Tune Yards - Am Mittwoch 24.2. in Berlin im West-Germany, 20 Uhr

Was man nicht alles für Instrumente, Stilmittel, Feldaufnahmen und Zitate verwenden kann, ohne unruhig zu werden!

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100 Jahre Django Reinhardt

Today, Django Reinhardt, the pioneer of Gypsy Swing and European Jazz in general, would have celebrated his 100th birthday! Please feel welcome to listen to the 3-Minute Radio Piece (german) I made for Radio Bremen. More information about Django you will find here. If you are only in it for the music, this is a collection with a lot of important recordings but without liner notes. For guitarists I can recommend this book, with tabs, a play-along-CD, a biography and texts on his technique as well as guitars. This by the way is a movie about Reinhardt, Woody Allen made, who uses a lot of Reinhardts music in all of his works.

Here you can see how two fingers of Django's left hand are crippled from a fire of Djangos caravan. Django caused the fire himself by accidentally kicking a candle into the paper flowers his wife produces for a living. More than a year the Sinti Reinhardt had to spent in a hospital. One can call it a miracle, that he developed such a fast and sensitive technique with only three fingers.

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Beach House kommen in den Roten Salon

Die Berliner Volksbühne meldet:

BEACH HOUSE (live)
im Anschluss: DJ Thomas Morr (Morr Music) 

am 25.2.um 21 Uhr im Roten Salon

Für die Aufnahmen an ihrem vierten Album "Teen Dream" haben sich Beach House einen Monat mit ihrem Produzenten Chris Coady in eine stillgelegt Kirche eingeschlossen. Pünktlich zur Plattenveröffentlichung stellt das Duo Victoria Legrand und Alex Scally die neuen Songs live vor.

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Stream: New Four Tet Album

Four Tet's soft art of electro - 
the great new album "There's Love In You" streaming via soundcloud.

Four Tet is Kieran Hebden

Stream: Nostalgic Fernweh – musical dropout

Streaming via Soundcloud:  

Musical “getting away from it all”-dreams. Serveral long mixes of the dutch DJ-Duo Quartier Mustache. 50ies-Broadway-Songs & Cocktail-Lounge-Jazz, enriched with sounds of paradise from Tiki to Bossanova.

LINK: Scratch - The Documentary and The X-Ecutioners

"Scratch - The documentary" on scratching and DJing. Thanks, Uli!

And here the Masters of scratching and beat-juggling: The X-Ecutioners.

LINK: Japanese Vendor explains Rock'n'Roll rhythm

Thank You Jörg, for this wonderful clip:

Japanese vendor is going nuts on keyboard-drums. Funny, but what he says about rock'nRoll rhythm pattern is actually true.

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