Saturday, 6 September 2008

Dame Helen Mirren: 'I Loved Cocaine'

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Dame Helen Mirren has admitted that she loved snorting cocain when she was younger.


The actress admits that she only knocked her coke habit on the mind because she realised she was financing evil criminals.


Dame Helen says she ill-used to claim coke when she was younger in the seventies and 1980s but quit because notorious Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was holed up in South America living off the proceeds of selling the drug to other countries.


"(I used to do) a bit of cocaine. I loved nose candy. I ne'er did a lot, just a small bit at parties," she tells GQ.


"But what all over it for me was when they caught Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early eighties .He was hiding in South America and living off the takings of being a cocaine baron.�


"And I read that in the paper, and all the cards fell into place and I saw how my little sniff of cocaine at a party had an absolute address route to this f**king horrible man in South America,� the 63-year-old adds.


"And from that day I never touched cocaine again. Until that moment I had ne'er grasped the full horrible structure of what brings coke to our parties in Britain."



Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Vocal group The Hilliard Ensemble on singing Kafka and Eliot

We ar not known for our presentational pizzaz. In fact, we have even been likened, on stage, to a cluster of undertakers. We ordinarily have four-spot music stands arranged in a semicircle and nil much changes throughout a performance, omit for the music. So to feel ourselves, a vocal ensemble, taking part in an unashamedly theatrical work - which requires us non only to sing but also to recite complex texts by TS Eliot, Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Maurice Blanchot, while in reality moving about a stage - has been a seismic shock.

Memorising is not something we routinely do. Even if we don't look at the music often in some of our steady pieces, the score is still in that location in an emergency. David James is the only one of us with experience of the operatic stage. Some of us have never been involved in any kind of stage work whatsoever - and were quite happy with that state of affairs. And then there's the challenge of delivering speech, learning about intonation, accent and timing, things actors spend their unanimous careers wrestle with.

As a group, we're best known for our collaborations with composers Arvo P�rt and Jan Garbarek, which have given us a repute for being willing to try forbidden new ideas. Several age ago, our record caller ECM suggested collaborating with Heiner Goebbels, the German composer known for his experimental work. Although Heiner's initial response to the idea was positive, on that point followed an ominous quiet, which did not unduly concern us, as deep down we were rather sceptical of the unanimous concept. Then, late in 2005, Heiner requested a ticket for one of our concerts with Garbarek. Again, muteness. Had he, we wondered, even attended?

Two months later, we heard from him. He had seen us and was directly keen to meet. He proved so charming that many of our immediate anxieties were allayed. Heiner had especially liked our use of the space in the Garbarek performance, which had presented him with a variety of ideas that he was eager to explore. So we went to Th�tre Vidy-Lausanne in Switzerland, to work with him for a weekend in April last year, really just to escort what would happen.

On that occasion, he didn't give us any music of his own. Instead, we sang through some of our own repertoire, trying to perform it off by heart spell doing things on stage: sitting at desks, reclining on chaises longues, or fiddling with various props. David did some DIY and Steven Harrold played pool with cues that had seen better years - we were just using whatsoever props happened to be lying around, while we continued to sing. Heiner watched and listened intently. We moved about the stage a lot and were often quite far apart. I think it was interesting for Heiner to run across if we could still sing our music without the tout ensemble and tuning suffering. We loved the whole have.

The next time we met was for deuce weeks in March earlier this year. Heiner had chosen texts and written some music. Staging had been reinforced, and at that place would be three scenes. Now we had some actual music to nidus on and some difficult chords to get right. We rehearsed the work, entitled I Went to the House But Did Not Enter, all sidereal day. In the mornings, we were presented with new material, which we would sight-read, and which would then be incorporated into the afternoon rehearsal. Every afternoon saw us on set - with the complete ignition and wardrobe teams in attendance - doing our utmost to reproduce the morning's work while beingness told how to move around the stage.

Usually, we have a good idea of what we are aiming for in a last performance right from the start. We sing through the euphony, often in a hotel room on tour, fundamentally following instruction manual on a page and focusing on technical difficulties such as the tuning of chords. But with Heiner, zip was frozen. Throughout that entire two weeks of rehearsals, he was observing in minute contingent what worked and what didn't, and continuously making adjustments to his score. Even as we write now, with the concluding rehearsal period imminent, the music is probably still not fixed. We await musical changes, maybe new material, perhaps cuts to the first base drafts. We don't til now know.

