Camera Obscura @ LA Lights Indiefest 20 - 21 Januari 2010

Camera Obscura is an indie pop band which formed in 1996 in Glasgow, Scotland. Currently the band consists of Tracyanne Campbell (vocals, guitar), Kenny McKeeve (guitar), Carey Lander (keyboards), Gavin Dunbar (bass) and Lee Thomson (drums).

The band was formed in 1996 by Tracyanne Campbell, John Henderson, and Gavin Dunbar and released their debut album Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi in 2001. Camera Obscura released a second album, Underachievers Please Try Harder, the following year, and in September, 2005, the band started recording their next album, named Let’s Get out of This Country, with producer Jari Haapalainen. This album was released on June 06, 2006 and appeared high up in many critical lists of the ‘best albums of 2006’.

In November 2008, the band announced that they have completed recording the follow-up to Let’s Get Out of This Country, and that the new album would be released in 2009. In February 2009, it was announced that the band had signed to the label 4AD, who released their fourth album, called My Maudlin Career, on April 20, 2009.

Tracyanne Campbell masih kurus, skrg ndut-an :P

Akhirnya salah satu band indie pop asal skotlandia favorit gw ini akan melangsungkan konsernya di Indonesia. Mereka akan menjadi pengisi pentolannya event LA Lights Indiefest selama 2 hari di Bandung dan Jogjakarta, Tapi sedikit disayangkan karena mereka hadir bukan untuk konser solo mereka, tapi tetep gak nurunin semangat gw bwt hadir memeriahkan sekaligus mendukung band-band indie lokal kita nanti.

Band yang berhasil bikin gw jatuh hati gara-gara single "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" yang merupakan lagu "balasan" dari lagu Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' song "Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?" ini hadir dalam rangka promosi album terakhir mereka yang berjudul "My Maudlin Career" yang di rilis oleh label baru mereka yaitu 4AD. Yang dimana Materi-materi lagu yang di tampilkan masih dengan ciri khas mereka dengan nada-nada chilloutnya yang paling enak didenger kalo lagi kesel di marahin dosen pembimbing (hehe).

Buat yang pengen dateng nanti ke acara LA Lights Indiefest nanti jangan lupa buat hapalin lagu-lagunya dulu biar bisa nyanyi bareng. Karena gw orangnya baik (:P) makanya gw kasih link download albumnya nih dan buat yg mau sekedar streaming juga nih.

Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken

Dan ini single mereka di album My Maudlin Career
Camera Obscura - French Navy





Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (2009)
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Wiki of The Day

The camera obscura (Latin for "dark room"; "darkened chamber") is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment, and was one of the inventions that led to photography. The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with color and perspective preserved. The image can be projected onto paper, and can then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation.

Using mirrors, as in the 18th century overhead version (illustrated in the Discovery and Origins section below), it is possible to project a right-side-up image. Another more portable type is a box with an angled mirror projecting onto tracing paper placed on the glass top, the image being upright as viewed from the back.

As a pinhole is made smaller, the image gets sharper, but the projected image becomes dimmer. With too small a pinhole the sharpness again becomes worse due to diffraction. Some practical camera obscuras use a lens rather than a pinhole because it allows a larger aperture, giving a usable brightness while maintaining focus. (See pinhole camera for construction information.)