Celebrities conk out every day and pop culture rapidly moves on. But for the Garifuna people, descendants of shipwrecked slaves whose culture extends through Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, world-music sense experience Andy Palacio was more than a star. The Belize native, who suffered a fatal heart blast and cerebrovascular accident at the age of 47 in January, was the psyche of a culture that many feared had been close to extinction earlier he committed himself to its rescue and renewal.
Palacio will be the subject of a extra musical protection today at California Plaza in business district Los Angeles, with members of the Garifuna Collective paying homage to his talent as part of the free Grand Performances series.
"We're very curious ourselves, honestly, to see what effect [Palacio's death] testament have on the group," said Dean Porter of Grand Performances. "Although they may not have the, quote-unquote, star topology quality that Andy had, we know they play the same authenticity that the audience comes here to engage with."
Some of the musicians played with Palacio at the venue last year. But this sentence, the headliners will be three women singers -- Sofia Blanco, her girl Silvia and Desere Diego -- world Health Organization are featured on a new album, "Umalali: The Garifuna Women's Project," released domestically on the Cumbancha label.
That assemblage is the result of a decennium of fieldwork. Since 1997, producer Ivan Duran has devoted himself to the Garifuna Women's Project, a systematic effort to search out the strong female voices of this cultivation. Like a musical anthropologist, he visited remote villages to record book women in their kitchens and temples, accumulating sufficiency material for an album and a tour, originally scheduled with Palacio this year.
"You could feel among the women a renewed level of commitment and a sense of urgency after his decease," said Duran in Spanish this week from his home in Belize. "We all felt that we had to do everything possible so that this door that Andy open for us would non close on us again."
The women ar the real stars of Garifuna culture, forged through the exogamy of early African slaves and the indigenous Carib and Arawak Indians. The men like the spotlight, said Duran, but the women are the cultural anchors.
"Garifuna women are very strong," he said. "Traditionally, the workforce are fishermen and the women ar in charge of cultivating the fields, as well as raising the children. They ar also the ones responsible for transmitting many aspects of the culture. They have a very trenchant timbre to their voices and they bring a whole different sensibility to the music."
The motivation to preserve the native culture resonated with Duran, who has roots in Catalonia, the area of Spain whose independent identity was threatened under the Franco dictatorship. The acclaimed album he produced for Palacio lowest year, "W�tina," is credited with sparking the Garifuna renaissance.
"The stage of preservation is past times and it's now important to move the music into the future," he said. "That's the only way young people will identify with it. And when the youth stoppage relating to their own music because they see it drilling or old fashioned, that's when the music will die."
Duran was an infant when his parents moved to Belize in the early '70s, an era of revolution and violence end-to-end Central America. They established one of the nation's first record book publishers, Cubola Productions, specializing in the history and anthropology of Belize.
Two decades afterward, Duran became his possess cultural trailblazer when he launched the first label devoted to Belizean euphony, Stonetree Records. Before that, artists had to locomote to Mexico or the U.S. to record -- Palacio made several records during the 1980s in Los Angeles, where in that respect is a significant Garifuna immigrant community.
(L.A.'s inaugural Garifuna Settlement Day celebration, featuring a hip-hop style lineup, is planned for Nov. 14, with tickets available at Little Belize eating house in Inglewood and other locations.)
Duran undertook the women's envision in 1997, intrigued by their voices and stories. He recorded some three hundred songs by 50 women and selected 12 tracks for the album. He added touches of blues, rock, Latin and other styles to make a modern record, not but a historical document.
The music reflects the merger of African, Spanish and Indian derivation. Yet, in their relation isolation from the rest of Latin America, these artists preserved an reliable West African style, with high-pitched nasal bone vocals and echoes of tribal chants. In some songs, you can discover the magnetic core 3-2 clave beat of the Garifuna's Afro-Cuban cousins. In others, there are the joyful grooves of Afropop or an nervy electric guitar.
On one caterpillar track, "Uruwei" (The Government), Duran adds the sounds of a hummock swinging on his porch with sea waves in the background, enhancing the ambience of the rustic vocal data track from his original field recordings.