For most of us with no operatic experience, there's been a lot to get wind. Singing or speaking at the same time as moving and using props was quite a challenge. Simple things, such as not walking at the same pace as what you ar singing, takes a flake of getting used to. From clarence Shepard Day Jr. one, we were expected to be in broad costume for the afternoon session. Because the put was as well fully prepared and well-lighted, it felt like unmatched live performance after another. Even so, the recent final costume fitting sent shudders through us. We suddenly realised there was no turning back. The four more or less sloppily attired undertakers will be on stage at Edinburgh, only this time in smart, handmade suits. This is completely different from anything we receive ever done before. We're excited - and panicked.

I Went To The House But Did Not Enter is at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, from tomorrow until Saturday. Box bureau: 0131 248 4848. The Hilliard Ensemble are Rogers Covey-Crump, Steven Harrold, David James and Gordon Jones.







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Sunday, 17 August 2008

Download Dave Brubeck mp3






Dave Brubeck
   

Artist: Dave Brubeck: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Jazz

   







Discography:


Late Night Brubeck
   

 Late Night Brubeck

   Year: 2005   

Tracks: 8
Time Changes
   

 Time Changes

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 7
Private Brubeck Remembers (CD 2)
   

 Private Brubeck Remembers (CD 2)

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 10
Private Brubeck Remembers (CD 1)
   

 Private Brubeck Remembers (CD 1)

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 14
Time Further Out
   

 Time Further Out

   Year: 2003   

Tracks: 11
Park Avenue South
   

 Park Avenue South

   Year: 2003   

Tracks: 10
Ken Burns Jazz Series: Dave Brubeck
   

 Ken Burns Jazz Series: Dave Brubeck

   Year: 2001   

Tracks: 15
One Alone
   

 One Alone

   Year: 1999   

Tracks: 13
The 40Th Anniversary Tour Of Tour Of The Uk
   

 The 40Th Anniversary Tour Of Tour Of The Uk

   Year: 1998   

Tracks: 9
So What's New
   

 So What's New

   Year: 1998   

Tracks: 11
Time Out
   

 Time Out

   Year: 1997   

Tracks: 7
In Their Own Sweet Way
   

 In Their Own Sweet Way

   Year: 1997   

Tracks: 10
Nightshift - Live at the Blue Note
   

 Nightshift - Live at the Blue Note

   Year: 1995   

Tracks: 9
For Iola
   

 For Iola

   Year: 1990   

Tracks: 7
Reflections
   

 Reflections

   Year: 1985   

Tracks: 8
Paper Moon
   

 Paper Moon

   Year: 1982   

Tracks: 7
All The Things We Are
   

 All The Things We Are

   Year: 1976   

Tracks: 5
We're All Together Again For The First Time
   

 We're All Together Again For The First Time

   Year: 1972   

Tracks: 6
Dave In Disneyland
   

 Dave In Disneyland

   Year: 1966   

Tracks: 8
Countdown: Time in Outer Space
   

 Countdown: Time in Outer Space

   Year: 1962   

Tracks: 12
Jazz At College Of The Pacific
   

 Jazz At College Of The Pacific

   Year: 1953   

Tracks: 6
Time In
   

 Time In

   Year:    

Tracks: 11
Park Avenue South (Live)
   

 Park Avenue South (Live)

   Year:    

Tracks: 10
Double Live From the U.S.A. and U.K. (Live) (CD2)
   

 Double Live From the U.S.A. and U.K. (Live) (CD2)

   Year:    

Tracks: 8
Double Live From the U.S.A. and U.K. (Live) (CD1)
   

 Double Live From the U.S.A. and U.K. (Live) (CD1)

   Year:    

Tracks: 9
Concord on a Summer Night
   

 Concord on a Summer Night

   Year:    

Tracks: 5






Dave Brubeck has long served as proof that creative jazz and popular success canful go together. Although critics world Health Organization had championed him when he was unknown seemed to contempt him when the Dave Brubeck Quartet became a surprise success, in world Brubeck never watered down or adapted his music in order to acquire a wide-eyed audience. Creative engagement (being unmatched of the showtime groups to play on a regular basis on college campuses) and a bit of fortune resulted in capital popularity, and Dave Brubeck remains one of the few home name calling in nothingness.


