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"Hello Europopmusic fans..." |
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With our website we have the ambition to create a portal for European popmusic. An important objective is to promote European popmusic that is sung in the native tongue. The yearly platform for European popmusic on television is, of course, the Eurovision songcontest.
Now, a lot can be said against the festival in recent years. We still regret the faxct that the live orchestra is no longer part of the performances, the voice of the jury has been (partly) replaced for the voice of the public, and abandoning the rule to sing in your own language caused an avalanche of acts that sang in bad English and with a cheap tape to back them up.
We were glad to see that this year's edition contained a reasonable amount of serious acts that choose not to sing (completely) in English. 16 countries in total (if we include the UK and Ireland) of the 42 contestants sang in their own language. And ten of them even made it to the finals. Hoorah! We made our own list of the non-English singing entries.
DOUBLE BASS & PAUL ROYAL
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The history of electronic music
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Part 4: The Silver Apples & the Zodiak Free Arts Lab t 1 |
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In part 4 we take a look at the incorporation of electronic music at the end of the sixties and the first half of the seventies. Cause, although ‘Popcorn’ was a novelty hit, it would take almost another decade before the synthesizer would become a prime instrument in the stage act of pop and rock acts. How did the synthesizer get adopted into rock? |
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 In this chapter we take a closer look at the those pioneers that took the synthesizer out of it’s novelty niche into a full blown rock-stage act as an additional instrument to the classic guitar-bass-drums line up. And 1969 seems to be a key-year that marks the change. With the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin as the digital playground for acts like Cluster, Can, Neu and Tangerine Dream. Read more... |
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Artist of the month... |
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Spliff
Julliette Greco (France) |
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 This year madame Gréco celebrates her 60th year as a recoring artist. She will performing a few recitals in the Champs-Elysées theatre this June and she has just released a new album containing 14 new songs. It is only natural that we will pay homage to madame Gréco’s anniversary by presenting her as artist of this month. It is clear that Juliette Gréco is one of the few living legends of French chanson (next to Charles Aznavour and Zizi Jeanmaire). We can only hope and pray that she will be able to hold on to her strength and youthfulness for many years (and beautiful albums) to come…Read more...na
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The best album from... |
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Frank Boeijen Groep
Czesław Niemen (Poland)
Enigmatic (1969)
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Frank Boeijen Groep
Niemen was already a well-known figure in the Polish rockscene when he came up with idea of a concept album. According to the memoirs Niemen impulse came when he met Wojciech Młynarski at 1968 Festival in Sopot. The two were listening to the poet C. Norwid on stage and wondered what it would be like if such poetry would be turned into a mournful rhapsody. Thus the seed was lain for the 'Bema pamieci zalobny - rapsod' or 'Rhapsody in the Memory of Bem'. The track is the centrepiece from his 1969 album 'Enigmatic' and would lay the basis for the Polish progrock scene and would inspire a generation.
Click here to read why we consider 'Enigmatic' Czesław's masterpiece. Here you can also listen to and watch at a rare TV performance of the Rhapsody made in 1970 for Polish TV.
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In memoriam |
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Alain Bashung
Mari Trini, 7 april 2009sicians
 Mari Trini passed away at a hospital in Murcia, Spain on April 7 at the age of 61. The cause of death has not yet been published, but it is said that she died of lung cancer. Mari Trini (real name Maria Trinidad Perez De Miravete Mille) was one of Spain's best and most famous female singer-songwriters, especially from the beginning of the seventies until the beginning of the nineties. Read the necrology... |
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