Auf ihrem neuen Album pflegen die Sleaford Mods aus Nottingham etwas, das hierzulande seit langem verschwunden ist: Klassenbewusstsein (Oliver Tepel im FREITAG 3015)
1. Wilco Just Released a Surprise Album Called ‘Star Wars’
'Why release an album this way and why make it free? Well, the biggest reason, and I'm not sure we even need any others, is that it felt like it would be fun. What's more fun than a surprise?' - Jeff Tweedy
... aber es soll nicht schon wieder um abstruse Vorschläge der Nationalökonomen gehen, sondern um die großartige Melody Gardot, die gerade ein neues Album veröffentlich hat, das schwer empfohlen sei und in das hier reingehört werden kann:
Meine Favoriten: 5. Don’t Misunderstand, 6. Don’t Talk, 7. If Ever I Recall Your Face -
'Currency of Man' appears as a kind of mutant collage, a soundtrack to the times in the free spirit of Rauschenberg. A watercolor portrait made by hand marks the coverture of the disc and the pages within. Teaming up again with Grammy Award winning producer Larry Klein, the album possesses a cinematic quality that tells the story to the soundtrack of existence for various characters.
Gardot explains, "I wanted an album that flowed like a dream from beginning to end. We wanted to weave in sounds of the world around the songs, to recall the places where they were born, to really paint the scene. These are stories about people who know hard times, about people who are struggling to overcome them, and that is something that resonates deep in my psyche. It's impossible to ignore. To me, the songs are questioning and also defining what it means to be alive. What is our worth, and how do we define it? Is it down to money? Is it down to legacy? Is it down to our own personal achievements on a daily basis? For this I mark the disc currency of man. This album is about our worth in this world, and how everyone no matter their status, or origins or color of their skin holds a purpose."
Das mit der cinematic quality ist unbedingt zu bestätigen, der Rauschenberg-Eastmancolour-Sound, sollte es sowas geben, ist faszinierend. Reinhören!
"Les déserteurs", c’est le nom fictif d’un café légendaire d’Alger où se seraient croisés un soir, de grands poètes et de grands chanteurs , tels que Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré, Boris Vian, Louis Aragon, Bernard Lavilliers, Jean Ferrat ou encore le Grand Jacques.
HK présente Les déserteurs
When Islamist militants captured Timbuktu and banned secular music, the members of Songhoy Blues felt they had no choice but to leave their homes in the north and head south to the Malian capital, Bamako. They were traumatised by having to leave behind loved ones, but they also had some luck. British musician Damon Albarn and his Africa Express collective went to Mali in a gesture of solidarity, and Songhoy Blues was one of the bands they recorded for their Maison des Jeunes album.
Wenn Sie die wunderbar schrägen Klänge der twangy guitars und die herrlich naiv-optimistischen Harmonien des Surf Rock mögen
Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Orange County and other areas of Southern California. It was especially popular from 1961 to 1966, has subsequently been revived and was highly influential on subsequent rock music. It has two major forms: largely instrumental surf rock, with an electric guitar or saxophone playing the main melody, largely pioneered by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones, and vocal surf pop, including both surf ballads and dance music, often with strong harmonies that are most associated with The Beach Boys....
Surf music began in the early 1960s as instrumental dance music, almost always in straight 4/4 (or common) time, with a medium to fast tempo. The sound was dominated by electric guitars which were particularly characterized by the extensive use of the "wet" spring reverb that was incorporated into Fender amplifiers from 1961, which is thought to emulate the sound of the waves. Guitarists also made use of the vibrato arm on their guitar to bend the pitch of notes downward, electronic tremolo effects and rapid (alternating) tremolo picking. Guitar models favored included those made by Fender (particularly the Mustang, Jazzmaster, Jaguar and Stratocaster guitars), Mosrite, Teisco, or Danelectro, usually with single coil pickups (which had high treble in contrast to double coil humbucker pickups). Surf music was one of the first genres to universally adopt the electric bass, particularly the Fender Precision Bass. Classic surf drum kits tended to be Rogers, Ludwig, Gretsch or Slingerland. Some popular songs also incorporated a tenor or baritone saxophone, as on "Surf Rider" and "Comanche". Often an electric organ or an electric piano featured as backing harmony.
... „Misstraust du mir?“, fragte ich. Dann erklärte ich ihm, warum ich nicht verschlüssle, und zwar, weil sich die Metadaten, für die NSA & Co sich inzwischen interessieren, nicht mehr verschlüsseln lassen. „Du musst es ihnen so schwer wir möglich machen“, mahnte mein Freund. „Im Grunde geht es darum“, sagte ich, „ob du Vertrauenspraktiker oder Verschwörungstheoretiker sein willst.“ Alex schaute mich theoretisch an. „Ich habe gehört, dass NSA und Mossad jetzt auf Facebook den sogenannten Stupsnet-Wurm zum Einsatz bringen wollen.“ ... Verschwörungstheorien in Zeiten von NSA & Co. Von Peter Glaser, StZ 13. April 2015
"Du kannst nicht drogenabhängig sein und dann einfach so diese Musik erschaffen", sagt Cassandra Wilson über Billie Holiday, die vielleicht bedeutendste und ungebrochen populäre Jazz-Sängerin des 20. Jahrhunderts. "Irgendwie existiert diese Vorstellung, dass Leute wie Holiday rein zufällig zur Musik kamen und es einfach so aus ihnen rausfließt. Ich aber glaube das nicht. Es braucht eine Menge Disziplin." Wilsons Ärger gilt der stereotypen Zeichnung von Jazz-Sängern, die - im Gegensatz zu Instrumentalisten - oft als Randfiguren der Geschichte betrachtet werden. Dabei gilt Billie Holiday als Begründerin des modernen Jazz-Gesangs. Tatsache ist, dass Holiday ein tragisches Leben führte und an ihrer Drogenabhängigkeit letztlich zugrunde ging. Billie Holiday - A Sensation (Arte +7 bis 19/04/2015)
"Es gibt so viele Arschloch-Typen wie es menschliche Funktionen, Tätigkeiten und Interessengebiete gibt. Und auf jedem Gebiet kann das Verhältnis von AQ zu IQ ein anderes sein. Kein noch so kopfdenkerisches Verhalten bei einem Thema bietet Gewähr dafür, dass nicht schon beim nächsten der Arschdenk mit voller Wucht einsetzt."
Charles Lewinsky, Der A-Quotient
Wise Man Says II
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
Frank Zappa
Haftungsausschluss
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