Billy Gould: The Global Village...more than just a modem. How about, "real life"??
What is generally known as "world" music is a misnomer. Somehow, this category has become associated with a nostalgic, romanticized, and sometimes even condescending view of other (non-US) cultures. To me, the real "world" music consists of those modern bands, who make today's music IN THEIR OWN CONTEXT, but with their own identity.
In these modern times, we have the power to cross-pollinate cultures and ideas more freely than ever. Or, at least, we do in theory. Yet, thanks to the inevitability of big business marketing, that doesn't happen and everything we hear seems to be a derivative of the USA or the UK.
Remember, just because you haven't heard about it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and this is what KOOLARROW Records is all about: bringing light (and ears) to a diverse range of music previously denied any semblance of mass attention. Read more
evilbitch666.com: Alexander Hacke is best known for his work with experimental group Einstürzende Neubauten, which in 2005 celebrate their 25th year anniversary. Neubauten, something of a musical institution in their native Germany (actually sent to represent the Country at the 1986 World Expo), are widely regarded around the world as one of the founding fathers of “industrial” music, influencing later bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Ministry, among others.
However, Hacke has a strong musical resume in his own right, playing guitar for Crime and the City Solution (featuring members of The Birthday Party), Jever Mountain Boys, and Italy’s Gianna Nannini. He has produced albums for Klaus Kinski, anarchist songwriter Fred Alpi, Miranda Sex Garden, and Meret Becker. And of recent note, he has produced and composed for various films, including “Gegen die Wand" (Head On), directed by Fatih Akin and awarded with the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival (and which prominently features the track “Sugarpie” off “Sanctuary”), and is currently producing the music for Akin’s upcoming film “Crossing the Bridge/The Sound of Istanbul. Read More
"Gleich in einer Doppelrolle tritt Fatih Akin bei den diesjährigen Filmfestspielen in Cannes auf. Er präsentiert seinen Dokumentarfilm "Crossing the Bridge" - eine Annäherung an die Stadt Istanbul und ihre Musik - im Wettbewerb außerhalb der Konkurrenz. Und er vergibt unter der Federführung von Emir Kusturica am Ende des Festivals die Goldene Palme für den besten Film."
Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell , and Hong Kong's Cityscape
Wong Kin Yuen: Sf films such as Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell take a deep interest in the Hong Kong urbanscape at the turn of the century. With its history of dislocation, migration, and marginality in its colonial days, Hong Kong emerges as a model city for the sf genre of "future noir"; its overcrowded, disjunctive cityscape provides a perfect setting for multiculturalism in a postmodern ontext. This article takes readers on a guided tour of a unique shopping mall at the hub of Hong Kong urbanscape, Times Square, as an illustration of how we can read out of it an "urban secret located at the intersection" of sf and the postmodern.Read more PDF file
download.com: Alt-country combined with drum loops and electronic effects? Only in Germany. But the results are surprisingly true to the genre, considering Klaus Patzak's restrained vocals and slow-burn tempo. Patzak's songs simmer with a spaghetti-western feel that makes Broken Radio's music uniquely atmospheric--and unusually fun.
