Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

Who - Five O'Clock Heroes feat. Agyness Deyn

Jayne County - Season of the Bitch

Download season_of_the_bitch.wma

This comes to you from Michael James O'Brien and Zoltan who love Jayne County.

Later,

Diane

Tetine's new album on Soul Jazz Records - april 28th release date

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Thought that you might enjoy this.

http://www.myspace.com/tetine

Later,

Diane

Ania Chorabik, singer, song writer, model and artist

Dear Shaded Viewers,

The next issue of ZOO magazine is the music issue. I of course wanted to interview Ania. Visit her myspace page and listen to Miss Monroe and the other selections while you read through this piece.

Ania Chorabik's photo taken by Marco dos Santos

DP: Which came first, the modeling or the singing or the art?

AC: I would have to say art in combination with the fascination of music. Like most artists would say, it all began as a child. I was one of those children who loved to draw on walls and make sculptures out of everything around me. I once sculpted "a new universe" out of aluminum foil. It was cool. So ever since my hands never stopped moving…
As for music it has been my fuel through life. I have an uncontrollable talent of learning all lyrics to any song I learn really fast so it all started with miming until I asked myself "why don't I just release the sound?" so I did and started recording in 2004.
Modeling came as an unexpected bullet and changed my world when I was discovered on the subway in Stockholm in 1999. Two years later, after I graduated high school, I did it full time and that move certainly opened many new doors as I found myself on the streets of New York and Paris under serious artistic influence by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.

DP: What were your major music influences growing up? Can you draw upon any incidents in your life that were directly linked to a piece of music?

AC: My first real influence with music came through what was played in my home – pure 60s hits; The Lovin Spoonful, The Drifters, The Temptations, Herman's Hermits etc. I loved those songs and knew all the lyrics by heart even though I didn't even speak English back then. Then came the obsession with Michael Jackson and this because of a boy I was in love with that could dance like him so I urgently had to buy "Dangerous" and was caught up in the game of singing and dancing. Those performances kicked ass, I still have some videos! I should put them on Youtube!
My teenage years were strongly influenced by the strange mix of Nirvana and No Doubt. I thought Nirvana was so real and No Doubt so cool. I still do to this day.
Since I hung out with so many different people and different cultures and different music tastes I was influenced by- and open to everything from rock, rap, pop, classical, R&B and electronic tunes.
After seeing Daft Punk and later on Peaches live I became fascinated with electronic music. I thought it was cool and cocky and a different approach. I love 80s music as well so in 2004 I started recording music with a Swedish producer and together we did just that: electro with a touch of 80s pop. I also adore Vanessa Paradis; I've been in love with her since I first saw her on mtv.
It was love at first sight and I wished with all my heart I could be like her!
So she kind of inspired me as well...

DP: Who are your music icons and how did they affect the music that you create?
AC: Basically strong rebel women that don't give a shit and spit and say fuck but remain true and stay real. Women that will not be controlled by anyone and do as they please. Joan Jett, Madonna, Gwen Stefani in No Doubt, Peaches, Grace Jones, Patti Smith. As well as heavy legends: Michael Jackson, Nirvana and Joy Division._
DP: Are you the composer as well as the singer?
AC: Yes I write all lyrics myself, which I really enjoy. Somehow the words just flow out and I just sit back and watch. I think it comes so easily because I've been writing poems and kept a diary since I was very young. Writing is gold and letters are diamonds.

photo by Marco dos Santos

DP: Can you speak about the other musicians that play with you? How did you find them and how do you work together?

AC: I started working with a Swedish producer and we did many songs together. He's a very talented man and it really warmed me up and gave me the confidence to record and perform. Now I'm taking the time to meet new producers and musicians and everyone seems really enthusiastic about my music, which is an honor and very flattering. I think it's really important to take time to meet the right people to work with, if I am going to release an album I want it to be the best of me.

DP: When was your first performance live and what did that feel like?

