2014' sparks & diamonds

routine investigations

el rey del compás

black figures

kamancheh & baglama

mangeurs de disques!

white noise

tam-tam & microphones
 
at the farm
 
amazing beats 

delay, rupture & fragmentation

drivin' a cab

During this 2014' year, the considerable artists Robert Ashley and Bernard Heidsieck unfortunately left us to reach celestial excursions. They are still in our minds as major figures of music and poetry.
A new book and DVD is just published this month by the french CNAP containing  interviewes of many actors and witnesses of the "poésie-action" and the excellent documentary titled "Bernard Heidsieck, la poésie en action" , directed by Anne Laure Chamboissier & Philippe Franck.

You can't overdose on music

Transistor , the parisian retrospective of Luigi Nono' works, Fritz Hauser,  Teho Tehardo & Blixa Bargeld, Scott Walker & Sunn'O, 300 basses (published by Potlatch), Abelardo Barroso, Joseito Fernandez, Kassé Mady Diabaté, A qui avec Gabriel, Ha-Yang Kim, Aisha Orazbayeva, "Vooodoo Chile" sung by Susheela Raman, Sam Shalabi,  Som Sakrifis, Giorgio Battistelli, Luc Ferrari, the so-waited record of the Ethiopian voice of Ali Birra on the amazing collection Ethiopiques, and still & forever Hesperion XX, Kurt Weill, The Tiger Lilies, Josephine Foster, "Einstein on the beach" live at Chatelet's theater in the original version, Tindersticks, Alizera Mashayekhi,  first premiere in Paris of Morton Feldman's "piano and orchestra" played by John Tilbury ... 
were my favorites in 2014. 

 

 

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Take five

 

Toujours un réel plaisir d'écouter la guitare de notre ami Marc Ribot ...

Here playing the famous hit live in 2013 with "Ceramic Dog" 

"Chien de faïence" en concert.

Avaz

"Avaz": un projet autour des mystiques persans et des gwerziou bretonnes initié par Keyvan Chemirani et publié par Innacor
"Avaz" unit les mystiques persans des 12ème et 13ème siècles (Hafez, Rumi, Khayam, etc.) au répertoire traditionnel breton des gwerzioù. L’amour y est chanté entre complaintes méditatives et envolées lyriques, par Annie Ebrel et Maryam Chemirani, en perse puis en breton.

Annie Ebrel & Maryam Chemirani: chant
Hamid Khabbazi: târ
Sylvain Barou: flûtes traversières en bois, bansuri, balaban
Keyvan Chemirani: zarb, daf, udu, santoor, percussions

Mêlant morceaux traditionnels et compositions originales, cette fusion réussie entre rythmiques, mélodies et langues croisées nous embarquent dans une dérive d'épopées et de mythologies  légendaires d'un passé disparu.

"Avaz" is a project uniting Persian mystical poets (12th & 13th centuries : Hafez, Rîmî, Khayyâm, etc.) and traditional Breton gwerzioù (laments). The subject of love is developed by Annie Ebrel and Maryam Chemirani, between meditative laments and lyric inspirations, alternately in Persian and Breton.
To accompany these songs, Keyvan Chemirani (percussions), Hamid Khabbazi (târ) and Sylvain Barou (flutes) form a subtle settings of crossed rhythms to emphasise the unique characters of the two repertoires, playing traditional pieces and original compositions.

« Two cultures, two languages »
« The virtuosity of an incredible dialogue between East and West in a new contemporary form ! »
« A V A Z : a meeting alchemy ! »

Carnival of souls

The proto-punk singer David Thomas still alive and groovy!
with Pere Ubu and their new release "Carnival of souls"

"Road to Utah" to listen to here

& the really energetic "Golden Surf II"

Walking and talking

In 1931, Alan Blumlein developed what he called "binaural sound", what we call now  stereophonic sound (stereo). Some test's recording to listen to are available at the British Library ' website.
These experimental tests with collaborators as a "sound poetry" !

Colori della luce

An experimental movie directed in 1963 by the italian artists Bruno Munari (1907-1998) who was involved with futurism and concrete art when he was young & Marcello Piccardo, both founder members of the "Studio di Monte Olimpino" in 1962
with an original music by Luciano Berio