Nana Katase

   
Artist: Nana Katase

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Telepathy

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13

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Simple Simon

   
Artist: Simple Simon

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Bad Man

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 10

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Red Garland Trio with Ray Barretto

The Thrillseekers Present Nightmusic Volume 1

   
Artist: The Thrillseekers Present Nightmusic Volume 1

   Genre(s): 
Trance
   

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Discography:


   
 The Thrillseekers Present Nightmusic Volume 1 2CD

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2

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David Hallyday

   
Artist: David Hallyday

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Ethnic
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 David Hallyday

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 Satellite

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 17


   
 Revelation

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Un Paradis/Un Enfer

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 Master Serie

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 17


   
 Novacaine

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 13


   
 On The Road Disc 2

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 10


   
 On The Road Disc 1

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 8


   
 On The Road

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 13


   
 Rock 'n' Heart

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


   
 True Cool

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10

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David Hallyday was ostensibly foreordained for a vocation in music; his parents were French rock candy legend Johnny Hallyday and pop chanteuse Sylvie Vartan, France's "it" couple during the swing '60s. Hallyday was born David Smet (his father's veridical name) on August 14, 1966, in Boulogne-Billancourt. From the years of four, he split his time 'tween France and the United States, growth up bilingualist and finally enrolling in schooling in California. As a teenager, he played in an amateur john Rock & roll band, and in 1979 played drums behindhand his founder for the first time in public. His stepfather, Tony Scotti, owned the Scotti Bros. label, and Hallyday went to work for him after finishing schooling. He too splattered in acting, and won the lead function in the music-themed comedy He's My Girl in 1987, which allowed him the prospect to disk some of his original material. His kickoff album, the English-language True Cool, was released in 1988 and sold closely a million copies worldwide. The reexamination, Stone 'n' Heart, appeared in 1990 and gave him his only American graph single, "Ooh La La."Still singing in English, Hallyday had even to do a dent in the French mart. He issued his kickoff French-language individual, "Heros," in 1993, just then returned to English for his future album, a 1994 collaboration with the backing grouping Blind Fish called Pain and Pride. Another financial support band, Novocaine, was assembled for a 1997 album of the same make, which was issued only in the United States to highly softened response. In 1999, Hallyday collaborated with his father on the album Panax quinquefolius Pour Sang, writing all the music on the phonograph recording. That same year, Hallyday in conclusion released his low all-French album, Un Paradis/Un Enfer, and had his kickoff major success in France. Hits like "Stream Toi" and "Tu Ne M'as Pas Laisse le Temps" boosted the album's gross sales, and he was showered with medicine awards come year's end. He took a detour into automobile racing and won the GT championship in 2001. In the summer of 2002, he returned to medicine with the release of his minute all-French album, Révélation.

I Burn

   
Artist: I Burn

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 3Rd Degree Burns Ambience

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10

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Hercules And Love Affair Map U.S. Mini Tour

Hercules and Love Affair have four live dates coming in the U.S. - three on the West Coast and one on the East.

During July, the collective will play gigs in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, with August's lonesone performance held at the Fillmore in New York.

And finally, next week (June 24th) will see the US issue of the band's self-titled debut album via Mute / DFA. The record was released in the UK in March and has enjoyed favourable reviews.

July Dates:

Los Angeles, CA The Echo (23)

San Diego, CA Casbah (25)

San Francisco CA Mezzanine (26)

August Dates:

New York NY The Fillmore at Irving Plaza (8)

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22 Pistepirkko

   
Artist: 22 Pistepirkko

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Eleven

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10

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Hailing from the lilliputian Finnish hamlet of Utajarvi, 22-Pistepirkko emerged from scarce outside of the Arctic Circle in 1982, winning Band of the Year honors in their native res publica for a pair of EPs including the acclaimed Piano, Rumpu & Kukka. With the firing of 1987's Kings of Hong Kong, the trio -- brothers PK (vocals, guitar) and Asko Keranen (synthesizer), and Espe Haverinen (drums) -- began transcription in English; the bluesy Unfinished Bone Nest followed deuce years afterwards, and with 1992's Big Lupu 22-Pistepirkko began earning their first-class honours degree observance outside of Scandinavia. After 1994's Rumble City, LaLa Land, the radical resurfaced deuce geezerhood after with Zipcode, a collection of remixes; Football team followed in 1998.





