by ERICA AYRES
by CHENMAN
by BJORN GIESBRECHT
terça-feira, 2 de dezembro de 2008
segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2008
Vice: best "crazy" list of the Year
“The Only Top 35 Albums Of The Year Countdown You’ll Ever Need”
Number 35: Bonkers novelty rap collective. Shows staff have sense of humour.
Number 34: Reserved for Britpop 'survivors' who’ve made 'their best album in years'.
Number 33: Wacky side-project of big-name band singer, which is a wacky electro-pop concept album about magic animals.
Number 32: Something from Iceland.
Number 31: The name that keeps turning up on every electro/house compilation CD released that year. eg. Simian Mobile Disco in 07.
Number 30: Real authentic alt.country dude who made the album in a cave in the Appalachians/once dated Joanna Newsom.
Number 29: Return of once-derided old-timer who used to symboise naffness, but has subverted expectations by making an album of honest, brooding ballads with a hip young producer.
Number 28: This space is reserved for Bruce Springsteen if he makes an album in the year of the list. If not, The Gaslight Anthem or Hold Steady should sub-in.
Number 27: Nick Cave.
Number 26: Disappointing third album from previously much-touted act, so bad editorial embarrassment means its been crowbarred in here as a Pravda-style exercise in shrinking them slowly rather than dropping them like a hot brick as would be most appropriate.
Number 25: The band that everyone was tipping as the year's biggest act in January.
Number 24: You've never even heard of this one. You never will. Even as your read the blurb, you find your mind simultaneously erasing the entry.
Number 23: Glitchy & worthy & difficult record you've listened to once. Squarepusher, basically.
Number 21: British Sea Power.
Number 20: Token world muso.
Number 19: The band who've got a reputation for being 'influential', and have a geographically specific 'scene' organised around them that they put on semi-mythical 'parties' for at a semi-mythical 'venue'. eg: No Age & The Smell, Chairlift & Concert Hall Of Williamsburg.
Number 18: Band who wrote album of songs inspired by the tragic accidental/drug death of their bass player last year. Somewhere, the blurb says 'courageous'.
Number 17: Laura Marling.
Number 16: Cheesy pop band masquerading as 'wonky-pop'/'nu-pop'/'underground pop', which only barely disguises the fact that they're Roxette with alt. dress sense.
Number 16: Put in a 'stunning' performance on Jools Holland.
Number 15: DJ who made “the year's party-starting mash-up compilation” that you've never actually heard at a party that wasn't put on by media-insiders. And never made any of those partygoers do more than pout extra aggressively.
Number 14: Elbow.
Number 13: Hyper-obscure album everyone was bamboozled into voting for cos Pitchfork gave it a 9.9, despite sounding like every other folk album ever.
Number 12: Rapper facing child sex charges.
Number 11: Dizzee/Bizzle (pop grime slot shared on a rotational basis)
Number 10: Album described as a 'groundbreaking fusion of dance and rock'.
Number 9: Tape of Bob Dylan coughing up some phlegm in June 1972, found in someone's attic, dusted off, reissued, and hagiographised in the Sunday papers as a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Numbers 8 – 2: Records that were OK: no one was mad about them, but no one disliked them much either, so they swum through the middle course, whereas intense records that some people were truly passionate about but others really hated all ultimately failed to make the cut.
Number 1: Coldplay (Q), Arctic Monkeys (NME), Sven Vath (Mixmag), Neil Young (Uncut), Neil Young (Mojo), Neil Young (Classic Rock), Neil Young (Home & Garden), people humming transcendentally over distorted tape loops of concrete being laid (The Wire).
Number 34: Reserved for Britpop 'survivors' who’ve made 'their best album in years'.
Number 33: Wacky side-project of big-name band singer, which is a wacky electro-pop concept album about magic animals.
Number 32: Something from Iceland.
Number 31: The name that keeps turning up on every electro/house compilation CD released that year. eg. Simian Mobile Disco in 07.
Number 30: Real authentic alt.country dude who made the album in a cave in the Appalachians/once dated Joanna Newsom.
Number 29: Return of once-derided old-timer who used to symboise naffness, but has subverted expectations by making an album of honest, brooding ballads with a hip young producer.
