Thursday, 16 September 2010
The Celtic Rebel - braving the deep dark truthful mirror
Syncsite with many disturbingly funny and shocking revelations.
Killing Joke - Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell
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| New Album!!! |
- Official site
- An Irrational Domain - Extensive KJ resource
- Killing Joke at Last.fm
- Killing Joke discography at MusicBrainz
- Complete official & unofficial discography
- Live & Photo Report (165 pic) @ Rolling Stone, Milan at Miusika.net
- Jaz Coleman interview at Rockdetector.com
- Early Killing Joke Photos
Some more Swedish Art
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Max Ernst - Europe after the Rain - V for Vendetta
Alan Moore, graphic novel (comicbook) writer extraordinaire.
On a list of concepts for V for Vendetta:
Max Enst - Europe after the rain.
Other things on his list of concepts: Huxley, David Bowie, Orwell, Batman, Dr Phibes and many more.
Like Orwell and Huxley, V for Vendettas look on the future was very accurate. Wonder how Alan Moore and David Lloyd feels when they now live in a world pretty much more fascist than the one they described back in the early eighties. The book takes place in the late nineties, in a post--apocalyptic England where the fascists rule. Surveillance is everywhere, pretty much like now.
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Max Ernst
| Born | April 2, 1891 BrĂŒhl, Germany |
|---|---|
| Died | April 1, 1976 (aged 84) Paris, France |
| Nationality | German |
| Movement | Dada, Surrealism |
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst is considered to be one of the primary pioneers of the DadaSurrealism.
Early life
Ernst was born in BrĂŒhl, Germany, near Cologne. In 1909, he enrolled in the University at Bonn to study philosophy but soon abandoned the courses. He began painting that year, but never received any formal artistic training.[1] During World War I he served in the German army, which was a momentous interruption in his career as an artist. He stated in his autobiography, "Max Ernst died the 1st of August, 1914."
Dada and Surrealism
After the war, filled with new ideas, Ernst, Jean Arp and social activist Alfred GrĂŒnwald formed the Cologne, Germany Dada group. In 1918 he married the art historian Luise Straus—a stormy relationship that would not last. The couple had a son who was born in 1920, the artist Jimmy Ernst. (Luise died in Auschwitz in 1944.[2]) In 1919 Ernst visited Paul Klee and created paintings, block prints and collages, and experimented with mixed media.
In 1922, he joined fellow Dadaists AndrĂ© Breton, Gala, Tristan Tzara, and Paul Ăluard at the artistic community of Montparnasse.[1] Constantly experimenting, in 1925 he invented a graphic art technique called frottage (see Surrealist techniques), which uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of images.
He also created another technique called 'grattage' in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. He uses this technique in his famous painting 'Forest and Dove' (as shown at the Tate Modern).
The next year he collaborated with Joan MirĂł on designs for Sergei Diaghilev. With MirĂł's help, Ernst pioneered grattage in which he troweled pigment from his canvases. He also explored with the technique of decalcomania which involves pressing paint between two surfaces.[3]
Ernst developed a fascination with birds that was prevalent in his work. His alter ego in paintings, which he called Loplop, was a bird. He suggested this alter-ego was an extension of himself stemming from an early confusion of birds and humans. He said that one night when he was young he woke up and found that his beloved bird had died, and a few minutes later his father announced that his sister was born. Loplop often appeared in collages of other artists' work, such as Loplop presents AndrĂ© Breton. Ernst drew a great deal of controversy with his 1926 painting The Virgin Chastises the infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: AndrĂ© Breton, Paul Ăluard, and the Painter.[4] In 1927 he married Marie-Berthe Aurenche, and it is thought his relationship with her may have inspired the erotic subject matter of The Kiss and other works of this year.[5] In 1930, he appeared in the film L'Ăge d'Or, directed by self-identifying Surrealist Luis Buñuel. Ernst began to make sculpture in 1934, and spent time with Alberto Giacometti. In 1938, the American heiress and artistic patron Peggy Guggenheim acquired a number of Max Ernst's works which she displayed in her new museum in London. Ernst and Peggy Guggenheim were also married to one another from 1942 to 1946.
