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

Damn my friends for deciding not to go last minute and me for being too lazy to get my ass down there from the Bronx alone.

what exactly does kp do live? i talked to him briefly last year and i think he mentioned doing an all strings show. what was it like?

He had two keyb players, Claire De Lune on vox for a couple of numbers, drummer, bass player. He sang, used a sampler (Kaos pad?), played viola (sounded like a viola). I thought they put on a good set. Too bad about crappy Studio B mix all over the place. The DJ sets were really great as were the knishes. Most fun I've had at Studio B. I also got a Star Of David maraca thingy (what's this called, Dan?)

I know there are shakers for Purim with another name, but those were basically maracas.

My favorite detail were the blow up keyboards morgan threw into the audience in prime Bar Mitzvah fashion.

Kelly Polar's first shows a year or two ago had a full string section but this was a smaller band. While the mix was a bit weird, it was loud and they benefited from Studio B's club sound system as opposed to the Knitting Factory, which was more of an indie crowd more inclined to stand and watch then dance.

btw, Kelly Polar closed with a secret cover of Metro Area's Caught Up.

"btw, Kelly Polar closed with a secret cover of Metro Area's Caught Up."

That was great! Dear lord I wish there was a recording floating around with that...

PS. I loved the death metal bass player with the hood!

Stream the record and have Kelley walk you thru the album: http://www.paperthinwalls.com/listeningparty/index?id=59

/plug

yea i was wearing glasses! dancing like a fool the whole time =P

i went up to some DJ and asked if he was dan and he was like NO :-) oops

fun night!! really fun. completely HOT outfit on kelley

hahahah i had a friend make knishes for a party once! wishg i coulda been there.

it was crazy packed. great turnout. dude from junior boys played boz scaggs in his dj set <3 <3

and yeah the metro area cover song was pretty cool

Jeremy played Boz as his closer, even though I specifically told him I brought Careless Whisper on CD and he should play that instead.

I didn't even see you there Dave!

It was nicely crowded, I've seen it more crowded, times when it's impossible and uncomfortable. This was definitely crowded but I didn't want to stab anybody, which is a good thing because I was walking back and forth from the DJ booth to the knish table with a serrated knife.

well yeah I've seen it more packed, for Soulwax or LCD or something. but compared to the joakim / dfa thing I went to a couple weeks ago, it was pretty crowded.

I was there from about midnight to 2am, I saw you in the booth once or twice but didn't really get a chance to say hey. figured i'd catch you wednesday anyway, i'll be up at dazzle for sure.

awesome. I've slept on promoting that because I was busy promoting the bar mitzvah but should be sending some emails/posting about it tonight.

soooo jealous of everyone who got to go. did anyone take any video footage of the kelley polar performance? trawled around and found some photos on flikr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/69093736@N00/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/seekoh/ ...

... anyone know if there'll be any more vinyl released from I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling?

haha one of those flickr's is an acquaintance of mine

i just really want that white jumpsuit.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3039/2306626086_d3e0043777.jpg?v=0

from that flickr: i'm just bummed i wasn't in NY in time to see the Sagmeister exhibit at Deitch :(

tell you what, for 50 bucks I'll write on your face with a magic marker, see if I get my own exhibit.

jk

ha. only if you cut the entire contents of a poster into your skin

this album (not the one in the thread title which I haven't heard, but the other one) is muy bueno

Really enjoying this new one as well. I keep thinking how...erm...theatrical it is, which is mostly down to how expressive his voice can be. I loved "Chrysanthemum" when it came it out last year, but it actually pales in comparison to the rest of these songs.

i like 'satellites' and 'a sea of sine waves' the best, plus 'entropy' and the first track (once it gets going - the intro is baad) but maybe it's all...gasp...TOO pretentious

I love "Satellites" too. And "A Dream in Three Parts".

I seriously can't remember the last time I heard a full-length this good.

photos of environ bar mitzvah linked from environ site:
http://www.letsbecomefamous.com/studiob/2008_03_01/

apple hill chamber players (kp on viola) - dinny's suite

coming back round to some of the album's later cuts after possibly overplaying "entropy". mungolian jet set/c2 remixes of select tracks plz.

