2010 (8)
THNKS A LOT MY QUEEN !!!!!!!!!
August 1, Atoms for Peace, Thom`s superband, performed at Fuji Rock Festival in Japan
Playlist
01. The Eraser
02. Analyse
03. The Clock
04. Black Swan
05. Skip Divided
06. Atoms For Peace
07. And It Rained All Night
08. Harrowdown Hill
09. Cymbal Rush
10. I Might Be Wrong
11. Give Up The Ghost
12. Videotape
13. Paperbag Writer
14. Judge, Jury and Executioner
15. Hollow Earth
16. Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses
Videos
http://http://www.waste-central.com/video/thm-jonny-at-glasto-2010
Pics
http://www.waste-central.com/photo/albums/secret-gig-glastonbury-2010
Michael Eavis, organizador de Glastonbury, presentó a Thom como la mayor sorpresa del festival/ Michael Eavis - manager of Glastonbury- present Thom - the best surprise of the festival !! -
Playlist
The Eraser
Harrowdown Hill
Black Swan
Cymbal Rush
WeirdFishes/Arpeggi
Pyramid Song
Idioteque
Karma Police
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Audio
Phoner With Ed From Radiohead
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wknd
Thom Yorke supplied one of the defining moments of Glastonbury Festival 2010 so far with his secret show at the Park Stage. Thousands of people basked in the sunshine as the Radiohead man wowed fans with ‘The Eraser’ and ‘Black Swan’.
He was then joined onstage by Jonny Greenwood for ‘Idioteque’ before a joyous ‘Karma Police’ was sung by the crowd after the song finished. Ending with ‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’ the special guests really lived up to their name. Now where are Coldplay?...
After Yorke’s classic Glastonbury moment, Fatboy Slim’s tradional Dance Village show failed to light up the reviews. Benni Banassi’s ‘Satisfaction’ and a mash-up of ‘The Rockafeller Skank’ with the Rolling Stones’ ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ left fans satisfied (sorry), but a ‘Eye Of The Tiger’ remix was just awful.
It’s with a heavy heart that we were dragged from Thom Yorke’s special appearance in The Park toward Hot Chip. And the departure from the squinty angel-voiced Yorke (and friends) unfortunately marred the impact of fun-boys Hot Chip. It’s not that there was anything particularly wrong with Chip’s appearance. It’s just that even with his sweetest, most falsetto’d poetry Alexis Taylor ccouldn't begin to reach Yorke’s heights - or depths. Especially with Alexis wearing a Pearly King style baseball cap which made him look like he was on day release from a cockney asylum.
Jonny Greenwood 2010 Popcorn Superhet Receiver Premieres
http://www.ilikemusic.com/music_news/July_1st_Is_A_Night_Of_Avant_Garde_Experimentalism-10028
http://www.rncm.ac.uk/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,1844/333/
RNCM Symphony and Concert Orchestras with André de Ridder and special guest Ólafur Arnalds
Jonny Greenwood Popcorn Superhet Receiver
Avner Dorman Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! (UK première)
Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Ólafur Arnalds Songs from ‘...and they have escaped the weight of darkness’ (world première)
André de Ridder conductor
DYAD Percussion Duo
Ólafur Arnalds composer, piano
As the guitarist for Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood has helped push the boundaries of rock music by integrating electronics and unconventional song structures.
Greenwood is also a classically trained violinist and contemporary composer and Popcorn Superhet Receiver, his brilliant slice of avant-garde romanticism, takes its name from a shortwave radio catalogue − inspired by ‘white noise’. Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!, Avner Dorman’s concerto for two percussionists and orchestra, references three substances that are extremely appealing, yet filled with danger: Spices that delight the palate, yet can cause illness; Perfumes that seduce, yet can also betray; and Toxins that bring ecstasy, yet are deadly. This high-energy score combines Middle-Eastern drums, orchestral percussion and rock drums with symphonic forces to create a unique sound that, like the title, is both enticing and dangerous. The inspiration for Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring came to the composer in a fleeting vision: ‘I saw in my imagination a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watched a young girl dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propitiate the god of spring’. A score of unprecedented rhythmic and harmonic ferocity, this seminal, highly influential piece caused a riot at its 1913 Paris première and established the composer as the prince of the avant-garde.
