There are five million inhabitants and over two million Saunas in Finland. This is a sacrosanct place where Finns usually can relax, think about the meaning of life while pushing their body to the limit, in a casual way. Norwegian director Thomas Hilland made this short documentary about local hero Timo Kaukonen, speedo enthusiast but also four times winner of the Sauna World Championships. Great guy, great athlete, great furniture.
Sauna – Thomas Hilland (Partizan Films)
05/11/2009, 22h23, par Boris
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Article : Sweat: A Tribute To Finnish Sauna.
Genius producer Phil Spector (the Ronettes, The Crystals, The Ramones, Ike & Tina Turner, Lennon…) may be serving his sentence in jail in California, his revolutionary recording technique of the “Wall Of Sound” still makes people talk. Here comes a documentary by filmmaker Binia Tymieniecka, back in 83 and that aired on Channel Four, coming out on DVD in December. Lire la suite
Tags: 60's, california, documentary, pop, Producer
New band. New Song. Vintage boobs.
This song is like popular french flicks from the 70′s: fun, groovy and with lots of boobs. Long distance musicianship between London based singer Eglantine Gouzy and Southern French composer Fred Lansini gave birth to Get Back Guinozzi! in 2007. Their album Carpet Madness is out on FatCat Records. Lire la suite
Sunday we’re interviewing a freefighter. We’d better not go this way.
Sunday, we’re interviewing Eugene S. Robinson, founder of Oxbow, freefighter and writer of a book called “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking”. Lire la suite
Tags: california, fight, san francisco
What’s the common denominator between Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine, REM, Billy Bragg, Roseanne Cash, Pearl Jam, Jackson Browne and Steve Earle? They all stood against Guantanamo (also called by the military personnal “Gitmo”) because of the use of music as a torture tool in military interrogations! Lire la suite
Olha que coisa mais linda, mais cheia de graça…
From Bossa Nova to Baile Funk, Beyond Ipanema explores fifty years of Brazilian music and its impact outside the country. Directed by Brazilian New Yorkers Guto Barra and Béco Dranoff, the documentary features interviews of David Byrne, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, M.I.A, Devendra Banhart, CSS, Lalo Schifrin and Tropicalia legendary band Os Mutantes. Lire la suite
Tags: baile funk, bossa nova, brazil, documentary, Tropicalia
Metal people are so generous!
This is kind of my saying: in any metal band, you’ll find great hearts and a gold mining for journalists.
Today’s example is based on the new release of Impaler. A 26 years run of shock rock/metal from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra, Bigfoot, Jersey Devil, Kraken,the Black Dogs of Britain and Mothman: those monsters from the four corners of the earth are being paid a tribute in their last record, “Cryptozoology”, coming up december, 1st. Lire la suite
Either you call it Glo-Fi, Hypnagogic Pop or Chill-Wave, there was something going on with music last summer. Dreamy synth melodies that sound like half-remembered soft-rock tunes from the 80′s, recordings on dirty unraveled tapes, memories of memories, summer nights at the beach, surfing… This had to happen at some point but here we are: Yacht Rock is cool again. Lire la suite
Tags: 80's, beach, memory tapes, moustache, neon indian, soft, surf, synth, toro y moi
“We at San Francisco Tweed constitute a rare breed of cyclist — ladies and gents who refuse to endure anymore spandex!”- from San Francisco Tweed community’s website-
Croquet, picnics and cycling: a bunch of mid 19th aesthetic lovers are taking over the streets of alcatraz’s city. Mainly interested in bicycles, the Tweed lovers preach for courtesy, good manners, through a community mainly based in England called The Chap. (Check out the british Chap Manifesto). Lire la suite
Tags: Alter-globalization, community, fashion, moustache, san francisco
Sprayers, this is for you.
Filmed in 2006, german director Florian Gaag’s film “Wholetrain” (graffiti Slang for a completly painted train) just found a distributor in France, two years after its german release and is now to be premiered in January. Lire la suite
Don’t believe the title of this post. This is everything but healthy.
A tour with Nine Inch Nails, a “Best new californian band” review in an east coast newspaper, a record that reached #9 in the UK and here they are back with a second album “Get Color”. Lire la suite
Tags: california, drone, health, los angeles, noise