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My Parasol’s La Cabeza Del Sol (Summer Mix)‘Tis the...

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:36:26 -0400

My Parasol’s La Cabeza Del Sol (Summer Mix)

‘Tis the season for Summer Mixtapes! I don’t know if this passes as one. But there’s one thing we know for sure. These songs make us feel warm and fuzzy inside. :)

1) The Rentals - My Summer Girl

Susan: Takes me back to summer, floating aimlessly around the pool under the beating sun.

2) Ra Ra Riot - Boy (RAC Remix)
Mark: I heard this on my way home late at night. It was a sleepy drive but I remember waking up to this song and doing a little jig in the car.

3) Toro Y Moi - New Beat

Susan: Where are my patent disco shoes when I need them?

4) Matthew Dear - You Put a Smell on Me (Breakbot Remix)

Mark: Simply put, everything that Breakbot touches is gold.

5) Bibio - Pretentious

Mark: The intro sounds like an asian instrument which I felt was out of place at first. But when I heard it with the main riff, I loved it. Totally dig the vibe in Bibio’s stuff: gritty, a little unpolished, lots of character.

6) Fleet Foxes - Helplesness Blues

Susan: I love the earnest lyrics and the beautiful arrangement of this song. It’s so captivating. I could listen to this on repeat forever.

7) Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You

Susan: This song always finds its way back on my playlist. What can I say. JB, man… you know me.

8) Bjork - It’s in our hands

Susan: When I want to get there.

9) Gold Panda - Marriage (Baths Remix)

Mark: A case of a favorite artist remixed by another favorite artist. I play this song in my car endlessly. There’s something about the way Baths treated this song. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

10) Architecture in Helsinki - Contact High (Javelin Remix)

Mark: I’m big fans of both AIH’s indie pop stylings and Javelin’s Lo-fi electronic pop sampling. The original version was upbeat and bubbly but Javelin’s version took it over the top. It was love at first listen!

Download Mix Here

PS. Mix was made to share music we love. Please support the artists above when you can. If you’re music is included and want to take it down email me here.

Here’s a music video for “After Cards” by...

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:01:06 -0400

Here’s a music video for “After Cards” by LA-based film maker Jean-Pierre Caner. Footage taken from the ever generous Internet Archive. Jean-Pierre makes these stunning videos and film collages which we love. So it was really cool to work with him and hash out ideas. A good dose of do-si-doing juxtaposed by some underaged joyriding pretty much sums up everything doesn’t it? Enjoy!

"currently: making a mixtape"

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:25:30 -0400

“currently: making a mixtape”

Manhattan Beach, June 2011 by Paul James

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:49:56 -0400

Manhattan Beach, June 2011

by Paul James

Happy Birthday!

Thu, 26 May 2011 16:15:02 -0400

Happy Birthday!

Love the video guys! Good job! heimastore: Life is A Party...

Sun, 15 May 2011 12:31:38 -0400

Love the video guys! Good job!

heimastore:

Life is A Party Video!!!

Production and Styling by Heima Home and Lifestyle

Directed by Everywhere We Shoot

Music by My Parasol

www.heimastore.com

We covered this song for an awesome compilation put together by...

Fri, 13 May 2011 12:45:05 -0400

We covered this song for an awesome compilation put together by the blog, Cactus-Mouth. Bands were commissioned to choose and cover songs that were made during the late 50’s and early 60’s. Check it out! For a variety of reasons, this song took us forever to make. It was also one of those projects where we tried really hard to stick to our initial plan of making it as (relatively) minimal as possible. That was hard! We did kind of let go more towards the end of the song though. Gotta have some fun right? Hope you enjoy!

cactus-mouth:

Happy Friday the 13th!

Ok, here is the promised second half of Tears On My Pillow. It took a bit longer than expected, and some of the artists that planned on being involved weren’t able to; but it’s like they say, “all good things take time.” If you enjoyed the first half, then I’m sure you’ll like this one too. It rocks a little harder than the first one, but really who’s complaining?

Once again I’d like to give a big thanks to everyone who helped make this possible including: all the bands/artists, The Future Cat (who made the matching artwork), and Unholy Rhythms for her support on this second half. Enjoy it, everyone!

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Tears On My Pillow: Part II

1 My Parasol - “Tears On My Pillow” (Little Anthony and The Imperials)

2 School Knights - “Runaway” (Del Shannon)

3 Holytigress - “Blue Moon” (Elvis Presley)

4 Shimmering Stars (ft. Sue McClure) - “Love Is Strange” (Mickey & Sylvia)

5 High Pop - “Not a Second Time” (The Beatles)

6 Lizard Kisses - “Please Stay” (The Drifters)

7 Acid Glasses - “Tonight You Belong To Me” (Patience and Prudence)

8 SLUTEVER - “Tongue Tied” (Wanda Jackson)

9 Guitars - “Good Times” (Sam Cooke)

10 Cloud Nothings - “Johnny Get Angry” (Joanie Sommers)

11 Filardo - “Il se fait tard” (François Hardy)

12 Ba Babes - “I Can’t Control Myself” (The Troggs)

13 Kid Counselor - “Girl of the North Country” (Bob Dylan)

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Manila based super-hip Heima Store will be launching their new...

