Gilberto Gil

Signon Sandiego

For decades a champion of technology, the singer has invited the public to record and broadcast his music over the Internet when he performs at the club. He also will have a camera crew film the concert and later post it online. During his North American tour he will be promoting his latest album “Banda Larga Cordel” (“Broadband Cordel”), featuring plenty of MPB (musica popular brasileira).

Wikipedeia

Gil sings with his baritone or falsetto register, with lyrics and/or scat syllables. His lyrics are on subjects that range from philosophy to religion, folktales, and wordplay.Gil’s musical style incorporates a broad range of influences. The first music he was exposed to included The Beatles and street performers in various metropolitan areas of Bahia. During his first years as a musician, Gil performed primarily in a blend of traditional Brazilian styles with two-step rhythms, such as baião and samba. He states that “My first phase was one of traditional forms. Nothing experimental at all. Caetano [Veloso] and I followed in the tradition of Luiz Gonzaga and Jackson do Pandeiro, combining samba with northeastern music.”

As one of the pioneers of Tropicalismo, influences from genres such as rock and punk have been pervasive in his recordings, as they have been in those of other stars of the period, including Caetano Veloso and Tom Zé. Gil’s interest in the blues-based music of rock pioneer Jimi Hendrix, in particular, has been described by Veloso as having “extremely important consequences for Brazilian music”.Veloso also noted the influence of Brazilian guitarist and singer Jorge Ben on Gil’s musical style, coupled with that of traditional music.After the height of Tropicalismo in the 1960s, Gil became increasingly interested in black culture, particularly in the Jamaican musical genre of reggae. He described the genre as “a form of democratizing, internationalizing, speaking a new language, a Heideggerian form of passing along fundamental messages”.

Visiting Lagos, Nigeria, in 1976, Gil met fellow musicians Fela Kuti and Stevie Wonder. He became inspired by African music and later integrated some of the styles he had heard in Africa, such as juju and highlife, into his own recordings.One of the most famous of these African-influenced records was the 1977 album Refavela, which included “No Norte da Saudade” (To the North of Sadness), a song heavily influenced by reggae. When Gil returned to Brazil after the visit, he focused on Afro-Brazilian culture, becoming a member of the Carnaval afoxé group Filhos de Gandhi.

Conversely, his 1980s musical repertoire presented an increased development of dance trends, such as disco and soul, as well as the previous incorporation of rock and punk.However, Gil says that his 1994 album Acoustic was not such a new direction, as he had previously performed unplugged with Caetano Veloso. He describes the method of playing as easier than other types of performance, as the energy of acoustic playing is simple and influenced by its roots. Gil has been criticized for a conflicting involvement in both authentic Brazilian music and the worldwide moneymaking arena. He has had to walk a fine line, simultaneously remaining true to traditional Bahian styles and engaging with commercial markets. Listeners in Bahia have been much more accepting of his blend of music styles, while those in southeast Brazil felt at odds with it^.

remixtheory

I later learned when reading an article in the Union Tribune that Gil actually promotes the recording of his concerts by the audience for later upload to video websites such as Youtube. Gil embraces new technologies as a way to communicate and spread his message, which as Brazil’s Minister of Culture includes a sense of responsibility for Brazil’s music history. It seems that Gil is fully in tune with Remix Culture.

BoingBoing

Lessig, just back from Brazil, describes an extraordinary performance/rally/event with Gilberto Gil. Gil is the Brazilian culture minister, a Free Software and Creative Commons activist, and an internationally renowned popstar who was imprisoned and then exiled for the music he perfomed in the sixties, and he blends all three personas seamlessly here in this amazing tale:

STAR CATCHER
my true adverntures with the stars
and the songs they sing
part two

Don’t miss this return engagement of last year’s Standing Room Only hit!
Maurice Peterson tells more juicy stories of his personal encounters with the superstars
including Cher, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Lionel Hampton, Lisa Left Eye, Eartha Kitt, Joan Collins, Beyoncé and more A-list celebrities,
and sings the songs they made famous.
featuring special guest stars: Berkshire Idol winner, Catie Damon & Michael Lowe

SATURDAY, May 3 2008
two shows: 8:00 & 10:00
Rumpy’s
(the cabaret of The Village Inn)
16 Church Street
Lenox, MA 01232

Thomas Ruff studied photography from 1977 to 1985 with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy). Ruff names Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Karl Bloßfeld, Stephen Shore and William Eggleston as his main influences. From 2000 to 2005 Ruff taught Photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (the previous “Becher-Class”).

During his studies in Düsseldorf, Ruff developed his method of conceptual serial photography. His initial main topic was the interior of German living quarters, with typical features of the 1950s to 1970s (room portraits and design details). This was followed by similar views of buildings and portraits of friends and acquaintances. These are typically shown with emotionless expressions, in very large, passport-style portraits of great detail and high resolution. In a discussion with Philip Pocock (Journal for Contemporary Art, 1993), Ruff mentions a connection between these portraits and the police observation methods in Germany in the 1970s during the German Autumn.

