CD released by ABC Shop also available in itunes

ABC Music is proud to release the recording of ‘Conversations With Ghosts’ – a unique project combining the talents of revered Australian troubadour Paul Kelly, esteemed recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey, composer extraordinaire James Ledger and musicians from the Australian National Academy Of Music.

The pieces were co-written by Paul Kelly and James Ledger, based on poems by Les Murray, W.B Yeats, Judith Wright, Lord Alfred Tennyson and others as well as some new lyrics from Paul. Together they have created a rich and atmospheric 12-track work that touches on the theme of death and mortality.

The beautifully warm recording was captured live at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in Melbourne during a performance in October 2012.

Paul Kelly said of working with ANAM musicians: ‘It’s been a privilege to work with young musicians of such calibre who bring a pure energy to the pieces’.

…and of working with Genevieve Lacey: ‘I think of Genevieve’s recorder as our guide throughout, a kind of Ariel, coming and going, warning and leading, sometimes playing tricks on us but with our best interests at heart’.

James Ledger said of working with Paul Kelly: ‘When the opportunity arose to work with a songwriter – a real songwriter who is so spectacularly good with words – I jumped at the chance and we hit a groove almost immediately in the way we worked’.

Lists are a form of cultural hysteria

Posted on August 30, 2013 by goldcoastbooklovers

Via NYT

In an interview with The Paris Review twenty years ago, Don DeLillo mentioned that “lists are a form of cultural hysteria.” From the vantage point of today, you wonder how much anyone—even someone as routinely prescient as DeLillo—could possibly have identified list-based hysteria in 1993. DeLillo’s statement also hints at something crucial about the list as a form: the tension between its gesturing toward order and its acknowledgement of order’s impossibility. The list—or, more specifically, the listicle—extends a promise of the definitive while necessarily revealing that no such promise could ever be fulfilled. It arises out of a desire to impose order on a life, a culture, a society, a difficult matter, a vast and teeming panorama of cat adorability and nineties nostalgia. Umberto Eco put it dramatically: “The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order.”

Salinger movie!

Posted on August 26, 2013 by goldcoastbooklovers

Via siouxcityjournal

New Aardman Animation Trailer For Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Anniversary

Posted on August 24, 2013 by goldcoastbooklovers

Brilliant trailer by Aardman for BBC 2s Radio Event to be be broadcast on Monday 26th August. The play based on Pink Floyd’s seminal album, Dark Side Of The Moon, which had its 40th anniversary this year, has been written by legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, and features a cast that includes Bill Nighy, Rufus Sewell and Adrian Scarborough, with Olivier Award-winning Iwan Rheon and stage actress Amaka Okafor in lead roles. How much genius can you get into one project? Not to be missed.

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Via Nerdalicious