Montauk - Max Frisch

Wikipedia - "Montauk is a story by Swiss writer Max Frisch. It first appeared in 1975 and takes an exceptional position in Frisch's work. While fictional stories previously served Frisch for exploring the possible behavior of his protagonists, in 'Montauk', he tells an authentic experience: a weekend which he spent with a young woman at the American East Coast. The short-run love affair is used by Frisch as a retrospective on his own biography. ... On their last weekend Lynn and Frisch come closer together and take a trip to Long Island, New York to the village of Montauk on the Atlantic coast. For the author this weekend sparks the desire to describe the shared days, without any addition. The presence of Lynn triggers reflections and memories in Frisch. He ponders on age and his growing feeling to be an imposition for others, his success and its effect on enviers, admirers and women."
Wikipedia
W - Max Frisch
Paris Review: Max Frisch, The Art of Fiction No. 113
amazon: Max Frisch

Janet Cardiff - The Forty Part Motet

"The Forty Part Motet (2001), a sound installation by Janet Cardiff (Canadian, born 1957), will be the first presentation of contemporary art at The Cloisters. Regarded as the artist's masterwork, and consisting of forty high-fidelity speakers positioned on stands in a large oval configuration throughout the Fuentidueña Chapel, the fourteen-minute work, with a three-minute spoken interlude, will continuously play an eleven-minute reworking of the forty-part motet Spem in alium numquam habui (1556?/1573?) by Tudor composer Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505–1585)."
Metropolitan Museum - Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller | The Forty Part Motet | 2001 (Video)
W - Janet Cardiff
NYT: Moved to Tears at the Cloisters by a Ghostly Tapestry of Music (Play)

Watch Audio Ammunition: Google’s New Documentary Series on The Clash and Their Five Classic Albums

"The Clash are big in music news again with the arrival of their box set Sound System, which Mick Jones promises will be their final official release of all time. Jones also tells The Guardian it’s the 'best box set ever,' and I just might believe it. It’s certainly one of the coolest looking. The band’s music holds up perfectly well; in fact it’s taken on renewed relevance as so much of the cultural and economic conflicts they wrote in response to have emerged like zombies from the grave to torment us again (this time, perhaps, pace Marx, as zombie farce)."
Open Culture (Video)
Guardian: The Clash to release new box set of remastered albums and rarities (Video)
The Clash to Release Massive Box Set Shaped Like a Boombox, Plus Greatest Hits Comp (Video)
Google (Video)
amazon: 5 Album Studio Set, Hits Back (2-CD Set)

Robert Wyatt - Solar Flares Burn for You (2003)

"Coinciding almost concurrently with the issue of Cuckooland, an entirely new studio recording by composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Robert Wyatt on Hannibal, Solar Flares Burn For You is a welcome 'other-dimension.' This is not a repackaging of material that has been released countless times before. While certain tracks, such as the title and 'I'm A Believer' have been released elsewhere, these versions have not; they come from projects where their inclusion here is not only warranted but necessary. What is included here are both of Wyatt's BBC Top Gear Shows, one from 1972 with Francis Monkman, and another from 1974 on solo piano, the original soundtrack version of the title cut, and the film it was composed for, two new tracks with Hugh Hopper, and a brand new demo."
allmusic
Dusted Magazine
YouTube: 'twas brillig, blimey o'riley, God Song, Alifib, Little Child, The Verb, Solarflares Burn For You (1973), Sea song (Peel Session) 1974

2010 November: Robert Wyatt, 2011 October: Sea Song, 2012 October: Comicopera, 2013 March: The Last Nightingale.

Ismini Samanidou

‘Ismini Fabric’, Interior textile woven with cotton and paper.
"Athens born and London based artist Ismini Samanidou trained at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art specialising in woven textiles. Her practice touches on the boundaries of craft, art and design and involves developing textile works through commissions and interdisciplinary collaborations. Weaving is used as a language to communicate and express ideas through a ‘hands on’ approach integrating digital technologies and craft skills. Ismini has travelled and researched textile techniques worldwide and is interested in the way weaving exists as an autonomous language. Crossing cultural and political boundaries, weaving retains local identity with global connections, articulating narrative, space and history."
Ismini Samanidou
Artists' stories | Artists talking
Weave Waves
YouTube: Ismini Samanidou

