Thursday, 11 October 2012
♪♫ The Rolling Stones - Doom & Gloom
'Doom And Gloom' marks the first time that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood have been in the studio together for seven years. The single was recorded in Paris and produced by longtime Rolling Stones producer Don Was.
Liquid Sky (1982)
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Hmmm! I saw this film numerous times after vists to the LysergicLongue when I lived in Am*dam. To be honest I think a head full of acid would help...
♪♫ Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - It Ain't What You Do
1982 live vocal performance of 'It Ain't What You Do' on OTT
1982 live vocal TV performance of 'It Ain't What You Do'. Not sure what show this was on
First Listen: REWORK_Philip Glass Remixed
REWORK_Philip Glass Remixed usually meets somewhere in the middle between calming ambient pieces and kinetic electronic contraptions, with a frequent emphasis on pastiche that suits both its subject and its highest-profile guest participants. Beck, for example, stitches together more than 20 Glass works in as many minutes, living up to his stated desire to present a distillation of the composer's entire career as a continuum; the result moves through many phases, with frequently gorgeous results. Dan Deacon, who knows his way around compositions that swirl and clatter hypnotically, constructs "Alight Spiral Snip" around repetitive dissonance before letting the piece give way to smeared-out beauty. Tyondai Braxton gives "Rubric" a toy-box peppiness redolent of his own compositions, while Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson — who knows his way around works both orchestral and experimental — crafts what sounds like an especially inventive bit of portentous film score in "Protest."
It's a testament to Glass' distinctive genius that these 12 varied approaches — and remix artists as diverse as Pantha Du Prince, Cornelius and Efterklang's Peter Broderick — hang together collectively as well as they do. And, of course, REWORK doesn't stop there: It's getting its own interactive app — designed by Scott Snibbe Studio, which worked on Bjork's Biophilia project — that gives these songs a visual stamp and lets users emulate Glass themselves. Which is, of course, an appropriate way to give these second-generation pieces yet more lives beyond what Glass himself envisioned. Why should the music stop breathing and evolving once these folks are done with it?
Stephen Thompson @'npr'
'Rework_Philip Glass Remixed'
A Chat With Iconoclast Adrian Sherwood On Creative Integrity, Politics, Healthcare And What’s Really Important In Life
MOREWhat do you think about EDM and the subsequent backlash and in fighting?
The bottom line is the lowest common denominator will always be popular. Whatever you wanna call it, we call it “butt music”—butt, butt, butt. That’s the universal sound, from Argentina to Germany to New York. So the Swedish House Mafia, Paul Oakenfeld, whatever—that’s still massive. Those DJs make a fortune, playing other people’s music mostly. They’re like little gods in Ibiza, and that’s what people want. It’s of absolutely no interest whatsoever to me. My friend Adamski [who plays synths on a couple of tracks on Survival & Resistance] he was doing that stuff. He’s doing very interesting electronic Waltz music at the moment. He hasn’t put it out yet but he’s doing interesting stuff. At the end of the day, he and people who make that stuff, they really love it. But I could not bear to be locked in a room hearing four on the floor foot drums for more than an hour. Even if I was on drugs. Maybe if I was on a lot of drugs. But I’m too old for drugs. That kind of stuff has a place, but it’s not on my turntable.
Adrian Sherwood guest mix for Dub Invasion Festival (Brooklyn)
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Pussy Riot member freed, two head to prison camp
A Moscow court has freed one member of the punk band Pussy Riot, but upheld prison sentences for the other two.
The
female trio were found guilty in August of hooliganism motivated by
religious hatred for storming into Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the
Saviour in February and staging a performance criticising president
Vladimir Putin.Maria Alyokhina, 24, Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, were each sentenced to two years behind bars for taking part in a protest.
However, at an appeal hearing on Wednesday, the court decided to give Samustsevic a suspended sentence because she did not stand on the altar during the protest.
She has been freed, while Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova are expected to be sent to prison colonies, likely far from Moscow.
"We will not stay silent even if we are in Siberia," Alyokhina said.
Earlier the punk group members defiantly maintained their innocence, telling the court their cathedral stunt was aimed at Mr Putin and not religious believers.
'Nothing anti-religious'
The first full appeal hearing against their two-year prison camp sentence came days after Mr Putin gave his backing to the verdict.
His remarks were described by one of the women's lawyers as unacceptable interference in the case.
"There is nothing anti-religious in the actions of Pussy Riot, it was political," Tolokonnikova told the court in her remarks from behind the glass-paned defendants' cage.
"I am ready to apologise if I offended people, but repenting is impossible as that would be acknowledging that our action was anti-religious, which was not the case."
Calls for their freedom have been made by world figures from Madonna to Burma democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
The group has even been nominated for the EU parliament's prestigious Sakharov prize for freedom of thought.
They have been held in a Moscow prison since their March arrest.
Involvement
Samutsevich denied any split between the three group members after she unexpectedly requested a new lawyer at the first hearing of the women's appeal on October 1.
"There is no split in the Pussy Riot group. I do not admit my guilt of hooliganism," she said.
Samutsevich's new lawyer, Irina Khrunova, argued her client did not take part in the so-called Punk Prayer protest with the others since a security guard grabbed her and her electric guitar as soon as the performance began.
"The Punk Prayer took place without Samutsevich. She had already been taken out of the church," Ms Khrunova said.
In a surprising development, the lawyer for the aggrieved, Lev Lyalin, said he agreed with her description of Samutsevich's involvement.
"The actual facts really were laid out by Samutsevich's defence correctly and objectively."
The judge refused two defence requests to call witnesses including investigators, experts and journalists, and to hold a fresh psychological and linguistic evaluation of the content of the women's protest.
Before the appeal process started, a call by prime minister Dmitry Medvedev for the trio to be given a suspended sentence and released, as well as signs of mercy from the powerful Russian Orthodox Church, had given rise to some hopes among their supporters.
@'ABC'
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