Sylvie Courvoisier Trio

This week song...

"Armageddon" by CocoRosie

Record of the Month

Donato Wharton - Trabanten





Donato Wharton

Born in Cardiff / UK and raised in Stuttgart / Germany. DONATO started making music 13 years ago. After taking piano lessons as a kid, he bought himself a guitar at the age of 15 and started playing in various bands in Stuttgart. At the age of 18, he signed his first record contract and moved to Cologne. There, he became interested in digital music and started producing hip hop instrumentals for the up-and-coming scene of Stuttgart. Now he works as a Sound Designer and Composer for Theatre and Dance Theatre.

http://www.donatowharton.com/

Mary Hansen (1 November 1966 – 9 December 2002)

Mary Hansen (1 November 1966 – 9 December 2002) was a guitarist and singer with Stereolab. Born in Maryborough north of Brisbane in Queensland Australia, Hansen moved to London in the late 1980s and became a backing singer with the Essex-based indie band, The Wolfhounds.

She met Stereolab founder Tim Gane when the Wolfhounds played with his band McCarthy, and joined Stereolab as second vocalist in 1992. She also played guitar, as well as percussion and keyboards, and occasionally sang lead vocals.

In 2000 Hansen teamed up with Seattle space rock group, Hovercraft to form Schema. Schema featured vocals and instrumentals in approximately equal measure, adding some synthesizer. An eponymous maxi-EP/mini-album [1] was released in 2000 on avant-garde Kill Rock Stars imprint, 5 Rue Christine. Hansen was struck by a truck and killed while riding her bicycle in London on 9 December 2002. She was 36 years old.[2]. Mary Hansen remained a member of Stereolab until her death. A second album and a tour with Schema were planned, but the group was dissolved with her death.

The Island

Ute, an 8-year-old girl, keeps running away from home and the Youth Center in order to go on her own into the animal Kingdom. She spends hours in the Zoo standing in front of the crocodile pond, which gradually dominates her life and her dreams.

Monika Brehm who is in charge of one of the children’s groups at the Center, tries to enter the little girl’s world. She senses that Ute’s escape to the crocodile is an escape from her parents and the grown-up world.

She succeeds in convincing Mr. And Mrs. Hagedorn that their daughter is not malicious and deceitful, but that child and parents must see a psychotherapist. As a rule psychotherapists are overworked and there is a long waiting-list for patients, so once again Ute is left with her helpless parents and runs away more and more often to the Zoo, to her beloved crocodiles.

It is thanks to Monika Brehm’s sense of responsibility and her commitment that Ute finally manages to break out of her isolation.

THE ISLAND 1974 / Wim Wenders

Talent Show

Communicating Crocodiles

Crocodilians communicate with each other with sounds that they make by forcing air through a voice box in the throat. The young call to the adults when they are in danger and make lots of noise while they are being fed. Adults make loud, low roars to each other. If they are threatened, adult crocodiles hiss and growl. When a male and a female meet, they purr softly.
They also use poses and movements to communicate. Raising the jaw off the ground is one such movement.

Sydenham & Thomas, Australian Crocodiles

Great Records from the past

Rose said quote it's time to make a mess

Não sei porque é que estão aqui estas senhoras, mas pronto...

Love can damage your health

The Crocodile Story - Florida USA

One day, my employer decided to send me for a business trip to Florida, USA.
Our company is producing aerobatic aircraft and we wanted to participate Sun &Fun Airshow with one of our aircraft.
When they told me that I am a choosen one who will fly to the USA as a representative of our company I was very happy. It seemed that my dream will come true.

A couple weeks later I was on the plane flying to Miami, USA. It was so exciting and although I was happy I was also a little scared. I did know almost nothing about the life in the USA, my english was good but I was scared of dialect of people in the USA. I was still thinking what I am going to do if I need any help or advice. I felt very lonely and I notified that whole responsibility of the success of the trip is up to me. It was terrible but I was already sitting on the plane and I could not to do nothing.

When I arrived to Miami my business partners had been waiting for me at the airport. I was really surprised that athough it was February, it was really hot weather. I knew that in Florida is always a hot weather but it was not hot like it is in Europe during summer. I felt like I am in laundry. It was hot, sultriness and dampness. First night I slept in motel near the airport. It was average motel which you can find in the USA everywhere.

After my first and terrible night, when I could not sleep because of weather, I went to Punta Gorda. It is a little town approximately 100km from Miami on the North. As I mentioned before, I felt like I am in laundry and cold shower would be really appreciated. So I decided to stop for a while near one river, unfortunately I can not remember name of that river, to have a short break. I sit on the bank and I got a good idea - to go to swim.

My friend in Europe told me that Florida is known thanks to good weather and also thanks to crocodiles in the rivers. So I was a little scared but I could not see any of them. I wanted make sure that the river is safe for swimming so I asked one old fishermen who was fishing near to me if the river is safe. I asked him whether the crocodiles are in this river. He was smoking his cigar, sitting on the bang, looks very lazy and he said: " do not be worry dude, there are no crocodiles in this river. " So I change m y clothes and jumped in to cold water.

It was nice to be in the water, swimming, diving and I felt really fresh. After a couple minutes of swimming I went out of the water and when I was back on the bank I saw a group crocodiles swimming near by the other bank of the river. I was shocked, I could not even say anything or move. Ten minutes later, when I finally could move my legs I went to the fishermen and I started yelling to him that he told me in the river are no crocodiles !!!! The fisherman did not even move, he was still smoking his cigar and after a while he looked at me and very said very calmly : " that is right, in the river are no crocodiles, they are ALLIGATORS. "

Les Yper-Sound

Femmes de Paris

1060's French pop exotic music featuring Jacqueline Taieb, Christine Pilzer, Brigitte Bardot, Maria Laforet and many, many more forgotten singers.

4th Birthday in 1973

Apparently, the keeper of the alligators said they had just been fed and were sleeping so it was okay to go in. Despite the impression given here, she is not actually sitting on the alligator.