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Archive for July, 2007

21/07/07 - Alexander Hacke @ Forte Marghera, Fri

By Writer For A Day • July 26th, 2007 • Category: Reportage

At the exhibition "magnetic field" at Forte Marghera Mestre, Saturday, July 21 Alexander Hacke is back on stage with a new and unsettling multi-media performance called "The History of Electricity", accompanied by his faithful artist Danielle de Picciotto.

The rhythms are immediately pressing and the public is involved in dancing and enthusiastic applause, [...]



Special: Monograph Slowdive

By Writer For A Day • July 20th, 2007 • Category: Articles

The Slowdive can rightly be placed among the greats of music. Pop, shoegaze, dream-pop, with hints and lots of gothic gloom. The quintet, originally from Reading, will know its genesis in the distant (but not too) 1989 from the minds of Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell to singing and guitar, Nick Chaplin on bass. In this trio [...]



The desire of desire

By Raven Ophelie • July 19th, 2007 • Category: Reviews

Presented at the Berlin Film shows 'Sehnsucht', in Italian 'Desire', is the second film of director Valeska Grisebach.
'Sehnsucht' tells a story of betrayal in the most ordinary German province. In a small village near Berlin, a young married couple living: Ella (Ilka Welz) homemaker and Markus (Andreas Mueller) blacksmith and a volunteer firefighter. [...]



06/07/07 SONIC YOUTH live in Ferrara

By Writer For A Day • July 17th, 2007 • Category: Reportage

Piazza Castello 21 hours. The public is still vague and disinterested when you start the performance of MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Italian group electro-noise sound that offers a sometimes extremely annoying-almost hallucinatory, timpani trained for short. After forty minutes of leaving the stage, now there's a lot more people and the atmosphere of the square is [...]



Madame Talbot's Victorian Lowbrow

By Liria • July 16th, 2007 • Category: Web Links

"Sideshows and the Elephant Man, Victorian ladies were tattooed, strange medical exhibits, dime museums and East End shows, the cult of death and the funeral rituals of the lower classes, pubs, bars and saloons, public executions,

Titillating Scandals Involving death and betrayal, morbid legends such as Jack the Ripper and Lizzie Borden, the penny dreadful, Victorian [...]



Do I Live @ Fiera della Musica - Azzano Decimo (PN)

By Creepy-Eyes • July 8th, 2007 • Category: Reportage

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Ekleipsi: release of July

By Ekleipsi • July 6th, 2007 • Category: New Releases

A July greedy opens its doors to us: do not miss one of its wonders!

ART OF Empathy
Band: Art of Empathy
Album: Evening session
Style: Darkwave, Neofolk, Alternative, Ambient
Description: A great album, full of intense and dreamy music: Close your eyes and let it carry you away. ...
BLUE SKIES BRING TEARS

Band: Blue Skies Bring Tears
Album: III
Style: Metal, Gothic, [...]



KinoSoundProject

By Egon • July 5th, 2007 • Category: Events

KinoSoundProject
Thursday 19 July and Thursday 26 July at 21 30 PORDENONE always will host the second edition of KinoSoundProject film festival of silent films accompanied by artists from the music scene simultaneously Pordenone and environs.
Thursday 19 in piazza S. Mark in the Pordenone festival will be opened by the projection of capoloavoro of expressionist cinema [...]