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| I'm in niceville dressed in black dancing on the pier alone at night..... |
[Jun. 16th, 2008|10:01 am] |
if you want to hear a voice that melts me heart and makes my knees feel like butter-
go here:
Listen to "The Scourge" |
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[Jun. 10th, 2008|11:18 am] |
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| from the daily Rumi group this seems to fit for several of us right now! |
[May. 8th, 2008|10:07 am] |
show me your face
i crave
flowers and gardens
open your lips
i crave
the taste of honey
come out from
behind the clouds
i desire a sunny face
your voice echoed
saying "leave me alone"
i wish to hear your voice
again saying "leave me alone"
i swear this city without you
is a prison
i am dying to get out
to roam in deserts and mountains
i am tired of
flimsy friends and
submissive companions
i die to walk with the brave
am blue hearing
nagging voices and meek cries
i desire loud music
drunken parties and
wild dance
one hand holding
a cup of wine
one hand caressing your hair
then dancing in orbital circle
that is what i yearn for
i can sing better than any nightingale
but because of
this city's freaks
i seal my lips
while my heart weeps
yesterday the wisest man
holding a lit lantern
in daylight
was searching around town saying
i am tired of
all these beasts and brutes
i seek
a true human
we have all looked
for one but
no one could be found
they said
yes he replied
but my search is
for the one
who cannot be found
Rumi
-- Translation by Nader Khalil
http://community.livejournal.com/dailyrumi/
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"with one silent laugh
You tilted the night
and the garden ran with stars"
-Rumi
(beautifully translated by Andrew Harvey)
(Click on picture!)
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| panik attak |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|08:45 pm] |
http://www.myspace.com/panikattak77
On the left is my friend Roman- I've known him since I was 17 and always looked up to him like a big brother. Interestingly enough my bass player Rod lives with Roman so I get to see him fairly often.
He's responsible for me liking the birthday party when he played it to me all those years ago.
I thought it was crazy cool ;-)
Roman's crazy cool so thought I would share ;-)
I love these guys- old skool punk.
Cheers to Roman!
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| www.patrickhenaff.com |
[Apr. 9th, 2008|12:23 pm] |
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[Apr. 8th, 2008|09:25 pm] |
whoops deleted my background!
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| yayhoo! ROD"S BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
[Mar. 25th, 2008|07:22 pm] |
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| What creeps and crawls beneath all this modern age shine and glass |
[Mar. 10th, 2008|12:58 pm] |
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I Went to out Friday, Spring fever, finally had some pocket money after a time of being utterly broke.
I went to West Edmonton Mall, by my house.
Once there- I meandered but could not think of anything I needed or wanted to buy.
I sat down in the sunlight next to the ship and admired the ladies who adorn Santa Maria.
In a modern shopping centre, these age olde figures peek up through ancient eyes.
It is up to us to see them, or to walk past in a rush.
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| surrendering.... |
[Mar. 5th, 2008|01:42 pm] |
Slowly giving up the fight against this bronchitus- I feel my cold fingers slipping -0h-I can not hold out much longer -this afternoon -sleep ( I hate sleeping it' s a waste of time) and dreams beckon my submission. I know I have fever kissed cheeks-and I can feel her in this ache in my limbs- but I thought I might pretend she did not exist and chase her away-it has worked for a few days- -ignoring her that way- but it did not work in the end-.this mistress of persistence - all the cups of tea in the world do not seem to help ward her off. Perhaps a strong bow would pierce this virus's vixen heart and bid her leave my blood?
I sink beneath the waves into my crumpled silken sheets with a sigh. It really is better to surrender sometimes. |
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[Mar. 5th, 2008|11:17 am] |
I have just had the pleasure of cyber meeting Daevid of Rome Burns and Screaming Banshee Air Crew-'s
Mister Ed
this makes me most happy!!!!
there was new (to me) music right in front of me, overlooked as really I should' ve already known their music better! The good news is that I did not so now I have new discoveries!
