Soundtrack Music
It's summer, grades have been turned in, and I'm spending more time taking old school print magazines to parks, forests, and beaches to read instead of reading and insta-sharing everything on one of several mobile screens. Also jotting down more thoughts in notebooks, far from keyboards and 'post' buttons. I even busted out the old SLR to take photos of trips to the Bay, Yosemite, or even the Valley, and it doesn't connect to the internet, like my phone cam.
All this sort of explains why the blog has been dead and empty (not unlike my FB, Twitter & Instagram accounts) for *gasp* a month!
But, I did write a thing for KCET's Artbound recently that's worth sharing -- a quick profile of the L.A. orchestral soul band Kan Wakan. It's part of a cool package Drew Tewksbury and the folks at KCET put together for the website each week to accompany their Studio A segment: a video of a live set, a video interview, interview transcript, and a written story. Lots of ways to engage and learn about up-and-coming bands.
Here's what I wrote.
Plus, in a moment of true synchronicity of work and life, Kan Wakan's song "Forever Found," which I'd listened to about a dozen times the week their album came out, working out the best words to describe the sound and feel, came on KCRW as Aruna and I were driving south on the 5 with the '88 Rover packed with camping gear and topped with surf boards, headed for a long weekend at San Onofre State Beach. Both the band itself and a friend I ran their music by describe the sound as 1960s soundtrack music, and in that moment, it actually became the soundtrack to those blissful, fleeting moments of really, actually getting away from everything, disappearing into the sun, surf & sky.
