Gustav Leonhardt - harpsichord.

   
Artist: Gustav Leonhardt - harpsichord.

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   

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Discography:


   
 Chromatic Fantasia And Fugue in D minor BWV 903

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 3


   
 Suite in F minor BWV 823

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 3


   
 Prelude And Fugue in A minor BWV 895

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 2

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Eruption

   
Artist: Eruption

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Gold Hits

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 20

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Eruption was formed in 1974 in London by vocalizer Precious Wilson, lead guitarist Greg Perrineau, bassist Morgan Perrineau, keyboardist Gerry Williams, and drummer Eric Kingsley. Wilson was born in Jamaica and she stirred with her sept to Great Britain at the age of seven-spot. The other members of the band came from dissimilar parts of the Caribbean and Africa. In 1975, their taking of an RCA Soul Search Contest in England brought them a disc share and their showtime individual "Countenance Me Take Your Back in Time" (1976) figured prominently in the soul charts. In 1977, Boney M.'s manufacturer Frank Farian took Eruption under his wing and signed the radical with Germany-based Hansa Records. Their 1978 insure of "I Can't Stand the Rain" was a large hit internationally, arrival number five in Britain and number 18 in the U.S. (it was their only U.S. Top 40 submission). The success was sealed with "Unrivaled Way Ticket," which went to number baseball club in the U.K. the following class. Precious Wilson leftfield the chemical group in 1979 to quest after a solo calling and she was replaced with Kim Davies. Eruption disbanded in the mid-'80s and Wilson is the only member of the original lineup wHO is still active. Though successful as a solo artist, she sometimes tours below the call Eruption with her new chemical group.





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Cannes-winning French film a "Class" act

CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Laurent Cantet takes a raw
look at a school year through the eyes of a single teacher in
"The Class," which won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes
Film Festival on Sunday.


The film -- whose French title "Entre les Murs" or "Between
the Walls" accurately captures the self-imposed quarantine --
is based on a novel by Francois Begaudeau, written from his own
experiences as a teacher. He also contributes to the screenplay
and plays the key role of a language teacher, so we can be
pretty certain the film stays true its subject.


While Begaudeau's teacher struggles to get his young
charges to focus on French verbs, they question his use of
"white" names in examples, and whether the required reading has
any relevance to their lives.


Many students come from abroad; some have parents who are
undocumented immigrants. They kid a lot, some of it
good-natured but much of it comes closer to mockery. Their
intolerance stems from attitudes about how other students look
and behave, where they are from and how they speak.


As the year goes by, the students and Begaudeau's fellow
teachers come into sharper focus. One student from Mali (played
by Franck Keita) increasingly upsets the class with his
attitude and anger. Like many, he isn't clear what school can
offer him. He is sullen and retreats into rage, possibly to
disguise his own fear of failure. Then the teacher himself
makes a fateful miscalculation.


What works so well here is that none of the drama feels the
least bit imposed. It evolves naturally from class assignments,
the teacher's own free-form style and the distinctly individual
personalities of these young people thrown together by chance.
While it may lack the narrative drive of films from the past
such as "Blackboard Jungle," it also contains nothing contrived
or gimmicky. This is probably one of the most realistic high
school movies ever made.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Der Vogelmann

   
Artist: Der Vogelmann

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Timeout Parts 1-3

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 3

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Cartoon Network - Call In The Clones

Anyone tuning in to a Turner Networks cable channel at 7:58 tonight (Thursday) will
be able to view a two-minute trailer for Lucasfilm's animated Star Wars: The Clone
Wars, which premieres theatrically on August 15. The trailer will air
on the Cartoon Network, CNN, TNT, TBS and Boomerang. In a statement, Lucasfilm VP
Howard Roffman said, "We're incredibly proud of the Clone Wars and eager to
be able to showcase it for the first time in such an exciting way." The movie itself,
which is being distributed by Warner Bros., a corporate sibling of Turner, is intended
to lay the foundation for Lucasfilm's forthcoming animated Star Wars: the Clone
Wars TV series, set to air on Turner's Cartoon Network. A date for the season
debut of the series has not been set.

08/05/2008

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Didier Marouani

   
Artist: Didier Marouani

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Space-Opera

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 8


   
 Le Gagnant

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 7


   
 Paris - France Transit

   Year:    
Tracks: 8

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Synthesizer-playing composer Didier Marouani is the origination penis of the French synth-pop stripe Space. He was classically trained as a pianist at the Paris Conservatoire, merely recorded his first album as a isaac Merrit Singer in 1975. Space was formed by Marouani in 1977, after he distinct to focus more on composition. The group's biggest outside success came after that year with the singles "Magic Fly," which hit the U.K.'s Top Ten and, to a lesser extent, "Acquit on Turn Me On," both of which appeared on charts in a number of countries. Space toured and recorded for the next few eld and continued to take in well-received records, although no singles duplicated the success of "Conjuring trick Fly." After several albums, a rift occurred in the band; 1980's Deeper Zone, recorded under the name of Space, was in reality an album by band members Roland Romanelli and Jannick Top, wHO took over and unbroken the ring list, just went comparatively unnoticed. This was the last album by Space, merely the visualise continued with Marouani, wHO had scripted Space's music (under the assumed name Ecama) anyway. And so Marouani continued to record book and execute -- as Didier Marouani & Space, so as Didier Marouani & Paris-France-Transit (PFT) -- to very much success. In the Summer of 1983, he toured the U.S.S.R., drawing huge crowds in cities including Kiev and Moscow. Four old age later, Marouani recorded his opera for choirs and synthesizers, Space Opera. The recording session was an international feat, delivery together choirs from the U.S. (John Harvard University Choir) and U.S.S.R. (Red River Army Choir). Apparently, a copy of Space Opera was assign in the MIR space station. In other space-related activities, Marouani performed in Cayenne (capitol Building of French Guiana) at the 1990 jubilation of the one-tenth anniversary of the Ariane arugula launch. He returned to Russia for some other successful tour the following class and once more during the early '90s for a historical public presentation in Red Square that included an extensive laser light show. The late '90s brought a reprint of the Space albums and the Best Of by Virgin France.





Vanden Plas

Gina Gershon - Gershon Dating Morgan

Actress GINA GERSHON has sparked speculation she is dating actor JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN after the pair was spotted sharing an intimate evening together.

The couple - who both starred in the 2007 film P.S. I Love You - were seen canoodling at New York City lounge Libation on Saturday (17May08), where they were allegedly overheard saying they were headed to another party.

An onlooker tells New York gossip column PageSix, "They were quite cozy. They were sharing a burger and she was hand-feeding him Tater Tots (potato snacks)."

Representatives for both stars had no comment.

The report comes just a month after Morgan called off his two-month-long engagement to his Weeds co-star Mary-Louise Parker.

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