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Chichester
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Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England. It is the city in West Sussex and is its county town. It has a history as a settlement from Roman times and was important in Anglo-Saxon times. It is the seat of a bishopric, with a 12th-century cathedral, Chichester has three tiers of local government. It is a hub, and a centre for culture in the county, with a theatre, museum. Chichester Harbour and the South Downs provide opportunities for outdoor pursuits, the city centre stands on the foundations of the Romano-British city of Noviomagus Reginorum, capital of the Civitas Reginorum. The Roman road of Stane Street, connecting the city with London, started at the east gate, the plan of the city is inherited from the Romans, the North, South, East and West shopping streets radiate from the central market cross dating from medieval times. The original Roman city wall was over 6½ feet thick with a steep ditch and it survived for over one and a half thousand years but was then replaced by a thinner Georgian wall. The city was home to some Roman baths, found down Tower Street when preparation for a new car park was under way. A museum, the Novium, preserving the baths was opened on 8 July 2012, an amphitheatre was built outside the city walls, close to the East Gate, in around 80 AD. The area is now a park, but the site of the amphitheatre is discernible as a bank approximately oval in shape. In January 2017, archaeologists using underground radar reported the discovery of the relatively untouched ground floor of a Roman townhouse, the exceptional preservation is due to the fact the site, Priory Park, belonged to a monastery and has never been built upon since Roman times. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle it was captured towards the close of the century, by Ælle. It was the city of the Kingdom of Sussex. The cathedral for the South Saxons was founded in 681 at Selsey, Chichester was one of the burhs established by Alfred the Great, probably in 878-9, making use of the remaining Roman walls. The system was supported by a network based on hilltop beacons to provide early warning. It has been suggested that one such link ran from Chichester to London, when the Domesday Book was compiled, Chichester consisted of 300 dwellings which held a population of 1,500 people. There was a mill named Kings Mill that would have been rented to local slaves and villeins
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Chamber pop
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Chamber pop is a subgenre of indie rock or indie pop which grew in the mid 1990s as a reaction against the fuzz distortion and lo-fi aesthetic prominent in alternative music. The Beach Boys Brian Wilson informed much of the genre, as did composer Burt Bacharach, specific works that helped define the style include the Beach Boys albums Pet Sounds and Smile, as well as the majority of Louis Phillipes productions for él Records. The combination of string sections and rock music has been called symphonic pop, chamber pop, and ork-pop. Ork-pop refers to a branch of underground rock musicians who shared an affinity with the Beach Boys 1966 studio album Pet Sounds, such as the High Llamas and bands from the Elephant 6 collective. According to CMJs David Jerman, the name was the creation of rock critics, encompassing everyone from fans of the Beach Boys to fans of Bacharach and Mancini. Strongly influenced by the rich orchestrations of Burt Bacharach, Brian Wilson, allMusic states that the genre carries on the spirit of the baroque pop of the 1960s, while cultural writers Joseph Fisher and Brian Flota call it the heir to baroque pop. Another major source of influence was the singer Scott Walker, new York Daily News Jim Farber summarizes the genre, think Donovan meets Burt Bacharach. Just as ork-pop acts shared a love for Wilson, they held an admiration for one anothers work. Newsmakers believes that the Beach Boys Pet Sounds helped define chamber pop as intimate, precisely arranged songs with rocks sweep, following the album was the groups unfinished 1966–67 work Smile, a collaboration between Brian Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks that also heavily influenced the genre. According to the High Llamas Sean OHagan, Pet Sounds had been the beginning of the great pop experiment, but it wasnt allowed to continue, because rock and roll got hold of the whole thing and stopped it. Pop didnt take off again until this decade, author Carl Wilson says that Brians pained vulnerability, uses of offbeat instruments, intricate harmonies, and the Smile saga itself became a common reference point for chamber pop bands. In the late 1980s, the majority of Louis Phillipes productions for él Records also made sophisticated use of orchestras and voices that embodied and defined the chamber pop style. Chamber pop was part of a trend which involved musicians who rejected traditional rock conventions, such as Tortoise and Stereolab. The genres orchestration is more complex than rock music, making extensive use of brass. Although modern rock groups like Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, and R. E. M, occasionally used strings, their approach was considerably less intricate. The High Llamas were one of the first to anticipate the easy-listening fad with their 1993 debut album Gideon Gaye. OHagan felt that There is this misconception that American college rock with twisted baseball hats and checked shirts is adventurous. All these bands sound like Nirvana and Pearl Jam and its a shame that it couldnt be discovered from the get-go for what it is
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Art pop
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Art pop is a loosely defined style of pop music influenced by pop art and postmodernisms integration of high and low culture. Art pop artists have explored ideas such as status as commercial art, notions of artifice, the self as a construction. Starting in the mid 1960s, British and American pop musicians began incorporating the ideas of the pop art movement, English art pop musicians drew from their art school studies, while in America the style intersected with the Beat Generation and folk musics subsequent singer-songwriter movement. The genre further developed with artists who rejected conventional rock instrumentation and structure in favor of dance styles, the 2010s saw new art pop trends develop, such as hip hop artists drawing on visual art and vaporwave artists exploring elements of contemporary capitalism. Sociomusicologist Simon Frith has distinguished the appropriation of art pop music as having a particular concern with style, gesture. Central to particular purveyors of the style were notions of the self as a work of construction and artifice, as well as a preoccupation with the invention of terms, imagery, process, and affect. Cultural theorist Mark Fisher wrote that the development of art pop evolved out of the triangulation of pop, art, Frith states that it was more or less directly inspired by Pop art. Writers for The Independent and the Financial Times have noted the attempts of art pop music to distance its audiences from the public at large, the Independents Nick Coleman wrote, Art-pop is partly about attitude and style, but its essentially about art. It is, if you like, a way of making pure formalism socially acceptable in a pop context, the boundaries between art and pop music became increasingly blurred throughout the second half of the 20th century. In the 1960s, pop musicians such as John Lennon, Syd Barrett, Pete Townshend, Brian Eno, and Bryan Ferry began to take inspiration from their previous art school studies. Frith states that in Britain, art school represented an escape route for the bright working class kids. In North America, art pop was influenced by Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, another chief influence on the development of art pop was the Pop art movement. The term Pop art, first coined to describe the value of mass-produced goods, was directly applicable to the contemporary phenomenon of rock. According to Frith, turned out to signal the end of Romanticism, progressive rock was the bohemians last bet. In this context the key Pop art theorist was not Hamilton or any of the other British artists who, for all their interest in the market, remained its academic admirers only. For Warhol the significant issue wasnt the relative merits of high and low art, in the words of author Matthew Bannister, Wilson and Spector were both known as eremitic studio obsessives. Habitually absented themselves from their own work, and like Warhol, Spector existed not as presence, both vastly successful commercial artists, and both simultaneously absent and present in their own creations. The Beach Boys singles California Girls, God Only Knows, as the dominant format of pop music transitioned from singles to albums, many rock bands created works that aspired to make grand artistic statements, where art rock would flourish
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Electronic music
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In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer. During the 1920s and 1930s, electronic instruments were introduced and the first compositions for instruments were composed. Musique concrète, created in Paris in 1948, was based on editing together recorded fragments of natural and industrial sounds, Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Electronic music was created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. An important new development was the advent of computers for the purpose of composing music, algorithmic composition was first demonstrated in Australia in 1951. In America and Europe, live electronics were pioneered in the early 1960s, during the 1970s to early 1980s, the monophonic Minimoog became once the most widely used synthesizer at that time in both popular and electronic art music. In the 1980s, electronic music became dominant in popular music, with a greater reliance on synthesizers, and the adoption of programmable drum machines. Electronically produced music became prevalent in the domain by the 1990s. Contemporary electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music. Today, pop music is most recognizable in its 4/4 form. At the turn of the 20th century, experimentation with emerging electronics led to the first electronic musical instruments and these initial inventions were not sold, but were instead used in demonstrations and public performances. The audiences were presented with reproductions of existing music instead of new compositions for the instruments, while some were considered novelties and produced simple tones, the Telharmonium accurately synthesized the sound of orchestral instruments. It achieved viable public interest and made progress into streaming music through telephone networks. Critics of musical conventions at the time saw promise in these developments, ferruccio Busoni encouraged the composition of microtonal music allowed for by electronic instruments. He predicted the use of machines in future music, writing the influential Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, futurists such as Francesco Balilla Pratella and Luigi Russolo began composing music with acoustic noise to evoke the sound of machinery. They predicted expansions in timbre allowed for by electronics in the influential manifesto The Art of Noises, developments of the vacuum tube led to electronic instruments that were smaller, amplified, and more practical for performance. In particular, the theremin, ondes Martenot and trautonium were commercially produced by the early 1930s, from the late 1920s, the increased practicality of electronic instruments influenced composers such as Joseph Schillinger to adopt them
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Antony and the Johnsons
