PWERFUL ACT Sepultura trace their origins to Brazil
The News Review:
- PWERFUL ACT Sepultura trace their origins to Brazil
- Life of Brian
- A town like Wadeye
- sbourne Carey and Dion ‘worst singers ever’
- The man who turned mere mortals into rock gods
- Night stains of tyranny
- Rupert Jones takes a sideways look at the news
PWERFUL ACT Sepultura trace their origins to Brazil
Hindu – Nov 3, 2007
Sepultura trace their origins to Brazil. Formed in 1984 their name means “tomb” in Portuguese which they chose after Max Cavalera one of the founding members was translating the lyrics of the Motörhead song “Dancing on Your Grave”. The band plays music which though heavy isn’t quite death metal. They draw a lot of inspiration from their roots and mix in a lot of samba into their numbers. Their rise to fame began with the critically acclaimed release Schizophrenia in the late 1980s. They followed that with Beneath The Remains Arise Chaos A.
Life of Brian
Times nline – Nov 3, 2007
So I bought theLouis Armstrong version of it. ”Talking to Wilson you realise that he is a genuine naif something that allowshim to walk a musical line between childlike awe and primary-colouredweirdness. Smile itself veers between the spooky Mrs ’Leary’s Cow alsoknown as Fire – which summons up demons as much as any Norwegian death metal– and the gorgeous rites-of-passage piece Wonderful. Though he couldn’t surf Wilson had an incredible ear for melody and harmony. Harnessing family and school friends to form the band he created a stringof million-selling pop songs that celebrated youth sun girls and cars. Soon he was turning out three albums a year; the supply of hits – Surfin’USA I Get Around Fun Fun Fun – seemed inexhaustible. The first cracks appeared in 1964 when he found himself crying on a planeunable to get off… When every insider from brother Dennis to Leonard Bernsteinclaimed the follow-up Smile was going to be five times betterexpectations went through the roof. People expected more from Brian Wilson than they had from anyone else in pop;even the Beatles never had anyone making cosmic claims about their studionoodlings in the aftermath of Sergeant Pepper. Wilson was on his own with some members of his own group especially Mike“War Not” Love deeply suspicious about his new “ego”-led music while theoutside world held its breath. Wilson himself would have been happy to turn back the clock goof around in alittle Honda and sing Four Freshmen songs for fun. He didn’t mind beingcalled a genius but the weight of expectation tipped him over the edge. First he abandoned Smile. Then he pulled the Beach Boys out of the 1967Monterrey Pop festival which turned out to be a quantum leap in rock’sdevelopment.
A town like Wadeye
The Australian – Nov 3, 2007
It had become so dysfunctional it copped the Mal Brough treatment a year before other Aboriginal towns in the Northern Territory so it gives some clues as to how things might pan out for the broader federal intervention. A few facts encapsulate the place: only about a third of school-aged children turn up to class and until this year there was no high school; for every habitable house there are 16 people to fill it; and in 2003 only 45 Aborigines had real jobs. Median age at death is 46 but the population is exploding. Past media visits have been brief or stage-managed but I am left to wander for a week free to envy the children throwing stones at the town satellite dish unreprimanded in the afternoon smoke haze. And when they pose for photos their smiles are replaced by well-practised gangsta ’tude. * * * N THE TV in my donga – A demountable providing basic accommodation – that first night the community TV channel is looping a school athletics carnival with kids doing idiosyncratic high and long jumps watched and measured by applauding whites in long shorts… Her troopie (four-wheel-drive) was full of fruit. “I was taking kids out to the beach after school if they’d go taking them out to the waterhole swimming. ” She even had a good stereo installed to blast out that blasted rap music in order to make her troopie cool. “We got 600 kids to school for eight weeks. But then the school couldn’t cope. Teachers were breaking down. Classrooms weren’t big enough there wasn’t enough stuff.
sbourne Carey and Dion ‘worst singers ever’
IrishExaminer.com – Nov 3, 2007
The poll carried out by British music magazine Q lauds Elvis Presley as “the greatest voice of all time” but singles out popular stars such as Dion and Carey for their vocal inability. The judging panel says: “(Mariah Carey) may have an 100-octave range and the ability to sing so loudly that birds’ nests fall from tress but that doesn’t make it right. “(Celine Dion) grinds out every note as if bearing some grudge against the very notion of economy. “But the magazine’s most scathing remarks are reserved for former Black Sabbath frontman sbourne who “now sings like he speaks – this may be a cause for sympathy but not for buying his albums”. Yoko no Limp Bizkit star Fred Durst and “any death metal singer” were also among those criticised for their singing… “(Celine Dion) grinds out every note as if bearing some grudge against the very notion of economy. “But the magazine’s most scathing remarks are reserved for former Black Sabbath frontman sbourne who “now sings like he speaks – this may be a cause for sympathy but not for buying his albums”. Yoko no Limp Bizkit star Fred Durst and “any death metal singer” were also among those criticised for their singing.