[edit] World War II and later life
In 1938 he was interned in Camp des Milles, near Aix-en-Provence, along with fellow surrealist, Hans Bellmer, who had recently emigrated to Paris on the outbreak of World War II. Thanks to the intercession of Paul Ăluard, and other friends including the journalist Varian Fry[1] He left behind his lover, Leonora Carrington, and she suffered a major mental breakdown. Ernst and Guggenheim arrived in the United States in 1941 and were married the following year. Along with other artists and friends (Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Ernst helped inspire the development of Abstract expressionism. he was discharged a few weeks later. Soon after the Nazi occupation of France, he was arrested again, this time by the Gestapo, but managed to escape and flee to America with the help of Guggenheim.
His marriage to Guggenheim did not last, and in Beverly Hills, California in October 1946, in a double ceremony with Man Ray and Juliet P. Browner, he married Dorothea Tanning. The couple first made their home in Sedona, Arizona. In 1948 Ernst wrote the treatise Beyond Painting. As a result of the publicity, he began to achieve financial success.
In 1953 he and Tanning moved to a small town in the south of France where he continued to work. The City, and the Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais in Paris published a complete catalogue of his works.
In 1966 he created a chessgame made of glass which he named "Immortel"; it has been described by the poet André Verdet as
a masterpiece of bewitching magic, worthy of a Maya palace or the residence of a Pharaon.[6]
Ernst died on 1 April 1976, 1 day before his birthday, in Paris.[1] He was interred at the PĂšre Lachaise Cemetery.
Selected works
- And the butterflies began to sing (Et les Papillions se Mettent a Chanter) (1929)
- Aquis Submersus (1919)
- Entire City (1934)
- Capricorn (1948)
- Europe After the Rain (1940–1942)
- Forest and Dove (1927)
- La femme 100 tĂȘtes (The hundred-headed woman or The woman without a head) (1929)
- Little Machine Constructed by Minimax Dadamax in Person (1919–1920)
- Loplop Introduces Loplop (1930)
- Lunar Asparagus (1935)
- Murdering Airplane (1920)
- PietĂ or Revolution by Night (1923)
- The Elephant Celebes (1921)
- The Hat Makes the Man (1920)
- The Robing of the Bride (1940)
- The Wood (1927)
- Trophy, Hypertrophied (1919)
- Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale (1924)
- Une Semaine de Bonté (1934)
Ernst in modern culture
- Many of Ernst's works from Une Semaine de Bonté are used in albums by American rock group The Mars Volta. Also, Barefoot In The Head, a collaboration between guitarist Thurston Moore and saxophonists Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich of Borbetomagus, features a collage from this same book.
- The American rock group Mission of Burma titled two songs after the artist: "Max Ernst" was the b-side of their first 1978 single (now included on the CD of Signals, Calls and Marches), mentioning two of Ernst's paintings (The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus and Garden Airplane-Trap) and ending with the words "Dada dada dada ..." repeated many times and distorted via tape loop; their 2002 album OnOffOn features "Max Ernst's Dream".
- The writer J. G. Ballard makes numerous references to the art works of Max Ernst in his breakthrough novel The Drowned World (1962) and the experimental collection of short stories The Atrocity Exhibition (1970).
Legacy
Max Ernst's life and career are the subject of Peter Schamoni's 1991 documentary Max Ernst. Dedicated to the art historian Werner Spies, it was assembled from interviews with Ernst, stills of his paintings and sculptures, and the memoirs of his wife Dorothea Tanning and son Jimmy. The 101-minute German film was released on DVD with English subtitles by Image Entertainment.
In 2005, "Max Ernst: A Retrospective" opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and included works such as Celebes (1921), Ubu Imperator (1923), and Fireside Angel (1937), which is one of the few definitively political pieces and is sub-titled The Triumph of Surrealismfascism that took over Europe. The exhibition also includes Ernst's works that experiment with free association writing and the techniques of frottage, created from a rubbing from a textured surface; grattage, involving scratching at the surface of a painting; and decalcomania, which involves altering a wet painting by pressing a second surface against it and taking it away.[7] depicting a raging bird-like creature that symbolizes the wave of
Ernst's son Jimmy, a well known German/American abstract expressionist painter, who lived on the south shore of Long Island, died in 1984. His memoirs, A Not-So-Still Life, were published shortly before his death. His grandson Eric and granddaughter Amy are both artists and writers.