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Antony and the Johnsons is an American music group presenting the work of Anohni and her collaborators. British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo, Anohni started the band, its name inspired by the transgender rights activist Marsha P. Johnson. The debut album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released in 1998, producer Hal Willner heard the EP and played it to Lou Reed, who immediately recruited Hegarty for his project The Raven. Now gaining more attention, Hegarty signed to US-based record label Secretly Canadian, Secretly Canadian also re-released Hegartys debut album in the United States to wider distribution in 2004. Anohnis second full-length album, 2005s I Am a Bird Now, was greeted with positive reviews, the album featured guest appearances by Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, Boy George and Devendra Banhart, and circled themes of duality and transformation. I Am a Bird Now featured arrangements by Maxim Moston and Julia Kent and was mixed by Doug Henderson, in September 2005 Antony and the Johnsons were awarded the Mercury Prize for the best UK album of 2005. Antony and the Johnsons collaborated with experimental film-maker Charles Atlas and presented TURNING in November 2006 in Rome, London, Paris, Madrid, thirteen women from New York City were presented in intimate live video portraits during the course of the concert. The Guardian called the piece fragile, life affirming, and truly wonderful, le Monde in Paris hailed TURNING as Concert-manifeste transsexuel. Antony and the Johnsons 5-song Another World EP was released on 7 October 2008, Antony and the Johnsons third album, The Crying Light, was released on 19 January 2009 and went to #1 on the European Billboard charts. Anohni has described the theme of the album as being about landscape, nature, death, love and the role of the artist were explored across ten tracks, which included the single Epilepsy Is Dancing. The album was mixed by Bryce Goggin and included arrangements by Nico Muhly, as music, its simply exquisite – more controlled and considered than anything Antony and the Johnsons have done and sure to linger in the minds of listeners. The concert hall was transformed into a cave filled with laser effects created by installation artist Chris Levine. At Salle Playel in Paris, Anohni appeared in a designed for her by Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy. After two sold out concerts at the Sydney Opera House, Antony and the Johnsons ended their recent touring in February 2010 in Tokyo, kazuo Ohno died in June of that year, and Anohni wrote an obituary for the dancer in The Guardian. In interviews around the world in 2010, Anohni described her work on Swanlights, Anohni said she was struggling to come to terms with the idea that she was part of a society that was having a virulent impact on the earth. She suggested that the degradation of nature was partially a result of the subjugation of women, Anohni also blamed the collapse of humanitys sustainable relationship with the earth in part on the rise of patriarchal religions that suggest the destiny of humanity to be a paradise elsewhere. Interview Magazine describes Swanlights as a personal call for global. September 2010 saw the release of the Thank You For Your Love EP which includes covers of Dylans Pressing On, the Sun listed Thank You For Your Love as single of the week on 27 August 2010
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Hercules and Love Affair
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Hercules and Love Affair is a dance music project created by American DJ Andy Butler in 2008. Consisting of a rotating cast of performers and musicians, the work within the genres of house music, disco, techno. Originally based in New York City, now based in Ghent, Belgium, Hercules and Love Affair were founded following Butlers collaboration with Anohni to produce the song Blind, which was a hit single. Initially signing to DFA Records, for their eponymous 2008 debut album, a new album is due in 2017. Andrew Butler was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, and has described growing up in a violent household without any role models and he developed an early love for Greek mythology, which later inspired him to name his band after the mythological hero of Hercules. Interested in music, he played the piano, and began composing classical pieces from the age of thirteen, Butlers interest switched to focus on dance music after buying a record by the band Yazoo. As he later related, I started DJing because I needed to get out of the house, I was, like, Take me to the club or theres going to be a really ugly situation at home today. I found a lot of freedom in the nightclub to express myself, I am a gay man and I grew up with a certain struggle and because of that, I have a story to tell. In the late 1990s, Butler moved to New York City to attend Sarah Lawrence College, in the city he befriended the musician Anohni—then working under her birth name of Antony Hegarty—and in 2004 convinced her to perform vocals for a song he had written, titled Blind. At the time, she described it as curious. In 2007, after Anohni had won the Mercury Prize for her work with Antony and the Johnsons, Butler approached her with the Blind demo, and they agreed to release it. Butler decided to do so under the name of Hercules and Love Affair because it reflected his interest in Greco-Roman mythology, it referenced Hercules, according to Butler, stayed on the island, looking for his boyfriend. I just thought this was super-beautiful, the strongest man on earth looking for his lost love, strong men can have strong feelings. And they can experience those feelings and experience pain and express pain —, DFA Records agreed to release the song, with DFA founder Tim Goldsworthy stating that We had slight reservations that ‘Blind’ would be a one-hit wonder. But then he played us some bits he had been playing around with at home, the single was first released in the United Kingdom in March 2007, where it made the Top 40. It was awarded Best Song of 2008 by Pitchfork Media and came in at sixth place in Resident Advisors Top 30 tracks of that year, while Entertainment Weekly called it the second best song of the year. At this point, Butler decided to establish Hercules and Love Affair as a musical project, stating his intent to release music with a rotating cast of performers. The bands self-titled debut album was released in Europe through DFAs parent company, EMI, however, although Anohni would appear on five of the albums tracks, she did not participate in the bands live performances
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Lou Reed
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Lewis Allan Lou Reed was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was the guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, the Velvet Underground was unsuccessful during their active years, but gained a significant cult following to become one of the most widely acclaimed and influential bands in rock history. Brian Eno famously stated that, while the Velvet Undergrounds debut album sold only 30,000 copies, Reeds solo career began in 1972. He had a hit the year with Walk on the Wild Side. Reed was known for his distinctive voice and poetic lyrics. Reed was born on March 2,1942 at Beth El Hospital in Brooklyn and grew up in Freeport, contrary to some sources, his birth name was Lewis Allan Reed, not Louis Firbanks, a name that was coined as a joke by Lester Bangs in Creem magazine. Reed was the son of Toby and Sidney Joseph Reed, an accountant and his family was Jewish, and although he said that he was Jewish, he added, My God is rocknroll. Its an obscure power that can change your life, the most important part of my religion is to play guitar. Reed attended Atkinson Elementary School in Freeport and went on to Freeport Junior High School and his sister said that as a teenager, he suffered panic attacks, became socially awkward and possessed a fragile temperament but was highly focused on things that he liked – principally music. Having learned to play the guitar from the radio, he developed an early interest in rock and roll and rhythm and blues, Reed began experimenting with drugs at the age of 16. His first recording was as a member of a group called the Jades. His love for playing music and his desire to play gigs brought him into confrontation with his anxious, visiting a psychologist, Reeds parents were made to feel guilty as inadequate parents, and consented to electroconvulsive therapy. Reed appeared to blame his father principally for what he had subjected to. He wrote about the experience in his 1974 song, Kill Your Sons, in an interview, Reed said of the experience, They put the thing down your throat so you dont swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. Thats what was recommended in Rockland County then to discourage homosexual feelings, the effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You cant read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go back to page one again. Upon his recovery from the bout of illness and associated treatment, Reed resumed his education at Syracuse University in 1960, studying journalism, film directing and he was a platoon leader in ROTC and was later expelled from the program for holding an unloaded gun to his superiors head. In 1961, he began hosting a radio program on WAER called Excursions On A Wobbly Rail
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CocoRosie
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CocoRosie is an American musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca Coco and Sierra Rosie Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, and their music has been called freak folk, and incorporates elements of pop, blues, opera, electronica, and hip hop. They subsequently added various backing musicians, usually a bassist, keyboardist and they have been a very active touring group, playing across Europe, North and South America, and elsewhere. They have released six albums, La maison de mon rêve, Noahs Ark, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn, Grey Oceans, Tales of a GrassWidow. Sierra Casady was born in Iowa, and Bianca was born in Hawaii, when Sierra was about 5 years old and Bianca 3, their parents separated. The girls lived with their mother, Christina Chalmers, an artist and they moved to new towns almost every year, living in Hawaii, California, New Mexico, and Arizona. Because their mother believed that the girls would learn more doing art in the world than in school. Chalmers nicknamed her daughters Rosie and Coco, from which the act takes its name. The Casady sisters are now estranged from their father, Timothy Casady, as children, the sisters spent summers with him, while he visited Native American Reservations and took part in vision quests. The girls did not enjoy these experiences at the time, in 1998, at about age 18, Sierra moved to New York City. Two years later, she moved into an apartment in the Montmartre district in Paris, France, to pursue a career as an opera singer. During this period, Sierra lost contact with Bianca, who was living in New York City, Bianca studied linguistics and sociology, and pursued her passion of visual arts and writing. In 2003, Bianca joined Sierra in Paris, the pair spent a summer producing music in Sierras bathroom, chosen as the most acoustic and isolated room in the apartment. The songs feature vocals from both women, acoustic guitar played by Sierra and various other improvised instruments, the songs were compiled into their debut album La maison de mon rêve. La maison de mon rêve was originally intended to be distributed among a circle of the artists friends. However, in 2004 the group was signed to the independent label Touch, CocoRosie released their second album, Noahs Ark, in 2005. The album includes collaborations with Anohni from Antony and the Johnsons, Devendra Banhart, the album was recorded in a variety of locations as the sisters traveled. In 2006, Sierra started a project, Metallic Falcons, with friend Matteah Baim, they are signed to Voodoo Eros Records
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Current 93
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Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet, Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton has appeared on nearly every Current 93 release. Michael Cashmore has also been a constant contributor since Thunder Perfect Mind. Douglas P. of Death in June has played on well over a dozen Current 93 releases, will Oldham, Ben Chasny, Rose McDowall, Hank Williams III, among others. Current 93 have released over twenty albums and many singles as well, much of Current 93s early work was similar to late 1970s and early 1980s industrial music, abrasive tape loops, droning synthesizer noises and Tibets distorted, excoriating vocals. The later to present-day period of Current 93s recordings increasingly reflect Tibets interest in Christian mysticism, Tibet has stated that he identifies himself as a Christian. R. Jamess various ghost stories, The Cloud of Unknowing, Count Eric Stenbock, black Ships Ate The Sky on Brainwaves 1986 Aleister Crowley – The Hastings Archives/The World As Power LP1988 The Venerable Chi. med Rig. dzin Lama, Rinpoche – Tantric rNying. David Tibet – C93 interview extensive interview with David Tibet from the Judas Kiss site, conducted in 2006 Current 93 discography at MusicBrainz
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Oneohtrix Point Never
