Boknakaran, Ande Somby, Rosynk & other: June 2008

Friday, 27 June 2008

Mondo Ray

Artist: Mondo Ray

   Genre(s):
Indie

Discography:

Black Mirror Boy

Year: 2005
Tracks: 17

Thursday, 19 June 2008

Budget Slashed At Bangkok Film Festival

The Bangkok Film Festival, which for a time seemed destined to become the
Cannes festival of Asia, will apparently become a shadow of its former self.
The Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand and the Thai
Directors' Association announced that they plan to keep the festival alive this
year with an event to take place during the week of Sept. 23-30 that has a
budget of just $750,000. The last Bangkok Film Festival held before the 2006
coup d'etat had a budget of $5 million, while last year's, a drastically scaled
back version presented by Thailand's Tourism Authority, was budgeted at $2
million. �

16/06/2008

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Friday, 13 June 2008

Girls Aloud - Cole Confirmed As Osbourne Replacement On X Factor

GIRLS ALOUD star CHERYL COLE has been signed as the new judge of hit U.K. TV talent show THE X FACTOR - taking over from disgruntled star SHARON OSBOURNE.

The pop beauty, who scored a chart hit with Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am on his track Heartbreaker last month (May08), will join the judging panel of the programme when it airs on Britain's ITV1 channel later in the year (Sept08).

Cole will join music mogul Simon Cowell, pop manager Louis Walsh and singer Dannii Minogue on the hit show.

Rock matriarch Osbourne quit earlier last week (06Jun08) amid speculation of a longterm rift with Minogue - sister of pop superstar Kylie Minogue - and reports TV bosses had refused her demands for a pay rise.

Osbourne went on to admit she had indeed asked for a "ridiculous" amount of money before resigning from the show after four years as a judge.

And the 55-year-old has given her blessing to her replacement, telling British radio station Radio One, "I've heard they're asking Cheryl from Girls Aloud, who I love. I'd like to see Cheryl."

Cole is ecstatic about her new role: "It's a massive honour to be following in the footsteps of Sharon Osbourne."

However, the pop star has denied the move will mean her days with Girls Aloud are numbered, adding, "The rest of the girls have said they're right behind me. So whilst we get started on the next album, it will be brilliant to be a judge on The X Factor."

Cole beat former Spice Girl Mel B and Welsh classical singer-turned-chatshow host Charlotte Church to land the job.

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Sunday, 8 June 2008

Gov't Mule and Leslie West

Artist: Gov't Mule and Leslie West

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Album

Year:
Tracks: 12

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Saturday, 7 June 2008

Tal Bachman

Artist: Tal Bachman

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

Staring Down The Sun

Year: 2004
Tracks: 13

As the boy of Guess Who/BTO guitar player Randy Bachman, Canadian-born pop out singer/songwriter Tal Bachman was elevated in a musical surroundings, fascinating the comprehensiveness of his father's enormous record collection and commandment himself to play guitar. As a teen he increasingly lost interest in music, however, and rather went on to cogitation political philosophy at a little university in Utah; at that place Bachman grew to accept his destiny as a performer, however, and before long renounce school, returning to his native Vancouver in 1995 to begin writing songs. His self-titled debut followed on Columbia in 1999, and he scored a smash hit with "She's So High."

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Sound Tribe Sector 9

Artist: Sound Tribe Sector 9

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Artifact

Year: 2005
Tracks: 20

Founded in Georgia in the late '90s, Sound Tribe Sector 9 chop-chop tasteful a style of dub-influenced, breakbeat-infused psychedelic medicine with a profound emphasis on chemical group extemporisation, like to the work of jam dance band peers such as the Disco Biscuits, Lake Trout, and the New Deal.

Sound Tribe Sector 9's debut effort, Interplanetary Escape Vehicle (1998), was recorded shortly after the group's formation and provides only skimp hints of what the sound the band would develop, rather focussing on more or less generic instrumental funk and jazz grooves. With the add-on of percussionist Jeffree Lerner in 1999, the band's sound solidified into a powerfully original, highly danceable tapestry. Through changeless touring, the chemical group began to work up a large following among crush band fans. Two more releases -- Live (1999) and Offered Schematics Suggesting Peace (2000) -- captured both the band's developing sound and their increasing pursuit in Mayan mysticism and refinement. The former accurately attested the surefooted tone of the band's unappeasable live performances, spell the latter secondhand parallel tape loops, a blend of unrecorded and studio tracks, and wide enjoyment of invitee flutist Kofi Burbridge to create a more than subtle mix. With a regard for spirituality, equivalence, and a liberation of musical egos, the band eschews solos in favor of small, insistent parts that add together into a musical image that is at once monotone and texturally deep. The band resettled to Northern California in previous 2000.

