Must see , Must hear : new videoclip by Winther….

the queen of cello!!!!!

Jo Hamilton is a British vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist currently based in Birmingham, England. Her debut album, Gown, was released in 2009.

Harry Sacksioni (born 23 October 1950 in Amsterdam) is a composer and guitar virtuoso of Dutch origin. The peak of his fame was during the 1970s, some famous works of this period include Meta Sequoia, Vensters, Elixer and Thee bij tante Josephine, along with re-arrangements of existing pieces, such as Anji (Davy Graham), I Wish [...]

I made a concert film for SWAN…

yesterday we were young….

In spite of the blunt and profane sexual content contained in the song’s lyrics (the chorus infamously begins with the couplet “I wanna fuck you like an animal/ I wanna feel you from the inside”), “Closer” became Nine Inch Nails’ biggest hit of that time…

Imagine this: you’re doing a gig with your local band in a pub, playing covers from The Police, and then, Stewart Copeland passes by during the song ‘driven to tears’!! The old drummer giving speed lessons to the kids… BAd sound quality, but what an energy…!!!!

assasino

Frank Isaac Robinson (born 28 December 1938),known in his early career as a musician as Sugar Chile Robinson, is an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, singer, and later psychologist, whose career began as a child prodigy.

Last night, in the pale winter moonlight, as I was walking in my garden, I had constantly the impression that I wasn’t alone out there in the dark…  this morning I took some pictures of the monsters I saw….

Winther live @ Mundial Nights 2011

I made a new clip for a song by SWAN (David Bovée): Gens Qui Dort….

I have come 500 miles just to see a halo Come from st. petersburg, scarlett and me Well I open my eyes, I was blind as can be When you give a man luck, he must fall in the sea And she wants you to steal and get caught For she loves you for all [...]

s I made the new clip for the song Amour Sabotage by S.W.A.N. ( David Bovée) …  hope you like it….

Em um trem em baixa…

dj Kid Koala Live ….

She … the sea … me …. lost…

once in a while there is a piece of art that strucks you… this is one that hit me last week ans set me to crying…‪Iqbal Bano singing ‘Dasht e tanhaii main aye jaan e jahaN‬’…

a landmark of the Turkish arabesque music…

I waited for you yesterday since morning, They guessed you wouldn’t come, Do you remember the weather? Like a holiday! I went out without a coat. Today came, and they fixed for us A somehow specially dismal day, It was very late, and it was raining, The drops cascading down the chilly branches. No word [...]

This bitter earth Well, what fruit it bears What good is love mmmm that no one shares And if my life is like the dust oooh that hides the glow of a rose What good am I Heaven only knows

S.W.A.N.MUSICA live in Amsterdam… I’m manager of this band..

Honestly, how long are we to wait for a proper Talking Heads reunion? Chief David Byrne seems little interested for the time being, so here’s plan B. Enter a wild bunch of musicians and actors with the legendary concert movie Stop Making Sense firmly in the back of their heads, train them properly and see [...]

the talented lucky bastard….!!!

These slippery people Gonna see you through…

These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in [...]

we live as if we are never going to die, and we die as if we never lived.

David Bovée and Alonzo Nzau explaining their musical genre: ‘ electrosoucous’….

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

“…The process is simple. I project a child’s drawing with an opaque projector, faithfully tracing each line. Applying a combination of logic and instinct, I then paint the image as realistically as I can. My medium is mixed—primarily acrylic, airbrush, and colored pencil….”

a collection of aerial photography produced by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

another S.W.A.N. Musica song by David Bovée…

don’t look at me like that ….

Will I see you tonight on a downtown train every night is just the same you leave me lonely now

gentlemen, let’s broaden our minds…

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

Malignant demons with dragon heads at the ends of their feet. Haunting cemetaries, they exhume cadavers and eat them, leaving only the bones of the dead…

Shiele, Klimt, ….

lucy loes , ‘d Ostènsche Keuninginne’, past away, well known for singing sentimental songs about the real life, especially about the hard life of the Nord Sea fisherman…

Peter Gabriel performs Tom Waits’ song “In the Neighborhood” as part of The Voice Project, a music based initiative to raise awareness and support for the war torn areas of Northern Uganda, Southern Sudan, Eastern Congo and CAR. Artists have been recording cover songs as links in musical chains that began with a small group [...]

no, no, no worries, nothing ‘s wrong, business as usual, just a little climate change, that ‘s all…. Over the past month, heavy rainfall from different storms across parts of Europe has caused massive amounts of flooding – some water moving slowly across river plains and farmland, some moving swiftly through cities and villages. Dozens [...]

“Here we are at the threshold. This is the most important moment of your lives. You have to know that here your most cherished wish will come true. The most sincere one. The one reached through suffering.”

Elis Regina is considered one of the most important Brazilian singers of her time…

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heaven loves ya, the clouds smile for ya, nothing stands in your way when you’re a boy, clothes always fit ya, life is the pop of a cherry when you’re a boy when you’re a boy, you can where a uniform when you’re a boy, other boys check you out you get a girl, these [...]

Where can that fish be? It is a most elusive fish! And it went wherever I did go. Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish! A-fish, a-fish, a-fish,…

the dead sea is  one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water…

In short, auditory illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic, makeshift tools, differ from perfect audio receptors (for better or for worse).

woman are; men have to be….

some say they are heroes, some say they are murderers, some say they protect the country, some say they are plunderers, some say they are reckless, some say they just are afraid…

“Why have you lived this long?” “I don’t fool around with women,beer, wine or whiskey.” photographs of people who have lived in three centuries …

While we humans carry on with our daily lives down here on Earth, perhaps stuck in traffic or reading blogs, or just enjoying a Springtime stroll, a school-bus-sized spacecraft called Cassini continues to gather data and images for us – 1.4 billion kilometers (870 million miles) away.

the eyes in the top banner on this site are from Rae Dawn Chong

the art of  J. Scott Campbell and Grimm

… I long for the freedom, the silentness and the timelessness of our summer house!!!  The last two  are pictures of our house in the south of France….

Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal goes global, and I think there is just one solution: accept sex as being a natural human behavior.  Allow priests to get married and have sex… “There is no harm in repeating a good thing. ” (Plato  427-347 B.C.)

Michael Wolf’s Architecture of Density

…Is reality just an illusion? An artist builds a machine to find out and breaks through the fabric of space and time. Then he runs like hell… ”

… the glastonbury festival …

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name…

trois fois Yves Montand: 1951, 1971, 1981

Nat Geo Music, a 24-hour music channel that features top artists from international as well as local repertoires, debuted in Italy in October 2007 and has since spread to countries throughout Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Brazilian musician Curumin peddles a snaking, sultry musical style known as samba-funk. The eclectic music combines hip-hop, jazz, and [...]

In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods were waning, The broad stream in its banks complaining, Heavily the low sky raining Over tower’d Camelot; Down she came and found a boat Beneath a willow left afloat, And round and round the prow she wrote The Lady of Shalott.

