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Plaija – indie music video

Risa Dickens — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:17:39 +0000

Check out the music video for the latest song Kyaan Done from the good peeps of Plajia. Directed by Adam Owens, released 25 January 2010 with Patrick Pleau on vocals and back vocals, guitars, organ; Simon Boivin on bass; Paco Laviolette on drums; and Jocelyn Poitras on electric guitar. Recorded by Nicolas Petrowsky @ Mixart Studios (Montreal, Canada). Oh yeah, and I also embedded a video of theirs from last year, because it’s quite lovely and well worth spending a little more time with on a terrible cold day (or any day, but I gotta tell you, it’s terrible cold here today!)

Chad VanGaalen Helps Celebrate Calgary’s Indie Radio

Risa Dickens — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:20:25 +0000

Check out the incomparable Chad VanGaalen playing squished delightfully in the byways of Calgary’s CJSW 25th anniversary, multiplex concert.

Chad VanGaalen – I changed my name from Welcome To The West on Vimeo.

The Soft Hills – indie music videos

Risa Dickens — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:27:22 +0000

I stumbled onto these videos for a band called The Soft Hills today while clicking around through Myspaces, working on booking up the next 3 months of Mess. These seemed like they should be shared somehow, I think because of the careful layerings of found images and sounds, and animals swinging, and ladies lighting up their antique cigarettes…

Zohar Kfir – video art

Risa Dickens — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:00:10 +0000

Zohar Kfir contacted Indyish recently and what a pleasure it’s been to investigate her video art. Not least among the work featured on her website is a found footage piece called Sometime Somewhere. There is a way to work with found footage and sound that is revelatory and nostalgic and contemporary all at once, and I think it requires a really strong editting eye to keep layering textures on, and pulling clutter out. Anyway, check out these video pieces, see if you see what I mean, and hopefully we’ll showcase Zohar’s work soon at an upcoming Mess.

Laura Barrett – indie music video

Risa Dickens — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:51:10 +0000

Check out this neat and often gorgeous indie music video for “The Wood Between Worlds” by the plinky, twinkly Laura Barrett. This song is off the album, “Victory Garden” on Paperbag Records. Concept/Edited/Directed by Jared Sales.

Raw Vision Magazine

Risa Dickens — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:36:23 +0000

Check out the cover of the new issue of Raw Vision – this international magazine devoted entirely to outsider art, contemporary folk art, art brut, etc – the raw and astonishing and bright wide world of makings. This issue features work on art therapy in New York, alongside close looks at contempory trancendental and visionary artists.

Haiti

Risa Dickens — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:49:15 +0000

Update: Donations made through here will be matched by the Government of Canada:

https://www.strategicprofitsinc.com/hosted/humanitarian/index.php?lang=en

Please go to Partners In Health to donate to rescue efforts in Haiti. If you are in Montreal January 14, 2010 there is a joint clothing drive and fundraiser at Blizzarts and Blue Dog (3956a / 3958 St-Laurent).

Haiti Earthquake 1/12 10PM from The Global Orphan Project on Vimeo.

Real Hope For Haiti from Corrigan Clay on Vimeo.

Animal Collective – new music video for Brothersport

Risa Dickens — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:14:33 +0000

Some lovely animation in this one, and some great single images like the brightly coloured hand print on the barn door.. thanks Animal Collective:

Nothing But Terminator

Risa Dickens — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:30:29 +0000

This is my new favorite art form: music made with nothing but the material provided by a single movie. In this case, the bumpin’ Terminator 2, directed by James Cameron. This clip really gets going at the motorcycle scenes:

Freedom For Liliany Obando – Event In Toronto January 9 2009

Risa Dickens — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:47:04 +0000

This is from our dear friend and amazing musician Willow Rutherford. We’ve written about the heartbreaking story of this heroic young woman imprisoned by Colombia once before, and now Willow and her sister are keeping up the public pressure with a musical event in Toronto:

Hello everyone!

Happy New Year! I am writing because I have a friend who perhaps you have heard me mention before- her name is Liliany Obando and she is a Columbian human rights worker who has been detained in the Bogota women’s jail for the past year and a bit. I have copied what my sister wrote about her below, as well as links to information about her. Even if you happen to be in Mexico or the States or another province in Canada I wanted to let you know about her and if you happen to be in town, to invite you to something fun. We have organized and will be performing at a special awareness/fundraising event, along with some surprise guests and a few eloquent speakers on Jan.9th at the Tranzac. I just discovered there was an article published about her on the front page of the Toronto Star as well- the beauty about living in a place like Canada is you don’t get imprisoned for speaking your mind or murdered for your beliefs. Here’s to a woman of unimaginable bravery. Please come to support this cause.

Hello All,

I found out that my friend Liliany Obando was in jail in Bogota via
email last September. My immediate reaction was a combination of
helplessness and relief. Helplessness because the Colombian government
was labelling her a terrorist and relief because she was still alive –
unlike so many of her friends.

I met Liliany in the summer of 2006. We were both on tours for very
different reasons. I was with my swashbuckling collective/band Uber
Hussy. While Liliany, armed with a translator and documentary videos,
was on a human rights tour discussing the plight of farmers in
Colombia and the corruption of its Colombian government. We were all
travelling from Toronto, Ontario, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, so
naturally — we carpooled.

These are some things I know about Liliany: she loves her country; she
is disheartened by the actions of her government; she is a single
mother of 2 and she is an excellent dancer.

About the same time that I heard about Liliany’s incarceration, I
discovered I was pregnant. If you know me, you would concur that such
a thing would be a huge life change for this particular brand of Uber
Hussy… and believe me it is. Perhaps this is the reason it has taken
me so long to organise anything on her behalf – Perhaps I had secretly
hoped she would be let out of prison after a fair trial. Needless to
say, the fair trial hasn’t happened yet and the event is about to.

On January 9, 2010, you are cordially invited to attend a very special
evening at The Tranzac in Toronto (292 Brunswick Ave). This is a
benefit for the children of Liliany Obando aged 5 and 16. It is also a
reunion of sorts for the Uber Hussy crew – if you would like to learn
more about Uber Hussy, please click on the links below. I have also
included a link to a website created for Liliany and a song written
about Liliany by Michelle Rumball and Roger Langen.

I hope to see many of you on the 9th. If you are unable to be there in
person, and would like to show your support, please mail your donation
payable to District 12 OSSTF (attention: District 12 Human Rights
Committee). The mailing address is: 1482 Bathurst St., 3rd Floor,
Toronto ON M5P 3H1. Any help spreading the word about the cause is
accepted with gratitude.

Regards,

Cassandra Rutherford
(aka Calamity Royale, aka Tranzac Manager, aka Mom to 7 month old Peter)

About Liliany Obando:
http://www.freeliliany.net/

About The Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181744418058&ref=mf

About Uber Hussy:
Billy the Id: www.lucieidlout.com www.myspace.com/lucieidlout
Lady Girl Miss: http://www.myspace.com/michellerumball
Patsy Doots: www.nancydutra.com www.myspace.com/nancydutramusic
Calamity Royale: www.myspace.com/calamityroyale
Sistah Schmoo: www.myspace.com/willowrutherford

Song for Liliany “Pasto Girl” Written by Roger Langen & Michelle Rumball
http://soundcloud.com/dsch/pasto-girl

Liliany Obando

P.S. I have attached a small photo of me giving Liliany her first piano lesson in a little theatre at Woody Point, Newfoundland.