Wednesday, February 28, 2007
HardTalk with George Galloway
"George Galloway talks candidly (as usual) about the demise of the old Labour (party), his own party Respect, and the invasion of Iraq, among other things. He also called Tony Blair a 'War Criminal', who should be tried at the Hague, just like the Nazis were tried at the Nuremberg Trials."
Life on Earth - Episode 02 - Building Bodies
"This second episode explores the various sea-living invertebrates. In Morocco, the limestones are 600 million years old, and contain many invertebrate fossils. They fall broadly into three categories: shells, crinoids and segmented shells. The evolution of shelled creatures is demonstrated with the flatworm, which eventually changed its body shape when burrowing became a necessity for either food or safety. It then evolved shielded tentacles and the casings eventually enveloped the entire body: these creatures are the brachiopods. The most successful shelled animals are the molluscs, of which there are some 80,000 different species. Some are single-shelled such as the cowrie, while others are bivalves that include the scallop and the giant clam. One species that has remained unchanged for millions of years is the nautilus: it features flotation chambers within its shell, which in turn formed the basis for the ammonites. Crinoids are illustrated by sea lilies, starfish and sea urchins on the Great Barrier Reef. Segmented worms developed to enable sustained burrowing, and well preserved fossils are found in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. These developed into trilobites and crustaceans, and the horseshoe crab is shown nesting in vast numbers on Delaware Bay. While the rubber crab breeds in the sea, it is in all other respects a land animal and Attenborough uses it to exemplify the next evolutionary step."
Pat Metheny Trio - Lone Jack
Pat Metheny - guitar, Bill Stewart - drums, Larry Grenadier - bass. Montreux Jazz Festival, 1999.
Pat Metheny on Myspace
Pat Metheny on Myspace
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
Caveat: Quoting Richard Dawkins: "When Einstein said 'Did God have a choice in creating the Universe?' he meant 'Could the universe have begun in more than one way?' 'God does not play dice' was Einstein's poetic way of doubting Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle. Einstein was famously irritated when theists misunderstood him to mean a personal God. But what did he expect? The hunger to misunderstand should have been palpable to him. 'Religious' physicists usually turn out to be so only in the Einsteinian sense: they are atheists of a poetic disposition. So am I. But, given the widespread yearning for that great misunderstanding, deliberately to confuse Einsteinian pantheism with supernatural religion is an act of intellectual high treason."
The Mystery of the Human Hobbit
"Is the hobbit a new human species or nothing more than a modern human with a crippling deformity? On the far-flung island of Flores, in the Indonesian archipelago, a team of archaeologists happened upon a tiny 18,000-year old skeleton. It was no more than a metre tall. They assumed they have found the remains of a young girl. But other signs suggested she was in fact much older. They had discovered one of the smallest human adults ever found."
Monday, February 26, 2007
Patricia Kaas - Une fille de l'Est
Malheureusement, cette vidéo est déformée, écrasée horizontalement.
Unfortunately, this video is distorted, crushed horizontally.
Unfortunately, this video is distorted, crushed horizontally.
John Mclaughlin, Kai Eckhardt, Trilok Gurtu - Live
"Four long years had passed since McLaughlin's last record when JMT released Live at the Royal Festival Hall in 1990. The brilliant percussionist Trilok Gurtu, of Oregon fame, joined him—along with superb bassist Kai Eckhardt—to form an exciting band which was to exist in one form or another (with revolving bassists) for five more years. The mostly acoustic music which fills this album, augmented by electric bass and John's guitar synthesizer, is a mix of standard jazz, fusion and Indian-influenced rhythms and melody lines. "
Personnel: John McLaughlin - Guitar; Trilok Gurtu - Percussion; Kai Eckhardt - Bass
Personnel: John McLaughlin - Guitar; Trilok Gurtu - Percussion; Kai Eckhardt - Bass
Wildlife Specials - Tiger
"Dangerous, powerful, but above all breath-takingly beautiful, tigers have for centuries sparked awe and admiration. Yet, it is their very uniqueness which has made them a prized object for hunters. This film could be the last complete portrait of tigers in the wild as there is a real chance they could be extinct within the next decade.