When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the [...]

What would mankind do without the wheel…?

remember the movie ‘Christiane F. – – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo‘ ?  David Bowie wrote all the music for this movie that stirred and shakened me in those days: Sense of Doubt off “Heroes” played live in Bremen. (David Bowie, Brian Eno, …)

A beautiful chorus performance, created from hundreds of separate YouTube recordings.

Love hurts, love scares, Love wounds, and mares, Any heart, not tough, Or strong, enough To take a lot of pain, Take a lot of pain Love is like a cloud Holds a lot of rain Love hurts, ooh ooh love hurts

yesterday I saw her singing in Antwerp… Fado…destiny… Mariza…

Upon that day in the clear-skied month September Beneath a sapling plum tree, quietly I held her there, my quiet, pale beloved one Within my arms just like a lovely dream. And over us in the fair sky of the summer There was a cloud on which I gazed for long It was so very [...]

The Polyphonic Spree – The Quest For The Rest is a really cute and funny point and click adventure game from makers of Samorost games. Guide three of the members of The Polyphonic Spree through three different landscapes to reunite with the rest of their band mates. For each new level you get to learn [...]

Brasilians hottest band: Naçao Zumbie.  Pupillio, their drummer, is the brother of S.W.A.N.‘s singer Alé and plays on S.W.A.N.s forthcoming album..

… she makes me feel hungry,  she moves so gentle, she stares just like a little girl…

(eentje voor Serge) Ride, ride through the day Ride through the moonlight Ride, ride through the night For far in the distance Burns the fire For someone who has waited long

Live concert of “Jomion & les Uklo’s” – thé fusion Music group from Benin, West Africa at the moment. Last show from their summertour in Belgium.

I was visiting my friends of the electrosoucous band S.W.A.N. yesterday and I asked them to sing a Brazilian song. Alessandra Oliveira, David Bovée’s wife, is from Brazil.  They sang the ‘slavesong’ Ensaboa for me. Ensaboa mulata, ensaboa Ensaboa Tô ensaboando

she does not know how much sadness fits in loneliness….

…if she was born a queen, she would conquer the world, tread the poor and humiliate the rich , thousands of wars to be delighted… Therefore I prefer to sing alone …. solidao…

Mumford and Sons: And my head told my heart “Let love grow” But my heart told my head “This time no This time no”

Wasted and wounded, it ain’t what the moon did I’ve got what I paid for now See ya tomorrow, hey Frank, can I borrow A couple of bucks from you? To go Waltzing Mathilda, Waltzing Mathilda You’ll go Waltzing Mathilda with me

Far from all of the sound and fury of the modern music business, Lhasa has been quietly going about becoming one of the most fascinating songwriters of her generation… It is difficult to describe her unique voice and stage presence, which earned her iconic status in many countries throughout the world, but some   Journalists have  [...]

Green hills and enemies
These things they make us sentimental inside
Your words are gelignite
Or just another sentimental aside …

I first saw her  as timide violin player in the backgound of a Belgian musician, where she already took my attention, but now, a year later, she is her own group!!! Liesa, her violin and her little machines in front of her, painting a wall of harmonics and beats and somewhere between those, her lovely [...]

What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice), and if you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).

you want to make some music but can’t find an instrument…

an extract from the wonderfull live dvd ‘growing up’ by Peter Gabriel. In the track, ‘Sky Blue’, after +/- 5 minute, the Blind Boys Of Alabama appear…

Georgean music!! I like a lot the sound of their voices…

one of the most played lovesongs ….

And another old recording, 25 years ago, recorded in my café.  I had a band with a friend an my brother.  I think we played only 2 gigs.  I can’t remember the name of the band … I guess that burlesque dancing girl in the video is the only person ever who danced on this [...]

now that we are together, I hope it will last forever, everything seems to be much better, now that we are together, …    Another song I recorded +/- 30 years ago in the café I was running, being a very young man…

Another song I recorded a long time ago and again I mixed it in a burlesque dancing movie…

sad eyes… reading the newspaper, on a sunday morning, about vivisection labs, man abusing animals…. Goooooood mooooorning nature!

I made the decor concept and light plot for Belgiums most famous singer: well talented Natalia.  Yesterday was the premiere and fans made some youtubes….

at last!! I have a fanclub!  And they covered a song of mine: Jenny ….

Daniel Lanois  is a Canadian record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Parachute Club, U2, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Scott Weiland, Sinéad O’Connor, Robbie Robertson, the Neville Brothers, Chris Whitley, Ron [...]

daughter of chris…

Christopher Becker Whitley (August 31, 1960 – November 20, 2005) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Highly acclaimed by critics, Whitley achieved modest mainstream success, but had a devoted following. Whitley’s style was rooted primarily in blues, but drew on an array of influences. In 2001, the New York Times called him “restless …evoking [...]

a famous song by famous singers (Brel, Iggy Pop, Nina SImone , Editch Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, …)

I kind of like the music influences of the western and eastern culture mixed together.  Try it yourself: first you start the first youtube, which are Les Choeus des Moines de Chevetogne (Belgian priests). The start the second movie which is the Islamic call for prayer…

a medly from a very gifted man. He wrote world hits for Sinatra and Elvis and many more…

everything’s possible….

the art of Russian photographer Гриша Селиванов, a.k.a. Tarantul Green…

my friend Sam, the trompet-man.  We both like music and a very lovely violin player!!! here are some youtubes…

Nino Rota (December 3, 1911 April 10, 1979) was an Italian composer best known for his work on film scores, notably the films of Federico Fellini. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli’s Shakespeare films, and for Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy.

playing for change… got to see this … feel good

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah alright ye see-line woman she drink coffee she drink tea and then go home

Paul Potts: the ugly ducklin of the Britain’s Idol contest…who won the final!! (allready 61.484.659 views!)

This gorgeous stop motion pixilation by Yuval & Merav Nathan, with music by Oren Lavie, might just help you get through your thursday blues….

Listen what I found in the attic… a song I recorded in Flemish 12 years ago, with Bruno ‘Brasil’ Meeus on the drums… I added a rather ‘exploding’ movie to go with it, ‘kwestie’ to elevate the bluesy intentions ….

… you may ask yourself …  …

Martin says: ” a rocker should stop before his 33 years …” … being the son of God, I would say the same… This weekend we did the stagelight during the cd release show of the new  Assunta Mano.  I like the counter-light Coldplay uses in their shows so I added a bit of that [...]

(kab0emba asked me to search for this song … )You come from far away With pictures in your eyes

for 20 years now this John Cale song haunts my mind… now I recorded it in Flemish…

say it in broken english…

“3 versions of the music, of the so great music from the so great movie”the nightmare before christmas” Happy halloween!!!” (posted by miette de princesse)..

