“New York is the thing that seduced me.
New York is the thing that formed me.
New York is the thing that deformed me.
New York is the thing that perverted me.
New York is the thing that converted me.
And New York is the thing that I love too.”
(from an interview on the BBC in 1971)
Only came outside to watch night fall with the rain
I heard you making patterns rhyme like
Some new romantic looking for the TV sound
I'll see you're right some other time love Duran Duran - Planet Earth
A Fine Romance
documentary chronicling the rise and fall of the New Romantic movement of the early 1980s.(duration ; 50min)
Top Ten 80s New Romantics
documentary reminiscencing about top 10 influential artists of the New Romantic movement of the 1980s. (duration ; 75min)
"...In my generation we tore the wall down and now we are back to the normal situation,
for example if Brian Eno or David Bowie come to me,
and if popular musicians remix my music like The Orb or DJ Spooky it is a good thing.
This is a natural normal regular historical way. " — From an Interview with Jakob Buhre
It was the culminating event in Composium 2008, a several day affair at Tokyo Opera City featuring works by Reich, including the Japanese premiere of Daniel Variations and
a performance of Music for 18 Musicians with the composer as guest artist.
live at Takemitsu Memorial in Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
(20080521)
"Daniel Variations"
"Music for 18 Musicians"
live recording at NHK 101 Studio
(20080225)
"Different Trains"
from Telegraph article
Critics have described his portrayal of troubled singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour, as "spectacular" and "outstanding".
Yesterday it received a standing ovation at its premiere on the Croisette. Even surviving members of the group were impressed.
Peter Hook, the bass player with Joy Division and New Order which evolved from it, said: "He really caught the essence of Ian's character. It was like hearing Ian. It sent shivers down my spine."
Their biggest hit was Love Will Tear Us Apart. His illness and tangled love life as well as the increasing responsibilities of the band led to him being unable to cope with the world. He hanged himself in his home exactly 27 years ago today(17th May 1980), aged 23.
from Billboard article
Shot in stark black-and-white and set in gritty, unglamorous 1970s England,
it re-creates the life of a singer who died unhappy and almost unknown
but has secured a place in rock mythology.
The part came out of the blue for Riley, 27, who abandoned an acting career
to take an unsuccessful shot at fame with his band 10,000 Things.
When Riley heard about auditions for the film,
"I was working in a warehouse in Leeds, folding shirts."
Netherlands-born Corbijn, who turns 52 on Sunday,
photographed Joy Division for British music magazines
and went on to design album covers for Depeche Mode and U2.
When he moved to Britain in 1979, Corbijn said he was shocked by
the country's austerity and poverty. "A lot of bands I met, including Joy Division,
were kind of underdressed -- a thin coat on, smoking and shivering in the cold," he said.
"When I met Sam, it was also in the winter and he was totally the same."
Pale and big-eyed, Riley resembles Curtis -- but more importantly, said Corbijn,
he "had an innocence and a freshness that I was hoping for but never thought I would find."
"My whole memory of that period is black and white," Corbijn said.
"There is basically no color photography of that band around.
So it felt very proper to the project."
Interview with Anton Corjbin about the movie CONTROL
"...my favourite memory was the first time i saw Television play,
and i saw Tom Verlaine who i thought was,ahhh...,
just about the most beautiful fella i'd ever seen and,ahhh...,
it was a sunday as well,it was easter sunday 1974,
and i ahhh..., i saw Tom Verlaine,and we've been friends ever since."
Patti Smith is featured in upcomin' documentary film called "Black White + Gray" which refers to the symbiotic relationship Sam Wagstaff(influential art curator and collector) shared with
photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York
during the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s.
in this film,Patti reciting a short poem of hers
in an interview on the BBC in 1971;
“New York is the thing that seduced me.
New York is the thing that formed me.
New York is the thing that deformed me.
New York is the thing that perverted me.
New York is the thing that converted me.
And New York is the thing that I love too.”
Dinosaur / Kiss Me Again The Necessaries / More Real Jah Wobble, Holger Czukay, The Edge / Hold On To Your Dreams Arthur Russell / Losing My Taste For the Night Life
Nicki Siano / Move Peter Zummo / Unisons Jerry Harrison: Casual Gods / The Doctors Lie Mimi / Time to Go Home Now Indian Ocean / Treehouse/School Bell pt. 1
Arthur Russell / Wax the Van Gary Lucas / Let's Go Swimming Allen Ginsberg / Voice of the Bard Jill Kroesen / Fay Shism Blues Loose Joints / Tell You (Today)
tracklistings:
E.Neubauten
Exkurs: Natur (1981)
Matthias Schuster: Im Namen Des Volkes (1981)
DAF
Grauzone: Eisbar (1981)
Monoton: Root Of 1 = 1 (1983)
Andreas Dorau: Arriverderci (1982)
Christiana F: Wunderbar (1982)
Die Dominas: Die Wespendomina (1981)
Asmus Tietchens: Unterhaltsmusik (1983)
Monopol
Underground NDW 1980-1983: Neue Deutsche Welle
(New German Wave, often abbreviated NDW) was a style of German music
originally derived from punk rock and New Wave in 1976. The term "Neue
Deutsche Welle" was first coined by journalist Alfred Hilsberg, whose
article about the movement titled "Neue Deutsche Welle - Aus grauer
Städte Mauern" was published in the magazine Sounds in 1979.
