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[Madam Green.]

Leonard Cohen Celebrated in New Film

Mel Gibson is a bigger Leonard Cohen fan than you are. Yup, Mel Gibson is such a big Leonard Cohen fan that he executive produced a movie about him: Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, due in theaters June 21. What have you done for Leonard Cohen lately, huh?

Part documentary and part concert film, I'm Your Man centers around a January 2005 Australian tribute concert, "Came So Far for Beauty", organized by producer Hal Willner and featuring performances by Antony, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright, Beth Orton, Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson, the Handsome Family, Julie Christensen, and Perla Battala. Cohen himself performs "Tower of Song" with U2.

The movie also includes behind-the-scenes action and interviews in which "Cohen himself reveals his trademark wry humor and soulful intensity, using his own artwork, poetry and personal collection of photographs to reflect upon his colorful past and his creative process," according to a press release.

I'm Your Man was directed by Lian Lunson, whose previous claims to fame include a PBS documentary about Willie Nelson and work on the companion CD to The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson's other movie about a Jew with a fanatical cult following.

The trailer can be viewed here

In related news, Cohen protégé / backup singer Anjani Thomas will release her album Blue Alert on May 2 in Canada and May 23 in America. Cohen both produced and is featured on the album.

...no soporto a Mel Gibson

pitchforkmedia.com

[Madam Green.]

..ahora no encuentro el post dónde se hablaba de Patrick Wolf así que os dejo la newsletter de Abril aquí

clica foto para engrandecer

April Letter from Patrick 2006

• In absence of the main website being in order, Patrick's letter is posted here on myspace this month *

To all beautiful ugly and brave across the planet Earth.

Thank you so much for your generous words of concern or support that were related to me during my recent spring dramas. I want you all to know that damn blue moon is going down and the sun is creeping back out and hence slowly but surely the wolf machine is creaking back into it's forward motion.

I realised it had been a while since my last letter and I havent wanted to do any interviews while I was working on my album, but still feel there is so much I want to get off my chest. I apologise that the small july U.K tour got cancelled, I would normally do a show even if I had just lost all my limbs an hour before going on stage but I really wanted the record finished so I could focus on the performance when It came time.

I wont bore you with the intricate natural grit un-superhuman elements of my human body but want you all to know I am one small step away from getting back and finishing The Magic Position. Like all my records so far, the beast tends to change its shape right up until the final hour of mastering and through many different mediums both my body and spirit was telling me the bun wasnt quite yet cooked in the oven, so to speak. Certain physical alarm bells had been ringing for a while that I had stupidly tried to ignore and then less than a week away from mastering the fate put its foot down. I just couldn't go any further with the record and devote the time needed to excetute the sometimes lengthy process of finishing. Also domesticity had been perhaps slightly under fire too so I am moving house now for what seems like the four hundredth time in the last ten years and have found myself a place in a quiet tower next to two huge forests and a museum full of old skellingtons, taxidermy and strangely enough, moog synthesizers. Im going to be very happy there, I have an old grand piano left to me by a lovely Russian pianist and a view over London to look at it's weathers and fireworks explode. This is where I will be putting the final touches to my third album in good health and spirits. For the first time since sixteen years old I am going to have a washing machine too which I am very excited about. I will listen to Mrs Bartolozzi by KTBush at full volume while cleaning my sheets in celebration of not having to sit in a laundrette with a deafening army of naughty children singing along to The Pussy Dolls on their mobile phones.

I hope the spring is slowly working its lightness on your life, last week, after a night of smashing plates and slamming gates I got on a train, bought a big ghetto blaster from a dusty one man electrical shop, bought some bread, wine and stinking cheese and got down to some good proper Rimbaud behaviour to explore some empty abandoned woodland, I found a ruined castle and then my new home that day, it seems like the last four years have been so full of hundred mile an hour adventures and dramatic accidents that suddenly, detached from all communication to the busy world, I realised perhaps by mistake I had forgotten what it was to be a mammal for a moment. Dangerous. I am hoping now the new record will be ready for release in late summer, maybe early autumn. Once I have moved to my new home in the next couple of weeks I will set up my studio and start cracking that whip on this magic position record. I must admit, I feel it is by far the most ambitious piece of work I have attempted. I thought Lycanthropy was a trouble child to work with but it seems now Im cooking this current dinner with at least a hundred more ingredients. Its all very exciting but I can't deny its not draining sometimes and so far my rule is never to release even a b-side unless I feel its something I feel I will not want to change until im seventy. Lyrically too I feel I am exposing many new sides of myself that I have not put on display before which is of course quite an exhilarating process but sometimes terrifying when you produce alone like I do. This record is like a musical retelling of one year in my life, it is not at all a less personal record than before, it is actually, to me, quite the opposite of such a thing, I have tried once or twice but failed miserably to write outside of my own experience. It is to me a full spectrum of my emotional peaks and troughs over a year. So if you want, please bear with me and I hope you enjoy all your summers until the thing is finished and ready to make its way into your homes.