I just saw the film ( for the third time…) because I like the music so much …

dZihan & Kamien are a downtempo house and acid jazz music duo based in Vienna, Austria. Their sound has been described as having “jazzy texture, trip-hop rhythms and Eastern ambience”

small and beautiful… Michel Petrucciani came from an Italo-French family with a musical background.  Michel was born with osteogenesis imperfecta which is a genetic disease that causes brittle bones and in his case short stature

… if there be no you, to look at? I made a new version of a song I recorded a few months ago… (in flemish!)

Listen to what I found!! Lento et largo  Tranquillissimo “Sympone of sorrowful Songs“by Henryk Gorecki, sung by Ingrid Perruche… (for Hannablue!)

a sweet looking lady band …

Another video on music by my son Wolfram. My daughter, Gudrun, (and our dog, Choco) dances in it.

I made a new video, on music by my son, Wolfram, and Esse danced on it.

A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in [...]

Jacques Brel “isabelle”[audio:http://www.haitisurf.com/music/brel_isabelle.mp3]

today I googled “biggest regret” (chris blake’snew video) …Yay, it’s my new video for “Someone Else!”  The funny thing is we were actually in the middle of pulling together a video for “Phantom Love” when I started fiddling around with this one. Since I didn’t need to shoot any new footage, it only took a [...]

my sons made another movie. Wolfram made the music and Oskar (14) the film …

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it.

[audio:http://home.scarlet.be/bschmelzer/sant%27antuninu.mp3] “graindelavoix is fascinated by voices that stop communicating, that have no message anymore but rather are the pure expression of their underground: the gritty, intense and instinctive…” A bit un-human, arty, but still … nice music and beautiful photos on the site..

I love beautifull violin players (f): first there was Saartje, now there is Maie Bertram….

some recordings by Andreas Pfaul …

the Michael classic played acoustic by Chris Cornell ….

Erik Mongrain is a Canadian composer and guitarist, best known for his unique acoustic style, and his use of a two-handed lap tapping technique on the guitar…

Done with Cage, done with Stockhausen, done with Reich… Here is KIKO !! Let her hear some contemporary music and immediately she start composing new music, inspired by the moment and the sounds that surrounds her.  She looses herself in a deep contact with Muzes vibrations and translates them in touching car shaking and lips [...]

Yesterday night, for the first time I heard John Butler playing guitar …. amazing and powerfull. (The John Butler Trio are an eclectic roots/jam band from Australia led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler.)

Bist du bei mir? I don’t think so: you’re dead and I’m alive and kicking.  KIKO playsBach

Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo have been working together since their very first meeting, at the age of 12, when they were pupils of the Yehudi Menuhin School. Very much inspired by Menuhin, their unified dream was to bring classical music to a larger audience. Now, years later, following in the footsteps of luminaries [...]

Theresa Andersson plays all the instruments and does vocal looping on the fly as she sings ‘Na Na Na’ in her kitchen.

Remarcble: so young and already so gifted … Kiko, the pianist ( age 0 years!!!)(my brother’s daughter)

Hannablue:”one for the boys and the girls, completely over the top, and a bestranging view. Ballerina’s…”

one of my favourites : the magic of Joni Mitchell and Jaco Pastorius …

hannablue:” sweet combination” Written by Anoushka Shankar & Norah Jones from the “breathing under water” album with Karsh Kale.

Hannablue: “feed the inspiration with this image of a very exceptional sitar playing muze experimantal. ” (Anoushka, the daughter of Ravi Shankar and sister of norah jones….)

Hannablue:” dance, art, or genius? “

Hannablue :”slow listening….”

We’re designing a stage on a river for this nice opera singer with her 60 piece band!!! “Dressed in a striking purple and pale dress Brueggergosman offers us a glimpse of her warm, voluptuous, expressive soprano and her carefully shaped phrasing” …

Shot May 7-10 in North Hollywood, CA, this video features a cast of, well, many! And what a cast! An amazing group of well known ‘Youtube celebs’ was tracked down and flown in so they could do their thing(s) with the Weezer men. Its pretty much impossible to properly describe what went down, so just [...]

“…. as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free … “

different kinds of blue …

Recently we lost a good friend of ours, and we all grieve for her …. Now, every time I hear these songs, she’s in my mind

Baby Dodds was one of first great drummers of Jazz and the brother of Johnny Dodds.

Today a beautiful person thought me about Joni Mitchell’s cd ‘both sides now’. She (they) moved me deeply: Rows and flows of angel hair…

I know Bruno: we made music together, we made shows together, … now he made some youtubes on how to play the drum …

[audio:http://www.liiih.kit.net/vanessa_da_mata_-_01_-_nao_me_deixe_so.mp3] Vanessa da Mata, as her names suggests (in Portuguese “da Mata” means “from the forest”) is a force of nature. She was born in Alto Garças, a small town in the central part of Brazil. This 26 year old singer and composer cannot play all the instruments, but she has an overt musicality.

Stairways to Hell (MP3s), 101 versions of the song by Led Zeppelin ….

“IF YOU’RE OUT THERE YOU’RE VULNERABLE. PEOPLE PREFER TO DISAPPEAR IN LIFE, TO REPRESS THEIR PERSONALITY. THAT’S NOT LIVING. IT’S DYING. I SEE THEM ALL OVER THE PLACE, THE WALKING DEAD.”: ladies and gentlemen, here comes …. Grace …

the architect

Look what they’ve done to my song, ma…

usually played on the piano ….

after all, we’ve both been lost for ages, sketches. Could she paint my crayons to the colours of the sun .

the great jazz saxophonist, producer, musicgenius steve coleman is always pushing the limits. the limits of music as well as the limits of music distribution and its politics for that reaseon you can download the most of his records for free at his homepage. m-base m-base is a plattform for musical research and more. you [...]

Ooooch, I love this song!!! And look at those movies they show, live, during it….

If Madonna is a saint, Joni must be God herself!!!

“Knitted Animation Music Video” Un superbe clip d’animation réalisé à l’aide de centaines de véritables tricots! This amazing music video by Director Simon Laganière, for the Quebec duo Tricot Machine, uses artwork of entirely knitted yarn to animate each frame. (A tricot is a plain, warp-knitted cloth of any of various yarns.)

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A Battles collaboration with celebrated light artists UVA (United Visual Artists), produced by Warp Films (This Is England, Rubber Johnny, Dead Mans Shoes etc.).

I see this pictures by Sofia Avdeeva, and this song “going to my hometown”, one of the milestones in my musical education, by Rory Gallagher pops in my mind: “I’m gett’n lonesome, I’m gett’n bue, I need someone to talk to…’

6.104.361 viewers … The uploader, Ezsebas, asks on youtube to put on difererent versions of the same video ( tip from cousin Jan )… well I made one…

a song by OL about a Crisis in a Mistaken Relationship…

Simon Rattle, great philharmonic orchestra director….

Oooch, just because…

Die Jungen Geigerinnen” 2006: Alina Pogostkina. LIsten how nice her voice sounds… and she’s a nice musician too….

