LISBON STORY [WIM WENDERS, KINEMATOGRAF 1994]

MAJEURE - 'SOLAR MAXIMUM' (2012)

New-wave romantiko-dekadente dedikuar Tangerine Dream dhe John Foxx.
Sequencer (nga vitet Shtatedhjete) elektronik i humbur ne hapesire...

WAREIKA - 'ONE NATION (VERSION TO THE SUN)' AND 'BAZAR' // WHEN CRAZY BALKAN RHYTHMS MEET FULL BALEARIC FRESHNESS

The influence of Balkan folk, jazz, dub and a splash of Balearic sunshine generates here a unique sound.
On this new album (Wternal, 2013) Wareika looks set to continue their sonic and electronic explorations of traditional folk, Balkan-jazz, balaeric soul and garden house ('One Nation').

This made possible thank to their unique use of vintage synthesisers and dubby rhythms, taking inspiration from all the tours they’ve done over the last 3 years!

Wareika consists of musicians Henrik Raabe, Jakob Seidensticker and Florian Schirmacher, and together they form one of the very few live bands on the international electronic circuit. 

"Of course we are a bunch of electronic music producers, but before that, we are a band”.

They first came together in 2007 and since then have released on acclaimed labels like Eskimo, Future Classic and Circus Company, as well as three studio albums on Perlon, Connaisseur and Tartelet Records...

[Here listen to 'Bazar' - soundtrack of the ex-legendary Bar 25 in Berlin]
 

THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO [LITERATURE]

It's never

the changes

we want

that

change everything.

JANA HUNTER [SCREENSHOTS]

JANA HUNTER - 'SLEEP' [THERE'S NO HOME, 2007]

Sleep, sleep
The night is through
All of your demons are coming for you
All that we've seen may not all be true
Sleep as the sky starts turning blue
Sleep as the day is born anew
Sleep as the wandering eye sleeps, too
Sleep
Your seas are sleeping with you

Sleep, sleep
The day is done
Hide as does the setting sun
All of your racing has just begun
Sleep as the light starts coming undone
The children start having all the fun
The women are restless and carrying on
Sleep
In sleep you'll dream you've won

LARRY GUS [ICON OF THE MONTH]

CHARLIE FEATHERS - 'SHE SET ME FREE / THAT CERTAIN FEMALE' (1974)

Probably, one of the greatest country and rockabilly singers of all times!

And if you think, Charlie Feathers worked at an ambulance driver, stock car racer, and kept recording, making dozens of albums for as many labels, so many they're hard to figure out...

 

 

 

VON LMO - 'THIS IS POP ROCK' [COSMIC INTERCEPTION, 1994]

This is pop rock
So c'mon, baby
So pick up your feet, get up and dance

She's so sexy
Very sensual
She listens to the radio
For the latest earthquake

This is pop rock
You can sing along
So pick up your feet, get up and dance...

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT [LITERATURE, 1929]

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.
I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring.
And all men of my age, here and over there, throughout the whole world see these things; all my generation is experiencing these things with me.
What would our fathers do if we suddenly stood up and came before them and proffered our account?

What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over?
Through the years our business has been killing; it was our first calling in life.
Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen afterwards?
And what shall come out of us? 

[1929, Erich Maria Remarque] 

DELANEY ALLEN - IN VISIBILITY [FOTOGRAF]

THE POP GROUP [FOR HOW MUCH LONGER DO WE TOLERATE MASS MURDER?, 1980]

"For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?"
(edhe persa kohe duhet te tolerojme vrasjet ne mase?)

"Jemi te gjithe prostituta".
Si te themi; asnjeri nuk i shpeton sistemit, sistemit qe urdheron ne emrin tone, godet e vret ne emrin tone, ose me keq akoma - nuk ben absolutisht asgje ne emrin tone.
Kopertina eshte e albumit te dyte (UK, 1980 - mandati i dyte i Margaret Thatcher) te Pop Group me liderin Mark Stewart, personazh i rendesishem ne procese te paqes e humanizmit fale ideve te tij kunder zgjedhjeve e vendimeve te vendeve te zhvilluara.

