I am on vacation for two
weeks; just finished classes and will start again on August 23rd.
The monsoons and plenty of
algebra home-work kept things lively in Tucson over the summer season!
Work progresses on all fronts: the POETZ4PEACE had their first US tour. I still haven't had a chance to meet Franzie and the rest of the POETZ, LIVE but hopefully that will change soon.
Let's see: Mary Finnigan
has a FANTASTIC DEBRIEFING on the FEZ FESTIVAL and so, look forward to that. I
have been bugging everyone for copy and photos and of course in my mind they all
appreciate that there are deadlines and MY SEPTEMBER GREETING is VERY IMPORTANT!
Yeah, to you, angie!
P.S. Loved the CNN piece on
these guys and their funny satyrical take on Bush and Kerry. Very cute and
suroprisingly funny, but not offensive! JibJab is their name and humor is their
game....See for yourselves.....check it out. Press the link.....
JibJab Media Inc.
http://www.JibJab.com
Fes Review &
links to the Fes Website www.fesfestival.com
Mary Finnigan - REPORTER to
the world, I originally wrote reporter at large which led to this comment -
actually, FINNS is a little slip of a thing, with beauty and brains in a petite
package! Anyway, enough jaw-jacking as Michael says, here's FINNS:
The Fes Festival of World
Sacred Music sets up high ideals. Rather than sitting and listening, it invites
its audiences into active participation ñ with the heart and soul of the music
and with the dynamics of an emergent New World Order rooted in spiritual values.
In the morning visitors take part in Colloquium dialogues. Academics and
activists, politicians and clerics exchange ideas on how bottom-up ìglobal
democracyî can be turned into an effective reality. In the afternoon, evening
and late at night there are concerts that cross the musical spectrum from early
European classical, through folk and religious traditions from around the world
to ecstatic Sufi rituals.
ALL PICTURES IN THESE FILES
MUST BE CREDITED :
REMI BOISSEAU FOR THE FRENCH
INSTITUTE IN FES
TOUTES LES PHOTOS DE CE DOSSIER
DOIVENT ETRE CREDITEES:
REMI BOISSEAU POUR L'INSTITUT
FRANÇAIS DE FES
This
year the festival celebrated its 10th anniversary, so by now aficionados know
what to expect. But every year, as the Fes mystique spreads across the world,
there are newcomers in the audience ñ so the key question must be ìdoes the
festival communicate its ideals?î Does it have influence as well as
entertainment value?
There
were certainly magical moments. The legendary Youssou NíDour for example,
who soared into emotional intensity with material from his new album Egypt. He
chose Fes for the live premiere ñ with a hybrid orchestra of Arab and
Senegalese musicians playing together in beautiful, tuneful fusion. This is a
new direction for NíDour, which expresses his deep Islamic faith and the Sufi
message of tolerance and peace. It works ñ better than many Youssou fans
had expected. There was all the fun and sensuality of Senegal, in tandem with
darker, more challenging Arab tones.
The monks of Shechen
monastery in Nepal acted out a muscular interpretation of meditation
experience, complete with a rapid succession of mask and costume changes. It
symbolised a journey from the demonic to the sublime, with extra emphasis from
the acutely alien sounds of Tibetan horns, percussion and hand bells.
There was vivid colour, high drama and a series of spectacular synchronised
leaps skywards. The lama dancers took the audience on a transcendental
adventure. It was powerful stuff and there were lots of phews and aahs and wide
eyes, as well as rapturous applause.
There was a profound,
mystical performance by the brothers Meher and Sheher Ali, successors to
the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The latter popularised Pakistanís Qawwali music
around the world. The Ali brothers are the new international ambassadors of this
tradition, which has its roots in the arrival in the sub continent of the Sufi
brotherhoods during the 18th century.
Ecstatic Sufism merged
with Pakistani musical expression and the result has a hypnotic, trance-inducing
quality. Meher and Sheher gave the longest performance of this yearís festival
-- and they held their audience spellbound throughout.
And there was the
occasion when Fes paid tribute to Miriam Makeba ñ an icon of World Music and a
doyenne of the struggle against apartheid. In return Miriam paid tribute
to the Spirit of Fes with her wit and wisdom, her unique charisma and a voice
that despite her 72 years belts out the liberation songs of black Africa above
the volume of an electric band.