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Daniel Lopatin, best known by the recording alias Oneohtrix Point Never, is an American experimental musician, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn. He began releasing projects under the OPN moniker in 2007, in subsequent years he released albums such as Replica and R Plus Seven to critical praise while taking part in a number of side-projects and collaborations. In 2013, he signed to British label Warp and his latest album, Garden of Delete, was released in 2015. Born in Wayland, Massachusetts, and raised in Winthrop, Massachusetts, Lopatin is the son of Russian immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Lopatin attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts before moving to Brooklyn, New York to attend grad school at Pratt Institute, studying archival science. During that time, he involved in Brooklyns underground noise music scene. Lopatin initially released music under a number of names and as part of groups, including Infinity Window and Astronaut. Early OPN recordings drew on music, New Age tropes. Lopatin released a series of cassette and CD-R projects interspersed with a trilogy of albums, Betrayed in the Octagon, Zones Without People. Much of this material was collected on the 2009 compilation Rifts. Also in 2009, Lopatin released the audio-visual project Memory Vague, in June 2010, Lopatin followed Rifts with his major label debut Returnal, released on Editions Mego to positive critical reception. In the same year, he released the influential limited-edition pseudonymous cassette Chuck Persons Eccojams Vol.1, lopatins next album, Replica, was released in 2011 on his newly formed label Software Recording to further critical praise. It saw Lopatin develop an approach that drew on the audio of 1980s and 90s television advertisements. That year, Lopatin participated in the collaborative album FRKWYS Vol.7 with musicians David Borden, James Ferraro, Samuel Godin, also in 2011, Ford & Lopatin released Channel Pressure and OPN was chosen to perform at the All Tomorrows Parties festival. In 2012, Lopatin collaborated with Tim Hecker on the album Instrumental Tourist, in 2013, Lopatin signed with Warp Records. His label debut, R Plus Seven, was released September 30,2013 to positive reception, in 2014, Lopatin supported Nine Inch Nails on their tour with Soundgarden as a replacement for Death Grips. Lopatin released his second Warp LP Garden of Delete in November 2015 following a promotional campaign. Lopatin also contributed to British singer Anohnis 2016 album Hopelessness and 2017 EP Paradise as well as Chicago footwork producer DJ Earls 2016 album Open Your Eyes, in January 2017, a collaboration between Oneohtrix Point Never and FKA twigs was confirmed. Lopatin has received commissions for numerous performance, exhibition, and film pieces and he composed the film score for Sofia Coppola’s 2013 film The Bling Ring and the 2015 film Partisan, directed by Ariel Kleiman
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Hudson Mohawke
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Ross Matthew Birchard, better known by the stage name Hudson Mohawke, is a producer, DJ, and composer from Glasgow, Scotland. A founding member of the LuckyMe label collective, he has signed to Warp Records. He has released two albums on Warp, Butter and Lantern, and has produced for a range of artists, including West, Pusha T, Drake. Birchard also makes up one half of the music duo TNGHT with Canadian producer Lunice. At the age of 15, Birchard was the youngest UK DMC finalist, during this period, Birchard formed the Lucky Me collective with childhood friends. He adopted the stage name Hudson Mohawke after seeing the name engraved on a statue in the hallway of his accommodation, Hudson Mo was also DJ/Producer for the now defunct hip hop group Surface Emp alongside MCs Dom Sum and sometimes 2 Can Dan. Surface Empire released the LuckyMe EP in 2005 on Far Cut Records, in 2008, Birchard met Canadian producer Lunice during the first LuckyMe Records tour of North America, with Hudson Mohawke performing at the Pop Montreal festival and Lunice playing support. Following a successful performance headlining Warp Records 2012 SXSW showcase, the collaborative project TNGHT debuted their TNGHT EP. His first official release to get major notice was entitled Spotted on the Rush Hour beat compilation Beat Dimensions Vol 1, in 2008 his 12 EP Ooops. on LuckyMe/Wireblock became an underground sensation, particularly once word spread of his recording contract with Warp. In 2009, Hudson Mohawke released his first studio album, Butter, in that year, he contributed a cover of a Jimi Tenor song, titled Paint the Stars, to the Warp20 compilation. He would follow with several EPs, including 2011s Satin Panthers and he produced the debut EP for UK band Egyptian Hip Hop at Club Ralph Studios in London, which was released in August 2010. One of his songs, 100hm, has featured as a track on the video game Grand Theft Auto V, while Fuse was featured in Sleeping Dogs. In 2012, Hudson Mohawke began a series of collaborations with Kanye West, on January 17,2013, it was announced that Mohawke had officially signed with GOOD Music as a producer, whilst remaining with Warp and LuckyMe as a recording artist. TNGHT announced their hiatus on December 27,2013, in 2015, he released his second studio album, Lantern. In 2016, he collaborated with singer Anohni on her 2016 album Hopelessness, following the formation of TNGHT, Birchard and partner Lunice attempted to strip down their production styles and avoid all over the place tracks. Albums Butter Lantern Ded Sec — Watch Dogs 2 EPs LuckyMe Choices Vol.1 Puzzles Secrets Polyfolk Dance Satin Panthers TNGHT Hud Mo 100 Chimes Singles Oops, star Crackout / Root Hands / Everybody Else Is Wrong Chimes Chimes ft. F. T. R. From King Push – Darkest Before Dawn, The Prelude A$AP Rocky - Everyday from At. Last. o. B - Satellite Gucci Mane - Party Animal Björk - Virus from Bastards Battles - Rolls Bayce from Dross Glop Jackson & His Computer Band - Vista from G. I
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Boy George
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George Alan ODowd, known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and photographer. He is the singer of the Grammy and Brit Award-winning pop band Culture Club. He was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s to the early 1980s and his music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by rhythm and blues and reggae. He was lead singer of Jesus Loves You during the period 1989–1992 and his 1990s and 2000s-era solo music has glam influences, such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop. More recently, he has released fewer music recordings, splitting his time between songwriting, DJing, writing books, designing clothes, and photography. Boy George was born George Alan ODowd in Eltham, London, on 14 June 1961, to Jeremiah and Dinah ODowd, George was a follower of the New Romantic movement which was popular in Britain in the early 1980s. He lived in various squats around Warren Street in Central London and he and his friend Marilyn were regulars at Blitz, a London nightclub run by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan. The pop artists that inspired him were Siouxsie and the Banshees, David Bowie, T. Rex, Roxy Music, Boy Georges androgynous style of dressing caught the attention of music entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren, who arranged for George to perform with the group Bow Wow Wow. Going by the stage name Lieutenant Lush, his tenure with Bow Wow Wow proved problematic with lead singer Annabella Lwin, George eventually left the group and started his own band with bassist Mikey Craig. They were joined by Jon Moss and then guitarist Roy Hay, the band recorded demos that were paid for by EMI Records but the label declined to sign them. Virgin Records expressed interest in signing the group in the UK for European releases, while Epic Records handled the US and they recorded their debut album Kissing to Be Clever and it was released in 1982. The single Do You Really Want to Hurt Me. became an hit, reaching No.1 in a dozen countries around the world. This was followed by the Top 5 hit Time in the US and UK and this gave Culture Club the distinction of being the first group since the Beatles to have three Top 10 hits in the US from a debut album. Their next album, Colour By Numbers was an success, topping the UK charts. The single Church of the Poison Mind became a Top 10 hit, and Karma Chameleon became an hit, peaking at No.1 in sixteen countries. It hit No.1 in the US where it stayed for three weeks and it was the best-selling single of the year in the United Kingdom, where it spent six weeks at No.1. Victims and Its a Miracle were further Top 5 UK hits, the bands third album Waking Up with the House on Fire was not as big a hit as its predecessors. Although the first single, The War Song, was a No.2 hit in the UK, George then provided a lead vocal role on the Band Aid international hit single Do They Know Its Christmas
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San Francisco Bay Area
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The San Francisco Bay Area is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses the cities and metropolitan areas of San Jose, San Francisco. The Bay Areas nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. The combined statistical area of the region is the second-largest in California, the fifth-largest in the United States, the Bay Area has the second-most Fortune 500 Companies in the United States, and is known for its natural beauty, liberal politics, entrepreneurship, and diversity. The eastern side of the bay, consisting of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, is known locally as the East Bay, the inner East Bay is more densely populated, with generally older buildings, and a more ethnically diverse population. The word Lamorinda was coined by combining the names of the cities it includes, Lafayette, Moraga, walnut Creek is situated east of Lamorinda and north of the San Ramon Valley and, together with Concord, Martinez, and Pleasant Hill comprises Central Contra Costa County. The cities of Antioch, Pittsburg, Brentwood, Oakley and the areas surrounding them comprise East Contra Costa County. The Tri-Valley consists of the Amador, the Livermore, and the San Ramon Valleys, dublin and Pleasanton comprise the Amador Valley, Livermore lies in the Livermore Valley, and the San Ramon Valley consists of Alamo, Danville, Diablo and its namesake, San Ramon. The outer East Bay is connected to the inner East Bay by BART, Interstate 580 to the south, and State Routes State Route 4 to the north, the outer East Bays infrastructure was mostly built up after World War II. This area remains largely white demographically, although the Hispanic and Filipino populations have grown significantly over the past 2–3 decades, the region north of the Golden Gate Bridge is known locally as the North Bay. This area encompasses Marin County, Sonoma County, Napa County, the city of Fairfield, being part of Solano County, is often considered the easternmost city of the North Bay. With few exceptions, this region is affluent, Marin County is ranked as the wealthiest in the state. The North Bay is relatively rural compared to the remainder of the Bay Area, with areas of undeveloped open space, farmland. Santa Rosa in Sonoma County is the North Bays largest city, with a population of 167,815 and a Metropolitan Statistical Area population of 466,891, making it the fifth-largest city in the Bay Area. The North Bay is the section of the Bay Area that is not currently served by a commuter rail service. The area from San Francisco to the Silicon Valley, geographically part of the San Francisco Peninsula, is known locally as The Peninsula, many of these families are of foreign background and have significantly contributed to the diversity of the area. Whereas the term peninsula technically refers to the entire geographical San Franciscan Peninsula, in local terms, San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides, the north, east, and west. The city squeezes roughly 870,000 people in under 47 square miles, on any given day, there can be as many as 1 million people in the city because of the commuting population and tourism
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Manhattan
