Trollskogen

   
Artist: Trollskogen

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:


   
 Vom Vergess'nen Land

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 6

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Seun Kuti mirrors his father at Moore performance

Five minutes before last night's Seun Kuti show at the Moore Theater, the room was nearly empty. Five minutes after the show began, the room was swimming with a wild, dancing crowd. The music and the weather whipped up the perfect summer storm, and Seattle — or at least a small, enthusiastic contingent of it — was intent on making the most of it.

A little background: Seun Kuti is the youngest son of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, originator of Afrobeat music. Nigerian born and London educated, Fela first fused percolating African rhythms and big-band James Brown-style funk in the late 1960s. Until his death from AIDS complications in 1997, he was his country's most revered musical (and, to a degree, political) icon. Fela's legacy lives on — in the past 10 years, Afrobeat bands have sprung up in major cities around America. And there are the family ties: Oldest son Femi has found success on the world stage; with a new album, "Many Things," and his first tour of America, Seun is staking his claim there as well.

The differences between brothers were evident last night. Seun stuck to his dad's gritty, rigidly syncopated formula, whereas during a performance at the Showbox last July, Femi incorporated club-friendly dance beats and hip-hop bounce. Rather than the young stable of players Femi tours with, Seun was backed by Egypt 80, Fela's old band, most of whom appeared to be in their late 50s. Several of the oldest members sported T-shirts that read "Afrobeat Rules." The 14-piece band included two trumpets, two saxophones, two guitarists, two female backup singers, three percussionists, a kit drummer, a bassist, and a keyboard player. It was a small army of musicians onstage, but the clear-ringing clave (wood block) and shakere (gourd-and-bead shaker) provided the music's heartbeat. These foundational instruments opened each number, and one by one, the other instruments settled on top, until, five or six minutes into the song, a raging deluge of sound poured from the stage. When Seun stepped to the microphone, he sang with the same husky authority of his father and danced a similar, modified funky chicken, legs bowed, wiry arms swinging.

In the mold of his father, every one of Seun's lengthy jams addressed an African political issue. He introduced each with an explanation, and though the sound in the elegantly dilapidated Moore was pristine, it was difficult to discern his speech. For the final song, Seun pulled another trick out of his father's bag: His percussionist helped him out of his button-down shirt, and he strutted half-naked through the last 10 minutes of the performance. Those dancing in the front row noticed a telling detail: Tattooed across Seun's bare shoulder blades in gothic lettering were the words "Fela Lives."

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Born Jamericans

   
Artist: Born Jamericans

   Genre(s): 
Reggae
   

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Discography:


   
 The Very Best Of Born Jamericans

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Yardcore

   Year:    
Tracks: 14

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Fusing hip-hop and dancehall reggae, Born Jamericans earned a fad following with their pair of mid-'90s albums. The span was comprised of Mr. Notch, wHO preferred smooth vocals, and Edley Shine, wHO delivered grating ragga raps. Born Jamericans' debut album, Kids From Foreign, became a reggae hit upon its 1994 exit, and they became a favorite of the reggae electrical circuit, opening for Buju Banton, Shabba Ranks, Zhané, and Shai, among many others. Mad Lion, Shinehead, and Johnny Osbourne all were featured on the group's moment album, Yardcore, which was released in the springiness of 1995.





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Sex and the City star for the IFTAs

'Sex and the City' star John Corbett is among the special guests who will be appearing at the Irish Film and Television Awards in Dublin later this month.
Corbett, who played Aidan in 'Sex and the City', will present an award with his partner Bo Derek at the Gaiety Theatre on 17 February.
Irish-American actress and two-time Oscar nominee Mary McDonnell ('Dances with Wolves', 'Passion Fish') will also present an award at the ceremony while 'Entourage' star Kevin Dillon, whose grandparents are Irish,  is the other new name confirmed for the Ryan Tubridy-hosted awards show.
Among the other guests already already announced are Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, David Kelly, Liam Cunningham, last year's Best Supporting TV Actress winner Ruth Bradley and 'In America' star Sarah Bolger.