"Their elusive lifestyle has made filming difficult, but after 25 years of the Project Tiger scheme operating in India's Madhya Pradesh, these big cats have become more trusting. An award-winning team of producers and cameramen have teamed up to follow the lives of several tigers by day and, by using low-light cameras, at night. The result shows the majesty of these fascinating animals and the importance of saving them from extinction."
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
"Their elusive lifestyle has made filming difficult, but after 25 years of the Project Tiger scheme operating in India's Madhya Pradesh, these big cats have become more trusting. An award-winning team of producers and cameramen have teamed up to follow the lives of several tigers by day and, by using low-light cameras, at night. The result shows the majesty of these fascinating animals and the importance of saving them from extinction."
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Will Israel Bomb Iran?
"This film reveals Israel's view of the threat and gets inside the intensely secret world of the Israeli military, which speaks openly for the first time about what they see as the "existential" threat to Israel, posed by Iran's alleged atomic weapons programme.
"Three of Israel's former prime ministers come together on this issue, comparing the danger to a "new Holocaust".
"This World gains rare access to Israel's highly protected missile factories and satellite surveillance centres, where the arms needed for any potential raid are manufactured."
"Three of Israel's former prime ministers come together on this issue, comparing the danger to a "new Holocaust".
"This World gains rare access to Israel's highly protected missile factories and satellite surveillance centres, where the arms needed for any potential raid are manufactured."
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Alan Stivell et Dan ar Braz à Bercy
La musique et la harpe d'Alan Stivell et moi, c'est une histoire d'amour de bientôt quarante ans.
Life on Earth - Episode 01 - The Infinite Variety
"This episode begins in the South American rainforest, whose rich variety of life forms is used to illustrate the sheer number of different species. Since many are dependent on others for food or means of reproduction, David Attenborough argues that they couldn't all have appeared at once. He sets out to discover which came first, and the reasons for such diversity. He starts by explaining the theories of Charles Darwin and the process of natural selection, using the giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands (where Darwin voyaged on HMS Beagle) as an example. Fossils provide evidence of the earliest life, and Attenborough travels a vertical mile into the Grand Canyon in search of them. By the time he reaches the Colorado River bed, the geological strata are 2,000 million years old — yet there are no fossils. However, the "right rocks" are found on the shores of Lake Superior in Canada, where wafer-thin slices of flint, called churt, reveal filaments of primitive algae. Also, the micro-organisms that flourish at Yellowstone Park in Wyoming appear to be identical to the Earth's oldest fossils. The evolution of single-celled creatures, from simple cyanophytes to more complex ciliates, and then from multi-celled sponges and jellyfish to the many variations of coral and its associated polyps, is discussed in detail. The fossilized remains of jellyfish are shown within the Flinders Ranges of Australia, and are estimated to be 650 million years old."
Larry Carlton & Lee Ritenour - Room 335
The visual quality is not so good, but the music is great!
La qualité visuelle laisse à désirer, mais la musique est excellente!
Lee Ritenour on MySpace
La qualité visuelle laisse à désirer, mais la musique est excellente!
Lee Ritenour on MySpace
Remember Shakti - Saturday Night in Bombay
"Guitarist John McLaughlin is one of the true legends of modern jazz. On Saturday Night in Bombay, two distinct musical genres, traditional jazz and Indian classical music are fused together to form a powerfully energetic record. Saturday Night in Bombay features the current touring version of McLaughlin's Indian/Western improvisational quartet, which includes Zakir Hussain, U. Shrinivas, and V. Selvaganesh-Remember Shakti."
