Once upon a time there was a fabulously beautiful bird.
She lived in the dreams of the artists, poets and hunters.
The artists tried to draw her their whole lives, but never succeeded in capturing her image. And the people said to them:
-If you can’t draw her it means there is no such bird.
The poets tried their whole lives to describe her, but did not succeed. And the people said to them:
-If you cannot describe her to us, it means that there is no such bird.
-What do you mean she doesn’t exist? –cried the hunters.
They grabbed their rifles, fired in the dreams and killed the bird.
Then they stuffed her.
And the people said nothing. Read on →
Ice-cream Vendor
First Receptionist
Second Receptionist
Tramp
Citizen
ACT III
The setting is on the outer side of the receptionist window, which is crosswise with two laths. In front of it can be seen the bench. A citizen carrying a sheet of paper in his hand is walking towards the window. He tries to look through the window, knock at the laths, seeks to find some inscription, but fails and helplessly sits down on the bench. After a while the Second receptionist arrives. Noticing the nailed window she halts abruptly and stands motionless for a while. When she spots the man on the bench and sits down next to him.Read on →
Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.
Jean Michel Jarre is one of the most popular composers and performers of electronic music. His concerts are impressive productions of light. His album Oxygene is one of the most successful albums worldwide. This clip is part of his concert in Egypt on the eve of 2000, The Twelve Dreams of the Sun, which celebrated the 5 000 years of Egyptian civilization as well as the new millennium.
Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with the musician Anders Peev
Who is Anders Peev and what should we know about him?
I’m a composer and musician with my musical roots in both traditional Swedish folk music and Metal. My parents came to Sweden from Bulgaria and Finland as fugitives during the Second World War. I grew up in a suburb of Stockholm where I spent my childhood playing music with the local bands in an air raid shelter in the basement of a school. I grew up during the Cold War, and the shelter was to be used in the case of a nuclear assault, but the teachers let us use it as a rehearsal room, so we put a drum set and some old amplifiers in it.
A four-piece pop band from Liverpool. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Well, it shouldn’t. Here is something energetic, sassy and really fresh. When Chris Ward, Zoë Alex, Kai Sheen and Chris Barlett created Sex Education, their primary concern was obviously not to put out a sound that the music industry would happily gobble up. Which doesn’t mean their music is hard to digest. As they never forget to lavishly sprinkle their songs with fun and naughty winks, Sex Education is the rare type of sound that is at once individualistic and very catchy. And above all glamorous.
The band will soon unveil its debut album. In the meantime, most of the songs can be heard on Sex Education’s MySpace and Last.fm profiles. Vocalist Chris Ward reveals more about the band and its style in a conversation with trilby*foxglove. http://www.myspace.com/sexeducationband
“Sex Education” is surely one attention-grabbing name. But beyond that, it seems to me it is also a concept that makes a clever reference to your playfully provocative style. Am I right? Are there any other hidden meanings in the phrase?
Playfully provocative and attention grabbing – yes, that was exactly the idea! How well you understand us! We thought it’d stand out, plus it looks good written down, and I think suits the music. It also tied in nicely with our club night, Adult Books. Not sure about hidden meanings, but a hidden by-product has been the way people often pull a kind of Kenneth Williams “Ooh, matron!” expression if you tell them the name when you’re out in a bar or something. Which is quite funny… the first twenty times…
Across a well of autumn rays
The street sets out
For the sky.
The trees stream down molten.
Homeless dogs
Warm the sidewalk.
The shadows vanish. Read on →
On Friday evening,
on my way home
where someone is waiting for me
my wings grow out
and I become a swallow.
Perhaps birds have their hidden
compass:
they know exactly
when to return,
where their nests are. Read on →
What you hear is one winter
to another, heads or tails
one side staggering
the other moving closer
though it will rain soon –midair
the way you clip some dazzling jewel
and your dress blossom
while you are still inside
covered with snow, the sun
half struggling, half underwater
toward the ice that will drink it all Read on →
Stunned by July in a hammock
he remembers the apricot wife
no longer here
one curler more and the flutter
of leaves in the orchard
the sound of trees Read on →
Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the metal craftsman and musician Steve Hubback
When and how did you get started in making gongs and sculptures?
From 1980 til 1989 I made a living only by music and I could never find the gongs and unusual sounds I was looking for. So, in 1990 I was in Aarhus in Denmark. I got some thin stainless steel discs and started hammering and heating them into gongs.
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