Kelley Polar - Love Songs of The Hanging Gardens (Environ CD05)

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The Postal Service delivered some nice books to me today. Nothing like getting books in the mail! Hey, have there been any remixes of note of stuff from this album?

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

from hearing you DJ, dan, it seems like you've heard a lot of music.
To do this and avoid the postal service is an accomplishment, to be sure.
if only i had had such luck in life

― capnkickass (gloriagaynor), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I only hear the music I get exposed to, and it's mostly what I can find for 2 bucks at the junk shop (or 20 bucks on the internet unfortunately). Chosing the right internet radio stations helps as well. I'm sure I've heard the Postal Service in a TV ad or somewhere, but couldn't really pick it out. My girlfriend is a Death Cab for Cutie fan so maybe she has some.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Tom's article was more positive then you'd think from reading Brooklyn Vegan's excerpts, starting with his/her statement "bit of a disaster".

yeah, i expected the article to be much worse ... the show was definitely fun, but could've been better thanks to the crowd. all that talking was *really* killing me. i'd initially heard there was gonna maybe be a live rhythm section, so i was a little disappointed that only the strings were live, but they sounded great. loved seeing kelley play conductor.

re: a tour, i think he has a couple shows in europe next month but that's all i'm aware of.

did anyone make it to matthew herbert afterwards?

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

did anyone make it to Rhys Chatham? happened upon his myspace today..

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

if you still want to hear 'i'm so hot 4 you', you can nab moroder's 'the chase' from the arpeggiated disco thread and sing 'i'm so hot for you, you're so hot for me' over the bassline. it's pretty much the same tune.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 10 March 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Dan, i meant i'm starting to get interested (mostly after hearing him mixed into some of the dj sets put out here and also hearing about the show) despite my earlier issues which i was making fun of not reinforcing really. i'm not really steadfast against anything.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 10 March 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

"a certain camera wielding trophy hunter"

OTM description of that certain person...

― jason_b, Friday, 10 March 2006 19:36 (twenty years ago)

TS: Brooklyn Vegan vs. Punkcast

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

just kidding, please don't take sides on this..

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Overheard during Kelley's set:

"Reminds me of Fischerspooner."

Dead. Me and her.

― Richj (Rich), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Hey, have there been any remixes of note of stuff from this album?

I've heard two so far, though neither of much note:

Ashamed Of Myself (Osunlade) (white)
Vocalise (Morgan Geist's 12" re-edit)

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 11 March 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

that vocalise 12" re-edit is dreamy. really, really beautiful.

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 11 March 2006 03:01 (twenty years ago)

punkcast has cred in spades, therefore Joly can get away with any amount of shoeless videotaping and questionable reggae.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 11 March 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

the vocalise re-edit is done with the lightest of touches. dreamy is a good descriptor, for some reason i hear all the perrey-kingsley burps and lusty sighs i missed on the album.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Saturday, 11 March 2006 04:12 (twenty years ago)

album sampler #2 tracklist:

a1 Here In The Night (Long Version)
a2 The Rooms In My House Have Many Parties
b1 Ashamed Of Myself
b2 In Time

. . . oh well, no hott remixes.

― etc, Saturday, 18 March 2006 08:16 (twenty years ago)

i like the old thread title better

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 18 March 2006 08:36 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

also how come the danny wang reissue didn't get 400 posts? sorry kelley, but "idealism" absolutely slays "the hanging gardens..."

-- vahid (vfoz...), December 1st, 2005. (vahid)

^qft

― ferzaffe (flezaffe), Sunday, 9 July 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

I saw him at bestival on friday night.
He kept everyone waiting, but he was stunning. And what a character he is.

― Richard Brown (aerosolique), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

how was the gig at panoramabar in berlin on saturday night? tobias, fill us in!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

He was really good at Bestival. One of my favourite performances there. In costume too (Kelley on right with Clare de Lune)...

http://www.residentadvisor.net/photos/sou06098besti/28.jpg

― rchinn (rchinn), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

A tentative show planned for Oberlin, Spring 07:

-T-Money & the Change
-the Disco Orchestra (featuring Mr. Polar, covers of 'Don't Stop til You Get Enough,' and a cast of other characters)
-Kelley Polar

I AM SO PSYCHED IT HURTS.

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

rchinn, it looks like i was just behind you.

