I often think about this picture of Rihanna and of the way she was beaten.  It looks so painful that you can understand what she must have gone through to get there.   It always blows me away when others say they can’t imagine how it is to have been abused when most get abused or in fact, abuse themselves daily.  In my experience once you have been hurt, you see the world in an entirely different way. It’s almost a combination of sadness, strength and bright white light that blurs and clears through like a rain storm.  It becomes mind numbing, chaotic and takes so much to get through.  However as important as it is to let others know their not alone, it’s even more of a realization for others to learn to not be quiet.  The impact of this feeling could change the world if someone could just understand how to acknowledge it and wake up.  It’s taken so long to mention that this is real.

HE HIT ME (It Felt Like A Kiss)

He hit me and it felt like a kiss.   He hit me but it didn’t hurt me.
He couldn’t stand to hear me say that I’d been with someone new,
and when I told him I had been untrue, he hit me and it felt like a kiss.
He hit me and I knew he loved me.  If he didn’t care for me,
I could have never made him mad but he hit me, and I was glad.
Yes, he hit me and it felt like a kiss.  He hit me and I knew I loved him.
And then he took me in his arms with all the tenderness there is,
and when he kissed me, he made me his.

ORIGINAL

The Crystals (1962)

COVERS

The Motels (1982)
Hole (1995)
Grizzly Bear (2007) ***
Spiritualized (2005)

“Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote the song “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)” for The Crystals (under the guidance of Phil Spector) after discovering that singer Little Eva, known for the Locomotion, was being regularly beaten by her boyfriend. When they inquired why she tolerated such treatment, Little Eva replied, with complete sincerity, that her boyfriend’s actions were motivated by his love for her.” – Wiki

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“Run your fingers through my soul.
For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel,
believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive,
look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.”

I M A G E ♥ Vild

L I S T E N ♥ I Believe by Simian Mobile Disco [2007]

BEAT RADIO by Brian Sendrowitz

Thanks for giving me this space to share my experience. It’s a dangerous proposition–I’ve got so much to say.  I’m like a roman candle.  This digital age is where I belong. I’m really excited to have the chance to share this new record with people.  It wasn’t an easy one for me to make. Some people approach music in a casual way. I enjoy records that don’t take themselves too seriously, but for me it’s not that way. I always feel like I’m fighting for my life.

Beat Radio has always been an evolving thing, with band members coming and going as our lives and music changed.  About a year ago the band sort of imploded and I found myself making music alone for the first time in a while.  My wife Liz and I were also going through lots of changes; finding ourselves with a young growing family and dreams we still needed to pursue.  Some of these songs are sort of like love letters to her. We’ve always supported each other in our creative endeavors, but in the last year we’ve learned how to do it a bit more completely– more fiercely and courageously.  Her favorite song on the record is “Follow You Around”.  It’s about getting lost and finding your way back home.

I hope you enjoy the album.  It was my first time recording and producing on my own.  I kind of learned as I went along.  I’d come down to the basement each night after Liz and our boys went to sleep and do weird tape experiments or download samples of strange old synthesizers and field recordings.  I brought some friends in to help out after i’d gotten the basic tracks together, which helped alot. More than anything, it’s an album about how music can be a form of escape, transcendence, and joy.  It’s about getting lost in the sound.

Safe Inside The Sound is available as a free digital download and limited edition cd at beatradio.org. It’s also available to stream/download at bandcamp.

I love how this website connects different art forms and embodies a unique vision and experience.  Here are some things I’m currently enamored with:

Robert Frank’s Photography

I’ve been interested in Robert Frank‘s work for a while now–particularly from the mid 50′s although he did some amazing stuff later on, including the album cover of my favorite Rolling Stones record.  I first discovered him because Jack Kerouac wrote the intro to his most famous collection The Americans. Kerouac’s my favorite writer.  I’m fascinated by the whole time period really, and Frank captured it in such a beautiful and powerful way.  There’s an exhibit on his work going on now at the Met.  I’m hoping i can go check it out soon. You can view more of his pictures here.

Mad Men

Me and Liz, that’s our thing-stay in on Sunday nights, drink some wine and watch Mad Men. I probably would have finished the Beat Radio album sooner but we started getting caught up on season 1 and 2 last spring watching it on demand.  In some ways we relate to Don and Betty I think.  We live out in the suburbs. I take the train to the city every day while she’s home with the kids. I know everyone is already talking about this show, but I’ve never been so into a television show in my life. I talk about it with my friends the way I’d talk about great fiction. It’s brilliant.