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Jean-Jacques Goldman et Céline Dion - Pour que tu m'aimes encore
J'ai compris tous les mots, j'ai bien compris, merci
Raisonnable et nouveau, c'est ainsi par ici
Que les choses ont changé, que les fleurs ont fané
Que le temps d'avant, c'était le temps d'avant
Que si tout zappe et lasse, les amours aussi passent
Il faut que tu saches
J'irai chercher ton cœur si tu l'emportes ailleurs
Même si dans tes danses d'autres dansent tes heures
J'irai chercher ton âme dans les froids, dans les flammes
Je te jetterai des sorts pour que tu m'aimes encore
Fallait pas commencer, m'attirer, me toucher
Fallait pas tant donner, moi je sais pas jouer
On me dit qu'aujourd'hui, on me dit que les autres font ainsi
Je ne suis pas les autres
Avant que l'on s'attache, avant que l'on se gâche
Je veux que tu saches
J'irai chercher ton cœur si tu l'emportes ailleurs
Même si dans tes danses d'autres dansent tes heures
J'irai chercher ton âme dans les froids, dans les flammes
Je te jetterai des sorts pour que tu m'aimes encore
Je trouverai des langages pour chanter tes louanges
Je ferai nos bagages pour d'infinies vendanges
Les formules magiques des marabouts d'afrique
J'les dirai sans remords pour que tu m'aimes encore
Je m'inventerai reine pour que tu me retiennes
Je me ferai nouvelle pour que le feu reprenne
Je deviendrai une autre après qui tu soupires
Ces jeux seront les nôtres, si tel est ton desir
Plus brillante plus belle pour une autre étincelle
Je me changerai en or pour que tu m'aimes encore
Jean-Jacques Goldman
Guerriers à Louer
"La guerre va-t-elle devenir une activité commerciale ? Un exemple : l'Irak. Plus de 10 000 militaires privés sont présents dans le pays aux côtés des soldats de la coalition. Ils entraînent l'armée irakienne, gardent les installations pétrolières et les ambassades, escortent les hommes d'affaires. Qui sont-ils ? Qui les contrôle ? Comment sont-ils recrutés ? Enquête sur la privatisation de la guerre."
Premiata Forneria Marconi live in Japan, 2002
I saw Premiata Forneria Marconi in a live open-air concert on the island of Ischia, on Saturday September 16, 1978, with forest fires on the mountain in the background and a full moon just above the mountain. It was intense, amazing, unforgettable, and totally magical! At that time, the guitarist's hair was already white.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Nightwish - Over the Hills and Far Away
CAUTION - put the volume down almost all of the way before starting the video.
ATTENTION - baissez le volume presque totalement avant d'enclencher la vidéo.
ATTENTION - baissez le volume presque totalement avant d'enclencher la vidéo.
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
"Nick Knowles explores the facts and the fiction behind the legendary Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. "This Gunpowder Plot show is the best TV show ever produced for history. Perfectly weighted, funny, clever and covers all the key points." - A. Field, Schoolhistory.co.uk""
Godfrey Reggio - Anima Mundi - The Soul of the World
"Anima Mundi is a film about animals. It contains no actors, has not plot and has no script. Anima Mundi was created by Godfrey Reggio who also created Koyaanisqatsi.
"Anima Mundi was commissioned by the Italian jewellery company Bvlgari, for the World Wide Fund for Nature which used the film for its Biological Diversity Program. The breathtaking images of nature where intended to make the viewer feel that they where part of the natural world. Philip Glass provided the musical score in Anima Mundi, as with all of Godfrey Reggio's films.
"The concept of the term Anima Mundi is that the order and beauty of nature are made of the almost endless species and varieties of animals, elements and beings that make a balanced whole. All of the shots in Anima Mundi relate to this though, rather than just being images of animals that one might find in a BBC documentary.
"The footage in Anima Mundi is made up of existing and newly shot footage. Only the finest existing footage was considered for the film. The score provides a good accompaniment to the animal scenes. Philip Glass often provides an unusual score, as is the case with Anima Mundi. However the sounds and rhythms complement the film well."
"Anima Mundi was commissioned by the Italian jewellery company Bvlgari, for the World Wide Fund for Nature which used the film for its Biological Diversity Program. The breathtaking images of nature where intended to make the viewer feel that they where part of the natural world. Philip Glass provided the musical score in Anima Mundi, as with all of Godfrey Reggio's films.
