Rewinding Road: August 2014

30 August 2014

Duo Hulalá Hoopdanse visited Edinburgh Street Festival

from last week before this

27 August 2014

Seventh Music Chakra Race of 2014

14 Pieces which Rode Closer and Closer to my Heart
or just made most rounds

during late summer
almost into autumn

Here's my most important "Runners"
two for each chakra

Crown chakra

1
WHITE MOUNTAIN

driven by Genesis
from Trespass 1970

2
(one) STEP BEYOND

driven by Yes
from Heaven & Earth 2014

Brow /third EYE chakra

3
THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND

music by Michel Legrand
lyrics by Bergman & Bergman

driven by Dusty Springfield
from Dusty in Memphis 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0ZljYnObOI

or in Neil Diamond's version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OohatUzO-gQ

4
ORABIDOO

driven by Mike Oldfield
from Five Miles Out 1982

Throat chakra

5
JUST THE SAME

driven by Gentle Giant
from Free Hand 1975

6
IT DOES NOT ROCK [FUCKING HARPIST]

driven by Ursula Burns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3HlLh1ZJU4

Heart chakra

7
SUPER TROUPER

driven by ABBA
from Super Trouper 1980

or by Camera Obscura, a scottish cover

8
YOU BRING OUT THE BEST IN ME

composed by B. Findon, M. Myers

driven by Carola
from Främling [Stranger] 1983

Solar Plexus chakra

9
JAG SAKNAR DEJ

körd av Ulf Lundell
från I Ett Vinterland 2000

eller i fin version av Frida Andersson 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIHWsXB3k1U

10
EPITAPH including MARCH FOR NO REASON and TOMORROW AND TOMORROW

driven by King Crimson
from In The Court of The Crimson King 1969

Sex chakra /Sacred chakra

11
PAMELA JO

driven by Donovan
from Barabajagal 1969

12
MRS. JONES (Your baby's growing up)

driven by Badfinger
Bonus track from Magic Christian Music 1970

Root chakra

13
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

driven by Tom Waits
from Swordfishtrombones 1983

14
MÅNSKUGGA = swedish version of MOON SHADOW
(om jag mister mina ben /if I ever lose my legs)

composed by Cat Stevens
driven by Lill Lindfors
from Kom Igen! 1973

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18 August 2014

Going Round in GLASGOW (glimpses of)

17 August 2014

seVen seen : for Spice of Space they Run in Silence, not so Alone After All

8:th tower of 2014

my Recent (Re)discoveries
among quite classic Movies and Series

with stars from 1 to 7

Crown chakra

DUNE

by David Lynch, USA 1984
based on Frank Herbert 1965

not the very first version
[Jodorowsky made one]
but the only official movie

Finally I managed to repeat whole
[the characters should've been presented in the beginning
as that perfect portrait gallery in the credits afterwards]
...got easier when they got to the planet;
found the film more fantastic than expected

5 stars

Roles who impressed me most

1. BARON VLADIMIR HARKONNEN (Kenneth McMillan)

2. REVEREND MOTHER HELEN MOHIAM (Sian Phillips)

3. STING (Feyd Rautha)

4. PAUL ATREIDES (Kyle MacLachlan)

5. SHADOUT MAPES (Linda Hunt)

6. PITER DE VRIES (Brad Dourif)

7. ALIA (Alicia Witt)

Brow /third EYE chakra

["SAYAT NOVA"] THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES

by Sergei Parajanov
Soviet Union 1968
based on armenian poems by Sayat Nova

4 stars

Roles who impressed me most

NO ONE, JUST THE PICTURES AND SYMBOLS

Throat chakra

BLACK-ADDER
season one
and a bit of two

by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, UK 1983
by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, UK 1986

6 stars

Roles who impressed me most

1. QUEEN ELIZABETH I (Miranda Richardson)

2. EDMUND, DUKE OF EDINBURGH (Rowan Atkinson)

3. PERCY (Tim McInnerny)

4. KING RICHARD IV (Brian Blessed)

Heart chakra

SILENT RUNNING

directed by Douglas Trumbull
written by Steven Bochco, Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn
USA 1972

4 stars

Roles who impressed me most

1. FREEMAN LOWELL (Bruce Dern)

2. DRONE 1 + DRONE 2

Solar Plexus chakra

MARATHON MAN

based on William Goldman
by John Schlesinger, USA 1976

5 stars

Roles who impressed me most

1. JANEWAY (William Devane)

2. ELSA (Marthe Keller)

3. DOC (Roy Scheider)

4. BABE (Dustin Hoffman)

Sex chakra /Sacred chakra

FLASHDANCE

by Adrian Lyne
USA 1983

6 stars

Roles who impressed me most

1. ALEX OWENS (Jennifer Beals)

2. HEELS (Durga McBroom)

3. RICHIE BLAZIK (Kyle T. Heffner)

4. NICK HURLEY (Michael Nouri)

Root chakra

THE QUIET EARTH

based on Craig Harrison
by Geoff Murphy, NEW ZEALAND 1985

5 stars

Roles who impressed me most

1. JOANNE (Alison Routledge)

2. ZAC (Bruno Lawrence)

3. API (Pete Smith)

Below and Above everyone

Very First Episodes of some British Television Series, like

DR. WHO
1963

PADDINGTON BEAR
1976

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
1977

BENNY HILL
1980

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14 August 2014

Man On The Rocks by Mike Oldfield

And now the old master has done a pure rock-pop record.

