Maurice Jarre (1924 - 2009)

* First Video: "Lawrence Of Arabia" (A musical tribute to Sir David Lean, 1992)




* Second Video: "A Passage To India"





Maurice-Alexis Jarre (13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor.

Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores, and is particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films since Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Other notable scores of his include The Message (1976), Witness (1985) and Ghost (1990). Jarre was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Three of his compositions spent a total of forty-two weeks on the U.K. singles chart chart; the biggest hit was 'Somewhere My Love' (to his tune Lara's Theme, with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) by the Michael Sammes Singers, which reached number fourteen in 1966 and spent thirty-eight weeks on the chart.

In accordance with Wikipedia, Jarre was a three time Academy Award winner, for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984), all of which were directed by David Lean. He was Oscar nominated a total of eight times. His son is the electronic composer Jean Michel Jarre.

Portishead: "Roads" (1994)

Portishead are an English musical group formed in 1991 in Bristol. The band is named after the nearby town of the same name, 13 km (8 mi) west of Bristol. Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley, while sometimes citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald, an engineer on Dummy and Portishead.

The Song "Roads" belong to their debut album "Dummy". Released in October 17, 1994 on Go! Discs, the album earned critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularizing the trip-hop genre and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s. Although it achieved modest chart success overseas, it peaked at #2 on the UK Album Chart and saw two of its three singles reach #13. The album was certified gold in 1997 and has sold two million copies in Europe.

- Lyrics:

Oh, can't anybody see,
We've got a war to fight,
Never found our way,
Regardless of what they say.

How can it feel, this wrong,
From this moment,
How can it feel, this wrong.

Storm,
In the morning light,
I feel,
No more can I say,
Frozen to myself.

I got nobody on my side,
And surely that ain't right,
Surely that ain't right.

Oh, can't anybody see,
We've got a war to fight,
Never found our way,
Regardless of what they say.

How can it feel, this wrong,
From this moment,
How can it feel, this wrong.

How can it feel this wrong,
From this moment,
How can it feel, this wrong.

Oh, can't anybody see,
We've got a war to fight,
Never found our way,
Regardless of what they say.

How can it feel, this wrong,
From this moment,
How can it feel, this wrong.

Ravi Shankar: "The Immortal Pandit"

* First VIdeo: "I Am Missing You"(1974) Produced by: George Harrison




* Second Video: "Ravi Shankar on the Dick Cavett Show"





Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title "Pandit"- which refer to a scholar, a teacher, particularly one skilled in Sanskrit and Hindu law, religion, music or philosophy, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.

IN accordnace with wikipedia, Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.

Eagle Eye Cherry

* First Video: "Are you still having fun"




* Second Video: "Save Tonight"




* Third Video: "Falling In Love Again"




Poised at the brink of innumerable seemingly incompatible contradictions, musician and songwriter Eagle-Eye Cherry not only reconciles them all -– he harnesses the friction and fashions from it a powerful, personal sound that is both accessible and provocative. For instance, Cherry calls Sweden home, although he was born to an iconic American father and has spent a great deal of time in the US. His music is contemplative and intimate, yet has resonated widely and achieved international popular success, most notably via the propulsively seductive single "Save Tonight" and a string of subsequent hit singles in Europe, Australia, South Africa, and Brazil. His newest music seeks to fuse his homespun, handmade roots with a widescreen sense of scope. "I'd hesitate to say there's been a master plan," he reflects on his career and recordings. "But, at the same time, you can definitely trace a journey through my music."

Eagle-Eye's wide-ranging sensibilities and ability to incorporate seemingly contrasting impulses can be at least partially credited to his upbringing and heritage. He is the son of musician Don Cherry, who is often quickly defined as a jazz artist but whose art is in fact much more expansive, incorporating an array of international concepts into a complex tapestry that is only just now beginning to be fully appreciated. "He will probably be the most fascinating person I will have met in my life," Eagle-Eye reflects, still in awe. "Don Cherry wasn't only my father: he was also a great friend who had an amazing perspective on life, very much about living in the now. He will always be a major inspiration in all that I do."

Raised in bucolic, rural southern Sweden – "An unbelievable place; dirt roads and lakes and stuff," Cherry remembers – Cherry left to attend school in Manhattan, where his outgoing personality and quick wit lead him to embrace drama. While he also played drums in a few fly-by-night outfits, acting was his chief concern as he entered his twenties. "After a while," he explains, "I started getting a lot of work, and in New York, the money was really good. It wasn't like I was consciously forgoing the family business, it's just that I was the class clown, and loved acting." Through the triumphs and trials of his sister (and occasional collaborator), trip-hop pioneer Neneh Cherry, Eagle-Eye was privy to both strange mechanizations of the music industry and approached with caution, on his own terms.

