Deep Cuts: Experimental

Woods is an interesting three piece band based in Brooklyn, New York since 2005. Their instrumentals are complex and rollicking and Woods even go so far as to have a "tape player" G. Lucas Crane who acts as a DJ, soundman and back up vocalist on stage.

The group's leader, guitarist and vocalist Jeremy Earl uses one style of vocals, an eerie falsetto, that is so close to the female register that a listener could swear to it being female. While this is great, in the tradition of Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins, to have a unusual vocal style - Earle's same falsettto is over used on each song on each album. To make matters worse the emotional effect of hearing the same worried falsetto voice creates a sense of impending failure that becomes hard to hear repeatedly.



References:

• The Woods, Official Site
• Wikipedia, Woods Band

Screen Shots: Bike Ride @ Sundance 2011

Minnesota animator and teacher Tom Schroeder's Bike Ride makes it to Sundance.

The unique writing and animation talents of Tom Schroeder are unleashed on the Sundance Film Festival as Bike Ride makes it's 2011 debut in the snowy hills of Park City, Utah.

This is Tom's 60 plus film fest screening of Bike Ride which began it's festival circuit ride in 2002 showing to a few local jazz fans and has now been seen by national and international audiences. It's getting to the point where I can't say enough good things about this film.