The man who turned mere mortals into rock gods
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 3, 2007
Visconti’s even temper and eagerness to please – particularly those pesky cats who insisted he partake of their cocaine supply – insulated him against the ego trips of his rock-god collaborators. The producer comes down firmly on the side of Bowie in the battle of the glam-rock behemoths seeing Bolan as a manipulative narcissist to Bowie’s noble artist. His most recent collaborator Morrissey is a cross between the two given to gnomic pronouncements such as this from his gushing foreword: “Bolan’s life ended with death. ” Did nobody tell him that that is how life tends to end? The tales are Pooterish at times for which Visconti can be forgiven: they add to a sense that despite the drugs and the binned relationships he remains as thrilled with the possibilities of music-making as he did the day he stepped off the plane. There is enough discussion of guitar pedals and 16-track consoles to please the most retentive muso – too much perhaps for the average fan – but Visconti is a record producer after all whose job is to make his too-human charges sound godlike using any means necessary. Pitching ideas for David Bowie’s 1977 album Low Visconti tells Bowie and the co-producer Brian Eno that his new piece of sonic kit the Harmonizer “fucks with the fabric of time”. Name another job bar Einstein’s where you can do that… The producer comes down firmly on the side of Bowie in the battle of the glam-rock behemoths seeing Bolan as a manipulative narcissist to Bowie’s noble artist. His most recent collaborator Morrissey is a cross between the two given to gnomic pronouncements such as this from his gushing foreword: “Bolan’s life ended with death. ” Did nobody tell him that that is how life tends to end? The tales are Pooterish at times for which Visconti can be forgiven: they add to a sense that despite the drugs and the binned relationships he remains as thrilled with the possibilities of music-making as he did the day he stepped off the plane. There is enough discussion of guitar pedals and 16-track consoles to please the most retentive muso – too much perhaps for the average fan – but Visconti is a record producer after all whose job is to make his too-human charges sound godlike using any means necessary. Pitching ideas for David Bowie’s 1977 album Low Visconti tells Bowie and the co-producer Brian Eno that his new piece of sonic kit the Harmonizer “fucks with the fabric of time”. Name another job bar Einstein’s where you can do that.
Night stains of tyranny
Deccan Herald – Nov 3, 2007
ver the radio I hear the announcement of the evening an expected flourish of that sword which has hung over us for much of our existence. An image of a slaughterhouse comes to my mind flanks left naked and raw suspended from a metal hook in the ceiling swinging to the rhythm of loss. I switch off the radio and then slide into a silence which slips over me like a veil like a layer of the fine dust which draws patterns on the leaves outside just before they wither and die. In these past eight years I have watched and yearned waiting for some small fissure through which I could insert myself and seek relief for this burden of recognition this terrible sense of foreboding which governs my reticence. I have seen the unfolding of the grand design the clamouring for the spoils and the arrogance of the victor. I have seen our General bask and beam under international scrutiny switching the texture and colour of his well-cut coats with the ease of a consummate actor playing out the longest farce on a west-end stage… That both these gentlemen who have stood up to the worst form of despotism were refused permission to congregate with the rest of the Muslim ummah at the mosque on Eid day speaks for itself. That Aitzaz Ahsan was brutalised and dragged by Punjab Police into a waiting vehicle the uncovered back of which held him captive for eight hours until he was returned home to Lahore speaks of the desperate and despicable measures taken by despotism at it’s best. That his son Ali Ahsan was threatened with death a pump action gun thrust into his chest signals the moral breakdown of a regime gone mad with lust for things temporal and inconsequential. That night somewhere on the outskirts of Chakri driving down obscure roads unlit and unpaved Ali Ahsan witnessed the reality of our country where people have been broken again and again their spirits flogged with the whip of tyranny.
Rupert Jones takes a sideways look at the news
Guardian Unlimited – Nov 3, 2007
Elvis Presley last topped the list in 2005 but was beaten into second place by the Nirvana singer last year (Kurt Cobain didn’t even make the top 10 this time around). Thirty years after Mr Presley’s death attendance and spending at his Memphis mansion Graceland are up thanks to a new ad campaign renovations at the complex and a new “premium VIP tour program” says… “We either keep one step ahead of the technology or we throw up our hands and quit” says the star. No doubt there are some readers who would dearly love Cliff to pursue the latter option but the Reporter – a big fan of Cliff’s film Two A Penny in which he plays a student who gets involved in drug dealing (!) – wishes him all the best with his digital venture. Metal illness In Sweden heavy metal devotee Roger Tullgren has had his obsession classified as a disability and can now officially claim state benefits reports the free newspaper thelondonpaper. Mr Tullgren who works part-time as a dishwasher says: “I have been trying for 10 years to get this classified as a handicap. “Dollar gets pounded Great news for anyone about to head off to the States for a pre-Christmas shopping spree: the pound this week climbed to a new 26-year high against the dollar. The pound has now been worth around $2 for several months and nudged above $2.
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