Those concerts were
the best of Fes. Other high spots included impeccable performances from
the Sirine Choir from Russia and the UKís Tallis Scholars. But in the context
of full-on mystical ecstasy, you have to take part in the late night Sufi
rituals. These started as a minority interest, but this year were packed to
capacity with visitors one would not expect to see dancing into trance.
So
at this level the festival does have influence. It fulfils its remit when it
succeeds in drawing audiences into a realm beyond the confines of everyday life
ñ and perhaps more significantly causing us to reflect on the value of the Fes
experience afterwards. People who attended the Colloquium sessions said
the discussions added an extra dimension to their overall impression ñ
mind food as well as spiritual stimulus. But we have still to find out if
the Spirit of Fes will translate into something useful in the outside world.
LINK TO
SHAMBHALA NORTH AMERICAN POETRY FESTIVAL
http://www.shambhala.cc/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7h
THE EVIL DOERS TOUR-
MINISTRY & THRILL
KILL KULT W/ HANZEL UND GRETYL
TKK www.sleazeboxrecords.com
& MINISTRY www.ministrymusic.org
are touring in September and
October, and I mean, touring.
I have fantastic Franke
(from his personal files) shots for you and the poster for the tour with Al from
MINISTRY featured!
GROOVY MAN on stage!
MINISTRY & TKK SHOWS
IN SEPTEMBER 2004
7 LAS VEGAS
HOUSE OF BLUES
8 PHOENIX
MARQUEE THEATRE
10 EL PASO
CLUB XCAPE
11 SAN ANTONIO
SUNSET STATION
12 DALLAS
LAKEWOOD THEATRE
13 NEW ORLEANS
HOUSE OF BLUES
14 HOUSTON
MERIDIAN
15 OPEN
16 ALBUQUERQUE
SUNSHINE THEATRE
17 DENVER
OGDEN THEATRE
18 FORT COLLINS
AGGIE THEATRE
19 SALT LAKE
CITY VELVET ROOM
20 OPEN
21 SAN DIEGO
4TH + B
22 ANIHEIM
HOUSE OF BLUES
23 OPEN
24 LA-
HOUSE OF BLUES
25 LA-
HOUSE OF BLUES
26 SAN FRANCISCO
THE GRAND
27 OPEN
28 PORTLAND
ROSELAND THEATRE
29 SEATTLE
FENIX UNDERGROUND
30 VANCOUVER
COMMODORE BALLROOM CANADA!!!
OKTOBER
1 EDMONTON
REDS
2 CALGARY
MACEWAN HALL
3 SASKATOON
PRAIRE LAND PARK
4 REGINA
DORIS KNIGHT HALL
5 WINNIPIG
BURT CUMMINGS THEATRE
6 OPEN
7 MINNEAPOLIS
QUEST CLUB
8 SAUGET NY
POPS
9 CINNCINNATI
BOGARTS
10 CHICAGO THE
VIC
11 OPEN
12 MILWAUKEE
THE RAVE
13 DETROIT
ST. ANDREWS HALL
14 TORONTO
COOL HAUS
15 PITTSBURGH
MR. SMALLS THEATRE
16 WORCHESTER
PALLADIUM
17 MONTREAL
METROPOLIS
18 OPEN
19 NEW YORK
BB KINGS
20 NEW YORK
BB KINGS
21 POUGHKEEPSIE
22 OPEN
23 BALTIMORE
THUNDERDOME
24 OPEN
25 WASHINGTON DC
930 CLUB
26
27
28
29
30
31 ORLANDO
HOUSE OF BLUES HALLOWS EVE
NOVEMBER
1
2 VOTE!!!
CYRINDA & PEG--Cyrinda,
always in our thoughts!
And you Miss Peg, how's it
going?
