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Joe Jackson, Work Still to DoA night at the Teatro La Latina: a theater full of people who have grown old alongside the same songs, and a 72-year-old musician who sits down at the piano and starts.
William Basinski: “I Don’t Erase”William Basinski has spent a good part of his life keeping things. Tapes, recordings, fragments that seemed to have ended and that years later came back asking for his attention. Some survived. Others fell apart precisely when he was trying to save them. Perhaps that is why, when he talks about his archive, he doesn't seem to be talking about the past. He talks about something that is still happening.
Yves Bigot: Judgment Under PressureMany mornings, at 9:04, Yves Bigot would gather his things. The previous night's ratings had been bad and he was convinced they were going to fire him. It didn't happen just once. «Si vous saviez le nombre de matins…»: if you knew how many mornings.
A Short History of the Bodiless Voice, from 1939 to TomorrowFor almost a century we have tried to separate the voice from the body that produces it. What began as a technical feat has ended up becoming a question about who is speaking when we hear a voice.
Mercury Rev and the Holograms of Our Own LivesThe All Is Dream song Mercury Rev had gone longest without playing was «Lincoln's Eyes». It has come back into the set for the album's 25th-anniversary tour: twenty shows between 1 and 29 October, from Lisbon to Athens.
Andrew Weatherall, Architect of Bad TasteA DJ who remixed Primal Scream, changed his name several times and set himself a limit of 122 beats per minute. A friend who would have called it bad taste. A car from the nineties.
Aitor Arregi: Setting the Counter Back to ZeroAitor Arregi has spent more than two decades making films with Jose Mari Goenaga and Jon Garaño at Moriarti, swapping writing, directing and producing duties with them. After Maspalomas, and while Moriarti prepares to shoot a series announced by Movistar, we talked to him about authorship, actors, what a film teaches the people who make it, cynicism and what he still hopes to find when he sits down to watch one.
Nando Cruz and the Art of Not Trusting Your Own JudgementNando Cruz has been writing about music for almost forty years. He wrote Pequeño circo, the oral history of Spanish indie, and today contributes to elDiario.es. Four decades should be enough to build what, in this trade, we call judgement: a private archive of comparisons, enthusiasms and things dismissed that lets you decide, almost automatically, what deserves your attention.
Jamaican Dub: The Laboratory and the JungleFrom a Kingston studio to a sports hall in Cardiff, a festival in Móstoles, and Berlin techno.
Spacemen 3: After the TripHow Spacemen 3's divorce became two different ways of continuing the same search.
The Impossible Nostalgia of Boards of CanadaWhy we still miss futures that never came to exist.
Kraftwerk: The Man-Machines and the World They BuiltA chronicle of Kraftwerk's concert at Es Jardí (Mallorca), or why certain works seem to gain new meanings every time the world changes around them.
William Basinski: “I Don’t Erase”William Basinski has spent a good part of his life keeping things. Tapes, recordings, fragments that seemed to have ended and that years later came back asking for his attention. Some survived. Others fell apart precisely when he was trying to save them. Perhaps that is why, when he talks about his archive, he doesn't seem to be talking about the past. He talks about something that is still happening.Yves Bigot: Judgment Under PressureMany mornings, at 9:04, Yves Bigot would gather his things. The previous night's ratings had been bad and he was convinced they were going to fire him. It didn't happen just once. «Si vous saviez le nombre de matins…»: if you knew how many mornings.A Short History of the Bodiless Voice, from 1939 to TomorrowFor almost a century we have tried to separate the voice from the body that produces it. What began as a technical feat has ended up becoming a question about who is speaking when we hear a voice.Mercury Rev and the Holograms of Our Own LivesThe All Is Dream song Mercury Rev had gone longest without playing was «Lincoln's Eyes». It has come back into the set for the album's 25th-anniversary tour: twenty shows between 1 and 29 October, from Lisbon to Athens.Andrew Weatherall, Architect of Bad TasteA DJ who remixed Primal Scream, changed his name several times and set himself a limit of 122 beats per minute. A friend who would have called it bad taste. A car from the nineties.Aitor Arregi: Setting the Counter Back to ZeroAitor Arregi has spent more than two decades making films with Jose Mari Goenaga and Jon Garaño at Moriarti, swapping writing, directing and producing duties with them. After Maspalomas, and while Moriarti prepares to shoot a series announced by Movistar, we talked to him about authorship, actors, what a film teaches the people who make it, cynicism and what he still hopes to find when he sits down to watch one.Nando Cruz and the Art of Not Trusting Your Own JudgementNando Cruz has been writing about music for almost forty years. He wrote Pequeño circo, the oral history of Spanish indie, and today contributes to elDiario.es. Four decades should be enough to build what, in this trade, we call judgement: a private archive of comparisons, enthusiasms and things dismissed that lets you decide, almost automatically, what deserves your attention.Jamaican Dub: The Laboratory and the JungleFrom a Kingston studio to a sports hall in Cardiff, a festival in Móstoles, and Berlin techno.Spacemen 3: After the TripHow Spacemen 3's divorce became two different ways of continuing the same search.The Impossible Nostalgia of Boards of CanadaWhy we still miss futures that never came to exist.Kraftwerk: The Man-Machines and the World They BuiltA chronicle of Kraftwerk's concert at Es Jardí (Mallorca), or why certain works seem to gain new meanings every time the world changes around them.