neděle 24. ledna 2010

The Color of Pomegranates / Sayat Nova (King of Song) (1968)



The Color of Pomegranates / Sayat Nova

masterpiece about Armenian poet Sayat Nova


Steeped in religious iconography, The Color of Pomegranates is a deeply spiritual testament to director Sergei Parajanov’s fascination with Armenian folk art and culture. It is also a controversial work, which, coupled with another of his films, Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors, led to his arrest and imprisonment in a Soviet Gulag for four years. The Soviets insisted he was guilty of selling gold and icons illegally and committing “homosexual acts.” In reality, his only crime was offending the tenets of socialist realism, both in his daring surrealistic form and in his choice of subject matter. While many of the popular films of this era in Soviet cinema were largely propaganda designed to serve the ideological interests of the regime, Parajanov chose to focus on the ethnography and spirituality of the Ukraine, Armenia, and Georgia.

(English subtitles)

censored version (?)

Sergei Parajanov imdb




A.R. & Machines - Echo (1972, Krautrock)



Obscure tripped out masterpiece!

Supreme sonic musical voyage turned to cycled psychedelia that remains high class standard of hypnotic space-echo guitar inventions....(progarchives.com)

Achim Reichel & Machines - Echo (1972, Krautrock)

sobota 16. ledna 2010

Zeus B. Held - Europium (Germany, 1979)



prog rock / kraut / vocoded disco brilliance by Zeus (Birth Control). Enjoy!

Zeus on wiki

Zeus on discogs

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pseudo-disco AOR (Sky release) on MS

personally favorite : Through the motions & School is out

...cuz my little games are the sweetest! Hahahahahahaaaa!...


King Kong-st,LP,1981,Germany

pátek 15. ledna 2010

VA Electronic Rock (Germany, 1981)



Essential krautrock / disco / progressive electronic / experimental compilation emerging from Germany! Rare & earitable!

La Düsseldorf - Rheinita
Moebius - Mirror of Infinity
Space - Space Media
Hydravion - Metropolitain
Richard Wahnfried - Druck
Lutz Rahn - Solo Trip
Zeus - Europium
Wolfgang Bock - Robsai Part I
VC-People - Dance Macabre

discogs

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pondělí 4. ledna 2010

Ron Rogers - Ya Ya (disco side of NY no wave, 1983, ZE records)



Utterly amazing disco side of NY (Bronx) no wave! YAA YA YA YAAAA YA!

YAA YA YA YAAAA YA!
YAA YA YA YAAAA YA!
YAA YA YA YAAAA YA!
I WAANT IT! I WAANT IT!

I WANT IT REAALY BAD
AND IF I DON'T GET IT
IT WILL MAKE ME MAD
AND IF I GET IT
IT WILL MAKE ME FRISKY
SO LET'S CHANGE THE SUBJECT
AND TALK ABOUT WHISKY!

Appeared on Oozlum's favorite Mutant disco compilations (Volume III Garage sale)

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ZE

Ron
(writing, producing, and performing on AURAL EXCITERS, Kid Creole and The Coconuts!)



Cristina - Things fall appart
2009' 30 years ZE records celebration (1979 - 2009)
Alan Vega - Jukebox babe
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