Mingiedi Mawangu passed away last night (15/4), in Kinshasa. He was 85. He founded Konono No.1 in the 1960s and invented his own electrified likembe, which gave Konono No.1 its distinctive sound. He led the band and toured with them until a few years ago.
He will be dearly missed by his son Augustin and the rest of the band. The funeral will take place next week
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Friday 17 April 2015
Wednesday 15 April 2015
Coming October 6th
M Train is a journey through eighteen “stations.” It begins in
the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black
coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and
writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts
fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape
of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul
in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin; from
the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith
buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath,
Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s
craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including
her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose
untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the
consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this
exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white
Polaroids taken by Smith herself
The Apartments - Twenty One
I can just tell that this is going to be very high in the song o'the year charts come December here at Exile Towers
Tuesday 14 April 2015
Ryan Adams and The Shining - Live @Coachella (12/4/15)
01. Let It Ride
02. Banter (Galaga)
03. Stay With Me
04. This House Is Not For Sale
05. Dirty Rain
06. Banter (Dirty Rain, Band Intros)
07. Blue Light
08. Magnolia Mountain
09. Banter (That's Music)
10. When the Stars Go Blue
11. Banter (17 Minute Guitar Solo)
12. Oh My Sweet Carolina
13. Banter (Thank You's)
14. Come Pick Me Up > Outro
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Man - Bananas (Live @The Roundhouse 12/76)
Here's a photo of one of my oldest friends, ex Fall manager Richard Thomas 'interviewing' Deke Leonard & Terry Williams at his Laugharne Festival last weekend. The session was filmed for BBC Wales so hopefully it will surface in the not too distant future
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