[img]http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v310/aerosolique/?start=#imgAnch1[/img]

― Richard Brown (aerosolique), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

― Richard Brown (aerosolique), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

3rd time lucky...

― Richard Brown (aerosolique), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

I have to admit that I didn't like it too much when they played the Panoramabar on Saturday night. But mostly because the sound was so bad. You could barely hear the strings. It looked nice - I mean, you see all kinds of things at Panoramabar, I've never seen musicians reading scores though. Ant the costumes were great. They looked as if they had crossed a asteroid belt of burst discoballs before they made it too Europe with all these little mirrors attached to their space doctors outfit.

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

... to Europe ...

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

New single/video in advance of a new album! "Chrysanthemum"/"Rosenband" . . . hmmmn, liked the extended version of "Here In The Night" on the last 12", too - still waiting for my Latin Rascals revival, tho. K-jealous of everyone that's been able to see him live!

― etc, Sunday, 4 March 2007 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

"chrysanthemum" chorus brings to mind mark robinson. in a very good way.

― andrew m., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

NEED NEW

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Chrysanthemum" is one of the best things I've heard so far this year. Also the best song about nuclear war since "Enola Gay."

― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

this is a new song?

― cutty, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

oh look, on itunes

― cutty, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

Chrysanthemum video on YouTube

― etc, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

Pitchfork's "Forkcast" thingy linked a nice large quicktime of the video on the studio's homepage recently.

― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

the whole single is great, but the instrumental of "rosenband" is just mindblowing.

― tricky, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've listened to the album so many times since I bought it about 18 months ago. Looking forward to new stuff!

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

but the instrumental of "rosenband" is just mindblowing.

SO OTM

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't get past "Chrysanthemum" to the b-sides. I haven't been this obsessed with a song in a while.

― Telephone thing, Thursday, 3 May 2007 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kelley Polar: single-handedly making 1960s a capella vocal-jazz harmony arrangements seem like the BEST IDEA EVER (since 2005)

― nabisco, Thursday, 3 May 2007 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

(Haha there's a level on which he's doing for black-turtleneck / white-glove archaic-children's-educational-material vocal-harmony stylings what Boards of Canada did for broken-filmstrip archaic-children's-educational-material instrumentals, except with enough great strings-and-disco around it that he doesn't have to, you know, NAME HIMSELF after it or anything)

― nabisco, Thursday, 3 May 2007 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

what a disappointment this is (except for the instrumental)

― jergïns, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

i feel like i say the same thing over and over on these kinds of threads (lcd soundsystem) so i'll say it and get it over with: the lyrics are such a weakness. every human head? did he just say 'kill them in their beds'? wtf? you know, i don't ever need to hear the song again, just because of that. listening to instrumental electronic music, or lyrics in german, or the mountain goats, has changed me, for better and worse.

― jergïns, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/55655 :

wow. didn't know that kelley polar:

1)'s sister is blevin blectum!

2) was expelled from juliard after "the basslines of his newest Environ tracks boomed out over Juillards recital hall to an audience that included his enraged teachers"!

3) used to be a beardo! but now has shaved and
herds longhair cattle in newhampshire!

4) is not lil kim!

5)'s new album is called "I Need You to Hold On While The Sky is Falling"

― jermainetwo, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Kelley Polar: single-handedly making 1960s a capella vocal-jazz harmony arrangements seem like the BEST IDEA EVER (since 2005)

Haha. I almost bought a Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross album yesterday.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

this is an incredibly entertaining interview. puff daddy, crickets, tofu-skin duck, conflict-zone chamber groups...

― jermainetwo, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

..sanatoriums...turntables suspended in baths of liquid nitrogen...

― jermainetwo, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

This album is kind of an evil twin to Love Songs ... I wanted it to be even denser, with even shorter songs, but still changing more quickly, and it is actually a little longer in total than the last one. I wanted it to be like the audio equivalent of one of those mythical sci-fi movies where there are hundreds of special effects shots per minute, juicy and transporting.

― poortheatre, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

3) used to be a beardo! but now has shaved and
herds longhair cattle in newhampshire!

Ah, but if you read on you will see that he ATE THEM.

― Telephone thing, Thursday, 24 May 2007 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

The cattle, that is, not the beard.

― Telephone thing, Thursday, 24 May 2007 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

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