AC: My first big live performance was at the club Paris Paris in Paris. It was summer 2006, my friends were there, I was nervous enough to be nonchalantly cool and it was amazing. I was surprised how easy it was and how comfortable it felt. I didn't care about what anyone would think about me, I just cared about my music. I was walking around the club, dancing, jumping, rolling, crawling and digging the music, spreading the vibrations to the audience and clicking with them. It's one of my nicest most genuine moments of music. There was a French movie director in the audience that told me he was so captivated he wanted to shoot my video. Which he did later for my single in Japan.

The invitation

DP: What was your trip to Tokyo like?

in action

AC: Tokyo was the maddest most powerful trip I've ever made. It was so surreal, I still wonder if it wasn't just a dream. When my manager Vassili and I just started working I told him "Take me to Tokyo pleeeease!" and he said, "I will" I didn't believe it would actually happen…

from Ania's blog post on ASVONF -Bed-diving at Cerulean Tower Hotel

The first time I went was in May last year to record a track for producer/DJShinichi Osawa's upcoming album. There was a lot at stake since I basically had to nail the song right away. But I later found myself signing the contract.

from Ania's blog post on ASVONF Tim, Kato, Vass and Ania, photo of the year!

The second time I went was in August and there was even more pressure as I had to perform for MTV Japan and an audience of 2000 people. Seeing my video being played all around town on all the big screens was so weird I found myself laughing hysterically each time. I even signed my first autographs as an artist! It was a bizarre feeling..._

from Ania's blog post on ASVONF - photo shoot before the concert

DP: How do you think that what you do both with music and art reflects our_times?

AC: I believe in the words "stay true, stay real". I will not be a part of any factory; I will not be molded into "what they want". I will be me. I have my bad sides but I like myself.
In today's stressful, cruel and very superficial world, people need to escape reality and bring back the playful side but also find depth at the same time.
I have a desire to highlight the genius of the simple. The most complex pieces of music and art aren't always the best.I feel that everyone's working, searching and thinking so hard that they maybe forget to look right in front of them. Then again, sometimes I also like to work in codes and not reveal everything to everyone, so only a selected few know what I mean. But that complexion or mystery can also be hidden in the simple things.

Home Made - Ania wore it in Tokyo for a concert

DP: Are you based in Stockholm? Do you think that that has any influence on the music that you create?
AC:I still have a hard time knowing where I am based since I have to move all the time or I'd rot in routine. I want to break free from routine but at the same time I need it to have a balanced life. But yes, I have an apartment in Stockholm and I have my family there. And family comes first. As for music, Stockholm has excellent producers. Recording in Sweden is great, people are very organized and professional, which is what I love when in work. But life wise, my creative soul somehow belongs to Paris. It is in Paris where I have both lost and found my mind and way. So I get my inspiration from elsewhere but sum it all together under organized circumstances in Stockholm.__

Self-portrait

DP: How are things going so far with the music and what is in the works for the future?
AC:As I said, I'm spending a lot of time right now traveling to meet the right people, it's looking good and I'm really eager to get to work on my first album._

DP: Did you meet the producer of your dreams yet?
AC: If Quincy Jones is in, I'm down!
More seriously, I'm meeting some great producers, can't give out any names yet but it's looking good, it might even be hard to choose..._

DP: Any tours coming up, who arranges all of that for you?

Self-portrait

AC: I'll be working on my album before I start touring, but can't wait for that too, I love performing!

DP: Where are your t-shirts sold, where can people buy your music?
AC: As for my hand painted t-shirts, I don't know. I have not yet decided what I'm going to do with them. People really want them but I just say "Hey take off your t-shirt and I'll do it now" but I guess that doesn't really work in the long run. So I'm thinking of doing this exclusive edition in time. Or maybe I'll just use them for a future exhibition. Or perhaps they'll just hang in my closet 'til the day I crumble!
But I am also working with a new Swedish brand called Mouyo where I do all the drawings and paintings that are used as prints on the t-shirts. Mouyo is sold in selected stores in Sweden as well as the chain store Stuk www.stuk.se and on www.mouyo.com
As for music, nothing is officially out yet. Only the track I did in Japan called "Push" which is featured on Shinichi Osawa's album "The One" is in stores and the video is on MTV.
You have to be as patient as I am and wait for what is to come…


AC: My favorite quote is: Life beats down and crushes your soul, and art reminds you that you have one.


