Saturday 27 July 2013
NUKEMAP
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Dropping a 'Little Boy' in the centre of Melbourne certainly would get me in my suburb of Fairfield
Radical thinkers: Wilhelm Reich's Sex-Pol
Wilhelm Reich, one of the early pioneers of Freudian psychoanalysis,
wrote widely on sexuality, feminism and politics. But he is most famous
for his 'inventions', the now discredited orgone energy accumulator and
the cloudbuster. At the Freud museum in London, Stella Sandford discusses Reich's legacy and asks if he has anything to teach us today
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♪♫ Atoms For Peace - The Clock
Recorded live at London's Roundhouse on 25th July 2013. Watch and
download the whole set or individual tracks in high quality MP4 on http://www.soundhalo.com
Friday 26 July 2013
♪♫ Purity Supreme - Always ∀lready (EP)
Purity Supreme was the collaboration project name used by Leslie Winer & Christophe Van Huffel for this 4 song EP recorded over a period of a few days in May 2011.
Track Listing:
Milk St.
Half Past 3 Cowboy
Famous Inhabitants of Louth
Dunderhead
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Videos by Sébastien Chou
As Leslie said on Facebook:
Pleases me to note that the (very few) reviews for this record were significantly more generous when the reviewer was under the impression I was a MAN !
Get a load of this purple prose for the Man Singing:
"The main attraction to the listener is the singing-intoning voice of the lead fellow, who may be the French half of the act. Cracked and dusty his vocal cords be, whether through mannered device or naturally desiccated, trying to convey the effect of a dissolute and broken man. Just right for followers of Wm Burroughs we might think, but this sort of prose-speak-sing also shades into areas once occupied by Nick Cave or Michael Gira, as does the lugubrious and dense content. The lyrics are highly ambiguous, even when they seem straight to the point and use plain English at all times. I like to hear multiple repetitions of slightly mysterious phrases in songs and Purity Supreme does this trick very well. The first song keeps saying “It’s Nice To See You”, when the mood of the singer and indeed the music itself is expressing the exact opposite of that sentiment, and it’s a song that wishes we would just go home and stay there. Angst-ridden steel strings and a relentless drum pattern make this snarky item a vicious twin brother to Leonard Cohen’s later works. The second song is slightly more recognisable as something a weary Lou Reed might have recorded at any time between 1975 and 1988, and with its basic guitar and drum sound could almost pass for any decent slab of indie art-rock music. On the flip, even more words and more repetitions in the two remaining songs. So many words, these songs are more like recited poems or short stories really, very much like a slightly nastier Tom Waits or what we might hear if Charles Bukowski turned his throaty husk to song. Indeed the words are privileged by appearing in full on the front cover. And there’s a very strong cinematic component too, with vivid film noir images somehow encoded in the very sound of the record. Narrators alluding to scenes unknown, to backstories we cannot know, and delivered with a snarling curl to the lip at all times. The creators here are the French musician Christophe Van Huffel, and the American writer-composer Leslie Winer. Quite unusual, muscular, and opaque music from these offbeat modern beatniks."
#SlightlyNastierTomWaits - I'll take it ! Damn, son.
Carried Off
In March 2011, Rose Candis had the worst lunch of her life. Sitting at a restaurant in Shaoguan, a small city in South China, the American mother tried hard not to vomit while her traveling companion translated what the man they were eating with had just explained: her adopted Chinese daughter Erica had been purchased, and then essentially resold to her for profit. The papers the Chinese orphanage had shown her documenting how her daughter had been abandoned by the side of a road were fakes. The tin of earth the orphanage had given her so that her daughter could always keep a piece of her home with her as she grew up in the U.S. was a fraud, a pile of dirt from the place her daughter’s paperwork was forged, not where she was born. Candis had flown thousands of miles to answer her daughter Erica’s question—who are my birth parents?—but now she was further from the answer than ever...
Music of Resistance: Race To Fight Racism (Al Jazeera 2009)
For almost 15 years, Asian Dub Foundation has delivered uncompromising messages of social change - looking at prejudice against Britons of Asian descent. The first episode of Music of Resistance - a six-part series which tells the stories of musicians who fight repression and sing about injustices - looks at Asian Dub Foundation's efforts to steer talented, inner-city youngsters away from gangs and violence and toward music
Music of Resistance
♪♫ Asian Dub Foundation w/ Flutebox - Hovering
Asian Dub Foundation with Nathan "Flutebox" Lee perform a stunning live
session of 'Hovering' from their forth-coming album, The Signal and the
Noise
Burka Avenger: the Pakistani cartoon challenging the Taliban on girls' education
Watch a trailer for Burka Avenger, the first animated series to be
produced in Pakistan. The cartoon was created by local pop star Haroon
and stars a burka-clad female superhero who takes on her enemies using a
martial art called Takht Kabaddi, which uses books and pens as weapons.
