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Man & myth
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 04/07/2014
» Michael Uslan believes in mythologies and the gods and demons that inhabit them.
Not exactly a thriller
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 25/05/2014
» Michael Jackson’s second album since his death unexpectedly succeeds in carrying on his legacy
Clancy’s swan song
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/05/2014
» While death and taxes remain the same, all else changes. People are fickle. Fashion lasts for, at the most, long as opposed to short periods of time. Men wore beards and powdered wigs. Women’s hair was 30cm high and fitted into bustles. Court dancing became ragtime. Film studios used to turn out Westerns and musicals by the hundreds. Today, neither are popular.
Braving a new world
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 11/05/2014
» There is a sense of underlying melancholy and ghostly forlornness that punctuates Damon Albarn’s solo debut Everyday Robots. Such qualities will surely come as a surprise especially to those most familiar with Albarn’s role as frontman of Blur. With Blur, he is renowned for his flippancy towards England and English society. The band’s singles such as Popscene, Country House, Charmless Man and Parklife, among others, all take a jab at the idiosyncrasies of life with inimitable flair and biting humour.
What you’re watching is not a film
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/05/2014
» The conversion is complete, or at least, virtually complete. When you go to a cinema today, it’s a certainty that what you’re watching on the screen is not “a film”, but a digital projection of bits and bytes stored in a hard disk and transformed into images.
Tudor Fastrider – Black Shield
Published on 28/04/2014
» When high-tech ceramic meets the world of TUDOR, the result is, naturally, quite out of the ordinary.
The return of the unlikely psy-folk Icon
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 13/04/2014
» The septuagenarian cult folk singer makes a welcome return 44 years after her transcendental debut in 1970.
Searching for Prokofiev
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 18/03/2014
» Today, a few miscellaneous items and recommendations. A few weeks back while discussing Andrew Litton’s recent BIS recording of Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony with the Bergen Philharmonic, I lamented the current unavailability in any format of Eugene Ormandy’s old Columbia recording of the piece with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Litton’s account is very good, as are others by conductors like Jarvi, Weller and, especially, Mravinsky, but it was Ormandy who best traced the link between Prokofiev’s gift for long-lined, heartbreaker themes — those in the first two movements of this symphony, for example — and the achievement of Russian Romantic composers like Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.
Multiple perspectives
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 26/02/2014
» ‘Knowledge is Everything”, so claims the title of the exhibition by Liam Morgan and Jan Krogsgaard at Speedy Grandma Gallery.
Big ban creates hot hit
Life, John Clewley, Published on 28/01/2014
» LA-based R&B singer Richard Berry wrote one of rock 'n' roll's most enduring anthems, Louie Louie, in 1955, releasing it on the Flip 321 label in 1957 on the B-side of a 7-inch single. You Are My Sunshine was the song on the A-side. It was released again later in 1957. Berry had a minor hit in the Northwest, but the song failed to reach the charts. Berry tried several follow-ups but to no avail. In 1959, he sold his rights to the song to the head of Flip 321 for US$750 (he was getting married and need the cash).