Finally picked this up. I already knew and loved "Chrysanthemum" and "Entropy Reigns," but "Satellites" and "Sea of Sine Waves" are slowly emerging as overall favorites. "Satellites" especially is just so damn cute.

I would actually give a kidney for a Mungolian Jet Set remix of Kelley Polar.

The last minute and a half of "Sea Of Sine Waves" is absolutely gorgeous.

Environ bulletin copypasta:
http://a464.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/109/l_f838fbb8c59dc70034146e459049fb4f.png
"Entropy Reigns" is the first single from Kelley Polar's universally-acclaimed new album I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling.

Alongside the highly-esteemed original, the EP features a pair of remixes done by Ewan Pearson and Al Usher (Partial Arts). For the more house and tech-driven floors, check the four-on-the-floor beauty of the "Pearson and Usher's Closed System Dub" (spread deep and loud across the A-side). For more electro and pop-fuelled DJ sets, "Pearson and Usher's Second Law Dynamix" does the trick.

Instrumentals for both remixes are included as well!

The digital release of the EP comes with an exclusive Caribou remix of "We Live In an Expanding Universe." Dan Snaith's epic 11 minute journey is expansive, shifting from Beach Boys-on-acid harmonies to minimal Teutonic techno to Merzbow-worthy washes of digital noise; listening (or dancing) to this remix is an adventure in itself.

Vinyl will be available at your local record store, as well as Environ's online store beginning May 13th.

... ooh, nice.

I've been listening to this CD nonstop in the car and ipod. Sea of Sine Waves kills me.

I've heard samples of the Pearson/Usher mixes. Sounding very nice indeed. Interested in that Caribou remix after that description.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=95892

Wow. I'll definitely be buying both the physical and digital releases then. I think the instrumentals are justified, considering i don't think i could have imagined the Pearson/Usher remixes to be better than they are.

(apologies if this was posted elsewhere)

npr piece: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90096959

wait, so did anyone see him in london at o2 the other week? word is he "TORE IT UP" &c&c&c.

Yeah, i saw him at the o2. Was excellent, a vast improvement on his Bestival show two years previous. Had a quick chat to him after while dancing to Mr. Geist. Lovely chap.

Anyone else listened to the Entropy Reigns remixes. The Pearson and Usher's Closed System Instrumental is completely destroying me.

Kelley Polar covers "Magic Dance" from Labyrinth on a new Bowie tribute comp, complete with ridiculous spoken-word intro. In Italian. It's exactly as great as it sounds.

http://www.lifebeyondmars.com/

Kelley Polar, Carl Craig, Matthew Dear, Joakim doing Bowie...

:- ]

Telephone thing OTM about the "Magic Dance" cover.

omg MAGIC DANCE! Labyrinth as italian space opera!

This album is so good.

SMACK THAT BABY!

Magic dance is so great! But the track I've got on repeat at the moment is the Caribou mix of "We live in an expanding universe". Nice and dissonant.

I have to listen to it on hype machine cos I gots no hard copy. This is kickin' yer Hercules and Love Affair in the retro disco balls, gently.

I <3 the opening of this album so much

the rest of it, too, but damn that first track is awesome

Satellites is definitely the winner. It's hidden at first but as soon as it hits you it hits you HARD.

This album is sex.

still digging this.

I need you to hold on while the sky is falling>Love Songs of the Hanging Garden

I love this guy

this albums is incredible

THERE IS A SPECIAL SENSATION THERE IS A SPECIAL SENSATION THERE IS A SPECIAL SENSATION

I need you etc = what i meant by "this".

I'm listening to the Caribou remix of "We Live in an Expanding Universe" now. love how it starts dreamy and wooshy... and then goes all weird and noisy and synth-stabby.

i still believe this album would be 1 million times better if there were no singing or if the singing wasn't so awful. please release a kelley polar quartet album with no vocals.