CD Review: Hyperion’s To Capture the Sun

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- CD Review: Hyperion’s To Capture the Sun
- Steve Aoki
- Concert a tribute to musician
- Tartan takeover: The rise of the Scotocracy
- Calendar of releases

CD Review: Hyperion’s To Capture the Sun
Pegasus News – Apr 28, 2007
In ‘Neo Eden’ and ‘World of Two Suns’ the music leans a little more towards the traditional side even throwing in an old-fashioned. Similarly with ‘Warrior of Chariots’ in which lead singer Andrew Austin’s demonic grind-howl is in full effect. By far my favorite track of the five is the final one ‘Riddled Through Time’ which combines the best aspects of the earlier songs on the album –hyperkinetic harmony and channeled aggression– with great tonal background guitar work reminiscent of Tool finally finishing the song with the same subdued guitar sound that early Metallica used so effectively on songs like ‘Battery’.

Steve Aoki
Los Angeles Times – Apr 29, 2007
” He didn’t care. By college still sober as a parson he was on amission producing do-it-yourself records on a shoestring and runningunderground concerts out of the living room of his UC Santa Barbaraapartment. By his early 20s he had his own record company named DimMak–“Death Touch”–in honor of Bruce Lee his childhood hero theonly Asian he would later observe who was rooted for by people ofevery race and creed. It didn’t make much money but it was hislaunched (and still run) without a dime from his father. “Music became my community” the 29-year-old Aoki explains nowsitting on a battered couch in Dim Mak’s Hollywood office hiscellphone and BlackBerry ringing incessantly while two European rockbands wait to see him. In photos his long hair and Fu Manchumustache make him look like a Hawaiian dope dealer but in personhe’s ebullient and waif-like a former women’s studies major who haslived for the last five years in a low-rent fourplex with his college sweetheart. His leg jiggles nervously when he talks and periodically he hopsto his feet or when particularly excited leaps like a cartooncharacter onto the big green desk in his office… The ring on hisphone is a comical man’s voice: “Pick up the phooooooonnne!” it hollers. “Music was where I fit” he says. “Music became a central focus ofwhat I wanted to be part of. That mix tape–” He laughs out loud atthe randomness of it. “That mix tape–it changed everything. ” Rock ‘n’ roll at its heart is a thrilling fable a story inwhich three chords and a little magic turn a lonely outsider into hisone true self a figure of enchantment maybe even a prince. Steve Aoki’s is a rock ‘n’ roll story but it’s also a story abouteverything changing about the shifting crosscurrents that aredelivering more and more of that magic into the hands of outsiders.

Concert a tribute to musician
Roanoke Times – Apr 28, 2007
He died suddenly on Feb. 16 following an operation in Charlottesville on Valentine?s Day. Harry?s death shocked his family and friends and it left Jane with a ton of medical expenses. So Harry?s music buddies decided to pitch in. They?re holding a Harry Gaston Memorial Concert tonight at the Coffee Pot. Eleven bands are on the bill including the Housecats. ?This is the kind of thing Harry would do for other people? said Moock.

Tartan takeover: The rise of the Scotocracy
Independent – Apr 29, 2007
And to those who take a certain view of Scottish history she committed a gross betrayal of the land of her forefathers 300 years ago yesterday on 28 April 1707 when she signed the Act of Union that came into effect on 1 May. The Act formally united England Scotland and Wales in the British state. In view of some Scottish patriots it was the day when the English finally achieved what they had been trying to do for four centuries – since Edward I put the Scottish patriot William Wallace through a horrible death: they had conquered Scotland aided by treacherous Scots. Taking advantage of English fears that when Queen Anne died childless they would crown her pro-French Roman Catholic brother James King of Scotland the Scots obtained access to the power and wealth of England. ne English aristocrat commented: “What a pother is here about a union with Scotland of which all the advantage we shall have will be no more than what a man gets by marrying a beggar a louse for her portion. ” The argument about whether Scotland was “sold for English gold” or whether the English “got a louse for her portion” carries on three centuries later… He can order the Prime Minister to come to the Commons and can ban a badly behaved MP from the building. He cannot be sacked. Not bad for a former sheet-metal worker from Glasgow. Alexander McCall SmithThe nation’s favourite comic author was brought up partly in Scotland partly in Zimbabwe. As a Scottish law professor he went to Botswana to help set up a law school an experience that inspired his 1998 novel The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency which has been published worldwide. He lives in Edinburgh. KT TunstallBest known for her live performances former busker Tunstall – she was christened Kate but initials are more rock’n'roll – is one of the most exciting performers to come out of Scotland in the past decade.

Calendar of releases
Los Angeles Daily News – Apr 28, 2007
Check out this cast: Vanessa Redgrave her real-life daughter Natasha Richardson Toni Collette Meryl Streep Glenn Close Claire Danes. Michael Cunningham (“The Hours”) adapted Susan Minot’s novel. (Focus)GYPSY CARAVAN: Albert Maysles shot this doc about gypsy music. (Shadow Distribution)RATATUILLE: Pixar’s latest follows a French rat who dreams of being a top Parisian chef. Brad Bird (“The Incredibles”) directs. (Disney)THE REAL DIRT N FARMER JHN: Documentary about a rebel farmer. (CAVU Pictures)VITUS: Swiss piano prodigy just wants to fly… Antonio Banderas heats things up as the love interest. (THINKFilm)THE BRTHERS SLMN: Wills Forte and Arnett are socially inept siblings seeking spouses. (Screen Gems)DEATH SENTENCE: Kevin Bacon goes Bronson when his oldest son is killed in a gang initiation. (20th Century Fox)HALLWEEN: As reinterpreted through the delicate directorial sensibilities of Rob Zombie. BEAN’S HLIDAY: In which the world’s least-funny human being Rowan Atkinson inflicts more comic punishment upon the world. (Universal)WRISTCUTTERS: A LVE STRY: Young suicides seek romance in the afterlife.