Chains of Love – Strange Grey Days (2012)

In many ways, Chains of Love’s seven-song debut, Strange Grey Days is just another retro-revival record in a long and bustling line. Listening to the girls of Chains coo in close approximations to The Shangri-Las, or at least The Continental Co-Ets, more modern bands like The Black Belles, Vivian Girls, and Those Darlins come to mind. All combine a garage rock sensibility with some serious girl-group lust. Chains of Love go the extra mile for “Lies Lies Lies,” riffing off an incredibly similar song in theme and feel: The Knickerbockers’ “Lies,” once covered by Nancy Sinatra and, more recently, The Black Belles themselves. Far be it for me to wrongly imply that people stopped lying after a certain decade, but phew does that one note sound dusty.

Father John Misty - Nancy From Now On

Rover – Rover (2012)

...Interpol vs. Hunky Dory...
Rover le buzz du moment.Apparu cet été en première partie de nombreuses affiches, Rover répand sur la scène pop-rock son ombre de géant.Rapport évident à sa carrure de colosse mais surtout à son immense talent. brut. vivant. « Une musique inclassable sorte de pop-rock mélodique et aérienne qui vous transporte et vous remue de l’intérieur »Ouest France « La pop sensible de rover s’est évadée du punk. Même douce et sensible, son écriture a conservé cette nervosité qui empêche le lyrisme de se noyer dans l’eau de rose » Les Inrocks « Aqualast » rappelle le père et le fils Buckley, « tonight » sombre dans la froideur d’interpol, « birds » convoque Bowie …

Loudon Wainwright III – Older Than My Old Man Now

No less than 5 generations of Wainwrights make contributions to this new album with duets with Rufus, Martha, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Lexie Kelly Wainwright, Suzzy Roche,along with other esteemed guests John Scofield, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Dame Edna Everage. As his new album’s title relates, Loudon Wainwright III is “Older Than My Old Man Now” – his old man being the late Loudon Wainwright Jr., the esteemed Life Magazine columnist and senior editor. “Singer-songwriter contemporaries of mine have recently taken to writing memoirs and autobiographies,” notes Wainwright. “I decided I would try to tell the story of my swinging life in a three and one-half minute song.”

Sleep Party People – We Were Drifting On A Sad Song (2012)

Sleep Party People – the bedroom project of Brian Batz – is like one of those fairy tale gems that keep radiating magical colours when it s dark, that actually grow bigger and brighter when nighttime falls. It’s something special and important and utterly beautiful. With the aid of an old drum machine, a piano and a guitar, a unique dreamlike universe arises. With traces of My Bloody Valentine shoegaze, Cocteau Twins mystique and Flaming Lips idiosyncracy the result is hard to define. But who cares?

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Hood - Recollected

Hood
Recollected (6cd)
Domino (2012)

Deluxe 6 CD Box Set, limited to an individually numbered edition of 500 copies for the world including 4 albums, singles, rarities and a full disc of the previously unreleased.
Epic, unbeleivably good compendium of Hood's work for Domino - containing some of the most beloved music for us here over the last 15 years. The set includes the four albums - 'Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys', 'The Cycle Of Days And Seasons', 'Cold House' and 'Outside Closer' - plus a compilation of the band's Domino EPs, as well as 'The Hood Tapes' a 24 song bonus CD of rare, previously unreleased recordings...

Lower Dens – Nootropics (2012)

...In The End Is The Beginning...Depresija...Izolacija...Magija...

Lower Dens — you know, the newish rock band led by Jana Hunter, former lead singer for the influential band Jana Hunter — are proving once again that they’re the hardest working indie-leaning group with initials LD (sit down, Lavender Diamond and Lucky Dragons) by announcing only 17 days into the new year that they have a new album coming out May 1 AND a first single from said album.
It's titled Nootropics (pronounced No-eh-tro-pics) and will hit stores in North America on May 1st via Ribbon Music. The rest of the world will get it on April 30th.

Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror – On This Dark Street (2012)

...Let's Talk About Kevin...

