Within my top 10, there's only one new artist. Inside my top 30, there's about 10. Electronic music had a huge year with the return of Daft Punk, but also with new artist Disclosure, Jon Hopkins' career masterpiece "Immunity, and efforts from others like Boards of Canada, Juana Molina, Baths and Fuck Buttons. You don't see a lot of rock in the top tiers of the Grammy nominations for 2014, and as loathe as I am to say it, I gotta say I feel almost (almost) the same way. I've loved the work that Mbv, Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, Portugal. The...
- 12/21/2013
- Hitfix
Director Pierre Laffargue showed a certain fondness for cultural fusion with his debut feature. An action thriller modeled after American blacksploitation, starring a French actor and set in northern Africa, Black turned heads on the festival circuit around the world in part because of Laffargue's desire to fuse western influences with African. And though the subject matter is very different with his latest effort that same desire is very much present.A musical documentary, Kinshasa Superband follows the life of a sort of international supergroup made up of western indie rockers - Konono no 1, Kasai Allstar, Juana Molina, Wildbirds and Peacedrum, and Matt Mehlan among them - joining forces with a group of traditional African musicians.They come from Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Albuquerque or Brooklyn...
- 9/28/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Release Date: Sept. 27, 2011
Price: DVD $20.00
Studio: Microcinema
Inspired by the stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortazar, yet blended with the realities of contemporary Argentina, 2009’s Wind in Our Hair is an experimental narrative by New York-based filmmaker Lynne Sachs (The Small Ones). The film is about four girls discovering themselves through a common fascination with the trains that pass by their house.
Shot with 16mm, Super 8mm, regular 8mm film and video, the movie follows the girls to the train tracks, into kitchens, on sidewalks, in costume stores and into backyards in the heart of Buenos Aires as well as the outskirts of town.
Sachs and her Argentine collaborators move about Buenos Aires with their cameras, witnessing the four playful girls as they wander a city embroiled in a debate about the role of agribusiness, food resources and taxes. Using an intricately constructed Spanish-English “bilingual” soundtrack, Sachs articulates this atmosphere...
Price: DVD $20.00
Studio: Microcinema
Inspired by the stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortazar, yet blended with the realities of contemporary Argentina, 2009’s Wind in Our Hair is an experimental narrative by New York-based filmmaker Lynne Sachs (The Small Ones). The film is about four girls discovering themselves through a common fascination with the trains that pass by their house.
Shot with 16mm, Super 8mm, regular 8mm film and video, the movie follows the girls to the train tracks, into kitchens, on sidewalks, in costume stores and into backyards in the heart of Buenos Aires as well as the outskirts of town.
Sachs and her Argentine collaborators move about Buenos Aires with their cameras, witnessing the four playful girls as they wander a city embroiled in a debate about the role of agribusiness, food resources and taxes. Using an intricately constructed Spanish-English “bilingual” soundtrack, Sachs articulates this atmosphere...
- 8/26/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
With a title like The Mistress, the debut LP by erstwhile one-man band Yellow Ostrich suggests that the musician at its core, Wisconsin native Alex Schaaf, feels no fidelity for any one musical style or influence. Throughout The Mistress’ 13 tracks—remastered and expanded for this Barsuk reissue—Schaaf is a home-recorded Dirty Projectors (“Hold On”), a male equivalent to cut-and-paste artist Juana Molina (“Libraries”), a plugged-in Nick Drake (“I’ll Run”), and a fantastic mimic of Jack White (the rollicking, Get Behind Me Satan-esque coda of “Hate Me Soon”). The Mistress also suggests that Schaaf and the now-three-piece ...
- 8/16/2011
- avclub.com
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