Tigran Hamasyan

Júníus Meyvant - Color Decay

INTERNET USAGE OECD

Best November musical discovery so far: PROTOMARTYR from Detroit

Brexit asap then

On some levels I do hope that the UK simply opts out from the EU so that ink and bytes can be finally spared. The UK government is the worst the country had in a very long time. Let them go

Zentrum für politische Schönheit: 25 Jahre Mauerfall

The Global Gender Gap Index 2014

hundred years of rock as an infographics

Click image to see the full interactive music graphic(via Concert Hotels).

Iran, the internet and a Berlin-based graphic designer

Where are the Romanians? Why don´t they come? J. Fischer at the Hague Institute for Global Justice

God save the Italian internet providers

Slowdive           
Mac DeMarco                 
Haydn Sonatas and Symphonies
FKA Twigs                      
Broen Season 2                      
Chapterhouse                       
Charlie Haden & Co
Charlie Liberation Music Orchestra    
Ornette Coleman  Free Jazz
Swervedriver
Ambrose Akinmusire    
Lush
Africa/Brass J.Coltrane
Black Sabbath
Bob Mould                
Sharon Van Etten               
Boros - En Otra Parte           
Lee Fields and the Expressions  
The Blasters
Sylvan Esso               
The Antlers  Familiars        
Black Keys - Turn Blue       
Ty Segall                   
Brian Jonestown Massacre       
Burial Untrue               
Burial, 4tet and T.Yorke
Amen Dunes   

T. Yorke´s new album is a kick in the nuts of the self elected gate keepers (and costs 4.72 euro over BitTorrent)

His and N. Godrich´s letter

As an experiment we are using a new version of BitTorrent to distribute a new Thom Yorke record.
The new Torrent files have a pay gate to access a bundle of files..
The files can be anything, but in this case is an 'album'.
It’s an experiment to see if the mechanics of the system are something that the general public can get its head around ...
If it works well it could be an effective way of handing some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work.
Enabling those people who make either music, video or any other kind of digital content to sell it themselves.
Bypassing the self elected gate-keepers.
If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.
The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading or hosting costs or ‘cloud’ malarkey.
It's a self-contained embeddable shop front...
The network not only carries the traffic, it also hosts the file. The file is in the network.
Oh yes and it's called
Tomorrow's Modern Boxes.
Thom Yorke & Nigel Godrich

Fokus Europa : Festung Europas

Die Flüchtlingssituation an den Europäischen Grenzen und die EU-Migrationspolitik

My week in few words (so far)

Bron/Broen
Rebecca Hall
James Blackshaw
Idiots not doing their job
Asian food
Goodbye

Neil Young still believes that change can happen: new track recorded live

Glitches in the Break, jo

mapping of climate change vulnerabilities

Walk-through - Projects EMAPS Amsterdam Sprint March 2014

Gianni Ansaldo thinks he knows stuff about Radiohead´s new album

Here the post : link

Please reckon with me that the whole post is about old tracks which G.A. imagines Radiohead will use.
It has been fun to listen to this old stuff though.

A great metal band, discovered thanks to my buddy PH

D´Addario Series

B. Eno and P. Schwartz on the Gaza conflict and US politics: chronologically linked READ IT

Brian Eno initial letter

Peter Schwartz´s reply

Brian Eno reply to Schwartz

My personal  sum up:

There is no reason left to support Israel in the way he wages war to Palestinian: This is one point where the two agree.
If Israel is guilty of war atrocities as it is the case since the eighties at the latest, it has no more moral primacy left.
Two states and two people PLUS ejection of the extremists on both side the only solution.
Europe and US shall work for it without reluctance to engage.

I am still very angry.

You can´t do that ´cause it is freaking me out (via visualisingadvocacy.org)

Suddenly this video started popping out all over my feeds: where good ideas come from

New German expression I learnt

Satz des Monats:
Du laesst mich abblitzen

GIRL by Pharrell Williams

How records are (not) sold + tracklist

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If you download music illegally, you might feel like buying that record or not.

If you had not bought the record anyway, downloading it does not make any difference to the artist.

If you subscribe to Spotify or MOG or similar, you will not feel like buying a record, ever; plus almost no cent will end in the artists´ hands. For the only sake of the industry.

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Albums I (il)legally listened to lately (a lot of NPR first listen and suggestions, plus Blow Up inspired discoveries and other stuff friends uploaded on the cloud).

Beck - Morning Phase
The Notwist - Close to the Glass
St. Vincent - om.
Chopin - Nocturnes et Ballades (Ashkenazy)
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum
Angel Olsen- Brun Your Fire For No Witness
Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Thumpers - Galore
Cecile McLorin Salvant - Woman Child
Menahan Street Band - The Crossing
AAVV - Red Hot + Fela
The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues
The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
Flamin´ Groovies - Supersnazz
Blondie - Greatest Hits
De La Soul - Stake is High
Tinariwen - Tassili I
Grant Hart - The Argument
Kaboom Karavan - Short Walk with Olaf
James Holden - The Idiots are Winning
Egyptian Hip Hop - Good Don´t Sleep

From Rainer Veil an amazing slot of electronic tracks on Soundcloud

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