calendar islands

Environs

2011-12-02T06:44:00.000-08:00

Environs by Calendar Islands

This is my newest album, recorded throughout the city this past summer. Like all my albums, it is a recording of a landscape and it's atmosphere. It is the sounds of a city living and breathing in the hot, thick river air and the ancient forest slowly returning through the crumbling empty houses and the forgotten spaces under the highway.

2011-11-19T15:20:00.001-08:00

a mix for november: november2011.mp3

Massive Attack vs. Burial - Four Walls
Bellemou & Benfissa - Lah Lah Ya S'habi
Dead Can Dance - Cantara
Faramaz Payvar & Ensemble - Dastgah Segah
Malouma - Yarab
The War On Drugs - Come To The City
Andy Stott - Cracked
Com Truise - VHS Sex
Fennesz - Transit
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
The Future Sound Of London - Max
This Mortal Coil - Waves Become Wings
The United States Of America - Love Song For The Dead Che
Grouper - A Lie

Don Delillo, White Noise

2011-11-17T20:03:00.000-08:00

Murray said, "I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country."

2011-11-15T11:58:00.000-08:00

first track from the new album:
Early Meadow Rue by Calendar Islands

fall 2011 mix

2011-10-31T10:12:00.000-07:00

a mix for the fall: october2011.mp3

Dead Can Dance - Ascension
Nico - Secret Side
Cocteau Twins - Wax And Wane
John Maus - Too Much Money
Xeno & Oaklander - Sets And Lights
This Mortal Coil - The Horizon Bleeds And Sucks Its Thumb
LA Vampires & Zola Jesus - Bone Is Bloodstone
Balam Acab - Now Time
Marsen Jules - Fans d'Automne
Mark Fry - The Witch
Forest - Autumn Childhood
Gil Scott Heron - Winter In America
The Strawbs - The Witchwood
Emmanuelle Parrenin - Liturgie
The Beach Boys - Day In The Life Of A Tree
A Silver Mt. Zion - The Triumph Of Our Tired Hands
Buffy St. Marie - The Song of The French Partisan

2011-09-20T11:11:00.001-07:00

So, I no longer have a radio show. But I will still be posting mixes/podcasts on here on a semi-regular basis. with no interruptions!

september2011.mp3

Philip K. Dick, Ubik

2011-08-30T10:36:00.000-07:00

The TV set had receded back a long way; he found himself confronted by a dark, wooden cabinet, Atwater-Kent tuned radio-frequency oldtime AM radio, complete with antenna and ground wires. God in heaven, he said to himself, appalled.
But why hadn't the Tv set reverted instead to formless metals and plastics? Those, after all, were its constituents; it had been constructed out of them, not out of an earlier radio. Perhaps this weirdly verified a discarded ancient philosophy, that of Plato's idea objects, the universals which, in each class, were real. The form TV set had been a template imposed as a successor to other templates, like the procession of frames in a movie sequence. Prior forms, he reflected, must carry on an invisible residual life in every object. The past is latent, is submerged, but still there, capable of rising to the surface once the later imprinting unfortunately --and against ordinary experience-- vanished. The man contains--not the boy-- but earlier men, he thought. History began a long time ago.

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i feel a weightless change by Calendar Islands

2011-08-12T23:04:00.000-07:00

tumblin' : calendarislands.tumblr.com

2011-08-01T10:52:00.001-07:00

I've got a new ep/mini album available for download on my bandcamp page. Recorded through this past spring, strangely coinciding with the massive tornado outbreak that swept through the country...