What in the world would I do without Mick Mercer? Seriously! |
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[Feb. 29th, 2008|03:59 pm] |
thank you so much for your help your help yesterday - I am doing tunecore as we speak!
and now for silly school-
GIRL CRUSH REDUX!!!!:
sigh I LOVED Suede and Still do it gives me butterflies every time I hear Brett's voice! (on the lower right) :-)
and he's soooooooo handsome still (gush gush!)
:-)
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[Feb. 28th, 2008|11:37 am] |
My friend and former flame Tippy who thought Patrick and I would make a good couple before we were, is an amazing musician.
I am going to his cd release party- are you in?
;-)
MUSIC Tippy Agogo Agogo continues to move ahead with Creep Forward CAROLYN NIKODYM / carolyn@vueweekly.com Talking to sometimes local musician Tippy Agogo, you can imagine that when he was in school, his teachers probably had their hands full. Like his music, his conversation is hard to pin down.
He’d say it was “scatological,” but that’s too self-deprecating for what is really going on. You get the sense that he has just got a lot of plates in the air. He’ll definitely be able to land them all safely, but you’re just going to have to be patient because he’s going to do it with style.
It’s that very sense that seems to guide his music career. His just-waiting-to-be-released Creep Forward (CD release party is Mar 5) has musical ideas that run the gamut from crunchy guitar to notes more classical, from quirky percussion to vocal beats. Some plates of ideas take mere minutes to find safe landing, while others take three times that length to become fully realized.
“I look at music as peaks and valleys,” Agogo explains. “And it’s like you’re travelling through a landscape. That’s basically how I approached this album.” Agogo started his solo career over 20 years ago, with his first release Soul-O-Works in 1986. Creep Forward, he says, is like a continuation of that first record. (Aren’t they all, in the grand scheme of things?)
Recorded in a number of different studios, with a number of different sound engineers, the record was all sewn up and mastered by Darryl Neudorf (producer of Neko Case, the New Pornographers, etc). Like Agogo’s past works, Creep Forward takes its audience on a journey both internal and external, taking in influences from around the globe.
The album also has a host of musical guests—from the more usual suspects Bill Bourne and Tim Folkmann to Ryan Moore (of Dutch dub band Twilight Circus) and Rodney Orpheus (of UK goth groups Cassandra Complex and Sisters of Mercy). A few who have “played the game,” but who have also eked out their very own place in it.
Agogo has never really played the music-industry game. Yeah, he gets gigs, does the festival circuit, releases records and that stuff, but that’s about the extent of it. He designs sound for dance, theatre and film in the city and beyond, as well as teaches workshops around the world. And just last year, he and Bill Bourne were hosting the Nerkelwerks jams at the Wunderbar.
“I think I take him to an area that he doesn’t normally go to and he definitely takes me to an area that I haven’t been to before, so it’s almost like playing with Pat Metheny sometimes,” he says. “I come from the punk-rock school, and ethnic, global music school. It’s kind of weird. It’s all over the map. Like no two songs are the same and I pre-date what you call the iPod. My albums are like an iPod—there’s so many different styles.”
“And then my shows are kind of like that too,” he continues. “There’s no one style that I ever stuck with. It’s been partly the problem with my career, but it’s just the way that I am, and that’s just the way it has to be.” V
Wed, Mar 5 (8 pm) Tippy Agogo With Bill Bourne, Madagascar Slim, Michelle Joseph, John Armstrong, Tim Folkmann, Scott Cook New City, $10 (advance), $12 (door) |
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[Feb. 26th, 2008|10:35 am] |
we got a review from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mickmercer (who I find most of my new music through I am gratefully indebted to him for many hours of new discoveries:
 COCKATOO
THE BASEMENT TAPES
Own Label
They’ve taken a lot of time and effort to tease these introductory songs through, with drummer Alan being replaced by Leo along the way, but their debut shows a strong, vibrant post-punk sound, at turns very touching or subtly atmospheric. In fact I had downloaded a couple of these songs as earlier demos from their myspace and it’s all been seriously upgraded.
