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Can't go wrong w Morricone.
Here's my favored show opener, "il giardino delle delizie":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO7Us9cQknc
Total insanity from 1967!
LISTEN: Ennio Morricone's "Svolta Definitiva"
If you wake up tomorrow morning and the first sounds to drift through your head are the opening notes of this song, it's a fair bet that you're going to be involved in a wild car chase and/or kill somebody. Just ask Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, or Jill Ireland, all of whom star in the 1970 ...
Great documentary - I need to rewatch. Thnx.
WATCH: BBC4's "Synth Britannia" Documentary
I've been waiting for this one to turn up on YouTube for a while, and it was well worth the wait. BBC4's semi-recent (2010?) documentary chronicling the rise of Britain's electronic music scene/culture. Great insights from Daniel Miller (The Normal, Mute Records), Bernard Sumner (Joy Division), ...
Stunning. Thank you.
I also really like Tom Zé's wildly different interpretation on Jogos de Armar.
WATCH: Caetano Veloso's stunning live performance of Asa Branca from Discorama, 1972
I played this during an unanticipated fill-in on WPRB a few weeks back, and it's been lurking in the dark recesses of my brain ever since. That it took me almost a month to bother discovering this video accompaniment constitutes my latest lifelong regret. You can find it on A Arte de Caetano V...
!!! These folks do a great cover of "I Feel Love" on their gListen cd. Available @ Amazon.
RIP Donna Summer - Holly in NC
Songs from a Random House: The 1986 Demo
Tony Coulter here, eager to share a long-treasured cassette: a 1986 demo from the New York City band Songs from a Random House. Formed in 1985 by Steven Swartz and Alan Drogin, Songs from a Random House -- which features material written by Swartz, a student of Morton Feldman -- was very low-p...
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