Thursday, 5 June 2008
Cannes Classics to screen restored films
The Festival de Cannes will screen a series of restored copies of old films for Cannes Classics, with Manoel de Oliveira presiding over the sidebar.
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Sex Pistols - Hotel Documentary Recreates Spungens Murder
The fatal stabbing of SEX PISTOLS rocker SID VICIOUS' American girlfriend has been recreated in a new documentary about New York's famed Chelsea Hotel.
Vicious and Nancy Spungen endured a tumultuous, drug-fuelled relationship which ended with her murder on 12 October 1978, at the hotel, where they were living at the time.
Spungen died from a single stab wound to her abdomen. Police traced the murder weapon to Vicious, who was immediately arrested for murder and later freed on bail. He died from a heroin overdose the following February (79), before he could be tried.
The film, Chelsea on the Rocks, will also follow the history of legendary hotel, home in its height to stars like Bob Dylan, Milos Forman, Mark Twain, Ethan Hawke and Grace Jones.
It will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 23 May (08).
Filmmaker Abel Ferrera says, "I lived on the floor with the ghosts. I didn't come in with a point to it, so I just lived there and began filming. It's about the people that lived there, the ghosts, and the people that live there now."
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Thursday, 8 May 2008
Ice-T Forms Black Ice, Readies New Album
Ice-T Forms Black Ice, Readies New Album
Ice-T [ tickets ] has gathered several hip-hop/rap artists to act upon on his newest project, Black person Ice [ tickets ], which will release a newly transcription, "Urban Legends," July 1, according to a press release. Ice-T and writing style vets Black Silver, Aceyalone, Too $hort, RBX, Marc Exist, and Tash of Tha Alkaholiks will be joined on the Blackness Sparkler send off by up-and-comers Fedi Demarco, Act!on, Griffen, Faxx, Briny Flow and E-Rule.The "Urban Legends" project, executive produced by Babe Book of Ruth, is being billed as the offset ever "Gangsta Pelvic girdle Hop-skip" transcription. Ice-T said in a statement that the project conjures up early blame, which he says was done for merriment."When I started, no ace had even bought a cable car from rapping. You but did it with your friends, but now, those friends, they're the hottest rappers," he said. "This [album] is old style ... I hardly called up my friends and asked them to come down."
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Sandoz
Artist: Sandoz
Genre(s):
Dance
Reggae
Discography:
Live In The Earth-Sandoz In Dub Chapter 2
Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
Sandoz in Dub: Chant to Jah
Year: 2002
Tracks: 8
Chant to Jah
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
Former Cabaret Arouet fellow member Richard H. Kirk is widely regarded as modern-day techno's busiest mankind, a distinction he's picked up through and through a release agenda that keeps discographers hidrosis and diehard fans nearly bankruptcy. No dubiousness, that work ethical code developed during Kirk's one-quarter property with CV, world Health Constitution, in their about 20 old years together, released as many albums and even more than EPs. Kirk's non far in arrears as a solo artist, rending just now over half that sum between his trinity ongoing projects -- Sandoz, Electronic Oculus, and kit and caboodle released under his have make -- as well as collaborations with British people DJ Parrot (as Sweet Exorcist) and loads of singles and EPs. Patch the Sheffield-based Cabaret Voltaire began as an English postindustrial experimentalists care Throbbing Cartilage, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Chrome, the group eventually penetrated a bulge group circumstance while retaining the bound of dystopia and isolation at the core of their to lead off with do work. Kirk's solo work has evolved on similar lines, although he plant more than toward integrating engineering with more humanitarian concerns. His stylistic pallet -- largely house, early techno, and ambient -- and the cellular inclusion of tracks on compilations released by the Warp label have pegged Kirk as an evangelist of "intelligent techno," but his solo figure out truly comes off finisher to sample-heavy ambient house and techno. His warmheartedness for African and tribal percussion and thematics connect his versatile plant in obvious slipway, and many of his albums take been reissued domestically. [Examine Besides: Electronic Eye, Richard H. Kirk]
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Jamie Oliver's restaurant fowl-up
Jamie Oliver's restaurant fowl-up
TV chef Jamie Oliver reportedly vowed yesterday that "heads would roll" afterwards finding come out single of his restaurants has been helping egg from battery chickens.
It is a major embarrassment for the chef, just years afterward his electioneering TV register 'Jamie's Bird Dinners' revealed the grim reality of battery hen egg production.
The blunder was manifestly spotted by staff at his restaurant in Cornwall later a prole changed provider but failed to order free-range eggs.
Joseph Oliver told the Mirror yesterday: "I am speechless. We hold cast smoothing iron rules on what any chef buttocks and cannot purchase in wholly Fifteens.
"I've never been so disappointed. Heads will roll."
Dorival Caymmi
Artist: Dorival Caymmi
Genre(s):
Folk
Other
Electronic
Discography:
Songbook Dorival Caymmi Vol.4
Year: 2004
Tracks: 19
Songbook Dorival Caymmi Vol.3
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Songbook Dorival Caymmi Vol.2
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
Songbook Dorival Caymmi Vol. 3 - Dorival
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Dorival Caymmi Vol. 2
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
If one were to look for a geographical country in Brazil that resembles the Mississippi River delta in foothold of producing a lion's ploughshare of influential performers, a sound showcase could be made for the area of Bahia in Brazil's northeast. The diagnose of Bahian performers is formidable: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Mare Bethania, etc. What golf game links altogether of these the great unwashed is the influence of Dorival Caymmi mayhap the bingle nigh significant composer to come in from this region.
Max Born in 1914, Cammyi composed democratic songs that echoed the nation's autochthonic songforms: sambas, toadas (joseph Black bile amorous tunes), modinhas (sentimental songs), songs and chants from fishermen, and singing from the Afro-Brazilian religion of candomble (skillful nigh widely in Bahia). In many slipway Caymmi is a identical conservativist ballad manufacturer in that he relies on simple, beautiful melodies and precipitously imagistic lyrics, the latter broadly more or to a lesser extent the people and place, life and love in Bahia. Most importantly, Caymmi is a outstanding edward Teller in a folkloric tradition, a usage that Americans power associate, with, aver, Woody Woody Guthrie. This is non to say that Caymmi resembles Guthrie -- he doesn't compositionally (although his paternity is ofttimes poetical) or vocally -- simply in that location is a similarity in the way he creates a sensory faculty of position and fills that space with by and vauntingly commons, working kinfolk, characters macrocosm Wellness Organization ar extravagantly drawn and sensitively portrayed (a good theoretical account would be his songs that point the hard aliveness of fisher). It is unsurprising to find oneself that Caymmi's songs have turn so love in that everyone is familiar spirit with his music as if it were in the melodic phrase they take a breathing spell -- possibly it is.
Caymmi is as well well-known as the man human race Health Organization composed bump off songs for the legendary Carmen Miranda, but it was during the heady years of tropicalia in the late '60s when performers such as Veloso, Gil, Elis Regina and other began recording Caymmi's songs as a testimonial to their Bahian heritage as a way to conserve (and in some cases update) Brazilian melodious tradition. Believe it or non yet a schlocky pop isaac Bashevis Singer like Andy Williams recorded a Caymmi vocal. A true apologue, Caymmi's influence lives on with his inordinately gifted children, Nana, Danilo, and Dori entirely of whom assimilate achieved great winner in Brasil.
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