A aquesta Ronda de Nit:
Genesis - Cuckoo Cocoon
Frank Zappa - Montana
Paolo Conte - Azurro
Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
Traffic - Withering Tree
The Velvet Underground - Sunday morning
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Nostalgia
Jacques Brel - Voir un ami pleurer
Golpes Bajos - No mires a los ojos de la gente
Chick Corea - The Woods
Pierre Henry - Psyche Rock
(From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads)
Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1974 in New York City[1] and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Auxiliary musicians also regularly made appearances in concert and on the group's albums.
The New Wave musical style of Talking Heads combined elements of punk rock, avant-garde, pop, funk, world music and art rock. Frontman and songwriter David Byrne contributed whimsical, esoteric lyrics to the band's songs, and emphasized their showmanship through various multimedia projects and performances. Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes Talking Heads as being "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s, while managing to earn several pop hits."[2]
In 2002, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four of the band's albums appeared on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and the Channel 4 100 Greatest Albums poll listed one album (Fear of Music) at number seventy-six.
David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth were alumni of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. There Byrne and Frantz formed a band called "The Artistics" in 1974.[3] Weymouth was Frantz's girlfriend and often provided the band with transportation. The Artistics dissolved within a year, and the three moved to New York, eventually sharing an apartment. Unable to find a bass player in New York City, Frantz encouraged Weymouth to learn to play bass by listening to Suzi Quatro albums.[4] They played their first gig as "Talking Heads" opening for the Ramones at CBGB on June 8, 1975.[1]
In a later interview, Weymouth recalled how the group chose the name Talking Heads: "A friend had found the name in the TV Guide, which explained the term used by TV studios to describe a head-and-shoulder shot of a person talking as 'all content, no action.' It fit."[5]
Later in 1975, the trio recorded a series of demos for CBS, but the band was not signed to the label. They quickly drew a following and were signed to Sire Records in 1977. The group released their first single, "Love → Building on Fire" in February of that year. In March 1977, they added Jerry Harrison (guitar, keyboards, vocals), formerly of Jonathan Richman's band The Modern Lovers.
Their first album, Talking Heads: 77, which did not contain the earlier single, was released soon thereafter.
It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie and Robert Fripp; the title of Eno's 1977 song "King's Lead Hat" is an anagram of the band's name. Eno's unusual style meshed well with the group's artistic sensibilities, and they began to explore an increasingly diverse range of musical directions. This recording also established the band's long term recording studio relationship with the famous Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas. "Psycho Killer", from the debut album, had been a minor hit. However, with the help of a Saturday Night Live appearance in February 1979,[6] it was More Songs... cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River" that broke Talking Heads into general public consciousness.
The experimentation continued with 1979's Fear of Music, which flirted with the darker stylings of post-punk rock. The single "Life During Wartime" produced the catchphrase, "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco."[citation needed]
1980's Remain in Light, heavily influenced by the afrobeat of Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti, to whose music Eno had introduced the band, explored African polyrhythms, foreshadowing Byrne's later interest in world music. In order to perform these more complex arrangements the band toured with an expanded group, first at the Heatwave festival in August, and later in their concert film Stop Making Sense. During this period, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz also formed a commercially successful splinter group, the hip-hop influenced Tom Tom Club, and Harrison released his first solo record. Likewise, Byrne – in collaboration with Eno – released My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which incorporated world music, 'found' sounds, and included a number of other prominent international and post-punk musicians. All were released by Sire.
The Remain in Light album's lead single, "Once in a Lifetime", became a Top 20 hit in the UK but initially failed to make an impression upon its release in the band's own country. But it grew into a popular standard over the next few years on the strength of its music video.
After releasing four albums in barely four years, the group went into hiatus and nearly three years passed before their next release, although Frantz and Weymouth continued to record with the Tom Tom Club. In the meantime, Talking Heads released a live album, The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, toured the United States and Europe as an eight-piece group, and parted ways with Eno, who went on to produce albums with U2.
1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues, a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's only American Top 10 hit, "Burning Down the House". Once again, a striking video was inescapable owing to its heavy rotation on MTV. The following tour was documented in Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, which generated another live album of the same name. The Speaking in Tongues tour was their last.
