADELE! As my last.fm acount will tell ya, Adele is the artist I probably have listened to most in the last year, and last.fm doesn’t even keep track of the times I listen to 19 on vinyl!

So just for me and for you (that is if people actually drop by and read the bs I put out hehehe) Here something to get you in the mood for North Sea Jazz 2009 ….. MTV Unplugged:Adele! So Below, you’ll find one of my favourite songs on her debut album ‘Hometown Glory’

Things changed, years gone by but, the massive rolled up pancake with powdered sugar stayed :-) See in the Ju-Ly North Sea Jazz!

Adele will perfomering on the Nile stage on Sunday July 12.