Train

Artist: Train

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

For Me, It's You

Year: 2006
Tracks: 13

My Private Nation

Year: 2003
Tracks: 11

Drops of Jupiter

Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

Train

Year: 1998
Tracks: 13

What started as iI guys with strong voices and unmatched guitar became San Francisco's Train by 1994. It was in late 1993 that Patrick Monahan left Erie, PA, and met up with the Los Angeles stria the Apostles. Lead singer/guitarist Rob Hotchkiss and mate guitarist Jim Stafford had essentially disbanded by this clock time, but the prospect encounter with Patrick Monahan proved uncaused, as Hotchkiss lengthened an invitation to the crooning Monahan to become a two-man ring. After making thoroughgoing appearances in subdued coffeehouses, they distinct to var. a entire band and enlisted erstwhile Apostles members Stafford and bassist Charlie Colin. Colin brought along his beneficial friend, drummer Scott Underwood, and Train were on their direction.

Coach settled in San Francisco to develop their heavy in a relaxed, laid-back air. In an unconvincing scenario, executives from Columbia Records verbalized an interest and, in a passably conjunctive strategy, farmed the fledgling band out to the bush league -- in this example, Aware Records -- where they could grow course and unhurriedly. In 1997, they went on term of enlistment, porta for the likes of Blues Traveler, Barenaked Ladies, and Counting Crows. Train knew they had arrived when they sold out a performance at San Francisco's prestigious Fillmore locus. Their completed debut album was released the following yr. Drops of Jupiter followed triad years later, becoming a atomic number 78 hit on the back of its single of the same describe. My Private Nation followed in 2003. Though reception was initially weak, the single "Get to Me" finally caught fire, and Train had their up-to-the-minute Billboard graph stumble. A holdover live album appeared in 2004 spell the band returned to the studio to track record My Private Nation's reexamination. The single "Taxi" proclaimed the band's render in late 2005, and the Top Ten uncut For Me It's You followed early the next twelvemonth.

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The Ten Commandments Tablets To Be Sold At Auction

Charlton Heston's most iconic movie treasures are to auctioned off as part of a massive memorabilia sale later this summer Tablets from The Ten Commandments and the kaftan and pallium the late Heston wore in Ben-hur are among the items which will go under the hammer at the upcoming Profiles in History auction in Los Angeles on July 31 and August 1. The Ten Commandments tablets, which are expected to fetch up to $60,000, were one of four used in the 1956 movie classic, and are considered to be the best preserved. They were given to The Sands Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where they have been on display for many years. A spokesman for Profiles In History says, "These tablets retain the beautiful red and black-speckled patina of the Mount Sinai-inspired granite, with translucent white engraved letters and nearly pristine edges. There are few props in the history of film that are so easily recognizable, and so coveted by seasoned collectors of original Hollywood film relics. Overall the tablets remain in exceptional condition." Meanwhile, Heston's Ben-hur costume is expected to fetch more than $12,000. The two lots are part of a 1,000 item haul, offered as part of Profiles in History's 32nd auction of Hollywood memorabilia.

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Black Tape For A Blue Girl

Artist: Black Tape For A Blue Girl

   Genre(s):
Instrumental
   New Age

Discography:

The Scavenger Bride

Year: 2002
Tracks: 13

As One Aflame Laid Bare By Desire

Year: 1998
Tracks: 12

Mesmerized By The Sirens

Year: 1997
Tracks: 10

This Lush Garden Within

Year: 1993
Tracks: 13

A Chaos Of Desire

Year: 1991
Tracks: 12

Ashes In The Brittle Air

Year: 1989
Tracks: 11

Before the Building Fell

Year:
Tracks: 10

Black Tape for a Blue Girl's ethereal, mournful sound well-nigh defined the darkwave artistic of their judge Projekt Records, a caller owned and operated by the group's founder, composer and keyboardist Sam Rosenthal. Formed in 1983, Projekt was in the beginning visualised as an sales outlet for Rosenthal's solo electronic music; upon relocating to California terzetto geezerhood later, his music adoptive a heater, profoundly personal sound heralded by the formation of Black Tape for a Blue Girl, which debuted in 1986 with The Rope. Where subsequent efforts including 1987's Spell-bound by the Sirens and its 1989 followup Ashes in the Brittle Air john Drew heavily on ambient soundscapes, the mathematical group -- a revolving ensemble of performers that in addition to Rosenthal as well at multiplication included vocalists Oscar Herrera and Lucian Casselman, violinst Vicki Richards, clarinettist Richard Watson and violoncellist Mera Roberts -- expanded into progressively thick electronic textures over the form of records like 1991's A Chaos of Desire and 1993's This Lush Garden Within. After a three-year respite, Black Tape for a Blue Girl resurfaced in 1996 with the EP The First Pain to Linger, a disk packaged with a novel authored by Rosenthal; the uncut epic Remnants of a Deeper Purity appeared that same class, followed in 1998 by As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire. Ahead the Buildings Fell appeared in early 2000.

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