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Midnight Muraudaz: Podcast 30, Roche Voocoe Episode

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Temperature, Qualified & Jazzy D feat. T. Nicole // Groove Odyssey
Up Stream (Lok8 Nocturnal Rub), Tidal // Mr. Bongo
New Bed (4Hero Twisted Remix), Benny Sings // Sonar Kollektiv
Serve It Up (Original Mix), Clyde Feat. Capitol A // Meerkat Music
Do For Love (Bopstar's Broken Beat Re-touch Mix), Vick Lavender feat R.J.Green // Sophisticado Recordings
Put It On Me feat. Amp Fiddler, Trus'me // ?
Find a Way (Atjazz Remix), Masirah // Futuristica
Mercyless (Atjazz Vocal Mix), Olivier Desmet + Fred Everything // OM
In Your Soul, Melchyor A // Sobra Recordings
I Got Soul, Supalouisa // M8MC
For U, Floating Points // EGLO
The Game Changer Feat. Wildchild & Georgia Ann Muldrow, DJ Mitsu the Beats // Planet Groove
Purple Planet, Portformat // Tokyo Dawn Records
Theme music for a Pariah, K15 // CDR
Sea of Tranquility, Kool and the Gang // De-Lite

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A Retrospective of French Director Jaques Tati, Cinematic Comedian and Radical Modernist

December 18, 2009 until January 2, 2010 // (MoMA) Museum of Modern Art // New York, NY // Organized by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art presents a 10-film retrospective of the French screenwriter, director, and actor Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff, 1907-1982), in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters from December 18, 2009, through January 2, 2010. Jacques Tati features newly struck 35mm prints of his six feature films, including beautiful restorations of M. Hulot's Holiday (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), and Playtime (1967); his long-dreamed-of colorized version of Jour de fête (1949), the revelatory Traffic (1971), and the little-seen Parade (1974); as well as three short sketch comedies. Complementing these is Claude Autant-Lara‚s rarely screened wartime fantasy Sylvie et le fantôme (1945), in which Tati gives a charmingly spectral performance. The retrospective is organized by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.

One of cinema's greatest comedians, Tati was also one of its most radical modernists. As a director, his experiments with sound, color, and image, and with language, design, and technology, are a fundamental, if often overlooked, bridge between the innovations of Buster Keaton and Max Linder in the silent era, those of his contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, Marguerite Duras and Robert Bresson, and filmmakers today who owe much to his style and humor, from Roy Andersson to Wes Anderson, Otar Iosseliani to Elia Suleiman, Takeshi Kitano to Sylvain Chomet.

As many critics have observed, Tati the actor plays the straight man to an absurdly comical world. With his loping, springy gait, he plays a man, M. Hulot, who has no discernable ambitions, yet who always seems to be at the ready with his raincoat and his highwater trousers, his pipe and hat, and a fishing rod or umbrella in hand. And M. Hulot always seems to be alone in a crowd, whether at a seaside resort or in a steely modernist office building, stuck in a traffic jam or returning to his salad days of pantomime on the circus stage.

Tati's mise-en-scène has been compared with that of a Breughel painting (Raoul Dufy is equally apt): through long-take, deep-focus, all-over tableaux, a Babel of languages, and the burbling eruptions of machines gone haywire, he creates an entire cosmos, a meticulously choreographed chaos in a Cartesian world, and a singularly new, transformative, and democratic way of experiencing the moving image. In this way, as in so many others, Tati celebrates the importance of being playful. The exhibition Jacques Tati is presented in association with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Les Films de Mon Oncle, Janus Films, and Culturesfrance.

www.moma.org

Etnies Showroom NYC: Fools Gold Holiday x LTD Holiday Party

 

 

 

photos: Mel D. Cole // view full gallery

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Yang Fudong "The General's Smile"

December 19, 2009 until March 28, 2010 // Hara Museum of Contemporary Art // Tokyo, Japan

The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Japan by Yang Fudong, a Chinese film artist who has been highly active on the international scene in recent years. As an artist with a strong attachment to 35mm film, Yang creates films that are noted for their unique, finely grained textural quality and the use of highly refined and perfectly composed imagery. His films--at times documentary in tone, at times theatrical--depict fragments of contemporary Chinese society, transforming at dazzling speed, and the people who live within it.

