Divine crickets

The angelic chorus you hear accompanying the sound of the crickets is NOT a synthesizer or a chorus singing. It's the crickets themselves (slowed down) creating the effect. Really an amazing thing they've accomplished here.

This recording is an extended digitally remixed and mastered version taken from the original 1992 recording entitled "Ballad of the Twisted Hair" from the album "Medicine Songs" by David Carson and Little Wolf Band produced by Jim Wilson and released on Raven Records.

This unusual recording contains two tracks:

1. the natural sound of crickets chirping
2. the sound of the crickets slowed down to match and mirror the length of the average lifespan of a human being.

Napoli Time Lapse Rainbow

Oh, how I wish I was in Naples!

A spectacular stroke of luck meets a lucky camera placement in Italy.

Rainbow Time Lapse - Napoli from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

Singin' Trouble

"Trouble" by Over the Rhine

If you came to make some trouble
Better make it good
Your sexy cocktail hour stubble
Is doing what it should

Looks may be sweet and subtle
I think it’s trouble honey
I think it’s good
If you came to make trouble
Make me a double honey
I think it’s good

Novices have expectations
‘Cause they think they should
Experts have their revelations
Like they knew they would
What may seem complicated
Is overstated, downright misunderstood
Love will not be outdated
Maybe placated, but it’s got to be good

We’re so precarious with semantics
I think this could be trouble
I think it’s trouble honey
I think it’s good
If you came to make trouble
Make me a double honey
I think it’s good

What may seem complicated
Is overstated downright misunderstood
Love will not be outdated
Maybe placated but it’s got to be good
We’re far too serious
I think we could be
Such nefarious pyromantics

I think this could be trouble
I think it’s trouble honey
I think it’s good
If you came to make trouble
Make me a double honey
I think it’s good
I think it’s good
I think it’s good
I think it’s good

Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing

Nine Million Bicycles by Katie Melua

Thanks to Craig for introducing me to the song, and to Roland for posting it on Facebook today!

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die

We are twelve billion light years from the edge
That's a guess
No-one can ever say it's true
But I know that I will always be with you

I'm warmed by the fire of your love everyday
So don't call me a liar
Just believe everything that I say

There are 6 billion people in the world
More or less
And it makes me feel quite small
But you're the one I love the most of all

We're high on a wire
With the world in our sight
And I'll never tire
Of the love that you give me every night

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die

And there are nine million bicycles in Beijing
And you know that I will love you till I die

Sound-worlds of Love

Is this really love or only a misleading appearance?
Is this really love or just a special effect?

I don't know, but it certainly *sounds* like love. Purrrrrr....

"Est-ce bien l'amour," Jean-Louis Murat

Haussant mon vol
Bien au-delà des prairies
Chantant "Je meurs Aime-moi"

L'âme du monde
Tant aperçue à Paris
Me dit "mais que faites-vous là »

Est-ce bien l'amour
Ou n'est-ce qu'un effet trompeur
Qui peut le dire
Ici-bas
Est-ce bien l'amour
Ou n'est-ce qu'un effet trompeur
On dit "Je t'aime"
Mais voilà

Quel est cet œuf
Qui va fendant les nuages
Qu'on trouve au buisson d'orties

D'un cœur léger
On réclame le partage
Dans la profondeur du puits

Est-ce bien l'amour
Ou n'est-ce qu'un effet trompeur
Qui peut le dire
Ici-bas
Est-ce bien l'amour
Ou n'est-ce qu'un effet trompeur
On dit "Je t'aime"
Mais voilà

Devers sa dame
Mirant l'épine fleurie
On énumère les regrets
Serré de lierre
On s'échappe du taillis
D'un coup d'éperon doré

Est-ce bien l'amour
Ou n'est-ce qu'un effet trompeur
Qui peut le dire
Ici-bas
Est-ce bien l'amour
Ou n'est-ce qu'un effet trompeur
On dit "Je t'aime"
Mais voilà

Est-ce bien l'amour
Ou n'est-ce qu'un effet trompeur
Qui peut le dire
Ici-bas
Est-ce bien l'amour
Ou n'est-ce qu'un effet trompeur
On dit "Je t'aime"
Mais voilà