17-Feb-2006 2:06 PM - 
I'm leaving for Sydney, - i'll be back in early march.
16-Feb-2006 11:26 AM - Vinci due ingressi gratuiti con komakino per Sunn ((O))) + Earth al Jail di Legnano (Mi), leggi come qui, fai ancora in tempo.
14-Feb-2006 6:58 PM - Last week i saw Me And You And Everyone We Know: absolutely gorgeous and ultrafantastic. Really, really, really warmly suggested a view. I loved It.
14-Feb-2006 6:56 PM - I really enjoyed Lost In Translation, and i always wondered what the japanese granny shout to Bill Murray in that scene.
14-Feb-2006 6:44 PM - Nice melt of screenshots and free mp3s at Achtung Baby! blog. - As regards my personal tiny life, i'll be in a way too busy for posting. Work work work and things to plan for a trip in Australia: Sydney, i'm coming next monaday. koala power.
13-Feb-2006 4:57 PM - 
'In February of 1936, Budapest Police were investigating the suicide of a local shoemaker, Joseph Keller. The investigation showed that Keller had left a suicide note in which he quoted the lyrics of a recent popular song. The song was 'Gloomy Sunday'. Read more here, listen more below.
Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless
Little white flowers will never awaken you
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thought of ever returning you
Would they be angry if I thought of joining you?
Just a few, my favorites, performed by:
.- Billie Holiday (mp3)
.- Lydia Lunch (mp3)
.- Bjork (mp3)
.- Paul Whiteman w/Johnny Hauser (mp3)
.- Diamanda Galas (asf)
13-Feb-2006 1:41 PM - 
This new short film from Le Building crew (the same of Riba - read below, unfortunately the link is any longer available now) is pretty funny and cute, besides being very very well done. Enjoy.
13-Feb-2006 8:56 AM - 
Marta Czok's press office let me know They renewed Her website, with new sections and latest works of arts (i love the poetry of Girl & Toys). And made me notice that 'Marta Czok was only born in Beirut “by chance” but is in fact of Polish origins and raised in the UK!' [-› read past komanews]. // L'Ufficio stampa per la pittrice Marta Czok mi comunica che hanno rinnovato da poco il di Lei sito web, con nuove sezioni e gli ultimi capolavori (amo la poesia Girl & Toys). E mi si fa anche notare che 'Marta Czok was only born in Beirut “by chance” but is in fact of Polish origins and raised in the UK!' [-› leggi vecchie komanews]; la prossima mostra si terrà a Bologna in aprile, - tenete d'occhio la Loro area delle news.
10-Feb-2006 5:27 PM 
- Skype is popular, i use it too, - btw, this is a link about Their cutie campaign Sharing is good, Not sharing bad. - Four short films, absolutely lovely and funny.
10-Feb-2006 3:09 PM - luv story (animation). feel romantic. - 3d rooms, feel all-is-relative.
10-Feb-2006 12:32 PM - 
I think that Duck and Cover is must-see: 'Famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack': so absurd. More, it's of interesting reading the random people commenting. [ps. Archive.org is, one more time, a great project.]
ps2. it mades me remember of a Philip Kindred Dick's novel i read some years ago: Foster You're Dead! - amazing story about creating fear to sell more and more bomb shelters. Absolutely worth You read It.
10-Feb-2006 12:07 PM - 
This made me smile: an how to dance punk. Step by step. What to do and what not. I totally agree with 'And, for fuck's sake, don't do stupid shit like carry lit cigarettes in the pit!' - I hate those stupid de-braineds do it. I loved the gothic crowd surfing.. hehehe
10-Feb-2006 10:54 AM - 
The Rakes - Capture/Release (11tx cd, 34'2o" - V2 rec 'o5) - The Rakes were new at me although They're rocking since a few years, - i had the luck to know Them thanks to Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep) video. Frankly, They didn't impress me all that much at a first listen, even because i was totally taken with the girl acting, and more, i'm a little pissed off about this new_new-wave wannabe scene (from Bloc Party, to the Editors, to go on).. btw, some days later i found myself in the elevator, and suddenly a leit motif started playing in my head: It's all these words, ideas and different arguments / Someone's always talking when I try to make some sense, - oh mygods, i was lost, - no way to think of something else. Kind of delayed action_effect. So, the Music. It's deeply angular heritage of british post-punk. You can hear traces of Bauhaus (guitars on Terror!), the Clash (Violent), the Pulp (Binary Love, Work, Work, Work..), early Cure (Open Book), - a perfect balance of pop and new-wave wilderness, always kept elegant thanks to lead singer's apathetic voice (- an authentic london accent -), long detailed lyrics, and by an high attention for sounds and mixing. All plays bright, - You'll feel free to dance and mosh, smiling or just moving discretely Your feet.
