Monthly Archives: January 2009

Bill Bruford Retires

If you had ever hoped to someday see drummer Bill Bruford perform live, again or for the first time, your chances of that happening are now pretty much zero.
From allaboutjazz.com:

After 41 years spent first in the art rock arena with everyone from Yes and King Crimson to Genesis, in addition to his own inestimable forays into fusion with his critically and popularly praised ’70s group Bruford, then turning to things more jazzy from the ’80 onwards with various incarnations of his much- heralded Earthworks group and his equally acclaimed improvising duet with pianist Michiel Borstlap, veteran drummer Bill Bruford has announced he’s hanging up his sticks and and retiring from public performance, effective January 1, 2009.
As Bruford told AAJ’s Managing Editor John Kelman, “41 years of me is quite enough for anybody, and especially me!” though he thankfully clarified that he’s not retiring from recording.

Here is a photo I took of Bruford in performance with King Crimson in 1974.

Bill Bruford 1974

Nanook of the North

The Great Lakes Musicians’ Collective presents the 1922 silent film documentary “Nanook of the North” directed by Robert Flaherty, with an original live soundtrack by the Silent Film Ensemble, featuring: Charlie Glasspool, Tara MacKenzie, Jon Cox, Pat Dorfman, Jon O’Leary, Bob Daniel, and Josh Richardson.
Saturday, February 7th @ 7PM
Downtown Bookstore, Owen Sound.

$5 Admission. Advance tickets are available at the Downtown Bookstore.
“‘Nanook of the North” buy soma online 500mg follows an Inuit hunter and his family as they struggle to survive in the Hudson Bay Arctic region in the ‘traditional’ manner idealized by Western European civilization. In fact, much of footage in ‘Nanook’ is staged – despite this, it is a fascinating document of the Western European objectification of a people it still knows so little about.

More info: IMDB WIKIPEDIA

nanook

Is This My Brain?

Photography and music by Robert George Daniel, who is me. This cost $3 to make. Not counting all the cameras and film and computers and travel expenses and what not. Hope you enjoy. // created at http://animoto.com

Brain stem