Artist: Marcelo Vianna
Genre(s):
Latin
Discography:
Teu Nome, Pixinguinha
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
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Jaia
Artist: Jaia
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Electronic
Discography:
Fiction
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Unreleased
Year: 2000
Tracks: 9
Time Machine (Ep)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 4
Blue Energy
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
TMZ TV Tonite - Hot Receivers
Tonight on TMZ TV -- Hollywood suits up for game day! Ryan Seacrest plays QB, Hulk Hogan gives his new girlfriend the home field advantage and Heather Locklear's in full blitz mode.
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Monday, 16 June 2008
Tatum O'Neal Is the Nicest Crackhead Ever
For a woman who just got busted for crack, Tatum O'Neal was incredibly friendly and forthcoming with the paparazzi on the streets of New York today.
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Seattle's PWRFL Power is in demand, in control
As Seattle's summer music festivals roll around, there's one name you'll repeatedly see on the lineups: PWRFL Power. The artist, 23-year-old Kaz Nomura, is playing the Georgetown Music Festival, the Capitol Hill Block Party and Bumbershoot.
In fact, the Seattleite (originally from Japan) has gotten so popular locally, he's setting his sights on a bigger arena — Brooklyn, N.Y. In the last year and a half, as PWRFL Power, he's played more than 200 Seattle-area shows.
Last year, he won the Esurance-sponsored "Block Star" contest at the Capitol Hill Block Party, winning him a spot in one of its commercials. They liked his "quirky style."
We talked to the rising local:
Q: Why are you moving to Brooklyn?
A: I just feel like it's time to move to a bigger city and check it out, play to a bigger audience.
Q: Your sound is so low-key and whimsical. How would you describe it?
A: I think my singing ability is not that great. It's kind of like conversational and sometimes off-key. And also my vocabulary in the language is not sufficient. ... On the other hand, the guitar work is pretty good. ... That kind of contrast — fluent guitar work and my singing style — is something that defines PWRFL Power's music.
Q: Your lyrics are quite funny. How do you come up with them?
A: Some of them are diaries; some of them are fictional. I don't try to write anything. It's more like I sit down in a cafe and start writing.
Q: What's the meaning behind your stage name, PWRFL Power?
A: It's something I came up with for this performing-arts group I was in back in 2006. They didn't use this name, so I was like, if you don't use it, I'm going to just use it myself. I took out the vowels from the first word, so I could Google easily.
Q: How was the Esurance commercial experience?
A: I was really excited because everyone dreams of being on TV, or of getting exposed to the public in general. I was really looking forward to it. But once it hit the air, I started getting both good and bad responses from random people. Like, I got some hate mail from people in Florida, who didn't get the money they thought they deserved from Esurance. ... People who hated Esurance started to hate me, too. ... But at the same time, every day, I keep getting messages and friends requests on MySpace from people I wouldn't normally reach out to.
Q: You have some lyrics in Japanese — do you feel that your culture and background are something you have to reflect?
A: I thought it would be fun to mix the two together because I've never heard a song in two languages in that way.
Q: You're not signed to a label?
A: I have a few CDs to a few different labels, but I'm not signed to any label right now. ... I think the whole music industry is changing right now. I think it'll be nice to have label support, like from bigger labels. ... [But] musicians can make everything from just touring and not just selling music, but playing shows, and I already have a really good agent and PR company, so I'm not too worried about it. But it will be great if it happens.
Q: What's next for you?
A: I'm starting a new project, just guitar and instruments ... I already have a name for it — "Half Yogurt." ... I just thought it was an interesting image — like, what's the other half?
Marian Liu: 206-464-3825 or mliu@seattletimes.com
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Levi Chen
Artist: Levi Chen
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Liquid Gardens
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Levi Chen -- composer, guitarist and founder of the trio Celtic Zen (with harpist Lisa Franco and cembalist Michael Masley) -- is a first-generation Chinese-American world Health Organization, though born and brocaded in the Midwest, has lived in countries as divers as Taiwan, France, Italy, and Switzerland. Chen speaks v languages.