Its been since the Scala show last Halloween in London that I have been on my third music mission. I now have, at last after releasing my first record in 2002 on a tiny label found what I think are the most amazing family of people at Loog and Polydor records working with me, I think we are all very excited about working together over the coming years and are ready to really make some proper magic happen in the ever so slightly monotonous world of current popular music.

This week I am making a visit back to Cork, Ireland where half of my family roots lie for my lovely Aunties wedding who is such a strong and beautiful lady and so deserved of this happy event. My sister and I have been asked to sing a song called Heroes by David Bowie at the reception although I have only ever listened to the Nico version of this song before but have a feeling there would be a few too many confused faces over wedding cake if I paid tribute to the great N herself at the wedding, or perhaps not? I am very tempted but the last wedding for my Irish family I had to play the church organ but wasnt given any music so improvised chapel of love with Jo my sister as my lovely cousin walked down the isle. After, outside the church, we were told by a mean old lady that I ruined the wedding… so Im trying to take precautions this time that sort of event doesnt take place again.

Every time the month of April comes around I start thinking about my hero Prince April. I started writing a book about him, and an accompanying soundtrack of songs a few summers ago and it was originally intended to be my third album. But I have learnt that it is a project that will finish itself over perhaps a longer period of time. In the book, around this time of this month April discovers there is a world outside of the house he has been held captive in since he was born. He finally finds the key to his whitewashed windows, open and climbs down the ivy at his window, down into a beautiful spring garden, feels the sun warm on his skin for the first time in his life. One day I will share the whole story with you, but for now he is the one leading me onwards and upwards so that hopefully now I can somehow attempt to do the same for you.

Signing off from this wide world web at too late at night
and too early the morning.

love until the next time,
x Yours.. Patrick Wolf x

…y hay una nueva canción en su myspace titulada 'The Night Train'.

http://www.myspace.com/officialpatrickwolf

[company llavoré]

en lo referente a la reedición de los primeros álbumes de Jesus and Mary Chain, a mí me deja un poco ni frío ni caliente… en primer lugar porque los videoclips que incluyen los cds ya los sacaron por ahí el '88 o '89 en vhs y de los nuevos que añaden tampoco son temas de su época buena (de hecho cuando vinieron en el '92 a Zeleste ya iban claramente de capacaida)... y tampoco se han currado caras B (que las hay y buenas) de su época '84-'89... suerte que el soulseek hace maravillas...
yo después de más de 15 años aun tengo la espina clavada por haberme vendido como un gilipollas una de las primeras ediciones en CD del Psychocandy (comprada en el Lolita de Perpinyà -¿aun existe?-) donde había 14 temas sin el añadido de "some candy talking" (grandisssssima canción por otro lado) por la edición de 15 temas... lo sé, gilipolleces mías...
si no habeis visto los videoclips estos, son buenisimos... yo creo que marcaron y mucho en todo lo referente a estética after-punk sin querer ser pretensiosos, que fue lo bueno... o eso siempre he creido yo... Jim and William a vuestros pies...
por cierto, alguien ha comentado por aquí no sé qué de Jim Reid y sus Freeheat... yo solo tengo un EP con 4 o 5 temas bastante malos o mas de lo mismo, vaya... se vuelven a poner en activo quizás?
coño! pero si han sacado un disco... let me see...

[Madam Green.]

…ya se puede ver en el youtube el vídeo de "The Maker Makes" de Rufus Wainwright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXuPbmqj2_U&search= (con entrevista prèvia y escenas Brokeback Mountain entremédio)

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...y respecto a la biopic de Janis Joplin...la directora Penelope Spheeris parece ser que finalmente se inclinarà por Nikka Costa para hacer de protagonista...y especula que Janis podría haberse suicidado

"Did Janis Joplin Kill herself"

Reports are now saying that tragic rocker Janis Joplin may have killed herself instead of overdosing on heroin.

The 1960's rocker was heavily addicted to drugs and alcohol right up unto her death.

One of Janis's friends and writer of one of her best song's remember her saying "If thing's don't get better for me I'll just kill myself on heroin"

These reports come at a time when Biopic about Janis life (The Gospel according to Janis) is set to start filming this year. The director of the movie Penelope Spheeris is set to be casting singer/songwriter Nikka Costa as Janis in the new movie.

Nikka Costa (born: June 4, 1972)

[korkobado]

Johnny Cash

Me acabo de enterar que habrá disco póstumo de Mr. Cash, la quinta parte de la serie "American Recordings":
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LOS ANGELES, CA – MONDAY, May 1, 2006 -- In the months leading up to his passing on September 12, 2003, JOHNNY CASH had been recording new material with producer Rick Rubin. On July 4, 2006, "American V: A Hundred Highways," the all-new Johnny Cash album taken from those sessions, will be released on the American Recordings label through Lost Highway. It will include the last song Cash ever wrote.

