Backed with money inherited by his wife, Chabrol wrote, produced and directed Le Beau Serge in 1958, a film often cited as the first New Wave feature. Shot over nine weeks in Sardent, using natural light and real locations, the film portrays a detailed picture of working class life in a bleak provincial village. Reflecting the influence of both […]
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“A” Trio – Music to our Ears: Acoustic Improv goes Electric
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03 Track 03 3 Listen to The Shape of Jazz that Came – Track #3 “A” Trio is Mazen Kerbaj (Trumpet) and Sharif Sehnaoui (acoustic guitar) and Reed Yassin (double bass). Music to our ears is a tidy little disc just released on Mazen Kerbaj’s label from Lebanon Called Al Maslakh (The Slaughtehouse). Track one is […]
Martin Denny – Exotic Moog: Exotica in a quiet village.
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It’s Friday night here. Its been a big week. It’s Samuel Becketts birthday and I’ve been reading him even more than usual. I’m tired. I want Martin Denny Exotic Moog. One of my favourite down time discs! Enjoy. From Decrepit Tapes: Exotic Moog is the glittering grail for both Martin Denny collectors and Moog […]
The Sound of speaking Samuel Beckett – Happy Birthday
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Rule Number One Take note one from pocket one and suck it! (take a listen to the above link) Beckett and love Beckett never reduces love to the amalgam of sentimentality and sexuality endorsed by common opinion. Love as a matter of truth (and not of opinion) depends upon a pure event: an encounter whose […]
Happy Birthday Samuel Beckett – The great John Hurt Performs Krapp’s Last Tape
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Krapp’s Last Tape is a one-act play, written in English, by Samuel Beckett. Consisting of a cast of one man, it was originally written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee and first titled “Mageemonologue”. It was inspired by Beckett’s experience of listening to Magee reading extracts from Molloy and From an Abandoned Work on the BBC Third Programme in December 1957. The play, which premiered as a curtain […]
Diamonds of the Night – Heartbreaking beauty by Jan Němec in his first film.
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I just don’t know where to start with this beautiful beautiful film. I’ve actually owned this film for a few months and hadn’t gotten around to watching it yet. It was on my ‘list’ for a couple of weeks then I sat down to focus this week finally – and as usual, I was stunned […]
The Cat from Cat Hill – Loris. Music that meanders through my subterranean caverns.
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Deep inside my capacity for music listening is a vast potential for horizonal expansion with the texture of cyber-like plasticity. Separate from the music that now inhabits it, or rather tries to inhabit, is the space for music. Long before the music presented itself, something inside me – god, evolution or an expanding to nowhere […]
Blue Eyes Black Hair – Marguerite Duras and the love of loss.
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Among those watching the scene in the lounge from the road behind the hotel is a man. He makes up his mind, crosses the road and goes towards an open window. Just after he has crossed the road, no more than a few seconds, she, the woman in the story, enters the lounge. She has […]
Addison Groove – Transistor Rhythm: A pleasant surprise
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Never let it be said that I don’t throw in the odd surprise here on my tiny corner of the net. I bought this album (I know I know) purely based on the Dusted review by Brad LaBonte and my subsequent listen around. It’s a very ‘not Lisa’ kind of album – I mean Bad Things […]
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