Manafonistas

**Edition of 300** No strangers to the weird and wonderful, Glasgow’s Night School surpass themselves with this slanted and enchanted debut vinyl by Charcoal Owls, aka poet Russell Walker (Pheromoans/Bomber Jackets) and musician Tom James Scott (Liberez). Melding baroque indie pop with pastoral electronics, field recordings and absurd lyrics, their ‚Tin Roof‘ occupies some „other“ space between BoC, Bach and Salad Fingers, taking a leisurely, groggy dérive between passages of tranquillised, twinkling keys, hazy organ melodies and crepuscular atmospheres united by Walker’s drawling, poetic commentary. It’s a rare sort of insight to provincial southern English worlds, with observations on wheelie bins, porridge and suburban insecurity juxtaposed against well-mannered but sly musical backdrops belying the duo’s relative outsider perspective, along with the strange, spectral presence of Rose Keeler (Keel Her) in the almost ickily pretty ‚Grace Period‘. Unless they make and release another album in 2014, we reckon you won’t hear another record quite like this all year. (Boomkat) p.s: definitely on the end of year lists of Ian, Gregs and Michael …

Ein kleiner Programmhinweis fuer morgen abend: ab 20.15h gibt es in 3SAT einen hundertzwanzigminuetigen Konzertmitschnitt vom Verbier Festival 2004 mit Martha Argerich und dem Verbier Festival Orchestra zu sehen. Auf dem Programm stehen die „Rhapsodie espagnole“ von Maurice Ravel, das Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 in b-Moll op. 23 von Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, Sowie die Sinfonie Nr. 1 in c-Moll op. 68 von Johannes Brahms.

What a world! What is media, what is politics, what is reality? Confusion is reality!
 
WHO should why be interested in DELIBERATELY shooting a civilian aircraft of Malaysian Airlines?
 
Deliberately shooting a civilian aircraft with hundreds of passengers happened twice: the Americans did it and the Russians did it.
 
 
 

 

Djivan Gasparyan is one of the world’s most distinctive, haunting instrumentalists. He’s a master of the oboe-like duduk, made of apricot wood and traditionally played by shepherds in his native Armenia, with which he creates surely the most plaintive and atmospheric noises on the planet, as heard on Ridley Scott’s Gladiator and Peter Gabriel’s soundtrack for Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ. Now comes the re-release of two of his classic recordings. On I Will Not Be Sad in This World, an instrumental set released in Russia in 1983, his pained, expressive playing is matched only against gentle drone effects. Brian Eno said it was „one of the most beautiful and soulful recordings I have ever heard“, and brought him to London to work with producer Michael Brook. The resulting Moon Shines At Night, released in 1993, is even more intense, with Gasparyan singing on two tracks. Exquisite. (R. Denselow, The Guardian)