LUNA LOUNGE NEW YORK
Thursday August 12th
8:30pm The Go Station 9:30pm Neon Thrills (For
fans of Supergrass, GBV and Cheap Trick. http://www.neonthrills.com)
10:30pm Morning Theft
Friday August 13th
8:30pm Poparoxi 9:30pm The Assault (For fans of
Motorhead, Big Star, & The Runaways. http://www.theassaultonrock.com)10:30pm
Electric Ladybugs (For fans of Blind Faith, Pavement, The Turtles and Radiohead.
http://www.electricladybugs.com)
11:30pm Passersby (For fans of Blur, The Shins, and The Magnetic Fields. http://passerby.dairylandrecords.com)
Saturday August 14th
8:30pm The Pillcrushers (For fans of Wilco, Big
Star, and Badfinger. http://www.thepillcrushers.com)
9:30pm Max Fox 10:30pm The Couriers 11:30pm Dead Blonde Girlfriend (For fans of
The Ramones,Guns -n- Roses and Pixies. http://www.deadblondegirlfriend.com)
Sunday August 15th
7:30pm Rob Dova 9:30pm Beijing
Monday August 16th
7:30pm Hightower Smith 8:30pm The Divide 9:30pm
Shanghai Love Motel
Tuesday August 17th
7:30pm The Squeeky Fromme 8:30pm Hello Nurse
9:30pm The Dead Betties
Wednesday August 18th
8:30pm Nemo 9:30pm The Twelve (For Fans of The
Soledad Brothers, The White Stripes and The Rolling Stones. http://www.thetwelve.net)10:30pm
Arbor Day
Thursday August 19th
7:30pm Orange Park (For fans of The Beatles 65',
The early Who, and Cheap Trick. http://www.orangeparkmusic.com)
8:30pm Big Bootee 9:30pm Neon Thrills (For fans of Supergrass, GBV and Cheap
Trick. http://www.neonthrills.com)
10:30pm Motel Creeps
Friday August 20th
8:30pm The Mean Corner 9:30pm Surefire (For fans
of The Eels, The Stone Roses, and Grandaddy. http://www.surefireband.com)10:30pm
Fooled By April (For fans of the Fountains of Wayne, the Beach Boys, and Big
Star. http://www.fooledbyapril.com)11:30pm
Telestatic (For fans of Radiohead, Oasis, and Coldplay. http://www.telestatic.cjb.net)
Saturday August 21st
8:30pm The Bocks 9:30pm The Domestics (For fans
of Blondie, Operation Ivy and PJ Harvey. http://www.thedomestics.com)10:30pm
Headquarters (For fans of The Fall, The Kinks and The Who. http://www.hqmusic.net)
Sunday August 22nd
7:30pm Mobile Flying Circus 9:30pm Benny Girl
10:30pm Measure My Sexy
Monday August 23rd
8:30pm - 10:30pm The Dave Hill Talk Show
From Rock n' Roll TOURING to
Theater;
from CODEPINK friends..... in the NEW YORK/LONG ISLAND area
Bare Bones Theater
Company is offering 3 one-act plays
Please consider coming and
bringing a friend or two, II
have a juicy, role in HOTLINE that I'd like to do for you.
Charlotte the Peace Crone
Bare Bones Theater
Company of Northport
presents
3 One Act Plays:
Elaine Mays' - "HOTLINE"
Christopher Durang's - ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE
Edward Albee's - ZOO STORY
at
THE POSEY STUDIO
(newly air conditioned,
2 flights up
not handicap accessible)
57 MAIN STREET
NORTHPORT
on
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19th &
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20th
&
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24th &
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25th.
at
8 p.m. SHARP!
$10 with
reservation..........$12 at the door.
For Reservations call:(631)
754-3499 OR WWW.BAREBONESTHEATER.COM
or Let me know:
Charlotte (631) 261-8590
Meanwhile in Europe:
Xaviera Hollander
presents:
BEDROOM FARCE
by Alan Ayckbourn
Set in the three
bedrooms of three very different couples. The first couple, married for
more than 30 years sets out for a romantic anniversary dinner but ends up eating
sardines on toast in bed.
The second is planning a
housewarming - if they can keep their hands off each other. The third
couple, though secure in their relationship, bicker with each other because one
of them has a bad back and doesn't want his partner to meet up at the party with
an ex boyfriend.
However, a fourth couple
arrives at the party in a state of some
confusion over their own
relationship. An ex offers one of them advice but soon is offering rather
more - putting a premature end to the festivities. Hysterical situations
ensue as the friends try to mend their differences and the distraught couple
seek solace in one or other of the three bedrooms.