Sweet Revenge - John Prine (1973)

"Prine's third album is louder and more jaded than his first efforts, a set of rowdy country-rockers that tear along at a reckless speed. Sympathy takes a back seat to cynicism here, and while that strips the record of some depth, Prine's irreverence is consistently thrilling, making this one of his best. It's not as uniformly brilliant as the debut, but it did steer his music in a new direction -- where that record is often hallmarked for its rich sensitivity, Sweet Revenge established cynicism as Prine's dominant voice once and for all. Although he could still crank out a great ballad when he felt like it, from now on his records largely followed a more conventional rock & roll muse, a choice that eventually gained him more mainstream attention. 'Please Don't Bury Me,' 'Christmas in Prison,' 'Blue Umbrella,' and 'A Good Time' are a few of the jewels on this one."
allmusic
Wikipedia
YouTube: Please Don't Bury Me, Christmas in Prison, Sweet Revenge, Dear Abby (Old Grey Whistle 1973), Grandpa Was A Carpenter, The Accident, Blue Umbrella, A Good Time

Stasi Museum

"The Stasi was an Eastern Germany version of the KGB, established by the Soviets in 1952. Just like the KGB, the Stasi was mostly busy looking for enemies of the people, employing round-the-clock surveillance, and eavesdropping on German citizens. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, people assaulted the Stasi headquarters, dissolved the organization, opened its archives to the public, and created a museum in the main building."
Egor Egorov
Stasimuseum Berlin
W - Stasi
W - Stasi Museum
39 things you might learn if you visit the Stasi Museum with a 10½ week old baby…
YouTube: A visit to the Stasi Museum - Berlin, Stasi Files: The Lives of Others, Secret Files: How shredded Stasi files are reconstructed

The Ugly American

Wikipedia - "The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer upon which a 1963 movie starring Marlon Brando was based. The novel became a bestseller, was influential at the time, and is still in print. The book is a quasi-roman à clef; that is, it presents, in a fictionalized guise, the experience of Americans in Southeast Asia (Vietnam) and allegedly portrays several real people who are represented by pseudonyms. [1958 novel] The novel takes place in a fictional nation called Sarkhan (an imaginary country in Southeast Asia that somewhat resembles Burma or Thailand, but which is meant to allude to Vietnam) and includes several real people, most of whose names have been changed. The book describes the United States's losing struggle against Communism—what was later to be called the battle for hearts and minds in Southeast Asia—because of innate arrogance and the failure to understand the local culture. ... [1963 film] The story of this novel was made into a film in 1963 starring Marlon Brando as Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite. Its screenplay was written by Stewart Stern, and the film was produced and directed by George Englund."
Wikipedia
NYT: Still ‘Ugly’ After All These Years
NYT: The Ugly American Telegram
Atlantic: How Chinese Tourists Usurped the Ugly Americans
amazon: The Ugly American
YouTube: The Ugly American (1963, George Englund) - Trailer

Bryan Schutmaat

"My name is Bryan Schutmaat. I’m a photographer and this is my blog. In the 'news' section you’ll find announcements about my work – exhibitions, publications, awards, press, etc – as well as new photos that typically haven’t been shown on the net before. The 'inspiration' section contains other people’s work that I like and want to remember. I rarely reblog material, as I like to put stuff on tumblr that I haven’t seen on tumblr before. You can find my portfolio and more info about me on my main site, here. Thanks for stopping by."
Bryan Schutmaat Tumblr
Bryan Schutmaat
aperture
vimeo: Grays the Mountain Sends

‘Mad Men’s’ Split Season 7: You’re Killing Me, AMC

"... Mad Men, however, will have a total of 14 episodes over the split season. 'The first half of the season, dubbed The Beginning, will air in spring 2014,' the Los Angeles Times reports. ... If you’re keeping count, that’s exactly one more episode (roughly 42 minutes) longer than its first six seasons. In other words, there is no real added value to making fans wait an extra year to find out where Don, Peggy, Joan, and Roger end up; it’s just the network wringing some extra prestige from the show on its way out the door (and some extra coin, for themselves and the show’s producers)."
AMC

2013 January: Mad Men

Sten & Lex • Gaia at Brooklynite (2010)

