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Pink Martini - Album " Splendor In The Grass " 2009 Picturs Pier Farel
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Enviado por Yolanda (hi5) - 18/Fev 22:11
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Pink Martin - Site officiel
Pink Martini - Wikipédia
- Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. ... And Then You're Gone; But Now I'm Back; Sunday Table; Over the Valley; Tuca Tuca; Bitty Boppy Betty; Sing ....
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Pink Martini Has Brand-New Vintage Dance
Jerking may be the dance of the moment, but Pink Martini has an alternative step. The Portland, Ore., musical collective (currently about 14 musicians strong) is all about the Tuca Tuca. Like a Hokey Pokey for consenting adults, the dance requires partners to “touch touch” each other from bottom to top. It originated in Italy (naturally) where chanteuse Raffaella Carrà had a hit circa 1970 with a companion song.
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The tune posed no language barrier for Pink Martini. The group has a cheeky heterogeneous sound, jumping styles from Afro-Cuban jazz to mid-century Hollywood musicals, and has recorded numbers in Mandarin, Arabic and Greek. “I think we’re up to 15” languages, says bandleader and pianist Thomas Lauderdale, who formed the group 15 years ago with singer China Forbes, a former classmate from Harvard. (For lyrics outside English, Spanish and French, the singer works with language professors and other specialists to get her pronunciation right.)
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An independent act, Pink Martini developed a unique strategy for growing its profile: teaming up with symphony orchestras for performances. Starting in 1998 with their hometown Oregon Symphony, the group has played with more than 25 orchestras, including the National Symphony in Washington D.C. Having classical groups fly Pink Martini in and pay for lodging made it economically feasible for the sprawling ensemble to travel nationally. Plus, classical music suited the band’s aesthetic. “It was never the kind of band where you’d get stoned and pile into a van and hurtle down the highway,” says Mr. Lauderdale, who recently joined the board of the Oregon Symphony. On its coming tour, which starts Nov. 16 in London, Pink Martini will hook up with such as groups as the Houston Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra.
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On stage, Mr. Lauderdale and Ms. Forbes do the Tuca Tuca as she sings, “Mi piaci” (“I like you”). To their recording of the screwball Italian romp, Mr. Lauderdale added an incongruous touch: a sitar. Provided by a friend and played by bassist Phil Baker, the instrument happened to be the one that Peter Sellers played in the 1968 comedy film “The Party.” Mr. Lauderdale says the sitar “was the most absurd choice for the song and therefore the most appropriate.”
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Below, watch Raffaella Carra’s “Tuca Tuca” and listen to Pink Martini’s rendition, off the band’s new album “Splendor In The Grass,” released this week.
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And here’s Pink Martini’s version–click below.
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L'univers de l'artiste Pierre Farel - The universe of the artist ...
Pierre Farel met en scène des personnages aux lignes épurées et sensuelles dans des décors de bars à la mode que la musique et la danse font vibrer.
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On ne devient pas artiste, on naît comme cela .
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On l'est dans ses réactions, dans sa tête, dans sa vie.
On navigue depuis toujours sur une autre planète
Et les autres ont parfois tendance à nous marginaliser.
Par contre, lorsque vous vous faîtes un nom,
Il est facile de dire que l'on est devenu commercial.
Comme s'il fallait, pour garder cette étiquette
D'artiste « être maudit »
Et pour pouvoir subsister,
Bénéficier de certaines aides culturelles institutionnelles.
Pour ma part, j'essaye de ne point écouter les éloges ou les critiques.
Etre de plus en plus exigeant avec soi-même
Avec les gens qui vous représentent
Avec l'image que l'on peut véhiculer.
Ne pas vouloir aller trop vite
Ne pas s'inspirer de tel ou tel courant à la mode.
Ne pas tricher.
Enfin rester quelqu'un dont le nom revient régulièrement
Permet de prouver qu'il n'y a qu'une vérité dans le temps :
Le travail.
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Resultados de imagens para Pierre Farel
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