Sunday 14 May 2017

Alexander Hacke and Gareth Jones talk Einstürzende Neubauten, Hansa Studios and setting fire to tape loops


What Comey Was Investigating


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Trump must be impeached. Here’s why

明 - New Black Cab album out July 2017



A Murderous History of Korea

Around The World in 80 Ways Mix (Part 2)

A journey around the world part 2: Journey Home (Europe to Australia)
All tracks feature Bill Laswell either producing, playing or remixing
Tracklist:
1 Morning High by Lizzy Mercier Descloux & Patti Smith
2 Mamm by Enzo Avitabile & Bottari
3 Statte Ccà/Dub by Raiz
4 Zippo Raid by X-Legged Sally
5 The Last Detective by Peter Brötzmann/Bill Laswell
6 Bhajan by JÜ And Kjetil Møster
7 Release Me by Robert Miles
8 Maid Áiggot Muinna Eallin (Bill Laswell Mix) by Mari Boine
9 Miklagaard by Jonas Hellborg
10 Bloodstream (The Evening Redness In The West Mix) by GOD
11 Letter Of Thanks To A Friend (Bill Laswell Mix) by Anne Clark
12 Dark Green by Bill Laswell
13 Black Lives Matter by The Last Poets
14 Gangster Lean by Ghettovets
15 O Gentle One by James Blood Ulmer
16 Biggest Crumb by Henry Threadgill
17 Stand by Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra
18 The City's On Fire by David Krakauer & Anakronic Electro Orkestra
19 Right Stuff Dub by Sly & Robbie
20 Gangsta Roll (Bill Laswell Mix) by Garrison Hawk
21 Radio Cuba Version by Jean Touitou & Bill Laswell
22 Los Ibellis by Bill Laswell
23 Timeless Land by Yothu Yindi

Part 1  
HERE

Saturday 13 May 2017

OTD77


Don Cherry: 1978 Swedish TV Documentary

Watch out for a young Neneh Cherry also features performances with James Blood Ulmer and Rashied Ali
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Don Cherry (1973)
Don Cherry appears in this 1973 film that explores the journey of a black man, a free jazz trumpeter, who comes to earth from another planet. He searches for the truth of this world, but doesn't know which path to take. He wanders various roads, kills monsters, and finally discovers the three truths: music, wisdom and love

Captain Beefheart with David Hockney & Henry Geldzahler (1979)

Photo by Raymond Foye
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Composer Samuel Andreyev analyzes 'Frownland' from Trout Mask Replica

MP3 is dead, long live AAC

Colbert 1 VS 0 Trump


John Dean, Former White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon, on What Trump and Nixon Have in Common

Friday 12 May 2017


Cary Grant: how 100 acid trips in Tinseltown 'changed my life'

Akatombo




Hiroshima Mon Amour: Paul Thomsen Kirk Of Akatombo Interviewed

Around The World in 80 Ways Mix (Part 1)


A journey around the world part 1: Outward Bound (Australia to North Africa) 
All tracks feature Bill Laswell either producing, playing or remixing
Tracklist:
1 Byrralku Dhangudha (Great Southern Land) by Icehouse
2 The Hunted (Bill Laswell Remix) by Kodō
3 Okinawa Song (Chin Nuku Juushii) by Ryuichi Sakamoto
4 Soma by Hu Vibrational
5 P' u Sal by Samulnori
6 Love by Sola & Wu Man
7 Tenzin Travel by Somma
8 Ahoura & Ahrtman by Samsara Sound System
9 Whirling by Omar Faruk Tekbilek
10 Yamim Shel Kochavim (Seas Of Stars) by Yemen Blues
11 Amorphous by Bill Laswell
12 Taqasim on Violin by Simon Shaheen
13 Job by Naftule's Dream
14 Salam by Gigi
15 Afrodisco Beat 2013 by Tony Allen, M1 & Baloji
16 Julajekereh by Mandinka & Fulani Music of Gambia
17 Duunya by Touré Kunda
18 Pitya Pitya by Manu Dibango
19 Waadi (Just My Luck) by Fadela & Sahrawi
20 Moussa Berkiyo Koubaliy Beriah by Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders
21 Al Mouktab by Azzddine
22 Ya Sherel Beli by Maghrebika

Part 2
HERE

Thursday 11 May 2017

HA!


