It starts off with some relatively straightforward arpeggios, tensely shifting back and forth between two chords. And then...a kind of beautiful mayhem. Shorts phrases burst to life from all possible angles, stopping briefly for moments of resonance, only to careen off in a different direction. As with most of the music in this series, this is some difficult listening. My [...]

Arto Lindsay Arto Lindsay of legendary no wave group DNA, The Lounge Lizards, and pursuer of an impressive solo career, will be performing material from throughout his career in NYC TONIGHT (11/30) at the New Museum . Tickets for the show ($12 for members, $15 for non-members) are available. Speaking of no wave legends, Lydia Lunch (Teenage Jesus and the Jerks), who played Knitting Factory earlier this month will be playing with her [...]

No Wave , Nueva York , la transición de dos décadas -los años setenta y los ochenta- plasmada en el quehacer artístico marginal de una ciudad peculiarmente decadente en uno de sus malos momentos. Una escena Postpunk que mantenía vínculos muy estrechos con diferentes disciplinas creativas, un hecho que le permitió adoptar su propia personalidad, contrastante si se le compara con su equivalente británico. Y Arto Lindsay estuvo ahí, como protagonista, al frente de una de las bandas más legendarias de ese entonces: D.N.A . Y su legado musical no [...]

No Wave legend and all-around cool dude Arto Lindsay will be performing this evening (8/8) in Union Square as part of the free Summer Nights series which is presented by the Arte Institute . Tonight's program, curated by Sao Paulo, Brazil's Instituto de Cultura Contemporeana-ICC, begins at 8 PM and also features videos by artist Eder Santos and director Cao Guimaraes. More info on tonight's show is here . Arto Lindsay has also been added to the 285 Kent show on Friday (8/10) [...]
Toy Killers - "Away All Pests" MP3/download If you've never been tipped off, Toy Killers are a big deal for many reasons: First, the personnel: Arto Lindsay, Charles K. Noyes, Mark E. Miller, John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Bill Laswell, Wayne ... Continue reading

Leyleğin Geciken Adımı, Ulis'in Bakışı, Sonsuzluk ve Bir Gün, Ağlayan Çayır, Puslu Manzaralar gibi unutulmaz filmlerin yönetmeni Theodoros Angelopoulos bir trafik kazasında hayatını kaybetti. Sanatsal sinemanın ve Yunan sinemasının öncü isimlerinden biri olan Angelopoulos Pire Drapetsona otoyolunda film çekimi esnasında bir Motorsikletin çarpması sonucu ağır yaralandı. Götürüldüğü hastanede yoğun bakıma alınan Angelopoulos bütün müdahalelere rağmen kurtarılamadı. Ölüm insanın içinde tuhaf bir his bırakıyor. İnsan kendine sormadan edemiyor. Yaşamak mı daha zor yoksa Ölmek mi? Modern bireyin yaşama dair ızdırapları, düş kırıklıkları, şiir tadındaki geniş plan çekimler, uzun [...]

Leyleğin Geciken Adımı, Ulis'in Bakışı, Sonsuzluk ve Bir Gün, Ağlayan Çayır, Puslu Manzaralar gibi unutulmaz filmlerin yönetmeni Theodoros Angelopoulos bir trafik kazasında hayatını kaybetti. Sanatsal sinemanın ve Yunan sinemasının öncü isimlerinden biri olan Angelopoulos Pire Drapetsona otoyolunda film çekimi esnasında bir Motorsikletin çarpması sonucu ağır yaralandı. Götürüldüğü hastanede yoğun bakıma alınan Angelopoulos bütün müdahalelere rağmen kurtarılamadı. Ölüm insanın içinde tuhaf bir his bırakıyor. İnsan kendine sormadan edemiyor. Yaşamak mı daha zor yoksa Ölmek mi? Modern bireyin yaşama dair ızdırapları, düş kırıklıkları, şiir tadındaki geniş plan çekimler, uzun [...]

Staycation is over. I couldn't have asked for a better one — somehow both super-productive and super-mellow at once. Super. Anyway, back in the saddle. I realize I've already flaked by skipping the first day of the year (hey, banks are closed too). Let me make it up to you with a get-one-free, baby. If 2012 is going to be a year of apocalyptic undertones — courtesy of both Mayan calendar kitsch and the prospect of a Republican presidency — let the 'blague year begin with this sense of unease. I recently went back [...]

Photo: Hotel Basico. Playa del Carmen. Belated summer / continental nostalgia. Andrew Sisters - Rum & Coca Cola Rum & Coca Cola (1944) Cesaria Evora - Sodade Miss Perfumado (Lusafrica, 1992) Os Mutantes - Bat Macumba Os Mutantes (1968) [...]