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"Get Smart" misses by a mile

Maxwell Smart would say, "Missed it by this much," but I'm holding my hands really far apart. Despite what seemed (in the trailers, at least) like inspired casting of Steve Carell, the perpetrators of "Get Smart" almost entirely miss what made the Cold War TV spy comedy funny. It's a good thing Don Adams isn't around to see this overblown, overlong Bay of Pigs. Barbara Feldon, not so lucky.

It's somehow an update and an origin story: The spy agency CONTROL ostensibly has been mothballed for a couple of decades, and Max's iconic car, shoe phone and suit are museum displays. Yet Max (Carell) is a nerdy analyst at the modern-day CONTROL who desperately wants to be a field agent like the popular Agent 23 (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson). After an attack at headquarters leaves most of the agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote Max, partner him with the beautiful Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) and send them to Russia, where rival agency KAOS is hatching a plan that involves yellowcake uranium in a factory that makes yellow cake.

The affair (to use a "Man From U.N.C.L.E." term) isn't quite as misbegotten as "The Avengers" or "I Spy" movies, but it's this close (now I'm using a thumb and forefinger).

Remember: Adams' Max was a complete buffoon and walking disaster area who thought he was the best secret agent in the world. (But in the TV show's nonsense universe, he was still CONTROL's best man.) Feldon's 99 appeared quietly adoring while actually being the competent one. And the Chief (Edward Platt) was perpetually exasperated and injured by Max's idiocy — making "Sorry about that, Chief" funnier when Max said it every episode. A good deal of the show's gloriously silly humor came from driving jokes so far into the ground that they'd drink Daniel Plainview's milkshake, resulting in such other catchphrases as "... and loving it" and "Would you believe... "

Note the improvements inflicted by the brain trust of director Peter Segal ("Nutty Professor II: The Klumps") and screenwriters Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember ("Failure to Launch"): Max is an insecure former fatty who has flashbacks to his blimp days. Seriously. Carell, avoiding an Adams imitation, is just a variation of his Michael Scott boob on "The Office." Agent 99 dislikes and constantly snipes at him, and she's a martial-arts dynamo. To account for the age difference between Carell and Hathaway, 99 explains she had cosmetic surgery to change her identity and shave off a few years. The Chief? A violent rageoholic. And the beloved catchphrases are touched on like perfunctory Olympic moves — even the Cone of Silence, whose mere mention should elicit laughter.

So fans will feel more sold out than Aldrich Ames' victims (even 1980's "The Nude Bomb" was better), while civilians just looking for laughs will find it another case of the funniest bits appearing in the trailer. Those few moments make you wish Carell had competent stewards, because even his failed attempt to throw a phone receiver at captors is more hilarious than the entire third-act race/chace/fight involving a bomb at a Los Angeles symphony.

As Siegfried, the mastermind behind the bomb, Terence Stamp is, ah, present. And James Caan plays a redneck president who can't pronounce "nuclear." This is what their careers have come to.

Series creators Mel Brooks and Buck Henry are credited as consultants on the movie. That must be code for "check-cashers."

Mark Rahner: 206-464-8259 or mrahner@seattletimes.com

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Robert Downey Jr. saddles up for 'Cowboys'

In talks to star in the film that's a mix of sci-fi and Western

Robert Downey Jr. is in negotiations to star in DreamWorks/Universal's "Cowboys & Aliens," a pulpy mix of the sci-fi and Western genres that could serve as a potential 2010 tentpole.


The deal would be Downey's first since propelling Marvel Studios' "Iron Man" to $500 million-plus in worldwide loot (and growing). He next will be seen in the comedy "Tropic Thunder" in August, followed by the drama "The Soloist" in November, both for DreamWorks.


Imagine Entertainment partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard are producing. Platinum Studios chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg also will produce, along with DreamWorks mainstays Steven Spielberg, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Ervin Rustemagic and Rich Marincic will co-produce.


"Cowboys & Aliens" derives from a graphic novel written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley from an original idea by Rosenberg. The story centers on an Old West battle between the Apache and Western settlers, including a former Union Army gunslinger named Zeke Jackson (Downey), that is interrupted by a spaceship crashing into the prairie near Silver City, Ariz.


The story draws a parallel between the American imperialist drive to conquer the "savage" Indians with its advanced technology and the aliens' assault on Earthlings, who must join together to survive the invaders' attack.


