Porsche raises sports car prices
Porsche is raising the prices of all its 911, Boxster and Cayman sports cars models with effect from 1 August 2007. Recommended prices for models in the GCC include for the 911 Turbo $122,916; 911 Car
Thu, 31 May 2007 05:00:57 GMT
Effervescent
Oxford Camerata - Pie Jesu (comp. Gabriel Faure) (Broken Flowers, 2005) Harmony Sisters - sinitaivas (Amantes del circulo polar OST / 2001) Division S - blue canary (something to drink 3 / 2003) Mirt - track /6 (Oh! you are naive!, 2007) Björk - i see who you are (Volta / 2007) Shortwavemusic selections: Silvestrov: The Dream Radio Ukraine International 05/20/2005, 7440 kHz (~0200 UTC) Post-Soviet Melancholia, Part IV Frequency and time unknown, 2001/2002 Bela sum, Bela, yunache Radio Bulgaria 11/12/2005, 5800 kHz (2054 UTC) More at: Shortwavemusic blog. Todays playlist include a ghostly tapestry of eerie echoes, distant sounds almost like whale songs, interjected rifts and plain beauty. Ive been playing these frequently near noon, just before eating whilst my roomates have the first of six cigar breaks a day and while watching out of the balcony and throwing water to scare away the humongous, disgusting mass of overfed pidgeons living on the building next to us. The one that most comes to my attention is sinitaivas from which I couldnt gather many information asides that its credited to a finnish tango band going by the name of harmony sisters and was used as part of the soundtrack for the equally beautiful spanish film amantes del circulo polar . While researching for that song in particular I bumped into an industrial/noir folk band called Division s and a review where they compared their song blue canary to sinitaivas. The comparison is a tad out of place but both do have a vocal arrangement set for two voices and that nostalgic, yearning and elegant sound. Looking for songs to fit with the mood in sinitaivas I ended up in Myke Weiskopfs blog, shortwavemusic from which I took 3 selections of his shortwave recordings (specially check out the one entitled post-soviet melancholia , its beautiful and also bela sum which sounds like an Arvo Part choir drone). While glancing through those recordings I remembered how when I got my first car 3 years ago (a 1994 Nissan 240sx which I tenderly baptized as el infierno) I was pretty much excited by everything on it except the fact it had a really crappy cassete stereo. I started the painful job of transfering records to cassetes. It was a familiar sequence: seeing the lack of something, one feels the need for it. But then, someday, somehow the tapes got spilled with a viscous liquid that might have been Sprite or Coke and they started playing at uneven speeds. I noticed, that many bands I listened to at the time sounded fair more interesting this way. This furthermore evolved into a bad habit; I started staying up late at night recording overlapping signals of weak radio stations and when driving home late Id turn the cars radio and leave it untuned with nothing but pure and mysterious static. The innocent hobbie became an obsession and I ended up buying a second hand shortwave radio. Now, with this little beauty I was able to pick up conversations among people all over the globe. I heard the babble of many tongues. And I even picked up a few useful phrases. Two years passed and the obsession lost its original addiction but sometimes, when I wake up in the middle of the night, I go for a glass of milk and an avocado sandwich, I put the earphones on, turn the set on, and sit and listen to the static. On the playlist theres also included one song from Björks genius new album, Volta! (which sounds amazing with headphones) and a song from Mirt, a drone band I found out thanks to Apeninas advice. Their whole album is full of breath-taking, slowly evolving minimal soundscapes, Ive been playing this alot on bedtime and some uncertain mornings and Id highly recommend it to any consumer of this type of music. Come closer. Foto: Mike Rosebury.
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:02:50 EDT