Number 28: This space is reserved for Bruce Springsteen if he makes an album in the year of the list. If not, The Gaslight Anthem or Hold Steady should sub-in.
Number 27: Nick Cave.
Number 26: Disappointing third album from previously much-touted act, so bad editorial embarrassment means its been crowbarred in here as a Pravda-style exercise in shrinking them slowly rather than dropping them like a hot brick as would be most appropriate.
Number 25: The band that everyone was tipping as the year's biggest act in January.
Number 24: You've never even heard of this one. You never will. Even as your read the blurb, you find your mind simultaneously erasing the entry.
Number 23: Glitchy & worthy & difficult record you've listened to once. Squarepusher, basically.
Number 21: British Sea Power.
Number 20: Token world muso.
Number 19: The band who've got a reputation for being 'influential', and have a geographically specific 'scene' organised around them that they put on semi-mythical 'parties' for at a semi-mythical 'venue'. eg: No Age & The Smell, Chairlift & Concert Hall Of Williamsburg.
Number 18: Band who wrote album of songs inspired by the tragic accidental/drug death of their bass player last year. Somewhere, the blurb says 'courageous'.
Number 17: Laura Marling.
Number 16: Cheesy pop band masquerading as 'wonky-pop'/'nu-pop'/'underground pop', which only barely disguises the fact that they're Roxette with alt. dress sense.
Number 16: Put in a 'stunning' performance on Jools Holland.
Number 15: DJ who made “the year's party-starting mash-up compilation” that you've never actually heard at a party that wasn't put on by media-insiders. And never made any of those partygoers do more than pout extra aggressively.
Number 14: Elbow.
Number 13: Hyper-obscure album everyone was bamboozled into voting for cos Pitchfork gave it a 9.9, despite sounding like every other folk album ever.
Number 12: Rapper facing child sex charges.
Number 11: Dizzee/Bizzle (pop grime slot shared on a rotational basis)
Number 10: Album described as a 'groundbreaking fusion of dance and rock'.
Number 9: Tape of Bob Dylan coughing up some phlegm in June 1972, found in someone's attic, dusted off, reissued, and hagiographised in the Sunday papers as a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Numbers 8 – 2: Records that were OK: no one was mad about them, but no one disliked them much either, so they swum through the middle course, whereas intense records that some people were truly passionate about but others really hated all ultimately failed to make the cut.
Number 1: Coldplay (Q), Arctic Monkeys (NME), Sven Vath (Mixmag), Neil Young (Uncut), Neil Young (Mojo), Neil Young (Classic Rock), Neil Young (Home & Garden), people humming transcendentally over distorted tape loops of concrete being laid (The Wire).
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Blitz top 50
A revista PPPortuguesa, blitz, ostenta a sua lista de melhores de 2008...e o vencedor, desta corrida de 50 atletas, são os PPPortishead...e o seu terceiro (Third).
O Blitz contempla ainda, e muito bem, após definido o primeiríssimo lugar: Hercules & the love affair/Silver Jews/Tv on the Radio/Kills/MGMT/Vampire Weekend/Bon Iver/Santogold/Hot Chip/Last Shadow Puppets/Calexico/Beach House/Fuck Buttons/Quiet Village/Why?/Gang Gang Dance/Morgan Geist/Ladytron/Leila/Shearwater/Spiritualized...e os Fleet Foxes ficam no término da lista (para não andarem sempre lá em cima!).
p.s- A lista repesca Band of Horses, e o seu assombroso trabalho de 2007...Cease to Begin...(mais vale tarde que nunca)! Aprovado!
Para conferir a lista, e os respectivos artigos, entre outras coisas mui buenas (exceptuando a capa com um tal de Axl Rose)...ide ao quiosque mas próximo...ou esperai 6 a 8 anos pelas revista, num consultório do dentista qq...
Get Physical's 100th record
Para festejar o lançamento número 100 da editora, from Berlin, Get Physical, nascida em 2002 pelas mãos de DJ T, M.A.N.D.Y. e Booka Shade, a mesma apresenta uma deliciosa colecção de "battle" tracks composta desta forma:
M.A.N.D.Y vs Booka Shade - Donut
Italoboyz vs Nôze - Double Trouble
Dakar vs Siopis - Dubai
DJ T. vs Thomas Schumacher – May Contain Nuts
LOPAZZ vs Heidi - Funkshovel
Einzelkind vs Meat - Gin 8:08
M.A.N.D.Y vs Booka Shade - Donut
Italoboyz vs Nôze - Double Trouble
Dakar vs Siopis - Dubai
DJ T. vs Thomas Schumacher – May Contain Nuts
LOPAZZ vs Heidi - Funkshovel
Einzelkind vs Meat - Gin 8:08
Parabens...e agora Fight!!!!!!!!!!!!
