Posted by: mx on: October 28, 2008
Kautokeino opprøret is a Norwegian movie based on a XIX century event in northern Norway, when a conflict between the Sami people and the Norwegian government representatives occurred. It all starts from the first appearance of alcohol, and a powerful merchant’s self-interest. It is an excellent movie, with superb acting and a pleasure to see [...]
Posted by: mx on: October 24, 2008
Dunno why I never posted about this; I often return to it these days. It’s such a juicy beat box with psyched vocals and vintage collage sounds. Yet it’s all very modern. It often happens with Beck, but I haven’t been into none of his albums this much. The important factor this time must be [...]
Posted by: mx on: October 23, 2008
I have most of the Maestro Blue Note compilations (Sunrise/Sunset, Gettin’ Up/Gettin’ Down etc), and they’re all really nice. So I was looking for some more Blue Note stuff like that and found this. All these are not the “classical” jazz compilations, as you might expect given that Blue Note is the most famous jazz [...]
Posted by: mx on: October 22, 2008
Now this is one great album. I never thought hardcore could go this far in wooing me on first sight. From the opening of Son the Father, the numerous layers of slightly washed away distorted guitars, I knew that this has to be something, and Fucked Up have really done it well. I don’t know [...]
Posted by: mx on: October 18, 2008
There’s a new AC/DC album! I wasn’t even aware that they’re still supposed to be making them. Anyway, I’m not a big authority here, hearing a lot but owning only Back In Black, but it does feel pretty solid – songs like Stormy May Day, Rock’n’Roll Train, Black Ice are as good as AC/DC can [...]
Posted by: mx on: October 17, 2008
This has to be the most valuable music set that I found recently. Keith Jarrett, for me the greatest living jazz pianist, with his pals Peacock and DeJohnette plays six live sets at Blue Note. This is a set of standards so transposed, wonderfully expanded into unusual and beautiful that’s just pure joy to listen.
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Posted by: mx on: October 14, 2008
Ryan Adams, who seems to have become a writer as well, returns with his Cardinals once again with a new recording. By now you probably have a formed opinion of his ctrl.alt.country; I personally liked Heartbreaker and Love is Hell a lot, but the rest, including this one, don’t move me. Still, this album does [...]
Posted by: mx on: October 12, 2008
The last recordings of Ibrahim Ferrer, made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club film and album series, singing lovely Cuban bolero songs in elegant arrangements played by his fellows.
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Posted by: mx on: October 9, 2008
With wishful curiousity I approached these 15 tracks, and they have won me immediately. I heard Paolo Fresu quite a few times in various collaborations through the CDs that come with the Italian Musica Jazz magazine, and I saw Richard Galliano in concert this spring, while I hear Lundgren for the first time. All three [...]
Posted by: mx on: October 8, 2008
Zeitgeist: Addendum is a sequel to ‘Zeitgeist, the Movie’, a documentary exposing the mythology that predates Christianity, the 9/11 hoax and its motives, the U.S. Federal Bank, the system of central banks in general, and generally the not very wide known information about the social institutions that determine our lives, however indirectly. I found it [...]