Alan Ayckbourns plays have kept audiences laughing in the West End for more than 3 decades.
SHOWTIME
HOTEL ARENA,
's Gravesandestraat 51
Amsterdam
SPECIAL OFFER OPENING
SHOW
on September 24, 2004
DOOR OPEN at 6.30 p.m.
DINNER
6.45 p.m.
SHOW TIME
8.00 p.m.
After the show the
evening will turn into a DISCO (CLASSIC FRIDAY) with hits from the
80's.
ALL IN PRICE Euro 65.00
Price includes a welcome
drink, dinner with coffee , a fabulous show & admission to Classic Friday,
Door open at 6.45 p.m.
September 26,27,29
-Concordia Theater, Hoge Zand 42 - Den Haag - 8p.m.
September 30 -
Muiderpoort Theater, 2e v.Swindenstr.26, Asd - 8 p.m.
October 1, 2 -
Muiderpoort Theater, 2 v. Swindenstr. 26,Asd - 8 p.m.
Muiderpoort Theater,
2e v.Swindenstr.26, Asd - 8 p.m.
October 1, 2 -
Muiderpoort Theater, 2 v. Swindenstr. 26,Asd - 8 p.m.
Choice of tickets with or without a meal.
tel. info: 020
6733934
email: xie@xavierahollander.com
website www.xavierahollander.com/booker
Xaviera is very politically
aware; she sent this news report about anti-semitism in France:
What's
New in Paris?
by Carole Raphaelle Davis
The spring 2004 fashions
have arrived in the chic boutiques of Paris, and along with 50s-style full
skirts and prim lace collars, anti-Semitism is back in fashion. In
France this season, Jew-hating is all the rage, literally.
Attacks against Jews and
their property have escalated to an alarming extent. The French Jewish
community (at 600,000, the second-largest Jewish population outside of Israel)
is living in a state of anxiety. Hostile acts against Jews are
posted weekly on the Web site of the Representative Council of
Jewish Institutions of France (www.crif.org), and on
www.consistoire.org/incidentsfr.html,
a government hate-crime report center. Here are just a few
examples from the last few weeks:
A 14-year-old boy wearing
a yarmulke came out of the Ourq metro station and was followed by two
young men. They called him a "dirty Jew" and robbed him in
front of a crowd of witnesses. The men knocked the boy down, beat him on
the head and broke his nose. The boy begged for help from passers-by, who
simply walked away.
In central Paris, a
teacher from a Jewish school was beaten up by young men, who ripped the Star of
David from the teacher s neck and trampled her. They called her a
"dirty Jew" and lit her hair on fire. They also told her,
"We're going to burn all you Jews."
A group of four young men
interrupted a class in the auditorium of the University Medical School of
Saint-Antoine in Paris. They yelled, "We're going to kill
all the Jews" and, "We're armed and we're going to take you all
down."
When a Jewish student
confronted the men they beat him and robbed him. The professor who was
teaching the class said nothing and the men walked out without a care while the
class looked on in silence. The dean of the University has been told of
the situation but has not yet responded.
On the walls of the Rue
Des Rosiers (in the Marais, the Jewish quarter), once again there are
signs of the Star of David in yellow paint accompanied by the slogan,
"And don't forget the showers of Zyclon," referring to the gas
used in Nazi death camps.
Also in Paris, a
12-year-old girl coming out of a Jewish school was attacked by two men.
They beat her, held her down and slashed her face with a box cutter.
They carved a swastika into her face and walked away. Her parents have
filed a police report.
A swastika carved into
the face of an innocent Jewish girl proves how anger directed at Jews in
France has moved beyond mere hate-speech and racist vandalism. The symbols
of hate have jumped from desecrated tombstones and subway walls to
the actual skin of Jews.
Unlike the last big wave
of anti-Semitism in France, the people who are committing these crimes today are
predominantly first-generation descendants of immigrants from the former
French colonies in North Africa - Muslim Arabs.
Radicalized Islam is
taking root all over Europe, encouraged by the international Arab press, the
successes of Al Qaeda and sympathy for the Palestinian intifada.
This malignant hatred is
fueled by the Internet, where thousands of French, European and Arabic-language
sites give voice to and connect cyber-haters in Internet chat rooms.
