23/06/2015
22/06/2015
Meanwhile in New York: Basquiat's notebook is on display at the Brooklyn Museum
Exhibitions: Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks
Tamra Davis (American, b. 1962). Still from A Conversation with Basquiat, 2006. 23 min., 22 sec. © Tamra Davis. Courtesy of the artist. By permission of the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum
April 3–August 23, 2015
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor
Brooklyn-born artist Jean-Michel Basquiat filled numerous notebooks with poetry fragments, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history. The first major exhibition of the artist's notebooks, Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks features 160 pages of these rarely seen documents, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings.
A self-taught artist with encyclopedic and cross-cultural interests, Basquiat was influenced by comics, advertising, children's sketches, Pop art, hip-hop, politics, and everyday life. Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks emphasizes the distinct interplay of text and images in Basquiat’s art, providing unprecedented insight into the importance of writing in the artist’s process. The notebook pages on display contain early renderings of iconic imagery—tepees, crowns, skeleton-like figures, and grimacing faces—that also appear throughout his large-scale works, as well as an early drawing related to his series of works titled Famous Negro Athletes.
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and is curated by Dieter Buchhart, guest curator, with Tricia Laughlin Bloom, former Associate Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
A self-taught artist with encyclopedic and cross-cultural interests, Basquiat was influenced by comics, advertising, children's sketches, Pop art, hip-hop, politics, and everyday life. Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks emphasizes the distinct interplay of text and images in Basquiat’s art, providing unprecedented insight into the importance of writing in the artist’s process. The notebook pages on display contain early renderings of iconic imagery—tepees, crowns, skeleton-like figures, and grimacing faces—that also appear throughout his large-scale works, as well as an early drawing related to his series of works titled Famous Negro Athletes.
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and is curated by Dieter Buchhart, guest curator, with Tricia Laughlin Bloom, former Associate Curator of Exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Support for this exhibition is provided by the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation and Christie's.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988). Untitled (Ter Borch), circa 1987–88. Acrylic and oilstick on canvas, 49½ x 39½ in. (125.7 x 100.3 cm). Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Copyright © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Licensed by Artestar, New York
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988). Untitled Notebook (front cover), 1980–81. Mixed media on board, 95⁄8 x 75⁄8 x ¼ in. (24.4 x 19.4 x .6 cm). Collection of Larry Warsh. Copyright © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: Sarah DeSantis, Brooklyn Museum
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988). Untitled, 1986. Acrylic, collage, and oilstick on paper on canvas, 941⁄8 x 1362⁄5 in. (239 x 346.5 cm). Collection of Larry Warsh. Copyright © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: Gavin Ashworth, Brooklyn Museum
Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988). Untitled, 1982–83. Oilstick, colored pencil, crayon, and gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 96 x 126 in. (243.8 x 320 cm). Collection of Fred Hoffman. Copyright © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved. Licensed by Artestar, New York
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"John Lee Hooker" - Terry Callier
"John Lee Hooker" -
Robert Del Naja
(feat. Terry Callier)
From Terry Callier's album Hidden Conversations
Bristol inspiration - watercolours
Bristol did inspire me a lot as followers of this blog may have seen. I've met wonderful artists in the beautiful and wholehearted city and now all I want is to be the best of myself in return.
My last week there, early June, I had the opportunity to spend time at the Other Art Fair - Bristol, where the painters and artists I met and interviewed were in an other dimension compared to who I met in dozens of FIACs in Paris and Frieze Art Fair in London. Warm, sharing ideas, having time to talk about their work and the art world in general, they were a true inspiration!
See my previous post for details:
http://melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.fr/2015/06/insights-into-other-art-fair-bristol.html
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Today I painted my first watercolours thanks to the beautiful memories of paintings from Emma Davis and Abigail McDougall, and also inspired by my friend Anne Cazaubon (see http://www.annecazaubonart.com/).
And it was enough to make me very happy...
