Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Robyn Hitchcock - Light Blue Afternoon / Dismal City (2011)
Light Blue Afternoon
Dismal City
Both tracks taken from "Tromsø, Kaptein" - Robyn Hitchcock's forthcoming album on Hype City. To be released in Norway April 8th on LP and CD. Produced by Paul Noble, the "Tromsø, Kaptein" features 8 new RH compositions as well as a re-recording of 'Raining Twilight Coast' from EYE and a new Norwegian language version of Goodnight Oslo.
Villalobos and Loderbauer rework the ECM catalogue: full details
Ricardo Villalobos [above] and Max Loderbauer will rework legendary jazz and classical label ECM’s back catalogue across a full album.
This project has been in the works for a while now, but we now have some more concrete information: it will be a double-CD release spanning 17 tracks, and includes reworks of Arvo Pärt, Christian Wallumrød, Alexander Knaifel and more. Release date is penciled in for June 20. No artwork is available as yet.
ECM was formed by Manfred Eicher in 1969, and has released over a thousand albums in its time. Villalobos is a famed fame of the label, and DJed at their 40th anniversary party in 2008. Loderbauer, meanwhile, will be familiar to many for his work with Sun Electric, NSI. and the Moritz Von Oswald Trio.
Tracklist:
Title – Composer
1 Reblop – Wallumrød/Villalobos/Loderbauer
2 Recat – Wallumrød/Villalobos/Loderbauer
3 Resvete – Knaifel
4 Retimeless – Abercrombie/Villalobos/Loderbauer
5 Reemergence – Vitous/Villalobos/Loderbauer
6 Reblazhenstva – Knaifel
7 Reannounce – Sclavis/Villalobos/Loderbauer
8 Recurrence – Brederode
9 Requote – Wallumrød/Villalobos/Loderbauer
Title – Composer
1 Replob – Wallumrød/Villalobos/Loderbauer
2 Reshadub – Giger/Villalobos/Loderbauer
3 Rebird – Motian/Villalobos/Loderbauer
4 Retikhiy – Knaifel arr. Villalobos/Loderbauer
5 Rekondakion – Pärt
6 Rensenada – Maupin/Villalobos/Loderbauer
7 Resole – Knaifel
8 Redetach – Wallumrød/Orning/Henriksen/Larsen//Villalobos/Loderbauer
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John Pilger: The War You Don’t See
A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq.
As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an electronic battlefield in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy?
John Pilger says in the film: “We journalists… have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else’s country… That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is.
For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home… In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us… Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power.”
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Sexy ducks, semen quality and a tenuous link to Alan Moore http://bit.ly/eClJyL
The Real Housewives of Wall Street
Now, following an act of Congress that has forced the Fed to open its books from the bailout era, this unofficial budget is for the first time becoming at least partially a matter of public record. Staffers in the Senate and the House, whose queries about Fed spending have been rebuffed for nearly a century, are now poring over 21,000 transactions and discovering a host of outrages and lunacies in the "other" budget. It is as though someone sat down and made a list of every individual on earth who actually did not need emergency financial assistance from the United States government, and then handed them the keys to the public treasure. The Fed sent billions in bailout aid to banks in places like Mexico, Bahrain and Bavaria, billions more to a spate of Japanese car companies, more than $2 trillion in loans each to Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, and billions more to a string of lesser millionaires and billionaires with Cayman Islands addresses. "Our jaws are literally dropping as we're reading this," says Warren Gunnels, an aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. "Every one of these transactions is outrageous..."
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Matt Taibbi @'Rolling Stone'
New Zealand Government Rushes Through Controversial Anti-Piracy Law
The New Zealand government has surprised the public and even some MPs by moving to rush through its controversial 3 strikes-style legislation today. The new measures will allow for users to be disconnected from the Internet for up to 6 months, based on infringement claims from copyright holders.
In a surprise development, during the next few hours New Zealand’s government is to rush through legislation that will target Internet users who share copyrighted material online without rightsholder permission.
The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, which unanimously passed its first reading in Parliament in April 2010, will put in place a 3 strikes-style regime, whereby Internet service providers will be initially required to send warning letters to alleged infringers at the behest of rights holders.
New Zealand’s Copyright Tribunal will be empowered to rule on cases of alleged repeat infringement and will be given the authority to hand down fines up to a maximum of $15,000 ($11,733 US).
For repeat offenders, a six month period of Internet disconnection may be applied, a measure too far for Green MP Gareth Hughes who wasn’t even aware the Bill was coming up today.
”It really surprised me because we haven’t debated it since November,” he said.
Hughes later confirmed he would request an amendment to remove the suspension clause but a spokesperson for Commerce Minister Simon Power said it would be opposed. While the Greens are against disconnections, they supports the Bill in principle.
Today’s second reading of the Bill is being accompanied by a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) which in part is aimed at clarifying burden of proof issues in a current clause.
According to intellectual property lawyer Rick Shera, the clause created a presumption in favour of copyright owners and the changes being considered remove the reference to the presumption of guilt being “conclusive”.
“I do act for a number of copyright owners, I can’t see why there is a need for a presumption, I mean if copyright owners are sure of their evidence then they would simply submit that evidence to the copyright tribunal,” Shera told NBR. “The tribunal is perfectly capable of weighing up whose evidence is better, that’s what tribunals do all the time.”
The Bill is expected to pass its third and final stage during the next few hours. The news is already causing protests on Twitter, where users are calling for a repeat of last year’s demonstrations.
enigmax @'Torrent Freak'
In a surprise development, during the next few hours New Zealand’s government is to rush through legislation that will target Internet users who share copyrighted material online without rightsholder permission.
The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, which unanimously passed its first reading in Parliament in April 2010, will put in place a 3 strikes-style regime, whereby Internet service providers will be initially required to send warning letters to alleged infringers at the behest of rights holders.
New Zealand’s Copyright Tribunal will be empowered to rule on cases of alleged repeat infringement and will be given the authority to hand down fines up to a maximum of $15,000 ($11,733 US).
For repeat offenders, a six month period of Internet disconnection may be applied, a measure too far for Green MP Gareth Hughes who wasn’t even aware the Bill was coming up today.
”It really surprised me because we haven’t debated it since November,” he said.
Hughes later confirmed he would request an amendment to remove the suspension clause but a spokesperson for Commerce Minister Simon Power said it would be opposed. While the Greens are against disconnections, they supports the Bill in principle.
Today’s second reading of the Bill is being accompanied by a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) which in part is aimed at clarifying burden of proof issues in a current clause.
According to intellectual property lawyer Rick Shera, the clause created a presumption in favour of copyright owners and the changes being considered remove the reference to the presumption of guilt being “conclusive”.
“I do act for a number of copyright owners, I can’t see why there is a need for a presumption, I mean if copyright owners are sure of their evidence then they would simply submit that evidence to the copyright tribunal,” Shera told NBR. “The tribunal is perfectly capable of weighing up whose evidence is better, that’s what tribunals do all the time.”
The Bill is expected to pass its third and final stage during the next few hours. The news is already causing protests on Twitter, where users are calling for a repeat of last year’s demonstrations.
enigmax @'Torrent Freak'
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