"Two different approaches to portraiture are working side by side in Brooklyn right now- and the styles are distinct. Comparing the two in the charged energy of an October day, you’ll agree the contrast is pronounced – drawing attention to individual techniques and influences. Sitting with the portraits for a few minutes, one sees that their similarities may lie in something weightier. Sten and Lex began working in mundane portraiture on the streets of Rome in 2001 – a romance that continues almost a decade later. Drawing their inspiration from black and white images of European businessmen and the women who love them in stilted studio photos from the 1960’s and 70’s, they have plundered successive decades of posed formalized faces that are at times stoic, frank, and slyly droll."
Brooklyn Street Art (Video)

Kenneth Anger - Lucifer Rising (1970-80)

"Lucifer Rising is a short film by director Kenneth Anger. The film was completed in 1972 but was only widely distributed in 1980. Anger began filming around 1966, hiring a young musician named Bobby Beausoleil to act and compose the soundtrack. The film was abandoned in 1967 because Anger claimed the film footage had been stolen by Beausoleil. (Beausoleil and others said that Anger had simply spent all the money for the film). Anger then used some of the existing footage in another short film, Invocation of My Demon Brother. Beausoleil was convicted of killing Gary Hinman under the orders of Charles Manson in 1970. Anger began filming again several years later, with British singer Marianne Faithfull appearing in the film. Jimmy Page was brought in to record the soundtrack, but after he had a falling out with Anger, he was replaced by Beausoleil, who wrote and recorded the music in prison."
UbuWeb (Video)

2009 September: Kenneth Anger

SoHo

Wikipedia - "SoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores. The area's history is an archetypal example of inner-city regeneration and gentrification, encompassing socio-economic, cultural, political and architectural developments."
Wikipedia
ArtSEENsoHo SoHo nEw YOrk CiTy
YouTube: Manhattan Walk Throughs: SOHO, Travel New York: SoHo, Video Tour of SoHo, Manhattan, Street Style Fashion 2012 / SoHo, New York

The Lives of Others (2007) Top 10 Berlin Wall Movies

Wikipedia - "The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen) is a 2006 German drama film, marking the feature film debut of filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, about the monitoring of East Berlin by agents of the Stasi, the GDR's secret police. It stars Ulrich Mühe as Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler, Ulrich Tukur as his boss Anton Grubitz, Sebastian Koch as the playwright Georg Dreyman, and Martina Gedeck as Dreyman's lover, a prominent actress named Christa-Maria Sieland."
Wikipedia
TIME
Roger Ebert
NYT: A Fugue for Good German Men
YouTube: The Lives of Others trailer, (Das Leben der Anderen) beginning

2013 July: The Legend of Rita - Volker Schlondorff (2001), 2013 August: Good Bye, Lenin! (2003), 2013 August: Der Tunnel (2001).

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Wikipedia - "On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac. On the Road is based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across America. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry and drug use. The idea for On the Road formed during the late 1940s. It was to be Kerouac's second novel, and it underwent several drafts before he completed it in April 1951."
Wikipedia
NPR: Kerouac's On the Road (Video)
The New York Review of Books - Jack Kerouac: Crossing the Line
Vanity Fair: Kerouac Unbound
Messy Nessy Chic
Paul Rogers Studio

2009 November: Another Side of Kerouac: The Dharma Bum as Sports Nut, 2010 July: Kerouac's Copies of Floating Bear, 2011 March: Jack Kerouac on The Steve Allen Show

Rockin' Tabby Thomas

"... This man rocks with that swampy beat that contains all the Hoodoo and Gris Gris mystery that one associates Louisiana swamp music. The beat is deep and full of a resonation that seems to suck you into it much like the inexorable force of quicksand. It is a primal rhythm that lives and breathes a heavy and fecund air that completely envelops the listener until he is moving with its cadence. The album can faulted for one issue, though: the liner notes don't tell you who is playing in the fine band that is playing behind him. They not only support him, but they give him the underpinning that gives the music its genuine feel. This is the heavy boogie blues of the Delta joining forces with more jumping and lighter in feel, East Texas style, with a heavy jolt of the mysterious and treacherous footing and Spanish moss-draped primal rhythmic music of the swamps. ..."
allmusic
allmusic - Biography
Ernest J. "Tabby" Thomas - Blues Artist
Wikipedia
YouTube: Popeye Train, Hoodo Party, Swamp Man Blues, One Day, Long About Midnight, Big Fat Woman, Tomorrow, Mmm... I Don't Care, Mr. Buzzard

