THE DEEPER IN DEBT, THE HARDER YOU BET
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Art and Alzheimer’s
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♪♫ Patti Smith & Phillip Glass - Spell
Dave L Stevens of Stevens Internet Productions has generously uploaded to You Tube this stunning performance of "Spell" a.k.a."Footnote to Howl" by Patti Smith and her band, with Philip Glass on piano, and back-up "vocals" by saffron-robed Buddhist monks (the recitation was in honor of a visit by His Holiness the Dalai Lama). As Stevens himself notes, "Not seen for more than a decade. I directed and produced this interactive webcast. When Patti Smith begins "howling" on her clarinet, it's sublime."
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♪♫ Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Fire (1979)
French TV 'Midi Première' with Serge Gainsbourg
Bonus:
Rosa Yemen - Herpes SimplexDeep Roots Music
Vol. 1: Revival - Ranking Sounds
Vol. 2: Bunny Lee Story and Black Ark
Vol. 3: Money in My Pocket and Ghetto Riddims
(Thanx SJX!)
Vol. 2: Bunny Lee Story and Black Ark
Vol. 3: Money in My Pocket and Ghetto Riddims
(Thanx SJX!)
Liverpool shirt sponsor in 'robust talks' with club over Luis Suárez
Said it yesterday and I will say it again today - Suárez HAS to go...
P.I.L. - One Drop
As promised, the first new Public Image Ltd. song in 20 years — a lilting, almost dub-ska track called “One Drop” — received its worldwide debut today via Steve Lamacq’s afternoon show on BBC’s 6 Music. You can stream the track, with the DJ’s intro and outro, via the player above. The song will be released on a vinyl EP as part of Record Store Day on April 21 in advance of the release of the full-length This Is PiL in May or June. Check out full details on the first new PiL music since 1992′s That What Is Not right here.
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Joy Division and New Order master tapes turn up in old bank vault
The new restaurant, which is being built in a former branch of the Midland bank, was being excavated when the tapes were found, alongside guns, gold and jewellery. The total value of the haul is £1.1 million, reports Holy Moly. Oliver has since given everything found in the basement to the treasury.
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Peter Hook says (in 2008):Yeah, it was quite a strange situation, actually. When Factory went bankrupt, [Joy Division/New Order manager] Rob Gretton had his hands on a lot of New Order's live stuff, and a lot of film stuff. And it turns out, he put it in this vault to protect it [laughs] from the official receiver, I think. What happened was that the bank lost the record and didn't bill us for this vault. So when Rob died, he took the memory of the vault with him and nobody knew it existed.
Very recently, the lease has come up on the building, so the bank has had to move. So they had to track down the people who had these vaults, then realized that they hadn't been billing anybody, so they let us all off, which was quite nice. But we got our hands back on all this wonderful stuff which we thought had disappeared-- like a full stereo recording of the Tenth Summer Festival that we did with the Smiths. We were told those tapes had been destroyed!
There were about 200 New Order live tapes of mine that had been in storage since 1990 that I had forgotten about. I even found the original master tapes of [Joy Division's debut EP] An Ideal for Living. It's freaky, you know? To get your hands on that after all those years and see your writing on them is unbelievable. The thing is, we don't know what the hell to do with it [laughs]. But it was wonderful to get it back.?"
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(Thanx Iain!)
