I found this on American Primitives and wasn’t going to post it (not an Eagles fan! - I know right!?)
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Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files (1996)
'Your Ghost' was Kristin Hersh's debut solo single, taken from 'Hips and Makers' her 1994 solo album.
The first video played on MTV was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the English new wave band The Buggles. The brainchild of super producer Trevor Horn it can hardly be called a one hit wonder if you grant that the band WAS Horn but as a band it certainly was.
Horn went on to BE the eighties producer bar none [Yes, Dollar, ABC, Malcolm McLaren, Grace Jones and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, formed ZTT Records with Paul Morley and continued to produce bands like Seal Art Of Noise etc] and eventually joined Yes as key vocalist!
speaking of muses . . . . . . .
"Adieu to the magnificent Anouk Aimée (née Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, 27 April 1932 – 18 June 2024), who has died aged 92. The most feline and inscrutable of mid-twentieth century French actresses, she’s a haunting, sensual, and Garbo-like presence in the glory days of European art cinema. Her death represents one less lifeline to that era: off the top of my head, it feels like of Aimée’s nouvelle vague French contemporaries, only Alain Delon, Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve are left? My favourite performances by Aimée: Les Amants de Montparnasse (1958), La Tête contre les murs (1959), La Dolce Vita (1960) – unforgettable as the elegant jaded thrill-seeking heiress in sensational sunglasses and little black cocktail dress! – Lola (1961), 8 ½ (1963), Model Shop (1968) and Justine (1969). But hell, I also love Aimée (dubbed by an American actress!) as the cruel lesbian queen in trashy sword-and-sandal biblical epic Sodom and Gomorrah (1962). It’s fascinating to contemplate that at the height of her international fame in the sixties, Hollywood considered Aimée for two high profile roles: the part played by Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) – and The Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965)! Let’s give punk poetess Patti Smith the final word. In her 1972 poem “girl trouble”, Smith wrote “I need a chick. not a fresh easter chick. egg pop. not a new peach. but a girl with intricate balance. a girl who is grown up. but not cold enough to be called a woman. Anouk Aimée of the black dress and bruised eyes. not a bomb shell.” Later, in 1976, Smith raved to Circus magazine “Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star. I don't mean like an American movie star. I mean like Jeanne Moreau or Anouk Aimée in La Dolce Vita. I couldn't believe her in those dark glasses and that black dress and that sports car. I thought that was the heaviest thing I ever saw.”
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Ok, this is super freaky: this is a regular analog piano being played by a computer-controlled mechanical machine and it sounds like a person speaking. Note it is not a person speaking through a treated piano! It is the piano replicating the voice of a child. If you hadn’t seen this before, (it’s from 2009) take a listen:
Deus Cantando is the work of artist Peter Ablinger. He recorded a German school student reciting some text and then composed a tune for the mechanical player to sound like the recitation. I cannot improve upon Jason Noble’s description of the work:
This is not digital manipulation, nor a digitally programmed piano like a Disklavier. This is a normal, acoustic piano, any old piano. The mechanism performing it consists of 88 electronically controlled, mechanical “fingers,” synchronized with superhuman speed and accuracy to replicate the spectral content of a child’s voice. Watching the above-linked video, it may seem that the speech is completely intelligible, but this is partially an illusion. The visual prompt of the words on the screen are an essential cue: take them away, and it becomes much harder to understand the words. But it is still remarkable that the auditory system is able to group discrete notes from a piano into such a close approximation of a continuous human voice, and that Ablinger was able to do this so convincingly using a conventional instrument (albeit, played robotically).
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https://www.rhino.com/I feel like I missed the Sugarcubes and always respect the work of Björk but don’t own any (where to start as a late comer?!) and I admire her attitude and what ‘chutzpah’?! This is COOL and from a great source here
Because american primitives told me to! . . . . . . . .
French bookstore Librairie Mollat, in Bordeaux, seamlessly blends people’s faces with book covers - love this and these are so clever found it on the wonderful American Primitives