kraak.net: Guillaume Graux first came to our attention with his visuals when we asked him to contribute these on our festival in 2001. Later on we discovered he was also making music. At the start, he was clearly influenced by Mego/Sahko/Touch but within a couple of months this influence became less obvious throughout the introduction of guitars which makes his music a kind of haunting trip somewhere between Pita and Fahey. Somehow threatening but softly gliding into a realm of beauty and comfort. A treasure island for sound research where the real listeners are the real winners. More info and MP3 downloads
paristransatlantic.com: "Unlike the other venerable pioneers of electronic music on both sides of the Atlantic, Tod Dockstader didn't arrive in the studio with his head stuffed of highfalutin' serial rhetoric or music conservatory dogma. His background as a cartoonist and sound engineer (which followed studies at university in Art, Literature and Abnormal Psychology) provided him with a refreshingly unpretentious hands-on attitude to sound and sound-producing equipment, a curious and playful ear and a knack for making do with whatever was at hand." More info
mercandede.com: "Mercan Dede believes that when you put digital, electronic sounds together with hand-made, human ones, you can create universal language, capable of uniting old and young, ancient and modern, East and West. It’s a bold claim, but the Turkish-born and Montreal-based musician/producer/DJ has the career and the music to back it up. When he takes the stage with his group Secret Tribe, he hovers at the side behind his turntables and electronics, occasionally picking up a traditional wooden flute, or ney to float in sweet, breathy melodies, while masters of the kanun (zither), clarinet, darbuka (hand drum) and whatever other instruments he’s decided to include that night, ornament his grooves and spin magical, trance melodies to match the whirling of the group’s spectacular dervish dancer, Mira Burke. "
- Dance, Song, Drama - Bollywood: the Big Picture
- Cinema of Language and Region
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Ubu.com:: "Acclaimed as a surrealist masterpiece, Un Chien andalou aggressively disconnects itself from narrative flow. The creators of this short film. Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, fully intended there to be no links between successive scenes. Fortunately this didn't inhibit their dreaming up of some of the most striking moments ever to be projected upon the silver screen. The opening focuses on a man (Luis Buñuel) stropping his cut-throat razor, honing it to a perfect edge. Stepping onto the balcony, he gazes at the moon. This celestial orb is instantly replaced with a woman and, enlarging rapidly, her left eye. The bare blade then descends on her unprotected pupil, a graphic incident. " Read more + download
WNYC.org: Songwriter Devendra Banhart joins host David Garland for an in-studio performance of his recent songs. With a unique delivery and sound, Devendra's voice is startling and fascinating listeners at his performances and on his new CD, "Oh Me, Oh My."
wnyc.org: Antony and the Johnsons join host David Garland to perform and present their music in the WNYC studio. Antony is noted for the passion, beauty and intensity of his voice, and Laurie Anderson describes Antony's singing as "the most exquisite thing that you will hear in your life." Antony began performing in the '90s during late-night punk-drag-cabaret shows at the Pyramid Club, and his new album, "I Am a Bird Now," is beginning to grab a wide audience, with its provocative blend of romantic music, intense passion, and lyrics that explore aspects of personal and gender identity.
<img src="swen.antville.org" align="left"hspace="3"> neubauten.org: No Beauty Without Danger tells the true story of Einstürzende Neubauten. Blixa Bargeld, Andrew Unruh, Alexander Hacke, Mark Chung, FM Einheit, Rudolf Moser, Jochen Arbeit and numerous other key players speak on dignity, on self-determination and manipulation, on creative discipline and drug excess, on Kango hammers and architectural criticism.
Max Dax and Robert Defcon recorded and compiled No Beauty Without Danger based on 43 authorized interviews. Much myth and media hype is revealed as such. At the same time, Einstürzende Neubauten allow deep insight into their working methods, sound research and the band's history -- all in their own words.
The books are hardcover, limited to 500 copies in each language, and will only be available on the 25th Anniversary Tour and through this website. More info here
insound.com: Jaga has become something of a musical phenomena in Norway since they started 9 years ago. Not only is this 10 piece instrumental band regarded as one of the most exciting and innovative in Norway, the members are all involved in other musical projects and have in one way or another contributed to almost every significant recording to come out of that part of the world in the last five years. With no boundaries and an arsenal that includes trumpets, trombone, electric guitar, bass, tuba, two bass clarinets, Fender Rhodes, vibraphone and a rack of electronics, Jaga create timeless music. Melodic, hypnotizing, delicate and subtle.
I just listend to the archived version of Rhythm and Jews from radio wnyc wich featured David Krakauer and rapper "So-Called", the last third of the featured Theo Bleckmann which talked about his career as a singer and performing artist. He promoted a performance of him and said, that he also will perform Kraftwerk's "Das Modell" which reminded me to check for th release date of the new Kraftwerk live CD. Minimum - Maximum is allready available at Amazon.com and will be shipping from Amazon.de from the 6th of June.
allmusic.com: "Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos) was one of several female singer/songwriters who combined the stark lyrical attack of alternative rock with a distinctly '70s musical approach. Her music falls between the orchestrated meditations of Kate Bush and the stripped-down poetics of Joni Mitchell. In addition to reviving the singer/songwriter traditions of the '70s, Amos revived the piano as a rock & roll instrument. With her 1992 album, Little Earthquakes, Amos built a dedicated following that continued to expand with her second album, Under the Pink." Read more
A sampling of what prominent film critics wrote in their reviews of the earlier "Star Wars" films 
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Nosferatu is available at archive.org !!!
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