This exhibition introduces the magic of Yang Fudong’s world by presenting a number of his cinematic gems, some being shown in Japan for the first time. These include The General’s Smile (2009), a large-scale video installation about the universality of human life presented in a scene of a banquet held for a senior military officer, and Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest Part 3 (2005), one part of a series that depict well-educated, modern-day young urbanites as they reveal their inner thoughts in various situations modeled after the popular tale of seven famous intellectuals in ancient China who seek refuge from the world in a bamboo forest where they engage in intellectual discourse.

Yang Fudong was born in Beijing in 1971 and graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou in 1995, Yang Fudong is garnering international attention for his photographs and films. He has shown work at numerous international exhibitions such as the 4th Shanghai Biennale (2002), Documenta 11 (2002), the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007). In Japan, his work was featured in the 1st Yokohama Triennale (2001) and the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (2005), as well as in many group exhibitions. He currently resides in Shanghai.



www.haramuseum.or.jp

Project Arts Centre Dublin: "Cult of Engagement" by Clodagh Emoe and curated by Tessa Giblin

December 18, 2009 until January 30, 2010 // Project Arts Centre // Admission: Free // Curated by Tessa Giblin // Dublin, Ireland

Clodagh Emoe's solo exhibition Cult of Engagement continues her pre-occupation with mapping the in-between space which she manifests through her drawings, sculptural objects, installation, video works and events. If there was to be one overseeing eye which has been watching the chorus, stage and audience of Clodagh Emoe's Cult of Engagement, it would be spirit of the cross-roads, Papa Legba.

The gathered elements within the exhibition - 'The Approach', 'Azimuth' and 'Parados' - may appear to take historically recognisable roles; a stage resembling travelling adaptations of Greek Theatre during the twilight of its form, or the Chorus, looming out of the semi-darkness, echoing an ancient role of revelation and discourse. Papa Legba, who was called upon to open communications between the deities and the people, was able to speak all known languages and controlled the doorway of communication at the spiritual crossroads. Some of this attitude has found its place in Emoe's atmospheric installation, which at once reveals a route of procession and at the same time removes any presence of performance. If one were to enter through 'The Approach' - a large, perforated curtain - and call to Papa Legba for advice, the silence of his reply would only heighten the unnerving sense of expectation in the room, an expectation underlined by a low, reverberating, sound.

This sound which fills the room is part of the event approach to exhibition making that Emoe has followed in the months leading towards her newly commissioned solo exhibition at Project Arts Centre, attempting to create a space where something is bound to take place. The artist has been informed by a history of ritualistic induction and theatrical devices as channels that can herald a community as something other than a limited audience. 'Azimuth', a round, wooden stage with carved and stained markings are flanked by a by series of flags - petrified as monuments of kairos, a concept used by the ancient Greeks to describe time that is neither chronological nor representable, but that spans an event or action. The markings on this stage remind us of the messages and meaning that are meant to be delivered to a spectator, beyond the capabilities of human perception. Through aerial archaeology we can listen to the thoughts of the past, with marks made on the land still speaking in supplication to the unknown greatness of whatever was thought to be watching. This is the context into which an unannounced chorus emerges slowly out of the twilight of the magic hour, becoming present in the space where we least expect them.

Clodagh Emoe is a Dublin-based artist and research scholar at The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media.

www.projectartscentre.ie

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year from all of us at mondomedeusah creative!

Thanks for reading, subscribing and vibing to the sweet grooves with us!!

- mondomedeusah creative arts group

 

Mixtape: Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati Sample Mix

 The Brooklynati Sample Mix. A fascinating listen for both fans of Brooklynati and aspiring producers, the Sample Mix is a breakdown of the samples used by emcee/producer Von Pea on the 2009 original.

 Von Pea explains: "When we were working on the album I put together this list of songs but never planned on sharing it with anyone. Just a week ago that changed because I was listening to some of my favorite sampled songs and wanted to give people a chance to hear some of the stuff we use." Von Pea thinks the tracks are strong enough to engage even a listener who has never heard Brooklynati (perish the thought). "It's a collection of good music regardless. I believe I would enjoy it even if I'd never heard Brooklynati, but it would definitely make me check Brooklynati out afterwards."