¬random pics gallery
¬mp3s [via tmwsiy]:
.o1 strasbourg
.o4 open book
.o7 we are all animals
¬video [via video-c]
Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep).
09-Feb-2006 4:15 PM - 
Something pervert as well as bizzarre after (Craig Cowling, in art) Naughty James' photography: people coupling and playing videogames, half hidden corps, unusual portraits, nice b/w, - and still more. Impressive lights and resolutions, too. Worth You watch some.
09-Feb-2006 1:22 PM - 
Lillayell/Velma - s/t split (12tx cd, 61'33" - Psychotica rec 'o6) - Bello split, e la Psychotica rec si impreziosisce di un altro titolo sul catalogo. I di-qui Lillayell, trio pisano, dopo quasi due anni [leggi vecchia komarecensio] dallo scorso omonimo primo debutto su etichetta, seppur ora con una meno elaborata epilessia e senza furore hc, riprendono le vie tortuose del math-rock e post-punk, pieno di fratture e nervature irregolari, con la voce quasi inghiottita dalle saturazioni e polvere noise. Hell(o) rimbalza ossessiva rendendosi memorabile nel ritornello, Analjesus preme su delle distorsioni granitiche della chitarra che ben caricano la drammaticità del cantato, - e Twilight, dove Anna Finori degli Abarthjour Floreale fa cameo gentile alla voce, porta una venatura pop più quieta nonostante l'acidità indie dei suoni. I Velma, della svizzera francese, aprono la Loro pista riscrivendo un pezzo dei Lillayell, Dea Silva, in una nuova lettura ipnotica e sincopata nell'elettricità statica. Landing Aliens, il pezzo che segue, sfoga subito in un'eccentricità ambient shoegaze, un loop mesmerico di chitarra multistrato disteso sulla lunghezza di 10 minuti, una lunga esplorazione trance, - come quella di Needles e Store, dove il tempo si ferma e scorre in larghezza invece che lunghezza. Happy Today invece ricorda qlc lisergia alla Sonic Youth, quei tappeti srotolati a mò di colloquio ultraterreno. Un Gruppo particolare, forse ancora troppo inghiottito nel lofi della produzione, ma con una forte impronta originale di magia. // Lillayell/Velma - s/t split (12tx cd, 61'33" - Psychotica rec 'o6) - Split CD well done. And, one more time, Psychotica rec gets a new jewel for its catalogue. Italian Lillayell, power-three pieces from Pisa, back after about two years since first debut on label, although now with a less elaborated epilepsy and no more hc distress, put hands again over math-rock and post-punk tortuous ways, full of fractures and irregular nerves, with vocals almost swollowed into satured sounds and noise dust. Hell(o) boings obsessivly becoming memorable because of its chorus, Analjesus pushes on granitic guitar distortions that well match with dramatical tone of vocals, - and Twilight features Anna Finori from Abarthjour Floreale, making the track more quiet and gentle, distilling a special pop-effect notwistanding the overstanding rancid lines. - Velma, from french swiss, open remixing a former Lillayell's song, Dea Velma, renewed in a new hypnotic key, syncopated into static electricity. Landing Aliens, following, blows from the beginning into a ambient-shoegaze, a mesemeric multi-layered guitar loop feeded for 10 minutes, a long trance exploration, - the same of Needles and Store, where time stops itself, and has got a new envelopment in width besides than in lenght. Happy Today is more like some lysergical tune à la Sonic Youth, those kind of carpets of sounds like a supernatural talk. - Velma are particular, although the production is still too much low-fi to be brilliant, - anyway it doesn't change that it brings something magic.
09-Feb-2006 12:22 PM - 
This is spectacular. China is Beautiful. Diomio che spettacolo. Great work over colours and locations. All is so peaceful and clear. It makes me want to run away from here.
