13. 8. 2007 | Rubriky: 2007,Články,Rock & Pop
Že by se opakovala, to Marace určitě nehrozí. Po moravsko-slovensky inspirovaném debutu Krvavé balady (na němž se podílela dvojice Zimbova) a portugalském Longe vydala skupina třetí album The body is too slow for me, které vzbudilo nejen nadšené recenze, ale zvídavým posluchačům otevřelo dveře do neznámého světa sufijské poezie, indické mystiky i hudby z Maroka.
12. 8. 2007 | Rubriky: Články,Interviews, reviews,Multilingual
Krems is a beautiful and peaceful town on Danube river in Austria, known for it’s Riesling wines and – in past years – also for the Glatt und Verkehrt festival. The name literally means a knitting style that changes between two types of stitches, the “smooth” and “inverted”. This is actually a good definition of the programming, which includes some well known local traditions in unusual setting, like the Indian guitarist extraordinaire Amit Chatterjee performing with the Austrian yodelers Broadlahn, an idea which dates back to times when Amit was a regular member of Joe Zawinul’s syndicate.
12. 8. 2007 | Rubriky: Články,Interviews, reviews,Multilingual
[by Ken Hunt, London] The Stephen Stills who put down this session on 26 April 1968 was hardly between jobs – even if he was between Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash. On the album’s skimpy notes, Stills writes, “I was at a Judy Collins session in New York in 1968, and when she was finished, I peeled off a few hundreds for the engineer so I could make a tape of my new songs.” Which Judy Collins session? Not the Who Knows Where The Time Goes surely, because it would be churlish beyond belief not to be explicit about that.
23. 7. 2007 | Rubriky: Články,Lives,Multilingual
[by Ken Hunt, London] In June 1960 a beat group called The Jets hit the St. Pauli district of Hansastadt Hamburg. With their arrival the British music invasion began. Rick Hardy was one of the original five-piece Jets, the first British group to perform in the clubs on the Reeperbahn, a district famed for ultra-violence, cameraderie and the richness of its lexicon of sexual services. Many other groups followed them to St. Pauli, notably a group that grew wings and became The Beatles. Hardy was more than a footnote in the history of rock music. He linked skiffle and rock, linked Soho and Hamburg and linked Joe Brown, Cliff Richard, The Shadows and The Beatles.
23. 7. 2007 | Rubriky: Články,Interviews, reviews,Multilingual
[by Ken Hunt, London] As far as Germany is concerned, the sovereignty of TFF Rudolstadt must now be taken more or less as a given. It is a model of how to revitalise a local economy too. The 2007 festival reasserted such contentions many times over. Like nearly every festival I’ve ever attended, the knack lay in out-balancing longueurs with high points. That said, this year TFF RU unwound a new strand of adventurousness with part of its US-themed programming. Philip Glass’ setting of Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, Hydrogen Jukebox (in a performance from Ensemble Creativ), the Degenerate Art Ensemble and, most notably, Laurie Anderson raised the bar in that respect.
16. 7. 2007 | Rubriky: Články,Etc.,KoncertyAviza
V 60. letech procházela Brazílie podobnou společensko-hudební revolucí jako anglosaský svět. Obdobou éry hippies a psychedelie bylo v Brazílii hnutí tropicália, v jehož čele stáli dnes světoznámí zpěváci-písničkáři jako Gilberto Gil či Caetano Veloso. V Brazílii se tehdy ovšem chopila moci vojenská junta a díky tomu se ze subkultury stala subverze a z rebelantských hudebníků nepřátelé režimu. Gil i Veloso byli deportování do exilu, ti kdo zůstali se naučili vyjadřovat se mezi řádky. Alegorie i chirurgicky cílená provokativnost dodaly tehdejší brazilské hudbě novou barvu, která z ní dodnes nevyprchala.
16. 7. 2007 | Rubriky: Články,Lives,Multilingual
[by Ken Hunt, London] The merest mention of the bandoneon conjures images of Argentina, a sub-culture of disadvantage and disaffection, and people expressing themselves through a once sleazy dance called tango. For decades the bandoneon and tango combined to figure as the lingua franca for Carlos Gardel, were refashioned as the nuevo tango (new tango) of Astor Piazzolla and lurked in the automatic writing of Jorge Luis Borges. In Argentina the bandoneon and tango have became expressways to the nation’s soul, shorthand for longing and loss, passion and pain. The bandoneon’s tones evoke a muscular sort of heartache. Such musing may prompt memories of the composer of Astor Piazzolla’s remark that it was an instrument born in a church in Germany moved to the prostibulos – brothels – of Argentina.
16. 7. 2007 | Rubriky: Články,Interviews, reviews,Multilingual
Fado’s history is kind of mysterious. Some theories says that the Portuguese sailors and the African slaves are in its base; According to some musicologists, Fado’s roots are also in the Lundun and Modinha; two kind of music styles coming from Brazil.
Fado started to appear in Lisbon in the beginning of the 19th century as an urban music and it was singed. Fado appears in a different form among the underprivileged and due to that it’s regarded as popular music. Fado was the people’s “newspaper”, it was through this song form that some news where known.
13. 7. 2007 | Rubriky: 2007,Články,UNI
Veletrh WOMEX je každoroční koncertní nabídkou umělců z celého světa pro festivaly v nadcházející sezoně. Výběrem účinkujících je pověřena porota Sedmi samurajů. Poprvé ses jím stal i ty. Bereš to jako poctu k tvé takřka dvacetileté práci na poli world music, anebo spíš jako praktickou výzvu?
9. 7. 2007 | Rubriky: 2003-4,Články,UNI
Každá okupanty sužovaná země má své disidenty, emigranty i kulturní ambasadory. Pro Tibeťany je takovou osobností zpěvačka Yungchen Lhamo. Narodila se poblíž Lhasy, když jí byly čtyři roky, Číňané deportovali její rodiče do pracovního tábora a Yungchen vyrůstala s babičkou. Roku 1989 se jí podařilo uprchnout do Indie, pak se vystěhovala do Austrálie a dnes žije v New Yorku.
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