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对近代乐坛影响深远的美国传奇爵士及R&B女歌手Nina Simone,前日在其法国马赛的寓所病逝,享年七十岁。据香港媒体报道,近年长期患病的Nina,前日早上在睡梦中安详地病逝,她的经理人赞扬Nina启发了不少后世乐手,她的积极和民权领袖角色将永远令人怀念。Nina三三年在北卡罗莱纳州出世,四岁开始弹钢琴,曾接受古典音乐训练,并于五九年推出首张细碟。她拥有雄浑而慑人的声线,并以歌词带有浓厚社会意识见称,近代歌手如Norah Jones、India.Arie、Peter Gabriel、Sade和Aretha Franklin等,都表示深受她的音乐薰陶。India.Arie更赞扬她道:“她是一个傲视同侪,能唱、能写和表达自己的出色钢琴手。”Nina Simone于七三年移居海外,其后表示是因国内的种族歧视而移民,她最后一次公开表演是于去年七月。 .
Eastern Youth (イースタンユース) formed in 1988 in Sapporo, Japan and are highly respected as one of the leading punk bands in Japan. They toured America with At The Drive-In in 2000, Jimmy Eat World in 2001, and Cursive in 2003 and again in 2006. Two albums, 其処カラ何ガ見エルカ "What Can You See From Your Place" (2003) and 365歩のブルース "365-Step Blues" (2006) have been released in America through FiveOne. The band released a split CD with Cursive in 2002. In 2008 the band celebrated their 20th anniversary with two career-spanning compilations and the second installment of 2-disc compilations documenting artists that have...
在今年摇滚老将的唱片中,Sonic Youth这新专辑是最优秀的,比如Morrissey、pj Havery、Alanis Morissette、Patti Smith、Courtney Love、Cure,当他们或多或少还有困惑和徘徊不前时,Sonic Youth再次表现了他们的坚定,这是音速青年近几年来最好的一张专辑,在音乐风格上他们并没有改变太多,但你很容易感到有一种结实有力且从容不迫的力量,这比之Metallica推土机式的强捍节奏更具时代性。
他们的豁达和坚守原则的底线并无冲突,而噪音和好听的旋律在他们手里也更是收放自如,听着Sonic Youth写给金斯堡的单曲《阳光的一击》,你会明白他们的心态,他们不想通过音乐去得到什么,音乐是他们愤怒之后的思考结果,也是热爱生活的另一种抒情,他们常常沉迷于大段段的噪音乐段中,却也有一些如小夜曲般的寂静之歌。
就如同他们上张专辑Murray Street一样,Sonic Youth放低了早期曾经尖锐拖长的嗓音将重点放在如何制造更为旋律化的音乐上,可即便如此,嚎叫的吉他依旧在应该出现的地方出现,当长达9分多钟的“Peace Attack”过后,我只能说这张新专辑犹如史诗般刚毅。许多迷恋过去Sonic Youth的极端乐迷不喜欢旋律化的他们,那些乐迷更为习惯那些失真和混乱肮脏的“地下状态”。但是这张新专辑蕴含更多的思考和低语,就像最好的爵士乐手一样,Sonic Youth现在已经把他们对实验摇滚的热爱转化成了一种习惯,而不是手段,正是这样的热情让他们超越了现在大多数的摇滚乐队。
由乐队主脑之一Kim Gordon的主唱“Pattern Recognition”给了专辑一个强硬的开始,也给了我们足够多的兴奋,而毫无疑问这也将是她最好的摇滚歌曲之一。而她相对安静的曲目也给人同样的撞击, "Dude Ranch Nurse"有着可以自豪的奇怪的永恒的吉他和歌词("Let me ride you till you fall/Let's pretend that there's nothing at all"(让我乘着你直到你坠落/让我们假装那什么都没有),充满着迷人的虚无主义。
在重新收拾起Murray Street遗留下的略显疲惫的实验主义精神,Sonic Youth略微笨拙地把这张专辑定名为Sonic Nurse,显示出这支乐队获得了新生,并或许比以往的他们更富有创造性,更富于多样性。这次最让人兴奋的是Kim Gordon的回归。她非常有节制地出现在NYC Ghosts & Flowers和Murray Street中,这次她却真正地融入了这张专辑,放歌四首曲目,虽然我不认同有些评论认为她的曲目在专辑中属于最强的一部分,但这的确是异常迷人的性感,她不像Courtney Love那样目空一切,在“乱弹一气”中迅速获得人心,Kim Gordon懂得用节制来释放自已,这同时也是Sonic Youth的魅力所在。
当中国的音乐青年还为摇滚和地下而碟碟不休的争吵,为明天和梦想苦恼时,在网络上谩骂别人的理想,为摆脱主流价值观、时尚、传统、个性文化和信仰而左右为难时,光荣只属于那些埋头做事的人,Sonic Youth十数年来在美国并不混迹于某个圈子,即使是在美国也难以在各大音乐杂志和媒体中看到Sonic Youth的有关报道,可他们历年来的15张专辑无不拿稳了那些坚硬的心,在音乐道路和理念上他们有着足够清醒的认识,他们目睹了一个个的摇滚风潮浪打风吹去,而他们一直屹立在最尖端。
在那些主流音乐看来,Sonic Youth是那样的疯颠,他们每次都“不顾一切”的用狂风暴雨的噪音销熔着摇滚乐也有的的明星等级,他们一度拒绝戴上任何一顶王冠,他们甚至赢得了比The Velvet Underground和Nirvana还要狂热的崇拜,因此被称为“八十年代美国地下摇滚成功的最大奇迹”。20多年来,不卑不亢的Sonic Youth最终还是被好莱坞摇滚名人大道正式接受,对此他们只不过淡然一笑而已。
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Gustavo is the stage name of Gustavs Butelis (born 19 June 1978 in Riga), a Latvian rapper and producer. He began performing in the band Fact in 1995 in Riga, Latvia. After the break-up of the band he started a successful solo career and has released 4 albums. He has written the music and lyrics for a number of theatrical performances. He also produced the Prāta Vētra 2008 album, Tur kaut kam ir jābūt. Gustavo is a seven-time Latvian Music Award winner. .
Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is an influential Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. They are renowned as a major influence in popular music, and for pioneering the electropop music genre. The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards).
The band was originally conceived as a one-off studio project by Hosono, the other two members being recruited session musicians - the idea was to produce an album fusing orientalist exotica (cf their cover version of Martin Denny's Firecracker) with modern electronics. However the first album (with its cutting-edge production) was very popular, and the studio...