Entries from January 2010
January 31, 2010
In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.
Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.
We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?
Blue Gold: World Water Wars – Directed by Sam Bozzo; 2008
Pt.1, Pt.2, Pt.3, Pt.4; Password = irfree.com
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January 30, 2010
After nearly a half century, Ella Fitzgerald’s Twelve Nights In Hollywood finally sees the light of day. It’s an unprecedented release showcasing 73 completely-unreleased live recordings from Ella in her relaxed, absolute prime.
For Twelve Nights In Hollywood, Verve Select dug into the vault to collect the best of her performances across her extended 10-night 1961 engagement at Los Angeles’ Crescendo Club and her two-night return engagement the following year, presenting an unforgettable experience that puts you right in the front seat at the club. It includes several tracks never before heard by Ella live, tracks she had just recorded or had yet to record in the studio, and old chestnuts she revisited in a fresh way. There have been several Ella live albums, but this is indeed unlike any other.
Ella Fitzgerald – Twelve Nights in Hollywood; Hip-O Select, 2010
Pt.1, Pt.2, Pt.3, Pt.4
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January 27, 2010
Grabbed lunch earlier this week at Laem Pakarang (Cape Coral). Chill spot that is about five minutes from my house in Kuk Kak, Phang Nga. Relaxed at the small restaurant at the end of the tree line. Interesting to walk around that area since the entire cape is covered with rocks and dead coral. Here’s a glimpse of what you’d see there.
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January 26, 2010
Incredible sounds from the collaboration of masterful Guzheng composer/performer Bei Bei He and the prolific musician/producer Shawn Lee. Read more about the introductory limited-edition 10″ EP, Beauty and the Beats, which features two non-LP cuts of “Make Me Stronger”, an instrumental version and a remix by Floating Points, here and read more about the full length, Into the Wind, here.
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee – Beauty and the Beats; Ubiquity, 2009
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee - Into the Wind; Ubiquity, 2010
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January 25, 2010
Afro-Punk explores race identity within the punk scene and tackles the hard questions such as issues of loneliness, exile, interracial dating and black power. It follows the lives of four people who have dedicated themselves to the punk rock lifestyle. They find themselves in conflicting situations, living the dual life of a person of color in a mostly white community.
The documentary laces interviews from scores of black punk rockers from all over the nation with scenes from our four protagonists’ lives. They each come from different regions, generations, genders and sexual preferences, but their stories are amazingly similar. Thousands more with similar tales exist throughout the world to form a subculture within a subculture.
The Afro-Punk movement presently exists as an online community at afropunk.com and also as a festival that tours throughout the country and abroad spread the messages of unity contained within the full-length feature. Support it when it comes to your town.
Afro-Punk - Directed by James Spooner; 2003
Pt.1, Pt.2, Pt.3, Pt.4, Pt.5, Pt.6, Pt.7, Pt.8, Pt.9, Pt.10, Pt.11
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January 24, 2010
The hi-fi was on fire last nite with Madlib’s latest joint. Got outta control when that remix of “Kill ‘Em” dropped. Can’t wait to see what’s to come in the next 11! volumes.
Madlib Medicine Show No.1: Before the Verdict; Stones Throw, 2010
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January 22, 2010
To listen to Dancing Drums is to imagine the bazaars and markets of Bombay being seismically unsettled by the drums and the bass of sample freaks and ambidextrous turntabla-ists. It is an album that provides any number of routes to an infinite amount of journeys and has been described as “an epic of explosive percussion and crafty melody lines”.
Badmarsh and Shri’s first collaborative effort for Outcaste Records bridges decades, genres and cultures. Breakbeats are coaxed, pulped, rearranged and deranged. As new forms become old norms and progressive beatmastery overshadows the soul of songwriting, Badmarsh and Shri have achieved the constantly craved, yet rarely attained accolade of creating an album that is intense without the pretense, and funky without the superficiality.
Badmarsh and Shri – Dancing Drums; Outcaste, 1998
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January 20, 2010
January 19, 2010
From Jackie Mittoo to Winston Wright, the organ players of the day would version top songs in their own manner. Presented here are five classic JA/UK reggae tracks versioned by the organ of today, Roger Rivas of the mighty Aggrolites!
Roger Rivas – Organ Versions Vol.1, 2009
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January 17, 2010
MHE, now currently known as MRR-ADM, is a Southern Californian production team consisting of Michael Raymond Russell and Adam Douglas Manella who are currently in the process of recording an album for Now-Again. Their previous releases have come in limited pressings, mostly unaffiliated with labels (although they are on Sound in Color), simplistic in packaging and design, and righteously dirty in the beat department.
MHE – The MHE Sampler; Media Creature Music, 2009
MRR-ADM – Untitled 10″ featuring Malcolm Catto; No Label, 2008
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January 15, 2010
January 12, 2010
Som Três consisted of Sebastião “Sabá” Oliveira Da Paz on bass, Antônio “Toninho” Pinheiro on drums, and César Camargo Mariano on piano who, collectively, laid down some of the illest grooves to come out of Brazil in the late sixties.
Som Três – Show; Odeon Fonografica, 1968
Som Três – Um e Pouco, Dois e Bom, Esse Som Tres e Demais; Odeon Fonografica, 1969
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January 9, 2010
Musical Occupation presents JJ Loy, host of Ska’s the Limit, serving up a compilation of live recordings from various years through various lineups to recreate the Slackers Redlight. In the mix we get “Soldier” featuring a theremin solo from Vic, “Fried Chicken / Mary Mary” inna extended fashion with “Sloopy”, “You Must Be Good” with a Regina Bellantese violin solo , a heavyily-dubbed “Tin Tin Deo”, “Rude and Reckless” feat. Papa Django and, as always, stellar musicianship throughout.
The Slackers – Redlight Redid; 2009
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January 8, 2010
Inside Outside is a documentary about vandalism, art, and vandalism as art. It follows the lives and works of ZEVS from Paris, Ron English, SWOON and KR from New York City, Adams & Itso from Stockholm and Copenhagen respectively, and Os Gemeos from São Paolo, among others.
Inside Outside is a film about the energy artists get when working in the street. An energy they’re missing when exhibiting in galleries and museums, an energy that brings life to their art and to their own lives. It’s an energy that’s partly caused by the fact that everything these artists do in the street is illegal.
The Visible is Ephemeral
Inside Outside – Directed by Andreas Johnsen; 2005
Pt.1, Pt.2, Pt.3, Pt.4, Pt.5, Pt.6, Pt.7, Pt.8, Subtitles
“Inside Outside: Evolving Grafitti”; Chiemi Isozaki – PingMag
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January 6, 2010
Tsunami memorial, at the 813 Marine police boat in Bang Niang, Phang Nga, held on December 26th, 2009 to mark the 5th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
http://www.thegoldbrick.net/video/tsunamimemorial.flv
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