Concert photos are by Marco dos Santos.
Ania's management: tvsion, Paris.
www.myspace.com/aniaismissmonroe

Later,

Diane

Hecules & Love Affair - Blind (Hercules Club Mix)

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine + Tuxedomoon - In a manner of speaking

Amy Winehouse Back to Black

I have to laugh, I was walking on the upper west side in New York on A Saturday morning when two guys came up to me calling out Amy Winehouse, they approached and to their great dismay...said...No.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqSKVv6YO8g The quality on this one is pretty bad but worth a click.

My friend Robb Young always calls her my aesthetic protege..if only I had that voice.

Funnily enough I found this on the net tonight.

http://bedouina.typepad.com/about.html

Later,

Diane

Memo From Turner from the 1970 film Performance

Mick Jagger in the psychedelic Borgesian masterpiece by Donald Cammell and Nicolas ROeg

Considered to be the most controversial film of the 60's/70's and the mother lode of imagery that has been mined extensively by MTV over the last several decades. Roeg, Bunuel and Kenneth Anger are considered to be the most plagiarized source for rock video.

The B-52's Quiche Lorraine live + Boccaccio '70 - Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio 3

The B-52's Quiche Lorraine live + Boccaccio '70 - Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio 3

Zoltan Gerliczki, your old friend Anita Ekberg, this is for you.

Nina Hagen - Herman + Nina Hagen & Udo Kier

Siouxsie & the Banshees- Dazzle and 1976 Interview

Gyz la riviere-Martin Cornelis de Waa

Dear Shaded Viewers,

http://www.gyzlariviere.nl/gza/mcdewaal.mp4
VJ/DJ artist, performer , singer in the Netherlands thanks to Klaus van den Berg, I now know who he is.

Multi-disciplinary Artist

Martin Cornelis de Waal (Rotterdam, 1962), after studying at the Christian Social Academy (De IJsselpoort) in Kampen, moves into painting at the Utrecht University for the Arts, but after the study he never touches a paintbrush again. “I thought ‘fuck painting,’ and went ahead and did more of what I really felt like doing. I work according to the Bauhaus method (wherein artists explore creativity in the broadest sense of the word, ed.) I’m a multi-disciplinary artist.”

The search leads to de Waal photographing and alternating between being an art director, costume designer, DJ, VJ, singer/songwriter, choreographer, cosmetician, stylist, model, performer, set designer and director. He directs the Aquarius video for the Party Animals, works together with commercial director Thed Lenssen and makes commercials for Seat and the Rabobank.

In 2001, he breaks through with the photo series Global Citizen, consisting of alienating portraits, through which he explores the boundaries of his personality. De Waal has his lips injected with silicone and has the skin of his forehead filled in. Through computer manipulation, he combines his own face with those of others, resulting in a universal face. This becomes the central theme of the work of de Waal, and in 2006 Torch Gallery exhibits a retrospective of his work. In a previous interview, de Waal comments about his art, “People need something to hold on to, but nothing in life is certain. I gnaw away at that with a never-ending series of reflective images. Moralistic art is positive art. But it’s a struggle to the bitter end.”

De Waal exhibits regularly in The Netherlands and abroad.

www.myspace.com/martincdewaal
www.mcdewaal.com
www.artrotterdam.nl

Jackie Magazine (Jan/Feb 2008)
Written by Nils Adriaans
Translated by Maria Jiménez (nakedsoul.nl)

David Bowie - Life On Mars?

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I was talking to the actress/singer/writer, Cherry Vanilla yesterday which made me think of David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust days.

