 Artist: Angelique Kidjo: mp3 download Genre(s): Folk Latin Dance Ethnic Jazz Angelique Kidjo's discography:  Djin Djin Year: 2007 Tracks: 13  Oyaya! Year: 2004 Tracks: 13  Black Ivory Soul Year: 2004 Tracks: 15  Keep on Moving-Best of Angelique Kidjo Year: 2001 Tracks: 18  Parakou Year: 1998 Tracks: 9  Fifa Year: 1996 Tracks: 10  Aye Year: 1994 Tracks: 10  Logozo Year: 1992 Tracks: 10  Oremi Year: Tracks: 12 Afro-funk, reggae, samba, salsa, religious ism, jazz, Zairean rhumba, zouk, and makossa are combined through the music of soulful, Benin-born, Paris-based isaac Merrit Singer Angélique Kidjo. Since the release of her self-produced debut solo album, Pretty, in 1988, Kidjo has been embraced by the international press. Kidjo's albums make been reinforced by contributions from super client musicians and producers. Parakou, her number one internationally distributed album, featured jazz keyboardist Jasper van't Hof, the leader of Pili Pili, a Holland-based Afro-jazz band with whom Kidjo had performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1987. Logozo, recorded in Miami in 1991 and produced by Joe Galdo of Miami Sound Machine, featured Branford Marsalis on adolphe Sax. Marsalis later performed on Kidjo's album Oremi. The album features Kidjo singing duets with Cassandra Wilson ("Never Know") and Kelly Price ("Open Your Eyes"). Kidjo's near ambitious record album, Fifa (1996), featured more than C percussionists, flutists, cowbell and berimbau players, singers, and dancers from Benin and one cut featuring Carlos Santana. Kidjo's married man, Jean Hébrail, a French bass player and composer she met in 1987, has played a major purpose in the recording of her albums. The daughter of an actress, dancer, and theatrical producer, Kidjo was born in Quidah, a coastal city in the West African land of Benin. Inheriting her mother's beloved of acting, she made her stagecoach debut with her mother's theatrical troupe. Inspired by the rock candy, pop, and soul music of Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Miriam Makeba, James Brown, and Aretha Franklin, she was singing professionally by her 20th birthday. Although she recorded an album, Pretty, produced by Cameroon-based singer Ekambi Brilliant that yielded a attain individual, "Ninive," the oppressive political environs of Benin light-emitting diode her to relocate to Paris in 1980. Although modernistic engineering and electronics played an important function in the recording of her first four-spot albums, Kidjo returned to her traditional roots with Fifa. Armed with eight-track taping recorders and microphones, Kidjo and a team of engineers traveled to Benin to record traditional musicians, singers, and dancers. The album was completed during transcription roger Huntington Sessions in Paris, London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. With her succeeding album, 1998's Oremi, Kidjo returned to her futuristic overture. Incorporating elements of hip-hop and Afro-Celtic grooves, Oremi featured a reconstructed interpretation of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slender Return)." Kidjo's enthusiastic presence was evident on the video of her international hit "Agolo," from her record album Aye (1994). Produced by Will Mowatt of Soul II Soul and longtime Prince collaborator David Z, the video was nominated for a Grammy Award. Kidjo's songs make been featured on the soundtracks of such films as My Favorite Season, Street Fighter, and Mavin Ventura: When Nature Calls. As the new millennium got underway, Kidjo signed to Columbia and prepped for her major-label debut. Exploring musical elements of her aboriginal Benin to that of northeast Brazil, Sinister Ivory Soul was released in 2002. Oyaya!, which featured a quislingism with Dave Matthews, was issued two days later. Kidjo then linked forces with Razor & Tie for the May 2007 release of Djin Djin. |
Wednesday 10 September 2008
Mp3 music: Angelique Kidjo
Sunday 31 August 2008
50th Anniversary of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue Celebrated with New Documentary and Box Set
NEW YORK, Aug. 28 -- Like a hunky-dory vintage wine -- an
epicurean enrapture near and dear to Miles Davis (1926-1991) -- the music
contained on Kind of Blue reveals added refinement and unexpected pleasures the
older it gets. And yet with each year that Kind of Blue ages, it goes
through a rejuvenation process that is exciting to lay eyes on. The core of
the 1959 record album has never been duplicated. That english hawthorn account, in part, for
its RIAA triple-platinum condition in the U.S. and worldwide recognition as a
timeless masterpiece, #12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500
Greatest Albums Of All Time."