Vale Mark Colvin



Mark Colvin remembered as 'a bit of a genius' by friends and colleagues

Mark Colvin, the man who watched the world for Australia


Wednesday 10 May 2017

Behind Comey’s firing: An enraged Trump, fuming about Russia

The Nightmare Scenario: Trump Fires Comey, the One Man Who Would Stand Up to Him

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In search of Trough Man, an icon of Sydney's 1980s gay scene

Style


‘Drop dead gorgeous’ teen girl shows up for prom in coffin

Hannity Then and Now on NSA Surveillance


Tuesday 9 May 2017

The Attackerman reunites with Noah Schachtman



Manga Artist Kiyohiko Azuma’s Urban Sketches of Japan

The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked

Monday 8 May 2017

Dr. Bill Bruford - Making it Work: Creative music performance and the Western kit drummer (2015)

Abstract
This study synthesises a range of views from cultural psychology, action theory and expert practitioners to illuminate issues of creativity and meaning in the performance of the Western kit drummer. Creativity and cultural psychology models are tested and critiqued, but require extension or adaptation to cast a more focused light on the meaning of creative performance for drummers. Aspects of the work of Csikszentmihalyi, Dewey, and Boesch are drawn together and developed to argue that the construct of ‘significant action in context’ provides the conceptual and methodological tool with which to begin analysis of this relationship of mind to cultural setting. In seeking understanding of perception rather than objectively-determined facts, a qualitative interpretivist paradigm is adopted. Semi-structured interviews and autobiographical data of expert practitioners are used to generate rich data. Viewed from an action-theoretical perspective, the data are analysed and interpreted using thematic analysis, expanded here to encompass both autoethnographic and phenomenographical components. The agency of the researcher is assumed throughout, and the importance of scholarly self-reflexivity highlighted. The purpose of the study is to construct a cultural psychology of the Western kit drummer which may reveal aspects of creativity in performance. It emerges organically from an ongoing sense of needing to know, or at least understand better, how drummers’ cultural psychology determines what they do. Such an explanation may not only contribute functionally to drummer practice, but also improve understanding of collaborative and creative interactional processes in music and related artistic spheres
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Saturday 6 May 2017

GRIN REAPER


Friday 5 May 2017

Thursday 4 May 2017

US army releases photographer's final image, showing blast that killed her

Believe It or Not!


Wednesday 3 May 2017

Praxis - Live at the Warsaw Summer Jazzfest (1996)

Praxis featuring Bill Laswell, Buckethead, Brain, and the Invisibl Skratch Piklz

Sonny Sharrock - Live on Jazz Session (French TV 3/10/70)

Material - Live in Switzerland (13/7/83)

Material featuring Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn, Grandmixer DST, Sonny Sharrock, Henry Kaiser, JT Lewis, and Keith Haring on Magic Marker
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Material featuring Amina Claudine Myers, Bill Laswell, Aiyb Dieng, Gigi, Hamid Drake, Karsh Kale, DST, Buckethead, and Oz Fritz in 1998

Material featuring Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn, Grandmixer DST, Sonny Sharrock, Henry Kaiser, JT Lewis, and Keith Haring on Magic Marker, live at the Milano Suono Festival, Milan, July 1983Material featuring Bill Laswell, Nils Petter Molvaer, Foday Musa Suso, Hamid Drake, Abegasu Shiota, and AIyb Dieng perform at the Latin Lounge at Tokyo Jazz in 2005

Tuesday 2 May 2017

Hari Kunzru: Trump’s first 100 days - ignorant, thuggish, insecure - a president as would-be oligarch

Trump: 'He’s a self-basting satirist'

During Armando Iannucci's appearance on the Australian panel show Q&A on Monday night, the creator of Veep and The Thick of It says satirists are struggling in the time of Donald Trump because the US president does their job for them
Armando Iannucci on why he's glad he left Veep: 'I don’t know how I’d respond to America now'

Monday 1 May 2017