Une prairie :
Mosquée Bleue :
Tiken Jah Fakoly rend hommage au reggae : "Is It Because I'm Black?" With Ken Boothe
Tiken Jah Fakoly - "Is It Because I'm Black?"
feat. Ken Boothe
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Lien : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyFzSsMrqgE
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Voici aussi un extrait d'un article de Télérama sur son prochain album :
http://www.telerama.fr/musique/regardez-un-premier-clip-extrait-du-nouveau-disque-de-tiken-jah-fakoly,128228.php
En septembre prochain, Tiken Jah Fakoly publieraRacines, un album hommage à l’âge d’or du reggae jamaïcain. Un disque exclusivement composé de standards de Bob Marley, Buju Banton, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh… réarrangés « à l’africaine ». Quelques figures légendaires – et tutélaires – ont pris part à l’enregistrement, croisant leur voix avec celle du chanteur ivoirien. Parmi eux, Ken Boothe, alias Mr Rocksteady, interprète d’exception, cinquante ans de carrière au compteur. Ensemble, ils reprennent Is it Because I’m Black ?l’une des premières (et magnifique) chansons soul sur l’identité afro-américaine, écrite en 1968 par Syl Johnson, soul-bluesman du Mississippi.
Un choix évident pour Tiken Jah Fakoly. Et pas seulement parce que Ken Boothe en enregistra une version reggae cuivrée en 1974 : « C’est une chanson sur les préjugés qui parle pour moi et pour tous les Noirs victimes du racisme à travers le monde. Elle aurait du servir de bande-son à tous les reportages télévisés sur les émeutes raciales de Ferguson et de Baltimore. »
Ken Boothe ne connaissait pas Tiken Jah Fakoly. Ils se sont rencontrés à Kingston quelques jours avant l’enregistrement au studio Tuff Gong de Bob Marley. En deux prises l’affaire était pliée. Ne restait plus qu’à greffer sur le duo vocal les instruments traditionnels africains qui donnent une couleur inédite à cette intemporelle complainte.
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Plus de détails bientôt!
21/06/2015
Public Image Ltd. - 'Poptones'
"I can't forget the impression you made
You left a hole in the back of my head"
Public Image Ltd. - 'Poptones'
https://youtu.be/IQtO6R4qkg0
16/06/2015
LE POP GROUP, en un article. En tournée en Grande-Bretagne
Ravie, ravie d'avoir pu parler longuement à Mark Stewart du Pop Group lors de mon dernier séjour à Bristol dont le groupe est originaire!
Mon dernier article pour Toute la Culture :
http://toutelaculture.com/musique/pop-rock/le-pop-group-legende-du-post-punk-de-bristol-revient-et-debarque-a-paris/
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Le groupe devait jouer à Paris samedi 20 juin, mais pour des raisons logistiques, le concert a été annulé et sera reporté à septembre.
En attendant le Pop Group sera à Bristol le 26 juin, à l'Exchange de Paul Horlick, et au Festival de Glastonbury le 27 juin.
LE POP GROUP, LÉGENDE DU POST PUNK DE BRISTOL, REVIENT SUR SCene
15 juin 2015 Par
Avec un album sorti en février, Citizen Zombie, le Pop Group revient avec un son toujours aussi percutant que sur son dernier, Where There’s A Will… sorti en 1980 ! Ces pionniers du post punk britannique n’ont pourtant pas disparu pendant tout ce temps, et ont surtout inspiré tous les musiciens de Bristol pendant les décennies qui les ont suivi. Le groupe est en tournée et passe par Paris le 20 juin au Social Club. Retour sur le parcours d’une musique qui a marqué les esprits.
Il fut un temps où Mark Stewart, le leader du Pop Group, était le colocataire de Tricky à Bristol, à la fin des années 1980s, c’est même avec lui que le musicien de génie à découvert l’une de ses chanteuses de prédilection, la sublime et ultra talentueuse Martina Topley Bird. Mais il n’a pas influencé que Tricky à Bristol, tout le monde le connaît, et il a partagé de nombreux soirs les platines avec Daddy G, ou Grant Marshall, l’un des DJ les plus connus de Bristol, alors membre du collectif The Wild Bunch et depuis de Massive Attack.
