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October 02, 1952
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jazz, world music, baroque
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Greenaway, Tarkovski, Kurosawa

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Chaconne-Tombeau, Kirkby-Mena - J. S. Bach
(Duration: 14:55)
Jun 20th, 9:38pm
Paris s'eveille - Jaques Dutronc
(Duration: 3:03)
Feb 20th, 5:22pm
Canto de Rua - Carlos Paredes
(Duration: 3:11)
May 14th, 9:22pm
Duo - Carlos d'Alessio
(Duration: 2:35)
Feb 25th, 6:42am
Cansaço - Cristina Branco
(Duration: 3:48)
Oct 27th, 8:37pm
poema de la saeta - Enrique Morente
(Duration: 9:03)
Nov 16th, 10:36am

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Nov 4th, 3:16am
JE T'EMBRASSE
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Oct 30th, 11:58am
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Oct 14th, 2:23pm
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Oct 3rd, 3:20am
Happy birthday and thank you for all the beautiful music you share dear Alain, merci
Oct 2nd, 3:29pm
Happy birthday, Alain ! I wish you good health, happiness, love, joy and the best of everything for you. Have a marvellous and memorable day and may all of your birthday wishes come true. Brightest blessings!

Happy Birthday
Oct 2nd, 2:42pm
Happy Birthday...
Enjoy the day.
Sep 20th, 5:55pm
Je t'embrasse.
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blog post Hommage to ECM
Category: Quotes
Posted: Nov 09, 2009 at 9:05 AM
The French daily newspaper, Le Monde, has published on Saturday a whole page about ECM, worth reading.
http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2009/11/07/l-insolent-succes-d-ecm_1264109_3246.html

"[…] Et puis il y a l'image et le son. L'image, c'est celle des pochettes, plutôt rigoureuse, austère parfois. Un travail strictement graphique dans les premiers temps d'ECM. L'arrivée de quelques teintes pastel par la suite, parfois des photographies, floues, au cadre étrange. Actuellement on est dans des teintes sombres, des traces.

Le son c'est "The Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence" : le plus beau son après le silence, formule d'un journaliste américain au début des années 1970, qui correspondait aux débuts d'ECM. Avec de l'écho, de la réverbération, qui évoqueraient les grands espaces vierges et minimalistes de pays nordiques, d'où viennent de nombreux musiciens qui enregistrent pour ECM. […]"

"[…] And then, there is the image and the sound. The image, it is the one from the covers, rather strict, stern sometimes. A strictly graphic job in ECM's first times. The arrival of some pastel shades, later, sometimes photographs, blurred, with a weird framing. Presently, we are in dark hues, traces.

The sound, it is "The Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence", as phrased by an American reporter in the beginning of the 70s, which fitted ECM's beginnings. With some echo, some reverberation, which would hint to the large wild and minimalist spaces of the Nordic countries, whence come a lot of musicians who record on ECM. […]"

blog post Nuit Ornette Coleman
Category: podcasts
Posted: Sep 01, 2009 at 7:15 AM
Current mood: excited
Nuit Ornette Coleman sur France Musique

DANS LA NUIT DU SAMEDI 5 AU DIMANCHE 6 SEPTEMBRE 2009, de 1h à 7h (CEST)

A night with Ornette Coleman on France Musique,

Saturday, September 2009, 1am-7am (CEST)

http://players.tv-radio.com/radiofrance/playerfrancemusique.php
blog post Mauvaise réputation
Category: Quotes
Posted: Jul 20, 2009 at 5:25 AM
Current mood: amused
"... since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry."

Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites, 1987

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