Three more albums followed: 1985's Little Creatures (which featured the hit singles "And She Was" and "Road to Nowhere"), 1986's True Stories (Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's musical comedy film, in which the band also appeared), and 1988's Naked. The sound of Little Creatures and True Stories was much more American pop-rock, while Naked showed heavy African influence with polyrhythmic styles like those seen on Remain in Light. During that time the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne's control, and after Naked the band went on "hiatus".
It took until 1991 for an official announcement to be made that Talking Heads had broken up. A brief reunion occurred, however, later that year for "Sax and Violins," an original single that appeared on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World. Only Byrne and Harrison appear in the song's video, however, lending doubt to Frantz and Weymouth's participation on the track. During this breakup period, Byrne continued his solo career, releasing Rei Momo in 1989 and The Forest in 1991. This period also saw a revived flourish from both Tom Tom Club (Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom and Dark Sneak Love Action) and Harrison (the Casual Gods album/band).
Despite David Byrne's lack of interest in another album, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison reunited for a one-off album called No Talking, Just Head under the name The Heads in 1996. The album featured a number of vocalists, representing some of the most distinctive voices of '80s and '90s alternative rock, including Debbie Harry of Blondie, Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, Andy Partridge of XTC, Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes, Michael Hutchence of INXS, Ed Kowalczyk of Live, Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays, Richard Hell, and Maria McKee. The album was accompanied by a tour which featured Johnette Napolitano as the vocalist. Byrne took legal action against the rest of the band because of "The Heads" abbreviation—something he saw as "a pretty obvious attempt to cash in on the Talking Heads name."[7]
Byrne has continued his solo career, while Harrison has become a producer of some note – the latter's résumé includes the Violent Femmes' The Blind Leading the Naked, the Fine Young Cannibals' The Raw and the Cooked, General Public's Rub It Better, Crash Test Dummies' God Shuffled His Feet, Live's Throwing Copper, No Doubt's song "New" from Return of Saturn, and most recently work by The Black and White Years and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
Frantz and Weymouth, who were married in 1977, had been recording on the side as Tom Tom Club since 1981. Tom Tom Club's self-titled debut album sold almost as well as Talking Heads themselves, leading to the band appearing in Stop Making Sense. They achieved several pop/rap hits during the dance-club cultural boom era of the early 1980s, particularly in the UK, where they still enjoy a strong fan following today. Their best-known single, "Genius of Love", has been sampled numerous times, notably on old school hip hop classic "It's Nasty (Genius of Love)" by Grandmaster Flash and on Mariah Carey's 1995 hit "Fantasy". They also have produced several artists, including Happy Mondays and Ziggy Marley. The Tom Tom Club continue to record and tour intermittently, although commercial releases have become sporadic since 1991.
The band played "Life During Wartime", "Psycho Killer" and "Burning Down the House" together on March 18, 2002, at the ceremony of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. However, reuniting for a concert tour is unlikely. David Byrne states: "We did have a lot of bad blood go down. That's one reason, and another is that musically we're just miles apart."[8] Weymouth has been critical of David Byrne, describing him as "a man incapable of returning friendship"[8] and that he doesn't "love" her, Frantz, and Harrison.[9]
Talking Heads have been cited as influences by many artists, including Kate Bush,[10] Sarah Blasko,[citation needed] and Bell X1.[11] The band Radiohead took their name from the Talking Heads' song "Radio Head" from the 1986 album True Stories.[12][13]
Richter trained in composition and piano at University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence. After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus, with which he stayed for ten years, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe and Steve Reich. The ensemble was signed to Decca/Argo, producing five albums.
In 1996, he worked with Future Sound of London on their album Dead Cities, initially starting as a pianist but ending up working on several tracks as well as co-writing one track (titled "Max").[1] Richter subsequently collaborated with FSOL over a period of two years, also contributing to the albums The Isness[2] and The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness.[3]
In 2000, Richter collaborated with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size on the Reprazent album In the Mode.[4]
In 2002, Richter composed an eighteen-track album, Memoryhouse, featuring sounds from nature and recordings of voices as well as readings of poetry in other languages. The album went out of print several years later, but is now again available. Four tracks (“Europe, After the Rain”, “The Twins (Prague)”, “Fragment“, and “Embers”) were used in the six-part 2005 BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’ produced by Laurence Rees.
In 2005, Richter produced the Vashti Bunyan album Lookaftering.
