Archive for the ‘ IDEA ’ Category

EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC IN BROOKLYN, AT A GLANCE

  • November 11th, 2009
  • Posted in IDEA

In the beginning it was the emptiness, so arrived the artists. Not necessary there was the light but slowly arrived the audience. After all, in spite of the light or the darkness, arrived the New York Times. Neighborhood of immigrants, poor and therefore properties at affordable prices, attracted artists and their marginal, experimental and daring [ READ MORE ]

Is It Indie?

  • October 20th, 2009
  • Posted in IDEA

Indie Music By Definition ( from  Shepizzle) Defining Indie music can be like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree, it’s just not the easiest thing to do. Categorizing it can be just as difficult because so much of Indie music made out on the fringes and new genres are created in a desperate attempt to [ READ MORE ]

BLUE AND THE BLUES

  • July 24th, 2009
  • Posted in IDEA

Loud and Quiet is an independent and free british paper music, which concentrate, also, on promoting new bands and artists. At its website, I’ve found this essay. In fact, looking at MySpace, for example, sometimes I can’t understand why certain bands classify themselves in three or more genres, including ambient-sound (?). Another ones, simply act [ READ MORE ]

Michael Jackson – there aint no second chance against the death

(from the Thriller’s: there aint no second chance against the thing with forty eyes) > The death of Michael Jackson in the last 25, overlapped to any other event. Thinking strictily Michael had added little to the music. He was the result of a musical movement, wider and richer, which was registered by the Motown [ READ MORE ]

AFRICA RULES

FELA KUTI (Expensive Shit, from the álbum with the same name, 1976) Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with over 141 million inhabitants, according to UN estimates in 2006. One of the largest producers of oil in the world, this is a country marked by violent and successive political conflicts, poverty and AIDS, [ READ MORE ]

FROM NEW YORK

  • March 25th, 2009
  • Posted in IDEA

The new music for a (time of) change. By Giacomo Groff All the elements are there. For the thirsty, it is water; for the hungry, it is bread; for the lonely it is love. It?s an artistic development that made me feel alive. And it?s unfair the way this music has captivated me. A group [ READ MORE ]

NEW SAMBA – RIO DE JANEIRO

  • February 4th, 2009
  • Posted in IDEA

 SAMBA NA FONTE The place could not be more symbolic to the Brazilian Music:  a place named Salt Stone, where the composers like Donga, João da Bahiana, Sinhô and others used to gather in a bar to sing the first sambas, at the begin of the 20th century. So just at this place, in August 2007, [ READ MORE ]

NEW SAMBA – SAO PAULO

  • January 26th, 2009
  • Posted in IDEA

  It’s just a meeting of samba composers, singers, musicians and supporters of the samba that present their works directly to the public. The main feature of the Samba da Vela (something like Candle’s Samba) is to gather dozens of children, youth, adults and seniors in the outskirts of the city to hear samba in [ READ MORE ]

MUSIC, ARE WE THE SAME?

  • January 20th, 2009
  • Posted in IDEA

   “JELLY ROLL” MORTON (NEW ORLEANS/JAZZ)       http://www.redhotjazz.com/Jellyroll.html         ** 1917 * *   SINHÔ (SAMBA/RIO DE JANEIRO)   http://cliquemusic.uol.com.br/artistas/sinho.asp[ READ MORE ]

STAND BY ME

  • January 20th, 2009
  • Posted in IDEA

This video surely reflects the meaning of this blog. Music is a language with no boundaries. The song is driven by two  street musicians and draws attention to the end, there is applause and a single dollar of someone from the audience as payment, ironic. It is the timing of the street. It is also the [ READ MORE ]

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