Call her

"Call Me" was included in the original edition of the album "Vows", but not in the North American and European edition. Kimbra performed this song in many of her 2011 and 2012 concerts, showing that it's not only a good opening song but also an excellent closing one.
This video revisits these live performances around the world (credits in the YouTube video description):

More recently, Kimbra performed a unique live version of the song at WOMAD New Zealand festival in March 2014 (check out the video of the performance here -Murray Dick's channel-). Below, there is an artistic video for this special version of "Call Me". The intro has been taken from an earlier performance of the same song (concert at The Corner Hotel, Melbourne, April 2011; check it out here -disastertourism90 channel-).

After the climb

...you know you must be missing NZ when

 you start climbing a bottle brush tree in San Fran

 because it looks heaps like the Pohutukawa's that grow in Raglan

 & you get a sudden urge to get your adventure time on... #kiwiforlife

( kimbramusic )

When 'Kapo found that image on Kimbra's Instagram account and showed it to me, I couldn't help but wonder how it all ended up. We couldn't find any picture of what occurred next. So, I asked a number of people to send me a mental image of what they think happened. They are all members of Peyote Addicts Anonymous Syldavia. They can't be wrong.

(some hours later...)

Rooftroyer

Physics of Sound corner

We already know that sound can break a glass.
Today, we will concentrate on the concept of "rooftroyer".

Kimbra's "Come Into My Head" seismogram

• Watch Kimbra debut “Come Into My Head” at Fader Fort (SXSW 2012).

• Kimbra performs "Come Into My Head" live at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards on November 1st, 2012.

• “Come Into My Head” closing the final show of the North American leg of The Golden Echo Tour 2014, in Boston. Empress of (support act) joins Kimbra on stage at the end.

FOR DRUM LOVERS: 
(WARNING: Bad sound recording quality! Lower the volume before you watch this video...)

• Watch Stevie McQuinn in action throughout the performance of “Come Into My Head” in Washington, DC on November 8th, 2014. "That was nasty...So nasty."

Rorschach will tell you

Do you dare to take the Rorschach inkblot test?

Look carefully at every image, then select the description that best fits what you see.

a) A bat

b) A butterfly

c) A moth

d) Some old song I know

e) Condors having sex

a) Two scottie dogs

b) Two elephants

c) Two clowns

d) A mental asylum

e) Rhinoceroses having sex

a) Two men

b) Meat in a butcher shop

c) Two birds

d) Warriors wearing sneakers

e) Monkeys having sex

a) An animal skin rug

b) A pair of boots

c) A big gorilla

d) Burning dolls

e) Goats having sex

a) A bat

b) A butterfly

c) Lungs and chest

d) A two way street

e) Hares having sex

a) A fur rug

b) A totem pole

c) A turtle

d) A good intent

e) Sloths having sex

a) Heads of children

b) Two women talking

c) A map

d) A gold mine

e) Dolphins having sex

a) Two four-legged animals
b) Flowers or leaves
c) A colored coat of arms
d) A cameo lover
e) Horseshoe crabs having sex

a) Two people-witches or Santa Clauses
b) Underwater vegetation
c) An explosion
d) A golden echo
e) Sea horses having sex

a) Spider, caterpillars, crabs and insects
b) A flower garden
c) Two people
d) A miracle
e) Balinese lobsters having sex



If you chose (a), (b) or (c) for all or most of your responses, it's okay, it's fine. You are a typical conventional standard ordinary average regular normal common person.

If you chose (e) for all the images in the test, congratulations, you are a sensitive person full of love for animals and committed to animal welfare.

If  you selected (d) for all of your responses, you will love this rare footage of Kimbra mastering the tambourine when she was barely FOUR years old!

As You Are

  

• San Francisco (CA) - Oct. 20, 2014 / First live performance
• Santa Ana (CA) - Oct. 24, 2014
• Denver (CO) - Oct. 28, 2014
• Chicago (IL) - Nov. 1, 2014
• New York City (NY) - Nov. 3, 2014
• New York City (NY) - Nov. 6, 2014
• Philadelphia (PA) - Nov. 7, 2014
• Washington, D.C. - Nov. 8, 2014
• Boston (MA) - Nov. 9, 2014
• Sydney (NSW, Australia) - 20 Nov., 2014
• Performance feat. Van Dyke Parks  (Artist Journal video)
• Singapore - 12 Aug., 2015 (unplanned encore)

Posthumous fan art

(WARNING: Art fiction post!)

