There is a site aptly named The Canal Sessions and it is a project by producer Maarten Besseling and music journalist Matthijs van der Ven who both live in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Their most recent offering includes of one of my favorite musicians, Damien Jurado.
Damienwas an artist before he was ever a musician and didn't learn to play guitar until he was 20 when he began by making homemade...
Tord Boontje was born in The Netherlands. He studied industrial design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven from 1986 to 1991 and received a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art, London (1994). In 2005, Boontje moved from London to Bourg-Argental, France, where Studio Tord Boontjeis now located. I've been intrigued by his work since the first time I found it and we're currently shopping...
