March 2012
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Cui Jian (崔健), affectionately known in his country as 老崔 (Old Cui), is an ethnically Korean musician from Beijing that would abandon his position as a trumpeter in the China Philarmonic Orchestra to start China’s first rock wave in the early 1980s, as a guitarist. At the time, he was heavily influenced by records smuggled in from Hong Kong and Bangkok by his friends, such as those by Simon...
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The complete soundtrack to Canadian Cirque du Soleil’s show Alegría, the 1994 album inspired by the live show, whose official page you may find here, and about which I have posted before. Produced by Robbi Finkel and composed by René Dupéré. The album was recorded with artists Francesca Gagnon (vocals), Jean-Marie Benoît (acoustic 12-string guitar, classical guitar), Howard Forman (electric...
Mar 25th
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The complete soundtrack to Canadian Cirque du Soleil’s show Varekai, the 2002 album inspired by the live show, whose official page you may find here, and about which I have posted before. Produced by Nitin Sawhney (who has written for Sinnead O’Connor and arranged for both Paul McCartney and Sting) and written by Violaine Corradi. The album was recorded with artists Terry Callier, Steve...
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Chilly Gonzales’ full Solo Piano concert at the 2005 Piano en Valois Festival, directed by Éric Michaud and aired on Mezzo. Below you may find the description on their website. En tant que multi instrumentiste virtuose, crooner en smoking rose ou rappeur, excellant dans le hip-hop dadaïste comme dans l’éléctro branché, il propose avec piano vision une rencontre un peu fleur...
Mar 18th
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The Creator’s Project Seven minute short film on Chilly Gonzales (Jason Charles Beck) I’m a little mosquito But I’m there all the time His best selling album so far was ironically a set of wonderfully executed minimalist classical compositions, which have been compared to Erik Satie’s, whose live performance I will be posting later.
Mar 16th
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Mar 10th
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“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via kavachai) Great book.
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Written by Abel Meeropol, also known by his pen name Lewis Allan, the anti-lynching poem Strange Fruit would be recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939 on Commodore Records. The song would later be covered by Nina Simone in 1965 and Maki Asakawa in 1972, accompanied by avant-garde jazz pianist Yōsuke Yamashita. Billie Holiday’s original recording would be voted by Time magazine in the year 2000...
Mar 3rd
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February 2012
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