The final part of tonight’s event features Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds. Ólafur has already played a sell-out show at the Barbican and opened for Sigur Rós on their most recent European tour. His exploration of the space between classical and pop generates a uniquely graceful musical language. He defies traditional terminologies, melding piano, strings and discreet electronics into delicate orchestral compositions. This will be a world première of songs from his latest album, performed with a full orchestra.
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti: 21 years with the ACO
It's hard to believe, but one of our young, funky, new-guard music leaders is about to notch up 21 years with his ensemble.
Richard Tognetti has been directing the course of the ACO - the Australian Chamber Orchestra - since 1989, and no-one finds the passage of time more bewildering than the man himself.
To mark the event, the ACO is super-sizing to twice normal capacity, so that they can fulfill a few big ambitions. This will be the first time the ACO has attempted a Brahms symphony, and they're starting at the very beginning, with Brahms Symphony No. 1. They're also going to perform Schubert's 8th (and unfinished) Symphony. But the great contrast of the night will come with a piece called Popcorn Superhet Receiver. If you saw the film There Will Be Blood, you'll have heard some of the work, which was written by Jonny Greenwood, the very gifted guitarist and songwriter with innovative British group Radiohead. And it's this sort of collision of creative ideas that still captivates Richard Tognetti, after more than two decades of orchestral leadership.
Michael Shirrefs asked Richard Tognetti if he understands the sort of chemistry that has made him so visible on the musical skyline.
Richard Tognetti Artistic Director and Lead Violin
GREENWOOD Popcorn Superhet Receiver (Australian Premiere)
SCHUBERT Symphony No.8, Unfinished
BRAHMS Symphony No.1
Sidney; 29 May, Sidney Opera House; 30 May, Melboure 6 - 7 June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLdwvqp6bfc
http://www.aco.com.au/Default.aspx?url=/romanticsymphony
http://www.filmink.com.au/filmbiz/notice/2376/
The ACO plays two of the great Romantic symphonies! That doesn't happen every day. In fact, the ACO has never played a Brahms symphony till now. We do, however, play a Beethoven symphony most years and Brahms’ first symphony is nicknamed Beethoven’s 10th. Poor Brahms, he took decades to finish it, such was the pressure to produce a symphony on a par with Beethoven’s. Most people think he did. Certainly he created a bold, sweeping symphony, perfect for the massed sound of ACO and ACO2 combined.
The ‘Unfinished’ may be Schubert’s most popular work, two movements of tension and turmoil, serenity and lyricism: the Romantic era well and truly underway.
Something else that doesn't happen every day is a rock star writing great orchestral music, but Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is the real deal. Described by the New York Times as classical music on “steroids, or acid, or both”, Popcorn Superhet Receiver won the Listeners’ Award at the BBC British Composer Awards. The work was featured in the Academy Award-winning film, There Will Be Blood, and was called “a movie music breakthrough” by the Boston Globe and “revolutionary” by Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly. The New Yorker compared it to Bernard Herrmann’s Citizen Kane score for the significance of its contribution to the film.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/radioheads-jonny-takes-a-bow-20100530-wnen.html
RICHARD Tognetti wants this made absolutely clear.
Yes, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, as part of a program involving Schubert and Brahms, will be performing a piece by the composer Jonny Greenwood. Yes, that's the Jonny Greenwood who has a day job as the floppy-haired, noise-making guitarist of Radiohead, the most adventurous rock band of the past 20 years. But no, his Radiohead gig is not why his work for string orchestra, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, is on the orchestra's program.
Greenwood is there ''because of the piece rather than being a famous rock composer. Otherwise we could have chosen someone even more famous on which to hang the marketing flag,'' Tognetti says, suggesting with a slight shudder in his voice Paul McCartney's classical excursion Ecce Cor Meum as an example of the bums-on-seats choice one could make if quality wasn't your criterion.
(Via -- Ateaseweb.com...)
