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Handsome Furs in Asia

February 11th, 2010

Montreal duo Handsome Furs are nothing if not gluttons for travel. One gets the idea that they’d forfeit their blossoming music career if it meant they didn’t have to stay home for any significant length of time. Well, lucky for them (and us, in a way), they have literally one of the awesomest jobs/lives/hobbies that most of us could only wish for. They’re married, they have a deal with an excellent record label (Sub Pop), they make fantastic music, and they tour like nobody’s business. Last year, Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry spent a significant amount of time winning over crowds in Asia (China, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand), and good ol’ Ted Turner’s Cable News Network asked them to document their experience on film.

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GO HERE TO WATCH SINCE THEY WON’T LET ME EMBED THEM

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Given that I myself spent some time in Asia and their second LP, Face Control, was my favorite release of 2009, I have a particular interest in this unique chronicle. It’s planned as a series, and so far two ~6 minute episodes are up on the site. Dan plays cameraman/narrator most of the time and most of the footage so far is them sightseeing, but, via their myspace blog, Alexei says:

To those who are curious:

Contrary to popular belief, we just got very lucky to get this series posted on CNN. We are, ya know, not connected to important people or anything… Just lucky enough that some one gave us cameras and wanted to see what we did with them.

And, please, rest assured that all the music scene stuff is coming in time. (So far the first two episodes are only from our first few hours! )

X,

Alexei