"The rape of the Third World, Western bankers decide who lives and who dies" 

Veprat e tij jane forme denoncimi kunder shkeljes te se drejtave te njeriut dhe shtypjes per shfrytezim, pervecse muzike funky-punk te nje niveli te larte dhe kaq special.

Muzika energjike nuk humb as per nje minute intensitetin, gjurme me tituj provokues, bori dhe kitare bass qe luajne ne nje kakofoni moderne tingujsh dhe gjithcka ndodh nen emblemen e rebelimit social. Ajo cfare mungon sot, apo jo?

Jete te gjate Mark Stewart!

[kopertina eshte fotografi e hungarezit André Kertész!]

"To wash your hands of the conflict, between the powerful and the powerless, means you are taking sides with the oppressors". 

THE RESIDENTS - 'REST ARIA' [MEET THE RESIDENTS, 1974]

Fantazia nuk eshte ne mode sot!

Ju prezantoj me Teorine e Erresires (Theory of Obscurity), ku krijimtaria e artistit eshte frytdhenese vetem nese ky izolohet totalisht nga shoqeria dhe ndikimet e kohes. Takimi me vetveten. Braktisja me cdo gje qe lindi para teje. Kjo eshte ideologjia e grupit me eksperimental, avant-garde dhe te fshehur qe do te degjoni ndonjehere.

Gjeja e pare e pazakonte kur degjon albumin debut Meet The Residents (1974), madje edhe perpara se te shtypesh 'play', eshte se ti asnjehere nuk i takon me te vertete The Residents.

Kurre nuk kane firmosur ndonje album/eksperiment te tyrin apo deklaruar identitetin, duke mbetur kolektivi me magjepes e njekohesisht nder me krijuesit ne historine e muzikes.
Planet me vehte!

VINTAGE VIOLENCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Maska prej xhami te shkrire simbolizon faktin qe kurre nuk shihet me te vertete personaliteti i njeriut...".

 

[Vintage Violence, albumi solist i vitit 1970 nga artisti John Cale, intelektuali europian, dekadenti i apasionuar pas muzikes avant-garde te pas Luftes se Dyte Boterore.]

INDEBITO - FILM NGA ANDREA SEGRE DHE VINICIO CAPOSSELA [KINEMATOGRAFI, 2013]

Si t'i pergjigjesh krizes me kulture, poezi dhe muzike.
Muzike rebele!

YVES SIMON - 'AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES DE JULIET' [1973]

Vous marchiez Juliet au bord de l'eau
Vos quatre ailes rouges sur le dos
Vous chantiez Alice de Lewis Carroll
Sur une bande magnétique un peu folle
Maman va cueillir des pâquerettes
Au pays des merveilles de Juliet
La la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la...

AKI KAURISMAKI - THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST [KINEMATOGRAF, FINLAND] // 'PAHA VAANII' (OST BY MARKO HAAVISTO)

"If you ever find me face down in the gutter, turn me around to my back..."
 

The Man Without A Past occupies the nebulous realms between emotions and moods. It's deadpan-comic and entropic-tragic, ironic and optimistic, detached and intimate...

A kind of movie that can wholly lack a plot yet still unfold with a sense of internal logic that makes every diversion inexplicably inevitable. That's no mean feat for a film where even the dialogue routinely floats out of comprehension, with the lead character suddenly going off on a tangent about visiting the moon as another humors him. When asked whether he met someone, the man replies, "Not really, it was a Sunday."

JESSICA BACKHAUS - ONE DAY IN NOVEMBER [FOTOGRAF, GERMANY]

LUIGI GHIRRI - THINKING IMAGES. [FOTOGRAF, ITALY]

Luigi Ghirri revolutionized Italian photography in the 1970s with his fresh color snap-shot style observations of Italian contemporary culture.

His small delicately colored prints were conceived in series to create visual poems, gentle, but direct.
The small scale and modest demeanor of his prints belie their power...