The gift that keeps on taking: 15 terrible presents in TV and film
Fabulosa lista, pelo site A.V Onion, de presentes "envenenados", a oferecer ao pior inimigo, vindos directamente da Tv, ou dos filmes: The gift that keeps on taking: 15 terrible presents in TV and film
Gigwise Top 12
Mais um dia, mais uma lista, agora pelo site Gigwise, que espeta no pódio os Fleet Foxes (1º), os Friendly Fires (2º), e Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (3º). Conferir aqui: Top-Albums-Of-2008
Studio 1 reissue
Wolfgang Voigt, o patrão da Kompakt, e genial criador por detrás do projecto GAS, parece ter gostado de voltar à ribalta, após a reedição da Box maravilha Nah Und Fern, e prepara-se para trazer à memória outra encarnação sua, de nome Studio 1.
Este projecto, inaugurado por Voigt nos anos 90, explorava as raízes do techno minimal germânico, e cada Lp não tinha nome, sendo diferenciado apenas através da sua tonalidade.
A 12 de Janeiro a Kompakt traz de volta Studio 1, condensado num cd apenas.
Vivian Girls Interview
Entrevista catita às Vivian Girls...uma das boas surpresas do ano...antecipadas aqui pela malta do bairro!
The Knife composes Opera
O sinistro e genial duo de irmãos, The Knife, não têm dado sinais de vida, exceptuando quando se soube, recentemente, que a ala feminina do projecto, Karin Dreijer, iria dar vida a um novo projecto, Fever Ray de seu nome. Enquanto não temos mais informação sonora desta nova aventura, e pouco ou nada se sabe acerca do futuro dos irmãos Dreijer, é bom saber, e perceber, que os manos não hibernaram, para todo o sempre, e neste momento encontram-se a compor...uma Ópera!
A ópera, com o título de "Tomorrow in a Year," é influenciada pelo trabalho de Darwin, "A Origem das Espécies", e terá a sua estreia algures no próximo Outono, sendo que os manos aliaram-se, neste projecto, ao coreógrafo e dançarino Japonês, Hiroaki Umeda.
Será que passa por cá? Hummm...não me parece...
Hot Chip new album & solo projects for 2009
Os últimos anos, para o agregado familiar Hot Chip, tem sido de intenso trabalho, entre trabalhos originais, remixes, compilações e produções...mas parece que ainda não é desta que estes hiperativos vão descansar e dar-se à horizontalidade. 2009 promete ser mais um ano atarefado para a banda britânica, com concertos diversos, sendo que o guitarrista, Al Doyle, realça que após as investidas ao vivo regressarão, muito provavelmente, à escuridão do estúdio para gravar o Lp número cinco. De qualquer forma, enquando o novo registo não vê a luz do dia, Doyle promete que irão ouvir muita coisa, e material, não dos Hot Chip, mas sim dos membros que a compõem, porque além de Alexis Taylor, outros elementos da banda prometem projectos paralelos.
info via prefixmag.
Proposta Incandescente#33
Nome: FRIDA HYVONEN
Membros: Frida Hyvönen
Morada: Sweden
Membros: Frida Hyvönen
Morada: Sweden
Editora: Secretly Canadian
Label site: http://www.secretlycanadian.com/
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/fridahyvonen
Label site: http://www.secretlycanadian.com/
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/fridahyvonen
Band site: http://www.fridahyvonen.com/
Migos: El Perro del Mar, Fleetwood Mac , Antony and the Johnsons , Jens Lekman, Tori Amos, Lykke Li
Migos: El Perro del Mar, Fleetwood Mac , Antony and the Johnsons , Jens Lekman, Tori Amos, Lykke Li
Predilecções: The piano
Já parido: "Until Death Comes" (2006)
A parir: "Silence Is Wild" (2008)
A Soar: pop, 50’s ballads, baroque, classic songwriting ,minimalism, angelic voice, piano lines, simple drums, horns, strings, synthesizers, multi-faceted arrangements, soaring harmonies, triumphant chorus, charming & candid & melancholic, introspective tales, confessional tracks, female emotion, diversity and dynamic tension, energetic musical composition, lots of passion!
