Jimmy Tamborello, known as Dntel to most, has been making music for more than a decade. In 2001, he had the indie world buzzing when he released Life Is Full Of Possibilities, making him one of the most notable figures in the turn-of-the-century glitch scene. Commercial success hit Tamborello as one half of the Postal Service, the other half being Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie. The sole Postal Service album, Give Up, is Sub Pop’s second best-selling record to date, and the “Such Great Heights” single was used on TV shows and covered by Iron & Wine, whose version in turn made it onto the Garden State soundtrack. Tamborello has worked with artists from Conor Oberst to Grizzly Bear, and he still engineers electronic music and hosts an internet radio show. On Dntel’s latest album, Aimlessness (Pampa), he dialed back the guest vocals, focused on instrumentals and made an ethereal, spaced-out electro album. Tamborello will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Tamborello: Nina Pohl is a modern German photographer I like. I just have one exhibition catalog from 2007, and I know very little else about her. And I have no business trying to write about art. She does a lot of epic landscapes that at first seem natural, but then you start noticing that things aren’t totally right, like parts of the image are out of scale or are actually paintings. One thing she does that I like a lot is take pictures of oil paintings where the reflection of her flash or light source become part of the image. There are also some night shots of foliage that are pretty witch-housey. I really like the design of the book and the selection and sequence of photos and how they’re presented. Someday, I’d like to see the actual photos. She works in large format, and I think most of these images are around eight feet tall.
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