Mr. Escher revisited his famous "Drawing Hands" in his recent "Drawed Lips", featuring Kimbra.

Andy and Vincent joined brushes in this portrait of Kimbra for the exhibition "Colors and Voices" at the Museum of Modern Fan Art (MoMFA), New York.

Mirrors

Ben Weinman (Dillinger Escape Plan)

Ben Weiman, guest guitar
 on 'Come Into My Head'
 at Webster Hall NYC
(Oct. 20, 2012). 

...  I love people that are just the best at what they do. Typically I love all kinds of music and when I came across her, she had done the collaboration with Gotye ["Somebody That I Used to Know"], which ended up being obviously a huge smash success. But before the U.S. heard of either them, I was traveling in Australia touring and someone shared their work with me and I started going down the rabbit hole and watching YouTube videos. I got really, really into her stuff. I was like, "Wow, what she's doing is really important for pop music." There hasn't been someone like this since Björk who has really been pushing the boundaries and who was just such a musical genius and then putting it into a pop scenario. 

This wasn't somebody who had people writing songs for her. This was someone who really understood and knew exactly what she was and what she wanted. So I was really interested in her stuff and playing it for people a lot. Then I found out she was a Dillinger fan. Somehow we got connected and it turns out she'd been listening to Dillinger forever and had to four of our shows. Her band she plays with used to be in a mathcore band that was heavily influenced and they would do Dillinger covers in New Zealand. They were like the only band in New Zealand doing anything like that and that's her backing band now. 

It just kind of fell together and we started hanging out and making music together. I perform with her onstage and she's now one of my friends basically. 

(Ben Weinman: 'Guitarists Are Not Creative Anymore - They're Playing Around With Presets' − June 23, 2014)



Bilal

Bilal collaborated with Kimbra
 on the song 'Everlovin Ya' for
 her album 'The Golden Echo'.

I had worked on her last record that came out [The Golden Echo] and that was just so fun! I didn’t know she was that f*ckin’ badass! I came to the studio and she kicked the engineer out and engineered the session! She’s killin on the axe, she’s a killin’ beat producer. It was just like a female Prince! I was not expecting that. Kimbra was like my sister after that.

(Bilal Transcends Neo-Soul with ‘In Another Life’ [INTERVIEW] − June 2015)

Bilal performing his duet 'Holding It Back' with Kimbra at Highline Ballroom (New York) in July 2015. (UPDATE)

Mini Mansions

Mini Mansions at the Amoeba Music store
 in Los Angeles, on March 25, 2015.
Kimbra showed up to help with
 vocals on 'Sherlock Holmes'.

Michael Shuman:
There’s this guy Keefus [Green] and Keefus is a brilliant piano player and producer and we’d done some tracks with him, on the first songs we did that I was telling you about that was supposed to be the EP, and he started doing some Kimbra stuff . He called me one day and was like, “Oh, I’m working with this girl Kimbra”. I hadn’t heard of her before, and he’s like, “She’s a big fan of yours, you should come over and meet her”, so I went over there and we hung out and I heard her stuff which was like so crazy and watching her work was… she’s really incredible. So we became friends and when she was going to do her new record she asked us to come and write with her so we went into the studio and all four of us had a room together and came up with a bunch of songs and ‘Carolina’ is the one that ended up making the record. And yeah, that’s it and hopefully we get to do more soon, we’re still talking about finishing the other stuff one day.

(Mini Mansions on recording with Alex Turner and touring with Tame Impala − May, 2015)



Matt Bellamy (Muse)

Although Kimbra's touring guitarist Timon Martin
 did most of the guitar work on the track '90s Music',
 the "obnoxious detuned guitar part" in the pre-chorus
 (in Kimbra's words) is courtesy of The Muse frontman.

Just seeing her at work is amazing.
I thought I was good at multitasking and throwing ideas together, but she's working multitracks - 160 different tracks on a song and every one is like a strange sound effect voice that, if you hear it on its own doesn't make sense, but when you put together ... it's a crazy thing.
She really is a genius. What she's doing is cutting-edge. I couldn't believe it.