Duran mightiness have made the music contemporary, simply the themes are timeless. In "Nibari" (My Grandchild), Sofia Blanco offers a warning to a contrary granddaughter with a taste for linear away from home. The lyric was written by her hubby of almost 40 days, Gregorio, based on a conversation he had overheard on the street.
In "Yunduya Weyu" (The Sun Has Set), Blanco writes her own painful lyric about the difficult nascency of one of her four children.
One of the newest members of the Garifuna Collective is singer Lloyd Augustine, 31, formerly with the band Punta Rebels, who switched to more traditional music, such as the rhythmical paranda, partially thanks to Palacio.
Diego, the third vocalizer on tonight's bill, is also one of the youngest in the picture and one of the most desired. Her herculean voice often is heard at d�g� ceremonies, a traditional healing ritual.
"On this tour, the important thing is to show that there's so much talent in this community," aforesaid Duran. "This project is not summed up in one person or one artist. We want the world to be aware of what we give to put up."
Or as Palacio would often say at concerts: "There's a lot more where I came from."
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
New Study Says Peers At The Heart Of Teen Weight Concerns
�The peer groups teenaged girls identify with define how they decide to control their own fig. So reports a new study (1) by Dr. Eleanor Mackey from the Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC, and her colleague Dr. Annette La Greca from the University of Miami. Also influencing
Friday 27 June 2008
REM, Panic At The Disco, for Voodoo Experience
REM, Stone Temple Pilots and Nine Inch Nails have been announced to headline this year�s Voodoo Experience in October.
Panic At The Disco, Death Cab For Cutie, Tokyo Police Club, Cold War Kids and Dashboard Confessional are also set to play the festival which takes place October 24-26 in New Orleans.
Erykah Badu, Wyclef Jean, Joss Stone, Lupe Fiasco, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Cold War Kids, Ghostland Observatory, Joseph Arthur, The Gutter Twins, Thievery Corporation and Man Man, are also among the acts set to play the festival, which will be held at City Park.
A weekend pass for the event will cost $115, going on sale Monday (June 23). VIP passes will also be on sale and will cost $450.
--By our New York staff.
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Panic At The Disco, Death Cab For Cutie, Tokyo Police Club, Cold War Kids and Dashboard Confessional are also set to play the festival which takes place October 24-26 in New Orleans.
Erykah Badu, Wyclef Jean, Joss Stone, Lupe Fiasco, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Cold War Kids, Ghostland Observatory, Joseph Arthur, The Gutter Twins, Thievery Corporation and Man Man, are also among the acts set to play the festival, which will be held at City Park.
A weekend pass for the event will cost $115, going on sale Monday (June 23). VIP passes will also be on sale and will cost $450.
--By our New York staff.
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Thursday 19 June 2008
A spring in their step
PUNK chart toppers The Offspring have sold millions of albums and had hits with Come Out and Play and Self Esteem. Now for something different: the power ballad.
TWO words you don't expect to be associated with punk chart toppers the Offspring: power ballad. But right there in the middle of their new album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace is an old-fashioned radio-friendly slowie, Kristy, Are You Doing Okay? Guitarist Kevin ‘‘Noodles'' Wasserman says frontman and main songwriter Dexter Holland brought Kristy to the band as a finished tune. ‘‘It is a little different. We've messed around with those types of (slower) songs over the years but they've never made it on to a record. It doesn't seem like a big surprise to me because I've heard all those songs, but Offspring fans might go ‘What?' But not everything has to be hardcore.'' The song is about an abused child -- one of the Offspring's most sensitive moments. ‘‘I think it fits on this record,'' Noodles says. ‘‘This is one of the most varied records we've done. We've been moving in that direction more and more in increments throughout our career.'' That career has seen the Californian band sell more than 38 million albums since forming in 1984, breaking into the mainstream 10 years later with hits Come Out and Play and Self Esteem. Rise and Fall marks the longest the band have spent on a record -- more than two years. ‘‘Too f---ing long,'' Noodles jokes. ‘‘I think it was a curse from trying to call our last album Chinese Democracy.'' The band received a ‘‘cease and desist'' letter from Axl Rose when they threatened to name 2003's Splinter after Guns N' Roses' 10-years-in-the-making Chinese Democracy. The irony is