Even though this is the first release from introverted Chicago dwelling songwriter Kevin Tihista since 2005’s rather curious collection of demos and outtakes Home Demons Vol 1, a hiatus mostly caused by US label wrangles, he’s kept himself busy stockpiling sumptuous mini-symphonies of doomed love.
Having the luxury of a mass of work to choose from, he reportedly discarded all his more ‘upbeat’ material and decided to focus on the darker songs. This streamlining has been a success, resulting in his best collection since 2001 debut Don’t Breathe A Word – which was much praised but suffered from an untimely release date a mere week after 9/11. The distinctively disembodied strings that float through the background of tracks like Teenage Werewolf hark back to that album’s wondrous title track.

The Horrors - Changing The Rain

Chinawoman - To Be With Others

Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog, 2011)

In his fascinating exploration of a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog probes the human psyche to explore why people kill-and why a state kills. In intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eight days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as "a gaze into the abyss of the human soul." Herzog's inquiries also extend to the families of the victims and perpetrators as well as a state executioner and pastor who've been with death row prisoners as they've taken their final breaths. As he's so often done before, Herzog's investigation unveils layers of humanity, making an enlightening trip out of ominous territory

Cell 211 (Daniel Monzón, 2009)

Juan Oliver wants to make a good impression at his new job as a prison officer and reports to work a day early, leaving his pregnant wife, Elena, at home. His destiny is forever changed by this fateful decision, as during his tour of the prison, an accident occurs that knocks him unconscious. He is rushed to the empty but visibly haunted walls of cell 211.

A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

It seems that a court room drama could be the best place for Frahadi to recreate his very own world and confront us with a short and somehow faraway situations and incidents in life. We think these kinds of happenings and conflicts would not take place in our lives but with his realistic world and characters they seem so close and possible to anyone. Asghar Farhadi loves to put his audience in place of judge, as his other pictures like About Eli or Fireworks Wednesday and here with no fear he takes us straight to a court room. But the thing is that the judge does not provide any help for us to make a clear judgment and surprisingly makes the situation even more complicated. Yes Farhadi doesn't want us to make a judgment, He makes us watch and observe and leave the theater with a big fork in front of us.It Seems that any single decision creates another world full of forks and not taken ways.

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Calendar (1993) , Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan casts himself as the lead character in Calendar. He portrays a shutterbug who brings an array of different women to his apartment. Every time one of the women makes a phone call, the character notices a calendar consisting of photographs he took while in Armenia. The film flashes back to the time he took each of the photos. Traveling through Armenia with his wife, he does not share his wife's interest in the history behind the locations he is photographing. The wife eventually leaves him, and the film ends with him attempting to end their estrangement. This project began after Egoyan, whose ancestors were Armenian, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Moscow Film Festival for his 1991 film The Adjuster.

Passion (1982) , Jean-Luc Godard

Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses innovative forms to explore political and economic questions. Jerzy Radziwilowicz plays a director shooting a film whose scenes are all reproductions of paintings by Goya, Valasquez, and other European masters. Production comes to a halt when his producers refuse to increase his budget until he explains the film's story to them. Meanwhile, the director is ending an affair with Hanna (Hanna Schygulla), the wife of Michel (Michel Piccoli), who is the manager of the hotel where the film's cast and crew are staying. In a sub-plot, Isabelle Huppert plays a factory worker who attempts to unionize her fellow employees. The story of Passion is elliptical and incomplete. It is a means of presenting a collection of scenes and images on related themes. This kind of story will become the hallmark of Godard's later career. The links among the episodes become even looser in such films as Germany: Year Nine Zero and For Ever Mozart. Passion marks the reunion of Godard with director of photography Raoul Coutard, who shot many of Godard's films of the 1960s. The cinematography is key to understanding this difficult film in which how an image is shot is as important as what it depicts. Godard and Coutard favor shots that begin as open, disorganized framings and become painterly compositions as the people and things in them move.

Tindersticks - A Night So Still

Brass Bed with Allison Bohl – On Nilsson (2012)

After being asked to perform for a Harry Nilsson tribute night, Brass Bed and long standing art director/collaborator Allison Bohl, decided to record their take on Harry’s classics: “One,” “He Needs Me,” “He’s Large” and “Don’t Forget Me.” On Nilsson is no mere tribute record though, the band imbues each of the four songs with their trademark pop schizophrenia wherein songs can swing wildly from excited pop to a mood that’s akin to the most lonesome paranoia, but then again maybe it’s that Bohl’s voice is near perfect conjuring of Shelly Duvall’s vocals from Popeye.

Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs – Long Distance (2012)

Holly Golightly has been around the music scene for nearly 20 years, releasing numerous albums as a solo artist, collaborating with others and more recently with her band The Brokeoffs. Off the radar of the major labels, she has managed to plough a furrow with a dedicated fanbase and a work rate that would put most other musicians to shame. ‘Long Distance’ is a new album only in name, as it contains re-recordings of songs from her solo output including covers of some of her favourite artists by popular request from her fans. Holly herself stated “I have picked some of my original band favourites and recorded this collection for old and new fans alike. The highlight for me was the chance to re-record ‘(You Ain’t) No Big Thing,’ the fantastic 1966 Sam and Dave classic that I first started performing live in 1995. It’s one of my all time top tunes, along with ‘My Love Is,’ the fabulous Little Willie John number, which we’ve given a wistful lone banjo accompaniment this time around.”

Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s – Rot Gut, Domestic (2012)

Rot Gut, Domestic is the Nukes’ rawest take on their evocative, soaring brand of guitar-centric pop. The album follows in the footsteps of the more brazen, rocking songs that comprised 2010′s Buzzard (called “masterpieces of controlled tension” by SPIN) and the first four tracks provide a fittingly booming intro. Opener “Disease Tobacco Free” is a propulsive low-end led rumble; squealing guitars and rough-hewn edges augment the sinister air of “Books About Trains”; “Shannon” is a bleary-eyed and grimy, fuzzy bass stomp; and undulating first single “Prozac Rock” is a modern pop song’s frenetic, slightly spooky sister. The swinging, sweetly twisted tale of “A Journalist Falls In Love” and the rolling “Ludlow Junk Hustle” ease the album’s pace, and The Nukes still pen some of the most moving, lush songs today, heard here in the gorgeous, sweeping guitar lilt of “Coonskin Cap”.

Bishop Morocco – Old Boys (2012)

Bishop Morocco is the musical vision of James Sayce and Jake Fairly. The Toronto-based duo recorded its 2008 self-titled debut at a homemade studio inside their shared in Groningen, Netherlands, earning international attention from the likes of Parisian tastemaker Collette and helping develop a strong following at home in Canada. Two years later, Bishop Morocco arrives on Arts & Crafts with Old Boys, a six-track EP on which the band strays from its original new wave influences towards a thicker, more contemplative sound, aided by the addition of Ian Worang on guitar and Jon McCann on drums.

Sharon Van Etten- “Leonard”

Winterpills – All My Lovely Goners (2012)

The Massachusetts band Winterpills is something of a house band for the small Americana music label Signature Sounds. There’s a few reasons for this: vocalist/keyboardist Flora Reed moonlights as the label’s Director of Publicity, and guitarist Dennis Crommett released a pretty good solo album in his own right on the label last year called In the Buffalo Surround. Thus, Winterpills feels like a “family affair”. More to the point, though, Winterpills encapsulate the ragged chamber pop beauty, with country and folkish edges, that is seemingly a poster child for all things Signature Sounds: Winterpills is very much the Signature Sound of the label proper. And what a label it is. While the Signature Sounds catalogue is some 50 albums deep, and it would be impossible for someone to listen to everything the label has put out without being some kind of fetishist, what this reviewer has heard from them leads me to conclude that you can’t really go wrong when purchasing something from that stable. Based on my experiences with label bands like Lake Street Dive, Joy Kills Sorrow, Crooked Still and others, it seems that Signature Sounds – a label that specializes in Americana, jazzy pop, folk and bluegrass—really hasn’t released something that is outright horrible

Daybreak (2003), Björn Runge

Swedish filmmaker Bjorn Runge writes and directs Om Jag Vander Mig Om (Day Break), a drama concerning three different parallel story lines that take place in one day. Rickard (Jakob Eklund) is a surgeon who is cheating on his faithful wife Agnes (Pernilla August). He finds out that he didn't get the promotion he wanted and his mistress (Marie Richardson) is pregnant. Another story line involves divorced Anita (Ann Petren), her ex-husband Olof (Peter Andersson), and his young girlfriend Petra (Sanna Krepper). The final story concerns an elderly couple who hire hard-working building tradesman Anders (Magnus Krepper) for an unusual home-improvement request. Day Break won a Silver Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004.