Also, there is now an extended version of my album The Far Field available as a download, CD-R or cassette. Includes five extra tracks that weren't on the original release.

check em out! calandarislands.bandcamp.com

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2011-07-01T16:25:00.000-07:00

I've set up a store on BigCartel where I'll be selling prints, music and various other media artifacts. There's a series of limited edition prints up there right now.. other surprises should be appearing soon, as I figure out how to convert this unwieldy mess of digital archives into tangible and appealing physical manifestations...

http://calendarislands.bigcartel.com/

two new tracks

2011-06-17T21:17:00.000-07:00

With The Sunset, Sharpness Was Lost

2011-05-27T18:04:00.000-07:00

Spring17 by Calendar Islands

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Transformed Into Blossoming by Calendar Islands

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Spring6.2 by Calendar Islands

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Spring4.mp3 by Calendar Islands

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Spring2011 by cloudbusted

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first in a series of 50 :

Trail1 by Calendar Islands

2011-01-11T16:31:00.000-08:00

The Far Field

I used my day off yesterday to make a sort of mini-album. I really should do so more often.
It's available to download for free for the time being..

2010-12-20T12:25:00.001-08:00

I'm finally getting around to updating my official website... after how many years? It's gradually becoming a more multi-media experience... there are still an overwhelming number of things to be added.

lightning telegrams

also, a mix for winter: winter'10.mp3

New Album

2010-11-29T10:39:00.001-08:00

The beginning of winter seems like a fine time to release an album of the summer... filled with thunderstorms, birds, crickets and block parties...you can download it for free, or grab one of the limited edition cassette tapes containing some extra material not available on the digital version:
calendarislands.bandcamp.com

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one week

2010-10-25T15:38:00.001-07:00

for the end of summer

2010-09-21T09:51:00.000-07:00

summermix2010.v5.mp3
Tracklist:
Andrew Oldham Orchestra - Play With Fire
Billy Nicholls - Come Again
The Beach Boys - Passing By
The Comfortable Chair - Now
The Byrds - Get To You
Little Stevie Wonder - Castles In The Sand
Ofege - Whizzy Ilabo
The Seeds - Two Fingers Pointing At You
Monks - Shut Up
Bobby Darin - Not For Me
Adrian Pride - Her Name Is Melody
Billy Nicholls - Question Mark
The Association - Standing Still
Tages - One Day
Wimple Winch - The Last Hooray
Terry Riley & John Cale - The Soul Of Patrick Lee
Anita Kerr Singers - The Windmills Of Your Mind
The Beach Boys - I Went To Sleep
The Association - Remember
The Comfortable Chair - Some Soon Some Day

2010-08-24T11:14:00.001-07:00

summermix10.v4.mp3
Tracklist:
Heron - Yellow Roses
Tages - Have You Seen Your Brother Lately?
Billy Nicholls - Life Is Short
The Kaleidoscope - Lie To Me
Flower Travellin' Band - Heaven And Hell
Nick Garrie - Little Bird
The Dovers - What Am I Gonna Do
Yanti Bersaudara - Kandas Diselat Sunda
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Any Way The Wind Blows
Damon - Poor Poor Genie
Mick Stevens - Beech Tree
Forest - Graveyard
Anne Briggs - Fine Horseman
Donovan - Celeste
The Zombies - Remember The Swan
Ofege - It's Not Easy
Billy Nicholls - Feeling Easy
Earth & Fire - What's Your Name
Group 1850 - Reborn

2010-08-23T17:40:00.001-07:00

Ray Bradbury

2010-07-26T17:14:00.000-07:00

Here, in prismed chandelier, were rainbows and mornings and noons as bright as new rivers flowing endlessly back through time. His flashlight caught and flickered them alive, the rainbows leapt up to curve the shadows back with colors, with colors like plums and strawberries and Concord grapes, with colors like cut lemons and the sky where the clouds drew off after storming and the blue was there. And the dust of the attic was incense burning and all of time burning, and all you need do was peer into the flames. It was indeed a great machine of Time, this attic, he knew, he felt, he was sure, and if you touched prisms here, doorknobs there, plucked tassels, chimed crystals, swirled dust, punched trunk hasps and gusted the vox humana of the old hearth bellows until it puffed the soot of a thousand ancient fires into your eyes, if, indeed, you played this instrument, this warm machine of parts, if you fondled all of its bits and pieces, its levers and chargers and movers, then , then, then!

