Friday 25 June 2010
Hommage to Miriam Makeba @ Festival Rio Loco 21.06.2010
Hugh Masekela (bugle), Erickson Paliani (guitare), Sibongiseni Zulu (basse), Randal Skippers (piano), Lee-Roy Sauls (batterie), Francis Fuster (percussions) Thandiswa Mazwai (voix), The Mahotella Queens (voix), Vusi Mahlasela (voix), Zolani Mahola (voix)
3 hours 40 minutes playing time
Mick Karn is ill...
This is sad news. According to his website, Mick Karn, who we remember from Japan and Dali's Car among other projects, has been diagnosed with "advanced stage of cancer". To add insult to illness, Mick Karn's website has announced that the musician was in financial difficulties and needed to gather funds for treatment.
Anybody interested to participate in any way should scuttle over to Mick Karn's website for more info.
Hopefully the web can work its magic and support will show up. Let's wish Mick Karn the best.
(Thanks to mUSISTENz for the info.)
Thursday 24 June 2010
Charlotte Gainsbourg @ KEXP April 14, 2010.
"I was a little nervous to have actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg visit KEXP back in April, partly because there's a huge poster of Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson in my office. That could have made for an awkward introduction: "Nice to meet you, Charlotte. Hey, look, it's your mom, Jane Birkin, topless on the cover of your dad's groundbreaking album!"
Instead, I met Gainsbourg and her band down in our performance space, where they'd gathered to treat our listeners to a stripped-down acoustic set. She was visibly shy and nervous, and I learned that this was not only her first real tour, but also her first-ever live on-air session.
But once the music started, Gainsbourg really seemed to lose herself in the dreamy tracks from her third solo album, IRM, which gets its title from the French term for what Americans know as the MRI machine. Gainsbourg had a near-death experience in 2007, but as she explained, the sound of the MRI scan helped influence her latest album, and her collaborator Beck helped her spin that frightening situation into these beautiful songs.
It was also a delight to talk to Gainsbourg about her legendary father. She lit up, talking about her earliest memories of his music, and how his popularity has grown since his death in 1991. And I couldn't hold back from telling her that I felt her dad would be proud of her music, too."
(Kevin Cole - NPR)
"Heaven Can Wait"
[2 min 33 sec]
"Time of the Assassins"
[3 min 0 sec]
"Trick Pony"
[2 min 47 sec]
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Synthetic drugs popular as use of opiates wanes - UN
Opium production in Afghanistan is expected to fall sharply this year.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) also found that cocaine consumption has fallen significantly in the US in recent years.
But the number of cocaine users in Europe has doubled, it says.
"People snorting coke in Europe are killing the pristine forests of the Andean countries and corrupting governments in West Africa", UNODC director Antonio Maria Costa said.
Shifting consumption Developing countries are also seeing a rise in drug use, with heroin consumption up in eastern Africa and cocaine use up in West Africa and South America.
Demand for the synthetic drug ecstasy is falling or levelling off in Europe.
But the drug is becoming more popular in Asia.
"We will not solve the world drug problem by shifting consumption form the developed to the developing world", Mr Costa said.
In Europe the number of cocaine users has doubled to around four million in the last decade. The market is now worth $34bn, almost as much as that in North America.
However, world cocaine production has fallen by 12% to 18% in the past three years and the North American market is shrinking, thanks in part to police crackdowns in Colombia, a producer country, and transit country Mexico.
UNODC also found a downward trend in global heroin consumption.
It expects opium production to fall steeply in 2010 because of a blight that could wipe out a quarter of Afghanistan's poppy crop.
Drug use is moving away from cocaine and opiates and towards synthetic drugs such as amphetamines, the UN says.
In its World Drug Report it says it expects that soon there will be more people using synthetic drugs than opium, heroin and cocaine together. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) also found that cocaine consumption has fallen significantly in the US in recent years.
But the number of cocaine users in Europe has doubled, it says.
The shift in demand has led to South American drug cartels establishing new routes through West Africa.
Trafficking is causing instability in many developing countries, particularly in Africa and Latin America, the report says. "People snorting coke in Europe are killing the pristine forests of the Andean countries and corrupting governments in West Africa", UNODC director Antonio Maria Costa said.
Shifting consumption Developing countries are also seeing a rise in drug use, with heroin consumption up in eastern Africa and cocaine use up in West Africa and South America.
Demand for the synthetic drug ecstasy is falling or levelling off in Europe.
But the drug is becoming more popular in Asia.
"We will not solve the world drug problem by shifting consumption form the developed to the developing world", Mr Costa said.
In Europe the number of cocaine users has doubled to around four million in the last decade. The market is now worth $34bn, almost as much as that in North America.
However, world cocaine production has fallen by 12% to 18% in the past three years and the North American market is shrinking, thanks in part to police crackdowns in Colombia, a producer country, and transit country Mexico.
UNODC also found a downward trend in global heroin consumption.
It expects opium production to fall steeply in 2010 because of a blight that could wipe out a quarter of Afghanistan's poppy crop.
The Slits - Live at Primavera Sound 2010
The Slits, known for their fusion of punk and reggae sounds are one of the most significant female punk-rock bands in history. Both legendary and somewhat notorious there is a satiric, tongue-in-cheek quality to their songs. The Slits are loud, brash, bold and unrepentant. They never compromised their image or stance and their very presence threatened those that considered rock to be a male-only pursuit. In the late 1970's and early 1980's the band toured with legendary punks such as The Clash, The Buzzcocks and The Sex Pistols and they went on to influence many generations including The Gossip and Sonic Youth whom they played with in 2007. For all their originality and large cultural influence and contribution, the Slits have always remained proud outsiders and underground rebels.
Wednesday 23 June 2010
What Raymond Domenech’s 80-year-old mum said:
“I’d like to meet Mr Anelka and give him a piece of my mind as a mother,” said pensioner Mrs Domenech.
“It’s distressing to be insulted like that, because he is not just the coach but he is also my son. It’s a double insult to my son and to me as his mother.”
The North Korean victory against Brazil
The truth as shown on North Korean TV!
Don't believe the western media!
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