MAN ON WIRE

Hold tightly, beyond the obstacle, only your most wild dreams.







Electric Light Orchestra - Tightrope

MRTH 101: 1970'S DANISH PSYCH AND PROTEST

It is the second installment, in the form of letter with the quartz of George, of the Danish history of rock from the artist Martha Hviid:



MARTHA: ok, so here is the danish 70s, or part of it. the first song is by a rather unknown psych band called Freed. fred in danish (the d is soft, almost like a th-sound in english) means peace, so freed must be something like peeaace, which I find kind of funny. the song is called 'natten solen dagen' which means 'the night, the sun, the day'.



Freed - Natten Solen

the next two songs are by my dad's old band - Jomfru Ane Band. they started out as a political theater troupe located in jomfru ane gade, which is a street in a city called aalborg.

I chose the first song because it always was my favourite when I grew up. 'Leilas kærlighed' means 'Leila's love', and it's basically just a plain love popsong about longing and lust.



Jomfru Ane Band - Lailas Kærlighed

The second song is about a public playground in my new neighbourhood (remember, Nørrebro?). it was build for the children to have something to do, but people didn't treat it well, and vandalism and insanitary surroundings made it fall apart, and the politicians didn't want to do anything about it. I know it sounds like a lame cause, but it was really a big deal because it raised some bigger issues about what the city was turning into.

it was the politicians that didn't want the playground to start out with. they had cleared the area, and this adventure playground (as I think you call it in english) was build, but then the politicians wanted to tear it down and build housing estates instead. the locals wanted to keep it and it ended with the playground being torn down under the protection of 700 policemen(!). apparently a danish achitect came up with the idea about adventure playgrounds which we call byggelegeplads.



Jomfru Ane Band - Balladen om Byggeren

these songs aren't the most famous one's they've done. the top most famous one is about nuclear power and the second one about the political history of the united states and how denmark relates to it. I don't want to send you the last one, because your people get quite the verbal beating there.

so, this was a look into that era.

next I imagine going more into one certain synthy-new wavy-art band that I think you would really like.

furthermore I have a vague idea about giving you a taste of late eighties/ early nineties popsongs which is like plain food without much taste, but when you've had it in your mouth for a while you start to notice all the flavours of the raw produce and find out that what you've thought was flavour so far was really just bulks of spices covering everything up. you'll never want to go back to the spices.

and maybe I should tell you about the eurovision song contest from a danes perspective.

BABY SLOTH SPIRIT

The soft and reserved Baby Sloth Spirit will appear before your strabism and eyes inflated in an holographic bubble chamber of indicator on the inter-dimensional border between the end of this world and the beginning of the next one. Tomita took BRITE of RAINBOW like prisoner and Lolita laid out and led her via Lamborghini with its pyramid of undulation deeply in the Volcano of Time. A party is then thrown, a ceremony where only the strangest habits reign. [Listen]



Baby Sloth Spirit - F L T R M R

The staircases seem glowing in the catacombs with neon while the armour-plated misadventures of Three 6 members of Maffia as they become the crystalline statues and gather the phantom of Walter Carlos with the remainders of the brain of mother. [Listen]



Baby Sloth Spirit - Roller Blade Warriors

The slovos to attach ribbon adhesive-ranges of scandalmongering androïdes of BORN from its glass fibre lips as a its languid and sexy plague members approximately in this rigid way that only the beautiful statues can. With the apex of the night, when all the guests are wet and dreaming of the treat, food, and the sex, the Phantom of the Opera himself appears. [Listen]



Baby Sloth Spirit - Z

He reduces by the teeth out of glass because as a laser in furs, for he is not any other than Vangelis. And the Baby Sloth Spirit pours outside his veins cut out in sections as a red wine in the carpet of cuddly toy. The New Age will now start. [Listen]



Baby Sloth Spirit - Arecibo Observatory

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FOTO MALADE III: BLACK MOSES

Isaac Hayes - Disco Connection









Isaac Hayes - Truck Turner


Duke





Isaac Hayes - Never Can Say Goodbye



(1942 - 2008)

MRTH 101: DANISH PUNK

You were already told of Martha Hviid, the brilliant and good artist friendly of Denmark. Martha is very quite informed about the music rock'n'roll and has to say much to us sonic history of her native soil. The following dialogue was taken of a Martha message sent to the quartz of George. It is the first part of a continuous series.
