Radiohead are making progress in the studio. The band started recording this past Winter and are currently in the studio working on the last bits. Ed O’Brien said it will be a matter of weeks till it’s finished and hopes to see the release before the end of this year. ‘It has got to. I hope so’
Guitarist Ed O’Brien was a guest on Adam Buxton’s show on BBC 6 Music today, saying he thinks the new Radiohead record ‘is the best record we’ve ever made’.
Ed: “We’re in the heart of the record. It’s genuinely exciting. It’s very different from what we did last time. It’s really nice to be doing this. It’s so good to be making music with the band that you feel is still as good as it’s ever been.”
When Adam Buxton asked if he had any idea when this record would see the light of day,
Ed answered: “No, Ideally it would be greatif it came out sometime this year. It has got to. I hope so. We’re at the finishing line. When you’re making a record, a film, write a book for ages and ages you think the finishing line is miles away. Now it feels it’s in touching distance. But of course, it being a creative process, at the last bit also, you have bursts of energy, you achieve a lot of things in a small period of time and then you’re nearly there…it might slow down. But yeah, hopefully it will be a matter of weeks.”
With ‘In Rainbows’ you seemed to have turned a corner and having a lot more fun. That’s what it looked like from the outside looking in. Is that fair?
Ed O’Brien: It wasn’t fun making the record. Making records has been hard. It’s always been a slog. Traditionally Radiohead in a studio has been: Don your tin helmet, just see it out, like a war of attrition. And basically at the end of In Rainbows it had taken three years to sort of come together. And we initially started off on our own, pulled in someone else and after a year we worked with Nigel [Godrich] again. It was such a slog. We knew we had these songs. We really believed in these songs. So, we had to do it right. It just took a long time. And we basically decided then and there at the end of that record: ‘We are never doing this again this way’. That was kind of like the end of Radiohead, mark 2. We decided, the only way that worked for us to carry on was to do it in a different spirit. Enjoy it.
On the recording process of ‘In Rainbows’ Ed continued explaining why it was much harder than everybody thought.
Ed: “We hear it all the time: ‘it sounds like you had a great time in the studio’. But, oh man… that [In Rainbows] was a slog. It was a really long process. At the end, for instance a song like ‘House Of Cards’ has been recorded six times. Plus the fact: we had this genius idea in 2006 to go on tour and do 50 odd shows, play all these songs, go back to studio and record them. And that’s when we went back in with Nigel. We went in and recorded them having played these songs 50 times. So we kind of got the arrangements sorted. We just wanted to get them down. We played these enough. And we got them down and most of them were rubbish. A lot of work in the creative process is rubbish.
However Ed praised producer Nigel Godrich for his influence on the band.
Ed:“The art is to not give in, to carry on, persevere. You just have to keep going. The great thing about Nigel is; he raises the bar. He drives you hard. You think you’ve done the take, you think you’ve done your overdub, you think it’s in there and then he says: ‘Maybe one more time’. He gets the best performances out of you. He’s amazing. Cause he also drives himself really hard as well. The quality of the stuff that he does is really high. So, it’s good to be driven hard.”
I'm excited!
-SSA
UPDATE: Listen to the interview here:
http://soundcloud.com/a952424/ed20-6-2010
Link:
http://www.ateaseweb.com/2010/06/20/new-radiohead-album-almost-finished-release-this-year/
hey everyone
ok so in April the other band.. that i got together to do the eraser and other stuff u know .. Mauro, Flea, Me, Joey and Nigel is going back out to do some shows in the US.. ending with playing with Coachella. we had too much fun to just leave it there...
it has been decided that we call ourselves Atoms For Peace. hope you like the name.. it seemed bleedin' obvious.
these are the shows & Flying Lotus is opening for us -
New York Roseland Ballroom 5th & 6th
Boston Citi Wang Theatre 8th
Chicago Aragon Ballroom 10th & 11th
Oakland Fox Theatre 14th & 15th
Santa Barbara Bowl 17th
for further details follow this link: http://www.waste.uk.com/RHInfo.html
all warmth
Thom
Good times.
-SSA
-SSA