Directed By Mick Rock
July 1973

Later,

Diane

Lucinda Williams - Metal Firecracker

Tom Waits : God's Away on business

Caetano Veloso - Fale com Ela - Talk to Her + Olhos nos Olhos - Chico Buarque

Caetano Veloso singing "Cucurrucucu Paloma". Movie Talk to Her, de Pedro Almodovar.

I am working on a piece on Maria de Medeiros for ZOO's music issue and aside from listening to her album A Little More Blue, I've been enjoying listening to the musicians that have influenced the way she sees the world.

Olhos nos Olhos - Chico Buarque

Later,

Diane

sigur ros - staralfur

TRENTEMOLLER LIVE (Snowflake) @ REPLAY:FREEPLAY

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I was speaking with Henrik Vibskov last night for the next issue of ZOO Magazine about his favorite TRENTEMOLLER piece and thought that I would play it for you.

Alessio Bertallot presents Trentemøller Live in Concert: the first ever tour performing tracks from the album "The Last Resort"

Unfortunately Henrik is not the one playing the drums on this video. If you are living in Holland and want to see Henrik on drums..Trentemoller plays at the Paradiso on the 10th and the following day in Rotterdam.

Later,

Diane

Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla/Með Blóðnasir Live @ Jools Holland

Sigur Rós playing Hoppípolla/Með Blóðnasir live on Jools Holland show 11th November 2005 from the album called Takk...

Loves legend of existence-3055 by Olafur Arnalds live in Hafnarhuisio, Reykjavik

http://www.myspace.com/olafurarnalds

Debut album "Eulogy For Evolution" available on Progression.is and ErasedTapes.com

Because a day without Dolly Parton singing Elvis Presley is not a world I want to live in. By Glenn Belverio

Dolly singing Elvis

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Diane is in town and I am scrambling around my East Village aerie getting ready for the party I am throwing for her tonight. The Champagne is chilling and I must get started on my homemade guacamole (with lots of tomatillos) and radis farcis au chevre. Dolly and Elvis are playing in the background. I hope it doesn't rain so my guests won't arrive soggy.

Love,

Glenn Belverio

Patti Smith - Because The Night

Enter Patti's world at the Fondation Cartier, opens today.

Later,

Diane

Trentemøller - Moan (live)

Henrik Vibskov with Trentemoller

Henrik Vibskov with Trentemoller

Trentemoller - The last Resort-Moan and Miss You

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Henrik in Paris, March 2008

I'm writing a piece on Henrik Vibskov for the music issue of ZOO, he plays the drums for Trentemoller and has been touring the world with them. In fact, he's been playing the drums since he was ten. He surprised the guests at his first Paris men's show by playing his drums as the music for his show. His oversized cut out frogs hanging from above him like some kind of surrealistic mobile.

trentemoller the last resort

Trentemøller - Take Me Into Your Skin

Trentemoller - Moan

Trentemøller: The Very Last Resort

trentemøller live @ exit festival 007

Trentemoller - Miss You

Later,

Diane

Adrien Brody Is Bringing Sexy Back!!

I totally enjoyed him in Darjeeling Limited and still kick myself for not going to the Paris avant premiere....

Later,

Diane

THROBBING GRISTLE in Berlin 31.12.2005-Derek Jarman & leigh Bowey

THROBBING GRISTLE in Berlin 31.12.2005

My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose - Jubilee (1977) Derek Jarman

Leigh Bowery on The Clothes Show

Later,

Diane

Maria de Medeiros sings

The Saddest Music in the World Song is You Guy Maddin Musical Maria de Medeiros Ross McMillan Mark McKinney

Sentimental de Chico Buarque

Recorded le 19th januarY 2007 at the Centre Culturel Galouste Gulbenkian Paris...Maria de Medeiros sentimental Chico Buarque salmon emek carneiro music samba bossanova riparo

Maria de Medeiros awarded UNESCO Artist for peace

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Difficult decision tonight because, on the one hand Maria de Medeiros was being awarded the UNESCO Artist for Peace and it was the first time that UNESCO ever designated a Portuguese national as an "Artiste de l'UNESCO. Maria gave a 90 minute concert after and at the same time Waris is in town for the screening of The Darjeeling Limited and I was looking forward to seeing him and meeting Wes Anderson. But, I could only be one place and not two. Why did they both have to fall on the exact day at the exact time?

