September 25th, 2009
Yesterday night excellent gig by Sporto Kantes at Le Bataclan! The concert started with the video clip of the Slits song:
Most of the songs were from their last album: Concrete, Whistle, Liquid, Da Rock, Sick Song, Roma’s Life, Slits… They played also Impressed and Lee from the 2nd Round album.
Sporto and Kantes form an [...]
September 18th, 2009
Songs from mirage aka Aranis III is the third album by Aranis. Fourteen songs for almost one hour of music:
Ouverture
Fresia
Chamber Rock
Reprise
Lullaby
Airesym
Ayru
Lever In Plakjes
Jelimena
Keria
Out Ama
Enjuminenna
Ilah
Finale
The album opens with Ouverture which features the new element in their music: singing. The singing is performed by three women. Depending on the song one, two or the three of them [...]
Kind of Bloop has kind of landed in my mailbox. First time ever I can see my name written on an album; all contributors have their name printed on the inside cover. Very nice!
September 13th, 2009
I used to say I would always buy CDs and I still do though I have started buying digital music since a few months. It all started about one year ago when I purchased Verso Est by Ennio Morricone. I heard the song in a tv commercial and it was only available on iTunes. Later [...]
September 12th, 2009
SizeUp is an excellent application developed by Irradiated Software. It allows you to easily arrange and size windows on your screen. All functions may be accessed via shortcuts or the menu bar. In the same way Radiohead experimented with their last album you can choose the price you want to pay, the minimum price being [...]
September 11th, 2009
If you want to use Glims with Safari under Snow Leopard you can get the beta here. Glims allows you to add search engines to Safari search field. I came across the following web site while browsing the Pinboard Google Group: http://domnit.org/pinboard/search.html. It offers two search plugins to use with Firefox and other browsers. You [...]
September 5th, 2009
It looks gorgeous! Andy says the CDs will be shipped on Tuesday morning.
September 4th, 2009
I have just received Aranis new album: Songs from mirage. I am right now listening to it.:) It comes as a beautiful digipack featuring the cover you might already have seen on their web site or on this blog.
A review will come shortly.
September 2nd, 2009
Yesterday I went to buy a copy of Snow Leopard. I made sure everything was ready for the new cat: a working bootable backup of my system! I chose to do a clean install. Of course it took more time and I also ran the Migration Assistant but everything ran smoothly. Eventually I encountered a [...]