Hey Folks, I'm in Vietnam right now, no more chinese censorship... but before I tell you what's going on for us right here, let's watch what we've been doing these 4 last weeks all over China.
I'm gonna start with places I really enjoyed in Beijing called Hu Tong. They stand for the popular suburbs of the capital, atmosphere in these areas are great, local, authentic and very social. Unfortunately, due to Olympic games and a very fast urban renewal program in the city, most of the Hu Tong have been destroyed...
"Born in the ghetto, it's hard to survive" Group Home - Supastar
George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, one of the most influential of the low-budget horror films to proliferate in the 70's, has a black actor... Duane Jones as its protagonist. In the movie, Jones projects an urbane, upwardly mobile attitude in his idealized role as the resourceful black survivor. In eveyone of the Living Dead sequels a black character would play either the lead or a proiminent role. Back in the days, I guess that wasn't so common on screen.
Let's listen to a well orchestrated track from the same period (1968!) by the austrian pianist Roland Kovac. This is an obscure, jazzy and trippy suite (or soundtrack) called Power Start, released on the independent german jazz label MPS Records. Roland Kovac - Powerstart
What'up folks... such a long time... I've been so busy these last 5 months, working for lot of festival in my hometown Lyon. So here I am, back with you lads for a couple of weeks because I plan to travel to China from december to february.
By the way I'm also back in gigs venues as a spectator. A couple of days ago I've seen a great show from Antipop Consortium, a major band of the independent Hip Hop scene from the beginning of the 00's. Listening to their last LP (after a 7 years wait!) might leave you peplexed but this is definetly a band that you have to catch live. They're more rapping than the last time I saw them all together, and they're rocking up the crowd as they always used to. M.Sayid got now 2 mics to do this reverb effect that is very present on Fluorescent black...Solid emcees (Sayid, Beans and High Priest) who are also great beatmakers are accompanied by Earlbalze behind his turntables, engeniering sound and making beats... Check the track "apparently" from APC, from their last full lenght Fluorescent black signed on the brittish label Big Dada.
I hope to be on the web very soon with new mixes, great wax I bought this summer and some more nice stuff coming. Peace
I discovered this urugayan artist in Montevido last winter. I never heard of her work before and didn't find that much about Gladys Afamado on the net. That's a shame...Check it out:
And Tori Amos to illustrate in music this post, her last LP just came out few days ago but I'm too busy to put on ear on it. Let's listen this track "dark side on the sun" from the album "american doll posse" released in 2007.