The series is intended to provide a positive role model for girls in
the face of the Taliban's opposition to female education
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Thursday 25 July 2013
♪♫ The Howlin' Wolf Story: The Secret History of Rock and Roll (Director's Cut 2003)
Howlin' Wolf is a legendary figure in blues music, with an influence
that has seeped into the pantheon of rock 'n' roll via influential
figures namechecking him, such as Keith Richards. His life story is
presented here, tracing his career back to its roots, and following his
battle against hardship as he strove to get his music across to a wider
audience. Unfortunately this only occurred posthumously, but luckily
director Don McGlynn has exhumed a welter of material from the vaults,
much of which has never previously been made public. Discover a blues
original for yourself with this fascinating, in-depth documentary.
Includes: Rare footage of Howlin' Wolf presented by the Rolling Stones on Shindig performing "How Many More Years?"First presentation of previously unknown or unavailable performance footage. Drummer Sam Lay's rare, never-before-seen home movies of stars of the Chicago Blues clubs from the early '60s. Newly discovered photos of Howlin' Wolf and his band. First filmed interview with Howlin' Wolf's family and exclusive interviews with Hubert Sumlin, Billy Boy Arnold, Marshall Chess, and many others
Includes: Rare footage of Howlin' Wolf presented by the Rolling Stones on Shindig performing "How Many More Years?"First presentation of previously unknown or unavailable performance footage. Drummer Sam Lay's rare, never-before-seen home movies of stars of the Chicago Blues clubs from the early '60s. Newly discovered photos of Howlin' Wolf and his band. First filmed interview with Howlin' Wolf's family and exclusive interviews with Hubert Sumlin, Billy Boy Arnold, Marshall Chess, and many others
♪♫ Little Axe - Storm Is Rising
Taken From the second Little Axe album 'Slow Fuse'
MUSICIANS:
Skip McDonald - Vocals, Guitar
Kevin Gibbs -Lead Vocal
Saz Bell - Vocals
Keith Leblanc - Drums
Scott Firth - Bass
Doug Wimbish - Bass
Adrian Sherwood - Mixologist
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(Bonus repost of Dutch Radio '2 Meter Sessies' from November 1996. Little Axe recorded 'Return', 'Ride On', 'Black Diamond Train', 'Storm is Rising and 'Going Down Slow', but 'Return' and 'Black Diamond Train' weren't part of the original broadcast. The technicians were blown away by Keith LeBlanc and Doug Wimbish, 'the tightest rhythm section ever recorded' in their studio.)
More info on Little Axe HERE
COMING SOON: Little Axe's 'Return (Essentials & Remixes)'. Compilation CD on Echo Beach with extra 'digital' disc
(Thanx Owen!)
MUSICIANS:
Skip McDonald - Vocals, Guitar
Kevin Gibbs -Lead Vocal
Saz Bell - Vocals
Keith Leblanc - Drums
Scott Firth - Bass
Doug Wimbish - Bass
Adrian Sherwood - Mixologist
+
(Bonus repost of Dutch Radio '2 Meter Sessies' from November 1996. Little Axe recorded 'Return', 'Ride On', 'Black Diamond Train', 'Storm is Rising and 'Going Down Slow', but 'Return' and 'Black Diamond Train' weren't part of the original broadcast. The technicians were blown away by Keith LeBlanc and Doug Wimbish, 'the tightest rhythm section ever recorded' in their studio.)
More info on Little Axe HERE
COMING SOON: Little Axe's 'Return (Essentials & Remixes)'. Compilation CD on Echo Beach with extra 'digital' disc
(Thanx Owen!)
Such Hawks Such Hounds (Full Documentary)
Such Hawks Such Hounds explores the music and musicians of the American hard rock underground circa 1970-2007, focusing on the psychedelic and '70s proto-metal-derived styles that have in recent years formed a rich body of unclassifiable sounds.
A great documentary film by John Srebalus about heavy music of USA. Music , interviews, live and some of the heavy metal, stoner, doom and drone legends from 1970 till now. More than one hour of great music, historic point of views, attitude and great people.
Ad Break: 'Fist Fuck'
Just fantasising what I'd like to do with those BIG red hands. Starting with whatever artwanker 'creative' came up with the idea. I then might move on to Rossi and see if the hand fits through that 'hole in the nose where all the cocaine goes'. As for Parfitt, I might just pat him on the head as he really is like that annoying shaggy haired mutt that insists upon following you home every time despite repeated shouts of 'fugoff'!
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