Friday, October 17, 2008

Iglu & Hartly: Paradiso 2008/10/18 webcast

Iglu & Hartly

Californian retro New Wave band Iglu & Hartly plays the Paradiso in Amsterdam. No ticket? Watch the webcast on fabchannel.com.

Iglu & Hartly
Webcast 2008/10/18
Starts: 22:30 local time (GMT +1)

MP3: Iglu & Hartly - In This City

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Coming soon in Utrecht: Elbow, Blood Red Shoes, Voicst ...

Blood Red Shoes

What's on at the Tivoli in Utrecht, The Netherlands? First of all the second edition Le Guess Who, the music and more festival. More interesting acts:

  • 10/27 The Pigeon Detectives
    Poppy UK indie
  • 10/28 Lambchop
    Sweet dreams, kind of
  • 10/30 Blood Red Shoes *
    boy+girl = drums+guitar
  • 11/01 New Cool Collective
    Best Dutch contemporary jazz band
  • 11/09 Shearwater
    Folky art-rock
  • 11/10 Elbow
    Superb UK pop
  • 11/15 Klub Radar 2: zZz (1st show w/ their new album!), Shameboy, The Subs
  • 11/20 Voicst
    Dutch high quality indie rock
  • 11/23 Walter Trout
    Underrated blues maestro
  • 12/02 Gary Louris & Mark Olson *
    From The Jayhawks
  • 12/05 Woven Hand
    Ultimate Americana

* Tivoli De Helling

MP3: Blood Red Shoes - I Wish I Was Someone Better
MP3: Elbow - Forget Myself
MP3: The Pigeon Detectives - I Found Out
MP3: Shearwater - The Snow Leopard

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Words about music (188): Levon Helm

Levon Helm at MerleFest 2008/04/26
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Levon Helm

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Super XX Man: Volume XII: There'll Be Diamonds

Super XX Man
photo: Anthony Georgis

Scott Garred, better known as Super XX Man has been releasing high quality albums with heartfelt indie rock for more than 12 years now His latest brainchild is dubbed Volume XII: There'll Be Diamonds, a collection of songs about the lives of the people Garred works with at the Oregon State Hospital, a psychiatric institution in his home state.

He sings about substance abuse, sedatives, rubber duckies and big balloons. It's obvious that he cares a lot about these people who might be crazy for the outside world and have taken refuge into their own thoughts and dreams.

Super XX Man: Volume XII: There'll Be Diamonds

Volume XII: There'll Be Diamonds is released on Tender Loving Empire. Release date: October 21st.

Tracks:
  1. Medication
  2. Psychotic Break
  3. Crazy People
  4. You Say
  5. There'll Be Diamonds
  6. Big Balloon
  7. House, Home
  8. Little Leaf
  9. What Lies Beneath
  10. 5A Problem
  11. It's Now
  12. Downtown Chapel
  13. Cautious Like A Panther
Live dates:
  • 10/22 St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub,Alexandria, VA
  • 10/23 OS Art House - Fanatic Showcase, New York, NY
  • 10/24 Knitting Factory - PDX Showcase, New York, NY
  • 10/24 Alphabet Lounge - CMJ Showcase, New York, NY
  • 10/29 White Eagle, Portland, OR
  • 10/30 Sam Bonds Garage, Eugene, OR
  • 10/31 Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
  • 11/01 UC Davis The Old Firehouse, Davis, CA
  • 11/23 Someday Lounge CD Release Party, Portland, OR

MP3: Super XX Man - Big Balloon
MP3: Super XX Man - It's Now

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John Cale: 2003 interview about Eno, Azarkin et al.

Rodion Azarkin with John Cale
screenshot from the Words For The Dying DVD

It's Whatever reprints a 2003 interview with John Cale. He talks about Rodion Azarkin, a great bass player he met while in Moscow recording Words For The Dying with Eno.

There was a Russian double bass player that Brian Eno and I ran into when recording ‘Words For The Dying’. He had gigantic hands. He had hands like spades. I remember before I met him I was listening to the radio in New York and they played his record. He used to play Paganini on the bass. I got to Moscow and I asked, “Do you know this guy?” And someone says “Yeah he’s in the next building. He works next door!” I told Brian about him and I said, “You gotta hear this guy play. He is just amazing! He plays the double bass but he plays Paganini on this thing!”

So we set it up and arranged it and it was really sad. I mean the guy walked in a tuxedo and sat himself up and brought all the armors with him and set the armors up on chairs behind him in a semi circle and he stood in the middle and he started playing the bass. We noticed there was something wrong and also we noticed that the people that worked with him were making fun of him. What was happening was the guy had a disease called lupus and his whole body was changing. You know the bones kind of crumble and they swell up. And his hands were gigantic. Very efficient in playing what he was doing but his face had altered. And he had this sort of distorted flat face. And it was horrible the way they were making fun of him.

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