Search Results for: world music classics

Brigitte Bardot and music (wmc #35 and 36)

Brigitte Bardot photographed by Michel Bernanau in 1968 Brigitte Bardot participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including “Harley Davidson”[1], “Je Me Donne A Qui Me Plait“[2], “Bubble gum“[3], “Contact“[4], “La bise aux hippies”[5], “Je Reviendrais […]

World cinema classics #34

[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwaPJUtZBYc&] Tokyo Decadence (1992) – Ryu Murakami This is a film I chose in the mid 1990s at the video store because of its cover, not being familiar at the time with the work of Murakami (Coin Locker Babies). The key scenes are four sex scenes (see more at the wiki). Three out of these […]

World cinema classics #33

[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E] Fantastic Planet (1973) – René Laloux Fantastic Planet is the English title of La Planète sauvage (literally “The Savage Planet”), an animated 1973 science fiction film directed by René Laloux. Based on a novel, Oms en Série, by the French writer Stefan Wul, the film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and […]

Happy birthday Pharoah and World Dance Music classic #8

Pharoah turns 67 today. Thembi (1971) – Pharoah Sanders (with on the cover I believe, Lonnie Liston Smith) Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as “probably the best tenor player in the world.” Most of Sanders’ best-selling work was made in the late 1960s and […]

“Sex Without Stress” is WMC #288

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OtuZjBc_H0 “Sex Without Stress” by the Au Pairs It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. As I explained, I now do music on Facebook almost exclusively (join me there at Jan Geerinck with a brief note). It’s been so long that I need to explain what WMC stands for: World music classics […]

The United States of Unconsciousness

The United States of Unconsciousness is how cultural pessimists (most recently the dim-witted Roger Scruton) would like to label the olympic sport of “couch potatoing,” better known as television. That is if they (the likes of Scruton) had the fine wit, ardor and imagination of the likes of Gil Scott-Heron and Michael Franti to come […]

RIP Michael de Benedictus (1951 – 2019)

This happened on October 17, 2019, but I only found out yesterday. Michael de Benedictus co-founded the Peech Boys who released several twelve inches and one album: Life Is Something Special (1983). De Benedictus was part of the New York dance music scene which was centered around two discotheques: the Paradise Garage and the Loft. I leave out Studio 54 […]

RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969 – 2018)

Jóhann Jóhannsson was an Icelandic composer who first came to my attention in 2016 with his soundtrack for the film Arrival (which is one of my World Cinema Classics). When someone this young dies suddenly, I always think: suicide. “Flight from the City” (above) is a musical composition by Jóhannsson from the album Orphée (2016).