Raven is the solo project of Peter Hollo, cellist in the infamous FourPlay String Quartet, also known for FBi’s Sunday night postfolkrocktronica show Utility Fog. Live-sampled, looped and layered cello brushes shoulders with processed, pre-recorded piano. Beautiful minimalist refrains slipping into glitchy granulation, improvised cello passages tumble back into harmonic motion.
Have a listen to Raven’s excellent Nanostates mix for a sample.
Dermot and I have been busy preparing for the new season of Jurassic Lounge.
Tomorrow night you’ll be able to see eightfilters in the atrium, mixing some dreamy video to a mix of ambient music.
This is a sample of the kind of stuff I’ll be playing, mostly made with Paulstretch and Ableton Live.
We’ll be setting up some Kinect video interactions in the Skeleton Room, which will be filled with liquid light and music from the Punk Monk crew.
We’re curating some other awesome acts that I’m looking forward to announcing shortly!
I’ve been quite enjoying La Roux:
I’ve been on the lookout for new music recently. I’ve got my last.fm, and I subscribe to a veritable plethora of podcasts, but having a harddrive full of downloaded music doesn’t exactly feel right. Sometimes you need someone pulling you aside and yelling at you till you listen to a song. Possibly on repeat, until you get it.
So when my friend Tash came up with love is a mix cd, I got very excited. I asked her a bit about it.
What’s the project about?
It’s a kind of pay it forward, but with music.
What inspired the project?
I love discovering new music and then being able to share my find with people. This projects lets me do both. My neighbor and I like to burn cd’s for one another and swap them and I thought ‘Hey, this could totally work on a larger scale’.
Why a mix cd? Why not an mp3 or a playlist?
Because there’s something wonderful about discovering a little package in the mail, and I don’t think an mp3 or playlist has the kind of personal touch a cd does.
What do you think people will get out of it?
My only agenda was to make people happy and spread good music around. It’s two fold though, because everyone feel’s good when they do something nice or kind for someone else.
Also, it’s a great grass roots way of hopefully getting that band you love that nobody else has heard of a bigger fan base.
What song are you listening to most at the moment?
I’m really into The Format and I’ve got their song ‘The First Single’ on repeat.
Paramore cover Kings of Leon