Melt Music Festival (Germany)
16-18 July 2010
United Snakes
Babel
Girl I Love You
Invade Me
Teardrop
Safe From Harm
Inertia Creeps
Unfinished Sympathy
Atlas Air
Saturday, 30 June 2012
Friday, 29 June 2012
Biréli Lagrène Quartet - Festival Django Reinhardt 27.06.2012
Biréli Lagrène (guitar)
Franck Wolf (tenor saxophone)
Jean-Yves Jung (hammond organ B3)
Jean-Marc Robin (drums)
recorded @ Festival Django Reinhardt Samois Sur Seine 27.06.2012
Yeah right!!!
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Steve Bloom: A walk down Kitengela Road, Nairobi
This panoramic image might be the widest
continuous photographic image ever made. It appears in the book Trading
Places, The Merchants of Nairobi: by Steve Bloom.
The photographer’s ongoing challenge is to encapsulate life’s
experiences in a rectangular, two–dimensional form. In reality, of
course, we perceive the visual world as an endlessly unfolding synthesis
of images, in which pieces come together and then disperse as our eyes
dart around and we move through time and space.This long photograph of Kitengela Road here captures the hustle and bustle of Nairobi's Langata neighbourhood in a naturalistic, unposed way, giving the viewer the illusion of walking down the road. Steve Bloom started at the Hotel Hilton at the far end on the right, and moved along to the Jeddy Hair Salon, taking a photograph every four paces.
The resulting images were painstakingly stitched together. As the eye moves along the photograph, the viewpoint changes continually, as if the viewer is physically moving down the road. Some of the traders, such as the knife sharpener, are seen repeatedly, going about their business in different parts of the road at different times. This image opposes the 'decisive moment' approach to photography, and is more cinematic in its structure.
In the book, this image stretches across the title page and sixteen pages of the introduction. When printed one metre high, the print is about forty metres long.
Learn more about Steve Bloom at http:/stevebloomphoto.com
Buy signed copies of the book at stevebloomshop.com
Licence images to publish at stevebloom.com/index.php
Top CIA Spy Accused of Being a Mafia Hitman
That’s according to journalist Evan Wright’s blockbuster story How to Get Away With Murder in America, distributed by Byliner. In it, Wright — who authored Generation Kill, the seminal story of the Iraq invasion — compiles lengthy, years-long investigations by state and federal police into a sector of Miami’s criminal underworld that ended nowhere, were sidelined by higher-ups, or cut short by light sentences. It tracks the history of Prado’s alleged Miami patron and notorious cocaine trafficker, Alberto San Pedro, and suspicions that Prado moved a secret death squad from the CIA to Blackwater...
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The Shaolin Afronauts - Quest Under Capricorn Mix
As a taster of things to come, Ross McHenry of The Shaolin Afronauts has put together this fantastic mix containing some tracks from the new album, as well as some of the band's favourite tracks and influences.
2011's debut album, Flight Of The Ancients, was a critical and commercial success story that went on to be nominated for several music awards, including the 25th Aria Fine Arts Awards in the world music category.
Quest Under Capricorn marks a development and progression of The Shaolin Afronauts sound, which evokes the spirit of the mighty Sun Ra, Mulatu Astatke, Fela Kuti, John Coltrane and a host of other free thinking musical pioneers and explorers. The Shaolin Afronauts return with a highly original sound made up of classic influences, but tailor made for the 21st century.
http://www.shaolinafronauts.com/
http://www.freestylerecords.com
Info
Hearing that News Corp. will split between its spying wing and its propaganda wing.
Eulogy to Eunice
A small fairy tale about a girl who wishes to get more rhythm and wishes to dance. When suddenly....
Music: Acid Pauli aka Martin Gretschmann
Directed by optische-bank aka Martin Carstens
Main actors: Elsa Petit & Christa Pasch
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Wes Montgomery - Boss Guitar, The Art Of Wes Montgomery
Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery plays and is introduced by Ronnie Scott in this british TV program, May 1965.
Wes Montgomery - Guitar
Stan Tracey - Piano
Rick Laird - Bass
Jackie Dougan - Drums
Four On Six (Montgomery)
Full House (Montgomery)
Here's That Rainy Day (Van Heusen)
Twisted Blues (Montgomery)
Intro and end melody is the West Coast Blues, also composed by Montgomery
Wes Montgomery - Guitar
Stan Tracey - Piano
Rick Laird - Bass
Jackie Dougan - Drums
Four On Six (Montgomery)
Full House (Montgomery)
Here's That Rainy Day (Van Heusen)
Twisted Blues (Montgomery)
Intro and end melody is the West Coast Blues, also composed by Montgomery
Workers of the World, Awaken! - Joe Hill
From the ninth edition of the I.W.W. Songbook:
Workers of the World, Awaken!
By Joe Hill
Workers of the world, awaken!
Break your chains, demand your rights.
