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A.R. Kane: 69
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
A.R. Kane were an English musical duo consisting of Alex Ayuli and Rudy Tambala.

The group drew inspiration even from the dark and atmospheric jazz of Miles Davis and the sinister, surreal fluidity of Robert Wyatt for the dreamy compositions of the album 69, a stylistic puzzle that reinvents the role of rhythm and melody.
(Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi)

Tracks:
1. "Crazy Blue" 3:26
2. "Suicide Kiss" 3:36
3. "Baby Milk Snatcher" 3:16
4. "Scab" 3:25
5. "Sulliday" 6:33
6. "Dizzy" 3:47
7. "Spermwhale Trip Over" 4:40
8. "The Sun Falls into the Sea" 5:45
9. "The Madonna Is with Child" 3:49
10. "Spanish Quay (3)" 2:00

Musicians:

Maggie Tambala – backing vocals (track 1)
Russell Smith – bass (track 3)
Billy McGee – double bass (track 6)
Stephen Benjamin – clarinet (track 8)
Ray Shulman – bass (tracks 1 and 7)
Adrian Belew: Lone Rhino
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Debut album by Adrian Belew as a solo artist.
He has played guitar with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, King Crimson, Laurie Anderson, Nine Inch Nails, Crash Test Dummies, Tori Amos, Porcupine Tree, Stick Men, founded the Bears and the Adrian Belew Power Trio, and nothing...
Adrian Belew: Twang Bar king
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Second solo album, recorded during the tours of "Beat" & "Three of a Perfect Pair" by King Crimson, just to not be idle...

Track listing:
All songs written and arranged by Adrian Belew except “I’m Down” written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney
"I'm Down" – 2:54
"I Wonder" – 4:39
"Life Without a Cage" – 3:20
"Sexy Rhino" – 0:37
"Twang Bar King" – 1:26
"Another Time" – 3:02
"The Rail Song" – 5:39
"Paint the Road" – 3:19
"She Is Not Dead" – 4:41
"Fish Head" – 4:30
"The Ideal Woman" – 4:08
"Ballet for a Blue Whale" – 4:44
Adrian Belew: Mr. Music Head
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
The album also features a prominent use of the piano, an instrument that Belew was not particularly skilled at, but he used it in many songs because he believed they called for it.
Adrian Belew: Young Lions
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Here sings also friend David Bowie in "Pretty Pink Rose" & in "Gunman"
Adrian Belew: Inner Revolution
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
The album is a collection of pop songs inspired by the Sixties, featuring experimental guitar chords crafted by Belew.
Adrian Belew: Desire Caught by the Tail
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
The album and the title "Desire Caught by the Tail" are inspired by Picasso, who wrote "Le Désir attrapé par la queue," with a sound and a compositional style more abstract than usual.
Aleksandr Puškin: La dama di picche
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
"The room was full of the dead. The moon illuminated their yellow and purplish faces through the windows, their cavernous mouths, their dark and half-closed eyes, their protruding noses... the dead women in caps and shrouds, the dead men, if officials, in uniform... the merchants in their festive attire": the coffin maker has invited his clients to dinner and Pushkin can clamp down on the unruly matter of existence, with his geometric and transparent prose, dry and procedural, yet also biblical and concrete, rendering its mystery and agitation. (from Adelphi)
Alessandro Baricco: Oceano mare
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
The main setting of the story is the Almayer Inn, which Baricco borrows from the writer Joseph Conrad, and where all the characters converge, each with their own past and fears. The theme of the sea, with its magical, healing, but also terrible value, is analyzed from multiple facets through the stories of the individual characters: from the young Elisewin, suffering from hypersensitivity and afraid of everything and everyone, to Professor Bartleboom and his studies on limits... (cit. wiki)
Alessandro Baricco: Seta
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Hervé Joncour, a French silk merchant, is forced to travel to Japan to buy silkworm eggs due to an epidemic that has affected them in all European and African countries. He is received at the royal palace of Hara Kei, an enigmatic man who is always accompanied by a young girl.
(cit. wiki)
Alessandro Baricco: Castelli di Rabbia
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
And we, who think of rising happiness,
would feel the emotion,
which almost astonishes us,
when a happy thing falls.

And we, who think of elevated happiness,
would feel the commotion,
that almost unsettles us,
when a happy thing falls.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Alexandre Dumas: Il conte di Montecristo
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
The story is set in Italy, France, and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea, during the years between 1815 and 1838 (from the end of the reign of Napoleon I to the reign of Louis-Philippe). The main themes addressed include justice, revenge, forgiveness, and mercy. (cit. wiki)
Alexandre Dumas: I tre moschettieri
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
- AD displays no small qualities of a great writer... First and foremost, a sovereign shamelessness; a blend of complicity and outrage towards the reader; no sentimentality... the taste for play, for misrepresentation; honest moral deficiency; a noble guiltery, which dictates the exact move to unleash the willing credulity of the public. (G. Manganelli)
- For my part, I do not feel the blush that others would feel flooding their faces when I say that I enjoy and consider the Trois mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas père to be conducted with great liveliness and flair. Many still read and enjoy them without any offense to poetry, but hide their pleasure within like one would for illicit delights, and it is good to encourage them to lay aside their false shame and their accompanying embarrassment (Benedetto Croce)
In Nigeria, in the early 1950s, the young Amos Tutuola sent his first manuscript to an address he had found in an advertisement that appeared in a local newspaper.
Through a further turn of fate, the manuscript arrived at the publisher Faber and Faber: in this unlikely manner, the immortal spirit of the fable began to speak once more.
Dylan Thomas immediately recognized that tone, that wonder – and greeted Tutuola's first book with an enthusiastic review in the "Observer." (quote from Adelphi)
“Open is one of the most passionate books against sports ever written by an athlete. It is not just an athlete's memoir, but a truly profound coming-of-age story.”