Virtual Jewish blood is flowing from ever-growing e-mail lists while
live screaming for Jewish blood is heard at pro-Palestinian/
anti-American
demonstrations on the Grands Boulevards of Paris.
A 12-year-old Jewish
girl walking home from school in Paris is not an Israeli in "occupied
territory," but these days she might as well be. She is defenseless
and we must step forward to protect her. This new generation of
anti-Semites, "Arabullies" are also virulently anti-Israel.
Sadly, but not
surprisingly, if one speaks in support of Israel at French dinner parties,
one is shouted down. Even at my own dinner table, when I told
a guest of my fears about living in Paris in such a climate of anti-Semitism, he
insisted, "There is no anti-Semitism in France, don't be ridiculous."
When I told him that
among other papers, I was reading The New York Times, he said, "You
know, The New York Times is a Jewish paper and Jews control all the
media." He said it with a smile, even knowing that I am a Jew.
What
made his comments
especially chilling is that he is on the Catholic Board of Education of
Paris.
So this spring in Paris, like
every spring, the fashion runways are a jumbled mix of styles, as each designer
angles to dominate the nouveau look of the season. This
season, I'm afraid the designers of bigotry and hate are already having a good
year. In fact, those long, belted black leather Waffen SS coats look
an awful lot like Gucci's sexy new fall line. I wonder what
will be modeled on the
Paris runways next spring - striped pajamas? Starched black
shirts?
Europeans have always had a
soft spot for this fascist garb.
For Dahlia's news....click here www.dahliaschweitzer.com
Hi Angie, you probably wont want to hear this but i'm a huge David Bowie fan. My names Christine i'm 16 from Scotland, I diden't know you had any albums out cause i diden't even know that you were a singer cool when you find these things out. Do you ever get people questioning you about David a lot, it must be annoying. just thought i would e-mail you and hope you might e-mail me back for a chat Love Christine
Dear Christine, Thank you for your e mail. Are you enjoying the summer holidays? Scotland is a gorgeous place, hope you are having fun. Come visit the site again soon, regards, Angie
Hello, Knowing you won't
read this but I just stumbled on these pages and I am totally charmed. Over a
long time I sort of wondered what it must be like to be a walking work of art.
What a positively wonderful person. I am surprised you landed in the desert here
but interesting to know that. Keep up the good work. Steve Muncie, Indiana
And from LONDON, JUDE
RAWLINS and the SUBTERRANEANS, Jude writes...
Celebration Day
Today is 11th July 2004.
Exactly one hundred years ago today a small social gathering took place at 46 Gordon Square, London. The explosion of creativity that arose from that meeting sent shockwaves through English art that are today as loud and as relevant as art has ever been.
It was such a small thing, a mere reunion of a handful of friends formally of Cambridge University at the London home of Thoby Stephen, one of their number. Thoby had simply invited his friends Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Saxon Sydney Turner, Leonard Woolf and David Garnett to tea, because they all happened to be in town at the same time. It was the first time any of the Cambridge friends had met Thobyís two sisters, Vanessa and Virginia. They sat and had tea and talked. And talked, and talked. The two women enchanted the entire room, Vanessa with her ferocious opinions on art and her boundless energy and rule-breaking enthusiasm for life, Virginia with her searing intellect and lightning wit.
Such meetings soon became a regular Thursday evening event at 46 Gordon Square. The Bloomsbury Group had been born. Soon they would be joined by Dora Carrington, T.S. Eliot, Katharine Mansfield, Ottoline Morrell, and Vita Sackville-West. For more than two generations they would dominate English art and literature. Alas, Thoby would never see it, succumbing to Tuberculosis in 1907, the year after Vanessa and Clive were married, and two years before the marriage of Virginia and Leonard.
In 1910, Vanessa, Clive, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant, under the patronage of Ottoline Morrell, set up their own art gallery in London, the Omega Rooms. They travelled to Europe to find exciting new art for their first exhibition, bringing back works by little known artists whom the Omega Rooms would make household names; among them Van Gogh, Cezanne, Monet, Matisse, and Rodin.
By 1912 John Maynard Keynes had become the foremost economist of his day, and Lytton Strachey had begun to push back the boundaries of what could be done in literature, becoming the pre-eminent figure in a new movement of writers.