SODS - Copenhagen

MARTHA: it's the first danish punk band. I think the song is from 77 or something like that. the singer only has one arm. there's always been a lot of arguing over which band was the the first punk band in denmark, SODS or No Knox. my friends hang out with peter peter who was the guitarist in SODS. I recently saw his new band, they play sort of epic surf mixed with kraut country, if you can imagine that. one of the guys from No Knox is now a soundguy, who I get along with very well. he did the sound when we put up the boredoms and stuff like that.

you should see this, very good glimpse of the danish punk scene:



I'll translate what they're saying.

>>yes, ABBA is and will always be a clean natural product that makes life worth smelling again. isn't that right?

>>there's lots of ways to draw attention to oneself.

>>ah. we're going to get some punk now.

>>yesyesyes, take it easy, you're giving me a crisis. but it's true, we're going to get some punk here in pop 79'. punk music, the simple, raw, clean rock music that brings us back to the 60s, where The Kinks and The Who let go. the genre is british, but we're going to present you to something of a speciality here; a danish punkband.
let us introduce, in punk-cosmorama, Århus' answer to something like everything : LOST KIDS!

-first song

>>that was "coca cola freaks", now we'll play "rådden dig" (rotten you)

-second song

>>punk on danish tv, maybe for the first and the last time.
that was real århusian raw cosiness punk from skolegade or somewhere
around that place in Århus. that was Lost Kids and two of their
numbers "cola freaks" and "rådden dig", Lost Kids under conduction by
Jan Jet.
I've often been asked what raw cosiness really means. raw cosiness in
the the punk version means flogging (that's actually how to translate
the word he uses) down lager in the sewer; us punks, right.
now for the counterpart of punk, the new british pop knights Racy and
their breakthrough song "lay your love on me".



this film was made in the nineties, but is a classic because it's about danish punk. if you can find it anywhere with subtitles I think you would really enjoy it.

for our next class I'm going to tell you about the seventies in denmark. I'll find some danish hippie music and some psych, and I'll tell you about the band my dad was in. they were very famous, and are now part of danish music history because of their political lyrics.

till then..

.m

VIDÉO MALADE III: DOCTOR WHO REGENERATION

First Doctor, played by William Hartnell (1963–1966)


Second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton (1966–1969)


Third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee (1970–1974)


Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker (1974–1981)


Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison (1981–1984)


Sixth Doctor, played by Colin Baker (1984–1986)


Seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy (1987–1989, 1996)


Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann (1996)


Ninth Doctor, played by Christopher Eccleston (2005)


Tenth Doctor, played by David Tennant (2005–)

REVEALED AND UNREVEALED

'Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.' -Oscar Wilde



There are things which one indicates and those which remain hidden. Some do not show anything of themselves, but the more the others indicate, the more one mystery develops.



Calvin Klein

For some it is shocking to see the nudity of another person. The sensuality is primordially and offensive for them. They would prefer to rather hide the human body behind a curtain than so that its beauty is known with all. They maintain this experiment only for moments crowned and deprived behind the closed doors.



Others are masked in a veil of mystery, but the reason is not always clear. Some do not like. Some do not trust others. Some are obligatory behind layers of camouflage. Some appreciate simply the mystery and can exceed reality day labourer in new and magic or spiritual kingdom very their clean. The mask is their language.



We all carry daily masks. We all use costumes. How little us really knows itself. What would occur if we could let fall the frontage and seem naked and the innocent one before another?

Glass Candy - Candy Castle



Please thank the known gifted artist under the name of M, here like micahwave, to bring the vidéos of the kulhanek to us.