Artist: ITP
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Lose Your Illusion
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Bono, Bob Geldof plead for African aid
Friday, 27 June 2008
ITP
Artist: ITP
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Lose Your Illusion
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Bono, Bob Geldof plead for African aid
Monday, 23 June 2008
U Totem
Artist: U Totem
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
U Totem
Year: 1992
Tracks: 7
U Totem was formed by members of 2 bands: drummer/composer David Kerman's 5UU's and bassist/composer James Grigsby's Motor Totemist Guild. These two groups were active in the Los Angeles area start in the early 1980s. The groups recorded their have albums before collaborating on the LPs Elements and Shapuno Zoo. In 1989 Kerman and Grigsby were invited to perform at the 2nd International Art Rock Festival in Frankfurt, Germany. They enlisted Motor Totemist Guild vocalist/flautist Emily Hay and 5UU's keyboardist Sanjay Kumar for the performance, and U Totem was officially born. Eric Johnson (bassoon/soprano sax) united for the recording on the band's self-titled debut saucer, and guitar player Steve Cade joined for the transcription of Strange Attractors.
U Totem's rock candy medicine has many influences, including Renaissance concerted music, twelve-tone serial music and Indonesian gamelan. The stripe has performed with Laotian and Cambodian musicians and appeared with such diverse artists as The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz, and Michael Nyman.
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Jeffrey Korchik
SAG and AMPTP need to stop messing with the system
Jeffrey Korchek, vp legal and business affairs at Mattel, worked for many years at Universal Pictures as executive vp business and legal affairs. He is an adjunct professor in the Peter Stark program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
You would think that SAG members and the studios and networks grouped in the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers would have learned something from the writers strike and the lack of a directors strike. Or maybe they just learned the wrong thing, with AMPTP members finding cost savings in the strike and the actors seeing capitulation in the directors' settlement.
In either case, don't you wish both sides would just stop messing with the system before it's too late?
The equation of entertainment is really pretty simple, and it produces unique assets: motion pictures and TV shows that can be sold again and again, in movie theaters, home video, cable, airplanes, ships at sea and so on. Every so often a new delivery technology comes along -- the iPod, Internet video -- and the content owner gets to sell that same asset all over again. No other industry gets to do that, not cars, not detergents, not clothes.
Amazingly, it all starts with an idea in somebody's head. Intellectual property. It takes many people to develop, produce and distribute movies and TV shows, and the good and bad part about the business is that it's collaborative in the extreme. Actors, writers, directors, producers and studio executives -- everybody contributes. And, notwithstanding what we read, no one person is singularly responsible for success or failure.
To make the equation work, all those involved in the process just need to keep making movies and TV shows. Some will be successful, some not, but over time you build a library that generates a continuous revenue stream. And if everything works and the timing is right, little $10 million movies like "American Pie" become billion-dollar assets after sequels, direct-to-video productions and everything else.
Although it might seem that the way in which movies and shows are developed, produced and distributed is complex (we know the personalities involved are), the basic idea is not complicated. I promise you that no one is sitting around at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory saying, "Come on, it's not the movie business."
That's why it was dumb for the WGA to strike and dumb for the AMPTP to let it happen. Because really, it wasn't so much about working conditions or creative rights, it was about money. And if it's just about money, somewhere in all the posturing there's the basis for a deal.
Moreover, what greater good was achieved for the majority of members, because isn't that the point of a labor union? Instead, everybody lost to the collective total of hundreds of millions of dollars -- and for those WGA members who work, no increase in the residual formula will ever bring that back. Everybody knows that the studios and networks have the edge with their libraries, and even though we might wish it dead, reality TV keeps growing, which only further reduces jobs for writers and actors.
SAG should pay attention to the balance of power: As Indiana Jones says, "You don't bring a knife to a gunfight."
Sometimes there's a fundamental disconnect in the movie and TV biz: It's a long-term business limited by short-term thinking. What's needed now is responsible management of the economic system so that everyone can keep working. There's enough decent content being produced for a lot of people to make a really nice living and, in moderate to major success, to make a really, really nice living. But to cause or allow a work stoppage that prevents the content from being produced wreaks havoc on an already shaky economy.
