Artist: Spacestorm
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Stik 096
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Friday, 27 June 2008
Monday, 23 June 2008
David Sylvian
Artist: David Sylvian
Genre(s):
Alternative
Experimental
Rock
Discography:
Secrets Of The Beehive
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Blemish
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Camphor CD1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Everything and Nothing - Disc CD2
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Everything and Nothing - Disc CD1
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Godman (Limited Edition)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 5
Dead Bees On A Cake
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Approaching Silence
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Weatherbox (Disc 2) - Alchemy
Year: 1989
Tracks: 6
Weatherbox ( CD3) - Gone To
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
Words With The Shaman
Year: 1985
Tracks: 3
Brilliant Trees - Words With T
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Gone To Earth (Instrumental)
Year:
Tracks: 10
Gentlemen Take Polaroids Remastered (Inc Bonus Tracks)
Year:
Tracks: 11
Everything and Nothing - Bonus CD3
Year:
Tracks: 4
Camphor (bonus disc) CD2
Year:
Tracks: 3
Following the 1982 dissolving of Japan, the group's sometime frontman David Sylvian staked out a far-ranging and esoteric life history that encompassed non only solo projects simply also a series of absorbing collaborative efforts and forays into filmmaking, photography, and innovative art. Born David Batt in Kent, England, on February 23, 1958, Sylvian formed Japan in 1974 and served as primary singer/songwriter throughout the group's eight-year existence. Just prior to Japan's dissolution, Sylvian began working with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom he released the individual "Bamboo Houses" in 1982, grading the beginning of a longstanding musical relationship.
Afterwards 1983's "Tabu Colours," another juncture cause with Sakamoto composed for the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Sylvian released his 1984 solo debut, Splendid Trees. The number 1 step in his music's evolution from Japan's post-glam synth pop into amply textured, poetic ambience, the album featured contributions from Sakamoto as well as Jon Hassell and Can alum Holger Czukay. That year, Sylvian also published his offset book of photographs, Perspectives: Polaroids 82/84; in 1985, he released Preparations for the Journey, a documentary filmed in and more or less Tokyo, as well as the EP Dustup With the Shaman.
Gone to Earth, an challenging bivalent LP recorded with assistance from Robert Fripp and Bill Nelson, followed in 1986, piece 1987 marked the release not but of the beautiful Secrets of the Beehive album simply as well the book ingathering Trophies: The Lyrics of David Sylvian. At the same time, he began composing the score for modernistic social dancer Gaby Abis' Kin, which premiered at London's Almeida Theater that September; some other collaboration with Abis, Don't Trash My Altar, Don't Alter My Trash, bowed in November 1988. Also in 1988, Sylvian reunited with Holger Czukay for the subservient LP Troth and Premonition; the duo re-teamed in 1989 for Flux density + Mutability. Coal Glance: The Permanence of Memory, an installation of sculpture, sound, and unaccented created by Sylvian and Russell Mills, was staged in Tokyo Bay, Shinagawa, in 1990; a year afterwards, he and the early members of Japan, wHO had briefly reunited under the distinguish Rain Tree Crow, issued a self-titled album.
In 1994, Sylvian emerged in tandem with Robert Fripp for both an album, The First Day, and Redemption, another sound-and-image initiation exhibited in Japan. The superb Dead Bees on a Cake followed in 1999; Coming Silence, a compendium of instrumental material, appeared subsequently that fall down. In fall 2000 Sylvian returned with the double-disc Everything and Nothing, which made for an fantabulous presentation to some of Sylvian's projects that had in the end interpreted flesh subsequently composition windup, financial settlements, and time constraints end-to-end his solo vocation. He reappeared in 2003 with Spot, an unsettling disk of new material featuring appearances by avant guitar legend Derek Bailey and electronica experimentalist Christian Fennesz.
Miguel Bose
Monday, 16 June 2008
Alas
Artist: Alas
Genre(s):
Gothic
Discography:
Absolute Purity
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
One of various band projects for guitar player Erik Rutan (as well Hate Eternal, ex-Morbid Angel), Alas ar a preferably unusual, vanguard demise alloy project highlighted by the lancinating vocals of treble Martina Astner (née Hornbacher), erst of Dreams of Sanity and Korova. Also counting with the presence of bassist Scott Hornick and drummer Howard Davis, Alas made their recorded debut with 2001's Absolute Purity record album, which contradicted its deed with the sooner flawed results within. The jury is thence quiet out on both the viability of the band's musical experiments and their chances of seniority.
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Ellen DeGeneres clashes with John McCain over gay marriage
Ellen DeGeneres clashed with senator John McCain over the issue of Gay Marriage during an interview airing Thursday.
DeGeneres asked the Republican presidential nominee about the "the big elephant in the room," the recent California Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage, to which he responded, "I just believe in the unique status of marriage between man and woman.
"And I know that we have a respectful disagreement on that issue."
DeGeneres, who has campaigned for Hillary Clinton, compared a ban on gay marriage to the time when "blacks and women did not have the right to vote.
"We are all the same people, all of us," said DeGeneres, who recently celebrated her 50th birthday party. "You're no different than I am. Our love is the same."
McCain responded, "People should be able to enter into legal agreements, and I think that is something we should encourage, particularly in the case of insurance and other areas."
DeGeneres replied, "When someone says, 'You can have a contract, and you'll still have insurance and you'll get all that, it sounds to me like saying, 'Well you can sit there; you can't sit there.
"It doesn't feel inclusive� it feels� isolated," she added.
McCain admitted that DeGeneres' argument was "in a very eloquent fashion," and that he "along with many, many others, wish [her] every happiness."
DeGeneres told McCain she was "planning on having a ceremony this summer anyway, even though it wasn't legal.
"Then it just happened that I legally now can get married, like everyone should," DeGeneres said.
"We just have a disagreement," continued McCain.
"So, you'll walk me down the aisle?" DeGeneres joked.
McCain quipped, "Touche."
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