This is a wonderful shortfilm bout the love to books … I recently found at youtube and need to share with you …
I hope you’ll like it.
26 Tuesday Feb 2013
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in08 Sunday Apr 2012
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I lately went to cinema to watch the audience hit of last years Hamburg Filmfest and the hit in the “homecountry” Norway from 2010 by Marius Holst – King of Devil’s Island.
The synopsis … the story is about a prison for young boys that actually existed between 1900 – 1953 (as I do remember). The island Bastøy is a small island 50km south ot Oslo. The picture story takes place in 1915 when one really “bad” boy enters with an other one the Island. His story will be told.
The prison director (Stellan Skarsgård) tries to teach those young boys with christian passion and with strict rules. His colleagues are rough and fulfill the rules with psychological terror and physical terror. The new prisoner is a kind of Messiah to these imprisoned boys and you will see his rising and falling in 2 hours of heartshattering, earthbreaking amazing play by that complete cast. The people who work at the prison are convincing but the young boys are brillant. The movie is not popcorn. You have to want to see it. The setting is extremely dark (as you can see in the trailer) and the music is stunning. I was happy to see this motionpicture pearl and I absolutely understood the wish of those boys to leave the prison. None wants to stay there (Besides the fact that fleeing was incredibly different.) AND the Soundtrack to it is terrifying beautiful.
This picture started in German theatres two weeks ago. If you can watch it as well, give it a chance. More info bout it @ IMDB: King of Devil’s Island
29 Thursday Mar 2012
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It is definitely very very helpful to know that you can trust on one thing. I LIKE TRAINS will not forget how to do awesome fascinating catchy music. These boys from Leeds, UK just jumped into my heart with their music when I just simply stopped to listen to straight metal tunes which I was listening to for years. I just did the whole journey from folk/pagan/speed/death/trash/power – Metal and back … but I always was looking for the stuff that could fulfill my heart at any time … not only at times when I need noise. I need music. I need melodies and a beautiful singing. I need different and exciting beats. I need a gentle mixture of all of this. I LIKE TRAINS provides me everything.
Today I received the download link for THE SHALLOWS. I preordered the album some weeks ago and that is just the way of thank you I received from the band. THE SHALLOWS is their third regular album after ELEGIES TO LESSONS LEARNT and HE WHO SAW THE DEEP. THE SHALLOWS sound is to me a chill-sound. ELEGIES was the dark album. THE DEEP was for me the catchy one and THE SHALLOWS is just made from one piece. It has a typical sound and it is absolute honey to my ears. I love it a lot. I like the electronic gimmicks in it. I love the melodies and as much as I could listen to the lyrics … I usually don’t listen to lyrics during the first times … I do like them as well a lot.
David Martins singing is for me in an absolute relaxing tune. The arrangements of all the songs – 9 in total are brillant and I have to admit that my faves are “Beacons” (perfect song to start an album), “Mnemosyne” is the perfect single and during the last big tour I massively fell in love with “The Shallows”. The studio version gives me hell of lot more reasons. I like really much “The Turning of the Bones”. As much as I said that the sound of the album is a kind of chilling attitude to any of the songs, but I am sooooo thrilled to hear them live. This music makes me dance. I cannot sit still while listening to it. It is just impossible. I have been walking this afternoon with the music at my iPod and I was walking in the rhythm of all these songs. These songs are drugs. They are fast as the heart beats and they make me sometimes shiver because of their beauty and very often they just step over my internal ICF (instant cry factor). I started to weep while listening more intense to the lyrics and “Reykjavik” is the song that fulfills any positive parts a good song has to have. THANX so much to David, Guy, Simon, Alistair and Ian … thanx.
More info about I LIKE TRAINS right here at the blog and at Facebook
Actual tourdates promoting the album THE SHALLOWS:
May 5th – LIVE AT LEEDS (Festival)
May 7th – London, UK @ Borderline
May 12th – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Soup Kitchen
May 22nd – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
May 23rd – Geleen, NL @ De Boerderij
May 24th – Bern, CH @ ISC
May 25th – Luzern, CH @ Schuur
May 26th – Basel, CH @ Biomill
May 28th – Wave Gotik Treffen – Leipzig, GER
May 29th – Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown
Aug 14th – Paredes de Coura Festival – Porto, POR
I hope more dates will come … 🙂 (Hamburg, Germany misses you)
OH YEAH … the album will be officially released on May 7th 2012 at ILR. You can still preorder the regular versions of the album here. Just do it and enjoy.
13 Tuesday Mar 2012
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Ich habe mittlerweile bereits vorletzten Samstag (3.3.2012) im Hamburger Übel & Gefährlich mit einer handvoll Freunden und einem sichtlich begeisterten Publikum, was den Saal pickepackevoll machte die Thüringer Jungs angeschaut.