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The Greatest Love of All
(Anonymous guest post)
The Greatest Love of All ... is self-delusion in many cases. Back in the mid-80s, a lot of American parents were looking for easy answers to the complex problems of life. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll were FAR too messy and dangerous for the narratives that Nancy Reagan's "just say no" army was telling itself. Conservatives wanted to believe that we now lived in a post-racial society, and that any problems with race or class were due to inherent laziness or criminality (like Reagan's famous comment about "welfare queens"). "Just look at the Cosby show," they'd say. "Blacks are successful and upper-middle class now, so we can stop talking about racism." They bought into all the surface sheen and the bright, flashy colours and kinetic videos on MTV with kids bopping their heads to the great pop music of Michael Jackson and Madonna. Whitney Houston represented everything that was successful and happy and MORNING IN AMERICA Reagan-approved. Her song about loving yourself was held up as an ode to drug-free living and self-determination. When in contrast to these wonderful cultural things happening all around them in this wonderfully post-racial, post-class, post-drug utopia that surely we were all moving inexorably towards, many American children were beginning to experiment with cannabis and rejecting the joys of family and bright sunny attitudes and stable, unflashy all-American jobs that were helping us defeat the Godless Soviets. Drugs and art were messy, dangerous and corrosive to the American family dream! They led to sex and dissatisfaction; to differentiation and rejection. As long as Whitney Houston could get on stage and tell them everything they wanted to hear, they were unable and unwilling to dig beneath the surface, to see the turbulence and violence that swirled beneath the sheen of the technicolor 808 thump. It created a schism within them between what was real and what was experienced. And anything that challenged the authority of their comfortable illusion was suspect. They were on the wrong side of history. People think that the Reagan America won the cold war, but nothing could have been further from the truth. While Nero's fiddle played, AIDS devastated the gay community, civil rights victories were rolled back, corporate savings and loans looted the treasury, and illegally funded wars devastated entire countries. It is hard to look unflinchingly at the shadow side of humanity, and escapes are seductive. They are also temporary, and you will always wake up the next morning to deal with the fall-out until you just don't wake up. Today Whitney Houston is not here to wake up and deal with it any longer. I believe the illusion that she had to partake of at various times in her career was a more destructive force than any of the drugs. She put a pretty face and a beautiful voice on top of a diabetic coma inducing, media-deployed hypnotic drug. And most Americans wanted to drink this Kool-Aid. Only the real, the lived, the messy accidents and near-misses of being fully alive can pull you through. Everything else is sleep-walking.
The Greatest Love of All ... is self-delusion in many cases. Back in the mid-80s, a lot of American parents were looking for easy answers to the complex problems of life. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll were FAR too messy and dangerous for the narratives that Nancy Reagan's "just say no" army was telling itself. Conservatives wanted to believe that we now lived in a post-racial society, and that any problems with race or class were due to inherent laziness or criminality (like Reagan's famous comment about "welfare queens"). "Just look at the Cosby show," they'd say. "Blacks are successful and upper-middle class now, so we can stop talking about racism." They bought into all the surface sheen and the bright, flashy colours and kinetic videos on MTV with kids bopping their heads to the great pop music of Michael Jackson and Madonna. Whitney Houston represented everything that was successful and happy and MORNING IN AMERICA Reagan-approved. Her song about loving yourself was held up as an ode to drug-free living and self-determination. When in contrast to these wonderful cultural things happening all around them in this wonderfully post-racial, post-class, post-drug utopia that surely we were all moving inexorably towards, many American children were beginning to experiment with cannabis and rejecting the joys of family and bright sunny attitudes and stable, unflashy all-American jobs that were helping us defeat the Godless Soviets. Drugs and art were messy, dangerous and corrosive to the American family dream! They led to sex and dissatisfaction; to differentiation and rejection. As long as Whitney Houston could get on stage and tell them everything they wanted to hear, they were unable and unwilling to dig beneath the surface, to see the turbulence and violence that swirled beneath the sheen of the technicolor 808 thump. It created a schism within them between what was real and what was experienced. And anything that challenged the authority of their comfortable illusion was suspect. They were on the wrong side of history. People think that the Reagan America won the cold war, but nothing could have been further from the truth. While Nero's fiddle played, AIDS devastated the gay community, civil rights victories were rolled back, corporate savings and loans looted the treasury, and illegally funded wars devastated entire countries. It is hard to look unflinchingly at the shadow side of humanity, and escapes are seductive. They are also temporary, and you will always wake up the next morning to deal with the fall-out until you just don't wake up. Today Whitney Houston is not here to wake up and deal with it any longer. I believe the illusion that she had to partake of at various times in her career was a more destructive force than any of the drugs. She put a pretty face and a beautiful voice on top of a diabetic coma inducing, media-deployed hypnotic drug. And most Americans wanted to drink this Kool-Aid. Only the real, the lived, the messy accidents and near-misses of being fully alive can pull you through. Everything else is sleep-walking.
DJ Spooky presents Vertov Enthusiasm: Sinfonia Donbassa (beta)
A rescore of Dziga Vertov's first sound film.
Funnily enough (still) not fan of Scientology myself (religion my arse!)
Operation Clambake
I've posted this before and will post it again I am sure. If you are thinking of getting involved with this cult then believe me the info contained in the graphic above will save you thousands and thousands of dollars...
In fairness here is the Scientologist's response to the above programme...
Make up your own mind...
Know which I believe!