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060130/LEGACYLOGO )
Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition is an expansive and
lavishly-designed box set. The contents of the box include: deuce CDs
(running clip over two hours); a newly-produced black-and-white documentary
DVD (55 minutes); a full-size 60-page book of critical essays, annotations
and photography; and an envelope chockfull of memorabilia. The box also
includes the 12-inch LP package pressed on 180-gram blue vinyl and an
enormous 22x33 fold-out posting of Miles. The loge will be released on
September 30th by Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
Of special importance to Miles Davis aficionados around the globe is
the DVD, Celebrating a Masterpiece: Kind of Blue. The unexampled DVD incorporates
material from the 2004 mini-documentary, Made In Heaven, including
black-and-white still photography of the recording roger Huntington Sessions and the voices
of Miles (at the roger Huntington Sessions), as easily as excerpts of radio interviews with
the late Bill Evans and Cannonball Adderley. There are interviews with
musicians and luminaries including composer/performer David Amram, the late
Ed Bradley, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Bill Cosby, Herbie Hancock (wHO
demonstrates "So What" at the pianoforte), Eddie Henderson, Shirley Horn, Dave
Liebman, the late Jackie McLean, funk-rocker Me'Shell Ndege'Ocello,
hip-hop's Q-Tip, Carlos Santana, John Scofield, Horace Silver, and many
others.
The DVD also unearths the group's entire 26-minute appearance on
"Robert Herridge Theatre: The Sound of Miles Davis," a CBS television
program recorded in 1959 and circulate in 1960. Another fillip feature is
the gallery of images captured by Columbia staff photographer Don Hunstein,
covering the original recording sessions, as well as a key performance at
New York's Plaza Hotel in September 1958. In junction with the latter,
an unprecedented four-week exhibit of Miles Davis photography will be
mounted at New York's business district Morrison Hotel Gallery in November-December
2008. The exhibit will then travel to other Morrison Hotel locations and
Starwood Hotels in 2009.
At the absolute core of the box set is the original 45-minute album
program, whose five titles -- "So What," "Freddie Freeloader," "Blue in
Green," "All Blues," and "Flamenco Sketches" -- ar indelibly incised in our
contemporary musical DNA, be it wind, rock, third through fifth stream
classical, or beyond. They are familiar sure-enough acquaintances on the LP as it
existed in the marketplace for intimately three decades: the first three
numbers pool occupying side one (which happened to have been cut on the first
day of recording, two three-hour sessions on Monday, March 2, 1959); and
the lowest two numbers on side two (recorded at the final three-hour session
of Wednesday, April 22, 1959).
On CD One of the box set, after the original five tunes are presented,
there is the alternate take of "Flamenco Sketches," the only complete
alternate take from the original recording sessions (a cut first unveiled
on the 5-LP/4-CD box set of 1988, Miles Davis: The Columbia Years
1955-1985, the first Miles Davis box fix ever issued by Columbia).
Following the understudy take, at that place are "studio sequences" (ranging from 11
seconds to nearly deuce minutes) for every one of the five titles, and one
"false begin." As transcribed and fleshed out by Ashley Kahn, these brusk
tracks are eye-opening revelations into the studio human relationship between
Miles, the musicians, Columbia staff producer Irving Townsend, and
recording engineer Fred Plaut, at this still-early stage in Miles' calling
as a leader (though he had been making records since 1945).
The 1959 sessions occupy CD One -- and and so CD Two turns plunk for the
calendar to May 26, 1958. The basketball team completed tracks from that session with
producer Cal Lampley -- "On Green Dolphin Street," "Fran-Dance" (with an
alternate take), "Stella by Starlight," and "Love for Sale" -- are the alone
other studio recordings of the sestet with Adderley, Coltrane, Evans,
Chambers, and Cobb (though unrecorded recordings subsist from the Newport Jazz
Festival in July, and the Plaza in September).
The five 1958 studio tracks, scattered on various LP through the years,
were united in one shoes for the first metre on the double Grammy
Award-winning 6-CD box set issued in 2000, Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The
Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961. Now, for the first time, the quintet
1958 studio tracks are rightfully joined -- at last -- with the five
sixer tracks of Kind of Blue. The final data track on CD Two is a mesmeric
17-minute hot concert rendering of "So What" (without Adderley, with Kelly),
recorded in Holland, April 1960.
In late 1958, after some eight months, Bill Evans left the lineup and
was replaced by Wynton Kelly. As Miles began to devise his next studio
recording, Evans was invited back up for the sessions and became an integral
spark on the album's construct. Cobb bears witness to the fact that "the
concept behindhand Kind of Blue grew out of the way the iI (Miles and Evans)
played together," as Francis Davis writes. "Evans and Davis were certainly
on the same wavelength, and the piano player certainly contributes more than a
sideman's share of Kind of Blue's air of reflective melancholy. In addition to
which, his eloquent lining notes -- titled 'Improvisation in Jazz' -- cued
listeners to hear the album as the very essence of jazz, an unmediated
example in spontaneity."
The session-by-session transcripts compiled and expounded by Ashley
Kahn are an indication of the quantum advance in scholarly exegesis that
has grown up around Miles Davis in general and Kind of Blue in particular.
