“There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Yo Yo is the son of a 1920s billionaire who, although having everything
he fancies and living in a cavernous old castle, is not happy, fancying
the simple life of a beautiful circus actress. When the stock-exchange
crashes, rendering him both poor and free. Thus, he joins the circus
where his love interest is performing, and fall madly in love. They have
a son who starts in the circus as a clown, but later becomes a
successful actor star and uses his new wealth to buy back his father's
castle.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote was based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Harper Lee. It stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch and Mary Badham in the role of Scout.
The film, widely considered to be one of the greatest ever made,
earned an overwhelmingly positive response from critics. A box office
success, it earned more than 10 times its budget. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peck, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture.
In 1995 the film was listed in the National Film Registry. It also ranks twenty-fifth on the American Film Institute's 10th anniversary list of the greatest American movies of all time. In 2003, AFI named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. To Kill a Mockingbird marked the film debuts of Robert Duvall, William Windom, and Alice Ghostley.
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Frente Cumbiero have pushed themselves to the front of the international cumbia scene after releasing their Pitchito 7″ last year. Now they have followed it up with Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor, a record that will surely solidify their status as ones to watch. Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor is a collaboration
between Frente Cumbiero, dub producer Mad Professor and a number of
other Bogotá-based artists such as Liliana Saumet (Bomba Estéreo), Javier Fonseca (Alerta Kamarada), Kiño (Kmusic) and Shaun Turner.
Mad Professor – who hails from Georgetown, Guyana – is renowned for
working with artists such as Lee “Scratch” Perry, Massive Attack and The
Orb.
Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes.
Formed in November 1969, Hawkwind have gone through many incarnations
and styles of music. Dozens of musicians, dancers, and writers have
worked with the group since their inception.
1969: Formation
Dave Brock and Mick Slattery had been in the London-based psychedelic band Famous Cure, and a meeting with bassist John Harrison revealed a mutual interest in electronic music
which led the trio to embark upon a new musical venture together.
Seventeen-year-old drummer Terry Ollis replied to an advert in a music
weekly, while Nik Turner and Michael 'Dik Mik' Davies, old acquaintances of Brock, offered help with transport and gear, but were soon pulled into the band.
Gatecrashing a local talent night at the All Saints Hall, Notting Hill,
they were so untogether as to not even have a name, plumping for "Group
X" at the last minute, nor any songs, choosing to play an extended
20-minute jam on The Byrds "Eight Miles High".BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel
was in the audience and was impressed enough to tell event organiser,
Douglas Smith, to keep an eye on them. Smith signed them up and got them
a deal with Liberty Records on the back of a deal he was setting up for Cochise.
The band settled on the name Hawkwind after briefly being billed as
Hawkwind Zoo, Hawkwind being the nickname of Turner derived from his
unappealing habit of clearing his throat (hawking) and excessive
flatulence (wind). Another version of the origin of their name says they took it from one of Michael Moorcock's stories. Moorcock himself denies this story, however, and points out that there is no story of that name. An Abbey Road session took place recording demos of "Hurry On Sundown" and others (included on the remasters version of Hawkwind), after which Slattery left to be replaced by Huw Lloyd-Langton, who had known Brock from his days working in a music shop selling guitar strings to Brock, then a busker.
1970–1975: United Artists Era
Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor was brought in to produce the 1970 debut album Hawkwind. Although it was not a commercial success, it did bring them to the attention of the UK underground scene finding them playing free concerts, benefit gigs, and festivals. Playing free outside the Bath Festival, they encountered another Ladbroke Grove based band, the Pink Fairies,
who shared similar interests in music and recreational activities; a
friendship developed which led to the two bands becoming running
partners and performing as "Pinkwind". Their use of drugs, however, led
to the departure of Harrison, who did not imbibe, to be replaced briefly
by Thomas Crimble (about July '70 - March '71). Crimble played on a few BBC sessions before leaving to help organise the Glastonbury Free Festival 1971; he sat in during the band's performance there. Lloyd-Langton also quit, after a bad LSD trip at the Isle of Wight Festival led to a nervous breakdown.
Their follow up album, 1971's In Search of Space,
brought greater commercial success, reaching number 18 on the UK album
charts, and also saw the band's image and philosophy take shape,
courtesy of graphic artist Barney Bubbles and underground press writer Robert Calvert, as depicted in the accompanying Hawklog booklet which would further be developed into the Space Ritual stage show. Science fiction author Michael Moorcock and dancer Stacia also started contributing to the band. Dik Mik had left the band, replaced by sound engineer Del Dettmar, but chose to return for this album giving the band two electronics players. Bass player Dave Anderson, who had been in the German band Amon Düül II,
had also joined and played on the album but departed before its release
because of personal tensions with some other members of the band. Anderson and Lloyd-Langton then formed the short-lived band Amon Din. Meanwhile, Ollis quit, unhappy with the commercial direction the band were heading in.
