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1st movement
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2nd movement
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3nd movement
This (Sir Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85) is what Venetian Snares samples in my previous post. It sounds very much Arthur Russellish, although the likeness is largely limited to the use of the cello.
www.myspace.com/venetiansnares (the strings on ‘Hollo Utca 2’ appear real, but who played them?)
The image from the cover is from this painting: Death and Woman (1517) by Hans Baldung Grien.
At Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rjyVF6a4xo
See also:
Cover art:
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and one more by Trevor Brown (I think):
Reggae Lee Perry Studio in Jamaica, recording song, 1970’s
See also: The Black Ark Studio of Lee Perry.
Enjoy. I always believed the lyrics were: “Civil check, arms open wide.” Who can tell me the title of the classical? song whistled at 2:30?
This song is by Sly and Robbie produced by Laswell.
While we’re on the subject of Mr. Laswell, Miles Post Mortem is a 1998 French language documentary by Pierre-Yves Bourgeaud for Arte television on Laswell’s Miles Davis remixes.
Mother and child reunited after mother was believed dead
I viewed Pedro Almodóvar’s 2006 film Volver. A very good film (Pedro has yet to deliver his first dud) but not as great as Bad Education or All about my Mother. The DVD extras feature an interview by French distributor Pathé which is on YouTube here. (in French)
One of the most remarkable segments in the interview is when the interviewer compares Pedro to Woody Allen, who also features women prominently in his films. Pedro explains that the difference is that he makes films about women (as a gender group) and how they have been influential in his life whereas Woody Allen, he continues, just like Ingmar Bergman, make films about the women who have been their life partners.
The music of Almodóvar.
A part of the Volver soundtrack here. (the song ‘Volver’ itself starts around 4:00). Here is the song as performed by Estrella Morente who voices Penélope Cruz in the film. The hit tango by Carlos Gardel Volver is a leitmotiv of the film. View it here.
Like other gay directors such as the French director François Ozon, Almodóvar’s films are full of campish music. One of my fave soundtrack tracks is Luz Casal’s Un Año de Amor which is presented here as ‘Un anno d’amore’ by Mina recorded live for RAI television in 1965.
Mina is a real find! Just check Se telefonando (1966).
Unrelated to Almodóvar but within the realm of campish music: ‘Paroles paroles’ by Dalida and Delon.
You probably all know this track, but I have just started playing it. The band is called N*E*R*D and the producer is Pharrell Williams. Pharrell was also the producer of Gwen Stefani’s “Wind it Up“.
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry (photo credit David Corio)
Via gmtPlus9 (-15) who also has:
I cannot overestimate the influence that Perry has had on my musical tastes since I first listened to Super Ape about twenty years ago.
Steven Hall, who I’ve introduced here, sent us a 1940s Thai song (MP3) and by his permission I want to share it with you. The style of music reminds me of Jim Jarmush favourite Mulatu Astatque and his Ethiopiques series and Balinese degung music (although I’m thinking of a much slower version than this Youtube example).
The song’s name is “My Warning” and the singer is Praiwan LoogPet. It is an adaptation of a very old traditional Thai folksong with modern lyrics added–the style is called “Lam That” which means “music layed after working in the rice fields“.
His girlfriend is leaving the countryside (this is a country style song–from Petburi Province near Bangkok) and going to Bangkok the big city–he is warning his sweetheart that Bangkok is dangerous for a country girl–he is afraid he will lose her to a slick city man.
“Don’t let another man kiss you where I kissed you…if you keep yourself clean (sexually) you will be more beautiful”
Dedicated to my girl.
Yma Sumac at 83
Queen of Exotica (2005) – Yma Sumac [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Fabulous documentary here provided by the ever reliable Ombres Blanches. Yma Súmac belongs to the intriguing exotica category. Yma is alive and will be 85 coming September. Here and here is some Yma at MySpace, the reliable source for instantaneous auditory gratification, just as is Youtube for the moving visuals gratification and Flickr for stills.
I quote Ombres Blanches’s post in full:
If someone always wanted to know what that Xtabay is that Yma Sumac sings of, here’s the answer:
“Xtabay litterally means ‘Female Ensnarer’ and can refer to (1) a basically Mesoamerican demon who seduces and kills, and (2) a female deity of the hunt, on a par with the male Ah Tabay. The Xtabay is not to be confused with Ix-Tab, a 16th-century Yucatecan goddess of suicides.
A legend of Xtabay (the female demon) tells us about two women who lived in a village in the Yucatán Peninsula. One was named Xtabay, but people called her Xkeban (which means prostitute, bad woman or who practices illicit love), the other was Utz-Colel (a good, decent woman).
People said Xkeban was sick with lust and gave her favors to every man who asked her. Utz-Colel was virtuous and honest…” more…
In another tale – incindentally to be found in Benjamin Péret’s retelling of American myths and legends – La Xtabay turns out to be a female demon consisting of nothing else but hair.
A french documentary about Yma Sumac with some beautiful stock footage can be found here.
I’ m completely smitten with Joanna Newsom’s late 2006 Ys album. Here is an early review by Woebot and here is the Wikipedia link.
Ys (2006) – Joanna Newsom
[Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Folk music and the new weird has been the hottest and hippest after replacing house, disco and electro on my musical diet. Best of 2006.
Incidentally, the vocals and harp were recorded by Steve ‘Big Black’ Albini.
From the song ‘Emily’:
That the meteorite is a source of the light
And the meteor’s just what we see
And the meteoroid is a stone that’s devoid of the fire that propelled it to theeAnd the meteorite’s just what causes the light
And the meteor’s how it’s perceived
And the meteoroid’s a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet in offering to thee
