Hi, and here's the first record for the summer! I was chuffed when Kathryn asked me to play on it, it's a lovely thing, and heralds bright days and warm nights. Kieran ' Fourtet' Hebden is at the controls, and Giles Petersen has picked ' She Was Out in the Water ' to play on BBC Radio 6.
Penderecki is coming to London this week, with the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra . They're going to play the music on the recording we've just released together.
To hear him conduct Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and Polymorphia with this wonderful Polish orchestra is a really magical experience, so if you're in London on Thursday, perhaps you'd like to come along.....
Mixed bag of stuff for yer ears - some sufi qawwals, some 50's chopin jazz covers, some californian 60's rock. Now can I be in pseuds corner?
1. Daras Bin / To Die In Love - Shye Ben-Tzur 2. No Other Love - Jo Stafford 3. Habibi Baheb el tesh - Hoda Rohana 4. Candlebird - Martin Suckling 5. Dalina - Dudu Tassa 6. Time Was - Canned Heat 7. Dance Figures, Nine Choreographic Scenes for Orchestra: 1 Spell - George Benjamin 8. Dancing - Shye Ben-Tzur 9. Penderecki - 5th Symphony - Antoni Wit/Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra 10. Schulhoff String Quartets
the office is in fact full of people measuring things and making lists but i have struggled my way to the photocopier to send you an office chart
sit back and enjoy..
1. It was all a dream by Zomby 2. Stayput by Aardvark 3. Percussion One by Percussions 4. Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never 5. Shyness is Golden by Kid606 6. An iceberg hurled northward through clouds by Gold Panda 7. An echo from the hosts that profess infitium by Shabazz Palaces 8. Conquistador by Yesterdays New Quintet 9. Larari-Olala by Jorge Ben 10. The perilous NIght: VI.- by John Cage.. played by Phillipp Vandre 11. Cactus by Objekt 12. La La by The Stepkids 13. Didn't cha Know by Erykah Badu
'The Island President' is a film about the Maldives, and the struggle of President Nasheed to get the voice of a small nation heard in the climate change debate. Unless something is done to stop rising sea levels they will lose everything. The country will be under water. Some of our music was used to help tell the story. The film won 'Best Documentary' at the Toronto film festival and will be screened this week at the Sundance film festival.
The Daily Mail and Staircase are now available to download HERE or from your preferred digital retailer.
The songs were recorded as part of The King Of Limbs: From The Basement session, which is also available in a digital format from today. The DVD/Bluray is still available to order from The King Of Limbs Store, and will be in in the shops at the end of January.
Another three dates to add to next year's touring schedule:
They are:
Wed 18th April - Mexico City, Mexico - Foro Sol Friday 13th July - Bilbao, Spain - BBK Live - Kobetamendi Sunday 15th July - Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal - Optimus Alive Festival
The most recent interview by children in South Africa, with a very cool lieutenant from the Manenburg police - check out what he has to say at the end about ' success '
Please sign an urgent action calling on restraint by China who have imposed the most horrendous crackdowns against monks at Kirti monastery and the Tibetan people in Ngaba town with the installation of hundreds of Paramilitary Armed Police, the closure of roads and the cutting off all communications to the outside world.
IT CUTS BOTH WAYS .... THE ALTERNATIVES. This is a film exposing the alternatives to the government's austerity measures; it's about the positive; it's about revealing the many options we actually have at a time when we're being told there are no alternatives
Those big drag nets that trawlers drop to the bottom of the ocean and decimate all life in their path?
And use radar while local fishermen loose their livelihoods? Just to fill empty shelves in Supermarkets? This lot are using lottery money internationally to stop all that.
"is this what we're doing now?" - quick! Watch all episodes on iPlayer (for the next few days) if you're in the UK. Best british comedy in ages, so well played and written. Right up there with Curb Your Enthusiasm!
Chinese authorities arrest Tenzin Delek, a Buddhist monk, and sentence him to death .. please go to the online petition to try and secure his release, or at least a fair retrial...
Tim Hunkin's inventions, under the pier at Southwold. I keep trying to go there but not quite making it. Maybe you'll have better luck. Go to Ipswich and turn right.
depression is not fussy about who it hits. and feeling isolated and powerless doesnt help especially when yer young and all. this site has lots of people sharing their experiences which is what us humans need in order to cope.
“The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers ‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.”
The Chestnut Tree Café. ...it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Download books on to your Blackberry instead of using it to send email, 'browse' the 'web' or any of the other tedious business-related 'apps'. It'll still look like you're really really busy.