Le Pop Group, à l’origine des débuts musicaux de Bristol
Mark Stewart a fondé le Pop Group en 1977 avec le guitariste et multi instrumentiste Gareth Sager, le batteur Bruce Smith, et les bassistes Dan Catsis, John Waddington et Simon Underwood. Les deux derniers ont depuis quitté le groupe. « Bristol est une petite ville », raconte Mark que j’ai joint lors du passage en concert à Londres. « La plupart des musiciens qui travaillent encore dans la ville sont des amis de longues dates, nous avons fait nos armes dans les mêmes clubs. Nous avons gardé contact. Moi, depuis les années 1981/82 et la fin du Pop Group, j’ai eu des projets solo, j’ai croisé Björk, Nine Inch Nails, Massive Attack ».
Et tous lui disent régulièrement que la musique du Pop Group a été une inspiration pour eux, son énergie, ses paroles radicales, son héritage punk. Et c’est ainsi que récemment est venue l’idée de ressortir certains morceaux. Mais les membres du groupe décident qu’il est important de produire de nouveaux titres. « Je vivais à Berlin à cette époque et en 2010 le festival All Tomorrow’s Party avait choisi le réalisateur de la série américaine The Simpson, Matt Groening, comme curateur. Il a voulu inviter aussi bien Iggy Pop que moi et nous a demandé de reformer nos groupes ! Ce fut une véritable explosion volcanique ! ».
Une rébellion libératrice menée depuis les années Thatcher
L’expression convient bien à Mark Stewart. Doté d’une énergie sans borne, d’un talent d’orateur, d’un humour très West Country, et d’une voix puissante, il a toujours cru dans le pouvoir débridé de la musique, dans son caractère libérateur et rebelle. « Sans le mouvement punk, des gens comme moi auraient passé leur vie dans une usine », insiste Mark Stewart.
Les membres de son groupe et ses collaborateurs ont en effet fait leurs armes dans la Grande-Bretagne de Margaret Thatcher, aux heures noires de la récession, « et cette musique nous a donné une confiance folle », ajoute-t-il, « le punk fut une véritable révolution, une sorte de ‘prise de la Bastille’ culturelle, qui nous a permis d’ouvrir les frontières de notre créativité, de remettre en question l’essentiel, aussi bien la politique que nos relations personnelles. Les Clash, les Sex Pistols, le slogan ‘No Future’, ils étaient brillants et avaient une colère qui devenait une énergie positive ». Le Pop Group, tout comme ses idoles punk avant lui, s’engage alors politiquement, dans ses paroles mais aussi dans ses concerts, inspiré par série de live nommée Rock Against Racism, lancée en 1976 par plusieurs groupes punk.
Citizen Zombie
Pour leur dernier album, le groupe a voulu un titre qui reflète leurs opinions. « Citizen Zombie est une déclaration sur notre civilisation à un tournant technologique, où les citoyens sont désormais plus enfermés dans leur cage digitale que libérés par les nouvelles technologies », explique Mark. « Et nous souffrons tous de la distraction constante qu’est devenue l’obsession de la consommation. Je vis mon travail de compositeur comme celui d’un journaliste, pour moi il est important de regarder le monde en face et de s’interroger pour aider les autres à faire de même ». Le dernier clip pour le titre ‘Mad Truth’, réalisé par l’actrice et réalisatrice italienne Asia Argento, témoigne de cette énergie.
L’album, « Citizen Zombie » est de ce point de vue un des meilleurs du groupe. Même énergie, même son post punk, mais contemporain, enduit de paroles coup de point comme dans le titre ‘Nations’, sur nos nations modernes et ses citoyens, concluant : ‘We’re all addicted to something / Money / Sex / Television / Paranoia / Notoriety’. « Nous sommes tous dépendant à quelque chose… ». Et il s’agit de s’en libérer, en musique !