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Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and the citys historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1,1683, Manhattan is often described as the cultural and financial capital of the world and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough and it is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders which equals US$1062 today. New York County is the United States second-smallest county by land area, on business days, the influx of commuters increases that number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile. Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York Citys five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, the City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the citys government. The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, a 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River. The word Manhattan has been translated as island of hills from the Lenape language. The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use New York, NY rather than Manhattan, the area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of King Francis I of France – was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City. It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, a permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624 with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam, the 1625 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City. In 1846, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 to US$23, variable-rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty-four dollars, as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York. Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006, based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony, New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1653. In 1664, the English conquered New Netherland and renamed it New York after the English Duke of York and Albany, the Dutch Republic regained it in August 1673 with a fleet of 21 ships, renaming the city New Orange. Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16,1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British political, British occupation lasted until November 25,1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city
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New York University
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New York University is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City. Founded in 1831, NYU is considered one of the worlds most influential research universities, University rankings compiled by Times Higher Education, U. S. News & World Report, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities all rank NYU amongst the top 32 universities in the world. NYU is a part of the creativity, energy and vibrancy that is Manhattan, located with its core in Greenwich Village. Among its faculty and alumni are 37 Nobel Laureates, over 30 Pulitzer Prize winners, over 30 Academy Award winners, alumni include heads of state, royalty, eminent mathematicians, inventors, media figures, Olympic medalists, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and astronauts. NYU alumni are among the wealthiest in the world, according to The Princeton Review, NYU is consistently considered by students and parents as a Top Dream College. Albert Gallatin, Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, declared his intention to establish in this immense, a system of rational and practical education fitting and graciously opened to all. A three-day-long literary and scientific convention held in City Hall in 1830 and these New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based upon merit rather than birthright or social class. On April 18,1831, an institution was established, with the support of a group of prominent New York City residents from the merchants, bankers. Albert Gallatin was elected as the institutions first president, the university has been popularly known as New York University since its inception and was officially renamed New York University in 1896. In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, in 1835, the School of Law, NYUs first professional school, was established. American Chemical Society was founded in 1876 at NYU and it became one of the nations largest universities, with an enrollment of 9,300 in 1917. NYU had its Washington Square campus since its founding, the university purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on the old campus. NYU also had a desire to follow New York Citys development further uptown, NYUs move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, spearheaded by the efforts of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken. The University Heights campus was far more spacious than its predecessor was, as a result, most of the universitys operations along with the undergraduate College of Arts and Science and School of Engineering were housed there. NYUs administrative operations were moved to the new campus, but the schools of the university remained at Washington Square. In 1914, Washington Square College was founded as the undergraduate college of NYU. In 1935, NYU opened the Nassau College-Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead and this extension would later become a fully independent Hofstra University. In 1950, NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, financial crisis gripped the New York City government and the troubles spread to the citys institutions, including NYU
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David Tibet
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David Tibet is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. David Bunting was born in Batu Gajah, Perak, Malaysia, early in his career, he collaborated with Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo. Tibet left Psychic TV in 1983 and founded Current 93 the same year, tibets main musical outlet is the band Current 93, the only constant member of which is Tibet himself. Current 93s first release was the cassette-only Mi-Mort, a split C60 with Nurse With Wound, the first vinyl release was LAShTAL, with the line-up of Tibet, John Balance of Coil and Psychic TV and Fritz Haaman of 23 Skidoo. David Tibet, the man of Current 93, often participated in making and producing several records by a number of industrial bands individually or in the name of Current 93. Those industrial bands include the Nurse With Wound, Coil, and some labels producing industrial noise music, among many important figures of the main line of industrial noise music, the network among David Tibet, Steven Stapleton and John Balance is an indispensable one. These people are proficient in various related musical styles from dark ambient to industrial noise music and these mixed styles of music represents the development of the industrial noise music. At the same time, as David Tibet used to be a member of Death in June, which is a band of death folk, the band Current 93 also has some works of neo-folk which are truly related to Death. It is not tough to see that the created by David Tibet/Current 93 is a production mingled with industrial music, death folk. Tibet believes in mysticism, which derived from several kinds of fields including the realms of religion, philosophy, witchcraft, poetry and he is always trying to derive inspiration from them, then blends those ideas into his works. Their particular style of works are closely linked with the mysterious ideas of David Tibet. When talking about the objects which can make David feel energy as well as acquire inspiration, in addition to Christianity, He believes Buddhism as well. David Tibet concentrates on Vajrayana, one school of Tibetan Buddhism and he also regards the Padmasambhava as his own tutor. The album Buddhist Monks of the Maitri Vihar Monastery of Tibet in the year 1997 is essentially a form of paternoster from Tibetan Buddhism, Tibet always keeps modest towards religions no matter which religion it is. He said that one must have a strong faith when one believes a new religion, David has been influenced by the theories of Aleister Crowley since he was still ten years old. The influence by Crowley is apparent in many aspects of Current 93s covers, lyrics, tibets lyrical subject matter reflects a consistent preoccupation with all aspects of apocalypse. He has long been a student of Christian eschatology, at a precocious age, he developed a strong interest in Aleister Crowley and the Ordo Templi Orientis. He joined the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis and borrowed the term 93 Current and his initial recording as Current 93, LAShTAL, was, according to Tibet, the invocation of Malkunofath on the Nightside of Eden, the reverse of the Tree of Life
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I Am a Bird Now
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I Am a Bird Now is the second album by New York City band Antony and the Johnsons. It won the Mercury Prize on September 6,2005, after winning the prize, the album shot up the UK albums chart from #135 to #16 in one week, the biggest jump in the history of the Mercury Music Prize. As of September 2011, UK sales stand at 220,000 copies, the album features guest appearances by Rufus Wainwright, Devendra Banhart, Joan Wasser and by lead singer Anohnis childhood heroes Boy George and Lou Reed. The cover is a photograph by Peter Hujar of Warhol Superstar Candy Darling on her deathbed, I Am a Bird Now received very positive reviews. On the review aggregate site Metacritic, the album has a score of 88 out of 100, drowned in Sounds Anthony Gibbons gave the album a score of 10/10, writing Its not an exaggeration. I Am A Bird Now is a beautiful, emotive, glorious, and sometimes sinister album that will top many a critics list come the end-of-year polls, and justifiably so. Tiny Mix Tapes also gave the album a score, writing This music grabs a hold of you. It feels timeless and gorgeous and bigger than life and it may not be soul in the strict, music appreciation 101 sense, but it could make even the most jaded atheist approach a metaphysical regard. Id put on my critics cap and dive into scrutiny, but I am too enraptured by this artists music, the album has appeared on several end of year lists. Mojo named I Am a Bird Now the best album of 2005, pitchfork Media ranked the album #5 on its list of the top 50 albums of 2005. On the same website, the track Hope Theres Someone was ranked #28 on their list of the Top 500 Songs of the 2000s and was selected as 2005s best single. I Am A Bird Now </sub> at Discogs I Am A Bird Now statistics and tagging at Last. FM I Am A Bird Now press release at Secretly Canadian
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Mercury Prize
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The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established by the British Phonographic Industry and British Association of Record Dealers in 1992 as an alternative to the Brit Awards, the prize was originally sponsored by Mercury Communications, a brand owned by Cable & Wireless, from which the prize gets its name. It was later sponsored by Technics, Panasonic, Nationwide Building Society, the 2015 prize was sponsored by the BBC, while in 2016 it was announced that a three-year deal had been struck with Hyundai to sponsor the event. Any album released by a British artist, or by a band where over 50% of the members are British, may be submitted for consideration by their record label. The shortlist is chosen by an independent panel of musicians, music presenters, music producers, music journalists, festival organisers and other figures in the industry in the UK. The prize is open to all types of music, including pop, rock, folk, urban, grime, dance, jazz, blues, electronica and classical. Presentation of the awards usually takes place at an Awards Show in October, after the shortlist is announced at the Album of the Year Launch in September. It is often observed that bands albums are shortlisted, or win the prize, experience a large increase in album sales. Each shortlisted artist receives a specially commissioned Albums of the Year trophy at the Awards Show, unlike some other music awards, the overall winner of the Mercury Prize also receives a cheque, as of 2014, the value of the prize money is £20,000. The winner also receives an additional winners trophy, to date, PJ Harvey is the only artist to have won the award on more than one occasion. She was also the first female solo artist to receive the award, radiohead are the most shortlisted artists with five, but they have never won. The Mercury Prize can have an effect on sales for those artists who are shortlisted. Elbow saw a 700% sales increase of their album The Seldom Seen Kid after winning the Prize in 2008, in their winners speech, Elbows frontman Guy Garvey said that winning the Mercury Prize was Quite literally the best thing that has ever happened to us. 2011 winner PJ Harveys album Let England Shake jumped from number 181 to 24 in the UK official charts the week after the 2011 Awards Show. Despite being regarded by many as highly prestigious, it has suggested that having an album nominated for or winning the Mercury Prize could be a curse on a career in music. All genres of music are eligible for entry, and it is stated that all are treated equally, Simon Frith, chair of the Mercury Prize judging panel, has said that albums are chosen because they are the strongest each year, rather than according to genre. However, the presence of classical, folk and jazz recordings has been cited by some as anomalous, classical acts to have an album nominated have included Sir John Tavener, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Gavin Bryars and Nicholas Maw. None has ever won, and there has not been a classical album since 2002