Sleeping Sickness (2011), Ulrich Köhler

 










 Ulrich Kohler's uneven Competition film Sleeping Sickness contrasts the relationship that two doctors -- one a white German, the other a black Frenchmen -- have with Africa but it lacks a clear point of view.

The Men - Open Your Heart

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Palan Taemun (1998) , Kim Ki-duk

Birdcage Inn is a drama about experiences moulding people's lives. After the clearing of the red light districts in Seoul, a young prostitute named Jin-Ah settles in at the Birdcage Inn, a family-run establishment in a small port town. Although the family seem to be quite "normal," with a daughter, Hea-Mi, attending college and a son, Hyun-Woo, in high school, they have no qualms about living off the prostitutes to whom they rent their rooms. Only Hea-Mi seems embarrassed by the situation, and takes her anger out on Jin-Ah every chance she gets. Complications arise when all the male members of the family (including Hea-Mi's boyfriend) line up to sleep with Jin-Ah. Jin-Ah sells sex, but in one sense, she is free from it, whereas Hea-Mi is prudish and hypocritical about sex. A twist of events bring the two girls together when they realize how much they have in common and sex, which had alienated one from the other, turns into a mediating factor for reconciliation. Prostitution has long been a favorite themes of Korean cinema. Director Kim Ki-Duk, who is also an accomplished painter, captures some beautiful moments in the life of the prostitute, particularly when she leaves the inn and goes near the sea. The open landscape in these scenes serves as a metaphor for the girl's inner freedom, which is paradoxically fed by her captivity to her profession, inside the symbolic "Birdcage Inn" of the title. Intense dramatic moments of conflict are tightly controlled by the director to overcome tendencies towards theatrical melodrama. Birdcage Inn was screened as part of the Panorama section of the 49th International Berlin Film Festival, 1999.

Medianeras (2011) , Gustavo Taretto

Two Buenos Aires denizens find the architecture of the city and emerging technologies affecting their lives in a way neither ever dreamt possible in this romantic comedy that combines live action, animation, and graphic art to paint a vivid picture of life in a bustling city.

Un Ete Brulant

Un Ete Brulant
(Philippe Garrel,2011)

Two couples find their attitudes about themselves and one another are challenged in this drama from veteran French auteur Philippe Garrel.

Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki, 2011)

In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carné, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight

Julia Holter - Ekstasis

Julia Holter - Ekstasis
(RVNG Intl.,2012)

Julia Holter hasn't allowed herself to be cowed by the success of her acclaimed 2011 album Tragedy, instead producing another pellucid, beautifully composed and sequenced LP for head and heart. On Ekstasis, her first album for New York's RVNG Intl., Holter's vocals are given a central role throughout. The arrangements are more open and "pop" than those of Tragedy, but not at the expense of musical complexity or eccentricity.

Beach Fossils - Alison [Slowdive cover]

The Brooklyn band "Beach Fossils" has done a cover of "Alison", one of the most beautiful songs from"Souvlaki" (1993), of the mythical British shoegaze band "Slowdive".

Beach House

The rumors were true: Beach House’s fourth album, possibly titled Bloom, is imminent - May 15th. 2012.
Hear first taste above in the form of its gorgeous opening track, “Myth.”

St. Paul de Vence – St Paul de Vence(2012)

Fortune Jean Giordano was born in Nice, France in the late fall of 1924. Growing up the youngest of three, he came of age under German and Italian occupation of the South of France during World War II. In the spring of 1944 Charles de Gaulle’s Free French Forces arrived in Nice as part of the liberation. Having grown tired of the dwindling availability of work, the threat of Nazi work camps and life under the Occupation, he kissed his family goodbye and joined them, taking up the fight for liberation. After enlisting, he was stationed in the small town of St. Paul de Vence – the band’s namesake – shortly thereafter crossing the mountains into Italy. Following the war Fortune returned to a nation in ruin and with no prospect for work, he set sail for America and a new life.
The story of his journey – the pain and the triumph, the love and the loss – remained largely untold until Benjamin, his grandson, started asking questions and recording answers. Following the band’s EP’s, this debut full-length album continues its telling with the rich harmonies and dynamic arrangements that audiences have come to enjoy as the sound of St. Paul de Vence.

