Posts Tagged ‘Trust’
Soldier of a Secret Kingdom: STEPHEN APPLEBY-BARR
Religion, Science, Philosophy and Superstition. Toronto-based artist Stephen Appleby-Barr demonstrates an exceptional ability to (re)create and, above all, manipulate early modern European historical references with infinitesimal doses of humour and intrigue. His ideal vision, inextricably linked to the old masters of the painterly tradition such as Rembrandt, Velázquez and Sargent, continues to evolve and reinvent itself by exploring the connections between classical aesthetics and contemporary art. Read the rest of this entry »
A Year In Records: 2012 ROUND-UP
End of the year list, we meet again. 2012 has been another exciting year for records, even in the middle of the usual “music is dead” rhetoric. So we approached the round-up game this time deliberately wanting to set a list of ten records which symbolized and represented the last twelve months. The idea was simple: write down your twenty favourite records, see how many get championed in every list and take it from there. Unsurprisingly, this simple idea became an exercise in arithmetics and statistics, once we realized the unanimous choices were very few. Read the rest of this entry »
A MONTH IN RECORDS: February 2012
We are late. There is no excuse. When we promised to give you a monthly round-up of the best (and the not so good) albums released, we didn’t exactly plan to make you wait another month to actually read about them. But it happened. And we still want to be friends, right? So here is what february brought us: a few (huge) disappointments, but at least four records which will feature prominently in the end-of-the-year lists. Read the rest of this entry »
The Future Is Bright: THE FRESH & ONLYS 
Better Than Something: Interview with Ian Markiewicz and Alex Hammond 
Filming The Music: AG ROJAS 
Coyotes in My Backyard: TRAVIS MILLARD 
The Alchemy of Love and Fire: NEIL KRUG 
Drenched in The Rain of Dreams: Dimitri Drjuchin 
I CAN SEE FOR MILES: The Art of Jacob Escobedo 