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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J. Ralph
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Josh Ralph, known professionally as J. Ralph, is an American composer, producer, singer/songwriter and social activist who focuses on creating awareness and change through music and film. A three time Academy Award nominated composer, his career began when he was signed to Atlantic Records at the age of 22 as a recording artist. His music has more than 10 million records worldwide reaching the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in over 22 countries. Ralph is completely self-taught and does not read or write a note of music. Ralph has recorded two CDs, The Illusionary Movements of Geraldine and Nazu and Music to Mauzner By, the latter under the moniker Spy. He has also written for performance, with 2008s Fanfare for the Uncommon Ellie. For his contribution to Chasing Ice, Ralph received an Oscar nomination for his song Before My Time, performed by Scarlett Johansson, for his contribution to Racing Extinction, he received his second Oscar nomination for his song Manta Ray co-written and performed by Anohni. For his contribution to Jim, The James Foley Story, He received his third Oscar nomination for The Empty Chair Which he co-wrote with Sting who also performs the song. In the entire history of the Academy Awards, only seven songs from documentaries have ever been nominated for Best Original Song. With almost half of those nominations, Ralph is the composer in the history of the Oscars to have received multiple nominations for Best Original song that originated from documentaries. Ralph was invited to perform a concert with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra in Colorado. The orchestra performed several of his works including his Oscar Nominated song Before My Time which Ralph sang, on August 1,2015, Ralph created the music for the Projecting Change art installation event on the Empire State Building in NYC to raise awareness worldwide for species extinction. The event was organized by Louie Psihoyos as part of the Racing Extinction documentary and it is the first time the owner of the Empire State Building and New York City officials ever allowed projections onto the building. Featuring violinist Joshua Bell, The London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices, on January 5,2016 it was announced that Ralph and Sting have written an original song The Empty Chair for the documentary, Jim, The James Foley Story. Ralph at the Internet Movie Database
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Racing Extinction
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The film received one Academy Award nomination, for best Original Song, and one Emmy nomination. Racing Extinction′s website details further information about contemporary extinction and campaigns with which to prevent them, the film was created by the Oceanic Preservation Society. The film implicates overpopulation, globalisation and animal agriculture as leading causes of extinction, more specific examples include the imminent extinctions of the Florida grasshopper sparrow and Rabbs fringe-limbed treefrog. The degradation of ecosystems and the implications of coastal habitations are highlighted. They go visit the village Lamakera, Indonesia in order to convince the village to stop fishing manta rays and this campaign aimed to raise awareness and encourage people to change habits to ensure the survival of species for future generations, further highlighted with the Start With One Thing Campaign. Clark Race car driver and environmentalist Leilani Münter Artist Shawn Heinrichs Obscura Digital customized the Tesla Model S car used for the projections, Racing Extinction was generally acclaimed by critics. The film is nominated for an Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, the film holds a Metacritic score of 81/100. In 2016 it won the Cinema for Peace International Green Film Award and it was also praised as a return to form for the Discovery Channel, in that it represented a break from the numerous pseudoscience-based mockumentaries that the network was airing at the time. A soundtrack was released via Rumor Mill Records on November 6,2015, the main theme of the documentary is a song called One Candle featuring the vocals of Australian singer-songwriter, Sia. To promote this track, a video was created using images of animals projected onto the side of the Empire State Building in New York. In the 88th Academy Awards, Manta Ray By J. Ralph & Anohni from Racing Extinction soundtrack was nominated for Best Original Song. Other competing nominees in this category were Earned It from Fifty Shades of Grey, Til It Happens to You from The Hunting Ground, Simple Song #3 from Youth, Writings On the Wall, by Sam Smith, was the winner. All tracks written by J. Ralph
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Brit Awards
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The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industrys annual pop music awards. The name was originally a form of British, Britain or Britannia. In addition, an equivalent awards ceremony for music, called the Classic Brit Awards, is held each May. Robbie Williams holds the record for the most Brit Awards,13 as a solo artist, the awards originated as an annual event in 1982 under the auspices of the British record industrys trade association, the BPI. In 1989 they were renamed the Brit Awards, masterCard has been the long-term sponsor of the event. The Brit Awards were broadcast live until 1989, when Samantha Fox, in subsequent years, the event was recorded and broadcast the following night. From 2007, the Brit Awards reverted to a live broadcast on British television, on 14 February on ITV. In that year, comedian Russell Brand was presenter and three awards were dropped from the ceremony, Best British Rock Act, Best British Urban Act, on 18 February 2009, the venue for the BRITs was once again the Earls Court, London. The Brit Awards were held at The O2 in London for the first time in 2011, the Brit Award statuette given to the winners features Britannia, the female personification of Britain. The first awards ceremony was in 1977, as The BRITish Record Industry BRITannia Awards, there have been 36 editions to date. The 2016 Brit Awards was held on 24 February 2016, the 1988 BPI Awards was the first of the ceremonies to be broadcast on live television. The BBC had previously broadcast the ceremony from 1985, with the shows from 1982 to 1984 not broadcast on television, the BBC continued to broadcast the renamed BRIT Awards, live in 1989 and pre-recorded from 1990 to 1992. ITV have broadcast the awards since 1993, pre-recorded until 2006, BBC Radio 1 has provided backstage radio coverage since 2008. In 1987 the BPI Awards ceremony was held in the Great Room at the Grosvenor House Hotel, at the time there was a BBC electricians strike in effect, and the organisers decided to use a non-TV events production company, called Upfront, to manage the show. Despite the show being picketed, the event was transmitted as intended, for a while the outdoor broadcast scanner was rocked on its wheels by the protesters and they managed to shut off the power to one of the big GE video screen projectors. In 1989, the ceremony was broadcast live and presented by Fleetwood Macs Mick Fleetwood, the inexperience of the hosts, an ineffective autocue and little preparation combined to create an unprofessional show that was poorly received. The 1990 awards ceremony saw the last public appearance of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Queen appeared at the ceremony to receive the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Mercury did not make a speech, as Brian May did the talking on behalf of the other members, in 1992, dance/art band The KLF were awarded Best British Group and were booked to open the show
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Chichester District
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Chichester is a largely rural local government district in West Sussex, England. Its council is based in the city of Chichester, Chichester District Council has 48 councillors, representing 29 wards. Chichester itself has four of those wards whilst the remaining wards comprise groups of villages, local elections are held every four years and at the May 2011 and 2015 elections, the Conservative party retained control. There are 67 civil parishes in Chichester District, apart from the City of Chichester, and the three towns of Midhurst, Selsey and Petworth, most are villages. Chichester District occupies the part of West Sussex, bordering on Hampshire to the west. The districts of Arun and Horsham abut to the east, the English Channel to the south. The district is divided by the South Downs escarpment, with the part being in the Weald, composed of a mixture of sandstone ridges. To the south the dip slope of the downs falls gently to a coastal plain. The Western Weald is drained by the River Arun and its tributuaries including the rivers Lox, Kird and especially the River Rother and its tributuaries the River Lod and the Haslingbourne Stream. On the northern boundary Blackdown is the highest point in Sussex, while further east around Loxwood the land is low and quite flat. The south of the district has many permeable chalk and gravel areas and is drained by two winterbournes, the River Lavant and River Ems, which are dry in the summer. The large inlet known as Chichester Harbour and the headland of Selsey Bill are conspicuous features of the coast, the district, apart from the few main roads, is generally rural in character, as can be seen by the number of villages within it. Apart from the coastal strip there are few roads. Stately homes open to the public include Petworth House and Uppark, West Dean College is open at certain times of the year. There is horse racing at Goodwood Racecourse, the Goodwood Festival of Speed at Goodwood House, cowdray House is a ruined Tudor mansion near Midhurst. Fishbourne Roman Palace lies west of Chichester city centre, to the north of the city are Weald and Downland Open Air Museum and Halnaker Windmill. There are gardens open to the public at Woolbeding and Pound Commons, West Sussex County Council and Chichester District Council are major employers in Chichester, along with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars assembly plant at nearby Westhampnett. Boatbuilding is an important industry along the coast, fertile soils on the coastal plain are used for arable farming and intensive vegetable production, the latter employing many migrant workers from Eastern Europe
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Amsterdam
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Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands, although it is not the seat of the government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper,1,351,587 in the urban area, the city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The metropolitan area comprises much of the part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe. Amsterdams name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the citys origin around a dam in the river Amstel, during that time, the city was the leading centre for finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries the city expanded, and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were planned, the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam and the 19–20th century Defence Line of Amsterdam are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered a world city by the Globalization. The city is also the capital of the Netherlands. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, and seven of the worlds 500 largest companies, including Philips and ING, are based in the city. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit and 12th globally on quality of living for environment, the city was ranked 3rd in innovation by Australian innovation agency 2thinknow in their Innovation Cities Index 2009. The Amsterdam seaport to this day remains the second in the country, famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the world, is located in the city center. After the floods of 1170 and 1173, locals near the river Amstel built a bridge over the river, the earliest recorded use of that name is in a document dated October 27,1275, which exempted inhabitants of the village from paying bridge tolls to Count Floris V. This allowed the inhabitants of the village of Aemstelredamme to travel freely through the County of Holland, paying no tolls at bridges, locks, the certificate describes the inhabitants as homines manentes apud Amestelledamme. By 1327, the name had developed into Aemsterdam, Amsterdam is much younger than Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. In October 2008, historical geographer Chris de Bont suggested that the land around Amsterdam was being reclaimed as early as the late 10th century. This does not necessarily mean there was already a settlement then, since reclamation of land may not have been for farming—it may have been for peat. Amsterdam was granted city rights in either 1300 or 1306, from the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely from trade with the Hanseatic League
