Thursday, 11 November 2010
Four Tet:: 'The music industry is scared'
With more albums to his name in a decade than some artists release in a lifetime, Four Tet (real name Kieran Hebden) has mastered the art of musical legacy, using each record as a testimony to his evolution as an artist rather than to his ability of adapting himself to suit trends, buzzwords, and the music industry in general. “When I make records, I’m not thinking ‘maybe they’re all going to call this chillwave and I’ll jump on that new thing’,” he begins. “I’m thinking to myself ‘how am I still going to be able to look back on this record and be comfortable with it in 40 years time’. To me, that’s the sort of thing that really counts.” “I want to make music that’s relevant now in terms of communicating to people and people enjoying it and touching them in that moment,” he continues. “But in terms of fitting into current genres and the music business as a whole, it’s much more important to me that it looks good in the history of music and in the future than it does now.” Resistance to industry agenda and it-band popularity aside, since his debut as Four Tet in the late 1990s, Hebden has grown a devout following of critics, listeners and musicians alike, with his 2009 release, There is Love in You earning overwhelming praise and adding further proof to his longevity as an artist. “I think my whole concept of why I’m putting out records and why I’m doing it has changed a lot – especially in the last four or five years,” he explains. “I think when you start making records – or maybe it was just my experience – you’re working towards some sort of magical goal by putting out your ‘best record ever’. But I’ve come to realize now that I don’t think it’s about that at all. I’m not sitting down to make a record and thinking about how I can make it better than the last one – to me, that’s kind of meaningless.” In the spirit of greats like Miles Davis, Hebden aspires to hone a catalogue that documents and reflects his transition as an artist and doesn’t waver to suit the status quo. “To me, my record is a document of my personal journey and I want to see my whole catalogue in the records lining my shelf that tells my musical story,” he shares. “And if you suddenly have a record in the middle of there that’s heavily manipulated by the record company . . . that would be a blip in the history. That would be where it all went wrong.” Now playing dates in Europe after wrapping his North American tour, Hebden has no immediate plans to record his follow-up, but feels comfortable taking his time since he feels so many bands seem to be suffering from the industry’s blatent cash-cow agenda. “[The music industry cashes] in on acts as fast as they can because they’re scared,” he maintains. “You don’t hear about record companies signing bands and being like, ‘oh, on their sixth album we’ve got to do something special’.” “Everything about the way things are done now is quite bazaar (sic),” he adds. “But maybe it’s brilliant. Maybe it’s the most exciting time ever. But I never want to decide. And people [are trying] to decide whether it’s an exciting time or not – but I’m going to be more interested to look back on it in the future.”(via aux) @'Extra Music New'
sunny_hundal Funny how police are quick to launch investigations when they don't use enough force, but not when they go too far http://bbc.in/9TJ7JY
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Julian Cope performing 'I Wanna Know What's In It For Me'
Joe Strummer Memorial Busking Tour
October 27th 2008 C.E.
Swanborough Tump
Joe Strummer Memorial Busking Tour
October 27th 2008 C.E.
Swanborough Tump
(RePost) The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
In Memory of
Private ARTHUR JOHN HADDOCK
2766529, 6th Bn., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
who died age 20
on 24 April 1944
Son of Robert Arthur and Catherine Haddock,
of Orrell, Bootle, Lancashire.
Remembered with honour
CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab
Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an epic failure in Latin America, Southeast Asia, North America, Africa and everywhere else it's been tried. But don't tell that to controversial loan-sharks at the World Bank. Last month, its private-sector funding arm International Finance Corporation (IFC) quietly dropped a cool 100 million euros ($139 million US) on Veolia Voda, the Eastern European subsidiary of Veolia, the world's largest private water corporation. Its latest target? Privatization of Eastern Europe's water resources.
"Veolia has made it clear that their business model is based on maximizing profits, not long-term investment," Joby Gelbspan, senior program coordinator for private-sector watchdog Corporate Accountability International, told AlterNet. "Both the World Bank and the transnational water companies like Veolia have clearly acknowledged they don't want to invest in the infrastructure necessary to improve water access in Eastern Europe. That's why this 100 million euro investment in Veolia Voda by the World Bank's private investment arm over the summer is so alarming. It's further evidence that the World Bank remains committed to water privatization, despite all evidence that this approach will not solve the world's water crisis."
All the evidence Veolia needs that water grabs are doomed exercises can be found in its birthplace of France, more popularly known as the heartland of water privatization. In June, the municipal administration of Paris reclaimed the City of Light's water services from both of its homegrown multinationals Veolia and Suez, after a torrent of controversy. That's just one of 40 re-municipilazations in France alone, which can be added to those in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America and more in hopes of painting a not-so-pretty picture: Water privatization is ultimately both a horrific concept and a failed project.
"It's outrageous that the World Bank's IFC would continue to invest in corporate water privatizations when they are failing all over the world," Maude Barlow, chairwoman of Food and Water Watch and the author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to Water, told AlterNet. "A similar IFC investment in the Philippines is an unmitigated disaster. Local communities and their governments around the world are canceling their contracts with companies like Veolia because of cost overruns, worker layoffs and substandard service."...
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