New Hilang Child Video

We stole all the praise

We laughed at the old ways

And tomorrow we ride

Tomorrow we all hold on to life

Waste it all

We hid from the jeers

We gained all the long years

And were told it's the life

Told we would all grow up to die

Waste it all

The rest stayed the same

And crawled into old age

And they almost survived

Almost got all of us to lie

Waste it all

Tomorrow we ride

Tomorrow we all grow up to die

Waste it all

Hilang Child

I didn't make it to the Atlanta Jazz Festival in Piedmont Park yesterday, even though I really wanted to hear Bill Frissell and Ahmad Jamal.  The only rain of the weekend, and a thunderstorm at that, blew through Georgia just as I was about to leave home for the park, and it was enough to discourage me.

Instead, after spending the morning downloading Hundred Waters, I spent the time I would otherwise have been at the Jazz Festival with Lotus Plaza's Spooky Action At A Distance, listening to a few KEXP podcasts, and exploring the Dead Can Dance box set, 1981-1998. 

Hilang Child

The new song, The Garth Waterman, by the best new artist of 2014 can be downloaded for free here.  

Daytrotter

Do you Daytrotter?  If so, you might have noticed that yesterday included sessions by Hilang Child, the best new artist of 2014, and Atlanta favorites Mood Rings.  Both sets are worth checking out and giving a listen to, even if you're not a member.

On an unrelated note, RIP Pete Seeger.

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Inti Rowland

I could sum up 100% of what I know about Inti Rowland in two sentences:

1.  He's opening for Hilang Child in London next week.

2.  He's one of the people in this video, probably not the woman on violin.

It's pretty sweet music, though.  Check it out.

Best New Artist of 2014

You heard it here first: London's Hilang Child will be your favorite new artist of 2014.  The video for his song Chaturanga has been released, and while it wasn't at all what I had expected, I have to admit it fits the song damn near perfectly.

Here's hoping that 2014 includes a U.S. tour for Hilang Child, hopefully with a stop in Atlanta.

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Two new songs from Hilang Child, who will be your favorite musician of 2014.

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Geneticists argue about the influence of the so-called explorer gene, a mutant strand of DNA present in 20 percent of the global population. The gene is linked to traits of curiosity and restlessness, and found more frequently in societies with histories of long migration. Likewise, anthropologists divide personality types into neophobes (those who fear novelty), neophiles (those who seek it) and neophiliacs (those who are addicted to it). Every day, it seems, we’re discovering new ways humans are hardwired to engage in novelty—to seek out the new, whatever the cost.

Debut: Hilang Child

Hilang Child is British drummer Ed Riman, a touring member of Midnight Beats and Garnet's Home.  His First Writings EP is available for free on Bandcamp at http://hilangchild.bandcamp.com/   For a taste, here's the opening track, the gentle and soothing Chaturanga.