From closely the start, Brubeck enjoyed utilizing poly-rhythms and polytonality (performing in two keys at erstwhile). He had classical training from his mother, only fooled her for a long flow by memorizing his lessons and non eruditeness to show music. He studied music at the College of the Pacific during 1938-1942. Brubeck light-emitting diode a service isthmus in General Patton's Army during World War II and and so, in 1946, he started studying at Mills College with the classical composer Darius Milhaud, world Health Organization encouraged his students to play jazz. During 1946-1949, Brubeck light-emitting diode a mathematical group for the most part consisting of swain classmates, and they recorded as the Dave Brubeck Octet; their music (released on Fantasy in 1951) static sounds sophisticated today, with complex fourth dimension signatures and some polytonalism. The vIII was too chemical group to make much work, so Brubeck formed a trio with drummer Cal Tjader (world Health Organization two-fold on vibes) and bassist Ron Crotty. The trio's Fantasy recordings of 1949-1951 were quite an popular in the Bay Area, but the mathematical group came to an end when Brubeck hurt his back up during a serious swimming accident and was put out of action for months.


Upon his return in 1951, Brubeck was persuaded by altoist Paul Desmond to make the grouping a quartet. Within two old age, the band had turn surprisingly popular. Desmond's cool-toned alto and speedy mentality fit in well with Brubeck's much heavy chording and data-based playing; both Brubeck and Desmond had original sounds and styles that owed small to their predecessors. Joe Dodge was the band's early drummer simply, after he tired of the route, the virtuosic Joe Morello took his property in 1956; piece the revolving bass chairperson finally settled on Eugene Wright in 1958. By then, Brubeck had followed his popular series of Fantasy recordings with some big sellers on Columbia, and had appeared on the wrap up of Time (1954). The brobdingnagian success of Paul Desmond's "Take Five" (1960) was followed by many songs played in "odd" time signatures such as 7/4 and 9/8; the high quality soloing of the musicians kept these experiments from sounding care gimmicks. Dave and Iola Brubeck (his married woman and lyrist) put together an anti-racism demo featuring Louis Armstrong (The Real Ambassadors) which was recorded, merely its only if public appearance was at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the early '60s.


The Dave Brubeck Quartet perpetually traveled around the world until its dissolution in 1967. After some time off, during which he wrote religious works, Brubeck came back the following year with a new quatern featuring Gerry Mulligan, although he would take several reunions with Desmond ahead the altoist's death in 1977. Brubeck coupled with his sons Darius (keyboards), Chris (electric bass and bass trombone), and Danny (drums) in Two Generations of Brubeck in the 1970s. In the early '80s, tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi was in the Brubeck Quartet, and beginning in the mid-'80s, clarinettist Bill Smith (wHO was in the original octet) alternated with altoist Bobby Militello.


There is no shortfall of Dave Brubeck records currently available, practically everything he trim back for Fantasy, Columbia, Concord, and Telarc ar well-off to place. Brubeck, whose compositions "In Your Own Sweet Way," "The Duke," and "Blue Rondo a la Turk" take become standards, remained very officious (contempt some bouts of forged health) into the 2000s.






Thursday, 7 August 2008

International Peoples Gang

International Peoples Gang   
Artist: International Peoples Gang

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   



Discography:


International Peoples Gang 0006   
 International Peoples Gang 0006

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13




 





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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

French first lady takes extended bow









As France's first lady, singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy says she is giving up concerts until her husband is out of office, a French newspaper reported Saturday.

Bruni-Sarkozy, who has a new album out next month, was quoted in the Liberation newspaper as saying she will continue to promote her music on television.

"But I can't go on stage because I can't allow myself to drag along a security setup that, in my opinion, would be shocking," she was quoted as saying. "I'll give concerts again once my husband is no longer president."

The 40-year-old model-turned-singer married President Nicolas Sarkozy in February.

In the newspaper report, Bruni-Sarkozy said she does not share all her husband's political opinions. Sarkozy is a conservative, but the first lady said that while she is not very politically engaged, her "gut reactions are on the left."

"It's not an ideology or a system. ... I have the impression that people who are completely on one side or the other are thinking with only one half of their brains," she was quoted as saying.

Bruni-Sarkozy's album has made waves before its release, in part because of a track that reportedly has the French-language lyrics, "You are my drug / More deadly than Afghan heroin / More dangerous than white Colombian."