The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, Maria and the Director-General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura.

Maria de Medeiros

Along with the beautiful voice of Maria, her musicians: Pascal Salmon on piano, Edmundo Carneiro, percussionist from Brazil, Emek Evci were all amazing.

I cannot tell from the back of his head if Maria is speaking with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho or the head of the Portuguese bank, I'm speaking with Maria's husband, Agusti Camps.

There was a reception after and everyone was asking Maria to sign their programs. I loved this woman, she went once, Maria signed it and then....she was back again for her friend.

All photos by Sergei Pescei

Later,

Diane

Maria de Medeiros by Nan Goldin in The New York Times today

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http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/20080316_NANGOLDIN_FEATURE/index.htm

There will be a ceremony tomorrow night at UNESCO designating Maria de Medeiros as an artist of UNESCO for peace. A concert will follow after the ceremony. It was a pleasure to see Maria today in the Magazine of the New York Times and it will be even better to hear her perform tomorrow night after the ceremony.

Later,

Diane

Click the link and enjoy Klaus Nomi.

Academia - Sia - Mikhail - Hooverphonic- I AM X - Loredana from Romanis

Mikhail Karikis - a sound artist from London (PhD in researching the human voice)

http://www.myspace.com/mikhailmusic

Hooverphonic - Mad about you

Sia Furler was born in South Australia.

IAMX - "Missile"

http://www.loredana.ro/
Loredana from Romania

Thanks to Dragos Olea for the suggestions.

Lineas Albies-SILVER APPLES + Líneas Albiés + Pier + Tubullar balls en *LE COOL* por Nino Rabo - NO TE LOS PIERDAS!!!

Dear SHaded Viewers,

I met Marietta Vazquez in Madrid years ago. The other day a yellow vinyl arrived chez moi.
http://www.myspace.com/lineasalbies

GORGEOUS YELLOW SPLIT 10" The Sixteens (USA) + Líneas Albiés (SPAIN)

PRICES. 8€ y para las tiendas-stores 6'50€ - distros 5€
(ASK US HERE or email. lineas(at)lineasalbies(dot)com) or email. lineas(arroba)lineasalbies(punto)com

If the MOLES had invaded your brain and the CHUBS inhabit between your toes, you won't resist the mesmerizing power of the darkest side of planet Hoth's best beach band: *THE SIXSTEENS* Emily the Strange's favorite band, according to "I hate the sunshine" magazine. Tons and tons of synthesizers (worth of Martin Rev) and bad manners, just to remind you that the world isn´t nice, but you can have a good time. *LÍNEAS ALBIÉS* prodigal sons of the most psychotic and esquizoid afterpunk. Perfect to dance under the influence of the lisergic moon of planet MONGOLOID

Group members: Pablo Pómez, Marieta Rabieta and El Tercer Hombre, Federex

Later,

Diane

Mina Taratatà (1966) and Rita Pavone - Rita Pavone "Questo nostro amore" 1967

Beautiful song, soundtrack of 1967 film "Non stuzzicate la zanzara" directed by Lina Wertmuller where Rita dedicates it to a young Giancarlo Giannini.

"Première" in Mina's Tv show "Sabato Sera", 1967.

Thanks to Alan Rosenberg for suggesting that I check out his favorites on youtube.com.

Steve Olson at the Hoorsen Buhs Foundry
And I just found this of my friend Steve Olson at work.

