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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Aug 11, 2017 19:38:05 GMT -5
Yes, moimoi and Lord Lucan—though it’s a picture from filming, not the film itself (given that Ryuichi Sakamoto’s actually smiling)
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Post by moimoi on Sept 2, 2017 10:24:46 GMT -5
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Post by songstarliner on Sept 20, 2017 23:06:32 GMT -5
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 21, 2017 6:37:47 GMT -5
The Jim Jones Revue
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Sept 25, 2017 16:26:08 GMT -5
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Post by songstarliner on Sept 26, 2017 21:42:31 GMT -5
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Post by moimoi on Sept 26, 2017 21:58:59 GMT -5
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Oct 6, 2017 20:53:07 GMT -5
In concert with Record Club:
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 2, 2017 9:37:15 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Nov 2, 2017 19:16:26 GMT -5
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Nov 6, 2017 1:13:15 GMT -5
Lord Lucan There’s a great old O’Neal article about Bowie’s tanned, bleached eighties period. Quoting Bowie’s biographer David Buckley: That last part (my italics) is fascinating to me—Bowie the superstar was unreachable, but however alien Bowie’s look was earlier there was always an emotional accessibility there, and it’s easier to make oneself up or be a bit avant-garde than to strut like an aristocrat (the tanned part must have really twisted the knife for his British fans, too).
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Nov 8, 2017 3:20:35 GMT -5
Turgun Alimatov, a self-taught mid-twentieth century Uzbek master (inspired in large part by imported Bollywood musical scores and Ravi Shankar—Babur, the founder of the Mughals, was born in what’s now Uzbekistan, he’d note), with the sato, an old instrument he’d resurrected. So to some degree a lot of contemporary Uzbek classical music really has its roots in the 1960s (and one of the reasons I love this photo is the moddish look he has). Although the idea of “traditional music” is a recent invention, I don’t think people realize how much the music itself is too (he’s even using a western bow). Bits and pieces of Alimatov’s stuff constantly pops up on compilations—unfortunately usually the same bits and pieces—but I finally got my hands on the old Radio Ocora disc (it involved a lot of running around and scheduling with the Post Office to actually get it to my apartment, oddly) and am enjoying finally being able to soak in his music for an extended period of time.
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 10, 2017 8:37:36 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Nov 11, 2017 19:15:20 GMT -5
Jean Luc de Lemur. Interesting. Ocora’s a great label. I’ve not that Alimatov album in particular; I’ll have to search it out. I checked if he might have been one of those included on a Smithsonian Folkways comp I like very much called The Silk Road and so he is. Some other interesting background on the Indian influence you mention: “Turgun Alimatov's slurred, highly embellished style on the sato is strongly reminiscent of Indian music, which he first heard in Indian films and over the radio during the Nehru-Khrushchev era, when relations between Indian and the USSR were close. Alimatov views his appropriation of Indian melodic style as a continuation of cultural contact between Central Asia and the subcontinent. He has created many free arrangements of traditional pieces, for example, this (somewhat abridged) version of Nava, one of the six main melodic modes in Uzbek classical music ( shash maqam).”
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Post by Lord Lucan on Nov 11, 2017 19:19:24 GMT -5
You ought to write a guide to contemporary Japanese music in the Discography section, @patrickbatman.
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 12, 2017 18:31:26 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 10, 2017 23:55:44 GMT -5
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Dec 13, 2017 13:57:08 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 14, 2017 8:59:58 GMT -5
So this is apparently something that exists
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 19, 2017 23:26:12 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 24, 2017 1:28:15 GMT -5
Rachmaninov in Vancouver, 1929.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 26, 2017 1:24:26 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 2, 2018 16:44:57 GMT -5
With Lotte Lenya.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 2, 2018 16:47:36 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 4, 2018 21:40:23 GMT -5
I’ve been enjoying Andalusia of Love lately, an irenic imagining(?) of Ahl al-Kitāb. The music is that of the Lebanese oud exponent Marcel Khalifé, set to the verse of the deceased journalist, Rakah and PLO activist, and Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish, of whom Edward Said wrote so highly. There’s an earlier album of the same called Fall of the Moon I’d like to hear as well. Khalifé at Darwish’s funeral in 2008.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 21, 2018 1:25:05 GMT -5
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Post by moimoi on Jan 23, 2018 21:13:42 GMT -5
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 28, 2018 7:18:46 GMT -5
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Post by songstarliner on Jan 31, 2018 22:47:49 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Feb 3, 2018 21:47:24 GMT -5
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