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Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati (Bonus Track Version)



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Marsmobil

Marsmobil - The Other Side - EP

Marsmobil - Minx




ROBERTO DI GIOIA the musical mastermind behind MARSMOBIL gives us with The Other Side EP first insight into the amazing new musical world of MARSMOBIL’s upcoming album scheduled for spring 2010 on Compost Records. With more catchy songs than ever and a strong link to the 60’s roots of pop, rock and psychedelica MARSMOBIL have re-focused their activities and created a pop album of classic dimensions based on Roberto’s outstanding skills as songwriter, arranger and multi-instrumentalist.  Step by step MARSMOBIL has evolved from the more acid jazz inspired first album Strange World on ACT, through the critically acclaimed Minx on Compost with its first steps into the world of pop, to the current full-fledged pop album soon to be released. But before the official release of the new album, The Other Side EP already unveils MARSMOBIL’s new world perfectly and reflects the music and the concept that has driven the whole project. It’s almost like a smaller version of the album, a bit more introverted, with less radio singles and a bigger share of intimate and personal songs than the full length 'The Other Side.'

Events

Party Keller (Party Keller Christmas Special): Florian Keller, Jan Weissenfeld (Poets Of Rhythm) // December 25, 2009 // @ Café Muffathalle Munich


Compost Black Label Sessions: Christian Prommer, SHOW-B, Thomas Herb // December 25, 2009 // @ Harry Klein Munich

NOISE 2009 / RÖDA: Ogris Debris (live) // December 26, 2009 // @ Noise 2009 Steyr

20er Jahre Silvesterball 2009-2010 - Rainer Trüby & Shahrokh // December 31, 2009 // @ Café in der Nancyhalle Karlsruhe

Closing Party / Formkräfte - Marbert Rocel (live) feat. Antje Seifarth // January 9, 2010 // @ Nancyhalle Karlsruhe

MARSMOBIL (Album Release Party) with live performance // January 12, 2010 // @ Unterfahrt Munich

www.myspace.com/marsmobil
www.compost-records.com

Brian Butler’s Night of Pan Premiers in LA at Projections Festival

Filmmaker, artist and musician Brian Butler will premier his short film, “Night of Pan” in Los Angeles on January 16, 2010 at 19h30 at the opening of Projections, a festival of rare and hard to see films. Projections was curated by Aaron Rose an artist, film director, writer, musician, and independent curator most noted as the co-curator of the successful museum exhibition and book Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art & Street Culture which toured the world through 2008.

Projections takes place at the Roberts & Tilton Gallery, 5801 Washington Boulevard, between La Cienega Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, in Culver City, California from January 16 – February 20, 2010. In addition to screening on January 16, “Night of Pan” will also be screened in a loop at the gallery on February 18, 2010.

“Night of Pan” is a seven and a half minute film featuring film auteur Kenneth Anger and actor Vincent Gallo. The film has been screened in various versions internationally – Beijing, Lisbon, Cannes, Athens, Rome, Berlin and elsewhere, but never in Butler’s base, Los Angeles.

In the film, Anger, Gallo, and Butler depict an occult ritual that symbolizes the stage of ego death in the process of spiritual attainment.

Brian Butler is a multidisciplinary artist who creates works around dark magical themes. He had worked extensively as a producer on director Kenneth Anger’s recent work. Additionally he has written for Dazed & Confused and performs along with Anger in the band Technicolor Skull.

www.brianbutler.com

Gareth Brown: Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest, Selected Highlights and New Works

December 17, 2009 until December 31, 2009 // Edge Gallery // Hong Kong

EDGE Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition Bodies in motion, Bodies at Rest, selected highlights and new works of UK Photographer Gareth Brown. The exhibition is part of an ongoing photographic site-specific dance exploration of Hong Kong by photographer Gareth Brown. Brown is fascinated by both historical and contemporary HK and seeks to document the changing faces of our land and infrastructures through time. The works cover both urban and rural locales, places that have been created or affected by man. These locations may have historical, cultural or environmental interest or none of the afore-mentioned.

www.edge-gallery.com