Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Fetal Heart Rates At 34 Weeks

Gabriel Schemoul - Ryoshi

Here it is the slap of the year! Schemoul Gabriel published his first album to Cornelius that "Ryoshi" and is a total delight. In fact, it is part of golds of these books already and whose quality brief scenario of the dispute to the full mastery of the subject graph. It's beautiful and handsome. A wild tale invented in Japan and dreamed - and who just joined one of the tandem Micol / Adam Tales of the seventh breath - and whose reality lies beyond the image represented in the raw truth of the situation described. Ryoshi is a sinner who dream of theater. He is touched by the grace of the gods as a hunter of fish and sontinue tirelessly up every day with a gigantic fish is always a bit bigger.

Monster, he is by his appearance and his abilities, but also when it becomes monster plays before his little girl, wearing a mask. Are taken and its monstrous monster is his destiny. The gods not honor a man without purpose. It is beautifully implaccable conjugated Schemoul graphic virtuosity (whose other published result of a collaboration with Nancy Peña in scenario starting to get serious about the eye), is reached with "Ryoshi" a summit of the band comic. Real favorite, quick read, but just as surely replayed in the aftermath.






Ps: I borrowed this picture on the blog hoping that Gabriel Schemoul does not want me, and this blog is of course visible by clicking on the title of this article.

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Leela James - Let's do it again

Leela James is back after four "A Change Is Gonna Come", the debut album of soulful lady and based on the success of it, had landed cleanly pinnacle of Warner who interest and public criticism does not seem to mean much. But do we understand one day expectations of major companies? I'm not sure about wanting elsewhere.
short, she went back with this self-produced album, and published by Shanachie album containing 100% of occasions. one thing is sure, Leela James still sings as well, putting his vote in the manner of Aretha Franklin or Tina Turner, gnashing her voice as the rhythm and inflection of the measure. His voice is the first pleasant surprise of "Let's do it again", she is still there, it took maturity, investment, you feel the band playing behind and all fits to the coat.
side track-listing, some obvious choices parraissent as the resumption of "Clean Up Woman" Betty Wright and the "Simply Beautiful" Al Green but I admit it surprised me with this cover of "Miss You "the Stones with the groove that she introduces shines a little more with each new listen. In the end, it is a disk who kindly settle here as a classic, resolutely turned towards the past but do not forget to sound less deep bass at risk, and that's the worst that it wishes to be dancing at the crowds concert halls frantically.



Miss You - Leela James

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Elminate Foot Pain In Skates

Archie Shepp - Phat Jam in Milan

Saxophonist Archie Shepp is the type of mixing jazz, or rather the mixture elsewhere. His whole career was formed collaborations, whether the confrontation with soul and funk on "Attica Blues", the North African music to "Bored" and "live at the pan-african festival, jazz Voice on the recent "Gemini" and his collaboration with singer Amina Claudine Myers, in short, almost as many records as meetings for this great jazzman.
And there is one area in which Archie Shepp has always paid, is one of black talk, black speech of the Great Black Music, that is owed to Leroy Jones and Gil Scott-Heron. So it was not very surprising that the meeting with Napoleon Maddox born this live recording made in Milan last summer. I remember the last place that Napoleon Maddox is the emcee, beatboxer poet-Iswhat combo?! I have mentioned here. So here are our two artists who seem to want to work together to merge their respective worlds. Finally, this is what I expected on paper because the reality of the finished disc is different.
If the meeting has taken place it has mainly resulted in the resumption of the already highly honed repertoire of Iswhat?!, Ie through the appropriation of the work of Jack Walker (saxophonist in Iswhat?) By Archie Shepp and if the intensity is actually the appointment (that I have not been in Milan last summer ..), what do these so interpretations of the originals Iswhat?! ? I may even find the "Kashmir" most successful of Maddox on "The Life We Chose" as the latter. So yes, the drive is beautiful, the percussions Ahmid Drake brings a definite plus as its organic sensibility here is tense but what about the two saxophonists also present? Oliver Lake and Cochem Gastelum auraint of feeding a fire far more lively than that offered! On "Ill Biz" notament, where is expected the explosion sound? Rest
engineering Maddox microphone in hand arises again (but on his book) as one of the alter-ego of the other black-poet Saul Williams's time. A micro disappointment in short, unless you learn from this record how the music of rabid Iswhat?!.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Bridal Dresses Spadina

Christophe Gaultier - The Swedish

Freely adapted from the novel by Stephen Crane, "Blue Hotel", "The Swede" takes Christophe Gaultier hunt on the lands of the American West, the teps of the pioneers. But all of the ellipse is in this book, Twilight of Nebraska barely mentioned by a line of railroad crossing and a seedy hotel. The weather is stormy, the three men off the train are cold and burning with desire to keep warm. This will be by alcohol, gambling, human warmth?
The Swede is a fool, who does not déparaillerait Dostoevsky, a madman who was furious and filled the space with its resonances absurd, it creates fear and anxiety. They put it only remains to Christophe Gaultier meet all its know-how pencil in hand. And the result is magnificent. Facies of the characters like never live under the line, the tension becomes palpable, and for all finally explodes, burning to resume the book since its beginning in order to enjoy a new intensity of color the brevity of the dialogue and the quality of the situation.
A large book that does not tell much, but keeps up his desire for strangeness and is ultimately the best side of comics.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

How Much Do Platypus Costs

Marion Festraëts & Benjamin Bachelor - Dimitri Bogrov

A happy surprise in Bayou signed by two strangers (it blows me some sign that Marion Festraëts chronic comics in a large French weekly and that Benjamin would have taken Bachelor The Alchemist's abandoned Leg by Tanquerelle), I say bravo! Dimitri Bogrov tells a love story between two young, bright people. The action takes place in Kiev in 1911 in the middle class on one hand and the left-extreme of the other, meet Vera and Dmitri Bogrov Raskovitch forcing a tragic result, but who cares, love seems only guide here.
In fact, what is most striking about this story is the absolute lack of false notes. Everything is good in this Bogrov Dimitri, dialogue and well paced for changing colors and beautiful Benjamin Bachelier. A real favorite in this album, actually.
And if I say no more, it's especially not spoil anything in the universe that is created mechanically by reading the album for you to discover.