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hey everybody
saturday i shot photos of guaili, a band from beijing… i really enjoyed the music and wanted to share with this really nice cleap as well as a couple of photos from the show

dear all, i really felt for this series of views from staircases in tokyo with fantastic night shots. The photographer is Sato Shintaro.
( click on the image to see more )

hey everyone,

following the advise of a friend, i went yesterday to see miami japan, two japanese girls making some weird electro violin music, i was tired and not very optimistic but the concert turned out to be great, they are really funny full of energy and charism, and the music is really bouncing screaming, moving and everybody got sallowed into it ! here two videos i ve slected from some of their live perfomances

hi

through this new word of indie music made in china, one of my recent favourites re-tros with TV show ( hang the police )

Rebuilding The Rights Of Statues, signed to Tag Team Records. Their sound is “explosive, danceable, unsettling post punk that leaves you unsure whether you want to take your clothes off and shake the spiders out, or go look for a rope, a closet and a copy of Iggy Pop’s The Idiot.” (Tag Team)
Hua Dong, guitarist and vocalist of Rebuilding The Rights of Statues, spent several years studying in Germany and writing songs. When he returned to Beijing in 2003 he formed Rebuilding The Rights of Statues. In 2005 the band recorded Cut Off! and was thrilled to have legendary producer Brian Eno sit in on keyboards.

good day all

today wanted to share a new discovery:

sulumi is a beijing artist who suprised me a lot during my week end in the capital city early this month. Sunday night just after NIN, was going to the antidote party organized by friend micheal and heard about this strange guy who is doing music only using game boys… at first i was expecting something really strange and quite basic but once i heard it from the garden of 2 kolegas, i ran inside and danced for 1 hour… i was completely absorbed by the perfect usage of the 8bit machine ! sulumi is probably one of the best local chinese artist i have seen in china, please check for yourself on his myspace page:

http://myspace.com/sulumi

cheers

good day all….

i wanted to share with you the work of a Danish artist called Peter Cellesen. Is minimal work on white paper is very creative and gives us the impression that you need much to alter things from the simple state of everyday object to an special creative object. I am curious how would you qualified this kind of art? I would name it minimal art ….

his website

who was expecting that …. 7 years after seeing nine inch nails for the first time, they are back in front of my eyes and it was simply incredible, the intensity and atomsphere have changed towards a more mature and hypnotic approach of live music…

trent & me 2 hours before the show

after two days of borring festival and average music, everybody was just waint for this, around 8.30, the dark color of the stage were mixed with some white mystic foam and suddenly all went black again and the first note came, ”the end is he beginning“ was starting…

As soon as the first lights came toghether with the sounds, we understood that the quality of the show is going to be much better that anything we have seen during this beijing week end ! After 10 minutes, when trent was just about to start march of the pigs, he looked at the VIP front space where everybody was sitting down surrounded by local police and said” common get the fuck up and lets fuck it ….” and that was it, the highly controled area that was so securily watched for 2 days, just stood up and got crazy, just led by the power of one band’s music… After leading us through some furious oldy, ( gave up, heresy, colser ), trent and his band took us to an electronic part with a wild panoramic screen throuwing uncontrolable dots of colours giving us the imporession of flying in this world of beats and rock !

it was just 1 and half hours of madness where i was in a second state - probably in the top ten of best concerts and god knows how long is the list … more photos to follow !

dear all / here today i just to share my tastes and discover of this incredible young russian girl who grew up in new york … Regina Spektor. Simple but efficient, Funny but touching, dynamic but romantic…. i dont get tired of her, and especially this song ” on the radio ”

this is how it works…
you’re young until you’re not !
you love until you don’t !!
you try until you can …
you laugh until you cry … you cry until your laugh

And everyone must breath, until their dying breath…

dear all,

as i ve discovered numerous very very good music artists through south east asia, especially thailand & laos, i wanted to share with you some of my discovery

this song is very famous in thailand, the artist is Loso, and it s called 14 ( sip si with thai pronounciation) . It is about a guy who feels he is back to 14 een years old when he sees a girl… It s quite pop, very simple, but i just think the song is really beautiful and produce lot of intensity… Let me know your thoughts…

i will try to bring you the best i found in hip hop and rock scene in the next few days !

hi !

during the past few days, i have been digg-ing a lot on various websites and i found some photos of very interesting installations from Tim Noble and Sue Webster.

makes me think of murakami’s book ( hard boiled land and the end of the world ) where the main characters fights with his own shadow to find out where is the real world and if this is the one he wants to live in….

google those names and i am sure you ll find more info about them, or if you lucky enough they might do some installations near bye !

tim