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My life in the bush of music. News about the artists that are important to me. Industry trends. Personal observations. Your views, too.
I think Joyce takes a narrow view. The US-backed dictatorship was monstrous, of course, and certainly put the country on a different track than it would have been on. Maybe as a result the music is different than it would have been.
Perhaps without Reagan and Thatcher we would have had 35 unbroken years of prog rock dominance in the US and England. To some people that would be good. For lovers of the Sex Pistols and the Clash and all that followed, not so good.
I totally revere the indie rock scene in Brazil. Check out Lulina at http://tramavirtual
Brazil has huge problems, but there is also much to be excited about, and not all of it is bossa nova!
"Bossa nova is a vision of Brazil as it should have been," says the singer
Joyce, who is organising a bossa nova 50th birthday concert at the Barbican
that will feature the style's originators and its new exponents. "We should
have been a wonderful, democratic country. Instead we had 21 years of
military dictatorship, something we are still paying for. So bossa nova
represents a different way of life; a culture more sophisticated than the
one we have today."
http://tinyurl.com/4c8yon
Al
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Check out the new tune 'From Cyberia With Love' at the Blind Kiwi Fillmore site at Soundclick. This particular little morsel is joint project of Blind Kiwi, Lu Flukur, and Ludwig Van Frankenstein of The Frost Heaves. Other tasty bluze toons by Blind Kiwi there, too...
I think the many stylistic shifts and unexpected elements keep it interesting and fun. Of course, the object of the game wasn't really to create unlistenable music, it was to show the absurdity of creating (art or politics or anything else) on the basis of public opinion polls. At least, I think that's the object. Maybe I should conduct a poll and see what other people think....
Honing in on an idea and not letting go of it for at least several minutes (at least) creates music that's much more unlistenable (and unwanted).
I offer up by way of example a couple of different tracks:
The Professor Builds An Escape Machine by Ernest Youngman at:
http://www.soundcli
All of these pieces at this site (http://www.soundcli
are just about unlistenable, but I figure this is about the worst.
I also recommend "Pending Doom" by Pseudojandek at
http://www.soundcli
I'm told it was prepared for a Jandek covers open mic event, and reportedly even hard core Jandek fans got a deer-in-the-
A link to the famous Komar & Melamid track:
"Hiphop tuba plus a soprano rapping about the Old West -- what's not to
like?"
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/ 04/17/25- minute-compositi o.html
I have to download this. I have a track by them on the "Revolutions Per
Minute (The Art Record)" album. On it they teach a classroom of art students
how to say "F*uck Your Mother" in Russian.
Al
Check out this song: 'Stuck' by WayneNCheeze.
... and your little friend too.
I may have missed my chance to meet the French Quiet Grrrl I talked about in my last post.
I was Walking through a park, when I heard guitar, and some sweet vocals. I walked around the hedge, and I saw two girls sitting on a bench with a black steel string acoustic guitar between them. They sounded really good.
I was trying to decide how I could look real casual-like and sit down next to them to listen, when two other guys got the same idea and plopped down in the empty spot.
After that they became inhibited, and the concert was over. As they walked away, I felt a wave of melancholy. I was thinking about how different it would be if my label was up and running. I could be real forthright, and there wouldn't be suspicion of my motivations, only elation at my interest....
I'd say, "Hey babe, hey sugar, how would yooze like to be big rawk starz?"
The Frost Heaves have posted a controversial new song "Assassino" on their Soundclick site.
Please, if you could be so kind as to check out the new song: 'Stuck'. I would be ever so grateful. I was hangin with my Parisian homies, Hank and Maury, and we be jammin and this is what came out
I am looking for a girl.
She will be in her mid-twenties, she will be playing her guitar ina café, wearing a black beret, and singing charming songs about snails, and magical kingdoms hidden in the basement of the Louvre.
When she was 17, she had a small part in the movie, "Plan 18 From Outer Space." Or was it, when she was 18, she had a small part in "Plan 17 From Outer Space"?
Whatever.
I will buy one of her CDs, and strike up an email correspondence with her, rave about her to my friends until they get quite tired of it, and start to wonder if there is something wrong with me.
She may think I'm nice, or she may think I'm a creepy stalker, and ask me to leave her alone. One thing is for certain – she will resist any effort I make to influence her music. When I suggest she cover "My Old Shotgun" (www.soundclick.
I have spent hours over the last two days, walking all over Paris, and all I've seen so far is a guy playing guitar, an amped up accordion player, and three hippies playing drums. But it is destiny that I will find her.
Oh, yes. I will find her!
God, wouldn't you know it. the first show he's done in ages that I wanted to stream.... and most of the first hour (with the beatles covers) is not there. Who knows what gems I missed? but still for the best version of Let It Be ever recorded, check out the Shang Shang Typhoon version (link in the "listen again" section below) - you have to wait out an aimless and pointless version of Norwegian wood, but it's worth the wait.
In fact, it's a life changing experience.
Spin the Globe: Live Locally, Groove Globally
Fridays 10-noon (Pacific) on KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia, and streaming live
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THIS WEEK'S SPIN THE GLOBE was a tribute to the global influence of The Beatles, featuring an hour of Beatles covers from around the planet in a multitude of styles. Plus new releases and concert previews. See the playlist for complete show details.
LISTEN AGAIN:
Missed the show? Want to hear something again? Catch it in the limited-time archives on the STG Listen page (http://www.earball.
UPCOMING EVENTS: Gaelica, Brazilian Carnival, Fubuki Daiko, John Cruz, Vagabond Opera, Debashish Bhattacharya, Dave Stringer, World Rhythm Festival, Procession of the Species, and more. For details, see the frequently updated Spin the Globe calendar
SPIN THE GLOBE/KAOS CHARTS
* Orlando Julius's "Super Afro Soul" is #1 on this week's KAOS New World Top 10 chart
* Freshlyground's "Ma'Cheri" is #1 on the KAOS New World Adds chart
* Dengue Fever's "Venus on Earth" is #1 on Spin The Globe's March Top 10 World Music Albums chart
view current charts
Next on Spin The Globe: New World Music Releases
(you know you can listen online Fridays 10-noon, right?)
THE FUTURE:
April 18: Guitars Around the World
April 25: Global Percussion
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