Frank Chimero: Eleven Albums for 2011

This will restore your faith in music:

http://www.rdio.com/people/frank/playlists/424381/%E2%98%85_2011_Shortlist/

http://www.rdio.com/#/people/frank/playlists/381948/★_2011_Tracks/

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Here are the albums released in 2011 I found myself enjoying the most. There are embedded songs through-out, so if you can’t see, click here.

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges

I found myself totally flabbergasted by this. One dude, one saxophone, and three strategically placed…

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Saw the whole thing at #brooklynbeta. You need to watch this. girlwalkallday: When we launched our official trailer in October, we announced that we’d be releasing our film chapter-by-chapter on Gothamist.com this winter. That time has arrived! Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 29th, Chapter 1 of Girl Walk // All Day will hit the Internet, first on Gothamist, then here on our site. We’ll continue to release one chapter at a time on Tuesdays and Fridays on Gothamist.com, throughout December and into mid-January. Once all twelve chapters have been released, we’ll put the film, in its entirety up on our site, free for you and everyone you wish to tell about it, to watch.  We thought long and hard about the best way to bring you our movie, because in reality, we want all of you to be in a big room with giant screens and loud speakers, watching and dancing together. The computer screen is hardly the best medium for this film. We considered how for many of you, it’d be tough to watch the entire of a 75-minute long film in your chair at work,  or wherever you might encounter your first bit of Girl Walk // All Day. This is a film that (we hope) makes you want to tap your feet, stand up and grab your neighbor (or co-worker’s) hand, and drop what you’re doing and start dancing. By sharing our film in chapters on a website that’s all about New York, we are giving you what we feel is the perfect amount of time to take from your lunch break to get a smile on your face. We want you to watch Chapter 1, then watch it again when Chapter 2 comes out, then watch it again when the whole film is online. We hope you’ll let us know when a dance move or character or moment in the film touches you and makes you happy, and that you’ll share our film, chapter-by-chapter, with the world. Enjoy the first chapter when it arrives tomorrow. We’re incredibly excited to be sharing it with the world and we continue to thank you for all of your support. 
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Saw the whole thing at #brooklynbeta. You need to watch this.

girlwalkallday:

When we launched our official trailer in October, we announced that we’d be releasing our film chapter-by-chapter on Gothamist.com this winter. That time has arrived! Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 29th, Chapter 1 of Girl Walk // All Day will hit the Internet, first on Gothamist, then here on our site. We’ll continue to release one chapter at a time on Tuesdays and Fridays on Gothamist.com, throughout December and into mid-January. Once all twelve chapters have been released, we’ll put the film, in its entirety up on our site, free for you and everyone you wish to tell about it, to watch. 

We thought long and hard about the best way to bring you our movie, because in reality, we want all of you to be in a big room with giant screens and loud speakers, watching and dancing together. The computer screen is hardly the best medium for this film. We considered how for many of you, it’d be tough to watch the entire of a 75-minute long film in your chair at work,  or wherever you might encounter your first bit of Girl Walk // All Day. This is a film that (we hope) makes you want to tap your feet, stand up and grab your neighbor (or co-worker’s) hand, and drop what you’re doing and start dancing.

By sharing our film in chapters on a website that’s all about New York, we are giving you what we feel is the perfect amount of time to take from your lunch break to get a smile on your face. We want you to watch Chapter 1, then watch it again when Chapter 2 comes out, then watch it again when the whole film is online. We hope you’ll let us know when a dance move or character or moment in the film touches you and makes you happy, and that you’ll share our film, chapter-by-chapter, with the world.

Enjoy the first chapter when it arrives tomorrow. We’re incredibly excited to be sharing it with the world and we continue to thank you for all of your support.