Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, artist/musician/author/record producer/music theorist/ designer/inventor of ambient music etc. etc. turns 62 today.
Below, Roxy Music tear it up, performing Ladytron on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972. Eno’s VSC3 solo comes in at 4:10, but you’ll want to watch the entire thing. The band is in fine form here, especially Phil Manzanera. Bottom: Editions of You on German television, 1972.
Check out Derek Chatwood’s portfolio over at Flickr.
(via Nerdcore)
When your country is going Socialist play guitar about it! I love the pig/politician/pervert. Must be a godless Democrat! Via Christian Nightmares:
A video for Christian shredder Joe Horn’s anti-Obama, anti-Socialism scare tactic propaganda song “Freedom”
I think Jason Louv’s red panda has some serious competition here. From Vimeo user Amphibian Avenger:
I filmed this at the Aviaros del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica - the world’s only sloth orphanage. Baby 2 and 3 toed sloths, whose mother’s have either been run over or zapped by power lines, are brought to the centre to be cared for by sloth whisperer Judy Arroyo.
(via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)
Genesis Publications, they of the opulent, extremely expensive, over-the-top, signed limited-edition rock photography coffee table books have a new title that looks amazing, this one featuring photographs of Led Zeppelin maestro Jimmy Page:
Genesis is proud to present Jimmy Page’s first official published work and the definitive photographic history of one of the world’s most iconic guitar players.
As well as signing every copy, Jimmy has personally chosen every one of the 650 photographs, written the accompanying captions and helped design the magnificently luxurious binding to create Genesis Publications’ biggest ever limited edition.
ZOSO: Limited Edition Jimmy Page book (Genesis Publications)
Thank you Michael Backes!
Wikipedia
5000 pages, fully printed
Articles in the book are taken from Wikipedia’s featured articles.
Wikipedia: Rob Matthews
thx Michael Perry Goodman!
Oh Lou, you’re such a… wag. Hot on the heels of putting his, er, difficult, Metal Machine Music onto the concert stage, Lou Reed has a high frequency—literally—concert event planned in Australia with partner Laurie Anderson: a concert for canines…
From the NME:
Lou Reed and his partner, experimental musician Laurie Anderson, will be putting on a concert exclusively for dogs as part of Sydney’s Vivid LIVE festival on June 5.
The high-frequency ‘Music For Dogs’ gig will take place on Sydney Opera House’s northern boardwalk at 10am (EST). The show will be 20-minutes long due to the canine audience’s short attention span and will be inaudible to the humans present.
“Taking the idea of the apparently inaudible dog whistle to new artistic heights, our canine friends will be treated to a glorious cacophony of sound, while all we will hear is the lapping of the water on the harbour,” festival chiefs wrote on the event’s official website, Vividlive.sydneyoperahouse.com
I have personally seen Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson walking their cute little dog many times in the West Village—I lived a half-block away from them for many years—so I think it’s pretty safe to assume that they are “dog people.” What would really be impressive, though, is if they did at least one show where no humans were present, just the pooches.
Thank you Chris Campion of Berlin, Germany!
Calling it “flawless,” and “rife with sci-fi paranoia and doomed futures,” Popmatters today celebrates the reissuing of Devo‘s Duty Now for the Future. I love that ‘79 album dearly, but looking back at that era now, I can still remember the absolute, utter contempt some of my fellow Angelenos reigned down upon Akron’s spud boys.
Being a time when authenticity seemed prized beyond all other attributes, it’s not hard to see why. Devo had uniforms, a mythology, tightly orchestrated playing. But Gabba Gabba Hey, so did these guys. And whatever doubts I had about the band were quickly and forever banished by this.
So, here we are today. With authenticity no longer a concern, like, at all, are we not better poised, err, evolved, for Devo’s return? And, more importantly, will the world switch with them from Whip It red to Winter Olympic blue?
Devo’s upcoming album, its first in 20 years, comes out June 15th. And perhaps mocking, perhaps embracing, this focus-grouped-to-death time of ours, the band’s calling it, Something For Everybody:
Though the 12 songs on Something for Everybody are built on Devo’s signature mechanized swing, the recording and presentation of the album saw the band experimenting with an entirely new approach. Greg Scholl was brought in to serve as COO for Devo, Inc., and—working with the advertising agency Mother LA—conducted a series of studies through the Club Devo site to help the band with its creative decisions, from color selection to song mixes.
“We decided to actively seek comment and criticism from outside people and use that as a tool, rather than shunning or ignoring it,” says Gerald Casale. “Our experiences participating in secondary creativity—things like corporate consensus building, focus groups—make you appreciate the connection that an artist has to society.”
An amusing “touch test” for Something For Everybody follows below:
Previously on Dangerous Minds: Devolympics, Jerkin’ backwards and forwards with Devo
Excellent videos for LAFMS stalwarts The Doo-Dooettes, Tom Recchion
These videos evolved out of the copious material that was generated for live performances with the great musician/composer Tom Recchion. Working as a live mix video-instrumentalist with music as evocatively visual as this, was (and is) for me, a matter of letting the video elements self-assemble themselves. In other words, rather than force a narrative, as much as possible I strive to be a conduit - using the sound as my guide, and let the visuals tell me what they want to be.
Doo-Dooettes, Loop Rendered (excerpt).
Music by the Doo-Dooettes from the CD Think Space
Remixed and reconfigured by Tom Recchion.
Video animation & editing: Jonathon Rosen.
Apartment Thunder.
Music from David Toop’s CD Black Chamber
Musicians: David Toop, Tom Recchion.
Animation / Editing / Direction: Jonathon Rosen