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Mark Lanegan returns to Greece

In Athens and Thessaloniki in April

The leading singer of modern Rock'n'Roll, Μark Lanegan, will be located in Athens, along with his band, on Thursday 5 April (Fuzz Live Music Club) for a unique evening full of the magic of a rare and wonderful voice, melancholic and sometimes dark, his music. One day earlier, on Wednesday 4 April, will perform at the Principal Club Theater, in Thessaloniki.

Voice of the legendary Screaming Trees – perhaps the best and, with no doubt, now overlooked band that sprung from the whole grunge stream – Mark Lanegan is, here and 25 (and put) years, one of the most iconic and charming figures of the underground scene.

Gifted with a unique voice – heavy, imposing and, at the same time, soulful and melancholic – he has released some sensational albums during his solo career («The Winding Sheet»/ 1990, «Whiskey For The Holy Ghost» / 1994, «Scraps At Midnight» / 1998, «I’ll Take Care Of You» / 1999, «Field Songs» / 2001, «Bubblegum» / 2004) and has collaborated with some of the greatest names of the modern Rock scene, like Queens Of The Stone Age, or Greg Dulli, η PJ Harvey, οι Masters Of Reality, as well as with Unkle, the Soulsavers and Isobel Campbell.

A few days ago, at 6 February, released his first personal album here and 8 years! 'Blues Funeral' was recorded on behalf of 4AD and is already receiving rave reviews from the entire music press around the world. Lanegan himself stated that his main influences when writing it came from his favorite albums, such as Gun Club's 'Miami' and Joy Division's 'Closer', including.

Source : newsbeast.gr

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Dance me to the end of Greece 1... Foreign Tourists in Greece: Performance at the Benaki Museum

The Benaki Museum presents the show in the Piraeus Street building “Dance me to the end of Greece 1…Foreign Tourists in Greece” which will last from 17/02/2012 until 18/02/2012.

This is the first stage presentation of travel texts signed by famous travelers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The actors of the show participate in a storytelling forum, representation and song through poems by Byron and Satovriandos set to music, while they animate the testimonies of famous travelers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Gustave Flaubert, but also the younger Jacques Lacarriere and Henry Miller.

Direction: Spanou Sunday
Sets-Costumes: Apostolos Vettas- Olympia Sideridou-Martha Fokas
Music: Kostas Bombolos
Photos: Manolis Papadakis
Actors: Eleni Efthymiou, Frosso Zagoreou, Themis Mitropoulos, Antonis Gritsis
Piano: Emilios Politis

As part of the performance, the audience will have the opportunity to navigate the original multimedia application entitled ¨Athens through the eyes of the Tourists: 1719th century”, production of the Benaki Museum, which attempts to reconstruct the portrait of the city in that period, through from 500 works of the Collection of Paintings, Engravings and Drawings, several illustrated editions of the Museum Library, as well as selected texts of various travelers who visited it.

There will be two shows specifically for schools (large Primary classes, Middle School and High School):
Wednesday 15 February, 11.00
Wednesday 29 February, 11.00 18/02/2012.

Source : culturenow.gr

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Adel: The winner of this year's Grammys

Won the award for song of the year with 'Rolling in the Deep'

British soul singer Adele won the Grammy Award for song of the year, with "Rolling in the Deep", for Best Pop Solo Performance, with "Someone Like You" and two other awards at the ceremony held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The ceremony began with emcee El El Cool J offering his condolences to Whitney Houston's family and praying on stage for’ her. Houston's death almost monopolized the talk before the event while it was constantly referenced during it.

Adele receiving the first awards thanked the surgeons who removed a polyp from her vocal cords.

Rock band Foo Fighters were also among the big winners, winning four awards, among them this one for Best Rock Performance with 'Walk'. The leader of the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl, pointed out that their last record was not recorded in a studio, “but in my garage, with some microphones and a cassette player. ..»

This "shows that the human element is important" in music, he added.

The reports in Houston, who was found dead yesterday in a hotel in Los Angeles aged 48 years, they were continuous. Melanie Fiona, which won the award in the R performance category&B with the song "Fool For You" said that the deceased was her source of inspiration. "I wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for you", he said.

Among the rest of the winners - in total 75 categories- it was also Jay Z and Kanye West for the rap song 'Otis', who, however, did not show up to receive their award.

Source : tovima.gr
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Nikos Kalamos: I was trained to play the stink with color

With baggage from his six-year stint next to Stella Adler in New York and what the teacher has said - such as that "the last stage of vanity is success" - Nikos Kalamos is a modern hermit of the theater. The last ones 16 years living in the heart of nature, in Ellanion Oros in Aegina, and is confronted with texts of world literature. The creator of the Theater Nursery of Aegina, where amateurs of all ages and professions are trained, states an apprentice actor, he repairs furniture to secure a living and presents a series of monologues in Athens, after first "trying" them on the island, in a series of paradoxical spaces, such as the auditorium of the Wild Bird and Animal Sanctuary.

