joi, 16 ianuarie 2025

RIP David Lynch

...four days shy of his 77th Bday...

I wasn't expecting David Lynch to start this year of " I see dead people"...here he is playing John Ford in Steven Spielberg autobiographical The Fablemans (2022). I will post separatly about my relationship with Lynch. Taleked about him extensively with Christa Bell, his muse and last collaborator (their album, in 2024, Cellophane Memories).

Remembrance from Steven Spielberg on David Lynch: 

“I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Elephant Man defined him as a singular, visionary dreamer who directed films that felt handmade. I got to know David when he played John Ford in The Fabelmans. Here was one of my heroes—David Lynch playing one of my heroes. It was surreal and seemed like a scene out of one of David’s own movies. The world is going to miss such an original and unique voice. His films have already stood the test of time and they always will.”


"There's nothing like the big screen. The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience." - David Lynch


Farawell David Lynch the Magician, white or black lodge, I guess you have your own, the David Lynch Lodge, there's a lady with a Log there and some guy, Bob, is the bouncer. Badalamanti plays the piano, Bowie's at the bar, Dennis Hopper sips his whisky, even Tom Sizemore is aloud to come for a drink...

marți, 14 ianuarie 2025

Luz (2018)

Luz is teuton's Tilman Singer's debut, which I wanted to see after Cuckoo,  also on my Top (horror) films of 2024.

It is weird and uneven, and short (70 mins.)

But nevertheless fascinating.

with a score of Simon Wascow, reminiscent of the best early Tangerine Dream scores, a brilliant sound design and a dream logic of its own.

Lots of awards and festivals in the Fantastic arena.





luni, 13 ianuarie 2025

Hopper's On Top (Genius)-The Waterboys

1st excerpt from the upcoming album by Mike Scott's The Waterboys' Life, Death And Dennis Hopper. (out on April 4).

song of the day and til now song of the year ;)


love the lines, "Are you ready for the most creative generation in over 2000 years? "

also reminds me a lot of Tom Petty... 

 

joi, 9 ianuarie 2025

Top albums 2024

.....work in progress...

here are my Top albums of last year (2023)


The The -Ensoulment (could easily be the album of the year for me, lyricswise it's brilliant, poetry and elegy / eulogy


Bruce Dickinson -The Mandrake Project  (and a cancelled concert :((()




Elbow-Audio Vertigo




Judas Priest -Invisible Shield

                                        


Deep Purple =1



Another masterful Bob Ezrin production with DP, his fifth with the band (starting with Now What ?! " in 2013), an elegant classy album of a bans that had nothing more to prove a long time ago, and now it's just having fun !

The Black Crowes-Happiness Bastards 

-great comeback, Rock'nRolla ! their first album since 2009 !



Mark Knopfler-One Deep River -just good old MK !

Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 2 Fiction (part 1, in 2023's top)

Bill Wyman-Drive My Car  -Wyman is 87 !


MC5- Heavy Lifting
new material released after Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson''s deaths, featuring Tom Morello, Slash, Vernon Reed.  First album of the band in 53 years !!! Again Bob Ezrin's in the cooking !!!
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mc5-new-album-heavy-lifting-1235034356/
                                                Wayne Kramer & Bob Ezrin in the studio



Like the Nick Cave (Wild God), liked The Cure, but they ain't my bands.

A mention to the new David Gilmour -Luck and Strange, but can't say the album satisfied me.

Liked more the Body Count version of "Confortably Numb" , featuring David Gilmour.

Discovered a new great band, punk garage rockin' Australian: 

Amyl and the Sniffers -Cartoon Darkness 


found out Kasabian reunited: Happenings 


COMPILATION:

Various Artists: The Power of the Heart- A Tribute to Lou Reed 

-featuring Keith Richards' Waiting for the Man !


ARCHIVE:

The Michael Schenker Group - Is It Loud Enough (Michael Schenker Group 1980-1983) 6 discs




BLUES:

Slash -Orgy of the Dead

Rob Tognoni-Rebel

Luke Winslow-King -Flash-A-Magic

Walter Trout-Broken