New Photography 2013

Anna Ostoya, Lee No. 1, 2013
"New Photography 2013 presents recent works by eight international artists who have expanded the field of photography as a medium of experimentation and intellectual inquiry. Their porous practices—grounded in photographic artist’s books, sculpture, photomontage, performance, and science—creatively reassess the themes and processes of making pictures today."
MoMA
MoMA - New Photography 2013

The Chilean muralists who defied Pinochet

"Walk around the side of the GAM, the main cultural centre in the Chilean capital Santiago, and you come across a striking mural, 25m (80ft) wide and 3m high, covering an entire wall. In bold, bright colours, it shows a copper miner, a student, a fisherman and a member of Chile's largest indigenous community, the Mapuche. Wander down the road to the headquarters of the CUT, the country's main trade union federation, and you find another mural overlooking a courtyard. This one tells the history of the country's workers. Both walls are painted in the same distinctive style. The colours are primary and the faces - often indigenous in their features - are outlined in thick black lines."
BBC

Wire - Chairs Missing (1978)

"Chairs Missing marks a partial retreat from Pink Flag's austere, bare-bones minimalism, although it still takes concentrated listening to dig out some of the melodies. Producer Mike Thorne's synth adds a Brian Eno-esque layer of atmospherics, and Wire itself seems more concerned with the sonic textures it can coax from its instruments; the tempos are slower, the arrangements employ more detail and sound effects, and the band allows itself to stretch out on a few songs. ..."
allmusic
Wikipedia
Pitchfork
New York Night Train
YouTube: [Part 1] 01) Practice Makes Perfect 02) French Film Blurred, [Part 2] 03) Another the Letter 04) Men 2nd 05) Marooned 06) Sand in My Joints, [Part 3] 07) Being Sucked In Again 08) Heartbeat, [Part 4] 09) Mercy 10) Outdoor Miner, [Part 5] 11) I Am the Fly 12) I Feel Mysterious Today 13) From the Nursery, [Part 6] 14) Used To 15) Too Late

2009 January: Wire, 2012 January: On the Box 1979.

Gore Vidal’s Gore Vidal – BBC Omnibus 1995

"Gore Vidal’s Gore Vidal is a BBC Omnibus documentary first screened in 1995. The two part film biography covers Vidal’s life by visiting scenes from his past."
P U L S E (Video)

2011 May: An American history lesson with Gore Vidal

Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra (1972)

"Florian Fricke pioneered the use of synthesizers in German rock, but by the time of Hosianna Mantra he had abandoned them (eventually selling his famous Moog to Klaus Schulze). While In den Gärten Pharaos had blended synths with piano and African and Turkish percussion, Hosianna Mantra focuses on organic instrumentation. Conny Veit contributes electric guitar, but other than that, Fricke pulls the plug and builds the album around violin, tamboura, piano, oboe, cembalo, and Veit's 12-string, often with Korean soprano Djong Yun's haunting voice hovering above the arrangements."
allmusic
Wikipedia
YouTube: Hosianna Mantra.
01 Ah! 02 Kyrie 03 Hosianna Mantra 04 Abschied 05 Segnung 06 Andacht (Devotion I) 07 Nicht Hoch Im Himmel 08 Andacht (Devotion II) 09 Maria (Ave Maria)

2008 August: Popol Vuh, 2010 December: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, 2011 May: Abschied (1972), 2013 May: Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog

Kimsooja: Unfolding

"KIMSOOJA Unfolding is the first retrospective exhibition to assess the thirty- year career of the Korean-born, Paris- and New York based artist, and offers an unprecedented opportunity to trace the development of the artist's practice from her earlier works to her more recent production. While the scale and media of her art has varied widely, what remains constant is an engagement with questions of identity in the face of change and social flux. The exhibition highlights works that address notions of time, memory and displacement, and the relationship between the human body and the material world."
KIMSOOJA Unfolding
Kimsooja
art21: Kimsooja (Video)
To Breathe: Bottari Kimsooja
kimsooja: korean pavilion at the venice art biennale
Kimsooja at a Glance: Revisit Past Work
YouTube: "A Beggar Woman" & "A Homeless Woman", Kimsooja: Art & Everyday Life