This intellectual pursuit is given full exposure in the course of the box
set's 60-page book. Kahn's 3,000-word subdivision, titled "Between The Takes,"
reflects the full scope of research that went into his book Kind of Blue:
The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (DaCapo Press, 2000; updated
edition, Perseus, 2007, foreword by Jimmy Cobb).
Kahn's section is preceded by two major in-depth studies from writers
wHO have also studied their subject for their entire careers. The book's
hatchway essay is a 4,000-word overview written by Francis Davis,
contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, jazz columnist for The Village
Voice, and victor of basketball team ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for Excellence in Music
Journalism. In addition to writing many books (among them The History of
the Blues, Hyperion, 1995; and Jazz and Its Discontents: A Francis Davis
Reader, Perseus, 2004), he has also written liner notes for all over 60 jazz
and bug out albums, including titles by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill
Evans.
"The deuce recording roger Sessions for Kind f Blue," Francis Davis writes,
"took place in the nick of meter: it's unimaginable to reckon Davis, Evans,
Coltrane, and Adderley coming together so harmoniously a year or two later,
by which point each had become not just leader of his band only practically
founder of his own school."
The second essay, "The Last King Of America: How Miles Davis Invented
Modernity," is a 3,000-word study by Professor Gerald Early of Washington
University in St. Louis. Early, wHO has served as adviser on numerous
Ken Burns objective projects (Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness: The
Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War), is a widely published source who
has written about subjects diverse as Negro baseball, Motown, Sammy Davis
Jr., Muhammad Ali -- and Miles Davis. Early was the editor in chief of Miles Davis
and American Culture (2001), a compendium of essays.
"Kind of Blue would not have been possible if the LP did not exist,"
Early says. "It was jazz conceived for the record album, non only because
of the playing times of the tunes simply also because of how the record album creates
an overall humour. Kind of Blue is not only a series of tracks as the
standard small group nothingness album of the clarence Shepard Day Jr. was. Kind of Blue was one of the
few jazz records of its time that had a sense of narration, a cohesive
inter-relation betwixt the tunes. It was a work on, not a bunch of disparate
tunes used to pace a small group jazz album: one fast-tempo piece, one
ballad, one blues, one or two standards, a bop-oriented original. The sense
of the album as an organic whole added to its appeal."
Even so, the Kind of Blue LP was demoniac by some other kind of voodoo
for decades. Musicians who tested to "play along" with the first three
tracks (side unitary) were perplexed because the music always sounded slimly
sharper than pitch. In 1995, the problem was traced back up to the old
Columbia 30th Street Studio, and a 3-track tape machine that was working
slightly dull during the March recording sessions. As a result, after the
mastering process, those number 1 three tunes always sounded sharp. In 1995,
this pitch problem was in the end corrected. At the same time, it was decided
to remix the original 3-track tapes on a Presto all-tube recorder, similar
to the one put-upon in 1959. The mixes were brought back to "real life." The
rich, full instrumental sound was restored, rendering every previous
configuration obsolete.
Listening to Kind of Blue today, the ground rules come promptly: This
was an exercise in solo and group improvisation, a break from the
conventions of chordal complexity, "improvising on the sparest and starkest
of scales as an alternative to bebop's dull thickets of chord changes," as
Francis Davis writes. It was a "return to emphasis on melodic kind of than
harmonic variation," as Miles told The Jazz Review the year before. The
works were composed (as it were) just hours before the sessions, so there
could be no rehearsals as such. Once the radical got past times the "studio
sequences" described earlier, the results were all first takes; only
"Flamenco Sketches" was given an alternate lease.
Moreover, as Davis and Early and many other writers and musicians have
openly discussed -- and Miles would frequently defer -- the five kit and boodle all
had their roots in other sources. Kind of Blue was the first Miles Davis
album comprised entirely of songs credited to his name, even though at
least deuce of its themes were provided by Evans: "Flamenco Sketches" (whose
piano intro derived from Evans' "Peace Piece," itself based on Leonard
Bernstein's "Some Other Time" from On The Town); and "Blue in Green," which
(writes Davis) "sprang verbatim from [Evans'] introduction to 'Alone
Together' on an earlier transcription of that standard by Chet Baker." This may
have been business-as-usual in the jazz scene, simply the financial impact of
Miles not crediting anyone else certainly hastened the going of Evans
from the group.
How and why has Kind of Blue held on to its status as an album that
crosses genres, speaks to generations, and is one of the first (if not the
first) album that whatsoever new
epicurean enrapture near and dear to Miles Davis (1926-1991) -- the music
contained on Kind of Blue reveals added refinement and unexpected pleasures the
older it gets. And yet with each year that Kind of Blue ages, it goes
through a rejuvenation process that is exciting to lay eyes on. The core of
the 1959 record album has never been duplicated. That english hawthorn account, in part, for
its RIAA triple-platinum condition in the U.S. and worldwide recognition as a
timeless masterpiece, #12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500
Greatest Albums Of All Time."
