Blog Action Day/Talibam!
Today is Blog Action Day, a day where bloggers around the world blog about the environment.
Since, this is a music blog, I thought I’d talk a little bit about music and the environment. One thing every musician must realize is that your art, to a greater or lesser degree, does take a toll on the environment. Yes, even Phish. The most obvious is all that plastic that goes into making CDs, CDRs, vinyl records, tapes, DVDs, etc. There’s also the gas you burn touring, whether its a chartered jet to play a fashion show in Milan or just hopping in your car to play the coffee shop two towns over, it does make an impact. You burn electricity when you plug in your guitar; a tree was cut down to make that cello. Even posting an mp3 of the field recordings of penguins you made with your laptop adds some carbon to the atmosphere. Not that I have any room to talk, I’m blogging away at my power hungry desktop machine surrounded by artifacts of our oil based life. And I’ll probably drive my car to the grocery store tomorrow. Unless you’re a real ass off the grid hippie, we could all do more to reduce our footprint on the planet. It is still good to be aware of how all the little things add up, though. And small improvements are improvements nonetheless.
Which is why I’m posting about the free-noise dudes Talibam!. They are from Brooklyn, and I’ve only heard two of their releases. I am a fan of their self titled proper debut album that came out in 2005 on Evolving Ear. It was released as a CDR and came packaged in a recycled vinyl sleeve with the info pasted on a big shard of recycled vinyl. It’s a nice interesting package that reuses existing materials. Earth friendly!
Less Earth friendly is the music. Its some real scorched earth shit that is certain to scare away deer and squirrels. Here’s the untitled first track.
Talibam! - untitled 1 (from Talibam!) (Divshare link)