Sie bringen ihre elektronischen Edelsteine der aktuellen Scheibe, die letztes Jahr im November in die Läden kam, zusammen mit Klassikern auf die Bühne. Ein jeder wurde mal weniger und mal extatisch mehr (teilweise auch ein bissl zu dolle für meinen Geschmack) zum herumzappeln genötigt. Die Beats stimmten. Andreas‘ Stimme war goldig … I LIKE(d) a lot … sozusagen.
Northern Lite ist für mich ein echtes Live Phänomen. Auf Scheibe interessiert mich solche Musik gar nicht. Ich find sie keinesfalls schlecht, aber rein musikalisch nicht abwechslungsreich genug, aber live sind Northern Lite (trotz sehr spartanischer Bühnenshow) der Kracher. Ich habe die Jungs 2007 das letzte Mal live erlebt und fand sie damals schon großes Kino. Es hat sich der Gang ins Übel und Gefährlich gelohnt. (Auch wenn ein paar Pappnasen unter den Zuschauern, trotz Raucherraums, rauchen mussten, was ich widerlich fand.)
Wer Northern Lite live erleben mag … wie gesagt, ein Tipp für das tanzwillige musikliebende Volk, kann dies gern in den nächsten Tagen und Wochen noch tun, denn die I LIKE Tour geht noch weiter …
16.03. Rostock / Bacio
17.03. Parchim / Flame Club
23.03. Neubrandenburg / Güterbahnhof
24.03. Leipzig / Werk II
08.04. Traunstein
13.04. Frankfurt / Nachtleben
18.05. Eisenach / German Race Wars
19.05. Cottbus / Gladhouse
Interessant fand ich auch die Mischung des Publikums … zum einen echte Elektrofreunde der Schwarzen Szene, zum anderen junge Partyleute, die später sicherlich noch irgendwo in einer Disse auf und rund um die Reeperbahn abtauchten und dazwischen Leute aus der Mitte der Gesellschaft. Alle hatten aber eins gemeinsam. Sie feierten Northern Lite und der Band schien dies auch zu gefallen … es war an dem Abend nichts von “nordischer Kühle” zu spüren. Gar nichts und ach ja … ich fand es sehr sehr sympathisch, dass Northern Lite 2 Stunden am Stück (OHNE SUPPORT) den Saal zum Kochen brachten.
Von den Live Qualitäten könnt ihr Euch hier überzeugen…
Ich fand es klasse und werde möglicherweise beim nächsten Mal wieder dabei sein … ein bissl Körperteile zum Zappeln bringen.
und weil es mir soviel Spaß gerade macht … mein LIEBLINGSLIED der Jungs …
da hört man auch die eine Gitarre!
10 Friday Feb 2012
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I love it.
When I heard them for the first time, I just remembered the very very catchy beats and the absolutely astonishing beautiful voice.
– people –
After listening to this … I wanted to hear more of them … and I found a lot of more at the net and was falling desperately in love cuz they didn’t had an album out I could buy … or and they were not on tour.
Songs I listened to it for ages before they started their Europe tour last week …
– our love ends –
– things I don’t need –
And you probably think you might have heard such sound before … yeah … as I said before early 80s … anywhere leased from Britain. 🙂 … BUT I love this Russian edition besides the fact that I never had the chance to see those guys like Joy Division …
Anyway, I think it was two weeks ago when Human Tetris announced that they have finished their album and that they release it for free to the world of music maniacs. I went completely crazy here in the icebrick of Hamburg AND I noticed the fact that Hamburg was on the tour schedule for Europe.
the tour will bring them now as well to:
11.02.12 DE Leipzig
12.02.12 DE Dresden
13.02.12 AU Vienna
15.02.12 AU Feldkirch
16.02.12 DE Regensburg
17.02.12 DE Munich
18.02.12 SW Schaffhausen
19.02.12 SW Luzern
20.02.12 DE Wurzburg
21.02.12 DE Freiburg
22.02.12 DE Bielefeld
23.02.12 FR Paris
24.02.12 DE Oberhausen
25.02.12 Secret show to be revealed on Feb 12
So, I downloaded the album from their official Homepage.
I felt completely in love after listening to it and I was even more happy that I could go to the concert after my long work on Sunday. I was pretty happy to have two of my friends with me, anyway.
So, last Sunday the concert in Hamburg took place at one small bar/restaurant/location called “Aalhaus” in Hamburg Altona. I could walk to the location (besides after getting home from it by walking in the night and with the help of my friends who gave me directions) … I wouldn’t find it again … *lol* … I am kind of disoriented.
The little bar was packed with a great bunch of interessed people … who obviously came by the help of a lot of mouth propaganda.
There was a support … a loving couple that made music called “Magic poetry”. They were kind of cute but I dunno … I think I just liked one song of them and after (10 hours working) I was slightly tired and couldn’t concentrate myself on new things. I just wanted to enjoy HUMAN TETRIS.