As Cherry's sense of self developed, he decided to pursue songwriting more seriously. At the relatively late age of 26, he returned to Sweden and began composing in earnest. "Sweden felt like a safe environment to start in. The apartment I had rented in Stockholm happened to have an acoustic guitar in it," he recalls. "I'd never really played before. I had played drums, and had bought some equipment to help me learn about sampling and programming, but the guitar gave me an outlet of expression and forced me to simplify my ideas."

The eventual result was 1998's debut album Desireless, which began as a European release and slowly extended its reach into an eventual worldwide smash. "It didn't feel like I exploded," he says. "For me, taking every step into consideration, it was a slow build." The irony of the album's humble beginnings did not escape Cherry. "I had made a mellow album, thinking I could tour clubs with an acoustic trio," he says, with a trace of awe still tangible. "I had no idea I would be playing huge radio shows or venues with over 20,000 in attendance." ..



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Dalida: The Diva of Disco

Dalida (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987) was an Italian Egyptian singer and actress, naturalised French. Dalida was born and raised in Egypt, but she lived most of her adult life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc.

Since her death, Dalida has become a cult figure to a new generation of fans. According to wikipedia, In 1988, The Encyclopaedia Universalis commissioned a poll which was eventually published in daily newspaper Le Monde, the aim of which was to reveal personalities that had the greatest impact on French society. Dalida polled second, behind Général de Gaulle.

In 1997, the corner of the rues Girardon and Abreuvoir in the Butte Montmartre, Paris, was inaugurated as Place Dalida and a life-size bust to her memory was erected. In 1999, a 3-CD box-set compiling her greatest hits was released. In 2000, Dalida's longtime friend Charles Aznavour recorded the hit "De la scène à la Seine", a joyful song of her life in France, and in 2002, the French government honoured her memory with a postage stamp done in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of her death. In the same year, Universal Music Group released Dalida's early album releases in special-edition packaging, with all of the tracks digitally remastered. Her output has also been the subject of various remix albums. She sold a total of 130 million records from 1956 to 2006. Since her death, many of Dalida's hits have been remixed to modern techno and dance beats, topping the charts in various countries to this day.

In 1999 the play "Solitudini - Luigi Tenco e Dalida", written and directed by Maurizio Valtieri, was performed in Rome.In 2005, her life was documented in the two-part TV film Dalida, in the role of Dalida was Sabrina Ferilli. From 11 May to September 2007, the Paris City Hall commemorated the 20th anniversary of Dalida’s death with an exhibition of her outfits and previously unreleased photographs.

PANACHE CULTURE: "Travel In A Dream"

*From Band's Myspace Profile:

Panache Culture is a crucible of musical genres: a reggae base style opening onto rap, ragga, funk, hip hop, oriental influences and North African sonorities. The group sings in French, Arabic and English, touching in themes from life in general, their joys, sorrows and revolt. Take e.g. the group's third album, "Roots Experience". It makes us travel through a new exotic musical world.

With the extraordinary appearance of Jamaican artists such as Anthony B. and Prezident Brown, Panache Culture bring reggae music to a new dimension where tradition is melted with dance hall rhythms, "souk" sounds and sparkling vibes. Put together at the end of the 80's as a pure reggae band, Panache Culture follow the steps of the legendary Jamaican bands, mixing it all with their own musical style, full of funky and Arabic sounds.

A perfect melting pot of cultures and vibrations. The first two albums place Panache Culture as the best European backing band. The measure of this success is legitimate by the constant collaboration with top Jamaican performers such as Early 16, Mickey Spice, Daweh Congo, Prezident Brown and all the artists from Barry O'Hare label, "X-rated". Unlike other European reggae bands, which strive for Jamaica, Panache Culture are capable to attract Jamaicans to the old continent.

In 1999 Mad Professor, who mixed the first two Panache Culture's albums: "Tell them" and "Travel in a dream", produces and mixes Panache Culture in a dub, drum & bass, exotic experience, the album "Moroccan sunrise", explosive cocktail of Reggae instrumental, dance and Berber-trance rhythms. The same atmosphere that we can find in "Roots experience", in which Jamaican famous names such as Prezident Brown and Anthony B. are together with the French rappers Tita, Reggaemed, Yassin B. and Tazi Zora, voice from Magreb.

After three albums and collaborations with big names such as Mad Professor, Macka B, Rico Rodriguez and Black Steel, Panache Culture has released their 4rd album"Le Discours", a group of 16 titles in French, completely representative of their musical influences and stage craft acquired over the years. A real treat live!