The songs that comprise "American V: A Hundred Highways" are as eclectic an assortment as any on the previous albums in the American series: "Help Me," a poignant plea to God, the hauntingly beautiful ballad "If You Could Read My Mind," "God's Gonna Cut You Down," a traditional spiritual, the touching "Love's Been Good To Me," the heartrending "On The Evening Train," and "Further On (Up the Road)" are among the tracks on the new album. Songwriters for the tracks run the gamut from Hank Williams to Rod McKuen to Bruce Springsteen.

In addition, two original Cash compositions are featured, "Like the 309" and "I Came to Believe." "Like the 309" is the last song Cash wrote and, like his first recorded single, 1955's "Hey Porter," is a song that incorporates one of his favorite settings, trains: "Everybody take a look/See I'm doin' fine/Then load my box/On the 309." "I Came to Believe" is a song he wrote and originally recorded earlier in his career, and addresses the pain of addiction and connecting to a higher power.

"I think that 'American V' may be my favorite of all of the albums in the American series," said Rubin. "It's different from the others, it has a much different character. I think that this is as strong an album as Johnny ever made."

The months following the May, 2004 passing of his wife June Carter Cash, were among the most physically and emotionally painful times in Cash's life, but keeping focused on the recording of "American V: A Hundred Highways" proved to be his salvation. Rubin remembers, "Johnny said that recording was his main reason for being alive, and I think it was the only thing that kept him going, the only thing he had to look forward to."

Cash and Rubin began recording the songs that would find their way onto "American V: A Hundred Highways" in 2002, specifically on the day after they finished "American IV: The Man Comes Around" which was released that November. Johnny feared that "American IV" might be his last release, so Rubin suggested that he immediately begin writing and recording new material. Over the next eight months, songs were cut at Rubin's Los Angeles studio and in Nashville at Johnny's main home and at his fabled cabin located across the road. Due to Cash's frail health, Rubin arranged for an engineer and guitar players to always be on call for the days that Cash felt strong enough to work.

"He always wanted to work," said Rubin. "Every morning when he'd wake up, he would call the engineer and tell him if he was physically up to working that day. Our main concern was to get a great vocal performance. Johnny would record a song, send it to me and I would build a new track up under it. In the past, at the end of this process, he'd come to L.A. And we'd go through everything together, he would re-record any vocal bits that needed re-recording. But this time, we didn't have that opportunity."

Last year, Rubin began going through these final recordings. He admitted, "I kind of dreaded doing it, after Johnny passed, going back and listening to it...it was difficult.

"With all of the albums Johnny and I made together, our goal was for each one to be the best it could possibly be, and that remained the case with 'American V,'" Rick explained. Eventually, Cash's long-time engineer David "Fergie" Ferguson, Heartbreakers Mike Campbell (guitars) and Benmont Tench (keyboards), and Smokey Hormel (guitars), all of whom had worked on previous albums in the American series, along with Matt Sweeney (guitars) and Johnny Polonsky (guitars) went into the studio.

"We felt Johnny's presence during the whole process through to the end," said Rubin. "It felt like he was directing the proceedings, and I know that the musicians all felt that as well. Almost all of the songs were cut solely to Johnny's original vocal tracks, the musicians all keyed off his voice and were playing to him, supporting the emotion of his performance. More than once, Fergie and I would look at each other and say 'Johnny would love this,' because it was so good and so different from anything we'd done before, we knew he would be excited by what was happening."

It was decided to wait to release "American V: A Hundred Highways" until the recent Cash hubbub had run its course. What separates this album from the re-packages, compilations, movie soundtracks and everything else that has surfaced since Johnny's passing is, according to Rubin, "These songs are Johnny's final statement. They are the truest reflection of the music that was central to his life at the time. This is the music that Johnny wanted us to hear."_

[soft bulletin]

Buena noticia lo de Cash. A ver que tal esta ….

[jackster]

Pues para mi es una buena noticia. Vale que es sacar dinero del muerto, pero si es un disco en el que estuvo trabajando, temas nuevos y no una enesima grabacion, supongo que Johnny Cash queria que se editara estuviera vivo o muerto. Si tiene la calida de los anteriores American Recordings seguro que lo disfruto un monton.

[soft bulletin]

A mi lo unico que me da miedo es que se haya manoseado su obra. No seria la primera vez que se fuerza la obra de un artista difunto para extraer canciones.

