Italian actress Laura Antonelli has died at her home in the seaside town of Ladispoli, near Rome. She was 74. Her cleaning lady found her body on the floor and gave the alarm calling for help.
 

Born Laura Antonaz in 1941 in Pola (now Croatia), Laura Antonelli appeared in over 40 films in between the 1960s and early 1990s, winning popularity first in erotic movies and then in auteur pictures as Italian erotic icon of the 1970s.

 
She modeled in Italian Coke advertisements and made her film debut in 1965. The sexy comedic fantasy-drama Malicious (1973) by Salvatore Samperi was a box office hit and became soon a cult movie.

 
She starred in acclaimed flicks as Claude Chabrol's Docteur Popaul (1972), Dino Risi's How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973), Luigi Comencini's Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974), Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's The Divine Nymph (1975), Luchino Visconti's The Innocent (1976), Mauro Bolognini's Gran bollito (1977), and Ettore Scola's Passion on Love (1981).

Her career ended in 1991 when she was convicted on drugs charges before eventually clearing her name after a long legal battle. She rarely socialized after a plastic surgery operation went wrong at the start of this decade and she felt depressed.

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To celebrate the release of ALTERED STATES, the Roach / Schulte collaboration RITUAL GROUND is now available on Bandcamp.
Twenty-five years ago, Solitaire appeared on the German e-music scene with Altered States. Projekt makes this album available for the first time digitally.
Altered States was the 1990 debut CD-release from SOLITAIRE. Founded by the duo Elmar Schulte and Rüdiger Gleisberg in 1989, they performed their first concert in Berlin, two days after the fall of the wall. Several CD productions followed Altered States including Ritual Ground (Elmar Schulte and Steve Roach), Fearless and Nocturnes (Elmar Schulte and Rüdiger Gleisberg). Solitaire created their own style somewhere between electronic, ambient and psychedelic. Solitaire’s music has been used in Hollywood films such as “Heat” and “Blade”.

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We’re delighted to announce that Saint Etienne‘s Sarah Cracknell releases a solo album, Red Kite, on 15th June. The album was recorded with co-producers Carwyn Ellis (Colorama) and Seb Lewsley (Edwyn Collins/The Cribs) in a makeshift studio in the heart of Oxfordshire during the winter of 2014/2015. It includes vocal contributions from Nicky Wire and The Rails (James Walbourne, Kami Thompson).

Red Kite marks Sarah’s first solo release since 1997’s Lipslide and is accompanied by a new single, ‘Nothing Left To Talk About’, which is a duet with Nicky Wire from the Manic Street Preachers.

This album is also available as a Limited Edition 12″ LP

Track List:

1 On The Swings

2 Nothing Left To Talk About (ft. Nicky Wire)

3 In The Dark

4 Ragdoll

5 Underneath The Stars

6 Hearts Are For Breaking

7 Take The Silver (ft. The Rails)

8 The Mutineer

9 I Close My Eyes

10 It’s Never Too Late

11 I Am Not Your Enemy

12 Favourite Chair 

FIDELIO: L'Odyssée d'Alice will be released on 5th August in our theatres.

A film by Lucie BORLETEAU
WithAriane LABED ('The Lobster', 'Before Midnight'), Melvil POUPAUD ('Laurence Anyways') and Anders DANIELSEN LIE ('Oslo, 31. August')

 
Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman : she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction... In such conditions can an all-male crew really remain totally insensitive to her charms? A situation all the more complicated as not only does Alice leave her fiancé Felix behind but she also discovers on board the Fidélio that the captain is Gaël, her first love...

Though known as a touring and recording musician associated with Nine Inch Nails, Alessandro Cortini has really come into his own via his Forse trilogy, and his 2014 Hospital Productions debut, Sonno. For his Hospital follow-up, he maintains the grittiness and intimacy introduced on his debut, but expands upon it, offering a wider spectrum of emotion and depth. 

Like Sonno, Risveglio was written and recorded while on tour. The drive to create intimate works during late-night downtime reveal Cortini to be committed to personal vision beyond the call of duty. While Sonno was created using only a Roland 202 and delay, Risveglio adds a Roland TB303, synced to the 202.

In his own words, "The 303 can be such a haunting instrument used in a certain way, and I felt it completely fit the mood of the previous work I have done on the 202, especially when given a specific location in space....it’s such a living instrument." The addition of Roland TR606 gives one of the pieces a rhythmic pulse that separates it from the preceding synthscapes and renders Risveglio altogether a more dynamic affair than Sonno. 

With Risveglio, Cortini implores and emphasizes the imperfections and visceral textures of electronics vacant from so much contemporary solo synthesizer music. Furthermore Cortini carves out a similar space to what Kevin Drumm's Hospital releases have done for the worlds of Drone and Noise by finding the emotional and ultimately human voice within synthesis. 

Alessandro Cortini will be presenting both Sonno and Risveglio in a live audio-visual performance at this years upcoming Berlin Atonal festival taking place August 19th-23rd. 

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