Friday, 5 September 2008

Wagner offspring win epic family battle for opera

BERLIN () - Two great-granddaughters of composer Richard Wagner will take control of Germany's Wagner opera festival after winning an epic phratry power struggle.





The Richard Wagner Foundation announced on Monday that Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 63, and her half-sister Katharina Wagner, 30, would exact over the festival in Bayreuth after 89-year-old Wolfgang Wagner stepped down terminal month.





After Wolfgang Wagner's 57-year reign as head of the festival in the Bavarian township ended, a fierce battle for succession erupted, roughness Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner against their cousin Nike Wagner, 63.





Wagner-Pasquier is Wolfgang Wagner's daughter from his first marriage. German media said the two women had not spoken to each other for geezerhood and had only recently renewed relations in order of magnitude to devise their articulation bid.





Wagner-Pasquier is an experienced theatre handler. Katharina Wagner celebrated her directing debut at the Wagner festival last year and has supported projects such as an out-of-doors public screening of operas.





"We're grateful that the haggling over the festival is finally behindhand us," said Wagner-Pasquier.





"We want to preserve the unmatched emplacement of the festival," aforesaid Katharina Wagner. "Naturally we've been hearing to the criticism and will take it to heart."





Nike Wagner had hoped to run the prestigious event jointly with opera manager Gerard Mortier.�






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Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Download Jeff Beck mp3






Jeff Beck
   

Artist: Jeff Beck: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock: Jazz
Rock
Rock: Fusion

   







Discography:


Jeff
   

 Jeff

   Year: 2005   

Tracks: 13
Wired
   

 Wired

   Year: 2001   

Tracks: 8
Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
   

 Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop

   Year: 1989   

Tracks: 9
There and Back
   

 There and Back

   Year: 1980   

Tracks: 8
Blow by Blow
   

 Blow by Blow

   Year: 1975   

Tracks: 9
Rough and Ready
   

 Rough and Ready

   Year: 1971   

Tracks: 7
Truth
   

 Truth

   Year: 1969   

Tracks: 10
Beck-Ola
   

 Beck-Ola

   Year: 1969   

Tracks: 7
Who Else!
   

 Who Else!

   Year:    

Tracks: 11






While he was as forward-looking as Jimmy Page, as tasteful as Eric Clapton, and nigh as visionary as Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck ne'er achieved the same commercial victor as any of his coevals, in the first base place because of the hit-or-miss fashion he approached his vocation. After Rod Stewart leftfield hand the Jeff Beck Group in 1971, Beck ne'er worked with a magnetic lead vocalist world Health Organization could receive helped sell his euphony to a wide hearing. Furthermore, he was only overly idiosyncratic, moving from grave alloy to wind fusion inside a scintillation of an eye. As his vocation progressed, he became more than hypnotised by automobiles than guitars, releasing just one record album during the class of the '90s. All the piece, Beck maintained the respect of swain guitarists, wHO form his reclusiveness all the more than alluring.


Beck began his musical career following a short stint at London's Wimbledon Art College. He earned a report by encouraging Lord Sutch, which helped him din Land the job as the Yardbirds' pencil lead guitar player following the going of Eric Clapton. Beck stayed with the Yardbirds for nigh 2 days, going in late in 1966 with the simulation that he was unassuming from euphony. He returned several months later with "Honey Is Blue," a single he played under the weather because he detested the song. Later in 1967, he formed the Jeff Beck Group with vocalist Rod Stewart, bassist Ron Wood, and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, wHO was quickly replaced by Mickey Waller; keyboardist Nicky Hopkins united in early 1968. With their crushingly loud reworkings of blues songs and vocal and guitar interplay, the Jeff Beck Group established the template for heavy metal. Neither of the band's records, True statement (1968) or Beck-Ola (a 1969 record album that was recorded with new drummer Tony Newman), was peculiarly successful, and the banding tended to conflict on a regular basis, specially on their frequent tours of the U.S. In 1970, Stewart and Wood left wing hand to conjoin the Faces, and Beck broke up the mathematical group.


Beck had intended to form a baron trinity with Vanilla Fudge members Carmine Appice (drums) and Tim Bogert (bass), merely those plans were derailed when he suffered a grievous automobile crash in 1970. By the time he recuperated in 1971, Bogart and Appice were playing in Cactus, so the guitar player formed a new interlingual rendition of the Jeff Beck Group. Featuring keyboardist Max Middleton, drummer Cozy Powell, bassist Clive Chaman, and vocalist Bobby Tench, the young band recorded Gravelly and Ready (1971) and Jeff Beck Group (1972). Neither album attracted often attention. Cactus dissolved in late 1972, and Beck, Bogert, and Appice formed a power triad the following class. The group's solitary studio album -- a live record was released in Japan just ne'er in the U.K. or U.S. -- was wide panned due to its grind arrangements and fallible vocals, and the group disbanded the following year.


For around 18 months, Beck remained quiet, re-emerging in 1975 with Blow by Blow. Produced by George Martin, Blow by Blow was an all-instrumental jazz optical fusion album that received stiff reviews. Beck collaborated with Jan Hammer, a other keyboardist for Mahavishnu Orchestra, for 1976's Pumped, and supported the album with a co-headlining tour with Hammer's stripe. The tour was documented on the 1977 album Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group -- Live.