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Le clip d’Asia Argento:
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14/06/2015
Conflict Armament Reaseach's report show Sudanese arms spread in South Sudan and further
My latest report for Rfi English:
Sudanese arms spread in East Africa
Jonglei State, South Sudan
UN/Isaac Billy
A town in Jonglei State after fightings.
Sudan has been supplying weapons to South Sudanese rebels,
according to a report by Conflict Armament Research (CAR) released
earlier this month. Meanwhile, in northern Kenya, Sudanese guns have
been found among pastoralists.
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link to the audio:
http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20150614-sudanese-arms-spread-east-africa
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While Sudan has been the main source of arms and ammunitions in east Africa for decades, the latest report from the Conflict Armament Research Group may add to concerns in the region.
It shows that weapons and ammunition captured by pro-government
forces from opposition forces in Jonglei state late last year had come
from neighbouring Sudan.
For Claudio Gramizzi, the group's main expert, the report proves the weapons are falling in the hands of south Sudanese rebels. But they also end up further away, in northern Kenya, for instance, and in the Central African Republic.
In Northern Kenya Turkana North MP Christopher Nakuleu claimed this week that a flow of guns are coming into the country from South Sudan, most of them of made in Sudan. The arms have been used by different tribes in pastoralists' groups, fueling more violence in a dry, poor region.
It is unclear whether Khartoum is deliberately supplying rebels. But for Roland Marchal, French senior researcher on central and east Africa, there will be no end to the trade without a political solution to the conflict.
The surge of Sudanese arms in east and central Africa might therefore worsen the weak political response to the ongoing conflict in South Sudan, with the looming danger of increasingly affecting the entire region.
--link to the audio:
http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20150614-sudanese-arms-spread-east-africa
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While Sudan has been the main source of arms and ammunitions in east Africa for decades, the latest report from the Conflict Armament Research Group may add to concerns in the region.
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For Claudio Gramizzi, the group's main expert, the report proves the weapons are falling in the hands of south Sudanese rebels. But they also end up further away, in northern Kenya, for instance, and in the Central African Republic.
In Northern Kenya Turkana North MP Christopher Nakuleu claimed this week that a flow of guns are coming into the country from South Sudan, most of them of made in Sudan. The arms have been used by different tribes in pastoralists' groups, fueling more violence in a dry, poor region.
It is unclear whether Khartoum is deliberately supplying rebels. But for Roland Marchal, French senior researcher on central and east Africa, there will be no end to the trade without a political solution to the conflict.
The surge of Sudanese arms in east and central Africa might therefore worsen the weak political response to the ongoing conflict in South Sudan, with the looming danger of increasingly affecting the entire region.
13/06/2015
Music & Politics: The Pop Group - 'Nations'
The Pop Group - 'Nations'
Face to face with a very ugly transgressive leisure
Enough poverty is not only obscene but nausea-inducing
This evolved into the shit-on-the-wall blanket protests
And much worshipped horror tropes of their fore bearers / split personalities
Decades of deceptions /
American gods/infringe/or go beyond/the boundaries of a moral principle
The taboo diseased
Long before any of these things became famous
You better believe it
Scandalocity
Twisted logic
Hell is empty
Occluded from the delusions of time
The mirror of this text
Denial of service attack
The real madness
Deranged victims of gruesome consumerism
Conveniently blamed on your psychotic other half
Maybe nothing surprises us anymore?
Maybe nothing is sacred?
The disappointed voyeur
More suburban numbness
More existential boredom
The zombification of society
Is often the implication of society
The cross contamination
Of invisible positives
Predate fascination
Defiant
Dark
The other
Wholesale lies
Out of the shadows
Barbarians at the gates
Transgress the 21st century
Robbed of its vividness
Multiples auto bots
Physically non-violent forms
What brand of truth is yours?