In 2006, Richter's tracks "On the Nature of Daylight" and "Horizon Variations" were used in Marc Forster's film Stranger than Fiction. "On the Nature of Daylight" was also used in Martin Scorsese's 2010 film Shutter Island.
In 2007, Richter worked on Waltz with Bashir, an animated documentary by Ari Folman. His first U.S. performance was on November 28 at the Good-Shepherd Faith Church, New York, as part of the Wordless Music Series.[citation needed]
In 2008, Richter produced the Kelli Ali album Rocking Horse and released in September his fourth solo album, 24 Postcards in Full Colour. The album is an experimental collection of miniatures for mobile phones. The pieces are a series of variations on the basic material, scored for strings, piano and electronics.[5]
In 2009, Richter composed the scores for Feo Aladag's film Die Fremde (together with Stéphane Moucha) and for Renato De Maria's film La prima linea. Memoryhouse, Richter's long out of print debut album, was reissued on November 3. The album was recorded by Richter with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2010, Dinah Washington's voice singing "This Bitter Earth" was remixed with Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight" for the Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island, and the soundtrack was released in January. In July 2010, "On The Nature Of Daylight" and "Vladimir's Blues" were used throughout the BBC Two two-part drama "Dive" co-written by Bafta award winning Dominic Savage and Simon Stevens.
(Aus wikipedia)
René Aubry is a French composer born in 1956. He is a multi-instrumentalist known for blending classical harmonies with modern instrumentation. Aubry has composed for choreographers such as Carolyn Carlson, Pina Bausch and Philippe Genty. He has also scored for films and released many of his own albums.[1]
| Jeff Buckley | |
|---|---|
| Información personal | |
| Nombre real | Jeffrey Scott Buckley |
| Nacimiento | 17 de noviembre de 1966 |
| Origen |  Anaheim, California, EEUU |
| Muerte | 29 de mayo de 1997 |
| Ocupación(es) | Cantautor, poeta |
| Información artística | |
| Género(s) | Rock, Hard rock, Folk rock, Blues |
| Discográfica(s) | Columbia |
| Web | |
| Sitio web | www.jeffbuckley.com |
Nacido en Los Ángeles, California, Jeff Buckley fue el único hijo de Mary Guibert y Tim Buckley. Su padre era compositor y publicó una serie de discos de folk y jazz muy aclamados a finales de los 60 y principios de los 70, hasta su inoportuna muerte en 1975. Su madre era de ascendencia panameña, y su padre provenía de una familia de emigrantes irlandeses de Cork. Buckley se crió con su madre y su padrastro, Ron Moorhead, en el sur de California, moviéndose continuamente por el condado de Orange. También tenía un hermanastro, Corey Moorhead. Durante su infancia fue conocido como Scott "Scottie" Moorhead pero cuando tenía aproximadamente 10 años decidió tomar su nombre de nacimiento tras conocer a su padre (a quien no volvió a ver), aunque para su familia siguió llamándose Scottie.
A los 18 años se trasladó a Los Ángeles, donde se graduó en el curso de dos años del Musician's Institute. Buckley siempre se refirió a su paso por éste centro como una "pérdida de tiempo", aunque hizo amigos de por vida allí. Su bagaje musical se reflejó en aquellas bandas en las que participó antes de iniciar su carrera en solitario. En Los Ángeles formó parte de la banda de reggae Shinehead, así como en otras bandas en las que normalmente se limitaba a tocar la guitarra. Todavía tenía que descubrir su espléndida voz, incluso sus propios compañeros de grupo.
Buckley se trasladó a Nueva York en 1990. Su debut en público como cantante fue una actuación en 1991, un tributo a su padre, Tim Buckley, en la iglesia de St. Ann de Nueva York. No se le pagó como intérprete. Simplemente eligió mostrar sus respetos a su padre diciendo: "Esto no es un trampolín, esto es algo muy personal". Interpretó "I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain" con Gary Lucas acompañándole a la guitarra, y cantó una versión a capella de "Once I Was", que dejó al auditorio en completo silencio. Cuando se le preguntó por este concierto en particular, Buckley contestó que "no era mi trabajo, no era mi vida. Pero me sentía mal por no haber estado presente en su funeral (de su padre), de que nunca tuve la oportunidad de decirle nada. Aproveché ese concierto para mostrarle mis últimos respetos".