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Kate Bush
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Catherine Kate Bush, CBE is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. She has since released twenty-five UK Top 40 singles, including the top ten hits The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Babooshka, Running Up That Hill, Dont Give Up and King of the Mountain. She has released ten albums, all of which reached the UK Top 10, including the UK number-one albums Never for Ever. She is the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts, Bush has received widespread critical acclaim for her eclectic and idiosyncratic music as well as her theatrical performances. She has been nominated 13 times for British Phonographic Industry accolades, during the course of her career, she has also been nominated for three Grammy Awards. In 2002, she was recognised with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, Bush was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to music. A diverse range of artists have claimed Bush as an influence on their work, Bush was born in Bexleyheath, Kent, to English medical doctor Robert Bush and Hannah Daly. She was raised as a Roman Catholic in their farmhouse in East Wickham, both brothers were involved in the local folk music scene. One of the instructors, Dave Hazard, later noted in his autobiography that her dance moves seemed to owe something to karate and her familys musical influence inspired Bush to teach herself the piano at the age of 11. She also played the organ in a barn behind her parents house and she soon began writing her own tunes and eventually added lyrics to them. Bush attended St Josephs Convent Grammar School, a Catholic girls school, in Woolwich Road, Abbey Wood, south east London, during this time her family produced a demo tape with over 50 of her compositions, which was turned down by record labels. David Gilmour of Pink Floyd received the demo from Ricky Hopper, a friend of Gilmour. Impressed with what he heard, Gilmour helped the sixteen-year-old Bush get a more professional-sounding demo tape recorded that would be more saleable to the record companies, three tracks in total were recorded and paid for by Gilmour. The tape was produced by Gilmours friend Andrew Powell, who would go on to produce Bushs first two albums, and sound engineer Geoff Emerick, the tape was sent to EMI executive Terry Slater. Slater was impressed by the tape and signed her, the British record industry was reaching a point of stagnation. Progressive rock was popular and visually oriented rock performers were growing in popularity. Bush was put on retainer for two years by Bob Mercer, managing director of EMI group-repertoire division. According to Mercer he felt Bushs material was good enough to be released but felt if the album failed it would be demoralising
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Synthpop
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Synth-pop is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestras success opened the way for bands such as P-Model, Plastics. The development of polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI. This, its adoption by the acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV. Synth-pop is sometimes deployed interchangeably with electropop, but electropop may also denote a variant of synth-pop that places emphasis on a harder. In the late 1980s duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a style that was successful on the US dance-charts. Some artists and bands were criticised for gender bending, Synth-pop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments. Borthwick and Moy have described the genre as diverse but, many synth-pop musicians had limited musical skills, relying on the technology to produce or reproduce the music. The result was often minimalist, with grooves that were woven together from simple repeated riffs often with no harmonic progression to speak of. Early synth-pop has been described as eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing, using droning electronics with little change in inflection, common lyrical themes of synth-pop songs were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow. Synthesizers were increasingly used to imitate the conventional and clichéd sound of orchestras, thin, treble-dominant, synthesized melodies and simple drum programmes gave way to thick, and compressed production, and a more conventional drum sound. Lyrics were generally optimistic, dealing with more traditional subject matter for pop music such as romance, escapism. According to music writer Simon Reynolds, the hallmark of 1980s synth-pop was its emotional, at times operatic singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox. Because synthesizers removed the need for groups of musicians, these singers were often part of a duo where their partner played all the instrumentation. Later synth-pop saw a shift to a style influenced by other genres. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, the portable Minimoog, which allowed much easier use, particularly in live performance was widely adopted by progressive rock musicians such as Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes
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Marc Almond
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Peter Mark Sinclair Marc Almond is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell and he has also had a diverse career as a solo artist. His collaborations include a duet with Gene Pitney on the 1989 UK number one single Somethings Gotten Hold of My Heart, Almond has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Almond was born in Southport, Lancashire, the son of Sandra Mary Diesen and Peter John Sinclair Almond and he was brought up nearby at his grandparents house in Birkdale with his younger sister, Julia, and as a child suffered from bronchitis and asthma. When he was four, they left their grandparents house and moved to Starbeck, two years later they returned to Southport, and then moved to Horsforth, West Yorkshire. At the age of 11, Almond attended Aireborough Grammar School near Leeds and he found solace in music, listening to British radio pioneer John Peel. The first album he purchased was the soundtrack of the stage musical Hair and he later became a great fan of Marc Bolan and David Bowie and got a part-time job as a stable boy to fund his musical tastes. After his parents divorce in 1972, he moved with his back to Southport. He gained two O-Levels in Art and English and was accepted onto a General Art and Design course at Southport College, Almond applied to Leeds Polytechnic, where he was interviewed by Jeff Nuttall, also a performance artist, who accepted him on the strength of his performing skills. During his time at Art College, he did a series of theatre pieces, Zazou, Glamour in Squalor, Twilights and Lowlifes. He left Art College with a 2,1 honours degree and he later credited writer and artist Molly Parkin with discovering him. It was at Leeds Polytechnic that Almond met David Ball, a fellow student, as an adolescent, Almond listened to Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg. He listened at first to progressive music, blues, and rock, and bands such as Free, Jethro Tull, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Van der Graaf Generator, The Who, and The Doors. He bought the first ever issue of Sounds because it contained a poster of Jimmy Page. Almond became a fan of Bolan after hearing him on The John Peel Show, rex single Ride a White Swan. From then on, Almond followed everything Marc Bolan did and it was his obsession with Bolan that prompted Almond to adopt the Marc spelling of his name and he discovered the songs of Jacques Brel through Bowie as well as Alex Harvey and Dusty Springfield. Almond and Dave Ball formed the synthesizer-based duo Soft Cell and signed to Some Bizzare Label and their hits included Tainted Love, Bedsitter, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, Torch, What. Soul Inside, and the club hit Memorabilia, Soft Cells first release was an independent record entitled Mutant Moments via Red Rhino Records in 1980
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Alison Moyet
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Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy contralto voice. She came to prominence as half of the duo Yazoo, but has mainly worked as a solo artist. Her UK album sales have reached a certified 23 million, with over a million singles sold, All seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 30 UK Album Chart, with two of the albums reaching number one. She has also achieved nine Top 30 singles and five Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart and her most recent album The Minutes was released in the UK on 6 May 2013. Moyets upcoming ninth studio album Other will be released 16 June 2017, Moyet was born in the Essex town of Billericay to a French father and English mother. She grew up in the town of Basildon, where she attended Markhams Chase Junior School. After leaving school at 16, she worked as a shop assistant and she also worked for the cosmetic company Yardley. At the age of 21, Moyets mainstream pop career began in 1982 with the formation of the synthpop duo Yazoo with former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke. In the United States, the band operated under the name Yaz, Yazoo had several hits, including Only You, Dont Go, Situation and Nobodys Diary, and recorded two albums, Upstairs at Erics and You and Me Both. In 1983, Clarke decided to disband Yazoo, while Clarke went on to form The Assembly and then Erasure, Moyet signed to CBS, and began her solo career. In 1984, Moyet released her solo album Alf. Alf was produced by the producing and songwriting team of Jolley & Swain. The album was co-written by the duo and Moyet, with the exception of Invisible, the record was a hit in Britain, reaching No.1 in the album chart. Alf spawned three hit singles, Love Resurrection, Invisible and All Cried Out. In the US, Invisible was a Top 40 hit, in some European territories, a fourth single, For You Only, was also released. Moyet also released a single not featured on Alf, a cover of the standard That Ole Devil Called Love, Moyet had another big UK hit the following year with Is This Love. Followed in 1987 by her second LP, Raindancing, Raindancing spawned further hit singles, including a cover of Floy Joys Weak in the Presence of Beauty and Ordinary Girl. In 1987, she scored another hit with Love Letters
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Klaus Nomi
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Klaus Sperber, better known as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona. Nomi was known for his bizarrely visionary theatrical live performances, heavy make-up, unusual costumes, and his songs were equally unusual, ranging from synthesizer-laden interpretations of classical opera to covers of 1960s pop standards like Chubby Checkers The Twist and Lou Christies Lightnin Strikes. He is remembered in the United States as one of David Bowies backup singers for a 1979 performance on Saturday Night Live, Nomi died in 1983 at the age of 39 as a result of complications from AIDS. Klaus Nomi was born Klaus Sperber in Immenstadt, Bavaria, Germany on January 24,1944. In the 1960s, he worked as an usher at the Deutsche Oper in West Berlin where he sang for the other ushers, around that time he also sang opera arias at the Berlin gay discothèque Kleist Casino. Nomi moved to New York City in 1972 and he began his involvement with the art scene based in the East Village. According to a film made by Andrew Horn, Nomi took singing lessons. In 1972, Nomi appeared in a camp production of Richard Wagners Das Rheingold at Charles Ludlams Ridiculous Theater Company as the Rheinmaidens. Nomi came to the attention of New York Citys art scene in 1978 with his performance in New Wave Vaudeville, dressed in a skin-tight spacesuit with clear plastic cape, Nomi sang the aria Mon cœur souvre à ta voix from Camille Saint-Saëns 1877 opera Samson et Dalila. The performance ended with a crash of strobe lights, smoke bombs. Joey Arias recalled, I still get goose pimples when I think about it and it was like he was from a different planet and his parents were calling him home. When the smoke cleared, he was gone, the reaction was so overwhelmingly positive that he was invited to perform at clubs all over New York City. At the New Wave Vaudeville show Klaus Nomi met Kristian Hoffman, Hoffman was a performer and MC in the second incarnation of New Wave Vaudeville and a close friend of Susan Hannaford and Tom Scully, who produced the show, and Ann Magnuson, who directed it. Anya Phillips, then manager of James Chance and the Contortions, suggested Nomi, Hoffman helped Nomi choose his pop covers, including the Lou Christie song Lightnin Strikes. Hoffman wrote several pop songs with which Nomi is closely identified, The Nomi Song, Total Eclipse, After The Fall, and Simple Man and this configuration of the Klaus Nomi band performed at Manhattan clubs, including several performances at Maxs Kansas City, Danceteria and Hurrah. Disagreements with the management Nomi engaged led to a dissolution of this band and he also appeared on Manhattan Cables TV Party. David Bowie heard about Nomis performances in New York and soon met him, Bowie hired them as performers and backup singers for his appearance on Saturday Night Live which aired on December 15,1979. The band performed TVC15, The Man Who Sold the World, during the performance of TVC15, Nomi and Arias dragged around a large prop pink poodle with a television screen in its mouth