I started…
To learn what real theater means next to the great Stella Adler, who together with the Clermans, Strasberg and Kazan founded the Group Theater until McCarthyism stopped them in the 1930s. My studies in New York are the big station of my CV. I first met her in Hollywood in the early 80s, when I was acting in some small theaters with the little English I knew and he asked to see my work – I remember that it was a monologue that Titos Vandis had pointed out to me. And then she told me to come to New York to study text analysis at her studio. I stayed six years with Stella. Yes, she was old and had told reporters not to tell her real age. I met her when she was 93. He died 13 years later. Pass them 100 teacher.

I learned…
To be steely in the face of criticism. Adler criticized us harshly. also, he used to tell us that the last stage of vanity is success. “I want you to make your own group. Don't go to every producer and director" he told us. He hated film directors… Along with studies, I gained access to off and off Broadway theaters. I played you 18 foreign productions in New York and three in Los Angeles.

I'm back…
In Greece the 1990. Five years later I created the Theater Nursery of Aegina. I work with amateurs of all ages and classes. We had a doctor, we have teachers, people working in the Municipality of Aegina, students etc. This gives me my independence – and this I consider to be the success of the craftsman: to be independent of producers. When you have your own team, he chooses the texts he wants and has unlimited time to work. The last work we did at the Nursery was Beckett's 'Catastrophe'. To present a seven-minute play, we worked for six months.

I never forgot…
What Adler told us when she was at the theater to watch the performance of "The Lust Bus" with Marlon Brando. When asked if he has decided how he will play Kowalski, he told her: "Stella, not yet". This means that Brando, until it comes out on the board, he had at least ten options on how to play – notable, he was Stella's student and later they became lovers. Out of generosity, later, brando made up with her daughter.

I directed…
The five monologues that I present at venues such as Topos Allou or the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation. No, I don't hate directors either, I just find that monologues give me a freedom. I take the cassock of the hieromonk and take the works wherever I want.

Consider…
That in the works I present there is what is called "invisible geometry". These are very important texts. Seven years and I didn't understand what "The Woman of Zakythos" by Dionysios Solomos wanted to say. It's a dark one, elliptical work. And the most important comment I got from soloists when I presented it in the past is that I glossed over aspects of it.

Start…
With "The Penultimate of the Monikins" by Pari Takopoulos in Topo Alou. I have presented it in the theater of Giorgos Armenis, at the Edinburgh Festival and two years ago at the London International Festival. I am also presenting "The Woman of Zakythos" at the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation on 29, 30, 31 March and on 1, 2 and 3 April. Subsequently, in early May, I will upload Eric Boghozian's "Drinking in America" ​​to the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation. These are ten short monologues – a hard task, but we have been trained to play stink with color. Now I have found a new friend, the Homer. I upload Rhapsody A’ of "The Odyssey" translated by Dimitris Maronitis at the Kakogiannis Foundation in early June. End, the 2013 I will upload the work of Iros Diamantourou "A night without Sancho", also at the Kakogiannis Foundation. I will present the texts for the first time in the summer in Aegina, in a magnificent amphitheater on Hellanion Oros.

I chose…
To live close to nature, because one becomes more essential in’ her. It demystifies many things. Like death, which is an existential station. Nature is the measure of life and I live in the heart of nature, on a mountain. No man steps here, just no friend. You know, Aegina is a place of hidden people. A lot of serious people live here. It is a small Greece.

Declare…
Apprentice actor. And I don't say that out of modesty. It must be very difficult to be a professional actor in Athens. Because you might be forced to do something that doesn't represent your deepest art, to pay your rent. In order to support myself, I repair old furniture. And that's how I survived in New York. But that satisfies me because I'm doing something with my body.

Believe…
That the Greek is born for the stage. Language is a vehicle for the actor, plus it also has this huge collective memory – all the tribes have passed from this place. Fri.’ I say all this to the actors of Phytorio: "Leave Greece for a while and go live in London or Dublin, which is the best theater in the world, or in New York". I also graduated from the drama school of Vafias in Athens, but it took me three years in America to… to forget,what I had learned. We were playing, remember, with a blunt, we didn't do text analysis and the professors kept their minds on when they were going to get paid. That was their only concern.

Note…
That the world needs new heroes, new standards. Now more than ever. I realize this because I have seen performances in Athens with full houses – Fri.’ the whole crisis. Well, people are looking for something to find. His lost spirituality, perhaps. Bad lies, first we lost something else and then our money.

when and where
"The penultimate of the Monikins" by Pari Takopoulos.
Elsewhere, Cephalonia 17.
At 13, 14, 20, 21 and 28/2, at 9.30 p.m.
Information on tel. 6974 521.213

Source : tovima.gr

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Carmen Souza live at the Half Note Jazz Club

Half Note Jazz Club presents The Great Carmen Souza, a now recognized presence on the world stage, from Wednesday
15 February and for 5 total appearances.

Carmen Souza from Cape Verde, is undeniably a distinct musical presence placed artistically at the "meeting" point of the traditional music of Cabo Verde and world Jazz. Raised in a Creole environment, discovered "Sodade" from a very young age, of the feeling of anticipation and nostalgia for someone or something missing that generations of sailor children carry within them, like her! She started singing in a Gospel choir at a young age and was influenced by musicians such as Luis Morais but also Nina Simone or Billie Holiday.

