Land Observations (aka the musician and artist, James Brooks) has unveiled the video for ‘On Leaving The Kingdom For The Well-Tempered Continent’, taken from his forthcoming album, The Grand Tour, out on 28 July 2014.
‘On Leaving The Kingdom For The Well-Tempered Continent’ opens the album and addresses the route from London, through the Kentish countryside on the Old Dover Road, towards the port and crossing the channel to Northern France.
The Grand Tour is the follow up to 2012’s critically acclaimed debut album, Roman Roads IV-XI. Where that was concerned with the roads of communication and conquest that stretched across the former Roman Empire and Republic, the new album creates an imaginary travelogue through Western, Central and Southern Europe with reference to the historic Grand Tour, a traditional rite of passage for wealthy University graduates, finding popularity in the 18th century.
On The Grand Tour, the landscape gives inspiration to the speed, pace and momentum of the journey – the swift ‘Flatlands And The Flemish Roads’ mirroring the horizontal unimpeded journey of the lowlands, slowing into ‘From The Heights Of The Simpson Pass’ as we climb up one of the highest mountain routes in the Swiss Alps; sweeping down and across to the majestic ‘Nice To Turin’ and meandering the elegant Strasses of Vienna, with its ornate, baroque architecture and streets infused with its musical history on ‘Ode To Viennese Streets’.
The record's The Grand Tour continues through its itinerary to the cities of Venice, Florence, Rome before finally heading back. On ‘Return To Ravenna’, a beginning and an end is at once signalled. It’s the end of the tour, and the beginning of the journey home - a track with an intentional reference to Land Observations’ debut, album, where Brooks celebrated ‘Via Flaminia’, the Roman road between Rome and Ravenna, once a major city in classical culture.
As such, the album is not concerned with arrival, its concern is with the journey, the experiences, the momentum of travel through re-imagining a grand tour.
For the The Grand Tour’s artwork James Brooks has made a series of postcard drawings which utilise various found tourist and holiday postcards. Directly responding to each postcard's unique design layout, he has produced a series of abstract, geometric drawings of only their specific surface areas and design skeleton.
Recently Brooks guested on Simon Fisher Turner’s Ivor Novello Award winning score for the BFI restoration of The Epic Of Everest (dir. Captain John Noel, 1924) and has performed the score live at the London Film Festival world premiere, Trento Film Festival in Italy and the Shanghai International Film Festival.
THE GRAND TOUR
On Leaving The Kingdom For The Well-Tempered Continent
Flatlands And The Flemish Roads
From The Heights Of The Simplon Pass
Nice To Turin
Ode To Viennese Streets
The Brenner Pass
Walking The Warm Colonnades
Return To Ravenna
Paranoia Inducta are from Poland. This is what they say about themselves.
PARANOIA INDUCTA - MAZE OF DEATH - this is the latest album of well known and valued for many years musical project. This is the continuation of the former album "Evil Angel" which gained great acceptance of listeners and reviewers. The "Maze of Death" is a very concept album which could be described in just three words: loneliness, fear and death ! The title - maze of death determines a metaphor of human life which is wandered in completely loneliness, blindfolded in completely darkness.
We explore a lot of empty and blind underpasses which were often just an illusion and even hope for many of us. But the truth is that they turned out to be just an illusion which does not lead anywhere and the only outgoing is just death!
This album contains over 50 minutes of cold and dark music. It is absolutely perfectly edited, painted digipack, size A-5, decorated with unique pictures of one of a kind AMELIA ! Maze of Death is released in cooperation, by two Polish labels: Old Temple and Doomsday Factory.
"ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE."
Release date: 15.08.2013
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Sad news from the stars as Hollywood lost one of its icons. Eli Wallach who starred in 1960s classics westerns as The Magnificent Seven and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, has died. He was 98.
The character actor best known as Tuco opposite Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti Western The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. He received an Honorary Oscar in 2011.
He also played Mr. Freeze in the 1960s Batman series.
They're back!
Here's the official main trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by producer Michael Bay starring Megan Fox and Will Arnett. Coming to Cinemas October 17.
Cast: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, K. Todd Freeman, Danny Woodburn, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson and Minae Noji.
It looks silly, but gorgeous, not?
DUTCH VERSION:
Zet de pizza’s maar alvast klaar, want je favoriete helden zijn terug! Vanaf 15 oktober spatten de Ninja Turtles van het bioscoopscherm. Bekijk hier de explosieve nieuwe trailer!
De stad heeft helden nodig.Er heerst enkel nog duisternis boven New York City wanneer Shredder en zijn beruchte Foot Clan een ijzeren greep hebben op alles, van politie tot politici.
De toekomst ziet er grimmig uit, tot vier broers, verschoppelingen, uit de riolen opstijgen en hun lot als Ninja Turtles ontdekken.
De Turtles moeten samenwerken met onverschrokken verslaggeefster April O'Neil (Megan Fox) en haar cameraman en grapjas Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett).
Samen ontrafelen ze Shredder’s duivelse plan en redden ze de stad.
Cast: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, K. Todd Freeman, Danny Woodburn, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson en Minae Noji
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, OFFICIAL COMPETITION CANNES
directed by Olivier Assayas with Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz from 20/08 in Belgian theatres.
Synopsis:
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take on the role of Sigrid, and maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an ambiguously charming woman who is, in essence, an unsettling reflection of herself.
DUTCH VERSION:
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, OFFICIËLE COMPETITIE CANNES
geregisseerd door Olivier Assayas met Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz vanaf 20/08 in de Belgische zalen
Synopsis:
In Clouds Of Sils Maria volgens we Maria Enders, een succesvolle actrice die haar wereld ziet instorten als een jonge actrice een nieuwe interpretatie geeft aan de rol waarmee Enders beroemd werd. Samen met haar assistent trekt Maria zich terug in het Zwitserse Sils Maria.
