Tagged: CFCF
Stream: Sleep ∞ Over, “Romantic Streams (CFCF Remix)”
Almost a year after the release of the original, and following other “Romantic Streams” remixes by Damu, Nguzunguzu and Balam Acab, CFCF swaddles Sleep ∞ Over’s glittering, doomy love song in yoga blankets and lavender … read more »
World Premiere! The FADER #79 Featuring Philip Glass
The most famous, absurd anecdote about Philip Glass, the subject of our annual Icon Issue this year, is that around the time Einstein on the Beach was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976, he … read more »
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Recently, I watched Xavier Beauvois’ very good movie, Of Gods and Men. It’s a narrative film based on a true story about nine Trappist monks living in Tibhirine, Algeria during the mid-’90s, when radical Islamists … read more »
Beat Construction: CFCF
Preview: This story will appear in FADER #79, on stands soon. CFCF’s Exercises is out now on Paper Bag. Mike Silver weaves utopian architecture and Glassian minimalism into an atmospheric suite of songs. By the … read more »
Stream CFCF’s EP Exercises
CFCF really couldn’t have come up with a more appropriate title for his latest EP, Exercises, which, aside from being a really good record, is a meditation on brutalist architecture and the pretty (and sometimes … read more »
Elite Gymnastics’ Ruin 3 & 4
One of the best things about Elite Gymnastics’ Ruin project is that it could potentially go on ad infinitum, and given the duos creative range (see: video for Korallreven’s “Sa Sa Samoa”) who knows what … read more »
CFCF “Exercise #3 (Building)” MP3
CFCF’s new, mini-LP Exercises is a series of piano and synth-based pieces influenced by Philip Glass, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Borden using “institutional architecture and ’70s Canadiana” as a framework. “Exercise #3 (Building)” is meditatively … read more »
CFCF’s Night Bus II Mix MP3
I understand the sentiment of the Night Bus genre and agree that it’s generally well named; it evokes a certain sort of feeling—long pans of America’s darkened interstate, headlights refracting off the window, alone among … read more »
Sam’s Pop Montreal Diary: Part 2
At the top of an old building near downtown, there were occasional Pop Montreal hosted panels. Because I missed Grimes due to hanging out with all of Canada at the Arcade Fire show, I made … read more »
Porcelain Raft, “Talk to Me” (Pierce & Pierce’s Epilogue Remix) MP3
Porcelain Raft’s “Talk to Me” is one of the most epic bummer songs ever. Actually, that’s not entirely the truth. It’s definitely a sad song, but there’s still some little bit of hope left in … read more »
