Another rare one for your listening pleasure today. Heins(z) Hoffman-Richter – real name Rodney Marvin McKuen but also travelling under the alias of Rod McKuen – is an American singer/songwriter, composer, musician and poet. he was born in Oakland California. he is one of the pioneers of futuristic music, and pops up occasionally here and there, getting some […]
Fox and his Friends – Fassbinder on sex
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Well! What an interesting film! I completed Fox and his Friends on the weekend – I’m on a bit of a Fassbinder ‘thing’ at the moment, having ADORED Beware of a Holy Whore a few weeks back. This film is a little more difficult to dissect, even though Beware of a Holy Whore is a […]
Patrick Farmer and Dominic Lash – Bestiaries
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I have been so fortunate to hear so many beautiful pieces of music in the past couple of weeks. I am still reeling from my “Necks Exposure” and there have been many beautiful soundtracks I have added to my collection. One that I have had for a few weeks now, is the beautiful Bestiaries by Patrick farmer and Dominique […]
The Necks at the Sydney Opera House – I was there!
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Last night Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton lulled me into a trance, teased me into a kind of delirium and stole a cherry I didn’t know I had. They took me into a room – it was a spectacular room. High ceilings, bulging walls that swelled at the peak of the throb of […]
Roil – Frost Frost: Jazz Improv and beauty alive and well in Sydney
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I’m off to see The Necks tonight – lucky lucky me – so there will be a review of that concert tomorrow. Today I thought I would review Roil Frost Frost, as they are another Sydney Jazz improv band – an off shoot project of The Necks Pianist Chris Abrahams in fact. Roil is: a […]
Marshall McLuhan – The Medium is the Me(a)ssage: Art is anything you can get away with
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I wouldn’t be seen dead with a living work of art. According to Marshall McLuhan any anxiety experienced with the complexities of ‘being’ is mostly related to the redundancy of the outdated mental and psychological abilities we are using to make sense of the world. In many ways, certain philosophers and most artists (worth their […]
David Dunn | Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes – Bees and Ducks and Sound
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I can’t give you sound bites to these two amazing (amazing amazing amazing) pieces of music but the downloads are very cheap and well worth the investment. The Compost and Height Split Series are a group of recordings coupled in with another recording. Compost and height carry a lot of interesting sound music. This series […]
Stroszek: Herzog and the ultimate road trip
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Ultimate road trip is right! I just finished watching Stroszek. It’s been an odd Herzog week for me. First I saw Heart of Glass and now Stroszek. Bruno S will be in all my dreams this week. Not sure that’s such a good thing. I did speak about the interesting arrival of Bruno S into […]
The Chap: We are nobody
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The Chap are an experimental pop band from North London. Their music is a mix of rock and pop. In early 2006 they toured Europe to support their second album Ham which gained much critical acclaim including an album of the month in The Wire. On 19 April 2008 (26 April in the UK) they released a third album, Mega Breakfast . During 2008 and […]
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