"The concept of the term Anima Mundi is that the order and beauty of nature are made of the almost endless species and varieties of animals, elements and beings that make a balanced whole. All of the shots in Anima Mundi relate to this though, rather than just being images of animals that one might find in a BBC documentary.
"The footage in Anima Mundi is made up of existing and newly shot footage. Only the finest existing footage was considered for the film. The score provides a good accompaniment to the animal scenes. Philip Glass often provides an unusual score, as is the case with Anima Mundi. However the sounds and rhythms complement the film well."
The Last Aztec
"Booker prize-winning novelist DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little) takes a trip back to the Mexico of his youth to explore the downfall of the Aztecs - one of the greatest civilisations in history.
"Raised in Mexico by his English parents, Pierre has had a life-long obsession with the Aztecs. It was this obsession that once drove him into debt and dissolution. Now he sets out to revisit the Aztecs' epic tale of decline and conquest and hopefully finally lay his own ghosts to rest. Part historical film, part road movie, The Last Aztec follows him as he traces the advance of the Spanish conquistadors toward the Aztec capital."
"Raised in Mexico by his English parents, Pierre has had a life-long obsession with the Aztecs. It was this obsession that once drove him into debt and dissolution. Now he sets out to revisit the Aztecs' epic tale of decline and conquest and hopefully finally lay his own ghosts to rest. Part historical film, part road movie, The Last Aztec follows him as he traces the advance of the Spanish conquistadors toward the Aztec capital."
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Last Days on Earth
"The world's top scientists describe seven riveting scenarios detailing the deadliest threats to humanity. Some can destroy the planet, others have the ability to render us extinct, and all have the power to destroy civilization. "Last Days on Earth" goes beyond science fiction to science fact. Using state-of-the-art visual effects, it will take viewers on a journey that is both breathtaking and terrifying, from the outer reaches of the universe to the inner world of DNA, with an around-the-globe tour in between."
Tintin - The Secret of The Unicorn
"In the Secret of the Unicorn (1943), and its sequel, Red Rackham’s Treasure (1944), Tintin joins Haddock on the trail of Sir Francis Haddock, the Captain’s distinguished ancestor. Newcomer Cuthbert Calculus, an inventor, will help locate the treasure and will ultimately contribute the necessary funds which enable Captain Haddock to acquire his family’s ancestral home, Marlinspike Hall.
"Three models of the "Unicorn" will make it possible to discover Red Rackham’s treasure, the legacy of a pirate with whom Captain Haddock’s ancestor had fought. This is an adventure full of surprises and which will end in Marlinspike Hall where Nestor, the famous butler, will make his first appearance."
"Three models of the "Unicorn" will make it possible to discover Red Rackham’s treasure, the legacy of a pirate with whom Captain Haddock’s ancestor had fought. This is an adventure full of surprises and which will end in Marlinspike Hall where Nestor, the famous butler, will make his first appearance."
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Les Yeux Noirs - Gypsy Project 2002
Avec Biréli Lagrène, Stochelo Rosenberg, Dorado Shmitt, Tchavolo Schmitt, et Angelo Debarre.
Shivkumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia - The Valley Recalls
"This performance is a sequel to a blockbuster Call Of The Valley album released in 1967 by EMI. The maturing of Sharma and Chaurasia is visible in their presentation of their music and despite a huge gap since their previous duet, the clear fusing of their minds and music is simply magical! It is as natural and seamless as one could possibly imagine! Hearing this concert on a CD gave one flutters but to see it being performed visually makes one fully realise what an incredible performance this is! Apart from the pedigree, it is better to identify The Valley Recalls more as iconic in its own right rather than a sequel, per se, to what in the 1960s was a mould breaking effort to bring classical music in an idiom more widely acceptable and enjoyable."
The Super Guitar Trio And Friends
With Larry Coryell, Al Di Meola, and Biréli Lagrène - best with headphones and volume all the way up. Enjoy!
Monday, February 19, 2007
Gainsbarre - All The Things You Are - 1964
On oublie trop facilement quel excellent pianiste et musicien de Jazz Gainsbarre fut, et beaucoup de gens l'ignorent.
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