Já parido: "Until Death Comes" (2006)
A parir: "Silence Is Wild" (2008)
A Soar: pop, 50’s ballads, baroque, classic songwriting ,minimalism, angelic voice, piano lines, simple drums, horns, strings, synthesizers, multi-faceted arrangements, soaring harmonies, triumphant chorus, charming & candid & melancholic, introspective tales, confessional tracks, female emotion, diversity and dynamic tension, energetic musical composition, lots of passion!
Prognóstico: Bi-Beautiful
Amostra: "Enemy Within"
MP3: "Enemy Within"
domingo, 30 de novembro de 2008
Votação (+/-) Aberta
OK...apanhados pela epidemia de listas e listinhas e listonas, o nosso estaminé dá início às listas cá da casa, mas antes disso inauguramos a cabine de voto para o pessoal que nos visita, ou que aterra por cá ao engano, para votarem para a melhor coisinha musical do ano de 2008 (que por acaso é o actual!).
O voto electrónico, reforçado por programas de segurança, pode ser efectuado até à véspera da semana Natalícia, e a listagem de artistas escolhidos, não é a escolha imediata cá da casa, mas sim o conjunto de bandas (30, para encolher a coisa) que mais têm aparecido, e constado, em listas, listinhas e listonas.
VOTAI...ou nem por isso!
Grace "Hurricane" Jones
Grace Jones. Há quem conheça esta senhora da sétima arte (foi Zula em Conan, e May Day em 007...), há quem conheça esta senhora da trilha sonora (5 obras maiores de 1977 a 1981...), há quem conheça esta senhora do mundo da moda (parcerias com o estilista Jean-Paul Gaultier...), há quem conheça esta senhora do panorama das artes (capas/fotografias...). Todos conhecem Grace Jones de algum lado, ou não fosse ela dona, de um universo unipessoal e intemporal, e de uma imagem grotesca, animal, lasciva, intimidatória, e acima de tudo magnética. Grace Jones regressa hoje, passados 19 anos de hiato e com 60 anos de idade, mas é como se nunca nos tivesse abandonado, pois continua a povoar os sonhos e pesadelos de muitos que a vislumbraram, nem que por meros instantes. Jones regressa, mas não regressa sozinha, fazendo-se acompanhar no seu novo trabalho, Hurricane, de exímios e históricos produtores como Brian Eno, Tony Allen, Tricky, e a dupla Sly & Robbie, e é esta aliança que, unindo-se à voz portentosa de Grace, confere a este registo uma sonoridade past/present/future de excelência. Hurricane junta ao tom grave de voz, de Jones, luxuosas linhas de dub,reggae,dubstep,triphop, r&b, criando ambientes negros e sedutores.
2008 trouxe-nos de volta: Leila, após 10 anos, Portishead, após 9 anos...e agora uma Grace Jones "renovada" que invade, gloriosamente, o século XXI.
Grace Jones "Corporate Cannibal" from Jordy on Vimeo.
ps-para mais imagens soberbas de Grace Jones, pelo fotógrafo Andrea Karin, visitai o Blogue do nosso mui estimado, e companheiro de armas (de plástico), Astroboy : http://spaced-up-kid.blogspot.com/
W Art#21
ROBERT GLIGOROV
Robert Gligorov was born in Macedonia, but lives and works in Milan, Italy. He is primarily known for his photographs, which have been widely exhibited in Europe. Gligorov is attuned to the idea of performance and high-impact commercial images; his photographs are always arresting, sometimes shocking, using unexpected combinations of human, animal and vegetable life to explore sexuality and identity.
Robert Gligorov was born in Macedonia, but lives and works in Milan, Italy. He is primarily known for his photographs, which have been widely exhibited in Europe. Gligorov is attuned to the idea of performance and high-impact commercial images; his photographs are always arresting, sometimes shocking, using unexpected combinations of human, animal and vegetable life to explore sexuality and identity.
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