In 1913 Virginia and Leonard founded their own publishing house, the Hogarth Press. They were the first to publish works by Eliot, Mansfield and Forster, as well as the first English language translations of the maverick German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Their book covers were adorned by decorative designs from the hands of Vanessa, Duncan Grant and Dora Carrington, which also broke new ground and began what became known as the Bloomsbury style.
Following the outbreak of war in 1914, Vanessa and Clive, who now had two young children Julian and Quentin, elected to move out of London to the Sussex countryside. They took over Charleston, an Elizabethan farmhouse east of the small town of Lewes. Charleston quickly became the Bloomsbury Groupís new base, as John Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant also moved in.
By 1916 it was evident that Hogarthís greatest asset, and Bloomsburyís most uncompromising voice, was Virginia herself, who had turned her attention from being a publisher to being a writer.
The rest, as they say, is history.
From Van Goghís "Sunflowers" to the novels of Woolf, Eliot and Forster, from Vanessa and Duncanís designs that became the very definition of 1920ís English art, to Ottoline Morrellís patronage and protection of everyone from Henry Moore to D.H. Lawrence, a world without the influence of Bloomsbury is completely unthinkable. To say nothing of the sexual and intellectual revolutions that they initiated.
Of all artistic movements in the last two centuries, Bloomsbury came closest to realising the visionary utopia of Blakeís Jerusalem. They set the world alight with new ideas, and they did it selflessly and with love and passion.
And it all started 100 years ago today, over tea and, probably, cakes.
Jude
"When the new age is at leisure to pronounce, all
will be set rightÖ Inspired Men will hold their proper rank, and the Daughters
of Memory shall become the Daughters of Inspiration. Rouse up, O Young Men of
the New Age! Set your foreheads against the ignorant hirelings! Painters! On you
I call. Sculptors! Architects! Suffer not the fashionable fools to depress your
powers by the prices they pretend to give for contemptible works, or the
expensive advertising boasts that they make of such works. They are a class of
men whose whole delight is in destroyingÖif we are but just and true to our own
Imaginations we shall live forever in Worlds of EternityÖ
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land."
- William Blake, 1809
www.subterraneans.co.uk
Franzie for POETZ4PEACE
& PSM RECORDINGS
. biL "Studio to
Stage" Workshop and Showcase for NARAS this weekend
. Olive Tree Music LTD drops
" A Cyprus Thing Vol. 1" OTM002 worldwide!
. Independent Distribution
Collective is born, check it out!
Many of you already
know about Olive Tree Music, the label that is home to
Poetz4Peace in Cyprus. These fine folks have now released a new album,
a double CD in fact, featuring over a dozen youth from both sides of
the dreaded Greenline. This package includes both an Urban and World CD.
It will be available in the US starting next week. Check out the
press release below, or http://www.olivetreemusic.net
for more
details...
Olive Tree Music LTD
presents "A Cyprus Thing, Vol.1" OTM 002
is a compilation that features 29 tracks from the
deepest Mediterranean and beyond. This initiative
is supported by the Bi-communal Development Programme,
which is funded by USAID and UNDP and is executed by UNOPS.
The double CD is a
combination of urban and world music, featuring 19 artists
and groups. Much of the material is by local acts, both established
and new. Olive Tree Music also includes contributions from Greece,
Turkey, USA, UK and Norway. This approach represents a first for a
locally based music company, with such a broad range of international links,
most of whom are well established in their own markets.
The philosophy for
'Cyprus Thing' is as simple as the sun shining over the
world each day. Bringing people together, far below the radar of politics,
Olive Tree Music aims to show how people can work together in a
creative, multicultural and multilingual environment. The celebration of
such diversity marks a great occasion on this Mediterranean island, where
pop music from Greece, Turkey and all the usual globalized icons
tend to dominate. By
turning a new kind of page, the makers of 'Cyprus Thing'
aim to build a different kind of common
future, and in the process hope
to establish a thriving independent
local music industry.
So open your ears, ex-communicate some stereotypes from your mind and take in what many people are describing as the best release ever from yprus.
