Pocketknife

Pocketknife is from Brooklyn, New York, but it seems like he would be more at home down south somewhere. More of a remix than a mashup, Pocketknife’s re-working of Arthur Russel’s “She’s The Star” is a folksy, bluesy number that is just plain easy to listen to. This is the kind of music that should be called ‘Easy Listening.’ Head over to his myspace HERE to listen to some other great folksy remixes.

Arthur Russell – She’s The Star (Pocketknife’s Continual Cornfield Remix)

Comments

[davi waldergarten]

The Arthur Russell (& isn't that from World of Echo? I can't find the credit for it) and the Beirut & Suicide (Beirut Suicide sounds like a rare thing, a speed-metal band with a political bent) just kind of play simultaneously...

OK... NOW it's only playing the gumboots stomp track with Russell and NOT the other two... Maybe my media player has a bug. Hold up, yo.

Nope, it comes it about the 4:10 mark. WTF?

OK, gots to turn that off...Oh, f&&k me. It's your myspace sample.

I take Russell's work fairly seriously - maybe moreso than Giorgio Moroder's, in some respects, given what they are known for and what else they were capable of. I don't really get the sense that you were...Is that Blonde Redhead sneaking in, or SigurRos?
That was really distracting - and only good in parts, seemingly by accident. Now I get it...
I used to play with found sounds plus prefab music when I worked in college radio, but this would have been asking a lot of my audience.

Regards,
Davi.

PS - I took up learning the cello after hearing Arthur Russell and Tom Cora (separately) on a friend's radio show.