The project has been in development at several studios during the past 10 years. Among the writers who have drafted versions of the adaptation are David Hayter ("X2: X-Men United"), Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer ("Sahara"), Jeffrey Boam ("Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"), Thompson Evans ("Wedlocked"), Chris Hauty ("Never Back Down") and Steve Oedekerk ("Evan Almighty").


The most recent draft by "Iron Man" and "Children of Men" writers Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus clearly hit the right notes, as the project looks to gain its major players quickly.


Downey, Fergus and Ostby are repped by CAA.



Gregg Goldstein in New York contributed to this report.

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Popol Vuh

   
Artist: Popol Vuh

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   New Age
   Electronic
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Messa Di Orfeo Live

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 Shepherd's Symphony

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 7


   
 City Raga

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 7


   
 Sing, For Song Drives Away The Wolves

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 8


   
 Future Sound Experience

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 8


   
 Cobra Verde

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 8


   
 Hosianna - Mantra

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 8


   
 For You And Me

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


   
 Florian Fricke Plays Mozart

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 8


   
 Spirit Of Peace

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 4


   
 Agape Agape

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 8


   
 Tantric Songs

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 8


   
 Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 7


   
 Die Nachte Der Seele

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 11


   
 Nosferatu [soundtrack]

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 10


   
 Nosferatu On The Way To A Little Way

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 10


   
 Bruder Des Schattens, Sohne Des Lichts

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 4


   
 Coeur de Verre [soundtrack]

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 7


   
 Coeur De Verre

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 7


   
 Yoga

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 2


   
 Letzte Tage - Letzte Nachte

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 8


   
 Aguirre [soundtrack]

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 8


   
 Aguirre

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 8


   
 Einjager and Siebenjager

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 6


   
 Das Hohelied Salomos

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 9


   
 Seligpreisung

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 8


   
 In Den Garten Pharaos

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 2


   
 Affenstunde

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 4


   
 In The Gardens Of The Pharao

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 3

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Of the many now-legendary artists to emerge from the Krautrock move, few anticipated the rear of modern electronic music with the same prescience as Popol Vuh -- the first German band to use a Moog synthesist, their act non only hoped-for the egress of ambient, just also proven pioneering in its absorption of worldbeat textures. At a lot the same time Popol Vuh was formed in Munich in 1969, another mathematical group, of Norwegian descent, adoptive the same name, an endless beginning of discombobulation in the age to follow; both were inspired by the sanctum book of Guatemala's Quiche Indians, and according to Mayan researchers the title rough translates as "merging place." Keyboardist Florian Fricke was profoundly immersed in Mayan myth at the time he formed the chemical group with synth player Frank Fiedler and percussionist Holger Trulzsch, and his interests were reflected in the spiritual themes of their 1970 debut, Affenstunde.


The follow-up two old age later, In den Garten Pharaos, was Popol Vuh's creative breakthrough, an intensely contemplative work fusing ambient textures with constitutional pleximetry. In its inflame, nonetheless, Fricke born-again to Christianity, a go which sparked a rejection of electronics in favor of traditional pagan instrumentation including guitars, oboe and tamboura; he then tapped korean soprano Djong Yun to lend vocals to 1972's lovely Hosianna Mantra. Fricke following teamed with onetime Amon Duul II drummer Daniel Fichelscher for the following Popol Vuh LP, Seligpreisung; its follow-up, 1975's Einjager und Siebenjager, remains widely considered among the group's most stunning efforts. That same year, they began a protracted creative partnership with the storied movie maker Werner Herzog which yielded soundtracks for features including Aguirre, Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu.


Throughout the latter half of the seventies, Popol Vuh's fascination with worldwide sounds and instruments continued, with the prominence of sitars, tablas and tamboura rhythm section on LPs like 1977's Herz aus Glas and 1979's Die Nacht der Seele: Tantric Songs earning their latter-day sound descriptions like "raga rock candy." In 1978, Fricke founded the Working Group for Creative Singing and likewise became a extremity of the Breathing Therapy Society, traveling the earth to lecturing on both subjects; in the end, his away passions began to dwarf his make in Popol Vuh, and as the 1980s dawned the grouping began losing steam, calling it quits after 1983's splendid Agape Agape. After reuniting two eld later for Emotional state of Peace, Fricke over again reassembled Popol Vuh for the 1997 LP Shepherd's Symphony.