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Nina Simone
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Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement. Simone employed a range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel. Born in North Carolina, the child of a preacher. With the help of the few supporters in her hometown of Tryon, North Carolina, Waymon then applied for a scholarship to study at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied despite a well-received audition. Waymon became fully convinced this rejection had been due to her race. Years later, two days before her death, the Curtis Institute of Music bestowed on her an honorary degree, to make a living, Eunice Waymon changed her name to Nina Simone. The change related to her need to disguise herself from family members and she was told in the nightclub that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and this effectively launched her career as a jazz vocalist. Simone recorded more than forty albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974, and had a hit in the United States in 1958 with I Loves You, Porgy. Simones musical style fused gospel and pop with music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach. Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in North Carolina and raised in Tryon, the sixth of eight children in a poor family, she began playing piano at age three, the first song she learned was God Be With You, Till We Meet Again. Demonstrating a talent with the instrument, she performed at her local church, but her concert debut, a classical recital, was given when she was 12. Simone later said that during this performance, her parents, who had taken seats in the front row, were forced to move to the back of the hall to make way for white people. She said that she refused to play until her parents were moved back to the front, Simones mother, Mary Kate Waymon, was a Methodist minister and a housemaid. Simones father, John Divine Waymon, was a handyman who at one time owned a dry cleaning business, Simones music teacher helped establish a special fund to pay for her education. Subsequently, a fund was set up to assist her continued education. With the help of this scholarship money she was able to attend Allen High School for Girls in Asheville, North Carolina. After her graduation, Simone spent the summer of 1950 at the Juilliard School, as a student of Carl Friedberg, discouraged, she took private piano lessons with Vladimir Sokoloff, a professor at Curtis, but never re-applied to the institution. She took a job as an assistant, but also found work as an accompanist at Arlene Smiths vocal studio
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Otis Redding
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Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. He is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and his singing style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s. During his lifetime, his recordings were produced by Stax Records, based in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1958, he joined Johnny Jenkinss band, the Pinetoppers, with whom he toured the Southern states as a singer and driver. An unscheduled appearance on a Stax recording session led to a contract and his first single, These Arms of Mine, Stax released Reddings debut album, Pain in My Heart, two years later. Initially popular mainly with African-Americans, Redding later reached a wider American pop music audience, along with his group, he first played small gigs in the American South. He later performed at the popular Los Angeles night club Whisky a Go Go and toured Europe, performing in London, Paris and he also performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Shortly before his death in a crash, Redding wrote. The song became the first posthumous number-one record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts, the album The Dock of the Bay was the first posthumous album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart. Already on the verge of bankruptcy, the label soon discovered that Atlantic Records owned the rights to his song catalog. Redding received many accolades, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to The Dock of the Bay, Respect and Try a Little Tenderness are among his best-known songs, Redding was born in Dawson, Georgia, the fourth of six children, and the first son, of Otis Redding, Sr. and Fannie Mae Redding. Redding senior was a sharecropper and then worked at Robins Air Force Base, near Macon, when Otis was three the family moved to Tindall Heights, a predominantly African-American public housing project in Macon. At an early age, Redding sang in the Vineville Baptist Church choir and learned guitar, from age 10, he took drum and singing lessons. At Ballard-Hudson High School, he sang in the school band, every Sunday he earned $6 by performing gospel songs for Macon radio station WIBB. His passion was singing, and he often cited Little Richard, Redding said that he would not be here without Little Richard and that he entered the music business because of Richard – he is my inspiration. I used to sing like Little Richard, his Rock n Roll stuff and my present music has a lot of him in it. At age 15, Redding left school to help support his family, his father had contracted tuberculosis and was often hospitalized. He worked as a digger, as a gasoline station attendant
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Donny Hathaway
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Donny Edward Hathaway was an American jazz, blues, soul and gospel singer, songwriter, arranger and pianist. Hathaway signed with Atlantic Records in 1969 and with his first single for the Atco label, The Ghetto, in early 1970, where Is the Love won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1973. At the height of his career Hathaway was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was known to not take his prescribed medication regularly enough to properly control his symptoms. On January 13,1979, Hathaways body was found outside the luxury hotel Essex House in New York City, his death was ruled a suicide. Hathaway, the son of Drusella Huntley, was born in Chicago but raised with his grandmother, Martha Pitts, also known as Martha Crumwell, Hathaway began singing in a church choir with his grandmother, a professional gospel singer, at the age of three and studying piano. He graduated from Vashon High School in 1963, Hathaway then studied music on a fine arts scholarship at Howard University in Washington, D. C. where he met close friend Roberta Flack. At Howard, he was also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Hathaway formed a jazz trio with drummer Ric Powell while there but during 1967 left Howard just before completing a degree, after receiving job offers in the music business. Hathaway worked as songwriter, session musician and producer for Curtis Mayfields Curtom Records in Chicago and he did the arrangements for hits by the Unifics and took part in projects by the Staple Singers, Jerry Butler, Aretha Franklin, the Impressions and Curtis Mayfield himself. After becoming a producer at Curtom, he also started recording there. Hathaway recorded his first single under his own name in 1969 and they also recorded the duet Just Another Reason, released as the b-side. That year, Hathaway signed to Atco Records, then a division of Atlantic Records and he released his first single of note, The Ghetto, Pt.1, which he co-wrote with former Howard roommate Leroy Hutson, who became a performer, writer and producer with Curtom. The track appeared the year on his critically acclaimed debut LP, Everything Is Everything. His second LP, Donny Hathaway, consisted mostly of covers of pop, soul. His third album Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway was an album of duets with former Howard University associate and label mate Roberta Flack that established him and it sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on September 5,1972. The album also included a number of covers, including versions of Carole Kings Youve Got a Friend, Baby I Love You, originally a hit for Aretha Franklin. Perhaps Hathaways most influential recording is his 1972 album, Live, the album can also be found on the British online music and culture magazine The Quietus list of 40 Favourite Live Albums. It was recorded at two concerts, side one at The Troubadour in Hollywood, and side two at The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, Donny Hathaway is also known as the co-composer and performer of the Christmas standard, This Christmas. The song, released in 1970, has become a staple and is often used in movies, television
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Marsha P. Johnson
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Marsha P. Johnson was an American trans woman, drag queen, sex worker, and gay liberation activist. A veteran of the Stonewall riots, Johnson was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, later in life Johnson became an AIDS activist with ACT UP. One of the citys best known drag queens and street queens, in the 1980s Johnson continued her street activism as a respected organizer and marshall with ACT UP. Once, appearing in a court the judge asked Marsha, What does the P stand for, Johnson gave her customary response Pay it No Mind. In 1974 Marsha P. Johnson was photographed by famed artist Andy Warhol, as part of a ladies, Johnson was also a member of J. Camicias international, NYC-based, GLBT performance troupe, Hot Peaches. In July 1992, shortly after the 1992 Pride March, Johnsons body was found floating in the Hudson River off the West Village Piers, while police initially ruled the death a suicide, Johnsons friends and other members of the local community insisted Johnson was not suicidal. Several people came forward to say they had seen Johnson harassed by a group of thugs who had also robbed people. Despite a peoples postering campaign and vigils at the site where Johnsons body had been found, in November 2012, activist Mariah Lopez finally succeeded in getting the New York police department to reopen the case as a possible homicide. Also interviewed are many of Johnsons closest friends and she is honored as a queen, a veteran activist, and a survivor. New York City baroque pop band Antony and the Johnsons was named in Johnsons honor, and their eponymous 1998 album features a song called River of Sorrow, the song is featured in the Pay it No Mind documentary. In 1993 Anohni appeared in a play about Johnson and International Chrysis by the Hot Peaches, Anohni also wrote and directed a play about Johnson, The Ascension of Marsha P. Johnson at the Pyramid in 1994 and at PS122 in 1995. A character based on Johnson appears in the film, Stonewall and she is played by Otoja Abit. As was generally the case with drag queens, street queens, femme gay men and radical faeries in the subcultures of the era. But this was not due to any insistence by Johnson, most people in these subcultures were addressed by feminine pronouns in that in-group vernacular, Johnson did not insist on feminine pronouns or take affront at masculine pronouns. Johnsons concept of gender identity varied over time and in different situations, for the most part, Johnsons personality was not based on wardrobe or makeup choices, even during the times when Johnson would strongly assert a male identity. Although generous and warm-hearted, Marsha also experienced bouts of mental illness, Johnson struggled with homelessness, drug addiction, and the severe effects of untreated medical conditions including inadequate treatment for AIDS