Gallery
 Europe After the Rain II (1940-1942) |  Ernst sculptures on display at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark |  The Max-Ernst-Museum in BrĂŒhl |
References
- ^ a b c d Olga's Gallery. "Max Ernst biography". http://www.abcgallery.com/E/ernst/ernstbio.html.
- ^ de:Luise Straus-Ernst
- ^ Max Ernst working in decalcomania is in shown in the 1978 documentary on the Dada and Surrealist art movement, Europe After the Rain.
- ^ Image: The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses: A.B., P.E. and the Artist
- ^ Flint, Lucy, Guggenheim Collection. "The Kiss (Le Baiser)". http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_45_4.html.
- ^ "Max Ernst - Masterpiece". http://maxernstmasterpiece.com/en/10-the-work.html. Retrieved 2008-11-25.
- ^ A Max Ernst Retrospective Opens Today in NY. ARTINFO. April 7, 2005. http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/117/a-max-ernst-retrospective-opens-today-in-ny/. Retrieved 2008-04-23
Bibliography
- Werner Spies & Sabine Rewald (eds.), Max Ernst: A Retrospective. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art / New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Catalogue of exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: Max Ernst: a retrospective
- John Russell. Max Ernst: life and work (New York, H.N. Abrams, 1967) OCLC 2034599
- Bodley Gallery (New York, N.Y.) Max Ernst : paintings, collages, drawings, sculpture : October 30-November 25, 1961 : Bodley Gallery, 223 East 60, New YorkOCLC (exhibition catalogue and commentary; published by the gallery, 1961) 54157692
- Max Ernst Books and Graphic Works. Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, 1977.
[edit] External links
- Max-Ernst Museum BrĂŒhl
- Max Ernst collection The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Max Ernst works and biography Olga's Gallery
- Max Ernst works and biography Galerie Ludorff
- Max Ernst gallery Ten Dreams
- "Max Ernst, will-o'-the-wisp" Max Ernst explained to younger generation, Gilbert-Rts
- Max Ernst facts Artfacts.Net
- Max Ernst MasterPiece: "Immortel" Maxernstmasterpiece.com
- Max Ernst Exposition Max Ernst Exposition on the web
- Max-Ernst Biography
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Black Ribbons album by Shooter Jennings / Hierophant.
Outlaw-Countryson plays Psykadelisk
Anti Fascist NWO Musick.
Really good record, Stephen King does the radio stuff between the tracks. Last broadcast, goes out with a a bang.
WAKE UP!
Shooter Jennings
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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| Shooter Jennings | |
|---|---|
 Shooter Jennings live at the San Diego Street Scene Festival | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Waylon Albright Jennings |
| Born | May 19, 1979 |
| Genres | Outlaw country, Alternative country, Country rock, Southern rock, hard rock, psychedelic rock |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals Electric guitar Acoustic guitar Piano Hammond organ Banjo[1] |
| Years active | 2005-present |
| Labels | Universal South |
| Associated acts | Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Stargunn, Tom Morello |
| Website | ShooterJennings.com |
Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings (born May 19, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter formerly active in the country music and Southern rock genres before switching to hard rock in 2009. The only child of country singers Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, Jennings signed his first recording contract, with Universal South Records, in 2005, releasing his debut album Put the "O" Back in Country that year. This album produced his only entry on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in its lead-off single "Fourth of July", which peaked at #26. Jennings has since followed Put the "O" Back in Country with three more albums: Electric Rodeo, Live at Irving Plaza 4.18.06 (both 2006), and The Wolf (2007). In 2009, he formed a new band Hierophant and toured with them on the Warped Tour. They released their debut album Black Ribbons in 2010.
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[edit] Biography
Shooter Jennings lived his first few years in a crib on his parents' tour bus. By age five, he was playing drums. Between tours, he took piano lessons. He started playing guitar at fourteen and sometimes played in his father's band. He and his father recorded a few things together when they happened to have some microphones set up and the tape recorder plugged in. At age sixteen, Jennings discovered rock music. Shooter graduated from University School of Nashville in 1997.
As an adult, Jennings left Nashville, Tennessee to seek his fortunes in Los Angeles. He assembled and performed with Stargunn, a southern rock band whose sound he described as Lynyrd Skynyrd mutating into Guns N' Roses. Stargunn performed at local clubs for six years, built an avid following, and earned praise from the local music press.