Q: Where did you grow up? A: On the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii

‘music for your mood or occasion’ sellected by CD Baby

Carla: “There is no moment of Serge Gainsbourg that I do not like. You know, before I discovered “La Noyee,” I had another Gainsbourg cover that is not so famous–the song with all the animals ["Sois Belle et Tais-Toi"]. The refrain is “Toi, toi, toi, toi sois belle et tais-toi” ["Be beautiful and shut up"].”…

“Ready or not, here I come!” I made a movie to a song I recorded here at home on my mac….

“cockels and mussels”:[audio:http://edu.qd.sd.cn/audition/disney/forth/mp3/cockles%20and%20mussels.mp3] lieve:”I’m passionate about music and photography in equal measure and have established a reputation for my imaginative & striking gig, festival & album photography. I specialise in Celtic, folk, roots, jazz and Indie musician photography.”

there’s a sense of quality that we’re looking for in the material that we select. It’s kind of impossible to describe but you know it when you see it—when you come across something that has an aura about it, a certain power that lasts over time. Like a really nice guitar riff or something that [...]

Ladysmith Black Mambazo represents the traditional culture of South Africa and is regarded as the country’s cultural emissary at home and around the world. In 1993,

watch out now! James Brown is feelin good! A little too good.

oskar lewis’s “Naked sorrow” Remix of Salala by Angelique Kidjo feat. Peter Gabriel

The trio of Andreas and Johan Berthling and Tomas Hallousten (sweden)

Here’s an oddity… (sweden)

Reich’s combination of repetition and process creates a music full of vitality and energy. His strict, tonal melodic style has brought Reich much critical acclaim, even in a general public that often is distrustful of “new music.” As such, Reich has, in many ways, led a charge toward establishing the accessible and almost “anti-academic” diatribe [...]

“My philosophy,” said Michel Petrucciani, “is to have a really good time and never to let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.”

never let a handicap stop you….!!! ( does David Lynch know about him already???)

While he has a knack for getting adult fingers wagging, the desire to tap the fears and free imagination of childhood is at the heart of Cunningham’s creative process. He explains: “When I draw, whatever comes out is what comes out naturally. I don’t see it as ‘dark’. You’re trying to work instinctively, to make [...]

W.Victor, music W.Victor (Wim Avonts) played in several bands, works as a producer, writes music for movies, sings on two albums with the band “ Virginia Woolf �? and released 2 solo-albums…

to Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim ….

Egberto Gismonti!!! Listen how he plays piano and guitar!!! Talking about being gifted…

Thom Yorke is what is missing in your life

Together witk Tom Theuns and Fons Vanhamel, Soetkin sings a capella @ a ‘tapijtconcert‘ …

famous brother of a famous sister. ( 1 + 1 = more than 2 !!! ) Gert likes to play a ‘tapijtconcert’ for us….

a beatboxband (!), Off The Record, verrrry cool…

There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold And she’s buying a stairway to heaven

I met Roy Aernouts in café jeanne. Last year he and his band Noppes played a ‘tapijtconcert’. I found this nice ‘peter gabriel alike’ stopmotion videoclip of the song ‘perspectief’…

he is our king of the ‘levenslied’ and we asked him to do a ‘tapijtconcert’ for us…

We invited Myrddin to play a ‘tapijtconcert’. Myrddin is the youngest son of the famous Belgian multi-instrumentalist Koen De Cauter. Under the wings of his father he learns, at a young age, to play the clarinet (mainly jazz and Gipsy style).

and some movies ….

They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town

Cinoir’s choice….

the most beautiful Belgian singer …

Wannes, straight from the heart!!!

Sometimes we organise concerts… this is one of them …

ryuichi Sakamoto, in my mind since 1983  ‘merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence‘ [audio:http://ez.amiryo.com/_music/data/z/ez%20-%20Merry%20Christmas%20Mr.Lawrence.mp3]

proud father, beautiful daughter… Gudrun dances on music by Oskar Lewis.

I made a short movie with samples of a musictheatreplay I ( groep arthur) made and put it on music by Jan Garbarek. Use headphones …!  Hope you like it!?!

It’s music day, here. And I got touched by this ‘hurt’ song… Know that his wife died just a week before he recorded this song ….

Who can translate this lyrics in English, please. It’s a song I heard with Stewart Copeland on drums in a Italian folk festival….

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I bought the new cd by Tuxedomoon yesterday, I like the old Bowie (lodger) sound in it …

I just like her voice ….

you do know Jacques Brel, don’t you? You do know Don Quichotte, don’t you? …

I want you back … (the new sineod o’connor!!!!)

a youtube- link collection on +/- oldies in pop music …

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” — William Shakespeare

for my father, wherever he is ….

I saw David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland drive‘ ( trailer )last night. one of the highlites in the film is the song: “Llorando” or “Crying” Written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson Performed by Rebekah Del Rio …

“La Mostra 07″ : [audio:http://ceipdrassanes.ravalnet.org/radio/mostra07.mp3]

When I wake up early on a quiet morning, after a weekend of hard work, and dreaming of my summerhouse in France, I like to listen to the music of abdullah Ibrahim…

a Royskopp song

Though she’s one of popular music’s most iconic figures, Annie Lennox is gearing up to release only the fourth album of her 15-year solo career. Songs Of Mass Destruction is out October 1 throughout most of the world, and a day later in the U.S. The first single, “Dark Road,” just found its way online [...]

The monks were 5 American GI’s in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo…

A few years ago a jukebox owned by John Lennon was discovered. On it were 40 of the famous musician’s favorite tunes. This is a documentary about the songs on that Jukebox and the influence they had on the Beatles.

you like Sting? Look @ this nice video source … ( for any star, actually…)

“if 6 was 9″[audio:http://music.psegura.com/06%20Spanish%20Castle%20Magic.mp3]

“papa”[audio:http://www.aolcdn.com/_media/ch_music/angelique_kidjo-papa.mp3]

“graceland”[audio:http://www.rmbwoc.com/music/PaulSimonGraceland.mp3]

“Volare”[audio:http://www.hapoelta.com/sounds/gipsy_kings_volare.mp3]

“china girl”[audio:http://crearefnet.free.fr/12%20China%20Girl.mp3]

“the cross”[audio:http://www.theplugg.com/audio/scorpioncorgan.mp3]

just a link to the drummerworld website because I like drummers and my daughter always fall’s in love with them… more oskar lewis art stuff….

