According to my email correspondence, it must have been year 2008 when I discovered SomaFM internet radio station that broadcasts a wide range of music on number of playlists. And my favorite playlist ever since I discovered SomaFM, has been their Groove Salad playlist, which consists of ambient and downtempo genres of music.

The best part of SomaFM is that they do not advertise. Only the more or less obligatory broadcast call sign becomes mentioned every now and then. But to run such a advertise free internet radio requires donations. And that is why I discovered it was early 2009 when SomaFM thanked me for my support via email.

Thanks to SomaFM I then also discovered number of bands that I had never heard of before. One of them is Boards Of Canada, a band that took it's name from the National Film Board of Canada.



Boards Of Canada - Slow This Bird Down from Eugene Porcelain on YouTube

I suppose the origin of the band name has then inspired the band itself, and their fans as well, to make ingenious music videos using old documentary films, animations and other old film recordings. And of course for an amateur photographer like me, all that music and music videos has been a great source of inspiration to take photos and create visual art.