Team Me – To the Treetops! (2011)

First of all, this record is so crammed full of joy it’ll either make you giddy with happiness, or sick with a twee overdose. If the latter is true then you’ve no soul and you’re dead inside. Norwegian five-piece Team Me have created a symphonic, layered, choral and utterly hook-laden album in To the Treetops! which manages not to come across as a cloying attempt by a religious sect to appear cool to the kids (hello, Polyphonic Spree). In the gloom of February, this album is positively bursting with summer energy and good vibes and is already perhaps one of the records we’ll still be talking about when 2012 draws to a close. Recently down from six members to five (vocals and keys lady Synne Øverland Knudsen left the band in January due to personal and political reasons: she didn’t want the band to be nominated for an award sponsored by Norwegian energy company Statoil) Team Me won the pop album award at the Spellemannprisens – the Norwegian version of the Grammys – recently, and listening to the tracks on To the Treetops! it’s no wonder that the album got such recognition.

The Pines – Dark So Gold (2012)

Rising out of the prairies of the Midwest, The Pines are one of the most distinct and powerful indie-rock/Americana groups to hit the national scene in years. Emerging from the same Minneapolis music world that spawned such notable acts as The Jayhawks, The Replacements and Bob Dylan, The Pines have gathered a stunning line-up of musical talent, in both their live shows and on record, that has gained them a faithful and growing following.
Frontmen Benson Ramsey and David Huckfelt share a common musical language rooted in the songs and songwriters of their native Iowa, while each bringing a distinct voice and sensibility to the sound that Rolling Stone senior writer David Fricke called “quietly gripping” stark-country. The mysterious sound of The Pines fuses Benson’s ethereal, otherworldly, heart-piercing songs with David’s earthy, darkly romantic and rough-hewn visionary tales. With masterful guitar work, beautiful vocals and the graceful keyboard and vocal additions of Benson’s brother Alex Ramsey, the core of The Pines’ sound captivates and elevates with rare intimacy.

This Must Be the Place (Paolo Sorrentino, 2011)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheyenne is a former rock star. At 50 he still dresses "Goth" and lives in Dublin off his royalties . The death of his father, with whom he wasn't on speaking terms, brings him back to New York. He discovers his father had an obsession: to seek revenge for a humiliation he had suffered. Cheyenne decides to pick up where his father left off, and starts a journey, at his own pace, across America.

Tennis - Origins

Birdeatsbaby – Feast of Hammers (2012)

...Girl Anachronism...Girl Anachronism...Girl Anachronism...

Happy Together (1997), Wong Kar-Wai

Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs the strange, intimate drama Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit (Happy Together). Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle employed multiple film speeds and different color film stock during the shooting. Ho (Leslie Cheung) and Lai (Tony Leung) are lovers from Hong Kong who have run away to live in Buenas Aires, Argentina. However, Ho is immature and unwilling to settle down, which makes Lai depressed. When they break up, Lai works as a doorman in a tango bar in order to save money and go home. The restless Ho becomes a prostitute. After Ho is beaten and injured in an attack, Lai takes him to his apartment to recover. Ho tries to rekindle the romance, but Lai isn't interested. He leaves the tango bar and works in a kitchen, where he meets the young Chang (Chang Chen) from Taiwan.

Days of Being Wild (1991) , Wong Kar-Wai

Following up on his debut As Tears Go By, master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs this dark, brooding tale about identity and unrequited love. Set in 1960, the film center of the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotions. Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass who works at a sport arena named Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung), while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi (Carina Lau). Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide (Andy Lau), he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy's friend Zeb (Jacky Cheung), who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learns of his birth mother's whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines. This film won a armful of trophies at the Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Director, Best Actor for Leslie Cheung, and Best Picture.