Paul Simon “The Boy In The Bubble”[audio:http://screwmusicforever.com/vicdavis/mp3s/BoyintheBubble_35_51_.mp3]

Sting “Inside”[audio:http://www.simen.ru/creators/music/sting2.mp3]

Eurythmics “Miracle Of Love”[audio:http://www.gorko.ru/content/img/mp3/2004/2/img/Love.mp3]

Bob Marley “Sun Is Shining”[audio:http://www.clubnext.com/marley/Bob%20Marley%20%20Sun%20is%20Shining.mp3]

The Hollies “Look Through Any Window”[audio:http://us.share.geocities.com/utahdave99/LookThroughAnyWindow.mp3]

[audio:http://www3.telus.net/rpmullan/Music/01%20Man%20on%20the%20Moon.mp3] So how ya doin? You havin’ a good time? Time. Climb. Lime. Dime. Them’s some words that rhyme with time. And speaking of time. You’re gonna have a good time at my new movie, “Man on the Moon”!! …

The Beatles “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window”[audio:http://www.gigarock.com/music/shecameinthroughthebathroomwindow.mp3]

“Why do feminists give blowjobs?”[audio:http://vintagestars.com/river/Sounds1/UnreleasedAndOther/WhyDoFeministsGiveBlowjobs_15Jul1993.mp3] How many Courtney’s are there … ?

The Beatles “good morning”[audio:http://tm.chem.umass.edu/martin/Mu/Good%20Morning%20Good%20Morning.mp3] I like pictures of girls looking through the window…

30 years of a song …

Bartok/For Children[audio:http://www.claudiocolombo.net/Altremusiche/Bartok/For%20Children%201-06.mp3]

“alla laa ke”[audio:http://www.peterepstein.com/MUS321_Files/instruments/africa/kora_konte1.mp3]

“swim”[audio:http://www.deepsouthdivers.org/songs/swim.mp3]

“I will survive”[audio:http://natural-muscle.zftp.com/Gloria%20Gaynor%20-%20I%20Will%20Survive.mp3]

Arno “putain putain”[audio:http://nellivan.free.fr/sounds/6.mp3]

“Stella Gemella”[audio:http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/26/1019563/Eros%20Ramazzotti-Stella%20Gemella.mp3]

Diana Krall “temptation”[audio:http://www.sparrowmorgan.com/musicthismonth/August/08%20Temptation.mp3]

Talking Heads “Mr Jones”[audio:http://brazilmusic.dk/audio/mp3/mrjones.mp3] the most beautifull kids photos I ever saw… (expect those of my kids, af course…)

Mozart: Concert Aria (Alcandro lo confesso)Soprano Cyndia Sieden [audio:http://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Arts/Audio/2006/06/02/AlcandroLoConfesso.mp3]

that good old ‘boys will be boys’ attitude…. David Bowie “sorrow”[audio:http://crearefnet.free.fr/10%20Sorrow.mp3]

“flight of the bumble bee”[audio:http://www.harmoniamundi.com/Publish/album/757/907336.mp3]

“dessert rose”[audio:http://www.computerclubhouse.org/flagship/people/Zell/Sting%20-%20Desert%20Rose.mp3] These cards of moslim women were sent by mail !!!! You should try it nowadays ! one of them is even the wife of the Emperor Haile Selassie, named ‘La Nourrice de Negus d’ Abbisyne’ …

“As The World Falls Down”[audio:http://www.frannie.ws/Bowie_%20AstheWorldFallsDown.mp3] Bosch produced several triptychs, works of three paintings on wooden panels that are attached to each other. Among his most famous is The Garden of Earthly Delights…

“Black Magic Woman”[audio:http://www.psychicbozo.com/files/Santana_-_Black_Magic_Woman.mp3] African Photographs by Edmond Fortier on historical postcards,1900 – 1910 …

“russians”[audio:http://bizton.bizland.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/stingrussians.mp3]

“Could this be love”[audio:http://www.weddingannouncer.com/music/16704/bob-marley-could-this-be-love.mp3]

“revenge”[audio:http://www.missleading.com/Revenge.MP3] “I love all the old pictures–of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can’t do spanking in fashion, so I wanted to do a project where I could really let go and get girls who also love those things.”–Ellen von Unwerth on Revenge

“polegnala e pschenitza”[audio:http://plasticaisle.typepad.com/plasticmusic/files/05_polegnala_e_pschenitza.mp3]

“Cloudbusting”[audio:http://titseb.free.fr/Musiques/annee%2080/annee%2080/CD4/04-Kate%20Bush%20-%20Cloudbusting.mp3] I like it when they show some character …

“Ravi”[audio:http://crissywild.com/ravi.mp3]

“my funny valentine”[audio:http://bonnefond.bertrand.free.fr/chet.mp3] I saw the movie again last night …

[audio:http://www.boopa.com/Music/Wedding%20Demo/Web/Thank%20Heaven%20For%20Little%20Girls.mp3]

“requiem”[audio:http://nuty.pl/mp3/npl057643-lacrimosa.mp3] As I was searching for a machete to buy, to cut through the tick vegetations in my garden in the south of France I stumbled on these horrible pictures …

“kyrie Eleison”[audio:http://maidensheart.tripod.com/connor_kyrie_eleison.mp3]

“crazy horses”[audio:http://arbproductions.ca/mp3/osmondbrothers/osmondbrothers-crazyhorses.mp3]

“burning down the house” [audio:http://joefusion.com/mp3/burning_down_the_house.mp3]

“it’s probably me”[audio:http://espew.com/cgi-bin/spew/281058/sting%20-%20it's%20probably%20me.mp3]

‘”jailhouse rock”[audio:http://www.edtech.esc11.net/~tfry/portfolio/elvis.mp3] A hacker is a computer enthusiast …

“toreador”[audio:http://www.jcctm.edu.hk/~tychan/mp3_collection/bizet/toreador.mp3]

[audio:http://www.happyfeetbrassband.nl/Muziekvoorbeelden/It%20aint%20My%20fault.mp3]

“300 Spartans”:[audio:http://ia301324.us.archive.org/1/items/300Song/300song.mp3] French long jumper Salim Sdiri lies on the ground after being speared by a javelin in a freak accident at the Athletics IAAF Golden Gala in Rome’s Olympic Stadium. The javelin had been launched by Finland’s Tero Pitkamaki as he seemed to lose his footing at the other side of the arena.

“cocaine”[audio:http://cocaine.org/cocaine-ericclapton.mp3] some trailers and docus on the Pablo Escobar movie …

“paganini”[audio:http://www.arteagency.com/capriccio4.mp3]

“runs the vodoo”[audio:http://www.penceland.com/ipod/Miles%20Davis%20-%20Miles%20Runs%20the%20Voodoo%20Down.mp3]

“clandestino”[audio:http://ispace.files3.free.fr/cheese2128/manuchao%20-%20Clandestino.mp3] Photographe clandestin … The Parisian artist JR works with portrait photos which he puts up on walls, bridge pillars or gates. Through the special aesthetics of his photos and the sometimes gigantic formats in which he brings the faces to the city, he directly challenges advertisement posters and gigantic banners in a visual way…

“Purple Rain”[audio:http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/23/233036/PrPurpleRain.mp3] “Red Rain”[audio:http://espew.com/cgi-bin/spew/2825259/2005-06-24_Red_Rain.mp3] “Make It Rain”[audio:http://bpfastball.com/tw-2004-10-18d1t02.mp3]

she is ‘hot’ in the states … which means it was hard to find some mp3 tracks ….

last month, we had a show in Beda, Holland. This is the tissue act part, Evelien made for us, on music by Bregovic, played live by The Kirke String Quartet …

“father and son”[audio:http://www.phihosting.com/mp3/father_son.mp3]

Swedish filmers are crazy ….