Everybody says Hollywood is like high school, but it's actually like a bad day in high school. Call it Unpleasantville. And if the first law of Hollywood is "nobody knows anything," the second is "nobody really likes anyone." Perhaps the answer is that every high school needs a principal, and rules, and that's what's missing.
As a first step, so it doesn't start looking like the decline of Rome, the industry needs a sustained period of labor peace. A Pax Studiana. A three-year labor agreement is not long enough. The whole labor negotiation process has become contentious and distracting and costly. The inefficiencies of preparing for a strike are too great a strain on the business as a whole, resulting in bid-up prices for talent, rushed productions, sustained periods without production, layoffs and a devastating effect on the local economy.
In the old days, there was enough money swashing around so that the networks, studios and unions could have a fight, make up and get back to work without doing much damage. Today, nobody has that luxury.
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008
BBC announces Grange Hill will end
The BBC has announced that its school drama 'Grange Hill' is to end after 30 years.
At a launch for new and recurring dramas for CBBC today, it was announced the upcoming series of 'Grange Hill' would be the last.
Announcing the end of 'Grange Hill', Anne Gilchrist, Controller, CBBC, said: "Part of CBBC's reputation for reflecting contemporary Britain back to UK children has been built upon Phil Redmond's ['Grange Hill' creator] brilliantly realised idea and of course it's sad to say goodbye to such a much loved institution. The lives of children have changed a great deal since 'Grange Hill' began and we owe it to our audience to reflect this."
She continued: "We're actively seeking out new and exciting ways of bringing social realism to the CBBC audience through drama and other genres. Yesterday we announced two 'Newsround' Specials tackling divorce and knife crime and we will continue to make programmes about the ups and downs of contemporary Britain."
Jon East, Head of CBBC Drama, said: "For 30 years, Grange Hill has become a byword for realistic and contemporary children's drama. It's now time to apply what we've learned over the years to some of the new ideas we're exploring."
At a launch for new and recurring dramas for CBBC today, it was announced the upcoming series of 'Grange Hill' would be the last.
Announcing the end of 'Grange Hill', Anne Gilchrist, Controller, CBBC, said: "Part of CBBC's reputation for reflecting contemporary Britain back to UK children has been built upon Phil Redmond's ['Grange Hill' creator] brilliantly realised idea and of course it's sad to say goodbye to such a much loved institution. The lives of children have changed a great deal since 'Grange Hill' began and we owe it to our audience to reflect this."
She continued: "We're actively seeking out new and exciting ways of bringing social realism to the CBBC audience through drama and other genres. Yesterday we announced two 'Newsround' Specials tackling divorce and knife crime and we will continue to make programmes about the ups and downs of contemporary Britain."
Jon East, Head of CBBC Drama, said: "For 30 years, Grange Hill has become a byword for realistic and contemporary children's drama. It's now time to apply what we've learned over the years to some of the new ideas we're exploring."
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Gary Dourdan ‘embarrassed’ by arrest
CSI star Gary Dourdan is “embarrassed” by his recent arrest for alleged drug possession.
The actor was apprehended by police after he was found asleep in his incorrectly parked car early on Monday morning (28Apr08) in Palm Springs, California. Cops searched his vehicle, before arresting him on suspicion of possessing heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy and prescription drugs.
Dourdan posted $5,000 bail and was released following the incident.
He tells People.com, “Obviously I am embarrassed to find myself in this situation, and I am profoundly grateful to everyone for their support. I have complete confidence in and respect for the justice system and will cooperate fully with any investigation.”
The actor was apprehended by police after he was found asleep in his incorrectly parked car early on Monday morning (28Apr08) in Palm Springs, California. Cops searched his vehicle, before arresting him on suspicion of possessing heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy and prescription drugs.
Dourdan posted $5,000 bail and was released following the incident.
He tells People.com, “Obviously I am embarrassed to find myself in this situation, and I am profoundly grateful to everyone for their support. I have complete confidence in and respect for the justice system and will cooperate fully with any investigation.”
