Iranian film auteur Abbas Kiarostami, who directed such classics as Taste of Cherry and Close-Up, passed away today in Paris a the age of 76.
The Guardian eulogizes him here.
Month: July 2016
[Music] AMN Picks of the Week: Merzbow, Haino, Pandi / Tim Brady / Grew, Watts / Gaudi — Avant Music News
Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Merzbow / Keiji Haino / Balazs Pandi – An Untroublesome Defencelessness (2016) […]
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[Art] Jan Vermeer: A World of Tranquillity and Silence — Byron’s muse
Dear readers, you’re about to enter a world of tranquillity, silence and mystery, the world of Jan Vermeer; the master of light and the master of colour blue, the artist loved by Marcel Proust, the artist forgotten for three long centuries and then rediscovered in the mid 19th century, and above all – a painter […]
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[Music] the stargazer lilies — the sunday experience
Stumbled across this via an interesting mid-season round up by the shoegazer alive 9 site. Of course you’ve no need for me telling you that the Stargazer Lilies are a much loved distraction around these parts given we’ve featured them on occasion. However, I’m suspecting we’ve an unread email / press release somewhere because as […]
[Music] Woodkid & Nils Frahm ~ Ellis — a closer listen
Today is America’s Independence Day, and Ellis arrives just in time: a calm yet firm reminder that the great nation still has a long way to go in order to achieve its goals. The short film (directed by France’s JR) and score (with narration by Robert DeNiro) remind viewers and listeners of the nation’s highest aspirations and deepest […]
[Music] Hanggai – Xiger Xiger
China and Mongolia are loaded with amazing music, but Hanggai, a band out of Beijing, but with members from Inner Mongolia and from the Han population, are becoming a fast favorite of mine.
[Music] Rod Poole/Sasha Bogdanowitsch – Mind’s Island — harmonicsdb
Rod Poole/Sasha Bogdanowitsch – Mind’s Island Music Disc Reviews Audio CD by K L Poore Wednesday, 01 November 2006 Rod Poole/Sasha Bogdanowitsch – Mind’s Island format: 16-bit CD performance: 7 sound: 7 release year: 2006 label: Justguitar Guitarist Rod Poole’s Mind Island (a joint effort with vocalist Sasha Bogdanowitsch) falls under the broad net of […]
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[Literature] “July Stories” — Roberto Bolaño — Biblioklept
July has been a strange month. The other day I went to the beach and I saw a woman of about thirty, pretty, wearing a black bikini, who was reading standing up. At first I thought she was about to lie down on her towel, but when I looked again she was still standing, and […]
[Film] Michael Cimino Dies: Director Of Oscar-Winning ‘The Deer Hunter’ And Infamous ‘Heaven’s Gate’ Was 77 – Report — Deadline
Michael Cimino, the multiple Oscar-winning director-producer of The Deer Hunter whose career later became an infamous cautionary tale after the failure of his 1980 Western epic Heaven’s Gate has died, according to reports from friends. He was 77. The news was made public by Theirry Fremaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival, who tweeted that…
[Music] Various Artists – Nightingales & Canaries, Vol. 1: “Oriental” Women on Record, New York & Istanbul, 1928-55
https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3272306330/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/transparent=true/New York City was home to a vibrant musical scene filled with singers from Anatolia, Istanbul and the region of Roumelia. Christians and Jews joined together in making some rather bawdy music.
This treasure was released by Ian Nagoski’s Canary Records, a label filled with some absolute gems.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 