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Good Iver, Yoko Ono and Flaming Lips join forces

The project – collaboration of the year

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips has revealed that they are working on an LP, for the creation of which he will collaborate with Bon Iver and Yoko Ono.

Besides these, on the album that will be released in April, artists such as Nick Cave will appear, η I$ha, Lykke Li and Erykah Badu.

Coyne confirmed that he has already finished recording with Cave and the Plastic Ono Band for this record, while Justin Vernon of Bon Iver has accepted to be part of the project and is expected to participate with two tracks.

Speaking of the rest of the artists who will collaborate, the Flaming Lips singer stated:

"Everything happened within two days. You think of these partnerships in your head and immediately start making them a reality. Sometimes it's enough to just get in touch".

Coyne spoke highly of Ke$ha, whom he hopes to convince to do a "weird rap" on the record, but describing her as "very strange".


Source : newsbeast.gr
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THEATER : Why I Killed My Best Friend In 104 Speech and Art Center

The 104 Speech and Art Center of Kastaniotis publications presents the performance "Why I killed my best friend"based on the novel of the same name by Amanda Michalopoulou.
It is the story of the episodic relationship between two girls, which meet at 9 in the years shortly after the post-colonial period.
In the years that follow, Anna and Maria grow and are shaped through relationships, persons, events, political ideals, worlds and theories
 
Their suffocating relationship intertwines with the intense political life and traces a bizarre journey into the recent past of Greek reality.
How much will they manage?’ endure for the sake of the past and nostalgia;
theatrical adaptation: Vasya Attarian, Sophia Galanaki
final text formatting: the troupe
Direction: Vasya Attarian
Music: Baby Teacher
Motion editing: Elena Gerodimou
Scenery: Guy Stefanou
Suits: Alexia Chrysochoidou- Stella Panagopoulos
Lighting: Sakis Birbilis
Video: Tasos Coffee - Dimitris Tsatsoulis
Assistant directors: Sofia Galanaki, Ioanna Papakonstantinou
Performance Photos: Eftychia Vlachos
Program Design: Paulina Zahra
Actors play: Panagiotis Katsolis, Nancy Buckley, Stella Nouli
Source : culturenow.gr
The Artist, Oscar

The nominations for the Oscars are announced today

At 26 February the awards ceremony
The films that will claim a golden statuette on 26 February at the Kodak Theater are expected to be announced today, with stakes falling for 'The Artist' and 'Descendants' topping Golden Globes.

In fact, "The Artist" has not stopped collecting awards and nominations since then, at the British BAFTAs, the American Producers Guild and the London Critics Association.

George Clooney and Meryl Streep, also distinguished at the Golden Globes, are also considered "certain" for nominations.

Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" films are also expected to receive nominations, "War Horse" by Steven Spielberg, Tate Taylor's The Handmaids and Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.

The awards will be presented on 26 February once again hosted by actor Billy Crystal.

Source : newsbeast.gr
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Funk master Milo Z at Half Note Jazz Club

Half Note Jazz Club presents the favorite of the Greek audience Milo Z for five jazz-funk nights from Thursday 26th to Sunday 30 January 2012.
Metro of funk not only in New York but also in Athens – since Milo Z and his explosive group, through regular visits to the Half Note Jazz Club, has built a situation that has its own cult current and fanatical audience. Jazz funk, hip hop, and groovy dance and soul rhythms dominate the group's musical presence and the jazz thing and street beat are in all their glory.
 Milo Z creates music for young people – and always young – combining good old Sly soul and funk & The Family Stone, of War, of Kool & The Gang and Parliament-Funkadelic with pure avant-rock influences and connections, within a completely modern context that fully responds to the dance call of the times, influenced by the sounds of Prince and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Guitar and psychedelic mixes, with dynamics a la Zappa complement a hot atmosphere consisting of frenzied funk, sensual jazz and dynamic rock. Milo Z has reached the top of the modern jazz-funk-rap show and he proves it in his natural space: the scene...
Milo Z: voice
Joe Copeland: bass
Emilio Tostado: guitar
David Melton: keys
Sylvester Onyejiaka: saxophone
Todd Gaynor: alto saxophone
Christopher Raymond: trumpet
Source : culturenow.gr
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The Academy of Milan's Scala at the Theocharakis Foundation

His official collaborationFoundation B. & M. Theocharakiswith the famousMilan staircasecontinues for the second year in a row 3 concerts of its starsAcademy of Milan's Scalawith soloist and piano, which include important moments of the opera. This year, each concert presents the best excerpts from two popular operas by great Italian composers whose works form the basis of the repertoire of all Opera theaters and of course the leading, of the Scala of Milan.
 New great voices take us on a journey to the magical land of lyrical song.

26/1/2012 – Puccini(Boehm, Tosca)
16/2/2012 – Rossini(The Barber of Seville, Cinderella)
5/4/2012 – Verdi (Traviata, Rigoletto)

Source : culturenow.gr
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Smyrna. The Destruction of a cosmopolitan city 1900-1922: Exhibition at the Benaki Museum

The Benaki Museum presents the exhibition "Smyrna. The Destruction of a cosmopolitan city 1900-1922 "which will last from 25 January to 26 February 2012.
Director and curator Maria Iliou and historical consultant Alexandros Kitroev, who had presented the 2007 at the Benaki Museum the exhibition The Journey, the Greek Dream in America, after 4 years of research, present their work on Izmir with unknown visual material from archives of America and Europe.
The special importance of the historical documentary and the exhibition is not limited to the unknown images from Smyrna but also to the new look that the two collaborators present in the historical events.. A look that distances itself from both an overly nationalistic narrative and newer attempts to conceal the tragic events of the catastrophe, distorting the truth.
Through this work, the cosmopolitan Smyrna par’ all that was destroyed, continues to exist.
It is still an idea that has to do with cosmopolitanism, the joy of life but also destruction.
Ninety years after the disaster, the documentary and the photo exhibition honor the lost world 1922, but also at the same time, the science of history.
The documentary and the photo exhibition of the same name are documented with rare photographic and cinematographic material collected from American and European archives..
For the first time, unknown images of Izmir are published from private collections such as that of Pierre De Gigord and from the archives of the Library of Congress, of Princeton and Harvard University, του Near East Relief, of the Imperial War Museum, of Pathe and other institutions in Greece and abroad.
The documentary of the same name will be screened at the Amphitheater (Koumbari 1) during the exhibition.
Source : culturenow.gr
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Etta James "left", the velvety voice of jazz

Etta James is not as famous as Aretha Franklin, or Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, at least to the general public. Those who love jazz though, they know the day he passed away in old age 73 years old a true musical legend.  Her best known song and her biggest success is At Last , known in America as the "first dance song" as it is probably the most popular song for newlyweds to dance to at their wedding.

 The singer had been suffering from leukemia for many years, but also other diseases.   Known by the nickname 'Miss Peaches' she lived a rich life with many ups and downs. During her sixty-year career, she became addicted to heroin, opened concerts for the Rolling Stones, He won six Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

 Start it 1950 with a band she founded called Peaches, she was found by singer Johnny Otis who led her to a certain style of singing that took off her career.   By the end of the 70s her career had lost its luster but she managed to pick it up with tracks like “I’d Rather Go Blind,” which Rod Stewart also covered.  He was a master at combining many styles and switching from one style to another: R&B, soul, jazz and blues, there was nothing James couldn't sing.

Source : protothema.gr