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Performance Space 122
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Performance Space 122, generally known as P. S. 122, is an arts organization and one of the longest standing venues dedicated to contemporary performance art in New York City. Founded in 1979 in the abandoned Public School 122 building at 150 First Avenue at East 9th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, the former elementary school was abandoned and in disrepair when a group of visual artists began to use the old classrooms for studios. Tim Miller, John Bernd lover, later joined the four in launching PS122 P. S,122 began its presentation history in 1980 with the first Avant-Garde-Arama, a multidisciplinary showcase, and published its first complete calendar of performances, classes and workshops. The first full-length public play or performance presented in P. S,122, in October 1980, was a play by Robin Epstein and Dorothy Cantwells experimental womens theater company, More Fire. Mark Russell was hired as director in 1983 to curate. Russell departed in 2004, a new director, Vallejo Gantner, began in the position with the 2005-2006 season. 122 now boasts two theatres, and presents dance, performance art, music and film and video and it has a professional technical and administrative staff, a national touring program, an active commission program and low-cost rehearsal space
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The Kitchen
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The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Although first intended as a location for the exhibition of art, The Kitchen soon expanded its mission to include other forms of art. In 1974, The Kitchen relocated to a building at the corner of Wooster and Broome Streets in SoHo, in 1987 it moved to its current location. The first music director of The Kitchen was composer Rhys Chatham, the venue became known as a place where many No Wave bands like Glenn Branca, Lydia Lunch and James Chance performed. Jones, David Byrne/Talking Heads, chameckilerner, John Jasperse, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, ETHEL, Chris McIntyre, Sylvie Degiez, Wayne Lopes/CosmicLegends, and Cindy Sherman. Today, The Kitchen focuses on presenting emerging artists, most of whom are local and its facilities include a 155-seat black box performance space and a gallery space for audio and visual exhibitions. The Kitchen presents work in music, dance, performance, video, film, visual art, the Vasulkas, with help from Andy Mannik, opened The Kitchen as a presentation space for video artists on June 15,1971. Later that year, the Vasulkas added music to their programming, the Kitchen continued their eclectic programming at the Mercer Arts Center until the summer of 1973 when they began planning to move to 59 Wooster Street. On August 3,1973, the building housed the Mercer Arts Center collapsed. The 1973-1974 season started in The Kitchen’s new location at the corner of Wooster, during its time on 59 Wooster Street The Kitchen emerged as New York’s premiere avant-garde and experimental arts center. In addition to a space, a gallery and video viewing room were established at this location. The Kitchen moved uptown to 512 West 19th Street to begin the spring 1986 season, the inaugural event series in The Kitchen’s new home was entitled New Ice Nights. The Kitchen remains a space for interdisciplinary and experimental work by focusing its programming on emerging artists, in fall of 2011, after seven years as the Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen, Debra Singer handed over the reins to former ArtForum Editor-in-Chief Tim Griffin. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy flooded The Kitchen with four feet of water from the Hudson River, lumi Tan, one of the museums curators, was named one of the 25 women curators to watch by ArtNet in 2015. In 1971 Hermann Nitsch staged Aktions with bodies of slaughtered animals, charlie Morrow staged Spirit Voices, chanting as shaman with Gordon Mumma saw, Carol Weber, flutes, a tuba ensemble and high intensity soundscapes. In May 1975, Steve Reich and Musicians gave a performance of Work in Progress for 21 musicians, completed and premiered in 1976, the piece became Music for 18 Musicians, now regarded as one of the composers landmark works. In 1979, The Kitchen began its Contemporary Music Series with goal of highlighting connections between different musical genres and styles of composition, noteworthy composers presented during this series include Anthony Braxton, Philip Glass, and Anthony Davis among many others. The series was curated by composer and performer Arto Lindsay
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William Basinski
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William Basinski is an avant-garde composer based in New York City. He is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, Basinski is best known for his four-volume album The Disintegration Loops, constructed from rapidly decaying twenty-year-old tapes of his earlier music. William Basinski was born in 1958 in Houston, Texas, a classically trained clarinetist, he studied jazz saxophone and composition at North Texas State University in the late 1970s. In 1978, inspired by such as Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he began developing his own vocabulary using tape loops. He developed his meditative, melancholy style experimenting with short looped melodies played against themselves creating feedback loops, although created in 1983, it was first released on vinyl in a small edition in 1998 by Carsten Nicolais Raster-Noton label. This was followed by Watermusic, self-released in 2000 on Basinskis 2062 Records, another 2-disc work was Variations, A Movement in Chrome Primitive,1980, it was finally released in 2004 by David Tibet on the Durtro/Die Stadt label. At the time work was created, Basinski was experimenting with compositions for piano. Throughout the 1980s, Basinski created a vast archive of works using tape loop and delay systems, found sounds. He was a member of bands including Gretchen Langheld Ensemble. In 1989, he opened his own space, Arcadia at 118 N. 11th Street. In 2000, he made a film titled Fountain with artists James Elaine, in August and September 2001, he set to work on what would become his most recognizable piece, the four-volume album The Disintegration Loops. The recordings were based on old tape loops which had degraded in quality, while attempting to salvage the recordings in a digital format, the tapes slowly crumbled and left a timestamp history of their demise
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Knitting Factory
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The Knitting Factory is a nightclub that was opened in New York City and that featured eclectic music and entertainment. After opening in 1987, various locations were opened in the United States. The Knitting Factory gave its audience poetry readings, performance art, standup comedy, the Knitting Factory owners distributed some performances to radio stations, and around 1990 starting a radio show and the record label Knitting Factory Works. Later the founders started Knitting Factory Records in 1998 and it was founded by Michael Dorf and Louis Spitzer in 1987. The original location was in Manhattan on Houston Street, almost equidistant between CBGB and The Bottom Line, the venue was meant to be an art gallery with a performance space and cafe, as well as a home for experimental music. Since 1990, the Knitting Factory has sponsored the What is Jazz, Festival, a two-week long event in several locations in New York City. The event became so successful that its name was changed to the New York Jazz Festival, Knitting Factory Records was later founded in 1998. Dorf opened a new location in Los Angeles in 2000 under the parent company of Knitting Factory Entertainment. Jared Hoffman, the founder of Instinct Records, which was acquired by Knitting Factory Entertainment in 2002, in 2006 he oversaw the acquisition of concert promoter Bravo Entertainment and, in 2008, re-branded two of Bravos clubs as Knitting Factory Concert Houses. Knitting Factory Presents then promoted a number of tours throughout the US. In 2007 The Knitting Factory partnered with XM Satellite Radio to record, morgan Margolis took over as CEO in 2008. Hoffman left the company at the end of 2008, in July 2008 the owners announced their move to close the Manhattan location and move to a much smaller space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. At this new venue alternative comedy thrived, with notable comedians gracing the stage including Hannibal Buress, Seth Herzog, Che Bridgett, Dan Ilic. But they changed their minds and reopened the Tribeca location, and continued putting on shows with bands including The Shells, the Cro-Mags, at that time, the New York and Hollywood locations held over 5,000 live performances each year. In July 2009 it was reported that the Los Angeles location was closing, the last show in the Manhattan location however was on July 25,2009, and was an event called Staff Infection in which staff took to the stage and said goodbye to its beloved club. The last band to play KFNY was 12,000 Trees featuring 3 Knit staffers, the new location was set to reopen in the new Brooklyn location in July 2009. On September 9,2009, The Knitting Factory relocated to the space of the Luna Lounge — itself a Manhattan transplant — at 361 Metropolitan Avenue. This location, completely remodeled, is now in operation and has a capacity of about 300, the venue opened with a performance by Les Savy Fav
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David Lynch
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David Keith Lynch is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, and photographer. He has been described by The Guardian as the most important director of this era, allMovie called him the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking, while the success of his films has led to him being labelled the first popular Surrealist. He moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, meanwhile, Lynch embraced the Internet as a medium, producing several web-based shows, such as the animated DumbLand and the surreal sitcom Rabbits. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director and a nomination for best screenplay. He has won Frances César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the countrys top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007. Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are widely considered by critics to be among the greatest films of their respective decades, Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana on January 20,1946. His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Lynchs maternal great-grandparents were Finnish, and had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century. The Lynch family often moved around according to where the USDA assigned Donald and it was here that Lynchs sister Martha was born. The family then moved to Durham, North Carolina, then Boise, Idaho, Lynch found this transitory early life relatively easy to adjust to, noting that he found it fairly easy to meet new friends whenever he started attending a new school. Commenting on much of his life, Lynch has remarked, Alongside his schooling, Lynch joined the Boy Scouts, although he would later note that he only became so I could quit. He rose to the highest rank of Eagle Scout and it was through being an Eagle Scout that he was present with other Boy Scouts outside of the White House at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, which took place on Lynchs birthday in 1961. They had some hopes that in Europe they could train with the expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka at his school. Upon reaching Salzburg, however, they found that he was not available and, Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he stayed with his friend Toby Keeler for a while. He decided to move to the city of Philadelphia and enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, after advice from Jack Fisk and it was here that he began a relationship with a fellow student, Peggy Reavey, and they were married in 1967. The following year, Peggy gave birth to their daughter Jennifer, later describing this situation, Peggy stated that definitely was a reluctant father, but a very loving one. Hey, I was pregnant when we got married, later describing living there, Lynch stated that We lived cheap, but the city was full of fear. A kid was shot to death down the street and we were robbed twice, had windows shot out and a car stolen. The house was first broken into three days after we moved in
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