Bonobo: Two Step with a Refined Twist 11:23 PM

Bonobo - The Keeper featuring Andreya Triana from Ninja Tune on Vimeo.


London's Bonobo will be releasing Black Sands, his 4th studio album, on March 23rd  and if the early releases ("The Keeper" and "Eyesdown") are any indication it will prove to be one of the more musically vast records in recent memory. In the past, Bonobo's work shows fluidity and knowledge on a range of instruments, particularly drums and strings, and the end product is something like a dusty remnant of two-step with vibes that are equal parts classical and r & b.  The press team for Bonobo (aka Simon Green) has dubbed the forthcoming project the "most contemporary record he has ever made", which leaves me incredibly curious as to just how Bonobo shaped the feel of the new project. Stay tuned for more on him!

Click here to download a preview edit of the album's single "Eyesdown". 

More: Bonobo on MySpace

The Cy Kosis Project: Pistols and Axes 9:58 PM

I'm extremely excited about this piece. I've been waiting to release it, I've put alot of effort into it. It may be my best one yet.

" COME, my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready;
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp edged axes? Pioneers! O pioneers!

For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you youths, western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you, western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O
pioneers!

Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied, over there beyond the seas?
We take up the task eternal, and the burden, and the lesson, Pioneers! O pioneers!"

- An excerpt from Walt Whitman's Pioneers! O Pioneers!

I know this poem may have been commercialized and forever deemed null, by some, due to its use in a Levi's advertisement but Whitman's words hold a weight to them I couldn't ignore. I myself see evidence of the truth in his words: growing up and watching my parent's wrongs and rights, taking notes as to what works and what doesn't. Older people always tell me their 20's were the best times of their life because they had the best balance between naïvety and wisdom. That is the whole point of The Cy Kosis Project. I have my pistol ready and my axe is sharpened, if you even remotely like dance music, you will enjoy Pistols and Axes.

Bastille - Cold As Ice (Promo Video) 2:34 PM

Our friends and collaborators Bastille (the DJ duo behind our "Let Them Eat Mixtapes" series) had a gnarley promo video created by the Beast King (aka Zach Valenti). Punto. Check it out.

The Cy Kosis Project: Hello Moon 11:00 PM

The piece Hello Moon above is the best city in the world. And to go along with it I've included a track that's so chill I listen to it on repeat when I'm doing homework. In fact I'm supposed to be doing homework right now...and I'm still listening to it. Enjoy :}

Aerosol Chronicles: Street Art Links This Week 3:30 PM

This is a post we meant to publish last week.... woops... Still relevant though.

Here are some cool street art links to check out...The first is for a 20-minute long film by Lou Auguste called "Open Air" documenting street art/graffiti culture. It's a good watch if you've got the time.

Mr. Brainwash readies a piece for his new show "Icons" {via Wooster Collective}

In his post the other day, Spudboy mentioned Banksy's new film "Exit Through the Giftshop" which is about Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash, who just happens to have a new show that just opened up in NYC. Click here for more info.

The Cy Kosis Project: Chico Nutella 2:45 PM

Chico Nutella is for all the b-boys and b-girls out there. I used to break dance but I've broken too many tendons to keep up with it. That doesn't mean I still don't have love for it. It takes a while to build up and it climaxes nicely towards the end. This track was alot of fun to make and to dance to and is one of my favorites.

The art piece is actually a digitally re-done piece I did in charcoal, oil pastel, and Prismacolor marker called "Time." The circles are meant to reflect the cyclical nature of time, as opposed to its linear assumption. And the different sizes echo the different units of measurement: the second, the minute, the hour...

The Cy Kosis Project: The Dopeness 9:18 PM

Straight Dopeness. Tell me what you guys think!

Photo by Tone - "More Random Stuff: Los Angeles" 1:59 PM

Photo by Tone has posted up a great new collection of shots from his recent trip to Los Angeles. Tone has always impressed me with the subjects he chooses to shoot, the color palettes that come out in his photos and the interesting angles/perspectives that he uses -- this album doesn't disappoint. Check out the rest of the images here: Photo by Tone - More Random Stuff.

Aerosol Chronicles: Lovely Linkage 1:51 PM

The world, it appears, continues to exist whether or not I choose to open my computer for a day. But just as the US Postal Service promises to deliver regardless of weather, so too will artists deliver regardless of audience -- and both will do so with shockingly little regard for the timing of said delivery. Here are some great art-world links to check out...

The above image was found over at Wooster Collective, and by the looks of it the artist known simply as "Love Me" went real hard in Los Angeles recently.

Here's a preview for the upcoming documentary about 80's phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat whose truly non-traditional style earned him star-like infamy before his untimely death.




Below you will find a short documentary on the artist Calma. This is the story of an artist becoming truly embedded in a locality, being welcomed into that locality, and interpreting the history, culture and folklore of that locality. Calma, whose work is now on show in the Jonathan Levine gallery, used art to understand time and place, he took communal memories (some of them painful) and, without making light of their gravity and importance, made them beautiful.



TEMPORAL : The Art of Stephan Doitschinoff (aka Calma) from Jonathan LeVine Gallery on Vimeo.