Lou Reed “Romea had Julliet”[audio:http://qsysue.tagplazen.org/musicshelter/01-Lou%20Reed-Romeo%20Had%20Juliette.mp3]

Musician and Real world adept, Ayub Ogada is of the Luo tribe, born in Mombasa on the coast of Kenya. The sound of his ‘harp’ brings peace in the buzzy minds…

Luka Bloom “innocence”[audio:http://www.toolshed-media.com/ts/luka-bloom-innocence.mp3]

Ayub Ogada[audio:http://www.svdesign.ca/music/ayub.mp3]

Umberto Tozzi “Ti Amo” [audio:http://digidownload.libero.it/thatisasign/sounds/Umberto%20Tozzi%20-%20Ti%20Amo.mp3]

just a film… Stooges, the weirdness….

Love songs….

Barry White “Love Serenade”[audio:http://www.applebytes.info/LoveSeranade.mp3]

“hello…hellooooo…”[audio:http://www.red-noise.com/audio/dialtones-excerpts.mp3]

Grace Jones “Pull Up To The Bumper”[audio:http://www.lolitafiles.com/Grace%20Jones-Pull%20Up%20To%20My%20Bumper.mp3]

some photos, some mp3, his lyrics, … just because we like his work…

Rolling Stones[audio:http://www.softwaresmith.com/myspace/music/RollingStones_ItsOnlyRockNRoll_TimeWaitsForNoOne.mp3]

Mississippi John Hurt “you are my sunshine”[audio:http://www.octobercherries.com/songs/Mississippi%20John%20Hurt%20-%20You%20Are%20My%20Sunshine.mp3]

Grace Jones “libertango”[audio:http://davidbillemont.free.fr/gracejones-seenthatfacebefore.mp3]

Cindy Lauper “true Colors”[audio:http://www.mindgamezcarclub.com/media/Cyndi_Lauper_-_True_Colors.mp3]

James Brown “Try Me”[audio:http://shootersexpress.com/19-get_up_offa_that_thing_320_lame_cbr.mp3]

(Selfnamed) ‘Super-producer’ Timbaland (Timothy Z. Mosley) has stamped his indelible imprint on the music scene since the mid-1990s. His production has helped create career-defining hits for artists such as Jodeci, Aaliyah, Ginuwine, Missy Elliott, Destiny’s Child, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z, among many others. Respected beyond the genres of urban and hip hop music, Timbaland, [...]

Bono & Lanois “Falling at your feet”[audio:http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/1/23/683015/08%20Falling%20At%20Your%20Feet.mp3] Yesterday I saw the Wim Wenders / Bono film ‘Million Dollar Hotel‘ with the beautiful Milla Jovovich as one of the characters. I found some art photos of her…

Pink floyd ‘on the run”[audio:http://aradia4444.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/ontherunmp3.mp3]

Stabat Mater (The sorrowful mother was standing) The hymn, one of the most powerful and immediate of extant medieval poems, meditates on the suffering of Mary, Jesus Christ’s mother, during his crucifixion. text, music and pictures….

john lennon “mother”[audio:http://www.artinfo.ru/ru/news/wavreports/Mother-PlasticOnoBand-JohnLennon-1970.mp3]

bruce sprignsteen “fire”:[audio:http://leeloo.jmarsters.free.fr/Sons/Bruce%20Springsteen%20-%20Fire.mp3]

[audio:http://users.powernet.co.uk/philnet/bazfree.mp3]

Queen: [audio:http://home.elp.rr.com/elvisun/Queen%20-%20Bohemian%20Rapsody.mp3]

roxy music “avalon”[audio:http://www.thenaturalpushup.com/avalon.mp3]

NIck Cave “helpless”[audio:http://www.kuleuven.be/thomas/impulsen/bestanden/muziek/Karen_Rondags/The_Ship_Song.mp3]

Doris Day “Que Sera Sera”[audio:http://espew.com/cgi-bin/spew/1173711/DorisDay_Que_Sera_Sera.mp3] One thing I remember from my father is that he was one of the million men who where deeply in love with Doris Day….

[audio:http://espew.com/cgi-bin/spew/930393/TomWaitsTime.mp3]

I was looking for sheet music and found this link… 32 piano sonates by Ludwig Van Beethoven. You need Stuffit to get it. For the pianoplayers …

Broadcasting from a basement in San Francisco, the high quality MP3 internet broadcasts of Soma FM reach around the world. Rusty Hodge, SomaFM’s founder, had been experimenting with online radio since 1995. After helping other companies with their streaming media operations, he decided that no one was going to create the online radio station he [...]

Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”, Eagles “hotel California”, Deep Purple “Child In Time”, Meatloaf “Paradise by the dashboard light”, Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here”.

Part 1 of a great 3 part BBC documentary about Mozart. ‘miracle of nature’

Didn’t know that four guys (OKGO) with eight treadmills could be so entertaining. Great choreograph and music without camera cuts.

Whether you like him or not, you can’t deny the genius of Elton John. In this video, the musician spontaniously composes a new song to the words of an oven instructions booklet…

I made a new remix (?UR)of the song “What You Are” by Joi. Hope you like it, put on the headphones and volume @ max.

The prison version for Michael Jackson’s music video “They Don’t Really Care About Us”. A very powerful song with great lyrics. The song was banned before the video because Michael said ‘jew me sue me’ and ‘kike me, strike me’ and took off those words.

So young! The Mozart of the Cajun….

A deep sound, very intens, commin’ in from the cold, from down, out of the dirt, … [audio:http://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Guardian/audio/2006/06/05/Introitus.mp3]

Architect of Tropicalia, mad genius of back country-funk and musical experimenter extraordinaire, Tom Zé is without doubt the most radical and fascinating of all of the Tropicalistas still alive. Whilst others have mellowed, or sold out and became pop stars, Ze’s thirst for musical adventrure grows with every passing year. When I saw him performing [...]

Maurice Ravel mp3 files for easily ending the weekend on a classical note…

When they started to DJ (“borrowing’ the name the Dust Brothers from the American producers of the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique), the Chemical Brothers put their own spin on things. During their first residency at Naked Under Leather (as debauched as its name suggests) they established a party-starting reputation for going where most other DJs [...]

Gudrun Ghesquière dances without leaving the couch on music by Bach, played Jazzy by Loussier…

Some mp3′s, some mov’s, a link, …: an introduction to the magical Sigur Ròs world…

“In your eyes”, you know the song? (listen to it, here)”…I see the doorway to a thousand churches, the resolution of all the fruitless searches, I see the light and the heat, oh, I want to be that complete, I want to touch the light the heat I see in your eyes…” That’s what I [...]