No new freedom
Trash-aesthetics
Choose a fucking big television
Choose a starter home
Choose your friends
Choose leisurewear and fucking matching luggage
Nations of couch potatoes
Chained to their TV screens
In the ultimate gameshow
‘Welcome to the rain’
Crash, slash, become possible
Exchange strange currencies
Processed world
Your lifestyle is on trial
Project Phoenix
Remote viewing
Montauk boys
This message will self-destruct in ten seconds
Crash palace
Pay the rent - boy
Trash mansion morality invented
The transgression of internally invented ideals
The raging illnesses of our age
Transgress or act against the system
Power cut
Each is a resignation
Vote apathy
No disruption of the status quo
Critical mass is a syntactic distinction
A maddening cut up of historical reason
Or aggravated desensitization
Of other devices
Choice
Sin
Paralysis
Of synthetic diminished pleasures
The addiction doesn’t
But the addiction is
Part of the ride
We’re all addicted to something
Money
Sex
Television
Paranoia
Notoriety
Corporate crime
I was contextualised in relation to these things
This message will self-destruct in ten seconds
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'NATIONS' is taken from album Citizen Zombie, released in February of 2015 gaining widespread praise, including album of the week slots in both the Independent and Scotsman, as well as ‘album of the day’ at BBC 6Music.
Produced by the much-acclaimed Paul Epworth, a long-time fan of The Pop Group, the 11-track album features original members Mark Stewart (lyrics / vocals), Gareth Sager (guitar) Dan Catsis (bass), and Bruce Smith (drums).
Digital:
iTunes: http://geni.us/ThePopGroupCZombie
Amazon: http://geni.us/PopGroupCZombieAMZ
Bleep: https://bleep.com/release/56598-the-p...
Physical:
Amazon: http://geni.us/PopGroupCZombieAMZ
Rough Trade: http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/90108
“Never less than compelling” 4/5 Q
“Lament for broken dreams and haunted dancefloors” 4/5 Mojo
“A glorious monstrosity of industrial dub and panicky pop” 18/20 Crack
“It’s heartening to know they’re still out there” 4/5 ‘Album Of The Week’ Independent
“Citizen Zombie exists to be played loud and liberating” 4/5 ‘Album Of The Week’ Scotsman
“This thing sounds massive, front to back. The defiant and inventive British band meets the modern era head-on” NPR.org
“They paved the way for Fugazi's politicized dissonance, Massive Attack and Nine Inch Nails' larger-than-life soundscapes, and the dancefloor-friendly art-rock moves of contemporary bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Liars.” Rollingstone.com 2014
LIVE DATES
Feb 22nd Newcastle UK – BBC6 Music Festival (SOLD OUT)
Feb 23rd London UK – Rough Trade East
Mar 1st Tokyo JP – Liquid Rooms (SOLD OUT)
Mar 5th Adelaide AUS – Adelaide Festival
Mar 6th Sydney AUS – The Factory Theatre
Mar 7th Melbourne AUS – The Corner Hotel
Mar 10th Los Angeles CA – Echoplex
Mar 11th San Francisco CA – Great American Music Hall
Mar 12th Seattle WA – Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room
Mar 13th Chicago IL – Levitation Festival, Thalia Hall
Mar 14th Toronto ON – Lee’s Palace
Mar 16th Brooklyn NY – Rough Trade
Mar 17th New York NY – Bowery Ballroom
Mar 19th – 22nd Austin TX - SXSW
May 5th – Brighton UK – The Haunt
May 6th – Norwich UK – Arts Centre
May 8th – London UK – The Dome, Tufnell Park
May 9th – Sheffield UK – Plug
May 10th – Glasgow UK – CCA Arts Centre
May 11th – Liverpool UK – The Kazimier
May 16th – Aaurhus DK – Pop Revo Festival
May 29th – Aalst BEL – Netwerk Centre
May 30th – Porto PRT – Serralves Festival
June 12th – Birmingham UK – Supersonic Festival
June 19th – Hilvarenbeek NL – Best Kept Secret Festival
June 20th – Paris, FR – Social Club
June 21st – Ramsgate UK – Ramsgate Music Hall
June 26th – Bristol UK – Exchange
June 27-29 – Glastonbury UK – Glastonbury Festival
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