All the wealth you make is taken
By exploiting parasites.
Shall you kneel in deep submission
From your cradles to your graves?
Is the height of your ambition
To be good and willing slaves?
Refrain:
Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!
Fight for your own emancipation;
Arise, ye slaves of every nation
In One Union Grand
Our little ones for bread are crying.
And millions are from hunger dying;
This means the end is justifying,
‘Tis the final stand.
If the workers take a notion,
They can stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean
They can tie with mighty chains;
Every wheel in the creation,
Every mine and every mill,
Fleets and armies of the nation
Will at their command stand still.
Join the union, fellow workers,
Men and women side by side;
We will crush the greedy shirkers
Like a sweeping, surging tide.
For united we are standing,
But divided we will fall;
Let this be our understanding—
“All for one and one for all.”
Workers of the world, awaken!
Rise in all your splendid might;
Take the wealth that you are making,
It belongs to you by right.
No one will for bread be crying,
We’ll have freedom, love and health
When the grand red flag is flying
In the Workers’ Commonwealth.
Workers of the World, Awaken!
By Joe Hill
Workers of the world, awaken!
Break your chains, demand your rights.
All the wealth you make is taken
By exploiting parasites.
Shall you kneel in deep submission
From your cradles to your graves?
Is the height of your ambition
To be good and willing slaves?
Refrain:
Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!
Fight for your own emancipation;
Arise, ye slaves of every nation
In One Union Grand
Our little ones for bread are crying.
And millions are from hunger dying;
This means the end is justifying,
‘Tis the final stand.
If the workers take a notion,
They can stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean
They can tie with mighty chains;
Every wheel in the creation,
Every mine and every mill,
Fleets and armies of the nation
Will at their command stand still.
Join the union, fellow workers,
Men and women side by side;
We will crush the greedy shirkers
Like a sweeping, surging tide.
For united we are standing,
But divided we will fall;
Let this be our understanding—
“All for one and one for all.”
Workers of the world, awaken!
Rise in all your splendid might;
Take the wealth that you are making,
It belongs to you by right.
No one will for bread be crying,
We’ll have freedom, love and health
When the grand red flag is flying
In the Workers’ Commonwealth.
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Happy Birthday
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Kronos Quartet - Sun Rings (Glasgow 15 July 2012)
Kronos Quartet - Sun Rings - Riverside Museum - Sun 15 Jul. A sneak look to whet your appetite: http://vimeo.com/9213829. Tickets 0141 353 8000
Someone should tell @RichardDawkins how many characters he could save by using bit.ly. His tweets include his full name twice.
Commissioner of Sewers (1991)
You almost certainly know the name of William S. Burroughs, and more than likely you know him as the author of the novel Naked Lunch. If the idea of plunging straight into his writing intimidates you, given how drug-saturated, psychologically unconventional, and formally “cut-up” that writing can get, where should you go to get some background on this unstoppably influential member of the Beat Generation? After all, knowledge of Burroughs’ work seems creatively beneficial: so many different kinds of artists found inspiration in his chaotic, fragmented work and even more chaotic, fragmented life that he wound up making collaborative appearances in nearly every medium known in his lifetime: film, music, television, performance art, rock videos.
When German filmmaker Klaus Maeck, for example, needed a star for the dream sequences in Decoder, a low-budget dystopian tale of the government weaponizing emotion-killing muzak, he recruited Burroughs. The two men’s acquaintance proved even more fruitful than that: in 1991, Maeck directed the hour-long documentary William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers. In it, he takes an in-depth interview with Burroughs, a series of his readings, a collection of his appearances in other movies, and even images of his paintings, then cuts them up (as is the Burroughs sensibility) and reassembles them using all the finest — or at least the strangest — visual effects and video filters the early nineties had to offer. Should documentarians work this way? Burroughs himself, in one of the film’s interview segments, has an answer: “There is no such concept as ‘should’ in art. Or anything.”
Via
(Thanx Kaggsy!)
William S. Burroughs’ Rare, Experimental Artworks
Aaron Sorkin on America
...And yeah you, sorority girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know. And one of them is there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we’re the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force and number four in exports.
We lead the world in only three categories. Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real and defense spending where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of a 20 year-old college student but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) you’re talking about. Yosemite?
From 'The Newsroom'Via
The Alternative World Drug Report
HERE
Carla Bley - La Leçon Française (Moers Festival 27.5.2012)
Carla Bley (conductor), Steve Swallow (bass), Bohuslän Big Band & Dortmund Choral Academy Boys Choir
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (Albumstream)
http://www.deadcandance.com/
you can get one free mp3 from the album for your email address.
ALBUMSTREAM
thanks to trnsnd
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Euro 1964 - Final Spain vs. USSR 2–1 (Full length)
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Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 79,115 Referee: Arthur Holland (England) |
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Pereda  6'Marcelino 84' |
Report | Khusainov 8' |
     
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