Colombian Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo has described the song as "very painful for Colombia."










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Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Throes Of Dawn

Throes Of Dawn   
Artist: Throes Of Dawn

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Doom
   Metal: Death,Black
   



Discography:


Quicksilver Clouds   
 Quicksilver Clouds

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


Binding Of The Spirit   
 Binding Of The Spirit

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 8


Dreams Of The Black Earth   
 Dreams Of The Black Earth

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


Pakkasherra   
 Pakkasherra

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10




 






Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Project Wyze

Project Wyze   
Artist: Project Wyze

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   



Discography:


Misfits Strangers Liars Friend   
 Misfits Strangers Liars Friend

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11




 





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Radiohead

Radiohead   
Artist: Radiohead

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rock
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   Indie
   ROck: Alternative
   Alternative
   Pop
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   



Discography:


In Rainbows   
 In Rainbows

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


Live At Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia (CD 2)   
 Live At Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia (CD 2)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


Live At Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia (CD 1)   
 Live At Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia (CD 1)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13


Com Lag:2+2=5   
 Com Lag:2+2=5

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


There There   
 There There

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


Hail To The Thief   
 Hail To The Thief

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


Live In Lisbon 24-07   
 Live In Lisbon 24-07

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


Pyramid Song Pt. 1   
 Pyramid Song Pt. 1

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 4


Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings   
 Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


I Might Be Wrong - Live Recordings   
 I Might Be Wrong - Live Recordings

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


Amnesiac   
 Amnesiac

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


Live Barcelona   
 Live Barcelona

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 21


Kid A   
 Kid A

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


Holland   
 Holland

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 21


Airbag - How Am I Driving?   
 Airbag - How Am I Driving?

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 7


Paranoid Android Pt. 2   
 Paranoid Android Pt. 2

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 3


Paranoid Android Pt. 1   
 Paranoid Android Pt. 1

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 3


O.k. Computer   
 O.k. Computer

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 12


No Surprises - Running From Demo   
 No Surprises - Running From Demo

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 6


Unplugged   
 Unplugged

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 21


The Bends   
 The Bends

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


Amnesty   
 Amnesty

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


My Iron Lung   
 My Iron Lung

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 8


Pablo Honey   
 Pablo Honey

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


Creep 4 track E.P.   
 Creep 4 track E.P.

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 4


OK Computer   
 OK Computer

   Year:    
Tracks: 13


Live In Lisboa 23-07-02   
 Live In Lisboa 23-07-02

   Year:    
Tracks: 7


Lisboa 22-7-02   
 Lisboa 22-7-02

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


Itch   
 Itch

   Year:    
Tracks: 8


Frejus   
 Frejus

   Year:    
Tracks: 23


Bootlegs   
 Bootlegs

   Year:    
Tracks: 4




Radiohead was one of the few substitute bands of the early '90s to describe heavily from the grandiose scene of action sway that characterized U2's early albums. But the band internalized that epic sweep, turn it privileged out to assure anguished, perverted tales of angst and estrangement. Vocalist Thom Yorke's offended lyrics were brought to life by the group's three-guitar attack, which relied on grain -- adoption as much from My Bloody Valentine and Pink Floyd as R.E.M. and Pixies -- alternatively of virtuosity. It took Radiohead awhile to give voice their signature sound. Their 1993 debut, Pablo Honey, only suggested their potential drop, and peerless of its songs, "Creep," became an unexpected international pip, its angst-ridden lyrics making it an alternate rock'n'roll anthem. Many observers pigeonholed Radiohead as a one-hit wonder, only the group's second album, The Bends, was released to terrifying reviews in the band's native Britain in early 1995, serving work up a more stable fan base. Having demonstrated unexpected staying power, as well as increasing dream, Radiohead next released OK Computer, a progressive, electronic-tinged masterpiece that became peerless of the most acclaimed albums of the '90s.


Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar), Ed O'Brien (guitar, vocals), Jonny Greenwood (guitar), Colin Greenwood (bass voice), and Phil Selway (drums) formed Radiohead as students at Oxford University in 1988. Initially called On a Friday, the band began pursuing a melodic career in solemn in the early '90s, cathartic the Drill EP in 1992. Shortly later, the group sign to EMI/Capitol and released the single "Creep," a fusion of R.E.M. and Nirvana highlighted by a noisy burst of feedback prior to the chorus. "Creep" was a lead hit, and their next two singles, "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "Pop Is Dead," reinforced a small following, even as the British music press neglected the group.