Wax Poetics Presents: A Prince Mix by DāM-FunK
For the Wax Poetics ten-year anniversary and Issue 50 (Prince Issue), DāM-FunK (Stones Throw) creates an exclusive Prince DJ mix, including a new DāM-FunK track!
Track List
1. Prince & the Revolution - 17 Days (original version)
2. DāM-FunK - 17 Days (D-F Re-Freak)
3. Prince - Irresistible Bitch (Props Re-Edit)
4. Prince (featuring Andre Cymone & Pepe Willie) - One Man Jam
5. Prince - Wet Dream Cousin
6. Prince - Dirty Mind (1981 Live Version)
7. Prince - Soft & Wet (original version)
8. Prince - Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (D-F Extended Re-Edit)
9. Prince - Sticky Like Glue (Props Re-Edit)
10. Prince & the Revolution - All My Dreams
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Oh do fuck off...
Britain is under threat from a rising tide of "militant secularisation", a cabinet minister has warned.
Religion is being "sidelined, marginalised and downgraded in the public sphere", Conservative co-chairwoman Baroness Warsi wrote in an article for the Daily Telegraph.The Muslim peer said Europe needed to become "more confident and more comfortable in its Christianity".
She will also highlight the issue in a speech at the Vatican on Wednesday.
"I will be arguing that to create a more just society, people need to feel stronger in their religious identities and more confident in their creeds," she wrote in the Telegraph.
"In practice this means individuals not diluting their faiths and nations not denying their religious heritages."
Baroness Warsi, who is Britain's first female Muslim cabinet minister, went on to write: "You cannot and should not extract these Christian foundations from the evolution of our nations any more than you can or should erase the spires from our landscapes."
'Totalitarian regimes'
She wrote that examples of a "militant secularisation" taking hold of society could be seen in a number of things - "when signs of religion cannot be displayed or worn in government buildings; when states won't fund faith schools; and where religion is sidelined, marginalised and downgraded in the public sphere".
She also compared the intolerance of religion with totalitarian regimes, which she said were "denying people the right to a religious identity because they were frightened of the concept of multiple identities".
Her comments come days after the High Court ruled that a Devon town council had acted unlawfully by allowing prayers to be said at meetings.
And, as BBC religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott reports, the Church of England could soon lose its traditional role as the provider of the chief chaplain to the Prison Service.
The Ministry of Justice has confirmed it is "considering arrangements" for appointing a new Chaplain-General - but the job might not go to an Anglican.
Our correspondent says the move may be seen by some Anglicans as the latest sign of the reduced influence of the "established" Church of England in public affairs.
'Outdated and divisive'
On Baroness Warsi's article and speech, BBC political correspondent Louise Stewart said it was not the first time a senior Conservative had called for a revival of traditional Christian values.
"Last December, Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK was a Christian country and 'should not be afraid to say so'," she said.
"In an increasingly non-religious and, at the same time, diverse society, we need policies that will emphasise what we have in common as citizens rather than what divides us," sd BHA chief executive Andrew Copson.
Baroness Warsi's two-day delegation of seven British ministers to the Holy See will include an audience with Pope Benedict XVI, who visited the UK in 2010.
This visit marks the 30th anniversary of the re-establishment of full diplomatic ties between Britain and the Vatican.
Meanwhile, new research suggests Britons who declare themselves Christian display low levels of belief and practice.
Almost three quarters of the 1,136 people polled by Ipsos Mori agreed that religion should not influence public policy, and 92% agreed the law should apply to everyone equally, regardless of their personal beliefs.
It also found that 61% of Christians agreed homosexuals should have the same legal rights in all aspects of their lives as heterosexuals.
And a further 62% were in favour of a woman's right to have an abortion within the legal time limit.
The survey was conducted for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK), which describes itself as promoting "scientific education, rationalism and humanism".
@'BBC'
Lou Reed - Live Paris 1974
With:
Danny Weiss - guitar,
Michael Fonfara - keyboards
Prakash John - bass
Pentti “Whitey” Glan - drums
Oren Ambarchi & James Rushford - Melbourne Recital Centre (16 Feb 2012)
We are premiering it here in Melbourne next week at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Thurs Feb 16 with an Aussie ensemble.
More info here: http://www.melbournerecital.com.au/whatson/buytix?perfid=3672
Additionally James will be performing A. Lucier's stunning "Still Lives" piece
maybe see you there in your tux?
Kim Tan - bass flute
Karen Heath - bass clarinet
Phoebe Green - viola
Judith Hamann - cello
Nat Grant - percussion
James Rushford - piano
Oren Ambarchi - guitar
& whilst I'm at it, my new solo release on touch is finally out & features Mr.Rushford along with an all-star cast http://touchshop.org/product_info.php?products_id=495
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The Pirate Bay Says Goodbye to (Most) Torrents on February 29
For half a decade The Pirate Bay has been the leading BitTorrent site, but soon its users will no longer be able to download .torrent files.
The first step in this direction will be taken on February 29, the Pirate Bay announced today.
Instead of deleting all torrent files at once, the Pirate Bay crew will start with all files that have more than 10 peers. This is to guarantee that people will still be able to download less popular files, which tend to start slower through magnets.
While there are fears that this is the end of The Pirate Bay, nothing could be further from the truth. For users of the site the upcoming switch is expected to go smoothly.
People will be able to download all files as usual, but instead of using a .torrent file downloads will be initiated through a magnet link. The actual content of the .torrent file will then be downloaded from other people instead of the Pirate Bay’s servers.
Although it might take a little longer for less popular downloads to get started, all files will remain available. Also, users will still be able to upload .torrent files, which will be converted into magnet links by The Pirate Bay.
The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak that the transition to a magnet site is “a step forward in technology,” and one that will make the site more resistant to being shut down.
Without torrents it takes less bandwidth to host a Pirate Bay proxy site which are used to circumvent ISP blockades in countries like Italy, Ireland, The Netherlands and Belgium. In addition, the Pirate Bay will become much more portable and thus easier to move around.
How easy it is to carry a copy of a torrent-less Pirate Bay became apparent last week, when a user reduced the entire site to 90 megabytes – small enough to fit on a tiny thumb drive. The Pirate Bay team likes the idea of a “portable” backup of the site and told TorrentFreak that they are considering releasing an official version in the future.
It’s quite remarkable to see how The Pirate Bay has transformed in recent years. The site is no longer hosting a tracker, and soon .torrent files will be entirely replaced by magnet links. Despite these changes the iconic file-sharing site is picking up new users every week.
The Pirate Bay crew told TorrentFreak that users can be assured that they have no intention of going anywhere in the near future. With or without torrents, the site is here to stay.
Ernesto @'TorrentFreak'
♪♫ Drew Smith - Smoke And Mirrors
Drew very kindly sent me a copy of his album and the great back story to the video above:
To celebrate the release of my album I decided to 'outsource' my video to India. I found a virtual assistant from a quick google search and then sent them my song, “Smoke and Mirrors”. By chance, the director ended up being a dance choreographer! After a couple of emails back and forth (plus a few early morning wake-up calls) I found this video in my inbox. It has kind of blown up over that weekend, going to #27 on the youtube charts, and spent half a day on front page of reddit. 160000 plays in three days! Crazy!
Previously my ex-E.S.L. student Sohee Jeon, had become an established animator in South Korea and made a video for The Secret Languages first single “Love Teeth”. The overwhelming positive response to that beautiful work convinced me to again look for a non-traditional video accompaniment. I hope you enjoy the music and feel free to share.
cheers,
Drew
Get the album here:
(Thanx Drew!)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Black Captain/Coconuts (Black Cab Session)
At last count, one hundred. Not at the same time of course, and you have to ask the cab driver before you can let them in. Confused? Don’t be. Five ingenious London men—Jono Stevens, Gen Stevens, Chris Pattinson, Jonny Madderson and Will Evans from Hidden Fruit Promotions and Just So Films—were sitting down one day and trying to figure out a way to get their favorite musicians to play for them. They came up with the ‘Black Cab Sessions’. This is how you do it.
First, approach a musician. Every indie great has been in the back of a black cab for a session; Brian Wilson, Fleet Foxes, Laura Marling, Weezer, The Flaming Lips, Martha Wainwright and Death Cab For Cutie number among them. Second, approach a cabbie. Every performance is shot entirely in the back of the cab (providing the driver says yes) and is shot in a single take. The final step is to post the videos to the internet for quality viral musical infamy.
This is probably the most exciting set of musical performances since Queen teamed up with David Bowie. This latest clip from the ‘Black Cab Sessions’ is the hundredth in the series and features Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy performing Black Captain in all his crusty glory, accompanied by the darling Angel Olsen. The pink furry hat and the handlebar mustache are proof of how no one will ever be cooler than BPB.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is performing around Australia during March this year and across the UK in April and May. Check the dates here.
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