they've beaten Rose to the punch again. ‘‘We didn't want to f--- with the guy that bad,'' Noodles says. ‘‘I don't know what demons he's dealing with on that record. We just spent a lot more time trying to make this record something extra special.'' The band recruited A-list producer Bob Rock for their eighth studio album. ‘‘We were a little sceptical because of his pedigree with Motley Crue and Metallica,'' Noodles says. ‘‘I mean, The Black Album is a great album, but it's a huge heavy, big album, and not the way we'd want to sound. But once we got to know him it was fine. He's one of the bros. Plus he used to do lots of little punk bands back in the day.'' Rock also adapted to a punk band working at a not-so-punk pace. ‘‘He's so patient,'' Noodles says. ‘‘This record took a long f---ing time. We've never taken so long making a record and I don't think he has either.'' So long did the album take that the Offspring booked an Australian tour for February as part of the Soundwave festival. They thought they'd have the new album in the can. They were wrong. ‘‘There was some tension with deadlines, but you can't push it when you want it to be right,'' Noodles says. ‘‘Deadlines are arbitrary. The songs have to come first and be the best they can be. But you can do that for 10 years -- ask Axl Rose. At some point you have to go ‘OK, I've done all I can do to this song'. Dexter always quotes Paul Stanley -- ‘Records are never finished, they're abandoned'.'' Playing two new songs live -- Hammerhead and Half Truism -- gave fans the chance to provide instant feedback. It also meant bootlegged copies hit YouTube hours after the band hit the stage. ‘‘We had a look at a few of them,'' Noodles admits. ‘‘We first did Hammerhead last August in Japan. You'd think the Japanese dudes with all their technology would get a decent recording of it, but it was horrible. People were going ‘The song's good, but what a shitty recording'.'' The Offspring have adapted well to the new digital frontier. They were one of the first bands to offer an entire album online for free legal download, and had cameras in the studio to let fans watch them at work. ‘‘It's the way the world's going, there's no point swimming against the tide,'' Noodles says. ‘‘The internet is a neat thing. It's making people return to the grassroots. You've got to be creative, see what works.'' Though last album Splinter saw the band's sales dip, Noodles isn't worried. ‘‘In this day and age if that's your obsession you're f---ed. All bands are shifting from trying to make money on records to trying to make it playing live. ‘‘We've always spent s---loads on touring and not done it very smartly from a financial point of view.'' Indeed, the Offspring are in the process of workshopping a new touring regime that will see them out on the road for long stretches at a time ‘‘for financial reasons''. But they have to balance that with family life: Noodles has spent the past year fishing, shopping and singing choir with his kids. ‘‘I've got a five-year-old son and an 18-year-old daughter,'' he explains. ‘‘I've got two different baby mommas -- I'm trying to keep current!'' Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (Sony BMG) out now.
TWO words you don't expect to be associated with punk chart toppers the Offspring: power ballad. But right there in the middle of their new album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace is an old-fashioned radio-friendly slowie, Kristy, Are You Doing Okay? Guitarist Kevin ‘‘Noodles'' Wasserman says frontman and main songwriter Dexter Holland brought Kristy to the band as a finished tune. ‘‘It is a little different. We've messed around with those types of (slower) songs over the years but they've never made it on to a record. It doesn't seem like a big surprise to me because I've heard all those songs, but Offspring fans might go ‘What?' But not everything has to be hardcore.'' The song is about an abused child -- one of the Offspring's most sensitive moments. ‘‘I think it fits on this record,'' Noodles says. ‘‘This is one of the most varied records we've done. We've been moving in that direction more and more in increments throughout our career.'' That career has seen the Californian band sell more than 38 million albums since forming in 1984, breaking into the mainstream 10 years later with hits Come Out and Play and Self Esteem. Rise and Fall marks the longest the band have spent on a record -- more than two years. ‘‘Too f---ing long,'' Noodles jokes. ‘‘I think it was a curse from trying to call our last album Chinese Democracy.'' The band received a ‘‘cease and desist'' letter from Axl Rose when they threatened to name 2003's Splinter after Guns N' Roses' 10-years-in-the-making Chinese Democracy. The irony is they've beaten Rose to the punch again. ‘‘We didn't want to f--- with the guy that bad,'' Noodles says. ‘‘I don't know what demons he's dealing with on that record. We just spent a lot more time trying to make this record something extra special.'' The band recruited A-list producer Bob Rock for their eighth studio album. ‘‘We were a little sceptical because of his pedigree with Motley Crue and Metallica,'' Noodles says. ‘‘I mean, The Black Album is a great album, but it's a huge heavy, big album, and not the way we'd want to sound. But once we got to know him it was fine. He's one of the bros. Plus he used to do lots of little punk bands back in the day.'' Rock also adapted to a punk band working at a not-so-punk pace. ‘‘He's so patient,'' Noodles says. ‘‘This record took a long f---ing time. We've never taken so long making a record and I don't think he has either.'' So long did the album take that the Offspring booked an Australian tour for February as part of the Soundwave festival. They thought they'd have the new album in the can. They were wrong. ‘‘There was some tension with deadlines, but you can't push it when you want it to be right,'' Noodles says. ‘‘Deadlines are arbitrary. The songs have to come first and be the best they can be. But you can do that for 10 years -- ask Axl Rose. At some point you have to go ‘OK, I've done all I can do to this song'. Dexter always quotes Paul Stanley -- ‘Records are never finished, they're abandoned'.'' Playing two new songs live -- Hammerhead and Half Truism -- gave fans the chance to provide instant feedback. It also meant bootlegged copies hit YouTube hours after the band hit the stage. ‘‘We had a look at a few of them,'' Noodles admits. ‘‘We first did Hammerhead last August in Japan. You'd think the Japanese dudes with all their technology would get a decent recording of it, but it was horrible. People were going ‘The song's good, but what a shitty recording'.'' The Offspring have adapted well to the new digital frontier. They were one of the first bands to offer an entire album online for free legal download, and had cameras in the studio to let fans watch them at work. ‘‘It's the way the world's going, there's no point swimming against the tide,'' Noodles says. ‘‘The internet is a neat thing. It's making people return to the grassroots. You've got to be creative, see what works.'' Though last album Splinter saw the band's sales dip, Noodles isn't worried. ‘‘In this day and age if that's your obsession you're f---ed. All bands are shifting from trying to make money on records to trying to make it playing live. ‘‘We've always spent s---loads on touring and not done it very smartly from a financial point of view.'' Indeed, the Offspring are in the process of workshopping a new touring regime that will see them out on the road for long stretches at a time ‘‘for financial reasons''. But they have to balance that with family life: Noodles has spent the past year fishing, shopping and singing choir with his kids. ‘‘I've got a five-year-old son and an 18-year-old daughter,'' he explains. ‘‘I've got two different baby mommas -- I'm trying to keep current!'' Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (Sony BMG) out now.
Friday 13 June 2008
Coldplay World Tour Dates Postponed By Production Problems
Coldplay have been forced to postpone the opening two weeks of their world tour because of production problems.
A statement from the band said that the unspecified delays mean “that the show simply won't be ready" to begin on June 29th in Philadelphia.
Instead the tour will now begin with two dates in Los Angeles on July 14th and 15th.
Tickets for the postponed dates will remain valid for the new ones, although people can claim a refund from the point of purchase.
The production problems will not harm the band's free shows this month – in Barcelona, New York and London – which will go ahead as planned.
Tickets for the band's winter UK tour are on sale now and available through Gigwise here.
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Sunday 8 June 2008
Chris Cagle, girlfriend arrested after fight
Country music singer Chris Cagle has been arrested on suspicion of domestic assault in Nashville after police said he and his girlfriend got into a drunken fight.
Corrections officials say Cagle and his girlfriend, Jennifer Tant, have been jailed on misdemeanor domestic assault charges. A police affidavit says both were intoxicated and an argument turned physical early this morning.
The Davidson County Sheriff's Department says there is a mandatory 12-hour stay in jail before Cagle and Tant can post $1,500 bonds.
Corrections officials say Cagle and his girlfriend, Jennifer Tant, have been jailed on misdemeanor domestic assault charges. A police affidavit says both were intoxicated and an argument turned physical early this morning.
The Davidson County Sheriff's Department says there is a mandatory 12-hour stay in jail before Cagle and Tant can post $1,500 bonds.
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