Morricone Youth w/ Golem and Brute Force 6/25/11

 

Devon E. Levins DJing Thurs June 23 @ The Commodore in Williamsburg 10p-4a

with Doug Shipton of Finders Keepers and Casey Block of  Just Music

Doug Shipton of Finders Keepers on Morricone Youth

Doug Shipton of Finders Keepers Records curated an INSPIRING two hours of OSTs on this week's installment of Morricone Youth (East Village Radio) filled with past, present and future releases from the label as well as many of Doug's favorite non-FK recordings.  The set was full of surprises from around the globe along with some insight into the mad scientist's brain including his recent obsession...Russian film music.

The show is of course archived for your personal edification and enjoyment HERE!

Finders Keepers' NYC Invasion Starts This Weekend

Thank God for crate-diggers. Providing a valuable service for all mankind, this particular breed of lunatic scours the far-flung, dusty corners of recorded music to deliver us sonic artifacts rescued from obscurity.  Without these freaks most of us would have no idea how awesome Cambodian psych-rock,Iranian Jazz-Fusion, and Australian biker movie soundtracks are. Finders Keepers is one of those record labels that rarely leaves any stone unturned in their pursuit of killer jams from around the world. Starting this Saturday, Finders Keepers’ co-founder Doug Shipton will be in town for a myriad of cool events celebrating the unsung, under-appreciated and just plain forgotten music of yesterday.

As we’re sure you know, many of EVR’s DJs are proponents of the kind of obscure music Finders Keepers trades in. Mr. Shipton will be doing a guest DJ set on EVR’s Morricone Youth program on Sunday, June 19th at 2pm ET as well as manning the wheels of steel alongside Minimal Wave’s Veronica Vasicka on Saturday Night at Public Assembly for the Other Music/Academy Annex Northside Showcase.  The London-based Shipton will wrap up his NYC takeover on Thursday, June 23rd with yet another DJ gig at at The Commodore in Williamsburg along with sets by Just Music’s Casey Block and Morricone Youth’s Devin E. Levins—an event celebrating the release of Absolute Fusioon, an album of killer progressive rock from Spain.

Watch the trailers for Stone and Werewolves On Wheels, two films whose soundtracks have been re-issued by Finders Keepers and will be screened at Williamsburg's  Spectacle Theater on Tuesday, June 21st and try to make it out to some of these rad events Finders Keepers has put together.

Go to the East Village Radio website HERE!

Les Paul's Birthday

Song for Les Paul:

http://goo.gl/doodle/1t97t

MORRICONE YOUTH w/ Dred Scott Trio next Tues 6/14 @ Rockwood Music Hall

 

...Got booed off the stage and didn't get to play Beat Girl...

Last minute free MORRICONE YOUTH show with the Dred Scott Trio next Tuesday 6/14 @ Rockwood Music Hall

...man, Rocket Rob Patton is a friggin' genius! 

 

PHOTO CREDIT: JUNO BLACK (Copyright 2011) 

 

 

Missing In Action 2: Memorial Day

Listen live or to the archive HERE starting at 2pm ET on Sunday!

Gerlad Busby's score to Robert Altman's "3 Women"

Just watched "3 Women" a 1977 film directed by Robert Altman, starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Janice Rule.  I was blown away by the  haunting score composed by Gerald Busby, a long time resident of the Chelsea Hotel, with whom I was unfamiliar.  Prior to 3 Women, Busby composed the score for "Runes", a ballet commissioned for the Paul Taylor Dance Company and worked as an associate with Virgil Thomson during that composer's later years and was the subject of one of Virgil's "Portraits in Music." He is not credited to any other feature films.

Great film.  Great score.  Hope to play some of the music on the next show if I can track it down.

"You Light Up My Life" Composer Suicide

Songwriter Joseph Brooks, who rose to fame after penning the No. 1 hit, 'You Light Up My Life,' was found dead yesterday (May 22) of an apparent suicide. He was 73. The New York City resident was discovered late Sunday afternoon on his living room couch with a plastic dry-cleaning bag around his head, a towel around his neck, and a hose attached to a helium tank inside the bag.

The father of two left a three-page suicide note detailing his various health issues. He had been awaiting trial on charges of 82 sex crimes, after allegedly luring women to his apartment under the guise of auditioning them for roles in upcoming films. In addition, his Upper East Side apartment was the cause of a recent lawsuit, with a former friend trying to seize the 15th floor co-op to recover more than three million dollars in debt that Brooks owed.

Neighbors report that Brooks frequently had young women visiting him, even after a stroke left him partially disabled in 2008. He sued a 22-year-old former fiancée two years ago, after allegedly spending more than two million dollars on her, before learning she was married.  The last person known to see Brooks alive was a deli worker, Jamie Lee, who routinely sold him the Sunday newspaper. "He normally buys papers, but [yesterday he just bought orange juice," she reveals to the New York Daily News. "I thought that was unusual."

Brooks' 25-year-old son, Nicholas, is awaiting trial on murder, accused of strangling his former girlfriend, swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay, last year.

In the 1960s, Brooks composed advertising jingles for clients including Pepsi ("You've Got a Lot to Live") and Maxwell House ("Good to the Last Drop Feeling").

'You Light Up My Life' was featured on the soundtrack of a 1977 film by the same name, starring Didi Conn and Michael Zaslow. The song earned Brooks an Oscar for Best Original Song, as well as a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Debby Boone released the song as a single, which became the title track of her debut album, with Brooks producing the entire project. The song was later covered by more than a dozen artists, including LeAnn Rimes, Whitney Houston, Perry Como, Kenny Rogers and Lee Greenwood.

Morricone Youth reference in Danger Mouse "Rome" article

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/141617-danger-mouse-and-daniele-luppi-rome/

..."Imaginary film scores such as Rome constitute a niche genre whose early entries include Brian Eno’s Music for Films, from 1978, Frank Zappa’s 1984 Thing-Fish, and John Zorn’s 1991 Spillane. And before Rome, the tellingly-named band Morricone Youth released (in 2005) an Italian-inspired imaginary score, Silenzio Violento.
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