![]() ![]() Writer and singer of retro-tinged, cinematic blues melodies Gemma Ray (UK), and poetic New York folk-rocker and acclaimed guitarist Steve Gunn are two of the musical highlights in the next season of NGV Friday Nights. Gareth Liddiard’s Cocktail Favourites play Vincent Van Gogh by Jonathan Richman, for Van Gogh and the Seasons at the NGV: Link here (please scroll down to lower part of webpage) Once again Consume has collaborated with the NGV for the upoming FRIDAY NIGHTS with VINCENT VAN GOGH.Ī special aspect of this series has seen The Drones singer and guitarist Gareth Liddiard, one of the leading Australian acts in the line-up, record a cover of the Jonathan Richman song Vincent van Gogh in celebration of the winter exhibition, which can be streamed through the NGV website. NGV International | 28 April – 8 July 2017 | Admission fees apply ![]() This post Grouper – “Parking Lot” first appeared on Stereogum.NGV ANNOUNCES LINE-UP FOR FRIDAY NIGHTS WITH VINCENT VAN GOGH Grid Of Points is out 4/27 on Kranky, and you can pre-order it at Bandcamp. Simple acts becoming heightened and more difficult, a series of amplified gestures. In the brutality of its extremes we are reduced to puppets, silhouettes cast upon a screen, thrown upon a stage. In the desert it becomes small triumph simply to make it across a hot parking lot. The heat an immediate reminder of our delicate mortality. ![]() I was struck by how presciently the film captures an essence of the desert I had felt, the sharp contrast given objects by bright light, colors popping while also in retreat. Poetic depiction of the political and social turmoil of the sixties, a return to human nature, the raw chaotic power of innocence and the desire for change. There is a climactic scene in the California desert - writhing bodies, frenzied dancing anxiety and pleasure confused in a massive primordial orgy of symbolic transformation. I heard a lot about the movie Zabriskie Point from Roy Montgomery and Paul Clipson years before I finally saw it. ![]()
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