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As Tears Go By (1988), Wong Kar-Wai

Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai makes his feature film debut with this gritty romantic crime-drama inspired by Scorsese's Mean Streets. The film opens with young gangster Wah (Andy Lau) getting a visit for the day from his beautiful cousin Ah-Ngor (Maggie Cheung), who is coming into Kowloon from the remote outlying Lantau island to receive medical treatment for a lung condition. At first, the short-fused gangster and the quiet country girl have little in common, but gradually the two start to form a bond of sorts. Meanwhile, Wah's buddy Fly (Jacky Cheung), who has an absolutely volcanic temper, is always getting Wah into hot water. Even though Wah knows that Fly is bound to end up dead soon, he stands by his foolhardy friend. After some hesitation, Wah -- who has fallen for Ah-Ngor -- visits his cousin on Lantau, hoping to make their relationship more than family. Fly later infuriates a psychopathic mob boss, Tony (Alex Man Chi-leung who, along with his henchmen, beats and degrades Fly and Wah. This induces Fly make amends with Tony by undertaking the outrageously difficult task of rubbing out an informant who is in the custody of the cops, before the man has the opportunity to testify in a court hearing.

Flowers of Shanghai (1998), Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Around 1884, during the closing years of imperial China, Crimson worries about losing civil servant Wang since he's spending so much time with Jasmin. Emotions escalate when word arrives that Wang will relocate to another post in the Canton province

Chungking Express (1994), Wong Kar-Wai

A Hong Kong fast food restaurant acts as the link between two unusual stories of police officers in love in this eccentric, stylish comedy-drama. Director Wong Kar-Wai plays freely with traditional narrative structure, dividing his film into two loosely connected segments. The first centers on a depressed cop struggling to come to terms with a recent break-up. His sad isolation is transformed when he encounters a beautiful, mysterious femme fatale, whose involvement with the criminal underworld proves troublesome for both. The second story explores the odd relationship between a female restaurant worker and another recently jilted police officer. The strange woman decides to regularly clean and redecorate the man's apartment in his absence, allowing the two to form a close intimacy without meeting face to face. Both stories present a beautifully atmospheric look at modern urban life and romance, with its combination of isolation and casual, unexpected meetings. Chungking Express came to the attention of American audiences thanks to the efforts of director Quentin Tarantino, whose own brand of fractured storytelling and urban cool owes a debt to Wong Kar-Wai.

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Oslo, August 31st

Oslo, August 31st
Dir : Joachim Trier (2011)

Remake of Louis Malle "Le Fou Follet" (1963)...
A ko nije gledao prethodni film Joachim Triera, topla preporuka :
http://skvot-pop.blogspot.com/2011/05/reprise.html#more

Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays on in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn’t seen in a long while. Thirty-four-year-old Anders is smart, handsome and from a good family, but deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted, all the people he has let down. He is still relatively young, but feels his life in many ways is already over. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with the chance of love, the possibility of a new life and the hope to see some future by morning. –Cannes Film Festival.

Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times & the Tides ( 2012)

...ALBUM OF THE MONTH...

Explosions in the city, explosions deep in me
Someone in the crowd has me falling at her feet
These days are so uncommon flashing lights and siren’s calls
These days I’m trying hard to keep from falling off the wall

Zombie and the Ghost Train (Mika Kaurismäki,1991)

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?

Maîtresse (Barbet Schroeder, 1975)

A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her "train" her clients. Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually he discovers that she does this in order to support her son, and he attempts to help her out of this life, which she is not sure she really wants to leave.

Christopher Paul Stelling – Songs of Praise & Scorn (2012)

First impressions count for a lot with records. How you choose to start an album can influence the listeners’ feelings about the rest of its contents. The first few seconds of ‘Mourning Train To Memphis’, which kicks off Songs Of Praise And Scorn tell us exactly at which end of the singer/songwriter spectrum Christopher Paul Stelling falls. With feverishly plucked strings and a distinct Southern US twang to his voice, Stelling has very firmly nailed his colours to the country mast. Indeed, ‘Mourning Train…’ gives a very precise introduction to the Stelling sound. Backed by minimal accompaniment, Stelling seems to rely almost exclusively on the intricate picking of his guitar to create a sense of mood, with only the occasional hint of strings and basic percussion added in. This gives Stelling’s voice, which is strong yet allowing a sliver of melancholia to slip in, a suitable platform to sit on.

John Wesley Coleman – The Last Donkey (2012)

The Last Donkey Show is the latest album from everyone’s favorite freaky Texas troubadour John Wesley Coleman. While Coleman’s particular madman swerve still recalls Doug Sahm and Roky Erickson, this collection covers more territory than his earlier work. Does this mean the half-mad misfit has grown up? Not quite—but the songwriting chops are all there, from carney kookiness to fuzz rockers to barstool tearjerkers to dustbowl pop.