John Zorn's Masada String Trio - Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw, Poland (1999)

"John Zorn's Masada String Trio. Masada String Trio: Mark Feldman: violin, Erik Friedlander: cello, Greg Cohen: bass, John Zorn: conductor. 01. Intro 02. Tahah 03. Sippur 04. Lachish 05. Bikkurim 06. Malkhut 07. Moshav 08. Aravot 09. Mehohalot 10. Socoh"
YouTube: John Zorn's Masada String Trio 42:51

2009 March: John Zorn, 2010 August: Spillane,  2011 October: Filmworks Anthology : 20 Years of Soundtrack Music, 2012 September: Marc Ribot, 2013 January: Bar Kokhba and Masada.

‘Paraíso’

"I first got the idea for this film (whose title, 'Paraíso,' is the Spanish word for 'Paradise') when I was living in Chicago working as a film editor. One morning, as I sat at my desk in a high-rise downtown, a man dropped down inches from my window, cleaned it, and disappeared to the next floor. This momentary interaction seemed a perfect metaphor for life in many multiethnic American cities where the work of immigrants often goes unnoticed. I hoped to find out more about what motivated these men to spend their working days dangling hundreds of feet in the air."
NY Times: ‘Paraíso’ (Video)

Aldo Tambellini

Black | Electromedia Performance at Black Gate, 1967
Wikipedia - "Aldo Tambellini (20 April 1930) is an Italian American artist. He was the first to pioneer electronic intermedia, is a painter, a sculptor and a poet. ... In 1962, Tambellini was founding member of the counter-culture group called 'Group Center' which worked to find creative ways of displaying non-mainstream work. Other founding members include Ron Hahne, Elsa Tambellini, Don Snyder, and Ben Morea. Notable members who came on board later were Jackie Cassen and Peter Martinez. A major group highlighting the intermedia genre, 'Group Center' combined poetry, photography, choreography and film-making."
Wikipedia
Aldo Tambellini
Aldo Tambellini: Retracing Black (Video)
Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero
Light Cone
art21: Transmission | An Interview with Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero, Avant-Garde Jazz, and the Cosmic Void (Video)
YouTube: BLACKOUT (1965), BLACK TRIP 2 (1967), BLACK PLUS X (1966)

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Wikipedia - "The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 8, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. Nicknamed the 'Mighty Fitz', 'Fitz', or 'Big Fitz', the ship suffered a series of mishaps during her launch: it took three attempts to break the champagne bottle used to christen her, and she collided with a pier when she entered the water."
Wikipedia
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Video)
YouTube: Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain

"Whether for weavers at the handloom, labourers at the plough, or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to explore the rich history of music at work in Britain and charts the journey from the singing cultures of pre-industrial occupations, to the impact and uses of the factory radio, via the silencing effect of industrialisation."
amazon: Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain
Whistle While You Work: On Music & Toil From Communism To Coldplay
W - Work song
YouTube: Laura Hockenhull - The Washing Song, Mary Brooksbank - The Spinner's Wedding, Bob Hart - All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough, The Animals - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Coldplay - The Scientist

Visual Iconography, Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3

"A website dedicated to 78rpm recordings of folkloric and vernacular music from around the world. These items are from my own collection (unless noted) and have been transferred to the best of my abilities, without the aid of expensive noise reduction software. They are for research purposes only. With just a few rare exceptions, I post items that are not available on CD in any way, shape, or form."
Visual Iconography, Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt.3

Peter Schumann on 50 years of the Bread and Puppet Theater

Domestic Resurrection Pageant 1994
"... During these five decades of puppetry, thousands of dancing and music-making puppet operators have assisted in the invasion of streets and plazas all over the globe, or they’ve come to Vermont to be part of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus and other summer shows. By the grace of the Whatever ¾ Almighty, we have survived and even sometimes thrived, doing hundreds of sculpture happenings and esoteric musicals with activist ingredients, and we hope to continue for a few minutes longer. –Peter Schumann, July 10, 2012, Glover, VT"
Bread and Puppet: Cheap Art and Political Theater
W - Peter Schumann
YouTube: Bread and Puppet : Deflection Campaign Office Art Exhibit at Goddard College Art Gallery, Bread and Puppet 2013, Bread and Puppet Summer Theatre 2012 Season, Bread & Puppet Museum, Bread and Puppet 2010 -The Derby Line issue, Bread & Puppet 2007 - The Grand Forgiveness Society of Glove