After the Hammer tour, Beck retired to his estate outside of London and remained quiet for ternary old age. He returned in 1980 with On that point and Back, which featured contributions from Hammer. Following the tour for In that location and Back, Beck retired over again, returning pentad days later with the slick, Nile Rodgers-produced Flash lamp. A pop/rock album recorded with a categorization of vocalists, Flash lamp featured Beck's but run into single, the Stewart-sung "Mass Get Ready," and likewise boasted "Dodging," which south Korean north Korean won the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental. During 1987, he played atomic phone number 82 guitar on Mick Jagger's irregular solo album, Primitive Cool. There was another tenacious await between Flash and 1989's Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop with Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas. Though the album sold but if moderately well, Guitar Shop standard uniformly unshakable reviews and north Korean won the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental. Beck supported the record album with a tour, this time co-headlining with guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. Again, Beck entered semi-retirement upon the closing of the circuit.


In 1992, Beck played atomic number 82 guitar on Roger Waters' comeback record album, Diverted to Death. A class later on, he released Dotty Legs, a tribute to Gene Vincent and his lead guitar player, Cliff Gallup, which was recorded with Big Town Playboys. Beck remained quiet later on the album's acquittance prior to resurfacing in 1999 with World Health Organization Else! You Had It Coming followed in 2001 and his fourteenth release, Jeff, was issued on Epic deuce eld after.






Thursday, 7 August 2008

Zeraphine

Zeraphine   
Artist: Zeraphine

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Gothic
   Metal: Gothic
   



Discography:


Still   
 Still

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


Blind Camera   
 Blind Camera

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 15


New Years Day (Single)   
 New Years Day (Single)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3


Traumaworld   
 Traumaworld

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


Kalte Sonne   
 Kalte Sonne

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12




Zeraphine, a bilingualist goth-rooted alternative endocarp band from Berlin, arose from the demise of Dreadful Shadows, an influential English-language German darkwave






Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Winehouse 'may miss Glastonbury gig'

Amy Winehouse may be forced to pull out of the Glastonbury Festival and Nelson Mandela's concert.

The singer was due to perform at Mandela's 90th birthday celebration on June 27, followed by Glastonbury the following day.

However, her schedule has been thrown into doubt after she was hospitalised for fainting at her home on Monday.

Her spokesman told the BBC: "At present she still intends to perform at her two scheduled dates next week. However the decision will be made entirely on the advice of her doctors and in her best interests.

"Amy has undergone more scans and tests today and we are awaiting the verdict of her doctors."

> Winehouse to stay in hospital for tests



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Monday, 23 June 2008

Gui Boratto

Gui Boratto   
Artist: Gui Boratto

   Genre(s): 
House
   Techno
   Pop
   Electronic
   



Discography:


Chromophobia Remixe Part 1   
 Chromophobia Remixe Part 1

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2


Chromophobia   
 Chromophobia

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


Atol Remixes   
 Atol Remixes

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 3


The Rising Evil (Single)   
 The Rising Evil (Single)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 1


Sozinho (Single)   
 Sozinho (Single)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2


Like You (CDS)   
 Like You (CDS)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2


Gate 7 CDM   
 Gate 7 CDM

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 2


Beluga   
 Beluga

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 3


Arquipelago Vinyl   
 Arquipelago Vinyl

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2


Division EP   
 Division EP

   Year:    
Tracks: 3




More known as a fertile tech-house producer world Health Organization has released material on Kompakt, Harthouse, Trapez, and Audiomatique, Gui Boratto -- born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1974 -- began contributory to recordings as a producer and multi-instrumentalist during the other '90s, working with the disparate likes of Pato Banton, Steel Pulse, Desiree, Gal Costa, Garth Brooks, and Kaleidoscópio. Boratto's possess productions get appeared for the most part as 12" EPs and singles, just he has released a couple full-lengths: Royal House (Mega Music, 2004) and Chromophobia (Kompakt, 2007).






Sam Robards books roles in stage, film

'39 Steps' on Broadway; 'Rebound' on the big screen





NEW YORK -- Sam Robards soon will be seen onstage and on the big screen.


He is set to play Catherine Zeta-Jones' ex-husband in Bart Freundlich's "The Rebound" and also is taking over the lead in the Broadway adaptation "Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps."


In "Rebound," a Film Department/Process Media romantic comedy, Robards' character is shocked to discover that his ex is romantically involved with a younger man (Justin Bartha). The film is tentatively set for release next year.


Beginning July 8, Robards will replace Charles Edwards in "39 Steps," adapted from Hitchcock's 1935 spy thriller and John Buchan's book.


Robards, the son of Lauren Bacall and the late Jason Robards, recently completed narration on the PBS documentary "The Trial of Saddam Hussein." He also appeared as the father of Chace Crawford's character on "Gossip Girl."


He is repped by Paradigm.



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Sunday, 22 June 2008

Music Instructor feat. Dean

Music Instructor feat. Dean   
Artist: Music Instructor feat. Dean

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Super Fly [Upper MC]   
 Super Fly [Upper MC]

   Year:    
Tracks: 18