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The Christmas Lights
via Comfort Music
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The Christmas Lights - Show Your Teeth
Monday, March 30, 2009
Hammock - Mono No Aware
(David Altobelli)
Directed by David Altobelli
Hammock
Living the diurnal.... the weather has been lovely.
Enjoy your days.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Rare footage of Sergei Prokofiev
bramley88:
The Russian translates thus:
Prokofiev is being asked: "Sergei Sergeevich, maybe you will tell our viewers about your work?"
He replies: "Well, right now I am working on a symphonic suite of waltzes, which will include three waltzes from Cinderella, two waltzes from the War and Peace, and one waltz from the movie score "Lermontov." [The War and Peace] has just been brilliantly produced in Leningrad, where the composer Cheshko (?) made an especially noteworthy appearance as a tenor, giving a superb performance in the role of Pierre Bezukhoff. Besides this suite, I am working on a sonata for violin and piano [no.1 in f minor], upon completion of which I will resume work on the sixth symphony, which I had started last year. I have just completed three suites from the Cinderella ballet and I am now turning the score over to copyists for writing the parts, so that most likely the suites will already be performed at the beginning of the fall season."
I liked the little spaz-montage at the end.
via Jessica Duchen's classical music blog
Monday, March 23, 2009
My favorite Röyksopp videos
Many of you have probably already seen these videos, but thanks to RöyksoppTV, you can view them in much higher quality than the YouTube versions I've seen over the last few years. Enjoy.
Remind Me
directed by Ludovic Houplan & Hervé de Crécy
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Poor Leno
directed by Sam Arthur
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Eple
directed by ?
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Sparks
directed by Thomas Hilland
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From The Journeys Of Röyksopp…
(Röyksopp)
I love Röyksopp's music. Their new album Junior is out today. You can listen to it here.
Apparently, they will be releasing a second album later this year titled, Senior.
Röyksopp
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren - Begone Dull Care/Caprice en couleurs (1949)
(Dephaad)
NFB.ca Curator's comments:
As a teenager, McLaren became interested in Colour-Music, an art form in which moving patterns of coloured lights were projected. When he was at art school, McLaren and fellow student Stuart McAllister tried to create colour-music by painting abstractions directly onto 35 mm movie film. McAllister would later become a great editor of documentary films. McLaren was delighted with the experience but knew the results were primitive. Then, in London in 1936, he saw Len Lye’s revolutionary hand-painted-on-film Colour Box. It did not influence McLaren but it gave him the confidence to continue drawing directly on film. He had to wait ten years, however, before he would have access to a three-colour film printing stock, which would allow him to copy a multi-hued hand-painted original. And what an original it is! For me, it is hard to imagine a more satisfying jazz film – in this case, a marriage of hand-painted improvisations to the piano improvisations of a young Oscar Peterson.
hat tip to Brand Upon the Brain!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson & Co. - Hackensack
(Delta_Mike)
John Coltrane and Stan Getz performing Thelonious Monk's "Hackensack" on German television in 1960. Accompanied by Oscar Peterson on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums.
via Bifurcated Rivets
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
David Byrne interviews himself
One must never underestimate the power of a good hairdo.
ca. Stop Making Sense
via TUTTI FANNI, TUTTI COSI
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The Specials - Do Nothing
(elskafunkrastapunk)
I love The Specials. I also love how the singer can chew gum and lip-sync at the same time.
via watcher of the skies
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
北京土著 - Beijing Natives (Chinese rap video)
(cockeyecockeye)
Full translation:
Slice me a piece of watermelon, about four or five liang
Only the truly thin-skin watermelon comes with this crisp and grainy texture
When the scent of jasmine wafts in the tea room of the siheyuan
One forgets all the heat of the summer
Pour a glass of fine wine as your thoughts wander afar
The senses are drunk with the fragrance of the wine steeped within the hutong alleys
As the sun sets at the corner of the old city wall that echoes with the beat of the toy rattle-drum
This native Beijinger feels a little sad
Squatting alone at the corner of the wall, receiving not even a passing glance
With eyes unseeing and confusion in my heart
Why do I feel so weary today?
Feels like I lost my soul while writing my lyrics
A wonton stall by the roadside in the early morning
A farmer rides a three-wheeled handcart as he pulls his load of bricks to work
A bowl of jellied beancurd costs a dollar
The music of a Pekingese big drum storyteller rings in the air
Drink a bowl of sour soy juice with a fried ring of dough
Dregs of oil scented with malt heave in porcelain jars with floral design
A hawker at the entrance of a hutong alley is stringing candied haws,
There's a photo of Ma Sanli displayed at the teahouse nearby
The vats are deeper than the basins, the basins are deeper than the bowls, the bowls are deeper than the plates
Waiting for your consideration
After being left there for so many years, they're still so funny…
pay attention
Native Beijingers, pay attention
Squat when you're tired of standing, sit when you're tired from squatting
Lie down when you're tired of sitting, lie prone when you're tired from lying down
Sleep when you're tired of lying prone, nap when you're unable to sleep
Keeping a myna brings special prestige
Be kind and generous and courteous too
Greet others kindly and never, ever be late
Keeping score only means making trouble for yourself
Better to smile and the world turns, infinitely beautiful
There's an old man in the park, hand in hand with his old wife
About eighty years old and he still looks so suave
Sucking on a popsicle and wearing a vest
Bloodlines run pure at the home of Peking Man
At the side of the Right-Right-Right-Right Gate of Peace
There's a shop selling Dog-Dog-Dog-Dog Wouldn’t-Notice buns
Buy half a jin of sliced-sliced-sliced-sliced glutinous cake
Spend a day free from worries at the Heavenly Bridge, just like an immortal
Seems like a decent enough message... but now I'm kinda hungry. (Though, I think I'll skip the Dog-Dog-Dog-Dog.)
thanks, Ledge!
Monday, March 2, 2009
John Cage - Rozart Mix
NewMusicXX:
John Cage: "Rozart Mix" (1965) According to Paul Griffiths, "A Guide to Electronic Music", the score for Rozart Mix "consists of an exchange of letters with Alan Lucier, proposing that at least 88 tape loops of unspecified sounds be played on at least a dozen tape recorders."
Saint Pauli - I need rhythm
(jh4v1)
produced and directed by Johannes Haverkamp and Tim Piotrowski
Saint Pauli
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