(cit. New York Times Books Review)
Anita Desai: Chiara luce del giorno
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
... India immediately after independence (1947), the tragedy of Partition and the refugees, the absurd massacres of Muslims and Hindus at the border between India and Pakistan, the day of Gandhi's assassination...
Anthony Burgess: Trilogia malese
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
"It is time to understand the nature of the East, and of Islam. After Vietnam, we can no longer afford to consider those distant regions of the world as material for fairy tale characters, like the popular yet reprehensible Sandokan."
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess: Arancia meccanica
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
It's the story of Alex, a hoodlum always ready to use a knife, the leader of a gang of "toughs" with whom he repeats every night, on the sidewalks of the suburbs, the game of violence.

"My hero, or antihero, Alex, - wrote Anthony Burgess, - is truly evil, at a level perhaps inconceivable, but his wickedness is not the product of theoretical or social conditioning: it is a personal undertaking in which he has embarked with full clarity.
My parabola, and that of Kubrick, want to assert that a world of consciously assumed violence is preferable to a world programmed to be good or innocuous...
A Clockwork Orange was supposed to be a kind of manifesto on the importance of being able to choose."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Il piccolo principe
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
A pilot crashes in the Sahara desert and meets a child who asks him, "Can you draw me a sheep?" The pilot draws him a box, telling him that inside is the sheep he wanted. Little by little, they become friends, and the child claims to be the prince of a faraway asteroid...

" grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them..."
::: The Little Prince :::
Anton P. Cechov: Zio Vanja
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
"The main character of Uncle Vanya (1896) is not Uncle Vanya, but the Professor. The fictitious respectability, the awkwardness, the attire, and the pompous ceremonial give Serebrjakòv the character of a haughty clown. His first entrance can be considered an authentic clownish 'entrée'. In our eyes, he appears sometimes akin to one of the Fratellini, sometimes to the malevolent fatties of Chaplin's comedies. The game with the blanket, the medical vials, the pompous sermons, the 'have a new photograph taken' with which Maria Vasílievna takes her leave from him: many elements contribute to highlight the circus ridiculousness of this 'wise carp', this blustery fellow, whom I imagine as a huge donkey-headed man, adorned with a flourish of a lush, reddish top hat."
From the Introduction by Angelo Maria Ripellino
Antonio Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
From the work "Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione" by Antonio Vivaldi, "Le quattro stagioni" is extracted, of which the first four concertos are well known. Each concerto of "Le quattro stagioni" is divided into three movements, of which two, the first and the third, are in Allegro or Presto tempo, while the middle one is characterized by an Adagio or Largo tempo, according to a scheme that Vivaldi has adopted for most of his concertos. Each concerto refers to one of the four seasons: "Spring," "Summer," "Autumn," and "Winter." The instrumentation of all the scores consists of: solo violin, string quartet (first and second violin, viola, cello) and continuo (harpsichord or organ).
"Wanting as little as possible and knowing as much as possible has been the principle that has guided my life."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
It's music for two violins, prepared piano, and strings.
When the musicians saw the result, they shouted:
Where is the music? (quote from Spaccamascella DeBaser)

Side A:
1. Fratres - Gidon Kremer & Keith Jarrett - 11:28
2. Cantus (In Memory Of Benjamin Britten) - Staatsorchester Stuttgart & Dennis Russell Davies - 4:59
3. Fratres (For 12 Celli) - The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - 11:48

Side B:
4. Tabula Rasa - I. Ludus - Saulus Sondeckis & Tatjana Grindenko & Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra & Alfred Schnittke & Gidon Kremer - 9:36
5. Tabula Rasa - II.Silentium - Saulus Sondeckis & Gidon Kremer & Alfred Schnittke & Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra & Tatjana Grindenko - 16:10
  • Stanlio
    12 sep 17
    Despite being a devout seventy-eight-year-old Estonian Orthodox Christian who has established himself as a composer of the Soviet Avant-Garde through experiments with collage and serial music and the invention of Tintinnabuli (a musical form based on algorithms), Pärt possesses a transcendent charm that seems to be on a continuous rise.

    How can a man who has often claimed that to fully understand his music one must read "the Church Fathers," have acquired such vast cultural prestige?

    Yet the religious aspect is one of the indispensable elements of his work.
    Describing Tintinnabuli to Björk, he states: “One line is my sins.
    The next line is my forgiveness for them.”
    Thus, it is a facet of his music towards which he has never compromised, and which brought him significant trouble with Soviet officials, leading him to leave Estonia, his homeland, first for Vienna and then for Berlin.

    Although exhausting, this forced migration marked the beginning of Pärt's international success.
    In fact, while in Russia and Estonia his name was banned from official records and concerts, Western Europe and America warmly welcomed him.
    Upon arriving in Vienna, he was almost immediately contacted by an executive from ECM Records, which at that time had been publishing almost exclusively jazz records.

    (excerpt from an article by CHRISTINE KANOWNIK Jun 11 2014, 2:19pm)