Luis Soares's Blog, page 390
February 25, 2016
How He Entered
Stuart A.Staples:
"I bought the donkey head a few years ago from a great theatrical antiques shop in Strasbourg – he is apparently 100 years old.Sometimes I wear him around the house, he hasbecome a kind of alter-ego.We had a photo session for the album arranged at Langar Hall, Nottingham, with Richard Dumas. I thought I would take the head along, see whathappens. We have known each other a long time, there is a lot of trust between us.When Richard was introduced to donkey man he put down hi...
Scriabin Sonata No.1 em Fá menor Op. 6
Tsotne Tsotskhalashvili plays Scriabin Sonata No.1 in F minor Op. 6
Live in New England Conservatory Jordan Hall 1/29/2015
Video by Simon Yue
February 24, 2016
Henri Dutilleux - L'arbre des songes (1985)
Renaud Capuon (vl.) Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse conducted by Tugan Sokhiev. Recorded during a live concert on XXIV.II.2012 at La Halle aux grains.
The Sheltering Sky
Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Sheltering Sky" end scene with Paul Bowles voice and cameo.
"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of y...
'Empire' by Samuel Gratacap (2012-2014)
Choucha: a refugee camp located in Tunisia, 5 kilometers from the border post with Libya and about twenty kilometers from the city of Ben Guerdane. Founded in February 2011, several hundred thousand refugees were in transit there during the Libyan civil war and the NATO attacks. While Libyan refugees are welcomed into Tunisian families and settle temporarily in Tunis or in the camp of Remada, the refugees of Sub-Saharan origin go to Choucha. I first went there in January 2012, to accomp...
Francis Bacon - Study of a Bull (1991)
It could be a bull backing in to a burning, black void or one escaping it, moving hopefully into the heavenly light. What seems certain is that this final, extraordinary painting by Francis Bacon, unseen and undocumented until now, is by an artist who knows he will soon die.
The art historian Martin Harrison on Tuesday revealed Bacons final completed painting a work that has never been publicly seen, reproduced, discussed or written about. Residing in a very private, private collection in...
February 23, 2016
Happy Birthday, Mr Handel.
Georg Friedrich Händel Ode for St Cecilia's Day
Les Arts Florissants conducted by Paul Agnew
Voodoo In My Blood
Massive Attack feat. Young Fathers - ‘Voodoo In My Blood’. Directed by Ringan Ledwidge, staring Rosamund Pike. Taken from the Ritual Spirit EP
Justine Kurland
Meeting on the Hill, 2000
The Family, 2002
Burnt Down Forest, Wet Tinder, 2004
Road Bunnies, 2012