Summer Mix 2010 Vol.3

2010-07-22T11:26:00.001-07:00

summermix10.vol.3.mp3
Tracklist:
Boards of Canada - In the Annexe
Mick Stevens - Smile Again
Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
Spirogyra - Everyday Consumption Song
13th Floor Elevators - Street Song
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Epignosis
Caleb - Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad
The Byrds - Bells of Rhymney
Nick Garrie - Can I Stay With You
Edip Akbayram - Arabam Kaldi Yolda (My Car Broke Down)
Mark Fry - Roses For Columbus
Yanti Bersaudara - Surya Dan Dewi Malam
Mary Anne - The Jute Mill Song
Low - Over The Ocean
The Fugs- Mr. Mack
Pearls Before Swine - Surrealist Waltz

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Summer Of Twenty Ten by Calendarislands on Mixcloud

2010-05-24T22:38:00.000-07:00

summermix'10 v.1

tracklist:
Marumari - Rocket Summer
Toro y Moi - Talamak
Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
The Beach Boys - This Whole World
The Dovers - I Could Be Happy
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Vacuum Boots
The 13th Floor Elevators - Nobody To Love
The Magnetic Fields - Strange Powers
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - So Glad
Dennis Brown - Musical Heatwave
America - Ventura Highway
Air - All I Need
Linda Perhacs - Moons and Cattails
Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes - Canto de Lemanja
Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze
Prefuse 73 - Afternoon Love In
Flying Lotus - Mmmhmm (feat. Thundercat)
Stereolab - Come And Play In The Milky Night
Ghost - Hazy Paradise

2010-04-22T20:34:00.000-07:00

New album! Full of springtime sloww jamz. For a limited time only you can also get it on a cd which will be printed to order and contain a one of a kind selection of extra recordings not available on the digital version, as well as different 5x5 photo. This will only be available as long as springtime lasts and will probably have some tracks that haven't even been made yet!
Check it out here: http://calendarislands.bandcamp.com/

Virginia Woolf

2010-04-08T11:22:00.000-07:00

And now as if the cleaning and the scrubbing and the scything and the mowing had drowned it there rose that half-heard melody, that intermittent music which the ear half catches but lets fall; a bark, a bleat; irregular, intermittent, yet somehow related; the hum of an insect, the tremor of cut grass, dissevered yet somehow belonging; the jar of a dor-beetle, the squeak of a wheel, loud, low, but mysteriously related; which the ear strains to bring together and is always on the verge of harmonising, but they are never quite heard, never fully harmonised, and at last, in the evening, one after another the sounds die out, and the harmony falters, and silence falls. With the sunset sharpness was lost, and like mist rising, quiet rose, quiet spread, the wind settled; loosely the world shook itself down to sleep, darkly here without a light to it, save what came green suffused through leaves, or pale on the white flowers in the bed by the window.

2010-03-04T11:19:00.000-08:00

I've just put together my first proper album.. its available as a limited edition cd, which comes with a 5x5 print of a film still from the series of the one seen above, or if you're like me and prefer to download things for free straight to your computer in an immaterial form, you can do that also:
http://phosphenes.bandcamp.com/

2010-03-01T01:31:00.001-08:00

<a href="http://phosphenes.bandcamp.com/track/fmds-7">FMDS 7 by phosphenes</a>

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Thoreau

2009-09-27T22:00:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, on Sundays, I heard the bells, the Lincoln, Acton, Bedford, or Concord bell, when the wind was favorable, a faint, sweet, and as it were, natural melody, worth importing into the wilderness. At a sufficient distance over the woods this sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept. All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it. There came to me in this case a melody which the air had strained, and which had conversed with every leaf and needle of the wood, that portion of the sound which the elements had taken up and modulated and echoed from vale to vale. The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood nymph.

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<a href="http://cloudbuster.bandcamp.com/track/june-tape-21">june tape 2.1 by cloudbuster</a>

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