Category: music
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ChinaHouse, Penang – part 2
Continuing our exploration of this great hangout place in Georgetown … ChinaHouse is a combination of 3 heritage buildings, linked by an open air courtyard and converted into 14 spaces comprising shops, cafes, restaurant, galleries, live music and bakery. Part 1 showed the Canteen from which we entered the ChinaHouse complex from Victoria Street. . In…
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Tosca @ Hungarian State Opera House
The night before we left Budapest, we saw an opera with my colleague A and her husband M at the Hungarian State Opera House (i.e., Magyar Állami Operaház). We saw Tosca despite the giant display says Cosi fan tutte. The foyer was very ornate, reminded us a little bit of Versailles (see pictures here). Months in…
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Fake Kraftwerk songs ? 9 years already !
I(Chris) have been a Kraftwerk fan from when their music was played on the radio in the 70’s. I have posted a German version of their 1977 international hit – “The Model” and Coldplay’s “Talk” which sampled it, here. Kraftwerk is usually translated as “power plant,” but one of the founders Ralf Hütter said the band’s name can…
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Rough Trade’s East End Flagship Store
I(Chris) have not visited London for many years, and while visiting during the Olympics, we heard a lot about the Spitalfields markets. So one morning we decided to check it out. This area of East London felt quite different from what I was expecting. The Spitalfields markets contain a new and an old section. We…
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Electron Festival 2012, Geneva
Electron is a four-day festival that ran from April 5 to April 8, spanning the Easter weekend of 2012. Below is this year’s poster – the city in the background is Geneva. It is an annual electronic cultures festival that included workshops, contemporary art exhibits, concerts, conferences and parties. These events took place at various…
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Memories of blue – Vangelis
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcYcPvnZRMQ&w=510&h=412] Another piece by Vangelis which is much warmer than and very mainstream when compared to the earlier posted Memories of Green – the piece that was used in the movie Blade Runner. Other than the “Memories” in the titles, I do not know the connection between these two pieces, if any. It could have been…