Pelle nera, Maschere bianche
Sono ammaliato da queste immagini che arrivano quasi in concomitanza, come dei lampi improvvisi che scaricano su paesaggi urbani differenti. Strade di Kinshasa vs. strade di New York, nessun clashing, solo immaginari messi in parallelo. Che sia forse questo un modo nuovo di rappresentare le culture urbane? Segnalo anche l’elenco completo dei trailer di Kinshasa Succersale,...
Crossing the bridge
Turkish rapper Ceza in Fatih Akin’s Crossing the bridge – The sound of Istanbul.
Again on sound clashing
Two sound clash contributions – theory and memory – from Norman C. Stolzoff’s Wake the Town and Tell the People: “The clash first emerged and continues to function as a way for particular sound systems to differentiate themselves and thus clear a space in a crowded field of competitors. In this sense, the clash operates...
Culture Clash
La scorsa settimana Londra ha ospitato l’evento più sconvolgente degli ultimi anni di bass culture britannica. Culture Clash – organizzato da Red Bull Music Academy al Roundhouse di Camden – è una celebrazione della tradizione dei sound system a Londra, radicata nel tessuto urbano dopo l’ondata migratoria caraibica degli anni ’50 e in particolare coincidente...
War on stereotypes
– Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), ph: by Véronique De Viguerie– Killarmy Dirty Weaponry, Wu-Tang Priority, 1998
Schizophonia
Browsing the extremely prolific blog Global Groove, I was struck by a post which juxtapose a record cover from Congo and a backyard made out of curious folk objects and garden sculptures covered by snow. Moos, the blog owner, tells that “it’s cold in the Netherlands [where he lives], with some 8 degrees Celsius below...
Dub colossus
Have you heard about Sonic Warfare? Blue is King Midas Sound‘s power demonstration, one minute and forty-one seconds of ultra-bass infection… everything is there, from jamaican urban dances to Brixton’s heavy weight meditations. Please play it only on massive soundsystems or good headphones. Steve McQueen, Girls, Tricky, 2001
A good issue of visual anthropology
On today’s New York Times blog, focused on a failed Pablo Delano’s reportage in Honduras.To gladden the reading – or maybe to emphasize the mayan stereotype – I suggest to download this very charming compilation of mayan marimba posted a while ago by Dj Bongo Man on Music City blog. A procession in the department...
Il secondo sapore
Here is my piece (italian) on Netmage 2010, published on Alias/Il Manifesto last saturday. The festival is january 21/23, Bologna, check out the program of the festival here. Click on the image or ‘right click > save image’ to read it
