I was pleased to hear from another old friend of Ball of Wax recently: Darryl Blood – who lately has been focusing more on visual art than music – sent me a new video he just posted on Vimeo: It’s a simple, one-camera, one-take shot of him playing his song “Stubborn Will” into a bathroom mirror. (So, no, he’s not left-handed.) I find it to be a refreshing change of pace from the frenetic editing and “let’s do a bunch of wacky shit and get huge on the Youtubes” approach of so many videos today – and the song’s good, too.
In other Darryl Blood news, his most recent solo album, the lushly produced Making All Things New, is available as a free download over at Bandcamp. I highly recommend you download it, or if you’re feeling really picky you can go over and stream it first.