Can’t Stop Won’t Stop

! New music !

Phil Niblock ‘Touch Strings’

Ash 7.8 | START! – The National Anthem of Elgaland-Vargaland #6

Leyland Kirby  ’sadly, the future is no longer what it was (limited edition double cd)‘

Jason Lescalleet’s Due Process  ‘Combine XIX, XX’

Bruce Russell ‘Guilded Splinters’

Lionel Marchetti & Yôko Higashi ‘Pétrole’

Haptic ‘Trebuchet’

Densités 09 !

So! Back from Fresnes-en-Woëvre, Densités version 2009 was a good one, I missed the last two editions and was very happy to be back there !  Jazkamer kicked asses ! Eric La Casa was brilliant ! Burkard Beins too ! John Tilbury played a Feldman piece and then one of his own inspired by the writings of Beckett, I think most of us could have listened to him for days ! Greg Kelley & Jason Lescalleet kicked us out of our seats with their electro acoustic set-up! And Mr. Charlie O. and his two drummers warmed us up to dance for the ball that closes the festival each year ! (Kind Of) Everyone was dancing at the sound of The Omelettes Densin’ Project and it was a really cool evening ! Not that many pictures because what do you do during a concert? you listen . . .. and Mr Touf Touf was shooting like insane so this is mostly there to say ‘See you there next year’ !! . . .   Shouts out to the Densités massive for making this a human thing and huge shout out to the ever cooler than cool Emmanuelle Pellegrini !

Sunday

Went to Haarlem yesterday to witness a live rendition of ‘Mock Interiors’ by electronic/laptop artist Esther Venrooy and piannist Heleen Van Haegenborgh. The album ‘Mock Interiors’ was released in 2008 by Entr’acte; It’s one of the finest releases I’ve heard in the last few years. A sensitive and delicate collaboration, touching extremes: from stark piano minimalism to hyper designed yet sensitive soundscapes. The album is filled with levels and dynamics that they managed to perform live with amazing clarity, concentration and dedication. Big Up!

Very fast Diary! via Babelfish !

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L’ Eliane Radigue is present Tuesday following the STUK of Leuwen! This n’ is not particularly to be missed an event! ! C’ were in Brussels 2007 and those which were there, remembers him! One evening was remarkable, where that intransigent the modern music Lyricism and a Sentimentality, of which it did not owe röten met!

Of the Charles Curtis, Carole Robinson and Bruno Martinez play the three `parts of Naldjorlak‘ ; with which it the first closing d’ screen our accumulations and that which produced starting from its arrival leaning just adopted recently! Consequently this Opus last as well as Diskographie complete to you are proposed this great lady! Its trilogy of the death is a monument of the minimalism and depth! !

Originally written in french for the Médiathèque de la Communauté Francaise de Belgique where I seem to work. It was translated via Babelfish, from french to german, from german to french and then from french to english! Why make it easy and you can screw it up!

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After Hours !

Let’s get a little texty

‘After Hours’ was released in 1985, written by Joseph Minion and directed by Martin Scorsese. I remember seeing it maybe 10 years ago, and it featured Harvey Keitel back then, now it features Griffin Dunne!  Seems I had ‘Mean streets’ mixed up with ‘After Hours’…

So, poor old Paul Hackett has a shitty job and thinks it’s temporary, lives alone and seems to be as lonely as can be. One night, he goes out to a cafe and reads a Henry Miller book, he meets a nice but obviously crazy woman named Marcy Franklin that’s perfectly played by Rosanna Arquette, end up getting her phone number and phones her asap…. Then his night turns into a nightmare, which is something you knew as soon as she came into the picture, the rhythm of the film speeds up: The bar tender is the first clue, he does strange dance moves, then when he goes to meet her afterwards, the taxi driver drives like a nut, and of course when he arrives she’s not there and it’s her sculptor friend that welcomes him with less than a smile, it smells like lofty coky arty Soho….You can feel the trap, you feel the poor regular man starting to lose it. She and him can’t communicate, he’s a nice guy in a regular life and she’s a mystery and will/wishes to remain so. He escapes the scene but his troubles are just starting, many insignificant but consequent things happen to him, like the metro fare has gone up overnight and he doesn’t have enough money to go home, the only guy who would help him can’t open his bar’s cash register to give him change and of course it’s raining like hell! From then it’s a series of situations where Paul goes deeper and deeper into the shitter, most of those situations would be banal if not funny, but they become surreal yet down to earth when you know what happened and start expecting what is about to. . . .

Even though you are sorry for the poor lad you can help but laugh, it’s going so far into the opposite of what he’s after, and when the end comes, you feel like screaming ‘I knew it’ and realise the genius of the writer and director! Then you go on the internet to check a couple of things and discover that the idea for the end was from the late Michael Powell who ‘was around quite a lot while the film was being made’, and how many times must we tell you that he was a great film maker, 1? 2? 3?

Enjoy !

Berlin – part4

Berlin – part3

All here above was photographed at Plänterwald in the Treptow-Köpenick district, the Spreepark was an entertainment park that served between 1969 and 2001.           From what I could gather it was run by a certain Norbert Witte who in 2002 ‘escaped’ with his family and a couple of the attractions to Peru to open a new amusement park, he failed to do so and got caught a couple of years later bringing some 180kg of cocaine hidden in the pieces of the flying carpet ride ! Clever Man . . .

Berlin – Part2