James Balmont
Writer at Freelance
🎹🎸 Music x @Swim_Deep ✍🏼📚 bylines x @Guardian, @BBC_Culture, @BFI, @Dazed, @AnOtherMagazine *probs tweeting about ambient music and foreign films*
Articles
-
3 days ago |
theface.com | James Balmont
“It’s quite stunning to be able to write a scene and then have your computer do the rest… Find the actors, find the setting, do the shooting. So I think the use of AI is inevitable”
-
1 week ago |
theface.com | James Balmont |Steve Gullick
“All my favourite songwriters’ best qualities are their abilities to reckon with themselves. I knew I was going to be touring a lot, and so I felt that night after night I should believe in what I’m saying” “A24 completely let me do what I want. It feels really fresh and exciting [in a way that] signing with a classic indie label that imposes its own context perhaps doesn’t”
-
2 weeks ago |
theface.com | James Balmont
“I’ve got to try and play the song, but I’m grabbing a dude by the shirt cos he’s about to stage dive. That shit is just real fun”
-
2 months ago |
vice.com | James Balmont
Ancient cave paintings in Kona, Hawaii will tell you that early Polynesians invented surfing over 1,000 years ago. By the mid-20th century, it had become a vibrant subculture in hotspots like California and Western Australia, and soon youngsters the world over were falling in love with the image of toned, tanned dudes and dudettes repeatedly tumbling into the sea. You’d expect most of these places to be vaguely compatible with such a lifestyle.
-
2 months ago |
dazeddigital.com | James Balmont
Following a month-long retrospective in March of one of the movement’s most beloved filmmakers –Cannes 2000 Best Director winner Edward Yang (Yi Yi) – the BFI continues its deep dive into one of East Asian cinema’s most remarkable filmmaking movements this April with Myriad Voices: Reframing Taiwan New Cinema.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →Coverage map
X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 3K
- Tweets
- 8K
- DMs Open
- Yes
RT @TonalUnion: Label founder @AdamJamesHeron was recently interviewed in @CrackMagazine as part of a spotlight on Kankyō Ongaku featuring…
RT @JamesBalmont: I’ve got a big feature in the new @CrackMagazine exploring how Japan’s ‘80s ambient & environmental music has found new r…
I’ve got a big feature in the new @CrackMagazine exploring how Japan’s ‘80s ambient & environmental music has found new relevance in a present-day - world descending into unchecked chaos. Interviews w/ icons Inoyamaland, @TakashiKokubo & Yumiko Morioka! @MetronRecords @TonalUnion https://t.co/HQDqS1QUYv