Pablo Honey, Radiohead's debut album, was released to mixed reviews in the spring of 1993. As the band launched a European supporting tour, "Crawling" became a sudden ruin rack up in America, earning large airplay on innovative careen wireless and MTV. On the back of the single's success, Radiohead toured the U.S. extensively, opening for Belly and Tears for Fears. All the exposure helped Pablo Honey go au, and "Creep" was re-released in the U.K. at the close of 1993. This time, the individual became a Top Ten hit, and the band played out the following summertime touring the reality.


Although "Creep" made Radiohead a success, it likewise lED many observers to nog the band as a one-hit admiration. Conscious of such thought process, the radical entered the studio with producer John Leckie to record their second album, The Bends. Upon its leaping 1995 release, The Bends was greeted with overpoweringly enthusiastic reviews, all of which praised the group's deeper, more grow sound. However, irrefutable reviews didn't trade albums, as Radiohead struggled to be heard during the U.K.'s summer of Britpop and as American wireless programmers and MTV neglected the record. The band continued to spell as the curtain raising represent on R.E.M.'s prestigious Demon spell. By the close of the class, The Bends began to catch on, thanks non only to the band's constant touring merely as well to the crude, startling video for "Simply." The album made many year-end best-of lists in the U.K., and early in 1996 the record re-entered the British Top Ten and climbed to au condition in the U.S., helped in the latter by the tV for "Imposter Plastic Trees."


During the first half of 1996, Radiohead continued to tour in front re-entering the studio that fall to record their tierce record album, OK Computer, which was released in the summer of 1997. A devoted following of fans and a fistful of enthusiastic vital supporters now embraced the album's majestic blending of untied prog rock'n'roll, post-punk angst, eerie electronic textures, and assured songwriting. Since it skillfully teetered 'tween rock classicism and futurism, it earned near-unanimous critical and democratic reinforcement over the course of the year, which sour into delirious latria in the last deuce years of the 10, even though its sales noneffervescent hadn't climbed to a higher place gold condition.


Expectations for Radiohead's fourth album were stratospheric, which placed extra pressure sensation on the already perfectionist ring, and light-emitting diode to several stumbling blocks on the way. An intense buzz of excitement among the band's still-growing following greeted the prerelease show of nigh of the album's tracks on the Internet in MP3 shape; they displayed an full-scale enchantment with ambitious, often minimalist electronica. Titled Kid A, the album was at long last released in October 2000 and astonied many observers by debuting at phone number one on the U.S. album charts. While the stria didn't liberation any singles or embark on a courtly duty tour, the album met with a interracial critical response as the group was accused of creating a aloof and radio-unfriendly platter; however, it did remain a fan ducky.


In June of 2001, Radiohead rapidly released an album under the key Amnesiac that consisted of substantial that was recorded during the Small fry A roger Huntington Sessions. The stria made it very clear, though, that it was non to be considered an outtakes album; rather, they insisted that the 2 albums were of clear and divide conception. Regardless, Amnesic debuted at phone number one in the U.K. and numeral two on the U.S. chart (behind then-stronghold Staind), spell outselling Kid A in week one by 25,000 copies. The singles Pyramid Song and Knives Out were culled from Amnesic with a subsequent earthly concern tour. While planning "I Might Be Wrong" for a tierce single, the melodic theme expanded into a live "mini-album," coroneted after the track, that was released in November of 2001. Hail to the Thief, the proper followup to Amnesiac, was relatively direct in bodily structure and peaked at routine trey on the U.S. chart. Sporadic recording sessions resumed in early 2005, just a jutting tone ending date for the band's one-seventh studio apartment record album remained 2007 as Yorke prepared a solo record album, The Eraser, which was issued in July 2006.


On October 1, 2007, the stria proclaimed that they had ruined their seventh album, In Rainbows, and that it would be "out" in a subject of ten days. Giving fans the option to yield any they'd like for the album as a zip file of MP3s, Radiohead too devised a pre-order organization for the physical translation of the album -- a "discbox" containing a double-vinyl version, a CD transcript with an enhanced six-track fillip disk, a lyric bible, and photos -- which they planned on transportation by early December. This was through with this without the involvement of a record label.