2009 October: The Bread and Puppet Theater

Dennis Hopper: Inside The Actors' Studio (1994)

"Dennis Hopper is one of Hollywood's scariest actors - and not just because of his gallery of villainous roles. From his earliest days working with James Dean on Rebel Without A Cause, through to Apocalypse Now, Hopper recalls some of the more bizarre episodes in his colourful career."
Daily Mail
YouTube: Inside The Actors Studio with Dennis Hopper

2009 November: Easy Rider (1969), 2010 May: Dennis Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010), 2010 November: The American Friend (1977), 2012 November: Dennis Hopper Documentary (90s), 2013 May: The Lost Album, 2013 June: Colors.

The First Rock And Roll Record

"Musicians play music, and when they play, they don't begin something so much as they pick something back up that was there all along, and music expands like a delta this way, an unbreakable loop that doesn't begin or end but just rolls onward like a wave. And rock & roll as an American musical form is very much like a delta, collecting elements from jazz, blues, country, gospel, R&B, show tunes, and whatever else was floating around into a high-charged, rambunctious music that defined and drove pop culture across the backwaters of the 20th century and into the 21st. ..."
allmusic
Guardian: The First Rock and Roll Record – review
amazon
The Quietus
YouTube: 'Going To Move To Alabama' CHARLEY PATTON (1929), Pine Top Smith - Pinetop's boogie woogie (1928), Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (1936), T-Bone Walker - Mean Old World (1942), Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (1948), Mary Ford and Les Paul - How High the Moon (1951), Rocket "88" - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats (1951), Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley (1955), Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel (1956)

Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis

Les constructeurs (1950)
"Comprising approximately 160 works, including loans from public and private collections in Europe and the United States, this multimedia exhibition will unite The City with other important paintings from this period by the French painter Fernand Léger (1881–1955), and with key works in film, theater design, graphic and advertising design, and architecture by the artist and his avant-garde colleagues, including Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Cassandre, Amédée Ozenfant, Le Corbusier, Francis Picabia, Alexandra Exter, Gerald Murphy, and others."
Philadelphia Museum of Art
amazon

White Noise - Don DeLillo

Wikipedia - "White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985. ... White Noise explores several themes that emerged during the mid-to-late twentieth century, e.g., rampant consumerism, media saturation, novelty academic intellectualism, underground conspiracies, the disintegration and reintegration of the family, human-made catastrophes, and the potentially regenerative nature of human violence."
Wikipedia
NYT: 'White Noise,' by Don DeLillo
LA Times: Tuning back in to 'White Noise'
New York Magazine
An Annotation of the First Page of White Noise, With Help From Don DeLillo
amazon: White Noise

2010 October: Pafko at the Wall, 2012 May: Underworld , 2012 July: The Body Artist.

Kassidat: Raw 45s from Morocco

"Features six extended tracks from the Golden Age of the Moroccan record industry. 'Kassidat', the Arabic word for poetry, is one of the essential ingredients in Moroccan song. Despite the bewildering array of musical styles in Morocco, the Moroccan sense of poetry is found throughout the music, regardless of the style or language. This isn’t the language of high art, but an often impenetrable vernacular poetry of oblique references, symbols, metaphors, and double entendres that describes the lives of average Moroccans."
Dust-Digital (Vinyl)
Soundcloud (Vinyl)
Juno (Vinyl)
amazon

Willie Williams – Messenger Man (2005)

“As far back as the rocksteady age, Willie Williams had attempted to deliver songs with a message, but it was only in the roots era that he finally succeeded. Returning to Jamaica after several years in Canada, the singer, with his session band in tow, entered the Channel One studio and laid down this fabulous riddim adapted from the Bee Gees’ chart-topper ‘I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You.’ Driven by Carlton ‘Santa’ Davis and Lloyd Parks’ roots rockers rhythm, the backing beautifully blends a militant aura with a funk-tinged, bluesy atmosphere that’s shredded by organist Bobby Kalphat’s extraordinary solos, which imitate searing rock guitar leads to perfection.”
allmusic
Reggae Vibes
YouTube: Messenger Man (Live), Messenger Man, Dungeon / Version, No Hiding Place, Give Jah Praise