Woodstock Villa Music Review
Sanjay Gupta and rocking music go together. There may have been a stray exception or two but time and again Gupta has proved that he has it in him when it comes to the choice of some contemporary/urban music which cuts boundaries. Dus Kahaniyaan, Zinda, Musafir, Kaante - the list just goes on. No wonder, one looks forward to what's in store while picking up the album of Woodstock Villa. So what if the film has a different director (Hansal Mehta), it's the trust in Gupta's White Feather Films banner that makes one hopeful. Thankfully, Gupta and his team do not break the trust here! Aanchal Datta Bhatia had made a stunning impression with her double bill in Dus Kahaniyaan in the form of title track and Janiye. Now she returns to the thick of things with Anu Malik composed Dhoka. With some imaginative lyrics by
Sharon Stone - Sharon Stone Apologises For Earthquake Karma Remarks
Sharon Stone has issued an apology after being criticised for suggesting that the recent earthquake in China may have been caused by bad "karma".
The Basic Instinct actress told reporters at the Cannes film festival that the disaster, which has claimed more than 67,000 lives, could have been a recrimination for China's human rights records in Tibet.
But after a leading cinema chain vowed to no longer screen her films and cosmetics giant Christian Dior removed her image from its Chinese advertising campaign, the 50-year-old has admitted her deep sadness at having offended China.
"Due to my inappropriate words and acts during the interview, I feel deeply sorry and sad about hurting Chinese people," she said in a statement issued by Dior.
"I am willing to take part in the relief work of China's earthquake, and wholly devote myself to helping affected Chinese people."
She had told a Hong Kong film crew in an interview last week that she was unhappy about "the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans".
"And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma?" she added.
"When you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?"
The Chinese branch of Dior also moved to clarify its stance on her remarks.
"We don't agree with her hasty, unreflecting remarks and we deeply regret them," a Chinese-language statement read.
"We absolutely do not support any remark that hurts the Chinese people's feelings.
"We express our sorrow over the compatriots who lost their lives in the earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan, and we extend our sympathy and condolences to the people in the disaster area," it added.
29/05/2008 13:49:55
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Letterbox
Artist: Letterbox
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
![Your Worst Revenge [EP]](http://img.mp3fiesta.com/covers/18/18234/alb_73519_th.jpg)
Your Worst Revenge [EP]
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Michel Petrucciani
Artist: Michel Petrucciani
Genre(s):
Jazz
Other
Blues
Discography:
Oracle's Destiny
Year: 2007
Tracks: 5
Cold Blues
Year: 2007
Tracks: 6
Toot Sweet
Year: 2005
Tracks: 6
Dreyfus Night in Paris
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Live at the Village Vanguard
Year: 2002
Tracks: 8
100 Hearts
Year: 2002
Tracks: 6
Days of Wine and Roses (cd2)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 7
Days of Wine and Roses (cd1)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Trio in Tokyo
Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
Solo Live
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Both Worlds
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Au Theatre des Champs-Elysees
Year: 1997
Tracks: 7
The Best of the Blue Note Years
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Marvellous
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Live
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
The blue note years
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
Promenade with Duke
Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Playground
Year: 1991
Tracks: 11
Power of Three
Year: 1990
Tracks: 7
Pianism
Year: 1990
Tracks: 6
Michel Plays Petrucciani
Year: 1990
Tracks: 30
Music
Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
Live in Bologna
Year:
Tracks: 7
Estate
Year:
Tracks: 7
Michel Petrucciani overcame the personal effects of osteogenensis imperfecta (a pearl disease that greatly scrubby his increment) to become a powerful pianist. Originally greatly influenced by Bill Evans and to a lesser extent Keith Jarrett, Petrucciani developed his own single voice. He started by performing in the class band with his guitar player father and bassist brother. At the old age of 15 he had the opportunity to fiddle with Kenny Clarke and Clark Terry, and at 17 he made his kickoff recording. Petrucciani toured France with Lee Konitz in a duette (1980) and stirred to the U.S. in 1982. At that sentence he coaxed Charles Lloyd knocked out of retirement and toured with his quartet, a reciprocally good human relationship. Petrucciani was a strong draw in the U.S., normally playacting with a quartet (sometimes featuring Adam Holzman's synthesiser for coloration) or as a soloist; in 1986 he recorded at Montreux with Jim Hall and Wayne Shorter. Although Petrucciani's power to overwhelm his affliction was admirable, his telling playing stood by itself; he died of a pneumonic infection on January 6, 1999.
Ion Dissonance
Maligned emo fans to march on Daily Mail
Hundreds of fans of 'emo' band My Chemical Romance are planning to march on the Daily Mail to protest at what they see as an unjustified attack on the group and its fans
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