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Pseudonym of Michael O’Donovan [1903-1966], playwright, novelist, and short-story writer
⇒Interview⇐[1957]
¤ «First Confession» ⇓
All the trouble began when my grandfather died and my grand-mother – my father’s mother – came to live with us. Relations in the one house are a […]
¤ Robin Skynner & John Cleese: LIFE and how to survive it [1993]
The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing – [excerpts]
Robin: …I like the idea of a Greek psychologist called Charis Katakis. She’s taken a word we’re familiar with –‘myth’– and given it a wider meaning. […]
A few extracts from Laurie Anderson‘s Stories form the Nerve Bible.
•→ On The Way To Jerusalem ⇐
There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she belonged to an order that wore bags over their heads. And the mother superior […]
The first track from the album City Of Light, by Bill Laswell. It was released Jun 17, 1997 on the Sub Rosa label. In conjunction with the spiritually-infused spoken lines of Lori Carson, Laswell and his crew unearth rhythms seared from volcanic chasms, old tongues, and primitive civilizations.
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¤ Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra ⇐
♦ ‘Want It Back’ ↓
Hearts on a stringLike an older fashioned phone canBang, ringy-ring and you think you’re gonna get someThing you can bring to a party at your wake notThinking of the thing that you pay back when […]
Award-winning musician, songwriter, and poet DiFranco ⇑ chronicles her rise to fame with engaging candor. Fending for herself by age 15, she survived each unusual day with ingenuity and perseverance while pursuing her education and musical passion. She performed whenever possible in coffee houses, clubs, and other venues, developing an eclectic sound […]
¤ The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins, Kliph Scurlock, and Derek Brown with Phantogram and Liz Allen.
The band is best known for its associations with 1960s and 1970s psychedelic subculture, with elements of this culture permeating the group’s instrumentation, effects, […]
¤ The Rush ⇔ Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee & Neil Peart
Story … ⇒[Part 1] ⇔ [Part 2] ⇔ [Part 3] ⇔ [Part 4] ⇔ [Part 5]⇐
◊→ ‘Xanadu‘ ⇓
In SM Coleridge’s poem, Xanadu is the fictional name of the land where Khubla […]
[1943-2023]
She walks alone down a sleazy backstreet, around a corner, up an alley to a dead endThere under a small blue light, she enters an unmarked doorwayA low heartbeat, a low pounding escapes into the night
This is a place she goes to fulfill a very basic needSomething people have […]
La Naissance De l’Amour →
“I would go home to Wales for Christmas and the summer when the school term wasn’t on. I used to get a kick out of trying to surprise Mum by showing up unexpectedly, but I could never do it. Every time I’d come she’d turn to […]
pjharvey•→http://genius.com/search?q=pj+harvey⇐[lyrics]
♥ ‘This Is Love’ ↓
I can’t believe life’s so complex When I just wanna’ sit here and watch you undress This is love that I’m feeling Does it have to be a life full of dread? I wanna’ chase you round the table, I wanna’ touch […]
¤ Howard Devoto Interviewed ⇐(vid)
◊ A promo of their album ↓ «Not Thyself» [2011]
◊ ‘A Song From Under The Floors’ ↓
I am angry, I am ill and I’m as ugly as sin I don’t know what keeps me alive and kicking I know the meaning of life, […]
Oracle
Here’s an extract from Brian Eno‘s explanation of this random collection of maxims or aphorisms aimed at helping artists approach their work.
⇐ «These cards evolved from our separate working procedures. It was one of the many cases during the friendship that he [Peter […]
∞ Ismael Lo & Marianne Faithfull ↓ ‘Without Blame’
Toutes les femmes sont des reines … But some are more eager than others.Some shatter a man’s dream By breaking away from their lover. Cette chanson pour cette reine Qui dit à son roi, «Maintenant … I am gone, gone with […]
•→http://genius.com/search?q=the+who⇐
People try to put us d-down (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) Just because we get around (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) I hope I die before I get old (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation) This is my generation – This is my […]
♦ Tim Buckley ↓ ‘Song to the Siren‘ (1968)
Long afloat on shipless oceans I did all my best to smile ‘Til your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle And you sang Sail to me, sail to me Let me enfold you Here I am, here […]
•→Charlie Christian: Swing to Bop [1941]
¤ Pat Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of his three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, the young Missouri native already displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for […]
John Coltrane – Sonny Rollins – Pharoah Sanders – Archie Shepp – Joe Lovano John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman ↓ ‘My Only Love’ ⇐(G Wood & R Mellin)
The very thought of you makes my heart sing Like an April breeze on the wings of spring And you appear in […]
¤ Ron Carter
He was named Outstanding Bassist of the Decade by the Detroit News, Jazz Bassist of the Year by Downbeat magazine, and Most Valuable Player by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. In 1993 Ron Carter earned a Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Group, the Miles Davis Tribute […]
Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about jazz. As a black musician himself, Arthur Taylor was able to ask his subjects hard questions about the role of black artists in a white society. Free to speak their minds, these musicians offer startling insights […]
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