Thursday, September 30, 2010

Does Fuze Slenderize Make You Poop

Pink Tones Music from the Penguin Cafe



In the history of modern music style groups are really hard to describe, whose compositions are closed beyond gender classification. This happens to the great English band Penguin Cafe Orchestra, whose debut album, Music from the Penguin Cafe , published in 1976 and sponsored by Brian Eno's label, is a marvel of composition. Let

before some of the group, whose core was formed by composer and arranger Simon Jeffes and cellist Helen Liebmann. The other musicians were chosen as may be requested composite parts by Jeffes, whose death in 1997 ended the band after 24 years of experience. Apparently the name has its origin in febrile delirium Jeffes suffered in 1972 after eating fish in poor condition (more information at Wikipedia ).

Their music combines influences of folk music, classical music (especially baroque chamber music) and jazz. Jeffes very disparate styles fused with real expertise, resulting in a mostly instrumental compositions where experimentation is the main feature. The covers of his albums, with a great surreal, typically include a penguin-headed men in various activities.

As Music from the Penguin Cafe , I must say that a disc is difficult to analyze in a first hearing. The album opens with Penguin Cafe Single , which has a melody that seems to evoke a quiet summer afternoon and the title ironic about the lack of commercial screening of the band. This is followed Zopf, consisting of seven separate movements and different styles, and in which we find the only vocal on the disc. Perhaps the most successful is the wonderful The sound of someone you love who's going away and it Does not Matter , whose 11 minutes perfectly reflect the feelings involved in the long title (something like "the sound of someone dear to be and no matter"), from the melancholy tone that seems to dominate the beginning and end of the piece sounds more violent until appearing in the second half.

In short, this is a superb album recorded with exquisite taste, to listen quietly in the shade of a garden. An album was recorded entirely outside the commercial scene then and which still retains its freshness and originality intact.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Invite Verbiage To Suite At Twins Game

R. Crumb, Memories and Opinions

is undeniable that Robert Crumb is a benchmark in the world of comics. Main operator of the underground genre at 60, his drawings delicacies tear without the hypocritical facade built by Western society, exposing the amorality that really governs. Although addition of satirize society, Crumb is the first to be ridiculed himself in his works, which serve largely as a way out of all his neuroses and sexual obsessions.

R. Crumb. memories and opinions of Crumb and Peter Poplaski itself seems to be the definitive work on the artist, where their testimony is interspersed with numerous images on an issue very carefully. Through four parts (Fear, Clarity, Power and Old Age), in which the text is gradually giving more and more space to pictures, we try to bring the reader into the artist's creative process and his evolution from his early work on Zap Comix until his retirement in France (its publication was before the great Genesis), using not only helps Crumb cartoons and drawings, but also of other authors who influenced him, as well as photographs, posters and film stills or advertising exhibitions. A whole which must be added a CD compilation of hits by Crumb issues with their various groups (yes, he also enjoys playing the banjo and is a compulsive collector of music from the 20) and a sea of \u200b\u200bfriendly bookmarks.

'll be thinking that an issue like this, with color illustrations and a CD should not be cheap. Indeed, the book that blew up next to cost about 35 €, which is excessive given their format. Still, a payment becomes almost essential for any diehard fan, so much for the pleasure of reading as abundant salivation attacks that can cause seeing through a glass window. A fascinating journey the life of this great artist with a "huge ego" (his words) but is an expert on laughter itself.

PS: Sorry for not posted anything so far in September, but I've been traveling and it has been impossible. But starting today, and with the arrival of the academic year, I hope to continue a steady pace of publication.