Distribution - All Records Cyprus ? PSM Recordings USA - Trehantiri Music UK
Olive Tree Music PO
Box 25116 Nicosia Cyprus Tel 99 614987 email
mailto:OTMusic@hotmail.com
http://www.olivetreemusic.net
Independent Distribution Collective is Born!
As some of you have heard
already, there is a brand new, totally
independent, distribution
company set to open it's doors in about a
month's time. Independent
Distribution Collective, based in Oakland, California,
will be new in every sense of the word. Some of you have seen
the flyers at Reggae on the River this past weekend, and we wanted the
PSM e-list and RAW to be some of the first people to know about it.
http://www.independentdistro.com
Look for a press
release with details about the company, it's affiliated labels,
and IDC's plan to revolutionize current distribution options and make them more
"user friendly"...
Massive Respect to the Poetz
US Band (Mike, Jeff, Pete, Lou-I and Melissa)
and to Dru, Karney, MikeL,Tara, Abbie, and Rocker.. thank you for
all of the support.
Positive Sound Management Inks Deal with SF Singer/Songwriter Karney!
PSM is very pleased to
announce a new management deal between San Francisco
Singer/Songwriter Karney and Positive Sound Management. So far it
has been a great adventure for Karney, making and marketing CDs, getting
out on the road as well as performing locally, and of course all the
incredible press. Now we are upping the ante, and plunging headlong
into another level and new
chapter for Karney and Tangent Records.
San Francisco Chronicle said "she can evoke '70s rock queens such as Ann Wilson of Heart, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac or Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, although the intense drive for self-expression that fuels her writing and singing reeks of punk poet Patti Smith."
Minnesota's Collected Sounds praised her "great soulful voice, and music that is unique and interesting. Not your average pop junk." Music Editor Jennifer Maerz writing for The Stranger in Seattle found Karney reminded her of "artists like the Indigo Girls and Edie Brickell."
Publisher Jonathan Ment of the Urban Rag also likened Karney to Chrissie Hynde, but was uncertain as to whether Karney sounded like Edie Brickell or the instrumental on the CD sounded like the New Bohemians.
Kristy Martin of CMJ New Music Report suggested that Karney "channels the spirits of female singer/songwriters including Aimee Mann, Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano and Pat Benatar.
f course, we can put ourselves into the role of music reviewers and debate who Karney's masterful pipes most resemble, or we can defer to the judgment of funk master George Clinton who summed up this artist's musical prowess with the rhetorical question, "How'd a white girl get so funky?"
Also, look forward to more exciting news as Karney and Stand Out (aka Steffen), now join in what is sure to be a dynamic and successful partnership.
For more info on Karney, her
new album, and her other works check out:
http://www.karney.org
Karney Upcoming July Gigs:
Hullo Angie, gee I'm so psyched to actually
be writing to you! (and I'm not
going to apologise for that little outburst) I hope that wasn't rude, but as Boy
George said "Never apologise to anyone unless you really need to."
Well, it was something like that... Anyway, I'm
babbling, and I hope you don't mind the fact that I can't spell to save my life.
I read your book Bisexuality (actually, I've been holding it hostage from the
Library...heh heh) and I absolutly loooove it!
It's absolutley fabulous dahling! I have
to tell you, that book is my Bible. I was reading it and I kept thinking
to myself, this is me, this is how I feel, she's talking about me! It
really helped me feel like I belonged, without shoving me into a silly little
labeled box. I am 15 and I have always been a Bowie fan, but I just
recently got interested in you. I just wish I had heard about you sooner,
I mean you're fabulous! You remind me so much of myself! I now know
the secret behind David's success. I mean, no offense to him, but if he hadn't
met you he would probably still be singing cute but silly songs about
celebrities. I love his music, but let's face it, you're the star!
My, my, time do fly... I have to dash. PS: I hope you don't mind the
alias, I never use my real name online.
That's OK. Your alias is just fine!
Well, folks, Michael just said to me you haven't signed anything..he's right. I guess I thought I'd just let all my friends speak for themselves.
MR. FUNTONE mentioned Cherry Vanilla in a
recent e mail and best wishes for success at the ATHENS OLYMPICS http://www.athens2004.com/
goes out to her and Vangelis.
www.vangelisworld.com
& to Jayne, hope the family is feeling
better.
Life's banquet requires choice.
Angie