Imagine Tom Waits, or Sting would sing those melodies….

Bad thing happend: the dinner burned while I was writing this post!!! Good thing happend: While listening to Debussy and starting all over with a new meal I decided to buy me a new set of cooking pots… Got any tips? I saw the movie ‘round midnight‘ again last night and in this movie a [...]

“Pitchforkmedia is a website dedicated to music and the discussion thereof. And we rule.” a nice way of putting it… so if you like to search for new music or tabloid news on new releases you know where to look now… Listen to some track in ‘read more’

movies I bought the complete BBC series of ‘the singing detective’ by Dennis Potter about the whereabouts of a hospitalized pulp-fiction writer (named Philip Marlow!) What a wonderful series this is. And that music!!! I found some clips on youtube. Hope you like this hilarious English humour too…

photos The Bulgarian photographer Ekaterina Chausheva made these photos. Do you know the Bulgarian choir who made the cd: “Le mystère du voix Bulgare�?? Go to the library and try to listen to it, with headphones on. [audio:http://plasticaisle.typepad.com/plasticmusic/files/05_polegnala_e_pschenitza.mp3][audio:http://plasticaisle.typepad.com/plasticmusic/files/kaval_sviri.mp3] Their high and sharp voices cut deep. They make one curious to the country. Just like these [...]

music Andrera recorded a new song. This time it’s “Washing of the Water” by Peter Gabriel. @ youtube More Andrea music, more Cinoir Art

The Police They are my number one group: best lyrics, best arrangement and best drive. They move me every time I hear their music. I hope I can get me some tickets for their reunion tour…

lodger ‘lodger’ is the name of a David Bowie cd / lp that brings back a lot of memories when I hear it. Lodger.tv is a site with very nice and simple animated movies: if you succeed to get three movie icons in a row…

Studio Photo We can’t imagine anymore that Delia Derbyshire, only 50 years ago, was a pioneer in electronic music, using taperecorders and LP’s … She had exploratory encounters with Paul McCartney, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Martin, Pink Floyd, Brian Jones, Anthony Newley, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson. Bio & home page listen to some ‘sounds‘ Doctor [...]

Beethoven, live…

Frank Zappa “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can…”

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take 5 I heard the song in a bar this night. The ‘kick’ sounds very nice, doesn’t it? [audio:http://www.robertpate.net/somethingspecialforyou/Dave%20Brubeck%20-%20Take%20Five.mp3]

art music: just a few links… “a sound is all the possible ways there are to hear it”

Beck video’s

latest version….

link to the remix Some fuzzy noises to accompany those sweet female voices. Melancholy together with fury… I continue had the urge to push it… LAID BACK!!  MORE Oskarlewis remixes.

oskarlewis remix

gabriel fauré Do you know the requiem by Gabriel Fauré? Do go to the library and get yourself a cd!!! Here you find e few hours mp3 music on his work… So, while preparing dinner, let Fauré play with your emotions….

Fanfares We all do know this tune by Alfred Newman: [audio:http://www.groeparthur.be/muziek/fox.mp3] Well, Fanfares are popular as theme music for TV and radio, but I like them best on the street. Here you can hear some samples from fanfares, live recorded during the Zinneke Parade in Brussels…

movies He is referred to as a gypsy violinist or “devil’s fiddler�?, a classical virtuoso, a jazz improviser, a composer and arranger, and a 19th-century throwback, and he is actually all of these things at once. To Life………………:[audio:http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/audio/ROBY_LAKATOS_To_Life.mp3] If I were a rich man:[audio:http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/audio/ROBY_LAKATOS_If_I_Were_a_Rich_Man.mp3]

link to oskar lewis’s “demon days” Remix of If I Had My Way by Little Axe “Yesterday I listened to some ‘my way’ remixes and it inspired me to make a remix of my own. I like the blues atmosphere in the samples so I tried to stick to that. I added some ‘Cajun’ sort [...]

Jan Hammenecker Mien moaten, mien moaten, ‘k zien ze zo geern… 20 joar geleen speelde Jan nog in mien groeptje, nu speeltn mee in e film, Ex-drummer, én ziengt em!!! En samen med Sam Louwyck, nog e moat, woarmee da’k e teaterstuk gon maakn, noaste zomer. Wil je ‘t videocliptje zien van ‘t liedje da [...]

new oskarlewis remix on the PG website!!! previous oskarlewis remix: “PG goes classic”

groovebist Look (listen) to what I found in the music bank on my computer: groovebist! Two years ago my daughter Andrea  practiced a melody on the piano: Bist du bei mir, a world famous song by JS Bach. People play this melody a lot in churches all over the world, … So I recorded the [...]

link to my PG mix on the peter gabriel website!!!!! your comments please, on the PG website, I’m curious….

The best film I saw this year, and also my altime favourite is ‘Shultze gets the blues.’, a film by Michael Schorr. It’s the only movie this year that gave me the blues, it jerked my tears. I was full of pity and joy…[audio:http://www.harmonicahoek.nl/muziek/bladmuziek/hanselst/schultze/Schultze_ballade_fragment.mp3]

mp3 “Silent Night” was originally a poem written in 1816 (in German) by Joseph Mohr, a young priest in Mariapfarr, Austria. Two years later on Christmas Eve he journeyed to the home of his friend musician and schoolteacher Franz Gruber. He showed his poem to Gruber and asked him to create a melody with simple [...]

multiply never thought it could be so easy….

videos “Who is Imogen Heap?” Last night (!) I got this SMS from New-Zealand, so to please the sender: these video’s…

Kirke strijkkwartet “women and music” Yesterday I met the beautiful ladies from The Kirke Quartet….

native tongue 3 new entries on Native Tongue: Hans, Antonios and an old Hindi song. Hans: blyvn geevn: [audio:http://www.groeparthur.be/muziek/hans.mp3]

David Bowie & Lou Reed “…Oh, what a night it turned out to be! Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, Jeff Beck, Lulu, Spike Milligan, Dana Gillespie, Ryan O’Neal, Elliott Gould, Ringo Starr and Barbra Streisand… all there at my last concert party at the luxurious Café Royal…” – David Bowie- david lou mick jeff

Listening to his music is can give me so much inspiration. He combines rhythm with melody, chaos and harmony in his plays. Either if he plays alone or in a band. It’s pure art.

game

the late Ian Dury Oooh, just some youtubes from a block I liked a lot. Especially those deep and reggae-like bass ridm’s… and that fuck-you attitude…

I grieve (yes, I’m a Peter Gabriel Fan!!!)

alkaloid: your door in the wall..

17 video’s & remixes

rory Gallagher Yes, I used to wear long hair, and a jeans jacket, and I played the electric guitar, louder then was healthy… It was Rory Gallagher who inspired me and he washed my ears with the song: going to my hometown (1972) going to my hometown: [audio:http://www.groeparthur.be/muziek/rory.mp3]

Here are two songs I made a while ago with cinoir.

