david bowie's peter & the wolf

Still right in the middle of winter, this is sort of perfect for a rainy day inside: David Bowie narrates Peter & the Wolf. We've been looking at all the instruments. I love the kettle drums! And the oboe. The piece is in several parts. It's not very well organized on youtube — see here to find them in order.

y.n. rich kids

(I didn't post yesterday because I set this blog up on my web site. I will still post here for awhile.)

You can buy this track for $1.  Watch it after the jump — 

La lune est libre

La
La lune est libre je crois
qui rayonne au-dessous
rayonne au-d'sus des toits.

La lune est libre,
bien plus qu'on ne le croit
elle fluctue de ça et là,
les parties qu'on ne voit pas,
c'est pas grave ça reviendra
et quand elle est plongée
dans la froide obscurité,
donne l'impression qu'elle se noie,
bien vite reprend pied,
avec ses apparences instables
y en a qu'elle fait douter
bien plus fidèle qu'on ne le croit,
La lune est libre.
—Stereolab

(image pinned via shadesofscarlet)

Cowbell

You can find our first collection of songs to download from the series here.

The books from our series which come with CDs of amazing original music (for which Judith and I do not take any credit): Sunny, Snowy & Chinook and Foggy, will soon be sold out and the next print run won't come with CDs, so we are putting them up for you to download for free.

This is a collection of music produced by cowbell (Brady Cranfield), who is also my lovely husband. We are very grateful to him and to everyone who contributed music to the books. These songs feature lyrics and vocals by Miko Hoffman, Larissa Loyva, Nicholas Krgovich, Dan Bejar, Kathy Slade, and Chris Harris.

We'll try to put up the full CDs soon with some artwork from the books, we're just quite, extremely busy so it may take a little time.

Sun Songs

Ah, I meant to post this ages ago!

The fabulous Brady Cranfield & Kathy Slade put out a beautiful album called Sun Songs. It is all covers of songs about the sun. It's catchy! The beautiful design is by Christoph Keller. There are two of the beautiful songs from this album for you to listen to, with links below.

Brady, who goes by Cowbell sometimes, put together the CDs for Sunny, Kathy sang on the Snowy and Chinook song Snow. Also featured on these songs are Larissa Loyva, Chris Harris, John Collins and Rodney Graham. Larissa has sung some beautiful songs for us before, including The Gift that Grows on the Snowy & Chinook CD. Chris is a very talented guitarist and singer and gave us a song called Friends on the Foggy soundtrack (we're working on making it available soon).

I'll be putting up more music from the Windy books over the summer, but in the meantime here is the perfect song for summer by Cranfield & Slade: Sun. It sounds like driving somewhere breezy on a hot summer's day and it is a song the whole family will want to dance to.

We're also putting up Walking in the Sun because it's just so beautiful, makes you feel hopeful and squeezes your heart in just the right way.