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Monday, March 24, 2008
Before the beginning of this year, I had barely heard of Kelley Polar or his music. Toward the end of '07, I ran across one of his songs and checked out his debut album, Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens. I was hooked in short order. Color me exultant when I learned a new album would be coming out just as ...
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kelley polar, michael jackson, video
Monday, February 11, 2008
Is that not a magnificent album cover? It's almost worth picking up Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens just to have that, especially if were available on vinyl, which sadly it is not. The image is a generally well-regarded photo of the Eagle Nebula, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. It's a striking visual, but more notably, its use here is ...
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kelley polar, michael jackson, the postal service
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
A short seven months after the release of his debut record, Diplomatic Immunity, the unfathomable intergalactic negotiator and groove machine has returned with a most urgent message. You see, The Phantasmal Farm is in danger and in need of saving. The pull of the 8th Dimension has that place of transcendental epiphanies in its grasp and only you, yes you!, can save it.
The Polish Ambassador implores ...
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download, the polish ambassador
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
From the album Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating through space (1997).
Composed in "round" format, where each sung line overlaps another in a recursive way, Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating through space is a science and technology-era mantra, a chant to the lords of pharmaceutically-inspired altered states and a wistful, strung-out love song.
This is seriously space out, and transcendental, trance-inducing music, but it trades ...
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spiritualized
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Anyone who's been around tunequest for a while surely knows of my fondness for The Polish Ambassador, the Earth's greatest half man, half cyborg, all electro-groovin' diplomat. Anyone who is new around here should get up to speed by reading my write-up of his debut album, Diplomatic Immunity.
After posting that review, I sent a list of questions to the Ambassador, inquiring about his species, his adventures, ...
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interview, the polish ambassador
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Air [french band]'s first album in three years, Pocket Symphony, will be released in a handful of days. In preparation for that event, I thought it would be fun to take a trip through the French band's back catalogue, starting with their earliest works, which range from the 1996 early singles to 1997's debut album Premiers Symptomes.
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Imagine it's 1969 and your thoughts are aimed toward the ...
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air [french band], lounge, video
Friday, January 5, 2007
One cold night, during the very cold December of 2000, I found myself at the original Handle Bar myspace warning in downtown Pensacola. Dilapidated doesn't even begin to describe the place, but its rundown condition gave it the perfect character to be a favored destination for the town's surprisingly robust hipster set, until it burned down in 2001. don't worry, the handle bar was rebuilt in ...
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breeders, japanic
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
From the archives: I wrote the original version of this article for a newspaper column about 5 years ago. So it reads more like a newspaper column and not so much like a the informal blogginess that's usually found around here. It's from the Records that time forgot series that I hope to revive in 2007. This version corrects a couple awkward sentences and updates the ...
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bilbo baggins, lalo schifrin, leonard nimoy, lounge, mission impossible, novelty, snoop dogg, star trek, video, william shatner
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Originally uploaded by The Polish Ambassador.
The Polish Ambassador has posted four downloadable electro-musings on intergalactic negotiation tactics.
Partake of them slowly and acclimate yourself to the Ambassador's power. Though he is on a mission of peace and synthesized grooves, these treatises are but a prelude to the all out assault that will be Diplomatic Immunity which launches December 15.
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