The young and talented singer-songwriter Andrea(17) finally gave me some covers she played from Peter Gabriel and Sting. She plays piano, guitar, cello and sings. I hope I can blog some of her own songs in a couple of weeks. Consider this a preview…

A dramatic story about a former dancing artist and his lover. ‘En tus brazos‘ reminds me of the style of Tim Burton’s ‘the nightmare before christmas’. I love the drama!

Jukebox in read more, some video’s.

tito puente Tito Puente, the great Harlem-born Puerto Rican musician known as the “sultan of salsa” and “king of timbales”, four time Grammy Award Winner; featured motion picture performer. Doctorate of arts & sciences. Internationally acclaimed world wide performer. There are not enough adjectives to describe him.

octo celli Eight cello’s, playing together heavenly music. I already worked together with Thomas Frühauf in at least for music projects: yesterday he mentioned me for the first time that he played in a cello octet: Octo celli. Even when you know people for years, they keep on surprising you! My favourite on their new [...]

video I had the opportunity to work together with that nice lady: she has the blues, listen to her voice… “he needs me”: [audio:http://www.fuud.com/asf/media/17/38/04_he_needs_me.mp3] Tutu’s website

Do you need a personal DJ? The Music Genome Project created a ‘personal’ radio station. Just check it out… your pandora radio

gallerie An electric exhibition of dynamic drumming from Switzerland… On their first visit to the Scottish Capital was Switzerland’s Top Secret Drum Corps from Basel. This 20-strong group was the audience favourite with their compelling mix of contemporary and traditional percussion.

samples I saw Tom singing during a “tapijtconcert” in Zandvliet, a very intimate showcase, the next day he played for an audience of more than 40000 people… find some video’s of the show here below.

When I was still in High School our band was looking for a bassplayer. I really wanted to play piano. I was anxious to join the guys and play my heart out. The days of piano sonatas were over. But when we couldn¹t find a bassist, I had to pick it up in order to [...]

How many languages are there in the world? And how many dialects? This is a list (wiki) of varieties of the English language. Here you find the dialects of the Flemish region of Belgium: in the part West-Vlaanderen alone there are more than 65 different dialects!!!Even the little town where I come from, Ostend, has [...]

videclips by dEUS David Guetta : a beautiful and energetic dance choreography (quicktime) Basement Jaxx: very danceable (real) Millionaire: Ballad of pure thought dEUS (+ website) : What we talk about (when we talk about love) You see the clip of ‘suds and soda’, the song where the story started for dEUS … Can I [...]

Miles Davis Desmond Tutu two great men: one great song!!

1500 of your favorite 80′s videos: Abba > Zappa …

This morning I listened again to the song ‘I grieve’ by Peter Gabriel. It brought me back in that certain melancholic mood I always get when I listen to his beautiful music. Here you can download some nice videoclips. You can find there also documentaries and live performances. I grieve, City of Angels soundtrack:[audio:http://www.groeparthur.be/muziek/igrieve.mp3]

movie Winch & Pulley is a filmmaking collective founded by directors Jeff Edwards and Josh Forbes. Their partnership began a decade ago with their first collaboration, a short silent film shot on 16mm entitled, “The History of the Spork”. From these humble beginnings, the two have gone on to write two screenplays together (one about [...]

photo Architects and production designers for entertainment: website They made shows for Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, U2, Cirque Du Soleil, Tina Turner, Robin Wiliams, …. animations

music video: Streets of love launch The Rolling Stones jukebox: a few songs from the new album The Rolling Stones website

In-kata, a group I know well, launched their first album: ‘Farewell Masquerade’. I love their energy… in a black iron frame: [audio:http://in-kata.com/media/inablackironframe.mp3] only a little bit like you: [audio:http://www.in-kata.com/media/onlyalittlebitlikeyou.mp3]

The Spinto Band “oh mandy” by director Jon Watts and from production company Colonel Blimp in a stop motion animation style. another version of the same clip you can find on their site.

lyrics of the song from the album ‘various positions‘ (1984) written by master Leonard Cohen and brilliant sung by Jeff Buckley

flash website: here you can find the nice film ‘Blush’ Wim Vandekeybus has made. Follow ‘film & video’, ‘dance’, and then Blush(2005) video. I couldn’t make a direct link. Woven hand, a solo project of David Eugene Edwards, frontman of 16 Horsepower, made the score of Wim’s dance production Blush (listen to Woven Hand via [...]

watch this beautiful video directed by Robert Hales of HSI for the Gnarls Barkley tune “Crazy�?… it’s all about the ink blot effect! via dvblog.org

Scott Gibbons has been composing electronic and electro-acoustic music for more than 20 years…He has created many unique electronic instruments for use on stage and has earned a strong reputation for his live performances. what are you doing? [audio:http://www.red-noise.com/audio/what_are_you_doing_it.mp3] dialtones [audio:http://www.red-noise.com/audio/dialtones-excerpts.mp3] fly puzzlehead euclidean [audio:http://www.red-noise.com/audio/fly-puzzlehead-euclidean-mix.mp3]

Les Claypool, Stewart Copeland and Trey Anastasio in The Studio Recording “the grand pecking order” or playing live Whamola jam, shadow of a man and Army’s on ecstacy. unreleased song edited by Stewart Copeland: lobomoty #3 [audio:http://www.oysterhead.com/a-v/audio/Oysterhead-Were_Here.mp3] lobotomie #2[audio:http://www.oysterhead.com/a-v/audio/Oysterhead-Ahoy_There.mp3]

video of the song ‘steam’ from the album Us (1992)

Do you care for a smile on your face? This is a song written for a video created for a song. All the images come from Flickr, an online database of photos uploaded by anyone – the ones Jonathan used have a Creative Commons license which allows anyone to re-use them in a new non-commercial [...]

This blog is now audio capable. I’ve entered a nice little plugin that allows our authors (especially doctor) to incorporate soundbites into a post. Many respects to the author of this plugin Martin Laine! Enjoy! Some examples below

no tears… 25 years ago the man, who brought us reggae, died. film: Let’s get toghether and feel all right! more bob marley films on qooqle

The strangest combination: an eastern guy plays a Beatles song on a ukelele! But he does a great job.

Twenty years ago Frank Zappa appeared on CNN Crossfire to talk about the censorship of lyrics in music. Zappa didn’t think the words in music were the problem, he didn’t think it was the cold war either. He stated, “The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy [...]

This is a three minute film, made by Scott Gibbons and Groupe F during a live Performance at La Villete, Paris, France.

I’m a fan!!! Flaming lips have a music video for the track: yeahyeahyeah song. Is that Paris Hilton with donuts strapped to her body?You can find more video’s here.

the honda song…

Andrzej Tarski writes, makes art, collects sounds, makes mixes, …, loves psychedelic stuff. Go visit his site and explore new horizons.