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

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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)

two months pass...

omg this is still so fucking good

― groovemaaan, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

New materials being released soon.... right? What's the word?

― generalmills, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

New album is called 'I Need You to Hold On While The Sky is Falling'.

Released February 2008.

Hoping for great things.

― arghkaybee, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

not an awful title

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

this is all syrup no pancake

― jergïns, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

There are 3 songs on the new record that i like more than anything on 'Love Songs'.

There are 3 songs on the new record that i like less than anything on 'Love Songs'.

The rest is 'Love Songs' standard.

― arghkaybee, Friday, 11 January 2008 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

chrysanthemum is very polar-by-the-numbers i find. some of the songs i've heard from the new one are great tho (first track and that entropy duet)

― s1ocki, Friday, 11 January 2008 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

love all the 12"s, love the first album, love the new 12", i just cant fucking wait for the new album!

― pipecock, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:36 (eighteen years ago)

love how 'entropy reigns' references 'blue monday'

― jermainetwo, Saturday, 12 January 2008 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Entropy Reigns" is fantastic. Was already excited; now much more so.

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

new album's pretty great, but honestly, kinda sounds like dominique leone. especially the less dancey tracks. the arrangements, the vocals. kinda weird.

― jaxon, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

they both have "serious" music backgrounds and interests and probably thus can pull off the kind of harmonies and arrangements that your average bedroom studio types can't.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah, i'm no saying that one copied the other, just that it's kinda neat to hear another classically trained prog-disco dude. which one's greg lake and which one's jon anderson?

― jaxon, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 06:55 (eighteen years ago)

man this album is totally awesome

― groovemaaan, Sunday, 20 January 2008 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61MLk7x5ljL._SS500_.jpg

This record just gets better and better.

― arghkaybee, Friday, 25 January 2008 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

is it out or are you guys going off promo/ leakage?

― jaime, Friday, 25 January 2008 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Everybody should come to NY for the Environ Bar Mitzvah.

― dan selzer, Friday, 25 January 2008 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

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