Even though the compositions slowly gets alot better and better (taken as songs) I still have a hard time comprehend this being an Oldfield creation. Even harder so since a guy, Luke Spiller, sings every tune - no female at all.

The product sounds as something between a Queen, McCartney, U2 and Scorpions album, with some glimpses of Zeppelin, and everyone else.

OK, most classic Oldfield ingredients can still be traced, and it's really nice to hear they're not dead. Nevertheless I can't as usual give his (or their) instrumentations my fullest admiration. That would be easy in a longer piece of Oldfield, especially his super-inventive hour of AMAROK.

Man On The Rocks works on a more collective ground of arena rock (seldom my highest interest). Maybe it's simply because Mike focus so well on guitar playing this time... that I just miss some tubular bells and rythmic extravagance.

Hard to find something ground-breaking here. Even climbs close to the edge to boredom... Anyway the music's too powerful and beautiful to fall - stands tall.

as my Summer Album 14 : 68

most Soulful song: DREAMING IN THE WIND

most Mysterious song: CASTAWAY

most Amusing song: SAILING

most Beautiful song: FOLLOWING THE ANGELS (down)

most Strong song: MAN ON THE ROCKS

most Sexy song: NUCLEAR

most Grounded song: IRENE

Overall Album

7 compositions

3 instrumentations

6 feeling

3 lyrics

4 synchronization + variation

5 concept (titles, cover)

3 historical importance

= 31

I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 7 x 7 = 49 never exist(?)

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12 August 2014

42 favourite songs from -83

Sometimes wonder if any period can come more far away from my music taste than 1983...? However there's still enough of splendid pieces to fill a whole castle - at least of sand.

(in this list I don't count the many swedish songs I've also heard, just those in english)

1

OLYMPIA
Jon Anderson

2

MOONLIGHT SHADOW
Mike Oldfield feat. Maggie Reilly

3

MAD WORLD
Tears For Fears

4

(KEEP FEELING) FASCINATION
The Human League

5

FLASHDANCE... WHAT A FEELING!
Irene Cara

6

UPTOWN GIRL
Billy Joel

7

SECRET MESSAGES
Electric Light Orchestra

8

LOVE ISN'T LOVE... [STRANGER = FRÄMLING]
Carola

9

SWEET DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS)
Eurythmics

10

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART
Bonnie Tyler

11

THE HEAT IS ON
Agnetha Fältskog

12

KARMA CHAMELEON
Culture Club

13

ONLY YOU
The Flying Pickets [cover of Yazoo]

14

ROCKIN' GIRLS
Sparks

15

ROCK THIS TOWN
Stray Cats

16

GARDEN PARTY
Marillion

17

THE SPELL
Jon Anderson

18

(AIN'T NOTHING GONNA) BREAK MY STRIDE
Matthew Wilder

19

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY
U2

20

AVERAGE PERSON
Paul McCartney

21

LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE
Paul Young

22

TO LOVE
Agnetha Fältskog

23

TIME AFTER TIME
Cyndi Lauper

24

COLD AS CHRISTMAS (IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR)
Elton John

25

PILGRIMAGE
R.E.M.

26

TAKING IT ALL TOO HARD
Genesis

27

WHISPERS OF THE NORTH
Gordon Lightfoot

28

IN A BIG COUNTRY
Big Country

29

OKINAWA
Indochine

30

NOBODY'S DIARY
Yazoo [Alison Moyet]

31

YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE
Phil Collins [cover of Supreems]

32

MOTHER
Police

33

SUFFER THE CHILDREN
Tears For Fears

34

MORE THAN A PARTY
Depeche Mode

35

I TAKE THE DICE
Duran Duran

36

SIXTY SHELLS ON A THIRTY-OUGHT-SIX
Tom Waits

37

DANGER AHEAD (the endless summer is dead)
Electric Light Orchestra

38

ROMEO
Donna Summer, from Flashdance

39

RED RED WINE
UB 40 [cover of Neil Diamond]

40

FEELS LIKE HEAVEN
Fiction Factory

41

THE SINKING FEELING
The The

42

CENTRE OF ETERNITY
Ozzy Osbourne

Probably will present 41 more songs soon...

Recalled many memories from around 1983 during last months, a time when I started school and yet knew nothing about the contemporay culture, but began to be conscious about something outside there, the pop phenomenon...

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