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What beautiful sounds and art...I will have to consider at length about this.

I am not very visually artistic...more of a number bot myself...I deal in tangibles.

Music pulls something differently from me then images...though I wish it were so.

Maybe that is why I have such a hard time communicating what it is that I like about music...maybe that is why it seems to come easier to others. Hummm. Something to ponder.

Thankies, Lizzieness! :) Isn't she great? And trust me, those pictures don't do her work justice.... Here's to the moments of magic that make our lives & mornings better!

I'm glad the music and art gave you some delicious food for thought, Annie.

I, too, sometimes have a hard time describing what I like about a song {which is why you e-see me rambling here often hehe}. I guess what matters is that we feel it. It's just one of those things that we can't describe accurately to others, but that only makes it more precious to us :)

In my head every image, and every memory has a song.

Anna, I do believe you are getting soft in your old age..i like you anyway. :-)

Bite me! {better? ahahhaahha}

Awww....much better!

hahaha...loved the song though

I think you can tell from my album reviews that I often get visual images from songs...but as for art/music crossovers, I think this guy has brought one of my favourites to life:

Also, it's hard to listen to The Smiths without LS Lowry coming to mind...

I agree. You're getting soft. I, on the other hand, don't like you any better because of it. ;)

You know you missed my bite meS, B :*

Yup yup, Joxy. Your last review was full of that :) I'll have to agree with your images-songs there, well spotted.... Which song reminds you of a pic nick in the English countryside? :)

hahahah Troy Troy Troy! My fangs are being polished. I really shouldn't post without them....

No, you shouldn't. Not when you know I'm lurking. ;)

A picnic, you say...

I'll be a good fangette {it's a word!}, tomorrow, Panther, promise ;)

You know, Joxy, I knew all along that you'd be the one to organize the ideal picnic....

Much liking Rebecca's images, Especially the Cyrano poster. I've always enjoyed that play, maybe my favorite Shakespeare.

The music I love doesn't so much always produce images in my head (although sometimes it does), but usually generates feelings that penetrate me to my core. Those feelings tend to be hard to describe to others, though, which makes it harder to describe other than "You REALLY need to hear this" and hope the other person feels the same.

wonderful artwork! its very unique. goes with pw's music indeed.

Hmm, quite the idea. I agree that your two artists go two-gether A. I love Joxley's too - never saw the connection until I, um, saw it.

hey Anna- lovely thought....I am always very visual w my music as well... you can tell he's got such a strong creative eye...but I more associate him cinematographic glitter and fantasy- like Baz Lurman et all....? Patrick Wolf is a phenom....u excited for his new stuff?

yeah , images and music are hand in hand ...nice work here A. very nice indeed..I love story tellers as well... as every good artist and musician should have at least a few...

I like that artwork and never heart of Dautremer before. And I like the song a lot, bud sadly only until he begins to sing ... then the magic is over for me. Very close to industrial until then. But I guess, that's due to the fact that I prefer very often and therefore are more acquainted to purely instrumental music. Most often a human voice will destroy abstraction for me, unless the voice is distorted in some way, like in an abstract paiting involving "distorted" accounts of humans like it is common in mondern arts. But as said, I guess this is a very personal standpoint due to my "distorted" music influence ;). Many of the shown pictures of Dautremer remind me of this

General Elektriks - Le Carousel Cosmique

Glad you like her dreamy art, dearest bro. Your "You REALLY need to hear this" got you the title of the biggest EMCD alive! I dread to think what would happen if you could always describe the feelings music evokes in you! :*

Sam, I'm chuffed you think so. Cheers, you arty artist you :)

Thanks, Michelle :) Rothko and Coltrane? Quite an inspired connection, methinks! How lovely would it be if our art pairings could come true...

