Bombay Dub Orchestra will be performing several sets in LA in April during the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles which runs at The Arclight Cinema complex at 6360 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 from 10th -15th April 2012.
On Thursday 12th April they will perform a live Dj set along with special guests tabla maestro Jas Ahluwalia and santoor player Kamaljeet Ahluwalia at The Supper Club Hollywood.
They will also be doing a short DJ set on Friday evening the 13th April at 9pm in the Courtyard at the Arclight followed by an acoustic set with Tabla and Santoor on Saturday 14th evening from 10.30 pm.
On Sunday 15th at 3pm the film Marathon Boy which Garry scored and Andrew also worked on will be screened at the film Festival.
The film Project Happiness focuses on four teens from Santa Cruz, California. Each faces personal obstacles to happiness: loss, alienation and the everyday challenges of being a teenager passing into adulthood. An innovative project that asks the question “How do we achieve lasting happiness?” introduces them by internet and video diaries to their peers in Nigeria and India and quickly leaves lectures and books behind. The teens also engage in conversations with cultural icons George Lucas, Richard Gere and groundbreaking neuroscientist Richard Davidson. The three international groups ultimately meet face to face in India for the first time to prepare for a rare private audience with the Dalai Lama.
The trailer features Mumtaz - (Ornament of the Palace Remix)
Project Happiness, a feature length documentary film, follows a senior high school class from Mount Madonna School near Watsonville, California, on a journey to discover the true nature of human happiness. Joining them on this quest are students from the Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharamsala, India, and students from the Dominion Heritage Academy in Jos, Nigeria.
Using email, blogs and video cameras, the participants from three continents exchanged their cultural perspectives. Over seven months, they shared personal stories, opinions and challenges, which created the foundation for life-long friendships.
Following many months of reflection and cross-cultural conversation, the American students traveled by plane, train and 4WD to India to connect for the first time face-to-face with their counterparts. As a community, they continued to test their theories, ask hard questions and prepare for the meeting of a lifetime… a private interview with the 14th Dalai Lama. Culminating on graduation day, this is an experience they will never forget. It is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for all of us to see through the eyes of our youth what is most important in the universal quest for lasting happiness.
Thought I'd better get my act together and post a few more tracks. This selection are various tracks that have been viewed by yours truly many times over the last week and have been in various conversations both online and in the real world! Hope you enjoy!
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The wonderful Bullitts featured in my last post. Here is their latest single featuring the rather talented Rosario Dawson. Mentalists video. Love it.
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'Dromoi Agapisa Pou' by Eleni Vitali - The track that seemed to cause a little bit of dust for Lana Del Rey. Don't have too much of an opinion but I do like this and I do like Video Games. Hmmmm.
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Top tip from Jackson. Love this track Zion-1 and 'Coastin'. What more can you want than a piano in a road and a stunning red classic American car? Comments on a postcard please.
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Crazy video of some great balletic movements on the Great Wall of China to the music of Russian Lullaby by Butch Clancy. Love it!
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Been teaching this piano piece to young Patrick these last few weeks. And he is playing it beautifully! Here's the original. Wonderfully poignant and haunting.
More delights. Found, adopted, crazee cool. Six tracks for a bit of inspiration
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Something really special here. Not sure what. Sometimes music doesn't need to be explained.
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Classic Roger Sanchez track from a few years back. Wonderful video.
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Hall and Oates. Great songs. Cool production. Pretty timeless...er bad moustache.
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What a band. Unique, intense and superbly memorable. Always great vids as well.
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One of the best band's of the 80's. Kissing The Pink. Wonderful.
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I've gone way past the comedic element of these guys (which is fabulous) but they completely blow me away with their innovative performances. Each an immense talent. Check out more of their complete delights here
I really don't know what has made me post this but I want to feature a bunch of Ellie Goulding tracks. Take perfect pop songs and mess them up in a commercial beats laden extravaganza. I guess you either love this or hate it. No middle ground really.
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Bassnectar's storming remix of Elli Goulding's Lights Out.
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Wonderful!
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Beautiful cover of Bon Iver's The Wolves. Joyful.
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There's something just weirdly beautiful about her voice. Like a little fairy.
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Now here is another really great artist. Lissie along with Ellie. More Joy.
Hope you have enjoyed this weeks offering in a strange way!
Another six songs that are appealing to me at the moment. Some of the past and some more recent. Hope you like them. Do comment if you get a chance.
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A wonderful rendition of Disney Girls by Bruce Johnston from the British TV show Old Grey Whistle Test. With a slightly sleepy 'Whispering' Bob Harris in the background.
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Very rare clip of lead vocals my Tom Jones with the wonderful C, S, N & Y and the great song 'Long Time Gone' circa 1969
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Yes a girl with a lampshade on her head but a song worthy of much praise. Duran Duran came back with some serious new songs. This is one of them.
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Don't hate me folks but I do like this along with cricket legend Geoff Boycott. It's a good song and it's a moving video - good message especially in this crazy world where kids half the time have no idea what is going on! And it has had 257 Million views. Oh the royalties......
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The legendary Nat King Cole. Had to add some Christmas cheer.
Six more tracks this week that have a certain Bohemian element about them. Hope you enjoy a blast from the past. Thanks to brother Ian for spinning some seriously brilliant music way back then and right now!
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Totally far out. Great era in music. This typified the time.
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Beautiful. The Byrds and the film. What an era. What songwriting. What voices. What else?
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A wonderful album and an amazing artist. Thanks to my brother Ian for his wonderful music education. This was played on rotation during my youth!
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Sometimes music is painfully beautiful. Music creates an emotion that gets locked in time. The musicianship of these guys was second to none.
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How good is this? Amazing string arrangement.
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Probably one of the greatest voices! Effortless but with such pure emotion.
