[E.O.M.S.]

Saturday 28 February 2009

Paul Kelly - A to Z downloads (O)

Paul Kelly @ Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 5/02/09.
(Photo by TimN)

Just a reminder that the 'O' downloads are now available here.
(THE) OLDEST STORY IN THE BOOK/OUR SUNSHINE/OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES
"Song number one is a Tom, Dick and Harry story. Our three heroes get mixed up with June and the moon. Tom gets the girl, Harry gets the song and Dick’s just happy to be in a rock and roll band.
Our Sunshine is the title of a novel by Robert Drewe based on the life and times of Ned Kelly. “Our Sunshine” is supposedly what Ned’s dad used to call him when he was a child. I wrote this song with Mick Thomas in Mt Macedon.
Truman Capote once wrote a (long) short story based on a day he spent accompanying a cleaning woman on her rounds in various apartments in Manhattan. She smokes dope and plays records as she goes about her work. The great Louvin Brothers’ song, A Tiny Broken Heart, also lurks at the back of Other People’s Houses.
Have a good month."
PK, Feb 27th 2009.

(If you go there tonight and have missed out on the 'N' songs, you can still download them too.
That could be you Loki!)

Cool

FROST
The Lives and Culture of the Sami People
by
Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen

"The Sami (Lapps) are the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. Their language and culture is unique to the region. In Norway, the Sami number about 45,000. There are two main types of Sami – the nomadic people and the sea people. My mother belongs to a family of nomadic Sami who have herded reindeer on the northern mountain plains for centuries. My father belongs to the sea Sami, who lived off farming and fisheries.
The nomadic Sami have traditionally moved throughout the region with their reindeer herds. They follow the reindeer across wide expanses of land in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. The reindeer has been essential to the survival of the Sami, who have lived in northern Scandinavia for thousands of years. Their culture is one of hardship, driven by the extreme survival skills needed to get through the long grueling winters on the arctic plains, where the temperature can dip below –50 degrees Fahrenheit. The reindeer has been absolutely essential to their existence, providing the Sami with food, clothing, shelter and tools.
Today, only 1,500 Sami are still herding reindeer. Many have moved to different parts of the country, or lead “ordinary” modern lives. As they abandon their traditional way of life, the Sami culture is also rapidly disappearing.
This is the subject of this project, which consists of photographs shot between 1990 and the present. As with many indigenous cultures, the increasingly aggressive onset of modernity and technology quickly supplants the old way of life. Therefore, I want to document this culture before it is completely gone.
Traditionally, the nomadic Sami herded their animals using dogs and sleighs. Today, the most modern Sami employ helicopters, trucks and snowmobiles. The people I photographed still use traditional methods and dogs, but also some modern tools, such as snowmobiles. They have a traditional gender system, where the women make clothing, tools and souvenirs from the reindeer, while the men are the herders. In more modern families, the women work regular jobs and have university degrees, because the traditional trade is not sufficient to employ an entire family.
I have been proud of my Sami identity since I was a child. When I grew up, I took my mother’s maiden name (Utsi) as part of my name.
Like most indigenous peoples around the world, the Sami were oppressed and mistreated. They were not allowed to use their native language in school, but were instead forced to learn Norwegian. My parents could not speak to each other in their mother tongue even during recess. Eventually, this resulted in the Sami rejecting their own culture and heritage. Many Sami emigrated to the United States because of the persecution they experienced in Norway.
This would also affect my life. My parents did not want their children to experience shame and inferiority because they spoke the Sami language and came from a Sami family, so neither my sibling or I learned to speak Sami. The situation changed in the 1970s. The Sami regained pride in their heritage and identity. The Norwegian government has formally issued an apology to the Sami people.
I consider my documentation of the Sami to be a continuing project. I would like to expand the project to include Sweden, Finland and Russia in the future."

Here.

'Inga'
"I often saw Inga like this. She could quietly gaze out the window for several minutes. I could sometimes almost see her life through her wrinkles, like a tree's annual rings."
— Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen
(Thanx for the permission to post these here.)
More Photos here.

Joy

More photographs of Sami people by Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen can be found here.

Sami flag

The Sami flag was inaugurated during the Sami Conference in Åre, Sweden on 15 August 1986. It was the result of a competition for which many suggestions were entered. The winning design was submitted by the artist Astrid Båhl from Skibotn, Norway.
The motif was derived from the shaman's drum and the poem "Paiven parneh" ("Sons of the Sun") by the south Sami Anders Fjellner describing the Sami as sons and daughters of the sun. The flag has the Sami colours, red, green, yellow and blue, and the circle represents the sun (red) and the moon (blue).

More on the Sami people can be found here.

Sofia Jannok

'Irene'

Sofia Jannok was born in 1982 at Gällivare in the top of Sweden and usually sings in Sami.
Her new album 'áššogáttis / by the embers' was released last month.

(sigh!)

(My thanx to 'Herr B' for turning me on (ahem!) to this beautiful singer.)

(Another sigh!)

Running out of ideas

(2009)

(2003)

Interesting post regarding U2's 'No Line On The Horizon' artwork from 'Dr. Feelgoed' here.
More U2 'coincidences' relating to this cover from 'The Guardian' here.
While we are on the subject of Bozo sorry, Bono, 'Ultra151' brought to my attention an interesting article by Eamon McCann on U2's tax situation.
Read it here.

REPOST - Bob Quine

Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

Lou Reed - Waves of Fear

Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation

REPOST - Quintessential

Bob Quine
1942 - 2004

"Someday Quine will be recognized for the pivotal figure that he is on his instrument, he is the first guitarist to take the breakthroughs of early Lou Reed and James Williamson and work through them to a new, individual vocabulary, driven into odd places by obsessive attention to 'On The Corner' era Miles Davis." (Lester Bangs)

Ikue Mori, Bob Quine & Marc Ribot - El Dorado
Jody Harris & Bob Quine - Flagpole Jitters
Bob Quine & Fred Maher - Village
Bob Quine - Film Music 9 (unreleased)
You can get them all here.

Quine's favourite piece of music 'He Loved Him Madly' by Miles Davis here.
Bob Quine on Lester Bangs here.
Recent article on Quine's death by James Marshall and more music here and here.
Richard Hell on Quine here.

Guyz With Gunz # 1

Richard Hell as 'Nick Detroit'.

A complete guide to Richard Hell's archive which he sold to the New York University Library can be found here.

Fuck rock'n'roll

Bonus:
Television (with Richard Hell on bass) 'Fuck Rock'n'Roll'.

Inspirations

Richard Hell

Bio

I first became aware of Richard Hell through a couple of articles in the English music papers NME and Melody Maker back in 1975. These were reports of the then nascent CBGB's scene and featured Patti Smith, The Ramones and Television ( a band to watch obviously!) amongst others.
Richard Hell had been a member of Television and had then formed The Heartbreakers with ex-New York Doll Johnny Thunders, sharing together a love of no frills rock and hard drugs.
There was just something about him that captivated me and led to a lifelong interest.
His style, his intelligence and mostly I suppose his attitude.
(In a piece that he wrote for 'Hit Parader' back then, that was ostensibly about David Johansen, but which was really nothing less than his manifesto he said that rock'n'roll' was all about attitude and that 100% wasn't enough it had to be more like 300%!)
Of course it wouldn't be until 1977 that I would get to hear his actual music with the release of The Voidoid's 'Blank Generation' album which also featured the incendiary guitar work of Robert Quine.

Richard Hell & the Voidoids
'Blank Generation EP' & 'The Kid With The Replaceable Head' singles are available at 'Pukekos' here.