Artist: Kayanis
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Synesthesis
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Din - Addict
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Saturday 21 June 2008
Dylan�s art on display
Bob Dylan, revered as a singer, songwriter, author and poet, is also an experienced artist, a new exhibition of his paintings shows.
The Halcyon Gallery in central London has put on display dozens of works by the 67-year-old musician, mainly vibrant versions in water colour and gouache of a series of drawings he created between 1989 and 1992 while on tour and in studios.
The works were published in 1994 in a book called Drawn Blank, and years later Dylan revisited the series after a curator at an art gallery in Chemnitz, Germany, approached him.
The original drawings were digitally scanned and in some cases enlarged before Dylan re-worked them using different colour schemes.
The result is �The Drawn Blank Series,� a collection of everyday scenes including train tracks, portraits, sunflowers, wrecked cars, trucks, still lifes and semi-erotic images of a bare-breasted woman or sisters in various stages of undress.
Dylan has consistently resisted interpreting his work, be it music or art.
Speaking in the 1990s, Dylan explained: �The purpose of my drawings is very undefined. They're very personal drawings.� And in an interview with the Times newspaper to publicize the London show, he said any similarities with other, better known artists was �just by accident and instinctive.�
Dylan also took a swipe at the music industry.
�The music world's a made-up bunch of hypocritical rubbish,� he told the Times. �And the art world? ... Basically, they are who they say they are. They don't pretend. And having been in the music world most of my life, I can tell you it's not that way. Let's just say it's less ... dignified.� Paul Green, president of Halcyon Gallery, said he believed Dylan had captured "life in its everyday grittiness � it is what it is.
�Take the �Train Tracks� series � you look at that image and it is what we all do every day of our lives.�
He likened Dylan's series, with their radically different colour schemes, to Impressionist greats like Claude Monet, who also painted variations on the same theme.
�He (Dylan) is one of the great figures of the 20th century and this is an explosion of artistic creativity. All artists go through it.�
According to Green, a collector plans to buy a large number of Dylan�s originals in order to exhibit them around the world. He would not name the individual.
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Friday 20 June 2008
UDO
Artist: UDO
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
Live in Russia part II
Year:
Tracks: 12
2001 Live in Russia part I
Year:
Tracks: 14
Following his 1987 exit from the German business leader alloy band Accept, vocaliser Udo Dirkschneider formed U.D.O. with guitarists Peter Szigeti and Mathias Dieth, bassist Frank Rittel and drummer Tomas Franke. The group's debut album, Fauna House, was in fact written by Dirkschneider's other couple in Accept, and by the time of the 1988 follow-up Meanspirited Machine, Szigeti, Rittel and Franke had all been pink-slipped, replaced by guitar player Andy Susemihl, bassist Thomas Smuszynski and drummer Stefan Schwarzmann. Susemihl himself was out of U.D.O. for 1990's Faceless World, replaced by guitar player Wolla Böhm; the same roll recorded 1991's Timebomb, although the band split in the arouse of a subsequent circuit, with Dirkschneider rejoining Accept from 1992 to 1996. He reformed U.D.O. with Dieth, Schwarzmann, guitar player Stefan Kaufmann and bassist Michael Voss to contribute a track to the Judas Priest tribute album Legends of Metal; only Schwarzmann and Kaufmann remained on gameboard for 1997's full-length Solid, which featured new guitarist Jürgen Graf-Biardi and bassist Fitty Weinhold. No Limits followed a year by and by, and in 1999 U.D.O. resurfaced with Holy.
Rock: 'South African Killings Down To Poverty'
Bizet, Georges
Artist: Bizet, Georges
Genre(s):
Pop
Classical
Discography:
LES PECHEURS DE PERLES
Year: 2003
Tracks: 27
Carmen
Year: 1997
Tracks: 39
Symphony in C major, L'Arles..
Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
L'Arlesienne Suite 2 and Symphonie No 1.C Dur
Year:
Tracks: 8
Kate Beckinsale - Beckinsale I Dont Want More Kids
KATE BECKINSALE has ruled out having more children - insisting her daughter LILY doesn't need any siblings.
Beckinsale says her nine-year-old daughter Lily - from her relationship with actor Michael Sheen - is so well behaved, she doesn't feel the need to add to her brood.
She says, "We're such a merry little bunch as we are. Maybe I will at some point but I feel I have everything I want.
"Lily is the perfect child. She is really so much fun and into the same things as me.
"I am my mum and dad's only child so I don't really have the mindset for more children."
Beckinsale married Underworld director Len Wiseman in 2004.
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Midori
Artist: Midori
Genre(s):
New Age
Easy Listening
Other
Discography:
Gregorian Harmony
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Scarborough Fair
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Heaven's Breath
Year: 2001
Tracks: 6
Feng Shui, Vol. 2
Year: 2001
Tracks: 2
Celtic Visions
Year: 2001
Tracks: 7
Bali
Year: 2001
Tracks: 6
Sleep: Mind Body and Soul Series
Year: 2000
Tracks: 2
Bonsai Garden
Year: 2000
Tracks: 2
Secrets Of The Panpipes
Year: 1998
Tracks: 2
Eternal Pathways
Year: 1996
Tracks: 2
Spririt Of The Panpipes
Year: 1995
Tracks: 2
Into the Rainforest
Year: 1995
Tracks: 2
Kindred Spirits
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Spirit Of The Panpipes
Year:
Tracks: 2
Reflexology
Year:
Tracks: 1
Music for Sleep
Year:
Tracks: 2
Thursday 19 June 2008
Bond's new film set to fly Virgin
James Bond loves Aston Martin cars and when it comes to even higher flying it now seems that Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic is 007's airline of choice.
Virgin has announced that the airline will again feature in the new Bond film 'Quantum of Solace', starring Daniel Craig as 007.
"Virgin Atlantic and James Bond make a great partnership; slick, smooth and renowned the world over", said Branson.
The news follows the cameo appearance that Branson made in Craig's first outing as Bond in 'Casino Royale'. Virgin aircraft were also seen in that movie.
Virgin also announced that it would be a global partner for 'Quantum of Solace' and would be supporting the film's release with a series of promotional and marketing initiatives.
The Virgin Atlantic president added: "'Casino Royale' propelled Bond to greater success and we're certain that 'Quantum of Solace' will set an even higher standard."
Virgin's competitor British Airways cut out Branson and airbrushed the Virgin logo from the film when showing it on their in-flight entertainment system.
BA is later expected to comment on what their in-flight policy will be when the new Bond film comes out in November this year.
Visit our 'Quantum of Solace' photocall gallery here.
Virgin has announced that the airline will again feature in the new Bond film 'Quantum of Solace', starring Daniel Craig as 007.
"Virgin Atlantic and James Bond make a great partnership; slick, smooth and renowned the world over", said Branson.
The news follows the cameo appearance that Branson made in Craig's first outing as Bond in 'Casino Royale'. Virgin aircraft were also seen in that movie.
Virgin also announced that it would be a global partner for 'Quantum of Solace' and would be supporting the film's release with a series of promotional and marketing initiatives.
The Virgin Atlantic president added: "'Casino Royale' propelled Bond to greater success and we're certain that 'Quantum of Solace' will set an even higher standard."
Virgin's competitor British Airways cut out Branson and airbrushed the Virgin logo from the film when showing it on their in-flight entertainment system.
BA is later expected to comment on what their in-flight policy will be when the new Bond film comes out in November this year.
Visit our 'Quantum of Solace' photocall gallery here.
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