Portugal's leading bass player Theo Pas'cal, Carmen's producer and mentor who discovered her exuberant talent, it pushed her to listen a lot to the top jazz of Bill Evans, of Hancock, of Miles or Horace Silver and this will play a role in her musical career. Her first record work the 2005 was a huge success, with very interesting material in Creole dialect where the traditional rhythms of Cabo Verde and the mornas, are combined with modern jazz forms and give a completely different dimension to the music of Akrotiri. In the same year, adored by the international press, it will be played at the famous Womad Festival in England and then at all the Festivals in the world. Two more very successful records followed, "Verdade" and "Protegid" which will also be nominated for best world music album 2010.

Souza is now a great voice and force in world music, who has a huge appeal and demand in all the jazz scenes of the world and comes with her quartet to excite us too…

Source : culturenow.gr

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Dead in 48 Whitney Houston

Singer Whitney Houston died yesterday at the age of 48 years in a hotel room in Beverly Hills. Her death may have been due to a drug overdose, since its dependence on substances was known. The police official clarified that there are no indications of criminal activity.

According to the first information, Whitney's dead body, found in the bathtub of her room her bodyguard. The representative of the singer, he stated: "Unfortunately it is true"… The tragic irony is that Whitney died on the eve of the Grammy Awards, wherever it would appear.

Born on 9 Of August 1963 in New Jersey, USA, η Whitney Elizabeth Houston, as was her full name, reigned during the decade 1980-1990. He enchanted the audience with one of the best black voices that have ever passed through the music industry. He had the most successful recipe: very beautiful and great voice. Her talent surpassed that of music with films such as Bodyguard and Waiting to Exhale which were great commercial successes..

Her most successful songs were How will i know, Saving All my Love for You, I wanna dance with somebody, I will always love you but also others later like My Love is Your Love. But from the mid-90s after her long marriage to Bobby Brown - who graced the headlines- entered the vortex of drugs and never managed to escape, despite her efforts in recent years to make a comeback.
 
Dionne Warwick's cousin and Aretha Franklin christening Houston was born into music and traced from a very young age. Unfortunately, her bad choices did not allow her to continue a brilliant musical career.

Her death just 24 hours before the Grammy Awards will surely cast a shadow over the music awards.

Source : protothema.gr

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Made in Britain: Exhibition from the collection of the British Council 1980-2010 at the Benaki Museum

The Benaki Museumpresents the report«Made in Britain» with works from the collection of the BritishCouncil 1980-2010. The exhibition will last from15 February until 22 Apriland theinaugurationwill be held on14 February on 20.00 at night.
TheBritish Council it has one of the most comprehensive collections of contemporary British art in the world. Today in his collection it counts 8500 pieces from more than 1650 British artists.
In the exhibition co-organized byBenaki MuseumandBritish Council, you can get in touch with some of the most beautiful works in this collection, in an exhibition that will span the decades 1980-2010.
The report includes approx 150 works by a wide range of artists, among whomοι Keith Arnatt, Helen Chadwick, Peter Doig, Gilbert & George, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Mark Titchner, Cornelia Parkerand Mark Wallinger.
This meeting of artists so diverse illustrates the breadth and diversity of British art throughout this period. This is a unique opportunity for art lovers who wish to experience up close the creative journey of some of the most prolific contemporary British artists of the last thirty years.
Within this time period covered by the report, the role of art in British society has undergone enormous changes. From Gilbert's Intellectual Depression & George (1980) up to Gary Hume's Sister Troop (2009) the exhibition narrates how art has mapped and recorded these changes – being at the forefront of social change itself.
The last thirty years, modern art has arguably turned its attention to more social issues of British society. This shift in interest in social issues can be partly explained by the arrival of a new, of an enterprising and ambitious generation of artists at the beginning of their decade 1990. These artists are known collectively as YBAs (Young British Artists) and to them belong names like the aforementioned Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, but also Michael Landy and Jake and Dinos Chapman.
Other factors such as the establishment of the Turner Prize the 1984 (the first award established for young contemporary artists in the UK) or the opening of the Tate Modern the 2000, the abolition of the ticket to public galleries and museums 2001, have all contributed to bringing contemporary art closer to a much larger audience – and often to an audience that has no previous experience or knowledge of the visual arts.
During the exhibition there will be educational programs and many events that will start from the opening of the exhibition, at 14 February with the speech of the British artist Mark Titchner.
THEMark Titchner, who has been described as one of the most charismatic British artists of our time, he will come to Greece especially on the occasion of the exhibition at the Benaki Museum and will talk about his work, which he describes as "a dialogue in how each receives thoughts and ideas".
THEMark Titchner was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2006 for his personal exhibition in which he dealt with the tensions between various belief systems, from religion and politics to philosophy and science. As part of the Made in Britain exhibition at the Benaki Museum, his work The Future Demands your Participation is presented.
Source : culturenow.gr