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060130/LEGACYLOGO )
Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition is an expansive and
lavishly-designed box set. The contents of the box include: deuce CDs
(running clip over two hours); a newly-produced black-and-white documentary
DVD (55 minutes); a full-size 60-page book of critical essays, annotations
and photography; and an envelope chockfull of memorabilia. The box also
includes the 12-inch LP package pressed on 180-gram blue vinyl and an
enormous 22x33 fold-out posting of Miles. The loge will be released on
September 30th by Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
Of special importance to Miles Davis aficionados around the globe is
the DVD, Celebrating a Masterpiece: Kind of Blue. The unexampled DVD incorporates
material from the 2004 mini-documentary, Made In Heaven, including
black-and-white still photography of the recording roger Huntington Sessions and the voices
of Miles (at the roger Huntington Sessions), as easily as excerpts of radio interviews with
the late Bill Evans and Cannonball Adderley. There are interviews with
musicians and luminaries including composer/performer David Amram, the late
Ed Bradley, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Bill Cosby, Herbie Hancock (wHO
demonstrates "So What" at the pianoforte), Eddie Henderson, Shirley Horn, Dave
Liebman, the late Jackie McLean, funk-rocker Me'Shell Ndege'Ocello,
hip-hop's Q-Tip, Carlos Santana, John Scofield, Horace Silver, and many
others.
The DVD also unearths the group's entire 26-minute appearance on
"Robert Herridge Theatre: The Sound of Miles Davis," a CBS television
program recorded in 1959 and circulate in 1960. Another fillip feature is
the gallery of images captured by Columbia staff photographer Don Hunstein,
covering the original recording sessions, as well as a key performance at
New York's Plaza Hotel in September 1958. In junction with the latter,
an unprecedented four-week exhibit of Miles Davis photography will be
mounted at New York's business district Morrison Hotel Gallery in November-December
2008. The exhibit will then travel to other Morrison Hotel locations and
Starwood Hotels in 2009.
At the absolute core of the box set is the original 45-minute album
program, whose five titles -- "So What," "Freddie Freeloader," "Blue in
Green," "All Blues," and "Flamenco Sketches" -- ar indelibly incised in our
contemporary musical DNA, be it wind, rock, third through fifth stream
classical, or beyond. They are familiar sure-enough acquaintances on the LP as it
existed in the marketplace for intimately three decades: the first three
numbers pool occupying side one (which happened to have been cut on the first
day of recording, two three-hour sessions on Monday, March 2, 1959); and
the lowest two numbers on side two (recorded at the final three-hour session
of Wednesday, April 22, 1959).
On CD One of the box set, after the original five tunes are presented,
there is the alternate take of "Flamenco Sketches," the only complete
alternate take from the original recording sessions (a cut first unveiled
on the 5-LP/4-CD box set of 1988, Miles Davis: The Columbia Years
1955-1985, the first Miles Davis box fix ever issued by Columbia).
Following the understudy take, at that place are "studio sequences" (ranging from 11
seconds to nearly deuce minutes) for every one of the five titles, and one
"false begin." As transcribed and fleshed out by Ashley Kahn, these brusk
tracks are eye-opening revelations into the studio human relationship between
Miles, the musicians, Columbia staff producer Irving Townsend, and
recording engineer Fred Plaut, at this still-early stage in Miles' calling
as a leader (though he had been making records since 1945).
The 1959 sessions occupy CD One -- and and so CD Two turns plunk for the
calendar to May 26, 1958. The basketball team completed tracks from that session with
producer Cal Lampley -- "On Green Dolphin Street," "Fran-Dance" (with an
alternate take), "Stella by Starlight," and "Love for Sale" -- are the alone
other studio recordings of the sestet with Adderley, Coltrane, Evans,
Chambers, and Cobb (though unrecorded recordings subsist from the Newport Jazz
Festival in July, and the Plaza in September).
The five 1958 studio tracks, scattered on various LP through the years,
were united in one shoes for the first metre on the double Grammy
Award-winning 6-CD box set issued in 2000, Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The
Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961. Now, for the first time, the quintet
1958 studio tracks are rightfully joined -- at last -- with the five
sixer tracks of Kind of Blue. The final data track on CD Two is a mesmeric
17-minute hot concert rendering of "So What" (without Adderley, with Kelly),
recorded in Holland, April 1960.
In late 1958, after some eight months, Bill Evans left the lineup and
was replaced by Wynton Kelly. As Miles began to devise his next studio
recording, Evans was invited back up for the sessions and became an integral
spark on the album's construct. Cobb bears witness to the fact that "the
concept behindhand Kind of Blue grew out of the way the iI (Miles and Evans)
played together," as Francis Davis writes. "Evans and Davis were certainly
on the same wavelength, and the piano player certainly contributes more than a
sideman's share of Kind of Blue's air of reflective melancholy. In addition to
which, his eloquent lining notes -- titled 'Improvisation in Jazz' -- cued
listeners to hear the album as the very essence of jazz, an unmediated
example in spontaneity."
