Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Can, Neu!, Tortoise, Boards of Canada, Faust, Brokeback, Loop Guru, Stereolab, Foodbrain, American Analog Set, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Popol Vuh, Papa M, One Dove, Tiny Vipers, Van Der Graaf Generator, Friends of Dean Martinez, The Dirty Three, Sam Prekop...
Sounds Like
The sum of it's influences minus the competence of the performers mostly... it also sounds like the soundtrack to a surf film, thanks to Nic Reeves at http://phoam.blogspot.com/ - View "Offshore" there or here:
All Junk Shop Star recordings are certified free of MIDI, samples or programming of any kind. Everything is played by hand, hence the organic looseness sometimes evident to those who listen closely. It is very human music.
Junk Shop Star was born out of a desire to create Music for Headfilms. Junk Shop Star has long admired the music of Brian Eno, particularly the sublime Music for Films. Hearing this album while young triggered a passion for evocative instrumental music in general.
Junk Shop Star is not sure why instrumental music is such a passion, but suspects it is because the moment words are added to music the context and possibilities are limited by the language and sometime the method of delivery. Music without words is like a land without frontiers. The possibilities for headtravel within the music is endless.
Junk Shop Star developed abiding passions for the instrumental music of German experimentalists Can, Neu and Faust, then expanded his horizons to the desert soundtracks of the likes of Calexico and Friends of Dean Martinez and then via Chicago and the Thrill Jockey team of Tortoise, and the lovely Brokeback.
"Music For Headfilms" is available to download as individual tracks from www.amplifier.co.nz
The new photo is lovely JSS. FYI, Music for Headfilms was the soundtrack to my very good night's sleep last night. Fell asleep to it and woke up to it. I feel like a new woman!
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A million praises upon your crown and a thousand blessings upon your house!
May your fields produce a great harvesting of sweet yams and your camels bear many calves.
May your lineage blossom with many fierce sons and I would give three hundred head of goats to marry each of your beautiful daughters a dozen times over!
These exhaltations we bring to your lordly majesty from the Reality Compound.
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Luv the new video! Heaps of feeling and emotion to the track which is pushed nicely by the visuals!
That Nick Naq boy better watch his back! Oh... damn... thats me ;)
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