Buckley se convirtió pronto en intérprete solista habitual en el café Sin-é de Greenwich Village, donde atrajo la atención de los ejecutivos de Columbia Records. En 1993 Columbia publicó un EP de cuatro temas grabados en el café Sin-é.
Buckley tocó con el guitarrista experimental Gary Lucas y su banda Gods and Monsters. En 1994, Buckley publicó su disco debut Grace, compuesto por diez canciones. Las ventas progresaban lentamente, pero el álbum enseguida recibió las alabanzas de la crítica y el aprecio de otros músicos (entre ellos Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Bob Dylan, Thom Yorke, Neil Peart y Paul McCartney). Muchos consideran su versión del Hallelujah de Leonard Cohen como la grabación definitiva de dicha canción y probablemente sea la más conocida de Buckley.
El intento de Buckley de preservar su integridad artística y creativa frente a las exigencias intolerables de la industria discográfica le llevó a una situación insoportable. Tras la publicación de su primer y aclamado disco, Buckley pasó más de dos años de gira por todo el mundo. Parecía ser una forma agotadora pero eficaz de mantener la independencia de su compañía discográfica, con la que mantenía una relación bastante tensa. En 1995 Buckley realizó un concierto en el Olympia de París, un local que había hecho famosa a la cantante francesa Édith Piaf y que él consideró el mejor de toda su carrera.
También realizó una gira conocida como "phantom solo tour". La inició en diciembre de 1996 utilizando diversos seudónimos como Father Demo, Topless America, Smackcrobiotic, The Halfspeeds, Crackrobats, y Martha and the Nicotines. Como justificación a tan misteriosa gira, Buckley publicó una nota en internet argumentando que había perdido el anonimato de tocar en pequeños locales y cafés:
Durante toda su carrera, Buckley hizo varios covers sobre escena de sus artistas preferidos : Bob Dylan, The Smiths, Siouxsie[1] y Leonard Cohen.
Hay muchas teorías sobre la muerte de Jeff Buckley. La historia más aceptada sobre su muerte es la que se muestra en el documental que emitió la BBC hace unos años. Es cierto que se ahogó en el río Wolf, en Memphis (Tennessee) el 29 de mayo de 1997 a la edad de 30 años, la tarde en que su banda había llegado a Memphis para comenzar la grabación de su segundo disco, que iba a llamarse My Sweetheart the Drunk. Aquel día estaba en la orilla del río Wolf con un amigo, escuchando Whole Lotta Love, de Led Zeppelin, cuando de repente, Jeff se levantó y se fue metiendo en el agua totalmente vestido. Mientras Buckley nadaba, su amigo giró para subir el volumen y cuando volvió Jeff había desaparecido. Su cuerpo fue encontrado desnudo cinco días después al final de Beale Street, la legendaria cuna del blues; pudo ser identificado por el característico piercing que llevaba en el ombligo.
También se ha especulado sobre la posibilidad de que Buckley se hubiese suicidado. La biografía escrita sobre él y su padre, Dream Brother, revela que la noche anterior a su muerte Jeff supuestamente había confesado a varios de sus seres queridos que padecía un desorden bipolar. Hay mucha controversia sobre si su muerte fue o no un accidente.
Tras la muerte de Buckley, algunas de las demos grabadas para su segundo álbum fueron publicadas bajo el nombre de Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk. Se han publicado otros tres discos con grabaciones en vivo, así como un DVD de un concierto en Chicago.
El trabajo de Buckley, aparentemente anómalo con su época, ha tenido una influencia enorme. Se han escrito numerosas canciones en su tributo, entre las que destacan "Memphis" de PJ Harvey, "Blind River Boy" de Amy Correia, "Memphis Skyline" de Rufus Wainwright, "Wave Goodbye" de Chris Cornell, "Song For A Dead Singer" del grupo belga Zita Swoon, varios temas del grupo de New Jersey Ours. Vocalistas como Thom Yorke de Radiohead y Matt Bellamy de Muse se reconocen a sí mismos como influidos por su voz.
El padre de Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, también era músico. Publicó una serie de discos de folk y de jazz muy elogiados a finales de los años sesenta y principios de los setenta antes de morir también a una edad temprana en 1975. Su madre, Mary Guibert, nació en Panamá y tocaba el piano.