The session-by-session transcripts compiled and expounded by Ashley
Kahn are an indication of the quantum advance in scholarly exegesis that
has grown up around Miles Davis in general and Kind of Blue in particular.
This intellectual pursuit is given full exposure in the course of the box
set's 60-page book. Kahn's 3,000-word subdivision, titled "Between The Takes,"
reflects the full scope of research that went into his book Kind of Blue:
The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (DaCapo Press, 2000; updated
edition, Perseus, 2007, foreword by Jimmy Cobb).
Kahn's section is preceded by two major in-depth studies from writers
wHO have also studied their subject for their entire careers. The book's
hatchway essay is a 4,000-word overview written by Francis Davis,
contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, jazz columnist for The Village
Voice, and victor of basketball team ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for Excellence in Music
Journalism. In addition to writing many books (among them The History of
the Blues, Hyperion, 1995; and Jazz and Its Discontents: A Francis Davis
Reader, Perseus, 2004), he has also written liner notes for all over 60 jazz
and bug out albums, including titles by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill
Evans.
"The deuce recording roger Sessions for Kind f Blue," Francis Davis writes,
"took place in the nick of meter: it's unimaginable to reckon Davis, Evans,
Coltrane, and Adderley coming together so harmoniously a year or two later,
by which point each had become not just leader of his band only practically
founder of his own school."
The second essay, "The Last King Of America: How Miles Davis Invented
Modernity," is a 3,000-word study by Professor Gerald Early of Washington
University in St. Louis. Early, wHO has served as adviser on numerous
Ken Burns objective projects (Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness: The
Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The War), is a widely published source who
has written about subjects diverse as Negro baseball, Motown, Sammy Davis
Jr., Muhammad Ali -- and Miles Davis. Early was the editor in chief of Miles Davis
and American Culture (2001), a compendium of essays.
"Kind of Blue would not have been possible if the LP did not exist,"
Early says. "It was jazz conceived for the record album, non only because
of the playing times of the tunes simply also because of how the record album creates
an overall humour. Kind of Blue is not only a series of tracks as the
standard small group nothingness album of the clarence Shepard Day Jr. was. Kind of Blue was one of the
few jazz records of its time that had a sense of narration, a cohesive
inter-relation betwixt the tunes. It was a work on, not a bunch of disparate
tunes used to pace a small group jazz album: one fast-tempo piece, one
ballad, one blues, one or two standards, a bop-oriented original. The sense
of the album as an organic whole added to its appeal."
Even so, the Kind of Blue LP was demoniac by some other kind of voodoo
for decades. Musicians who tested to "play along" with the first three
tracks (side unitary) were perplexed because the music always sounded slimly
sharper than pitch. In 1995, the problem was traced back up to the old
Columbia 30th Street Studio, and a 3-track tape machine that was working
slightly dull during the March recording sessions. As a result, after the
mastering process, those number 1 three tunes always sounded sharp. In 1995,
this pitch problem was in the end corrected. At the same time, it was decided
to remix the original 3-track tapes on a Presto all-tube recorder, similar
to the one put-upon in 1959. The mixes were brought back to "real life." The
rich, full instrumental sound was restored, rendering every previous
configuration obsolete.
Listening to Kind of Blue today, the ground rules come promptly: This
was an exercise in solo and group improvisation, a break from the
conventions of chordal complexity, "improvising on the sparest and starkest
of scales as an alternative to bebop's dull thickets of chord changes," as
Francis Davis writes. It was a "return to emphasis on melodic kind of than
harmonic variation," as Miles told The Jazz Review the year before. The
works were composed (as it were) just hours before the sessions, so there
could be no rehearsals as such. Once the radical got past times the "studio
sequences" described earlier, the results were all first takes; only
"Flamenco Sketches" was given an alternate lease.
Moreover, as Davis and Early and many other writers and musicians have
openly discussed -- and Miles would frequently defer -- the five kit and boodle all
had their roots in other sources. Kind of Blue was the first Miles Davis
album comprised entirely of songs credited to his name, even though at
least deuce of its themes were provided by Evans: "Flamenco Sketches" (whose
piano intro derived from Evans' "Peace Piece," itself based on Leonard
Bernstein's "Some Other Time" from On The Town); and "Blue in Green," which
(writes Davis) "sprang verbatim from [Evans'] introduction to 'Alone
Together' on an earlier transcription of that standard by Chet Baker." This may
have been business-as-usual in the jazz scene, simply the financial impact of
Miles not crediting anyone else certainly hastened the going of Evans
from the group.
How and why has Kind of Blue held on to its status as an album that
crosses genres, speaks to generations, and is one of the first (if not the
first) album that whatsoever new
Thursday 21 August 2008
The Verve deny V Festival cancellation
The Verve have denied rumours that they get pulled out of their headline slot at this weekend's V Festival.
