Monday 7 January 2013
Sunday 6 January 2013
Friday 4 January 2013
Thursday 3 January 2013
First Listen: Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio
At the time of Keenan's death, she and Cargill were working on the soundtrack to a psychological thriller called Berberian Sound Studio, an independent film about a sound engineer who loses his mind while working on the set of a kitschy horror movie. It was the perfect project for Broadcast, whose music often mined the subconscious.
Cargill took Keenan's recordings for the score and pieced together a gorgeous tapestry of sound that's as serene as it is spooky. Almost devoid of drums or repetition, these tiny vignettes float by one after the other, no one track explicitly memorable on its own but unmistakably Broadcast when consumed in succession. It's rare that an original score works so well as an audio-only experience; in that regard, the Berberian Sound Studio album (out Jan. 8) recalls Popol Vuh's 1970s work for Werner Herzog. Visuals aren't necessary to lose yourself in this music. If anything, the album works best when the listener's eyes stay shut.
For fans of Trish Keenan and Broadcast, Berberian Sound Studio is a godsend. For those who haven't yet discovered the mysterious, wonderful music they made together, may it act as a gateway into one of the finest bands of the 21st century.
Otis Hart @'npr'
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Chavela Vargas (1919 - 2012)
...Even when Vargas was young and her voice still as transparent as mezcal, she danced with her lyrics tacuachito-style, cheek to cheek, pounded them on the bar, made them jump like dice, spat and hissed and purred like the woman jaguar she claimed to be and finished with a volley that entered the heart like a round of bullets from the pistol she stashed in her belt.Chavela Vargas
Tom Verlaine Signed and Inscribed Television Bootleg For Sale
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(Thanx Chuck!)
Richard Rowley: Dirty Wars
Richard Rowley on his film "Dirty Wars" which is premiering in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
Wednesday 2 January 2013
Girlz with Gunz #59394 (#FuquetheNRA)
By the time she was ready to purchase her own firearm, Cassandra felt confident enough to make her own selection. “And then,” she adds with a laugh, “my friends bought me a gun-warming gift — a bright purple range bag that I just love. And a box of ammo, and a cleaning kit..."
Tuesday 1 January 2013
Monday 31 December 2012
Exile's End of Year List
2012
My top 5 albums:
#5-2
(in no particular order)
Swans: The Seer/Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers/Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral/Scott Walker: Bisch Bosh
#1
Bvdub: All Is Forgiven
Best Box: Can's Lost Tapes
Best 12": Burial - Kindred
Embarrassment of the year:
Dexy's Midnight Runners comeback
Cover version of the year:
Dim Stars - Monkey/The Night Is Coming On (Live 1991)
Richard Hell - Thurston Moore - Don Fleming - Steve Shelly
Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib (2007)
Award winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy explores the human and
political consequences of one of the most bitter scandals of the war in
Iraq in this feature. In the 1960′s, a prison was built in Abu Ghraib,
an Iraqi city west of Baghdad, and during the regime of Saddam Hussein
it became a center of torture and abuse where political dissidents were
subjected to agonizing punishment or death.
Following the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, the prison was taken over by American military authorities, and was used as a holding facility for prisoners of war and suspected terrorists captured by U.S. forces.
The prison's reputation as a site of widespread abuse rose again when journalists discovered photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and humiliated in an ugly variety of ways by American soldiers, a scandal which had a major impact on international thinking about the war.
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib offers an in-depth look at the story behind the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, featuring interviews with observers on both sides of the national divide. Ghosts of Abu Ghraib received its world premiere in 2007.
Following the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, the prison was taken over by American military authorities, and was used as a holding facility for prisoners of war and suspected terrorists captured by U.S. forces.
The prison's reputation as a site of widespread abuse rose again when journalists discovered photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and humiliated in an ugly variety of ways by American soldiers, a scandal which had a major impact on international thinking about the war.
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib offers an in-depth look at the story behind the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, featuring interviews with observers on both sides of the national divide. Ghosts of Abu Ghraib received its world premiere in 2007.
RIP Nirbhaya
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Bollywood films sanctify pestering and stalking of women
10 reasons why India has a sexual violence problem
The gatekeepers?
...These figures present Israel (and the world ) with a very disturbing and frightening picture. It is no longer only Israel's detractors who are comparing the Israel Defense Forces with the Nazis. Now, albeit with certain reservations, Avraham Shalom is doing so as well. No longer is it only Israel's despised leftists who brandish the prophecies of philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz about the corrosive effects of the occupation and its power to turn Israel into a "Shin Bet state"; now, with certain reservations, Yuval Diskin admits it as well - and both Shalom and Diskin ignore the fact that they were among the parties who were responsible for the transgression.Via
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