They played the most songs I knew before … like this one …
– silver tears –
I liked their chilling relaxed attitude on stage. I liked the sound (the soundmix of the support was horrible). The lightning on stage was pretty small anyhow. I did enjoy the moving audience and the moved band. I am very sure they liked it in Hamburg. It was great to listen to some new interpretations of the “oldies” … and I liked their Eurythmics cover. That was fun. Human Tetris is a band you should have seen these days. They really rock. And before I leave you with those extremely non intellectual and just emotional feelings bout HUMAN TETRIS and some videos … I will post another video … of a song from their latest released album …
– insanity –
Besides the fact: Any objective descriptions about their incredible live performance and their music from album cannot be found. I just have to simply nail it down with the words: “A good combination of awesome beats, at least a guitar and very awesome singing – is much love to my ears.”
More info you can get at:
16 Monday Jan 2012
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I am absolutely not the typical Opera visitor I have to admit before. I think I have seen just five different Operas in my whole life before. (“Der Freischütz” by Carl Maria von Weber; “Der fliegende Holländer” by Richard Wagner; “Madame Butterfly” by Giacomo Puccini; “La Betulia liberata” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; and a fifth Opera Luigi Nonos “Il gran sole carico d’amore” which one was the most aweful piece I have ever seen in my whole life.). Anyway, I have seen some Operas at TV and listened to the classics at radio or I know them from Vinyl but usually I don’t spent extra money for watching them. I wanted to see Lear because I am Fan of Bo Skovhus. I love his singing. I like his presence on stage exstremely much. I own some CDs with collected songs of him and I am listening to them quite often when I need to calm down. My last Opera experience was honestly a disturbing one and I swore myself to not get into Opera for a long time after Leipzig’s “Fliegenden Holländer”. I was sitting there in the Opera house and I was closing my eyes cuz I didn’t want to see what was happening on stage. I liked the music and the songs but not the production.
Anyway, back to Lear. I never get to one Opera or Ballett completely unprepared. I pay money for it and so I want to know what could happen and what will I suspect. For regular Opera goers please skip the next few lines … but I need to tell you how I prepared … 🙂 … I have been listening to some tunes of Aribert Reimann (born in 1936 – still very active and brillant musician composer) and I was really looking forward to the Opera. I took my Shakespeare – Collected Works and read the Lear before. I didn’t know the Libretto but at least I knew the original piece.
It was 5 pm yesterday when I went to the train to get to the Opera. But of course when I want to be in time at the Opera there are “unfortunately troubles in the operating schedule”. So, I needed to switch to the bus but there was unfortunately hell of traffic jam at the Reeperbahn so, I had to wait for the bus about 15 minutes and I was getting finally to the Opera house 5 minutes before the begin and this was really last minute or just in time.
I had my ticket at the 4th tier and I was pretty happy because I never had a ticket there before and I didn’t know you can watch soooo beautiful there on stage. I have to remind this for ballet pieces I have seen quiet often where I just want to enjoy the choreography. Cuz those tickets are really cheaper. I had a brillant view on stage and I was happy to have the opera glasses by my sister with me as well. I didn’t need them that much. I was very close to the stage but I used them sometimes.
So, after more than 600 words I have to tell you something bout the Opera piece … don’t I?!
The music … Well you have to get used to it. I needed some minutes to get in the right tunes but I loved it from the beginning. I am very open for modern tunes and I love it to find out themes and tunes that repeat for special characters.
Here is a glimpse of the Opera from a production in Munich 1982 with Fischer-Dieskau as Lear.
I am not suspecting that you’d like that stuff at all. But I did it a lot. I still don’t know why those three ladys sitting next to me until the first break didn’t come back after the break. I mean … they would have know it that it is modern music. The production wasn’t disturbing at all. The music was brillant and so were the singers. I really would love to know which problem they did have. Questions none can help me out, I fear.
Anyway, if you want to hear what I was listening to and watching at … you can get it on Feb 4th 7:05 pm CET @Deutschland Radio Kultur. They have a Livestream – get info at dradio.de
Next dates at the Opera in Hamburg are:
Jan 18th
Jan 21st
Jan 24th
Jan 27th
Jan 30th
Feb 3rd
You can get tickets for each show at Opera Ticket Service
On Jan 25th, Bo Skovhus there is the Elbphilharmonie Kulturgespräch at the Elbphilharmonie Kulturcafé (Mönckebergstraße Corner Spitalerstraße)… entry free @ 6pm
And finally some brillant links as you know it.
Hamburgische Staatsoper
Lear Opera (wiki)
Aribert Reimann
Bo Skovhus
14 Monday Nov 2011
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Upcoming tourdates in Germany:
Nov 24 Bremen @ MS Treuer
Nov 25 Kiel @ Räucherei
Nov 26 Berlin @ Berghain Kantine
Nov 27 Köln @ Werkstadt
Nov 28 Hamburg @ Knust