It was reported yesterday that the Wigan radical had off their execution because guitarist Nick McCabe had allegedly been sectional after a gig in Japan.
However, according to the band, McCabe has only injured his finger and they will still be headlining the summer bash.
"Contrary to rumours circulating, Nick McCabe skip his finger on a piece of glass in the dressing room after the gig in Japan," a example told NME.
"He was hardened by medics at the scene and then flew home. He's fine take out for a sore finger and that won't effect their appearance at V at the weekend."
Other acts of the Apostles performing at V include Amy Winehouse, Muse, Stereophonics, Kings of Leon and Kaiser Chiefs.
More info
It was reported yesterday that the Wigan radical had off their execution because guitarist Nick McCabe had allegedly been sectional after a gig in Japan.
However, according to the band, McCabe has only injured his finger and they will still be headlining the summer bash.
"Contrary to rumours circulating, Nick McCabe skip his finger on a piece of glass in the dressing room after the gig in Japan," a example told NME.
"He was hardened by medics at the scene and then flew home. He's fine take out for a sore finger and that won't effect their appearance at V at the weekend."
Other acts of the Apostles performing at V include Amy Winehouse, Muse, Stereophonics, Kings of Leon and Kaiser Chiefs.
More info
Monday 11 August 2008
'Dark Knight' tops weekend once again
Fourth No. 1 helps make film the third-biggest of all time
"The Dark Knight" ruled the North American boxoffice for a fourth weekend on Sunday to go the third-biggest movie of all time.
The Batman sequel earned an estimated $26 million during the trio days outset on Friday, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said, taking its total to $441.5 one thousand thousand after 24 days.
It now ranks at No. 3 on the all-time list, behind "Titanic" with $601 million and "Star Wars" with $461 million.
But adjusted for inflation, the gross revenue of "The Dark Knight" rank more modestly at No. 49, according to tracking form Box Office Mojo. The 1939 epical "Gone With the Wind" wins by that meter with $1.4 one thousand million in today's dollars.
Warner Bros., a whole of Time Warner, said it expects "Dark Knight" to remainder up with about $520 million.
The weekend's No. 2 slot went to the new Columbia Pictures freeing "Pineapple Express" with $22.4 million.
The stoner drollery undoubtedly would have been No. 1 had the unit of Sony Corp not opted to open the picture two days earlier than usual on Wednesday to maximize sales during the school holidays. The five-day total for the Seth Rogen plastic film stands at $40.5 million.
Another Wednesday opener was "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2," which came in at No. 4 with $10.8 million for the weekend. The Warner Bros dramatic event has a five-day haul of $19.7 million.
Its 2005 predecessor, released ahead America Ferrera and Blake Lively became stars with their various TV shows "Ugly Betty" and "Gossip Girl," earned $9.8 million during its first base three days.
More info
"The Dark Knight" ruled the North American boxoffice for a fourth weekend on Sunday to go the third-biggest movie of all time.
The Batman sequel earned an estimated $26 million during the trio days outset on Friday, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said, taking its total to $441.5 one thousand thousand after 24 days.
It now ranks at No. 3 on the all-time list, behind "Titanic" with $601 million and "Star Wars" with $461 million.
But adjusted for inflation, the gross revenue of "The Dark Knight" rank more modestly at No. 49, according to tracking form Box Office Mojo. The 1939 epical "Gone With the Wind" wins by that meter with $1.4 one thousand million in today's dollars.
Warner Bros., a whole of Time Warner, said it expects "Dark Knight" to remainder up with about $520 million.
The weekend's No. 2 slot went to the new Columbia Pictures freeing "Pineapple Express" with $22.4 million.
The stoner drollery undoubtedly would have been No. 1 had the unit of Sony Corp not opted to open the picture two days earlier than usual on Wednesday to maximize sales during the school holidays. The five-day total for the Seth Rogen plastic film stands at $40.5 million.
Another Wednesday opener was "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2," which came in at No. 4 with $10.8 million for the weekend. The Warner Bros dramatic event has a five-day haul of $19.7 million.
Its 2005 predecessor, released ahead America Ferrera and Blake Lively became stars with their various TV shows "Ugly Betty" and "Gossip Girl," earned $9.8 million during its first base three days.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Filmmaker Stephen Kellam Mourns Old Penn Station, War Victims
As many New York history buffs can tell you, this year simon Marks the 45th anniversary of the
Thursday 26 June 2008
Ricardo Villalobos and Henrik Schwarz
Artist: Ricardo Villalobos and Henrik Schwarz
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Silverbird Casino (DNP005) Vinyl
Year: 2006
Tracks: 2
Thursday 19 June 2008
John Lydon : I Didn't Make Duffy Cry
John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, has denied that he pushed singer Duffy at the Mojo Awards on Monday.
Reports claimed that the Sex Pistols frontman pushed Duffy away, making her cry when she attempted to have her photo taken with him.
