Djivan Gasparian & other: June 2008

Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Mr Oizo

Artist: Mr Oizo

   Genre(s):
Alternative
   Experimental

Discography:

Moustache (Half A Scissor)

Year: 2005
Tracks: 17

Stunt

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Last Night A DJ Killed My Dog

Year: 2000
Tracks: 6

Flat Beat

Year: 1999
Tracks: 4

Analog Worms Attack

Year: 1999
Tracks: 16

Though it's a sure count he'll linger in the minds of most only for his ubiquitous Levi's advert and 1999 European chart-topper "Monotone Beat," music-video managing director Quentin Dupieux turned in some first-class electronic productions as Mr. Oizo. Far from the madding crowds of ad-oriented hippy trance or jungle, "Flat Beat" was a midtempo techno production with hard deformed effects and a playful nature that fit perfectly with the visual focus, a sock puppet. While still a teenager, Dupieux began directional short films for French television system, and off in no less than ashcan School kit and boodle betwixt 1994 and 1998. His associations with the music world began in 1997, when starring French dance citizen Laurent Garnier serendipitously bought a automobile from Dupieux's sire. Dupieux directed the video recording for Garnier's "Flashback" unmarried, as well as the long-form video Nightmare Sandwiches star and featuring music by Garnier. That year, he too affected into music production, with his debut single "#1" coming into court on Garnier's F Communications label. After the video he (naturally) directed for second single "M-Seq" landed on an ad agency desk, he was tapped to engineer the commercial that launched Levi's vaunted non-denim melody of trousers. The eccentric mention -- featuring a marionette named Flat Eric maniacally bobbing his headway to the medicine in the passenger seat of a Chevelle piece a nonplussed human driver saturated on the route -- shortly became celebrated across Europe, and the single (too on F Communications) strike number unmatched all across the continent. (It eventually sold over two meg copies.) The obligatory full-length Parallel Worms Attack followed in October, and earned American dispersion early the undermentioned year. Dupieux also directed the picture for "Party People" by Alex Gopher.

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Fox And Itv To Make Tv Shows Together

Twentieth Century Fox Television and British commercial network ITV have reached
an agreement to set up a joint development fund to produce original series that could
air in either the U.S. or Britain -- or both. The deal appeared to have been masterminded by
Lee Bartlett,a former Fox exec who was recently appointed head of global content
at ITV. In an interview with the London Financial Times, Bartlett said, ""From
this development fund, we could actually create scripted formats that could be produ
ced in both countries at the same time. ... There could be differences -- the cast
for the British version could be more British than for the American version -- but
you could be making two series on top of each other, if I can put it like that. That
could get you some pretty good production synergies." Analysts observed that the deal
could be especially advantageous for Fox, given the fact that it allows each company
to use the other's facilities and hire each other's talent. Production costs are
said to be lower in the U.K. than they are in the U.S., and the ability to produce
shows employing British writing and acting talent would give Fox considerable leverage
when it comes time to renew existing labor pacts.

19/06/2008

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Ralf Losey

Artist: Ralf Losey

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

The Discovery Of Chakra Music

Year:
Tracks: 8

Fairuz

Artist: Fairuz

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

Ishar

Year: 1961
Tracks: 16

Fairuz is a unco popular Lebanese player wHO has managed to nurture Lebanese cultural motifs and aspirations piece blending her performances with sounds as divers as Mozart and Latin American rumbas, flamenco and Balkan family line music. Fairuz, wHO is Christian, has recorded both hymns and pro-Palestinian sings. The curious nates try her whistle on Al-Gomma al-Hazeenah.

Mastiksoul Vs Tony Thomas-Zimbuko

Artist: Mastiksoul Vs Tony Thomas-Zimbuko

   Genre(s):
Dance

Discography:

Tribal Friend

Year: 2004
Tracks: 4

Johnny Depp - Johnny Depp Gets Wine Delivered To Set

JOHNNY DEPP has been having shipments of his favourite home-made wine delivered to the set of his latest movie.

The PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN has been treating the cast and crew to his selection of wine on the set of new film PUBLIC ENEMIES, reports the Mirror.

Johnny is something of a wine buff and has been having shipments sent over "to keep him going", a source has said.

"He is very serious about his hobby and does everything himself - from selecting the grapes to working the machinery. He's done wine-tasting courses and has read virtually all there is to read on the subject. Johnny's a connoisseur," said the source.

Generous Johnny also had several bottles of Bordeaux Petrus delivered, as his home-grown wines would not quite stretch to all members of the crew.

The film has been involved in a real life incident, as a youth has been arrested on suspicion of taking part in a drive-by shooting close to the movie's set.

23/06/2008 12:57:10

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MTV music awards back in L.A. after decade away

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The MTV Video Music Awards, scene of a disastrous performance by Britney Spears last year, will return to Los Angeles for the first time in a decade on September 7, the lifestyle cable network said on Monday.

The high-wattage event, now in its 25th year, will take place on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, and will air on the channel that evening. Los Angeles last hosted the event in 1998. Since then, the awards have been held mostly in New York, but traveled to Miami in 2004 and 2005, and then Las Vegas last year.

MTV said this year's ceremony would use the city streets, rooftops, and sound stages all over the Paramount lot. The host, performers, nominees, and presenters will be announced at a later date. MTV and Paramount are units of Viacom Inc.

Last year, 7.1 million MTV viewers watched the festivities, according to Nielsen Media Research. Spears, embarking on a comeback of sorts, was ridiculed for dressing as a stripper and badly lip-synching her way through her new single. Jaws dropped among mystified stars in the audience.

While viewership was up from 5.8 million the year before, the numbers are a far cry from the record 12 million viewers for the 1999 version.

Reuters/Nielsen

Galadriel

Artist: Galadriel

   Genre(s):
Other
   Metal: Gothic
   Gothic

Discography:

Empty Mirrors Of Oblivion (1995-1999) Cd 2

Year: 2005
Tracks: 16

Empty Mirrors Of Oblivion (1995-1999) Cd 1

Year: 2005
Tracks: 10

From Ashes&Dust

Year: 2002
Tracks: 11

From Ashes and Dust

Year: 2002
Tracks: 11

The Mirror Of Ages

Year: 1999
Tracks: 10

Empire Of Emptiness

Year: 1997
Tracks: 2

Bar and Leo: Schwinng!!

Casting Crowns

Artist: Casting Crowns

   Genre(s):
Gospel
   Rock

Discography:

The Altar and the Door

Year: 2007
Tracks: 10

Lifesong

Year: 2005
Tracks: 11

Christian pop group Casting Crowns began as a pupil worship band in Daytona Beach, FL, in 1999. Led by isaac M. Singer, songwriter, and youth curate Mark Hall, the radical initially included guitarists Juan DeVevo and Hector Cervantes and fiddler Melodee DeVevo. The radical relocated to McDonough, GA, in 2001, adding Chris Huffman on basso, Megan Garrett on keyboards and piano accordion, and drummer Andy Williams. This augmented version of Casting Crowns released 2 independent albums on CD, both of which were well received in the Atlanta area. One of the albums found its way into the men of Mark Miller, jumper lead vocalizer for country group Sawyer Brown, wHO was smitten by Casting Crowns' driving pop/rock style and Hall's vocal delivery of his hard-hitting just god-fearing songs. Miller signed Casting Crowns to his freshman Beach Street Records, a division of Reunion Records with distribution by the Provident Label Group, and took the radical into the studio along with co-producer Steven Curtis Chapman, himself a popular artist on the CCM musical scene. The resulting record album, Casting Crowns, was released in 2003 on the Beach Street embossment. A sampler with fivesome songs, Alive from Atlanta, was released on Reunion Records in 2004, packaged with a bonus DVD containing band interviews and a music television. Lifesong, released in August 2005, was their most successful record even and became a Top Ten national strike.