UnKindness Of Ravens

Rip the Movie

J C — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:23:12 +0000

Just saw the film, Rip, last weekend. The movie explores new creative modes of music-making (and other art forms) enabled by present day technologies and cultural interests. It also uses this path into the creative world to cover most of the present day struggles with copyright and notions of ownership of “intellectual property.” Although Rip addresses a wide-range of topics and ground, one of the points it drives home better than anything is the notion of remixing and mashups as art-form (or Read more […]

Radiohead and Co. Help the Industry Catch Up

J C — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:07:28 +0000

Lots of news lately about Radiohead offering its newest album as a download (choose your own price). Saul Williams and Trent Reznor decided to do the same with their new album. They’ve made a lot of headlines, though Issa (Jane Siberry) has offered self-determined pricing for her music for some time. We’ve been offering our music online in download options of free or purchasable as high quality MP3/Ogg formats or physical CD for the last five years. I’m sure many other artists have offered their Read more […]

Mighty Radio of Halifax

J C — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:33:59 +0000

UnKindness Of Ravens recently may have been heard by way of CKDU 88.1 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ron Bates’s The Threat is an “eclectic show of noise, jazz, indie rock, and other avant garde weirdness,” which presented (among exciting bits of thumb-piano joy from Konono No.1 and well-placed rock) some UKOR too. Fortunately for those who missed it, there is a podcast (episode 35 from 19 Aug 2006). It’s not just back-scratching that I’m recommending downloading the The Threat podcast (more like skin Read more […]

Unconditional Love

J C — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:16:21 +0000

Adam Gould’s aesthetic marries mesmer with manacles of a definite love sort. This is some fine video experimentation set to Gould’s own creative mix of UKOR’s “Softs” and “Backwards Cereberal Heartbeat.” Watch it courtesy of the Internet Archive. Cheers Adam. Read more […]

Pause Death

J C — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 16:48:53 +0000

UnKindness Of Ravens is slow but alive and well. Read more […]

Persephonian Thoughts Video-Film

Michael Keigher — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:21:57 +0000

Relieve your pressing need for Spring with the noise of myth on a Ukorian stride. Mike Keigher offers his UnKindness Of Ravens video-film (50MB) of Persephonian Thoughts, which is the tenth track of the Obsidian Smoke Rings album. Please note, the video is in MPEG format, which will play on just about any media player on any computer. Read more […]

Obsidian Smoke Rings Album

J C — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:28:41 +0000

- Purchase the compact disc of Obsidian Smoke Rings. – Purchase the MP3 package of Obsidian Smoke Rings, encoded in a high-quality, 320 kbps bitrate (instant download from Lulu.com includes liner notes and artwork — about 130MB).* – Compare Formats In addition, the links below will allow you to download, at no-cost, individual 128 kbps tracks as Ogg or MP3 files from the Internet Archive’s Open Source Audio collection. La Fée Verte Backwards Cerebral Heartbeat Time as a Pleasant Suicide Pink Read more […]

From the Mess of Our Orgiastic Heavens:

J C — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:10:30 +0000

Splinter me out the jewel of a juicy black lime, lime, lime… (as it echoes off) this eruption came–brought us running, red-footed, across a molten earth, which bloomed in motion. We could see the pregnant future and drank to our loosening legs. We could youtheneyes our impulses and telekinized the seedling smokes hovering above our homes. We could architect monuments to melt back into their molten beginnings. After all, we vibrated a circle which revealed itself. A new year swelled the Ukorian Read more […]

Cover & CD Art from Obsidian Smoke Rings

J C — Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:50:33 +0000

Cover Art:

Compact Disc:

Photo Collage of the Group

J C — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 23:35:38 +0000

Ensemble:

UKOR Ringtone!

J C — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:57:35 +0000

Unkindness Of Ravens musical aspirations transcend normalcy once again, even cell phones will bleed with aural anarchy! Disgusted by the sickly sweet ringtones that came preset into my cellphone, I sought out to find a new one… my mission ended very near to where it began: in a sea of bubble gum pop designed for a yuppie world. I use a cell phone as you may have deduced, and I am embarrassed using this technology, largely due to the ringtones. I decided to compose my own! The motivation for Read more […]

Drink Friends Drink

Joshua Chalifour & Andrew Ehrhardt — Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:32:31 +0000

Drink friends, drink, and friends let’s drink again. The bottle will be empty, But not before the end. I’ve traveled near and far, and now I’m back to stay, Had enough travelin’, enough of the wanderin’ way. I saw the stars o’er Mexico, ’neath her thighs spread wide. She said, “Stay!”, Lord I had to go, Though in her belly grew my pride. Drink friends, drink, and friends let’s drink again, the bottle will be empty, but not until the end. Waking somewhere in the East, I couldn’t Read more […]