On March 30, 2003, Jennings dissolved Stargunn and moved to New York City to spend time with his girlfriend and sort out what he wanted to do next. An unexpected gig at the House of Blues a few weeks later revived his creativity. He returned to Los Angeles to form another band, the .357s. The .357s originally consisted of Bryan Keeling on drums, Ted Russell Kamp on bass and Leroy Powell on guitar (though Powell voluntarily left after recording "The Wolf" to concentrate on his solo career). The quartet recorded their first album "Put The O Back in Country" with Dave Cobb producing in 2004 and it was released in 2005.
Jennings portrayed his father in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. He is the host of Shooter Jennings' Electric Rodeo, a two-hour weekly music show on Sirius Satellite Radio's Outlaw Country channel. His second solo album Electric Rodeo was released on April 4, 2006, followed by The Wolf on October 23, 2007. This album was followed in 2009 by his first compilation album, Bad Magick: The Best of Shooter Jennings and the .357's.
In 2009 Jennings formed Hierophant with Bobby Emmett on keyboards, The Schreffman on lead guitar, with Ted Russell Kamp and Bryan Keeling holding down the rhythm section. Hierophant's first album, Black Ribbons, was released March 2, 2010.[2] On May 1, 2010 Shooter Jennings announced "Black Ribbons: The Living Album" on his Twitter account[3]. The "Living Album" includes the full studio record and live shows with Hierophant on a USB flash drive shaped like a tarot card.
[edit] Personal life
He is engaged to Drea de Matteo, with whom he had a baby girl, Alabama Rose, on November 28, 2007.[4]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | US Heat | US Indie | US Rock | |||||
| 2005 | Put the "O" Back in Country
| 22 | 124 | 1 | — | — | |||
| 2006 | Electric Rodeo
| 12 | 64 | — | — | — | |||
| 2007 | The Wolf
| 12 | 52 | — | — | — | |||
| 2010 | Black Ribbons
| — | 133 | — | 16 | 34 | |||
| "—" denotes the album failed to chart or not released | |||||||||
[edit] Compilation albums
| Year | Album details | US Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Bad Magick: The Best of Shooter Jennings and the .357's
| 45 |
[edit] Live albums
| Year | Album details | US Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Live at Irving Plaza 4.18.06
| 55 |
[edit] Singles
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | |||||||||
| 2005 | "4th of July" (with George Jones) | 26 | Put the "O" Back in Country | ||||||
| "Steady at the Wheel" | — | ||||||||
| 2006 | "Gone to Carolina" | — | Electric Rodeo | ||||||
| "Some Rowdy Women" | — | ||||||||
| 2007 | "It Ain't Easy" | — | |||||||
| "Walk of Life" | — | The Wolf | |||||||
| 2008 | "This Ol' Wheel" | — | |||||||
| 2009 | "Wake Up!" | — | Black Ribbons | ||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
[edit] Other appearances
| Year | Album | Artist | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | I've Always Been Crazy A Tribute to Waylon Jennings | Stargunn | "I've Always Been Crazy" | RCA |
| 2004 | Songs Inspired by The Passion of the Christ | Jessi Colter | "Please Carry Me Home" | Universal South |
| 2005 | Walk the Line (soundtrack) | various | "I'm a Long Way From Home" | Wind-Up Records |
| 2006 | The Pilgrim A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson | various | "The Silver Tongued Devil & I" | American Roots |
| 2007 | The Chain | Deana Carter | "Good Hearted Woman" | Vanguard |
| 2008 | The Fabled City | The Nightwatchman | "The Iron Wheel" | Epic |
| 2009 | Hard Luck Stories | Ike Reilly | "The War on the Terror and the Drugs" | Rock Ridge |
[edit] Music videos
| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | "4th of July" | Roger Pistole |
| "Steady at the Wheel" | James Minchin | |
| 2006 | "Gone to Carolina" | Dean Karr |
| 2007 | "It Ain't Easy" | |
| "Walk of Life" | Deaton-Flanigen | |
| 2010 | "Summer of Rage" | Drea & Shooter |
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Walk the Line | Waylon Jennings |
| 2007 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Himself |
[edit] References
- ^ Put the "O" Back in Country [CD liner notes]. Universal South Records, 2005
- ^ Official website
- ^ [1] Twitter account
- ^ Planet Gossip - Breaking! Drea's Big Baby News
[edit] External links
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