Archive for February 2017
Dichterliebe – another part of Herrmann’s One Night. One Life
A more straightforward performance/recording from director, Christine Schäfer and Natascha Osterkorn on piano this Schuman. This is the second part of One Night One Day by Oliver Herrmann. Bone up on Dichterliebe here. Better info on Oliver Herrmann here.
Read MoreDavid Bowie – Crystal Japan – Promo – 1980
Last David post of the day. Must be something in the air this morning. Stare at this: Crystal Japan (1980)
Read MoreDavid and Peter Frampton Search for a Beer in 1987
Oh David. Nice skipwork. For me though, Frampton never really comes alive. Thanks to Bickerton. David smoking in Madrid here. And while on David’s perambulations, here are some of his official walks… D.J. Boys Keep Swinging Ashes to Ashes
Read MoreIman walking in the 80’s
Watch for a minute here.
Read MoreBruce Nauman’s corridors…
…come in many forms. Here’re two: Live Taped Video Corridor (1970) Walk with Contrapposto (1968) And here he is doing some walking: Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk) (1968) Walking in an Exaggerated Manner (1967-68) and the ubiquitous Lego version is here.
Read MorePhillip Jeffries
In other words, barely there David in Fire Walk with Me. Look, this film is just not as disastrous as t’lad in thon Uni Film Club of 1994/that internet that they have nowadays would have you believe. Nicked off of Bruce Nauman bien sur. Can you see where my Sunday morning ‘research’ is heading, one foot…
Read MoreThank you Soft Machine…
…for Thank You Pierrot Lunaire. Listen to this, with some footage of the band on tour with Hendrix, right here. The whole of Soft Machine Volume Two is here. Method is an absolute kittenish tumshow joy bundle with this on this morning. Who knew?
Read MoreOliver Herrmann’s Pierrot Lunaire
So much of what I’ve enjoyed and been non-plussed by in film over the last two years suddenly has a context, all names withheld for parity’s sake. I’m not sure there’s a better way into Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire Op. 21 than this bit of One Night. One Life directed by Oliver Herrmann – made in…
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