The remenants of a post-reformation tradition of congregational singing of the bible. One person would call the verse and the congregation would follow. This was recorded on the Isle of Lewis in Stornoway Free Church in 1969. It’s sung in Scottish Gaelic. More here. Buyable here.
Donald MacLeod & congregation - Stroudwater (Psalm 46 vv 1 & 2) 320k 8mb
Rupture’s show on cumbias rebajadas (pitched down cumbias) went out this week (listen here). It contains a half hour mix of cumbias rebajadas by Buenos Aires’ sonido martines (full mix in mp3 available here). Stay tuned to the show for a telephone interview with sonido martines with information on origins and the scene. Meantime other links to try for Buenos Aires-based cumbia-variations include FatPlanet’s po//st//s and this at Ghetto Bassquake. For the Monterrey connection try this hit by Celso Pina (produced by Toy Hernandez)
Super Grupo Colombia - Parajo Cenzontle 320k 7.7mb [lifted from Sonido Martinez’s mix]
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elsewhere attention should be called to this 2//part interview with the bug and this selection of remixes/reworks/tributes of/to Gyorgy Ligeti [via gusset].
oh and you know Iraq rinsed occupying power Australia in the Asian (football) cup last week. satisfying.
Kode9’s been finishing his sets with a Bug production / Warrior Queen vocal from his forthcoming ninja tune LP. Havoc ensues. This 2 minute myspace rip gives you the drop…
The Bug f/ Warrior Queen - Poison Dart (edit) 2.5mb
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elsewhere Kazakh Rap, especially…
Ðлтын Орда-Золотые Буквы! 7.5mb
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and finally something on Norman Foster’s pyramid for peace just outside the Kazakh capital… the next project is a weather tent to create perpetual summer.
In glacial-paced Taiwanese cinema news - RIP Edward Yang who died on June 29th aged 49. He was probably best known in the anglophone academy through Frederic Jameson’s chapter on his film The Terrorizer (1986). An obituary by Steven Shaviro can be found here.
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The king is dead, long live the king. What better way to start a new reign than a Diana concert - establishing a(nother) perpetual 10 year nostalgia loop. “Today we celebrate her rebirth”. Even the stars have to make way for the moon. Prince William claps in double time. Gordon Brown as avatar landlord of a maternal national body. Meanwhile apocalyptic weather betrays the new king’s inability to maintain ecological balance (now understood in scientific rather than relgiious terms).
puffy at Sunday’s Diana concert
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Further north Sami folksong (call it joik) from here. This is a marriage song in kildin.
A.A.Jurijeva - Marriage Cry 128k 3mb