BET Carries Obama's Victory Speech Without Interruption

On Tuesday night, the Viacom-owned cable network BET, which targets the African-American audience, was able to do something that no broadcast network could -- air, in its entirety, Barack Obama's speech hailing his primary victory that clinched the Democratic presidential nomination without having to give equal time to his presumed Republican rival, John McCain, and other qualified candidates. Under FCC regulations, if a broadcast network offers time to a political candidate (outside of a news program or a debate), it must offer equal time to all other candidates. The rule does not apply to cable networks like BET.


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Guy idolises his new wife

AUSTRALIAN Idol success story Guy Sebastian married his childhood sweetheart Jules Egan in Sydney yesterday at the Manly chapel where Nicole Kidman married Keith Urban.

in a ceremony Idol judge Ian Dickson described as "the most uplifting wedding he'd attended".
The ceremony  was attended by almost 200 guests including Dickson, Jennifer Hawkins and Shannon Noll.
The bridal party arrived in three silver Rolls-Royces with blacked-out windows to protect the exclusivity of a $150,000 deal with New Idea.

Army of Broken Toys a study in broken hearts

Army of Broken Toys a study in broken hearts

Walter Sickert and Edrie Edrie were playacting with broken glass the night before the Herald visited Edrie’s Allston flat.
“We put it in a bucket and stomped on it,” she confessed, after service of process a healthful bite of vegetables. “It made fun noises. We feature approximately studio time tonight, so we were trying come out different sounds to see what we liked.”
At that place is a curious blending of balefulness and morbidity in Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys, as the duet of Sickert and Edrie are called. They garnish their ominous doom-folk with the theatricality of a demonic carnival company. Past performances suffer included storytellers, fire-eaters, glass-eaters, contortionists and, of line, Edrie’s broken toy u. S. Army.



Though she crapper play real instruments, she opts for an armory of gizmos that includes child-sized pianos, drums, cymbal-playing monkeys and prophylactic stuff toys. Regular army of Broken Toys is possibly the only band ever whose identify can be taken literally.
“It’s non like other people haven’t played with toys in front,” Edrie said, “only our special blend of toys against the juxtaposition of what the songs ar about, I opine, brings a lightness to things that could be darkness.”
Primary election songster and singer Sickert met Edrie five years ago, when he joined a Cambridge creative person collective that Edrie helped run. In the tradition of personal cataclysm begetting good music, they didn’t truly bond until their significant others ran away with for each one other deuce age ago.
“Once Bruno Walter and I mat comfortable talk to apiece other (about the situation), he sent me a song he had written about it,” Edrie recalled. “As I was listening to it in my railway car, I started to sing harmony to it. So I called him on my cell earpiece. I had to perpetrate over, ’effort I was tears and I american ginseng. That’s sort of how the band formed.
“Instead of hunt mass knock down and killing them, genuinely savagely, with hammers and screwdrivers, we made a record,” Sickert added. “That was a lot better for us.”
No dubiety. Euphony is constantly to a greater extent constructive than bump off, and that proved in two ways true for Sickert and Edrie. Since the Army of Broken Toys’ origination, they’ve delighted and alarmed audiences across the world. With the coating touches being put on a newly EP, their view looks downright sunny. Certainly, this volition upshot in cheerful, upbeat, Paddy Mouse Club-style Ground forces of Broken Toys songs.
Or possibly non.
“I call back that when that happens, we’ve plausibly jumped the shark,” Sickert said. “When we’re happy all the sentence, and in that respect ar no issues or problems in our life, what are we going to write about? I should pay the consultation $100 an hour.”
“Thank you for the therapy,” Edrie quipped. “Goodnight.”
Bruno Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys, with Dean Martin Bisi, Black Fort of Opium, What Time is It, and Mr. Fox, at the Middle East, Cambridge, Tuesday. Tickets: $8, 617-864-EAST.







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