13. august 2016 arkiv

Til lykke Fidel – 90 år

13. august 2016

Den tidliger præsident i Cuba (1959-2008) Fidel Castro runder de 90 år i dag. Han er stadigvæk aktiv som formand for landets kommunistiske parti.

Renlivet country: Kelsey Waldon

13. august 2016

I’ve got a way hedder Kelsey Waldons plade, og den lyder grangiveligt som noget, der kunne være blevet indspillet tilbage i tresserne eller halvfjerdserne. Nøgen, akustisk country af samme aftapning, som den man kunne høre fra en ung Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn eller en lang række mandlige kunstnere (helt tilbage til Hank Williams). Musik, man ikke var klar over, man savnede i dagens lydbillede, men altså…

 

Cyrus Erie – amerikansk britpop anno 1967

13. august 2016

V skriver 1967. Bandet Cyrus Erie dannes. Eric Carmen (senere: Raspberries) kommer til, og det samme gør guitaristen Wally Bryson. Og bandet får lokal succes om kopiband, der bl.a. spiller Small Faces og The Who. Inspirationen spores tydeligt på gruppens singleplade “Sparrow”/”Get the message”. Især på B-siden, der med lidt god vilje lyder som et outtake fra tresserbeatens produktioner.

Lidt visdom fra en gammel politiker

13. august 2016

“But since we have invented a consumer society, the economy must constantly grow. If it fails to increase, it’s a tragedy. We have invented a mountain of superfluous needs. Shopping for new, discarding the old… that’s a waste of our lives! When I buy something, when you buy something, you’re not paying money for it. You’re paying with the hours of life you had to spend earning that money. The difference is that life is one thing money can’t buy.”

“Our civilization has reached a phase where we need a planetary consensus, and we are looking away from it. We are blinded by chauvinism and by the thirst for domination, especially the most powerful countries. They should be setting an example! It is shameful that for 25 years, since the Kyoto Accords, we are still dragging our feet to take basic measures. It is shameful. Man may very well be the only animal capable of self-destruction.”

(Jose Mujica, ex-præsident i Uruguay)