Faith-Ann, that surely is another side of his {goes to show the depth of his creativity}; I'm sure he'd have a splendid time at Moulin Rouge!. Maybe Rebecca can "place" him there. Now that would be a superb treat. Superhumanly excited, with extra glitter on top :)

Thank you very much, dear C! And I couldn't agree more; story tellers are my favourite kind of people :) {howdy! hehe}

Hermes, for a moment there you scared me to death; I thought you'd say that his voice in particular is unbearable to your ears hehe What you say is totally understandable. I'm not very into instrumental music, but reading what you wrote here makes me realize that it's mostly 'cause my mind was searching something to focus on {the vocals, since that's what I'm accustomed to}, instead of diving into the abstraction. I adore the tune you posted here. "Distorted" carousel {and maybe oldish circus' & music boxes'?} sounds are a soft spot of mine. And this one goes so well with Rebecca's work. Thank you so.

howdy! ( lifts corner of cowboy hat ) hehehe

I tend to agree with Hermes. Instrumental music will bring images to mind much more easily. Lyrics are of the realm of intellect, analysis of the message that the author is trying to convey. I loved the art. Very nicely composed. In many of the pictures you find the leitmotiv of characters controlled by cables and pulleys. Joxley's combination of Arcade Fire and Eisenstein crescendoed and carried meaning. Great post, Anna!

I've always thought that the music of Yes was perfectly complimented by the album art of Roger Dean. He's been sort of typecast as this sort of wierd sci-fi art kind of guy, but he's just a guy with very different visions in his head.

Not many people know this, but he's also an architect:

(Weird architecture, to be sure, but still fully functional and lived in!)

Groon: I'd heard of Dean, but not that he was an architect. That house is really groovy, I'd actually love to live in a place like that. It's like a hobbit house on steroids!

This must be the most intense experience of synesthesia I've ever heard of. Very impressive.

If you'll allow me my two cents, Rébecca Dautremer is a wonderful artist who illustrated a very poetic children's book by Christine Beigel called "Je suis petite mais... mon arbre est grand" or "I am small but...my tree is big" on what it means to be a leaf on a branch of your family tree. Her surname Dautremer is quite lyrical too as it means "oversea" in French.

Now you might also enjoy Shaun Tan's work.

That is such a cool image . . .

Michelle: that house is indeed way cool. If you search around online you can find pictures from inside it. It's so wierd, everything is rounded. I don't think there's a straight line or a corner in the whole place!

Bartleby: Sorry to correct you (that's the former teacher in me) but"Oversea" would be "Doutremer". "Dautremer" would translate by "from another sea". Maybe even more lyrical.

Thanks for the correction, levek. I was a bit a bit carried away by the connotation in Rébecca Dautremer's surname.

The Tan image is very twee, I love it.

Can anyone hook me up with a link to any books with images by either Tan or Dautremer?

Hey Mk, here's a link to Rébecca's Dautremer' biography (in French): http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/biblioauteur.asp?id=364

As far as I know, she hasn't published anything in English yet. Here are some links in English: http://www.frenchbooknews.com/detail.php?categorie_livre=Livre_anglais&livre_id=151 http://cruststation.wordpress.com/2006/03/20/rebecca-dautremer-french-illustrator/

Shau Tan is an Australian artist/author, his website is full of invention: http://www.shauntan.net/ Here's another one on his major book "The Red Tree": http://lexcorpninja.vox.com/library/post/shaun-tan.html

Lovely pics! It'd be cool if she could animate a video for Patrick or something. Doubtful, but I would love it if Patrick's next video was a high budget, artistic one!

That's an interesting perspective, Rejean. I guess my mind is accustomed to connecting lyrics to images, that it doesn't find it hard to do so. I could stare at Rebecca's images for hours and make up fairy tales. Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

That's so true, Groon! And I, too, like the house. I'd love to live in a house or apartment that is all rounded and has no edges.......

Awww Mike, you made me blush a little bit :) Thank you very much for your cents {they are really pounds}, I had no idea, and for the introduction of the lovely Shaun Tan.

I know there are publications of 2 books Rebecca illustrated in Greek, so there might be English ones as well? Not sure where tho.

Cheers milkshake! Patrick started his own record label recently. Can't wait to see what will come from it, music and video wise :)

When I think of different types of art entwine, I also always think of our own has: http://mog.com/has