Windy & Carl

Windy and Carl are performing in town on Thursday, April 30th. I am so psyched for this show because I think their music is very beautiful.
















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"the inventors of Michigan space drone" – The Wire

While it may be hard to define Windy & Carl's sound, the guitars, bass, occasional keyboard and vocals are generally ambient in nature - music great for coloring the background, or foreground, of any activity - walks in the park, driving, afternoon naps .... Similarities can be drawn to some of the 80's ambient pioneers as well as modern classical music. They create music with a wide range of atmospheres, from a warm fuzzy blanket, to a deep ocean, and to the open spaces of a frozen antarctic.

A while back, they put a release out on Kranky called The Dream House, which I sort of want to think was was a reference to this place, or maybe not. I don’t know. I just like their music a whole lot.

@ The Triple
3306 W. Broad St.
$6

James River Film Festival

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PERFECT.

Sometimes, Richmond, you get it just right. Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg" is showing at the Byrd on Thursday night at 7pm. Check it out, the James River Film Festival looks thoroughly amazing this year. Examples. There's some intense claymation by Bruce Bickford, think of those little scenes in "The Happiness of the Katakuris" or any other scenes of weird or gory raw claymation. Stoked. Also the shot-by-shot remake of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" that those kids did in the 80s that I've been wanting to see. Also documentary about another far-out dude who made up a world called Rocaterrania and has lovingly written and illustrated like six decades of history for it, obsessive-style similar to Henry Darger. Also, more good stuff! Way to go JRFF!

Wizards

This week I have been listening to one of the books from The Dark is Rising Sequence on cassette. If you aren't already a fan, these are young adult fantasy novels from the 1960s by Susan Cooper.