08-Feb-2006 5:59 PM - 
Lovely and melancholic and sad and so cute, too: Riba's aquarela-like short movie.
08-Feb-2006 5:17 PM - brevi considerazioni a ca**o. Sarò breve. Si stima che la vita media di un gruppo 'indie' che trova un pò di notorietà sia di 3 album: no, non mi ricordo la fonte statistica. dicevo, 3 album: in genere quello noto ai più è il secondo, poi la ristampa di quello precedente che era migliore ma che si erano cagati in pochi quand'era uscito, quindi il terzo disco, con un paio di pezzi buoni e parte del pubblico degli inizi che dice 'si sono venduti'. Al massimo un album di bsides e rarities, ma questo solo se si è fatti il botto e qualcuno del gruppo è morto. Meglio ancora se suicida. Tutto questo paragrafetto per dire: in italia ancora non c'è nemmeno un pubblico che 'compri', o un canale-media abbastanza grosso per fare da comunicante tra Gruppo -> Ascoltatore, quindi se la prossima tappa è quello di cui sopra, c'è ancora tanta strada. strada a vuoto. per quanto la longevità non sia necessariamente sinonimo di grandezza. - Tutto qui.
06-Feb-2006 10:54 PM - 
How can You not love playing with this?
06-Feb-2006 5:15 PM - 
Mi and L'Au are a Boy and a Girl in loved each other, making amazing gentle and delicate acoustic Muzik at YoungGod rec. Honey female vocals and quiet strings. So lovely.
¬mp3 [via label]:
. Older
06-Feb-2006 1:54 PM - 
I know You are going to love this: elbo.ws, through an algorithm, collects lots of mp3 blogs, making easier the mp3 research. - Nowadays it's full of blogs around the net sharing Music for free, - i have some bookmarks myself i visit daily, helping me out to save some money and discover new Music too. Elbo.ws includes links and original posts. Nice found, - thanks my dear Harmonique.
06-Feb-2006 10:11 AM - 
Frankly i ignored Al Lewis (aka Grandpa Munster) was still alive. He passed by at 95, past 4th feb.
¬mp3: The Munsters (theme) [via subvulture]
05-Feb-2006 7:50 PM - 
Comfort - Eclipse (7tx cd, 39'11 - Psychotica rec 'o6) - Un disco notturno, malinconico e placido, da non far suonare quando fuori c'è il sole. Un debutto nella delicatezza omogenea di 7 partiture strumentali, con qualche ombra leggera di progressive e una marcatura propria della soundtrack stile slow-core. Su volteggi di piano, programming minuto nelle dimensioni, chitarre delicate, giri di basso serpentini, e un dettaglio continuo mai lasciato al caso, il disco si consuma come fosse un lungo interludio, per cui potresti premere play e leggere un bel libro, o metterTi alla finestra e guardare le luci della città di notte. // Comfort - Eclipse (7tx cd, 39'11 - Psychotica rec 'o6) - Kind of nocturnal, melancholic and delicate, - hard to think of it when the sun hits outside. A debut into homogenic delicacy of seven instrumental partitures, with some light shadows of progressive and a proper mark of slow-core style soundtrack. Composed by piano teardrops, minute sized programming, gentle guitar sounds, bass serpentines, and by a continuous attention for details, this album runs fast as a long interlude, so that You might press playback and read a good book, or just open a window to watch the city lights at night.
¬mp3 [via Psychotica rec]:
.o1 Precipice
05-Feb-2006 7:37 PM - 
Goldfrapp have a videogame to promote Their last hit single from Supernature [read past komareview], No. 1: i think it's impossible to pass all three levels.. although i dropped after three attempts..
05-Feb-2006 7:14 PM - January hasn't been all that hard thanks to:
¨. hope sandoval & the warm inventions - bavarian fruit bread
¨.¨. broadcast - the noise made by people
¨.¨.¨. cat power - the greatest
¨.¨.¨.¨. isobel campbell & mark lanegan - ballad of broken seas
¨.¨.¨.¨.¨. the strokes - first impressions of earth
¨.¨.¨.¨.¨.¨. devics - distant radio
¨.¨.¨.¨.¨.¨.¨. slowdive - morning rise
¨.¨.¨.¨.¨.¨.¨.¨. autolux - future perfect
-> -> -> january's shadow here