Ruff gave up shooting his own images in a recent series, Nudes, using porn-stills pulled from the Internet. Ruff continues to address photography in the age of the Internet in his latest work, jpeg, an ongoing series of massively enlarged versions of downloaded compressed files, a process that maxes out the resolution to near abstraction. Link Show Link

MAURICE PETERSON
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

My nightclub debut was a rousing success, and I’m coming back for more musical madness!

My set, called “STAR CATCHER,” will feature true stories from my days as a Broadway and film reporter,
personal encounters with such legends as Liza Minnelli, John Lennon, James Brown,
Donna Summer, Debbie Harry and many more A-list celebrities,
each story introducing a song recorded by the superstar.

Please save the date and join me!

Saturday, October 20
Two shows, 8 and 10 pm
@ Rumpy’s
16 Church Street, Lenox MA

Maurice Peterson at Rumpy’s Lenox Mass 10-20-07

Robot Rock Presents
Simian Mobile Disco – After Party and DJ Set
with J.D.H., Dave P. + Alex English
plus The Mood Live

With a string of hits including ‘It’s The Beat’, ‘Hustler’, ‘T*ts & Acid’, along with some amazing remixes of artists such as Bjork, Klaxons, Presets, CSS, The Rapture, AIR (among many others), Simian Mobile Disco have earnt their place as one of the top names in electro-house, along with the likes of artists such as Justice & MSTRKRFT
We are very excited to have them come to our humble Robot Rock party and spin for us (after their live show earlier in the evening). It’s going to be a crazy night.

Also taking to the decks, JDH (Fixed), Dave P.(Fixed/Making Time) and Alex English (Cheeky B*stard)

Come early live performance by The Mood.

This week, Hot Hot Heat (who are releasing their new album “Happiness LTD.” Sept. 11 on Sire Records) are coming to lotus to celebrate (after performing earlier in the night on Conan O Brien)… and Dustin from the band will be deejaying for us…
Plus we are hosting the Fashion Show After Party for Jose Duran (1805).

Upstairs in the main room, DJ Eleven of The Rub will be spinning a mix of hip-hop, disco, funk and R&B…
Hosted by Alejandro GBH, Jeanette, Ruben & Noel, Mike DeGuzman and Avi.

Meanwhile, at the Loaded party in the downstairs lounge, D. Hawthorne (of Hot Hot Heat), DJ imac, Michael T. and Melody Nelson will be playing some rock’n'roll, electro, ’80s new wave and party jams.
Hosted by Amanda Lepore, Miranda Moondust, Nico XO!, and Daniel Barbosa.

Loaded Drinks Specials (available downstairs bar only):
$7 PBR & Shot
$5 Beers 3AM-4AM

I found this ridiculous ad by doing a search for holiday disco. Anyone out there want to go to be a ‘image models and female gogo dancers’ for the 2007-2008 season, here is your chance !

Young free-lancers press-agents organization FRANK PINTO is looking for image models and female gogo dancers on Bulgary for the upcoming fall season 2007/2008.

All girls who want to be a part of the seasonable experience discos in Milan as on the other north of Italy big town and on Tessin area (CH)
must be aged between 18 and 25. It will be preferred for the girls to show them with earlier dancing attitude, trendy way of dressing for gogo dancers
or elegant and fashionable way about image models. Being professional dancer is not mandatory but simpathy, charmy, social is required.
Not accepted application about girls with heavy drink attitude and any other unregular behaviours at all.

All dancer’s expenses will be covered.Dancers will have to stay out on working one month at least.
They will have to work five or six day at the week, depending on discoteque needed and not just for a single place.

Girls will agree to make either image models as gogo dancing will be preferred.

Net pay rate for every gogo dancing/ image working night will be 80Euro for each girl.
Pay day will be every Sunday afternoon for free-lance gogo girls while it has to be defined later in the matter of agency agreement.
Possibility to have Front-money at the time of arriving here in Italy to begin to work.

If interested send URGENTLY fully filled profile and high quality ( but not heavy ) picture files to the following email address:

fpintomgnt@tele2.it

Photo attribution TRIXIE

Purple Crush Live, The Glass Live & Stretch Armstrong DJs
Brainwasher – Saturday August 25th at 200 Orchard.

Catch our friends The Glass playing live at 200 Orchard. Purple Crush will also be playing, and the excellent Stretch Armstrong will be on DJ duties. There is no cover – so dust off your dancing shoes and get yourself ready for a night of great electro…

200 Orchard : 200 Orchard Street between Houston and Stanton. Doors Open 10pm. 21+ w/I.D.

So I checks into me Flickr mail box, and I gets this mail from some chick by the name of RetroSuperFuture. So it looks like some lame ass hook to get me to spend lots of hard earned lucre for expensive cheap sunglasses ! So I bite, and go to one of one of the cheesiest websites this side of planet myspace.

Its so bad, I thinks to meself, this has got to be some sort of JOKE ! But there is some sort of link to another actual LameAss MySpace site fer this guy called Yo Majesty. But the music is really pretty good, so nows I am thinkin to meself that in FACT, maybe the SUNGLASSES are good to !