Happy birthday Mister Eastwood!

Clint Eastwood has turned 79.
Have you seen his last movie as both actor and director? Gran Torino is a superb film about an unexpected friendship. I have in my mind two other movies that share this element in their story lines: The Shawshank Redemption and American History X.
In Gran Torino the friendship grows between Walt [...]

Music from The Penguin Café

In December 1997 Simon Jeffes died from a brain tumour.

In December 2007 his son Arthur Jeffes and his former band-mates had the wonderful idea to reunite the Penguin Café Orchestra lineup for three concerts in London.

One year and a half later Arthur Jeffes has created Music from The Penguin Café. He will be touring this [...]

Kind of Bloop

Kind of Bloop is a project which goal is to create an 8-bit tribute of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the album.

I am really looking forward to the final result and I can’t wait to hold the CD in my hands. So far more than $5,000 have been raised [...]

A blog rayé

Years ago I discovered L’Esemble Rayé through Dave Lynch’s reviews at AMG. I was digging for new bands by looking at the similar artists feature. Just by reading his words I knew immediately there was something here, something I couldn’t miss!

I started with their third album “En Frac”. Eventually I fell in love with their [...]