The addition of bassist Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister and drummer Simon King propelled the band to greater heights. One of the early gigs this band played was a benefit for the Greasy Truckers at The Roundhouse on 13 February 1972. A live album of the concert Greasy Truckers Party was released, and after re-recording the vocal, a single "Silver Machine" was also released, reaching number 3 in the UK charts. This generated sufficient funds for the subsequent album Doremi Fasol Latido Space Ritual tour. The show featured dancers Stacia and Miss Renee, mime artist Tony Carrera and a light show by Liquid Len and was recorded on the elaborate package Space Ritual. At the height of their success in 1973, the band released the single "Urban Guerrilla" which coincided with an IRA bombing campaign in London, so the BBC
refused to play it and the band's management reluctantly decided to
withdraw it fearing accusations of opportunism, despite the disc having
already climbed to number 39 in the UK chart.
Dik Mik departed during 1973 and Calvert ended his association with
the band to concentrate on solo projects. Dettmar also indicated that he
was to leave the band, so Simon House was recruited as keyboardist and violinist playing live shows, a North America tour and recording the 1974 album Hall of the Mountain Grill. Dettmar left after a European tour and emigrated to Canada, whilst Alan Powell deputised for an incapacitated King on that European tour, but remained giving the band two drummers.
At the beginning of 1975, the band recorded the album Warrior on the Edge of Time in collaboration with Michael Moorcock, loosely based on his Eternal Champion figure. However, during a North America tour in May, Lemmy was caught in possession of amphetamine
crossing the border from the USA into Canada. The border police mistook
the powder for cocaine and he was jailed, forcing the band to cancel
some shows. Fed up with his erratic behaviour, the band fired the bass
player replacing him with their long-standing friend and former Pink Fairies guitarist Paul Rudolph. Lemmy then teamed up with another Pink Fairies guitarist, Larry Wallis, to form Motörhead, named after the last song he had written for Hawkwind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkwind
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Boards of Canada (commonly abbreviated BoC) are a Scottishelectronic music duo consisting of brothers Michael Sandison (born 1 June 1970) and Marcus Eoin (born Marcus Eoin Sandison, 21 July 1971).
They have released several works on Warp Records
with little advertising and few interviews, while also having an
elusive and obscure back-catalogue of releases on their self-run Music70 label. They have also recorded at least four tracks under the alias of Hell Interface.
Growing up in a musical family, brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus
Eoin began playing instruments at a young age. They experimented with
recording techniques at around the age of 10, using tape machines to layer cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of their own.
In their teens they participated in a number of amateur bands.
However, it was not until 1986 when Marcus was invited to Mike's band
that Boards of Canada was born, naming themselves after the documentary
TV films by the National Film Board of Canada that they watched as children.
By 1989, the band had been reduced to Sandison and Eoin. In the early
1990s, a number of collaborations took place and the band put on small
shows among the "Hexagon Sun" collective.
Gong was formed in 1967, after Allen—then a member of Soft Machine—was denied re-entry to the United Kingdom because of a visa complication. Allen remained in France where he and a London-born Sorbonne professor, Gilli Smyth, established the first incarnation of the band. This line-up, including Ziska Baum on vocals and Loren Standlee on flute, fragmented during the 1968 student revolution, with Allen and Smyth forced to flee France for Deià in Majorca. They allegedly found saxophonist Didier Malherbe living in a cave in Deià, before film director Jérôme Laperrousaz invited the band back to France to record the soundtrack of his movie Continental Circus. They were subsequently approached by Jean Karakos of the newly formed independent label BYG and signed a multi-album deal with them. Albums Magick Brother/Mystic Sister (1970), Camembert Electrique (1971), and Allen's solo album Bananamoon (1971) were all released on BYG.
Gong played at the second Glastonbury Festival in June 1971 (the performance being issued as a side-long track on the 3-LP vinyl festival record release Glastonbury Fayre, later re-mixed and re-edited and released by GAS in 2001 as Glastonbury 1971), followed by a UK tour in Autumn. In late 1972 they were one of the first acts to sign to Virgin Records, getting first pick of the Manor Studio's time ahead of Mike Oldfield. By that time, a regular line-up had been established, and Gong released their Flying Teapot album in May 1973. The following year 1974, Camembert Electrique (1971) was given a belated UK release, priced at 59p which was the price of a typical single, a promotional gimmick Virgin had done before in 1973 on an album by Faust, and would do again for a reggae compilation in 1976. These ultra-budget albums sold in large quantities because of the low price, but this pricing made them ineligible for placement on album charts. The intention was that purchasers would be encouraged to buy the groups' other albums at full price.
Pietà (Hangul: 피에타) is a 2012 South Korean film. The 18th feature written and directed by Kim Ki-duk, it depicts the mysterious relationship between a brutal man who works for loan sharks and a middle-aged woman who claims that she is his mother, mixing Christian symbolism and highly sexual content.
It made its world premiere in the competition line-up of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. It is the first Korean film to win the top prize at one of the three major international film festivals — Venice, Cannes and Berlin.
The title refers to the ItalianPietà (piety/pity), signifying depictions of the Virgin Mary cradling the corpse of Jesus.