Chen was already a universe traveler (his home visited grandparents in Taiwan) by the clock time he began poring over guitar at long time decade. In 1981, the rebellious teenage Chen was sent to a boarding schooltime in Switzerland for his junior year. This, he says, turned his life around and expanded his horizons. Encouraged, he returned to the United States to look Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he studied graphic arts, architecture, and music with musicologist Roland Wiggins. In 1984, Chen exhausted 11 months attendance the Syracuse University Abroad in Florence, Italy. Here, he erudite to talk Italian and began to play music as a minstrel in the Piazza Signoria. In 1987, Chen stirred to Boston, where he got a chore at E.U. Wurlitzer Music & Pro Audio; this chore afforded him the opportunity to interact with music students from the Berklee School of Music and to acquire the technical side of music. In March of 1989, Chen returned to Taiwan for several months to pursue a dream of becoming the Chinese Jimi Hendrix; it was a unsatisfying chew the fat, disposed the timbre of the Asian pop scene. His following be active took him to the s of France where he played in a band called the Immigrants.
In 1990, Chen touched for good to Los Angeles. He founded his own judge, Yin Yang Records, in 1993. His first album in 1994 was Liquid Gardens: Tao for solo acoustic and galvanising guitar. Liquid Gardens: Haiki Moon featured Chen on the guitar, fretless bass, Chapman stick, and gu zheng. 1995's Meditation of My Soul showcased Chen's guitar/gu zheng duets. In 1997, Chen released Celtic Zen, likewise the name of the mathematical group which includes harper Lisa Franco and Michael Masley on cymbalom. Ten guest musicians helped contribute to the album's unique wakeless -- all acoustic leave off for the Stratocaster guitar.
Chen's two main instruments ar the Fender Stratocaster guitar (circa 1976) and the gu zheng, a Chinese tool similar to the Japanese koto, just having steel strings. Through long time of experimentation, Chen has managed to mimicker the gu zheng sound on the guitar and vice versa; through use of delayed echoes, he tin can play both instruments at once in a call-and-response style. Chen canful also create other sounds on his guitar: whales and dolphins, cello, erhu (Chinese fiddle), and other synthesizer sounds. Chen is likewise proficient on Chapman stick, acoustic guitar, fretted and fretless bass, synthesist, and pianissimo.
With his long, flowing black hair, Chen resembles Kitaro in appearance. Chen silent performs long hours as a street player and considers music-making his signifier of meditation. As to his unearthly beliefs, Chen comments, "I believe in LIFE, truth, beaut, peace, God, and zilch. I'm a Romantic Zen Taoist Rasta."
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Tank Girl - Tank Girl Makes Her Directorial Debut With Gritty Life Story
TANK GIRL star LORI PETTY has turned her tough Iowa upbringing into a new movie, and cast SELMA BLAIR as her mother.
Petty wrote and directed The Poker House, staging a lengthy casting call to find the newcomer who would play her as a child, Jennifer Lawrence - and called on the Hellboy star to play her mum.
Perry's autobiographical directorial debut, about her poverty-stricken teenage years, will premiere at the upcoming Los Angeles Film Festival.
A film insider says, "It's a ravishing portrait of poor, small town life in Iowa, circa 1976 - Marvin Gaye, seedy bars, and the ever present allure of illicit activities and substances."
Blair plays a mum of three daughters in the film. Her eldest, Agnes, is inspired by Lori herself.
The film includes Petty's "pimp father figure, and a memorable assortment of dangerous yet colourful gamblers, thieves and johns."
Petty says, "This is a movie that had to be made, so it showed up uninvited as my adolescence. The movie is the eldest daughter, me, realising between a heartbeat, that things may happen to you, but they don't happen to you forever unless you let them."
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