PS11 | środa | czwartek | piątek | sobota | niedziela | JAVIERA MENA – (Placa de la Catedral, Red Bull Bus Tour) Mmm, mad world. Jeśli nie zostaniesz pogłaskana przez Pitchfork albo przeciwnie – olana przez widelca, za to broniona przez portale z niezależnością wypisaną na sztandarach – masz pecha. Nagrałaś najlepszą popową płytę ubiegłego roku, a twój debiut to jeden z najpiękniejszych albumów dekady? Mmm, OK, podejdź proszę do okienka [...]

Updated PS11 Calendar below PJ Harvey (anonsowana już wcześniej zagadkami na last.fm) oraz Sufjan Stevens (wygadany - z całą resztą zespołów - przez magazyn Rockdelux) to królewska para ogłoszona na wczorajszej konferencji prasowej festiwalu Primavera Sound. Inne wczorajsze konfirmacje to m.in. Interpol (to będzie nasz 4 raz, ale pierwszy bez Denglera i po słabszej płycie), brazylijski Amerykanin, lider DNA ( No New York !) producent płyt Caetano Veloso, Gal Costy, Toma Ze, ale także Davida Byrne'a, tekściarz Towa Tei'a, autor m.in. świetnego Mundo Civilizado - Arto Lindsay, dalej - [...]

Any album that sounds the way its cover looks is bound to get a thumbs-up around here. And I hope you will find today's selection as dorko charming/looks ridiculous with snorkel gear/but in a funkyish way as I do. Arto Lindsay's career has effectively straddled the noisy/smooth divide, and his samba-with-a-twist records are easy pleasers. Let this tune take your mind off the prospect of slushy foot journeys and further sidewalk shoveling this weekend. Arto Lindsay - Simply Are

Photo: Brian Ferry Then, the field of vision assumes a peculiar structure. In the center there is the favored object, fixed by our gaze; its form seems clear, perfectly defined in all its details. Around the object, as far as the limits of the field of vision, there is a zone we do not look at, but which, nevertheless, we see with an indirect, vague, inattentive vision. If it is not something to which we are accustomed, we cannot say what it is, exactly, that we [...]

Arto Lindsay, Young Marble Giants & Owen Pallett, Paris, Festival La Villette Sonique , La Grande Halle, le 01 juin 2010. La Villette Sonique, qui se déroule du 31 mai au 6 juin 2010, est un festival à part sur la cartographie des événements franciliens : la programmation , plus exigeante que jamais, constitue un sempiternel pari sur le degré d'adéquation du public avec les artistes présentés. A voir la Grande Halle quasi bondée - mille deux cent personnes massées sur les gradins, où il est interdit de boire ( [...]

Le festival parisien musicalement le plus pointu fait son retour dans maintenant moins d'une dizaine de jours : La Villette Sonique ouvre ses portes du 31 mai au 6 juin 2010. A cette occasion, Hartzine s'associe à la Villette Sonique pour vous faire gagner deux places de l'une des nombreuses soirées placées sous le signe de l'excellence, réunissant le 1er juin à la Grande Halle, artiste en devenir, prédicateur expérimental et véritable légende post-punk. La soirée débutera avec l'ineffable Owen Pallett , dont le troisième album Heartland , [...]

New five star selection starts off with blissful ambient/drone by Chihei Hatakayema and advances to The Seasons ' Tsu City off their 2009 album Undone . We shift gears with Italian composer Alessandro Alessandrini 's Palance off his OST for 1976's Sangue di Sbirro , then an amazing song by Renato Lu from the Black Rio 2 compilation I talked about here, last one by Downtown persona Arto Lindsay off his 96 album Mundo Civilizado . Enjoy Chihei Hatakayema - Swallow [...]
By all accounts, New York in the late 70s-early 80s was probably one of the least safest places in the world for one to be in. Gang wars and general sense of unease/danger that threatened to tear the city apart, yet it also led to lower prices on lofts and studios, which allowed artists of [...]

Arto Lindsay is a highly influential figure in a number of important music scenes. Lindsay was born in the land of Bossa Nova and Samba, came of age during Tropicalia , found his footing in Punk and went on to become a king of No Wave, with his progressive band, DNA. Fast forward to his beautiful and strange solo career and you get tracks like this one, highly experimental while also strangely accessible. Arto Lindsay is a hero to us all. Or at least to me. [...]

I've never seen this 1998 hipster film, Somewhere in the City , and I have no idea how its soundtrack came into my possession. But the soundtrack is special, and it's always reminded me of springtime in the city. "No Meu Soutaque" - Arto Lindsay "Untitled No. 1" - Spain "When My Dear Mother Was Seeing Me Off to the Army" - Limpopo [...]
A Century in Jumps (Slight Return) 1997 The Hentchmen (w/Jack White), Some Other Guy. Kim Richey, I Know. Lisa Stansfield, Never Never Gonna Give You Up. Arto Lindsay, Erotic City. David S. Ware Quartet, The Way We Were. Handsome: I asked you three weeks ago to please be sensitive to what I am going through right now and to keep in contact with me, and yet I'm still left writing notes in