Being unnecessarily obvious I might say ‘Otto’s Song’ could be ‘Sweet Dreams’ (“but our dreams were made of glass”) meets Siouxsie (“impact-shattering”</i>), to give you a sonic snapshot of a weird collision, but you didn’t hear that from me, right? It bobs along, a disgracefully attractive chorus emerging from the wardrobe of sound, and the vocals are gleaming as the guitar is playfully attacking the curtains, the song stretching out for its tingling close.
‘Tidal Waves’ is far sweeter, with imaginative sounds ebbing and returning in an atmospheric song that slowly assumed a solid state at times close to shoegazey splendour, which is well resolved rather than an amiable experiment. ‘Unrequited’ wiggles from one shape to another throughout, the violin (I assume) adding a delightful edge to a relaxing song that lures you along in its wake, the robust rhythm section deftly employed, Robyn’s vocals warbling delicately, and guitar rustling like interested undergrowth.
‘Stupid Poppy’ is the cutest winner, having a steep Goth take off on from an Ethereal base with wiry guitar let loose amid bracing drums and Rod’s wily bass. Vocals drip from the melodic marble mantelpiece in a way to please Eves fans, that’s for sure, but that’s where the similarity ends as this is one of the songs which emphasises being a trio means they’ve got accentuated rhythmical dexterity as much as strength. The bass moos like a little demonic cow, the drums a determining factor in the direction.
‘White Picket Fence’ has a warmer feel, but more of the invigorating drum presence behind floaty singing and some other guitar flexing you won’t find anywhere else; their sound their own because of the way they’re doing things, all emphasised by that trio status., each instrument coming through stronger than normal, and atop the pyramid, dozy in the sunlight, the vocals regretful, but fitful, slightly eerie.
A lovely record.
http://www.cockatoomusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/cockatoomusic (Paypal to buy CD easily) |
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| Cockatoo on Tom Robinson's Introducing- BBC 6 - listen now! |
[Feb. 25th, 2008|09:19 am] |
Hello dear friends-
Just a quick Sunday morning note-
Cockatoo were played last night in the UK- BBC Radio- the show was Tom Robinson's- Introducing
if you go online you can vote for us to be played again which would be most delightful!
So here we are : About one hour in- (18:04)
(I really liked "Glow's Track earlier in the set too!)
We were delighted to be played on live radio regardless -as Tom pointed out- that the track is almost 8 minutes long!
Next weekend we are on CBC radio's The Signal :-)
cheers!
a happy
Robyn |
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| HAppy Accidents |
[Dec. 12th, 2007|08:33 am] |
Every morning, I wake up listening to CBC radio's Music and Company.
(you can listen here I believe or at the main CBC.CA website to hear his show)
It is my favourite mainstream radio show.
Often they will play consorts- the mix up of the classical music is really wonderful.
So I decided to Google the host who is funny and always finds weird facts.
Instead of finding Tom Allen of CBC, I found this :
Tom Allen: who makes art out of old books.
"| | | | | Thomas Allen Thomas Allen, in essence, is a still life artist who through a very creative process disrupts the stillness. By carefully selecting from primarily vintage paperback novels and science journals, he brings two-dimensional images forward into three dimensional space. With simple lightning and the use of simple tools (i.e., scissors and razor-sharp knives), figures are cut out, bent and juxtapose in ways that present the tension and dynamics of staged drama. Other techniques are applied in achieving a pure sense of humor that also defy the original use of these materials and their ultimate destiny of being read once and retiring for eternity on the nearest bookshelf.
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More Art Here
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[Dec. 11th, 2007|09:05 am] |
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Tessa turned me on to this and it's made my morning!
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