We Love You So – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze

Folk troubadour Cass McCombs‘ latest single, “Dreams ComeTrue Girl,” is a trifecta of radness: it’s a song that’s both soul-soothing and heart-crushing, it’s a video that’s languidly nostalgic– not to mention, alittle bit epic– and cinematic goddess Karen Black has lent her spooky magic to both. Allegedly, the video was based on characters from a feature screenplay that McCombs wrote with director Aaron Brown, who appears in the clip as a Demiurge, “a supernatural being that controls time and space, as well as the actions of McCombs and Ms. Karen Black.” I have no idea what that means… but let’s hope they get their movie made!

Hermas Zopoula is this rad dude from the West African nation of Burkina Faso who makes really beautiful music, comes from a family of 36 children, volunteers in an oprhanage, runs an internet cafe and loves mopeds. His debut album, Espoir is coming out on Sufjan Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty Records this month, and it’s amazing. A double-disc set comprised of Hermas’ quadrilingual folk songs alternately recorded in a rented government recording studio and in the intimacy of his own backyard, Hermas’ music carries none of the exotic connotations of “world music” in spite of its distant locale. Hermas sings straight to the listener like an old friend. Check out this video of Hermas performing on the street behind his house in Ouagadougou: