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First hundred posts

Celebrating the first HUNDRED posts on this blog with a new video and a peek at how some of these posts came to life (first steps, ruled out ideas, sketches, drafts...).




See the Youtube video description for more details.
By the way, you can watch the first-FIFTY-posts video here (YT) or here (Vimeo).


And now, as promised, some blog backstage stuff...
(Click on the image captions to get to the original posts.)

Bubbly says

Tattoo

Mr. Dislike got reactions

Crowding up "Settle Down"

Vows: Mars Edition

"Good Intent" (Live in Rio)

Echo and Narcissus

Posthumous fan art

Kimbraholic

Kimbra in her element

"Good Intent" pūkana

Merch fiction

Echo and Narcissus

“Halfway through recording I had this very strong dream,” says Kimbra.

“It was about these words: the golden echo. So I researched them and

 it took me to this flower called Narcissus Golden Echo.”

The discovery of the flower plunged her into the Greek myth of Narcissus,

the boy who died after becoming transfixed by his own reflection.

It also delivered her a poem with a similar message – “how to keep

 beauty from vanishing away? To give beauty back” – that took root.

(Kimbra on The Golden Echo: 'we're making a piece of history here',

 www.theguardian.com, 21 August 2014)

Last conversation between Echo and Narcissus, as recorded by P. Ovideos:

   Echo - We eat our past while we wait to be eaten by our future, future, future...
   Narcissus - Should we wait an hour after eating until swimming?

( Sorry, J. W. )

#notimeleft

Finally, an instagram-friendly version of Kimbra's Sing Sing Studios live sessions.

Easier
Shorter
Farther
Faster

No time left to listen to your songs
Let's speed them up or get them chopped
to fit them on our fifteen-second flying trays
(Could you just make your tunes 15 seconds long?)

Easier
Faster
Farther
Shorter

No time left to read your lyrics
Let's shorten them to 140 characters
so that they can stay in our wee shelves
(Please keep it all small to make room for our hashtags)

Easier
Shorter
Faster
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Exclusive: The lyrics of the songs performed by Kimbra at the Sing Sing Studios in a tweet:

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Tattoo

- Making new marks on old territories

- The Dark Nights of The Soul > Part 4

Waltz me to the pyramid

(WARNING: Archaeo-music fiction post!)

inspiration

According to some archaeologists, this is the first known live performance of the song "Waltz Me To The Grave". Kimb-Ra met The Thebes Pro Mourners to sing an a capella rendition of the song at a funeral cortege around 1300 BC. As depicted in the image above, she was preceded by Rodgers of the Nile -who had played the guitar part on the original studio version-. The lyrics of the song were slightly different in those days:

The Ay-oh-whey-oh's scattered throughout the verses were clearly a nod to The Bangles' "Walk Like An Egyptian".

Until recently, it was believed that "Waltz Me To The Grave" was performed live for the first time by Kimbra at The Observatory North Park (San Diego, California) on April 2015.

• San Diego video.
• The next day at El Rey Theater (L.A.).

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.