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Yo La Tengo - Live @ National Sawdust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9PKXTyvVD8
60:19 min live music video
#music #experimental #YoLaTengo
... are in many respects the quintessential critics' band: in addition to their adventurous eclecticism, defiant independence, and restless creative ambition -- three qualities that virtually guarantee music press acclaim -- the group's frontman, Ira Kaplan, even tenured as a rock scribe prior to finding success as a performer. So frequently compared to the #VelvetUnderground that they even portrayed the legendary group in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol, the Hoboken, New Jersey-based Yo La Tengo have explored the extremes of feedback-driven noise rock and sweetly melodic pop, shading their work with equal parts scholarly composure and fannish enthusiasm. Prolific and mercurial, they have ultimately transcended their myriad influences to ensconce themselves as a beloved institution of the indie community.

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psych@diasp.org
Michael

Old Havana near Capitolio

"Sunday Morning"...

And a cosmic i-Ching selection, inspired by a wonderful book I just finished, "Dreaming in Cuban".

CONTEXT: This novel is the story of a Cuban family, pre-and post the 1959 Revolution. Some family escape to Miami and Brooklyn, most remain in and around Havana. Some get drawn into the nationalism/politics, some to Santeria (religion).

In the book, Pilar (named after Hemingway's boat!) finds her tormented soul can be soothed by an upright bass guitar, which a boyfriend encouraged her to get and learn, which she does, by chance.

Thin-sliced: Pilar is in mental anguish and now finding a bass, goes running out to the record bins to buy (for 50 cents) a scratchy copy of her guiding light: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground with Nico. This.

Suitable for a Sunday morning. And bass aficionados, & Lou Reed fans.

Photo is mine, from the heart of Havana, where I think it was one of these buildings near el Capitolio which exploded yesterday.

#music #myphoto #fenfotos #musica #musique #Cuba #Havana #LouReed #VelvetUnderground #Nico

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nadloriot@diaspora.psyco.fr
nadloriot

Prosperi Buri - Une histoire du Velvet Underground

Hier j'ai lu cette bande dessinée et je me suis bien marrée 😎
Yesterday i read this comic and had a lot of fun 😎

Avec son trait joyeux, il croque avec humour une légende en bichromie (rose et noir) que tous les admirateurs du groupe connaissent : la rencontre à New York dans les années 60 entre Lou Reed, un étudiant en littérature porté sur l’héroïne, et John Cale, un musicien expérimental venu du Pays de Galles, déterminés à "révolutionner le rock". Puis l’arrivée de Sterling Morrison (basse, guitare) et Maureen Tucker (batterie), et la rencontre déterminante de la petite troupe avec Andy Warhol, entouré de la faune arty de sa Factory.
"A la Factory, c’est très mal vu de rigoler…Tout le monde est sous speed, et le top du cool c’est de faire la gueule… être odieux, snober son voisin… prendre des poses suffisantes", les prévient Andy Warhol dans la BD.
Si Warhol en prend pour son grade, tous ou presque, sont épinglés et en particulier la susceptibilité et l’ambition dévorante des deux leaders, leur guerre d’egos, leur snobisme, le fait qu'ils traînent par pur opportunisme avec "des cinéastes chiants", l’échec commercial mal digéré du groupe durant ses années d’activité – "quatre albums en trois ans et pas un seul ne s’est vendu" – jusqu’au cynisme de leur manager Steve Sesnick, dépeint par le dessinateur avec une tête de serpent.

With his joyful line, he humorously sketches a legend in two colors (pink and black) that all admirers of the band know: the meeting in New York in the 60s between Lou Reed, a literature student with a penchant for heroin, and John Cale, an experimental musician from Wales, determined to "revolutionize rock". Then the arrival of Sterling Morrison (bass, guitar) and Maureen Tucker (drums), and the determining meeting of the small troop with Andy Warhol, surrounded by the arty fauna of his Factory.
"At the Factory, it's not cool to laugh... Everyone is on speed, and the best way to be cool is to be obnoxious, to snub your neighbor... to strike smug poses", Andy Warhol warns them in the comic.
If Warhol gets his due, all, or almost all, are pinned down, in particular the susceptibility and devouring ambition of the two leaders, their war of egos, their snobbery, the fact that they hang out for pure opportunism with "boring filmmakers", the group's poorly digested commercial failure during its years of activity - "four albums in three years and not a single one sold" - right up to the cynicism of their manager Steve Sesnick, who is portrayed by the cartoonist with a snake's head.
Translated with www.DeepL.com

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/rock/raconter-lhistoire-du-velvet-underground-avec-humour-cest-ce-que-fait-prosperi-buri-dans-une-bd-irreverencieuse_4328737.html
https://www.dargaud.com/bd/une-histoire-du-velvet-underground/une-histoire-du-velvet-underground-une-histoire-du-velvet

#bd #comic #music #velvetunderground #thevelvetunderground #Buri #lecture #reading #vendredilecture

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