Later,

Diane

"El Taxidermista" de Lineas Albies en Radio 3

Week of 14th - 18th El Taxidermista de Lineas Albies en Radio 3 siglo XXI

Chez Costas Argiriou and last night in Athens

Dear Shaded Viewers,

For my last night in Athens, our music master, Costas Argiriou invited Antoine Asseraf and I to his home for dinner with our friends from Athens. In the course of the evening he introduced us to the amazing work of Clara Rockmore (theremin) and Alvin Lucier (brain amplifier)

Clara Rockmore

"In the mid 1930's, Leon Theremin built two custom instruments: one for his patroness Lucie Bigelow Rosen, and another similar one for Clara Rockmore. These instruments were more elaborate than the RCA theremins and had, among other things, several different timbre settings. Thereminist Howard Mossman, who has been a tireless supporter and promoter of the theremin for longer than most of us have been alive. It's an amazing instrument and if you are curious, please visit http://www.peterpringle.com/customtheremin.html to learn more. Costas just bought the instrument and is learning how to play it.

Alvin Lucier

"Alvin Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers' physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. His recent works include a series of sound installations and works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra in which, by means of close tunings with pure tones, sound waves are caused to spin through space."

audio vision of my voice

Costas is working on the soundtrack for the making of the festival d'Hyeres 2007, he also created the original soundtrack for the festival d'Hyeres 2006.

Costas Argiriou at home and last look at my room at the Athens Hilton, which I must say is far superior than any other Hilton I've ever stayed in.

Later,

Diane

WHITE SOUL At home with Philippe Cohen Solal and Prisca Lobjoy

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Philipe Cohen Solal, Luna and Prisca Lobjoy at home

On the 29th of October The Moonshine Sessions $olal Presents will be released. Today I went to visit Philippe Cohen Solal (Gotan Project) and his wife, the filmmaker, Prisca Lobjoy. I guess you can say that we are old friends. Luna, their daughter, pictured in the middle, was a baby the last time that I saw her. I remember the beautiful announcement of her birth. Today is her 15th birthday. Philippe toured extensively with Gotan Project. He is currently planning the world tour of Moonshine Sessions. One day a week ago or so I received a link to Luna, Moonshine Sessions and was so delighted that I could not stop playing it. More about our visit later.

"It was to Nashville that the native Parisian travelled with his guitar to exorcise his personal demons, he found a haven in the legendary Three Trees Studio Tennessee where under the influence of Moonshine and in the company of Bucky Baxter's trusted friends and musicians he completed his new album."

Philippe Cohen Solal

I might add that Bucky Baxter played assorted guitars (steel, slide, dobro, etc.) with Bob Dylan to give Dylan's band a softer, more country like sound. Bucky Baxter felt like Moonshine Sessions, both the album and the film, were blessed from above. I think he's right.

YOU CAN WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO "LUNA'S SONG":
http://www.moonshinesessions.com/LunasSong.mov

The album was recorded in Nashville with the best blue grass musicians Philippe could find. The single Luna was named after their daughter, and Prisca made the video that I am just about to pop into my DVD.

Later,

Diane

Henrik Vibskov on tour

http://www.thefreshpage.com/blogimages/trentemoller1534.avi

SAN FrANcisco vibs midway b-day song plus thank you , i am a libra ...kiss vvv

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HENRIK VIBSKOV

Henrik on tour in San Francisco October 5th, his birthday.

Download henrik.mov

Moonshine Sessions -Luna's Song

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Philippe Cohen Solal and his wife Prisca Lobjoy were two of the first people that I met when I moved to Paris 17 years ago. Philippe at the time was working for Virgin doing the sound tracks for films and he knows more about music then about 100 people combined. Among other things he is one of the founders of the very popular sound, Gotan Project. Luna is the name of Prisca and Philippe's daughter and Prisca directed the Moonshine Sessions-Luna's song. That is Philippe performing.

YOU CAN WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO "LUNA'S SONG":
http://www.moonshinesessions.com/LunasSong.mov

Later,

Diane