[30segundossobreTokyo]

COSEY at the TATE TRIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM
Cosey will be attending the forthcoming Tate Triennial 2006 Symposium: New British Art.
There will also be a rare presentation of Cosey's acclaimed 2003 film CONFESSIONS PROJECTED.
The speakers include Beatrix Ruf, Sturtevant, TJ Demos, Ken Russell, Amelia Jones, Jan Verwoert,
Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Olivia Plender.
The symposium takes place at Tate Britain, Milbank. London on Friday 5 May 2006, 10.00–17.30.
Advance booking is required to attend. There will also be a live webcast of the event.
Further details, including a full programme and list of participants can be found via these links:
Tate Triennial Symposium webpage | | Tate Triennial Symposium live WEBCAST link

CONSPIRACY INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
As promised the entire Conspiracy International (CTI) back-catalogue is at last available in download form.
Initially the catalogue will be offered through iTunes and Emusic but access via other download sites will
also be available very soon.
This is a vast catalogue covering some 25 years, 32 albums, 10 EPs and literally hundreds of tracks.
We have no direct control over the availability schedule, however all the CTI back-catalogue will be available
to download during the coming weeks, including rare and previously deleted albums and tracks.
One of the first albums to be available is a new Chris & Cosey compilation: Collected Works 1981-2000.
The 'Collected Works' album features requested, deleted and hard to find C&C tracks from the last 19 years.
This album is only available in download form and will not be sold in record stores.
Solo albums by Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter are also now available to download.

Later in 2006 we will be releasing more exclusive 'download only' tracks, including remixes,
new material and possibly further archive songs.

Click this link to EMUSIC.COM for CTI releases available to download now.

Or use these iTunes links to releases currently available:
Carter Tutti tracks & albums
Chris & Cosey tracks & albums
CTI tracks & albums
CoseyFanni Tutti tracks & albums
Chris Carter tracks & albums
If these links do not work search iTunes for: Carter Tutti or Chris & Cosey or CTI etc.

CARTER TUTTI LIVE PERFORMANCE
We are in the final stages of confirming a Carter Tutti performance in Europe for November.
Full details will be in the next newsletter and on the Carter Tutti website as soon as we have them.
cartertutti.com

[korkobado]

WOVEN HAND

En mayo sale a la calle el nuevo disco de Woven Hand, 'Mosaic'. Pascal Humbert, bajo de 16 Horsepower, se incorpora al proyecto, así que ya tenemos dos tercios juntos de nuevo. Es decir, 2/3 de 16 = 10,666… Horsepower.

[frankie teardrop]

Supongo que este ya lo tienes controlado korkobate innovate, pero no está de más volver a recomendar uno de los discos de 2006.

[korkobado]

Pues va a ser que no, Mr. Cimbrel. Por internet sólo conseguí bajarme una canción ("Don't Love The Liar"), que te hace cogerle unas ganas al disco tremendas. Como lo recomiendas con énfasis, y como la cosa siga así, cuando vaya a la capital me lo compro.

[soft bulletin]

El 20 de mayo es la fecha en la que se pondrá en circulación Let’s Rock Again, un filme de más de una hora de duración rodado durante la gira que Joe Strummer y The Mescaleros realizaron por América y Japón para presentar su segundo trabajo, Global Go-Go. El documental fue rodado en los últimos dieciocho meses antes de la muerte de Strummer, acaecida el 22 de diciembre de 2002.

El film incluye grabaciones inéditas del backstage, entrevistas personales y revisiones en directo de clásicos de The Clash junto a nuevas canciones de The Mescaleros.

[poppie]

Hoy a las 11 de la noche en Silenci se estrena el anuncio del PS…

lo pone en la sección de noticias

[soft bulletin]

me apetece mucho ver el anuncio, pero para nada ese programa…

[hansen]

pos yo antes era un fan fatal de este programa… bueno era lo unico que miraba... y hoy si puedo lo veré, tengo ganas de ver lo que cuentan del PS y sí, de ver el anuncio y salir de dudas, escuchar la banda sonora...

[30segundossobreTokyo]

no se si lo seguiran haciendo, pero tambien hacian un programa de decoración trendie (3er 3ª creo que se llamaba) que era uno de los momentos más jocosos en mi casa de 45 metros cuadrados.

[soft bulletin]

creo que ya no lo hacen. Eran casi los mismos del silenci, y en mas de una ocasion los protagonistas eran miembros del equipo tecnico del programa.

[frankie teardrop]

@poppie:a7buv1io:

Hoy a las 11 de la noche en Silenci se estrena el anuncio del PS…

lo pone en la sección de noticias

Cómo chanan esos nombres del cartel superpuestos sobre la ciudad de barcelona, a lo habitación del pánico, con esos fantásticos títulos de crédito sobre nyc.

¡Fincher!, ¡¿para cuándo Zodiac?!

[poppie]

espero que también pongan el nombre de MOTÖRHEAD, jeje