by Alexander Slotnick • May 2012 This month, director Grant Gee’s new documentary Patience (After Sebald) has its limited US release. The film is a hypnotic meditation on the writer W.G. Sebald and his book The Rings of Saturn. As many Tiny Mix Tape gourmands already know, English experimental musician The Caretaker was responsible for the film’s soundtrack , which shares the film’s title and was independently released at the beginning of the year. Beyond providing a hypnotic 82-minute plunge, the film and its score are noteworthy for precipitating general consideration of how today’s music interacts with ...

I'm Asa. I'm a Virgo. I'm from Berkeley Ca. It definitely shaped who I am. I met Matthew-who's from Virginia-when I moved to L.A. about 6 years ago. He's the best dude ever and a really good musician so I asked him to play on some of the stuff I was writing at the time. He's plays every instrument that I can't, which is a lot. Listening to: Right now I'm listening to a Donovan album called "Fairytale". I'm also quite into this Ted Hawkins album called "Watch Your Step ...

Hopefully you guys know by now how much I appreciate a good music video. This one from OSYM is based on Kafka’s (genius) Metamorphosis. Apparently the track itself is also a tribute to Flying Lotus. You have to love all the respect being paid, so dive in.

Feeling this submission from LA’s OSYM (Old Soul in a Young Man). “FLYLOW” is an instrumental dedication to one of OSYM’s greatest creative influences, Brainfeeder’s Flying Lotus. The song is put over the top by a trippy animated interpolation of Franz Kafka’s 1915 novel, Metamorphosis. OSYM drops his new instrumental EP NIGHTLIGHT soon. OSYM – FLYLOW (Video) |

Footnote Dir. Joseph Cedar [Sony Pictures Classics; 2011] by Daniel Sargeant Rating: To be a full-fledged professional academic, a scholar has to commit to a soul-crushing attachment to the most bureaucratic of minutia. It’s a gig for the deeply committed, those in whom boredom finds no quarter. Joseph Cedar’s Footnote weds lifelong, Sisyphean study to the relentless and circular nature of aging families. In Jerusalem, a father and son have each abandoned themselves to academic life, studying and comparing the microscopic differences between editions of the Talmud. Their approaches differ: the father, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar Aba), is ...

The following appreciation article was written by a good friend of mine, Kenyon Gordon, who you might remember wrote a similar article on the death of Amy Winehouse last year .   Mr. Gordon has lived a very interesting life and is full of unique opinions about music that I'm always excited to share on here.  This article is about the legacy of singer/songwriter Dory Previn who passed away last month at age 86.  Previn's music has had a profound influence on Mr. Gordon's life and he considers her his favorite artist of all time.  When he handed ...

If Kafka’s Metamorphosis had multiple characters morphing into other neon-colored people – rather than one man turning into a beetle – to the tune of San Francisco shoegaze, the result would be this Young Prisms video for “Floating in Blue.” The dreamy track is off their new record, In Between, which comes out March 27th [...]

Peter Van Olmen crea en 'Odessa y el mundo secreto de los libros' (Siruela) un paraíso para los niños lectores.  Leer .  Escuchar

# QUOTE OF THE MONTH # “They gave Kafka to the troops,” closing line of Leon Wieseltier’s essay on books in the New Republic. # RUNNER-UP # Docked a notch for the ease of this target: Rick Santorum vs. Megadeath’s Dave Mustaine, from Mother Jones. Points for plenitude. # BEHIND IN MY TV # Just started [...]

Peter Kafka says what we were all thinking: huh? The idea has a business logic to it, but it’s hard to see the consumer appeal behind “The Warner Sound.” Because, with a couple of minor exceptions, people aren’t fans of labels — they’re fans of specific artists, songs and genres. Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.

"To Chuck, the Shakespeare of rock and roll, congratulations on your PEN award, that’s what too much monkey business will get ya . . . Say hello to Mr. Leonard, Kafka of the blues, and Lord Byron Keith (Richards) if he shows up. In all seriousness, Chuck, congratulations on this prestigious honor. You have indeed [...]

A few bits of soundtrack/score news to catch up on, so let's get right to it, shall we? First up, Martinez">Cliff Martinez -- who knocked everyone's socks off last year with this scores for "Drive" and "Contagion" -- is kicking of 2012 in a big way. He's already tuned up the forthcoming "Arbitrage" starring Richard Gere, and re-teamed with Nicolas Winding Refn for "Only God Forgives." Now he's been nabbed by Robert Redford to bring his upcoming drama "The Company You Keep" to musical life. Penned by Lem Dobbs (”Kafka,” “The Limey," "Haywire”) the story follows ...

Neil Young recently appeared on stage at the D: Dive into Media event to speak with Walt Mossberg and Peter Kafka about digital music distribution and audio quality. Young, who's made the lack of fidelity in music recording and distribution something of a cause in recent years, advocated for a high quality digital music distribution system and lamented the lack of quality in digital files (both MP3 and Apple Lossless). Tech publication The Verge carried two interesting quotes from the event. The first with Young commenting on late Apple CEO Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital ...

Steven Soderbergh has tried his hand in many things over the years including a relationship drama, coming-of-age tales, crime capers, retro post-war noir, Spanish-language epics, and most recently, a disaster movie. But one thing he'd never really taken on before? The action movie. There had been some slick set pieces in the "Ocean's Eleven" trilogy, but nothing else that really qualifies. Until now, that is. Friday sees the release of "Haywire," the director's first full-on actioner, and the first of four films set to be released ahead of his hiatus from filmmaking. The project reunites Soderbergh with ...

Contributed by Chris Gedos Hey every band from the past thirty years! Josef K called! They’d like their royalty check now! How fitting that fellow Scots Franz Ferdinand would be indebted right down to a name similarly lifted from the dawn of modernism. It’s impossible to do Kafka justice, but Josef K sure gives it a [...]