Where the Wild Things Are

Another pop culture thing everyone is talking about, but we’ve got a really deep connection it.  My boys have always been really big Maurice Sendak fans.  We also really love “In the Night Kitchen” and “Brundibar.”  They’re strange books, but I’ve sort of got strange kids.  I always found the language in them really striking–it’s dreamy and emotional and also really musical and playful in a quirky sort of way.  It makes me feel like a kid.  My 4 year old son Elijah and I are particularly excited about the movie.  We’ve got this routine where we read the book before bedtime and then we watch the movie trailer on my blackberry.  He knows every word to that Arcade Fire song.  You should hear him sing it, it’s beautiful.

The Diggs

I’ll leave out talking about music this time around because I feel like all I ever do is ramble on and on about music.  I will mention my friends The Diggs though, because they’re probably my favorite band.

Here’s an amazing song from their first record:

The Diggs – Faith in Strangers (mp3)

Also, I have a blog and twitter account where I talk about music alot.  I did a blog post last spring on my top ten favorite records of all time here, if you’d like to subject yourself to a whole lot more of my rambling.

2008 saw Britain’s fast-developing craze toward London’s “new folk revival”. A ‘scene’ that supposedly brought the general British public, and folk music closer together. Bands and artists, such as Noah and the Whale, Jay Jay Pistolet, and perhaps most famously, Laura Marling, delivered acoustic songs that, not only received recognition and respect amongst music magazines, but also amongst a public usually obsessed with Akon and Girls Aloud. In truth, the “new folk revival” was nothing more than a bland imitation of Americana and indie-pop, delivered with the admirable force, of a close-knit London scene.

Throughout 2008 and early 2009, Mumford & Sons released a triplet of E.P.’s that progressed their style, and sound. Opting against a rushed album, that could have fallen prey to pigeonholing alongside last year’s bands of the minute, Mumford & Sons took the time with their debut “Sigh No More.” The twelve-track full length combines bluegrass and folk, with a rhetoric that reflects the band’s religious beliefs.

Mumford & Sons arrange folk like no British counterpart has done for a long time; bluesy soloing, and orchestral climaxes that leave you breathless and in a state of euphoria. They are ambitious in their arrangement; the dynamics between, their twee storytelling verses, catchy pop choruses, quiet middle eights, and explosive, towering crescendos, are closer to post-punk or grunge, than they are to folk.

“Sigh No More” shows a breadth of the band’s experience; they compliment their darker lyricism (“After the Storm”, “Little Lion Man”, “I Gave You All”), with the uplifting moments of pop sensibility (“The Cave”, “Winter Winds”) that create, in part an unnerving experience. Melancholia and ecstasy are substituted with one another superlatively, and the sound that transcends is warming, evocative, and inspiring.

“Sigh No More” has already been criticised as a latecomer, to a cut and paste genre of generics, and mediocrity. Yet it is in this late-coming that the band refined their sound and message (for as a folk band, a message is preferential), and this has worked incredulously well in their favour. Mumford & Sons have created the most accomplished LP, from all acts in the tabloid-entitled revival; perhaps it is fitting that frontman Marcus Mumford asks us to “awake [his] soul”, for his band has truly awakened a movement that, until this point lacked any lasting substance.

Winter Winds

My full column is coming tomorrow evening, but first I thought I’d do an extra blog this morning.

This track has, for me at least, been an awfully long time coming. Dot Allison, who has collaborated with Death in Vegas, Massive Attack, and fronted early 90s band One Dove, was on stage at one of my first ever concerts. Joining Babyshambles on tour in 2005, Peter Doherty and Dot Allison let the band leave, as they performed a series of duets. One was this original, penned, “I Wanna Break Your Heart”.

The melancholy, lo-fi, DIY affair combines Allison’s beautiful but unnerving vocal, and Doherty’s ramshackle acoustic guitar playing; a truly beautiful song that only last month was officially released.

Just thought I’d share, in lead up to my regular column tomorrow.

Dot Allison ft. Peter Doherty – I Wanna Break Your Heart

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My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
-John Lennon-

On October 9, 1940, John Winston Ono Lennon was born.  Today marks his 69th birthday!   Not only was John Lennon an amazing English rock musician, he was a confident peace activist, poetic singer-songwriter, and unbiased author.  Unfortunately on December 8, 1980, he was murdered in front of his NYC home and a great sadness came over the world as we lost one of the greatest icons of our lifetime.

L I S T E N

Jealous Guy (1971)
Beautiful Boy (1980)

In honor of Lennon, I named my kitten after him.

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It’s painful the amount of psychoanalyzing it takes to have an ideal of perfection for everything wished to be created.  Sometimes being told that nothing was meant to ever be perfect, and reassured that trying the best you can, really is all that is necessary to know.

I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to
step aside
and weep like a widow
to feel inspired to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral of our divinity
and still be a human.

Listen :: Tool – Lateralus
[Lateralus, 2001]

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