A spokesperson for Duffy commented: "She went up to John to say hello and he seemed to push her out of the way."
"She was naturally upset but she didn't let it spoil her night and left on a plane yesterday morning to go to the States to do The Jay Leno Show. She's over it."
However, Lydon insists that the rumours are false, instead claiming that he didn't even know who the singer was.
Speaking to the Daily Star, Lydon said "People are trying to pin something on me, I don't know who this Duffy person is, or why she'd want to get publicity from this."
"I was doing an interview and she came up behind me - I didn't see anything. I've been with my wife for 30 years and I've been brought up to be polite and have respect for people, especially women. I never set out to do anything to her."
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Monday 9 June 2008
Chance to Win My Boy Elvis Tickets
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED - A list of winners will be posted here shortly.
We have double tickets for 'My Boy Elvis - The Musical' at the Olympia Theatre on Sunday 24 February to give away.
The musical stars Liam Murphy, who won 'The World's Finest Elvis Impersonator' competition in the US in 2006, Alan Curran as Colonel Tom Parker and 13-year-old Craig Connolly as the young Elvis.
The story finds The King and his manager in the afterlife, reflecting and reminiscing about their lives and how things could have been different.
Written, directed and produced by George Twamley, the production features such classics as 'Hound Dog', 'Tutti Frutti', 'The Wonder of You', 'Suspicious Minds', 'An American Trilogy' and 'Burning Love'.
To be in with a chance of winning tickets, answer the following question: What was the name of Elvis' manager?
Send your answer, name, address and telephone number marked 'My Boy Elvis Comp' to entertainmentonline@rte.ie by Thursday 21 February at 12pm. One entry per person. Prize is show tickets only.
The full tour dates for 'My Boy Elvis' are:Dublin - Olympia Theatre, Sunday 24 February Castlebar - Royal Theatre, Saturday 8 March Belfast - The Waterfront, Friday 18 April Killarney - The INEC, Saturday 12 July
We have double tickets for 'My Boy Elvis - The Musical' at the Olympia Theatre on Sunday 24 February to give away.
The musical stars Liam Murphy, who won 'The World's Finest Elvis Impersonator' competition in the US in 2006, Alan Curran as Colonel Tom Parker and 13-year-old Craig Connolly as the young Elvis.
The story finds The King and his manager in the afterlife, reflecting and reminiscing about their lives and how things could have been different.
Written, directed and produced by George Twamley, the production features such classics as 'Hound Dog', 'Tutti Frutti', 'The Wonder of You', 'Suspicious Minds', 'An American Trilogy' and 'Burning Love'.
To be in with a chance of winning tickets, answer the following question: What was the name of Elvis' manager?
Send your answer, name, address and telephone number marked 'My Boy Elvis Comp' to entertainmentonline@rte.ie by Thursday 21 February at 12pm. One entry per person. Prize is show tickets only.
The full tour dates for 'My Boy Elvis' are:Dublin - Olympia Theatre, Sunday 24 February Castlebar - Royal Theatre, Saturday 8 March Belfast - The Waterfront, Friday 18 April Killarney - The INEC, Saturday 12 July
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Rakim
Artist: Rakim
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
The Master
Year: 1999
Tracks: 17
The Book Of Life
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
The 18th Letter
Year: 1997
Tracks: 17
Although he never became a house advert, Rakim is near-universally acknowledged as one of the sterling MCs -- possibly the sterling -- of all time inside the hip-hop community. It isn't necessarily the substance of what he says that's helped him win legion polls among rap music fans in the know; the absolute majority of his lyrics concern his possess skills and his Islamic religion. But in footing of how he says it, Rakim is virtually unequaled. His flow is legato and liquid, inflected with wind rhythms and carried cancelled with an effortless cool that makes it sound as though he's non even breaking a lather. He raised the browning automatic rifle for MC technique higher than it had ever so been, portion to pioneer the usage of internal rhymes -- i.e., rhymes that occurred in the middle of lines, rather than just at the terminal. Where many MCs of the time developed their technique through improvisational battles, Rakim was among the first to exhibit the possibilities of sitting down and writing intricately crafted lyrics jam-packed with clever word choices and metaphors (of course, he likewise had the legal transfer to articulate them). Even after his innovations were worshipfully absorbed and expanded upon by countless MCs world Health Organization followed, Rakim's early work still sounds startlingly fresh, and his comeback recordings (beginning in the late '90s) only when added to his legend.