(Muse returns to its roots − June 6, 2015)



Mew

'The Night Believer'.
Kimbra features on
Mew's new album '+ -'.

That actually started because she was working on her album with Rich Costey, who we’ve worked with a lot. She used to listen to a lot of Mew when she was younger, and so she asked through him if we’d be interested in having her sing on one of our songs.
I wasn’t all too familiar with her. I obviously knew the Gotye song, which I loved; but I didn’t know her solo songs that well at that point. I was so impressed when Rich sent me over her songs – they’re so full of imagination, so inventive. It’s basically progressive pop, which is my favourite style of music if that even exists.
I knew she’d be perfect for the album and she actually ended up singing quite a bit on the album ["+ -"]. I think she ended up on about four songs away from the one she sings lead on [The Night Believer]. She sent me all these vocal tracks, and she builds and layers her vocals so brilliantly.

(Mew Talk New Album ‘+ -‘ & Working With Kimbra − April 21, 2015)

Kimbra makes special appearance at a Mew concert at Webster Hall (New York) in October 2015. More here. (UPDATE)

Big Data

Big Data performing 'The Glow'
 with Kimbra at The Troubadour,
 Los Angeles (April 30, 2015).

Oh my god, it was absolutely incredible. She’s probably the most talented person I’ve ever met before. Her brain works at such a faster pace than anyone else I know. Ideas just firing off just constantly. There were so many different cool things about working with her…we were together for two days, basically, and the way I work with everybody is I sort of come into the studio with the track written and then we work together on the melodies and the lyrics. She came in and she had already come up with tons of ideas on her own time. So that was just cool to begin with, and then after we had written all the parts on the first day, we came in on the second day and she just kind of ran the show! She was equally comfortable behind the board on ProTools and making her own edits.

The coolest thing was, she just sang the whole thing in one take! Usually when I’m writing a song with somebody we’ll go, “Let’s do the first verse! OK, that was cool, let’s try it again. OK, now let’s do the chorus, okay, cool! Let’s try that again.” With her it was like, “How do you want to do it, Kimbra?” And she was like, “Oh, I’m just going to sing the entire song.” And then she just did a flawless performance on that first time I ever really heard her sing the song ['The Glow']. That alone was a pretty magical experience. She’s just a really inspiring person – just all around.

(Interview: Big Data − March 31, 2015)


(Special thanks to Alanah for pointing out the article on Muse!)

Mr. Dislike got reactions

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"I mastered this record [The Golden Echo] and will never listen to it again; I honestly don’t feel any need to now go back. I spent so much time inside it and I gave it absolutely everything – blood, sweat and tears. Now, I feel like it's on to the next thing. That's how you stay excited and inspired. (...) That's how you continue to have momentum and also, you don't get too wrapped up in what people think. You're like, 'Oh, you don't like that? Sweet, I'm on to the next thing anyway."
 (The AU interview: Kimbra (Melbourne) on harnessing creative chaos on album #2! -May 12, 2014-)

Cheshire felines

he-cat

she-cat: 1, 2, 3, 4

At the photocall

 
Music: Arghpeggio
Lyrics and vocals: choir of photographers at 6th Annual ELLE Women In Music Celebration

Kimbra in her element

(photo)

Kimbra in her element. On stage.

This video gives a glimpse of her Spring 2015 Tour on the US west coast.
(Credits in the YouTube video description)

She wants to be Kimbra

Snow White caught dancing and lip-synching to Kimbra's tunes in an electronics store.

Since Kimbra covered "I'm Wishing", the fate of some fairy tale characters has changed...

Little Red Riding Hood's complain

UPDATE (September 2015):And then Kimbra became Snow White: "Kimbra's Wish" video.

The STIUTK Algorithm

"Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over

But had me believing it was always something that I'd done

But I don't wanna live that way

Reading into every word you say

You said that you could let it go

And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know"

"Seeing such a vulnerable, reflective and non-formulaic song shoot so high on the charts has been really encouraging" (Kimbra, quoted in "Weekly Chart Notes: Kimbra, One Direction, Rascal Flatts", May 4, 2012).

Wait a minute! Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" may be a non-formulaic song, but it seems to be algorithmic indeed...

Here it is, the STIUTK algorithm (simplified version):