Manafonistas

 
Idyll of 5e (ILK) in Copenhagen, Meatpacking district
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
BUCHAREST

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COPENHAGEN … AARHUS

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Jason Moran’s contribution to the Biennale
 

At the Biennale, the Savoy wall confronts the Three Deuces stage to embody a face-off between two different eras of American jazz: 1930s swing era with 1950s bebop, respectively. Moran explains that the Savoy Ballroom was an enormous space meant for dancing. When swing went out of fashion and jazz groups literally downsized, the stages shrunk, too. Though the musicians were “shoved in a corner,” as Moran puts it, “the music remained rebellious.” Read more …

Popmusik und Planeten, eine alte Liebe. Joe Meeks Telstar von 1962 stand am Anfang des neuen Space/spacy Sound. Und Meer war der erste Elektroniker der Popmusik. Er setzte ein Clavioline im Studio ein. Telstar wird als erstes mit der Fassung von The Ventures assoziiert, aber das wirkliche Ding ist die Fassung von The Tornados. Joe Meek starb 1967 tragisch. Sein Tod und das Gezerre in der Musikindustrie jener Tage ist ein Kapitel für sich.
 
 
Telstar THE TORNADOS
 
Telstar THE VENTURES
 
Telstar Bill Frisell
 
 
Die Musik jener Zeit war voll von Space-Sachen. Von Meek bis Sun Ra, von Subotnik bis Ellington.
 
Wer mehr direkt ins All hineinhören will, kommt bei der NASA voll zum Zuge, kann dort schwelgen und stundenlang mit dem Kopfhörer Major Tom makieren.
 
 
NASA SOUNDS-1     NASA SOUNDS-2     NASA SOUNDS-3   
 
 
 
Apropos Subotnik …
 

To celebrate the August VOD/DVD release of I DREAM OF WIRES, the definitive and acclaimed electronic music documentary about the rise, fall and rebirth of the modular synthesizer, Monoduo films and Mobile Kino present a very special screening and electronic music event in Berlin. On Tuesday July 28, I DREAM OF WIRES will celebrate it’s release premiere in Berlin, followed by a live performance by the legendary Morton Subotnick. Taking place at Babylon Kino Berlin, Morton Subotnick, accompanied by his frequent collaborator, video artist Lillevan, presents FROM SILVER APPLES OF THE MOON TO A SKY OF CLOUDLESS SULFUR REVISITED: VI, marking Subotnick’s first live appearance in Germany since 2011. The event will also feature a talk which will be moderated by Alec Empire from Atari Teenage Riot …

WEITER 

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Joni Mitchell on Appalachian dulcimer
 
 

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„last year i reached out to the philosopher timothy morton to see if he would be interested to start a dialogue with me, to search for a definition of me and my friends’ stance in this world, which i felt his writing came very close to already. of course i’m still searching but this email chat of ours got pretty close and we shared a couple of coordinates trying to define what “ism” a pop musician from iceland would be …..“ said Björk

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Manafonistas love islands. Within the next six months, some of them will see lighthouses in distant parts of Scotland and the German area of the Northern Sea. But, whenever you think of lighthouses, time is running backwards, and pictures from the (distant) past appear before the inner eye. Lighthouses always leave a deep impact in childhood, they are more striking than skycrapers, cause they appear without „companions“, often in desolated spaces.

In the last days, I thought about „Skylight“, a record with Art Lande, Dave Samuels and Paul McCandless. I haven’t heard it since the last century, but now I ordered a vinyl copy (lost the old one long time ago). I even thought about the lighthouse on the cover. But there is no such thing. Memory playing tricks. Nevertheless I’m sure that the music will live up to my imagination: one of the most beautiful recordings of Art Lande (another great one is his duo with Jan Garbarek from the early 70’s).

-me

According to Danny Fawcett, The Residents aren’t musicians. They are artists, but they choose to use music and sound collage as their main medium. If you decide to take the plunge to this album, brace yourself for a shock. Song structure, choruses, the entire basis of pop music is thrown out and mercilessly skewered. Eskimo stands as one of the great examples of how the giant eyeballs can create non-musical music. Eskimo is even more interesting when you know a bit about the Eskimo Myth… how N. Senada, the Residents‘ guru, came back from a trip to the Yukon with a thermos full of „arctic air“ and bizzare stories about eskimo instruments. According to the myth, the Residents went into seclusion, learning how to make traditional „eskimo“ instruments and learning about their mythology and culture, creating an album that embraced Eskimo culture. Does it sound like a crock of …? It probably is… the Residents like to surround themselves with obvious lies and disinformation, after all. But true or not, the myth is fun, and it makes Eskimo a real treat to listen to. So put on your headphones, turn down the lights, and let them take you away to the frigid north. Do they have lighthouses?