Mon, 09 May 2011 10:35:50 -0400

Manila based super-hip Heima Store will be launching their new collection soon. In line with that, they released a teaser video (music by us) as well as invites to the launch. Hope all of you folks in Manila drop by!

Hello, My Parasol! May I ask what are the chords for "Spacetalk" because it's one of my favorite songs ever and I just want to play it over and over again on my guitar! Much love! <3

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:54:42 -0400

Sure! It’s C and F over and over again ;)

Thanks for the love, Tyler! flashlightag: My Parasol- ” After...

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:54:23 -0400

Thanks for the love, Tyler!

flashlightag:

My Parasol- ” After Cards “

free day.

My Parasol sent me this summery indie-pop gem via gmail.

” After Cards ” is so incredibly sweet. It’s those little handclaps that really get me. I simply cant resist.

Download Here

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Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:43:30 -0400

<a href=”http://myparasol.bandcamp.com/track/after-cards” _mce_href=”http://myparasol.bandcamp.com/track/after-cards”>After Cards by My Parasol</a>

After Cards

A good friend of ours who founded an amazing organization called Joya Scholars recently approached us to see if we could create a song to promote their campaign. Of course we were happy to contribute. We initially didn’t know what vision we had for the song. But we knew that we just wanted to have fun and to do whatever felt right to us along the way. At the end, this song turned out to be one of the most enjoyable projects we’ve ever worked on. It was such a good exercise for us in letting go of control and letting the art breathe. Hope you guys can sense it too. Enjoy!

Music by Susanna Park and Mark Redito.

Artwork by Ian Stanley (cactus-mouth.tumblr.com)

Download song by clicking on album cover or here

Dntel remixes Enya

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:50:33 -0400

Dntel remixes Enya:

spazzkid:

Me and Susan are both fans of Dntel, an LA-based electronic musician known for his collaboration with Deathcab’s Ben Gibbard in the project known as The Postal Service. I have personally liked his pre-Postal Service stuff, where touched genres of IDM and Glitch. I also like his future-pop project Figurine.

I was really excited when I heard a track on the radio going to work. The unmistakeable Dntel style is there, but the sample were not really familiar. I later found out that the song was a Dntel Remix of Enya, and i liked it a lot! I searched online about it and found out that Dntel made an album full of Enya remixes! I just finished downloading it and cant wait to hear the whole album! You should download it too!

“I make music as Dntel, my last few releases have come out on Sub Pop. I’ve loved Enya since I was a teenager and I just finished this mini-album of remixes I did this past fall after a marathon revisiting of her records. I’m really proud of it, but unfortunately I couldn’t figure out a way to give it a legitimate release. I felt like if I tried to get it to her through any of the usual channels it would probably get shut down before it even made it to her ears. Hopefully nobody will mind it floating around, it was made with love and no money will be made off of it. I hope you enjoy it!!” – Jimmy Tamborello

How did I discover this only now? This is such a beautiful cover...

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:33:00 -0400

How did I discover this only now? This is such a beautiful cover of John Lennon’s “Real Love” by Regina Spektor. I heard this song randomly over the weekend and it has haunted me ever since. It’s so good, it just breaks me up.

-Susan

I think hearing the lyrics of this song sung clearly really made a difference for me. The Beatles version was built with Lennon’s scratchy recording and I personally find it hard to hear what he’s singing. Hearing the Regina Spektor version made me realize how beautiful the lyrics are.

- Mark

For Susan

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:21:10 -0500

For Susan

It was a rainy weekend. we were holed up and ate pizza and...

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:38:53 -0500

It was a rainy weekend. we were holed up and ate pizza and watched TV the whole day. We took photos of ourselves too! What do you guys think? Do you like? - Mark

I saw you guys at the downtown Fullerton concert with Clara C last night! I realllly liked your music. I was hoping you would stay for the meet and greet part. Where did you say I can download your music from?

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:09:46 -0500

hello hello! we were there just hanging with out friends! too bad we didnt meet each other. but yeah, feel free to download our music at http://myparasol.bandcamp.com thanks for coming out to watch us. sorry for replying so late too :(

take care!

tomorrow’s friday and i know i’m going to feel like...

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:03:25 -0500

tomorrow’s friday and i know i’m going to feel like this guy when i’m done with work and all that other jazz. cheers to tomorrow, happy (early) friday everyone!

I am so excited when I got this on my email. Our friends...

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:30:58 -0500

I am so excited when I got this on my email. Our friends Greyspeck took our photos as well as shoot a video of us (which we released a month back). We are so happy everything turned out really good. Kudos guys! - M

Light

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:41:27 -0500

Free this friday? Come join us at PAS gallery as My Parasol provides sonic ditties to the installation “Light”, by Sean Jackson. Hope to see you guys there!

FB Event page here

Last Sunday’s Show. Thanks to everybody who came out and...

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:14:00 -0500

Last Sunday’s Show. Thanks to everybody who came out and watched us! Special thanks to Music Swamp for inviting us. We had loads of fun!

Photos by Spazzkid