Rakim was born William Griffin, Jr. on January 28, 1968, in the Long Island suburb of Wyandanch. The nephew of '50s R&B caption Ruth Brown, Griffin was surrounded by medicine from day one, and was concerned in hip-hop well-nigh from its origin. At geezerhood 16, he reborn to Islam, adopting the Muslim name Rakim Allah. In 1985, he met Queens DJ Eric B., whose elaborately constructed soundscapes made an first-class match for Rakim's more cerebral presence on the mic. With the spill of their debut single, "Eric B. Is President," in 1986, Eric B. & Rakim became a sensory faculty in the hip-hop community of interests, and their repute unbroken ontogenesis as they issued graeco-Roman tracks like "I Ain't No Joke" and "Paid in Full." Their first base two uncut albums, 1987's Paid in Full and 1988's Follow the Leader, are still regarded as all-time hip-hop classics; Rakim's work set kayoed a blueprint for other, likewise progressive-minded MCs to follow, and helped assure that regular after the rise of other fecund scenes around the state, East Coast rap would maintain a reputation as the center of innovative lyrical technique. The last two Eric B. & Rakim albums, 1990's Get the Rhythm Hit 'Em and 1992's Don't Sweat the Technique, weren't quite as consistent as their predecessors, simply still had mountain of fine moments.
Alas, their legacy stopped up at quaternary albums. Both Eric B. and Rakim explicit interest group in recording solo albums to one some other, only the early, fearful of being abandoned by his mate when their contract was up, refused to sign the release. That light-emitting diode to their detachment in 1992, and Rakim fatigued a substantial sum of time in the courts, treatment the effectual fallout 'tween himself, his ex-partner, and their ex-label, MCA. His but solo output for a turn of days was the caterpillar tread "Heat It Up," featured on the 1993 soundtrack to the Mario Van Peebles film Gunmen. Moreover, a reshuffle at MCA effectively shut down production on Rakim's solo debut, after he'd recorded some prelim demos. Finally, Rakim got a new contract with Universal, and toward the end of 1997 he released his number 1 solo criminal record, The eighteenth Letter (early editions contained the incentive disk Book of Life, a fine Eric B. & Rakim retrospective). Anticipation for The eighteenth Letter off out to be amazingly high, specially for a ex-serviceman knocker whose roots lengthy so far back into rap account; still thanks to Rakim's fabled reputation, it entered the album charts at turn four-spot, and received mostly gratis reviews. His followup, The Master, was released in 1999 and failed to repeat its predecessor's commercial-grade success, scantily debuting in the Top 75. Moreover, patch The Master received electropositive reviews in some living quarters, others seemed defeated that Rakim's retort real wasn't reinventing the steering wheel the way his early work had, and bemoaned the want of i among his array of different producers. Seeking to rectify the latter situation, Rakim signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath label in 2001, and the two began recording a new album early the side by side year, to be coroneted Oh My God. In the lag, to help heighten anticipation for the tiptop between 2 legends, Rakim guested on the single "Habit-forming" by female R&B isaac M. Singer and Aftermath labelmate Truth Hurts; "Habit-forming" strike the Top Ten in the summertime of 2002, marking the first time Rakim had visited that territory since he and Eric B. appeared on Jody Watley's "Friends" in 1989.
Wednesday 28 May 2008
Kerry Katona reveals she's expecting a boy
Kerry Katona has revealed she is expecting a baby boy and she has already decided on a name.
The star, who has three daughters, has made no secret of the fact she and husband Mark Croft have been hoping for a boy.
She told OK!: "I'm so excited that I'm having a boy after all this time. I can't stop smiling.
"He's going to be called Maxwell Mark Croft. Mark loves Max but I prefer Maxwell, but he'll get shortened to Max so we are both happy."
"Mark's over the moon because we had a bet ages ago that if it was a boy, I'd buy him whatever car he wanted."
According to the Daily Mail, the coupled were spotted buying a navy blue Ferrari over the weekend.
The former 'I'm A Celebrity...' star says her daughters with ex-husband Brian Mc Fadden, Molly, aged six, and Lilly, aged four, are thrilled with the baby news.
She also has a one-year-old toddler, Heidi, with Croft.
Katona said the new baby, who is due in May, would be her last.
She said: "That's it now, I really mean it. We're having no more kids!"
The star, who has three daughters, has made no secret of the fact she and husband Mark Croft have been hoping for a boy.
She told OK!: "I'm so excited that I'm having a boy after all this time. I can't stop smiling.
"He's going to be called Maxwell Mark Croft. Mark loves Max but I prefer Maxwell, but he'll get shortened to Max so we are both happy."
"Mark's over the moon because we had a bet ages ago that if it was a boy, I'd buy him whatever car he wanted."
According to the Daily Mail, the coupled were spotted buying a navy blue Ferrari over the weekend.
The former 'I'm A Celebrity...' star says her daughters with ex-husband Brian Mc Fadden, Molly, aged six, and Lilly, aged four, are thrilled with the baby news.
She also has a one-year-old toddler, Heidi, with Croft.
Katona said the new baby, who is due in May, would be her last.
She said: "That's it now, I really mean it. We're having no more kids!"
Friday 23 May 2008
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising F
Artist: Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising F
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
War To End All Wars
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Alchemy
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Odyssey
Year: 1988
Tracks: 12
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