Chassol live in Berlin (video)

Inspired by hearing Chassol on Gilles Peterson this week, I found this entertaining and soulful video.

Creature Comforts - Brazilian Lion/Puma

(Channel 4, 1989, by Nick Park; via ChrisK)

Los Cerveceros de Quilmes (via Vince)

Check out this great documentary "Los Cerveceros de Quilmes - die Bierbrauer aus Quilmes" directed by Andreas Geipel (Spanish with German subtitles). In 31 minutes it beautifully captures the passion for football - and particularly the "fanatic football folklore" as celebrated by the fans of Quilmes in Argentina.

The sound of one hand clapping (Norman Palm - Easy)

Normal Palm's "Easy" gets to the heart of long-distance - and particularly intercontinental - relationships.

Some of his next live shows:
01-03-2012: Berlin, Germany, Schokoladen
21-05-2012: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nova Festival
24-05-2012: Sāo Paolo, Brazil, Nova Festival
29-06-2012: Berlin, Germany, Magnet Club

German Beer Worldwide

Hilarious historic ad for German beer traveling around the world (via Ley): Germany - Rio de Janeiro - New York City - Paris

Meta-mixtape: A Mix of Mixes on the Net

Here's a meta-mixtape: a compilation of my recommended music mixes on the internet:

• unfortunately only infrequently but guaranteed quality: ichi.one's Homecookin' mixes (NB: just released great mix #65 'Insomnia')
• a huge selection of diverse mixes with daily updates and good search options: samurai.fm
• hopefully with a higher release frequency during winter: Dirk Rumpff's Berlin-based Offtrack radio show.
• weekly classic now on BBC Radio 6 Music: Gilles Peterson - T.S.F.K.A.W.W. ("the show formerly known as Worldwide") show
• the traditional Soulsearching show by Michael Ruetten out of Frankfurt which appears about monthly and has been going on for years, almost decades.
• for an almost weekly dose of house and elecronica: compost black label sessions
• for less regularly released mixes by individuals and to round off the meta-mixtape: Dom Duchamp's great Adtrax series, covering a wide range of music styles, and Jazzanova's Alex Barck putting some of his diverse sets on Soundcloud.

Germany for Brazilians and Brazil for Germans

Looking at the great German-Brazilian exchange of comic artists which is beautifully documented on the Osmose blog of the organizing Goethe-Institut reveals that Germany through the eyes of a Brazilian comic artist means Bikes and Brazil in the perception of a German comic artist means Fruits.

All three Brazilian artists in Germany, Amaral in Hamburg, Paula Mastroberti in Berlin and João Montanaro in Munich chose Germans on bikes as a Leitmotif (for example, here, here and here) . Conversely, all three German artists in Brazil, Aisha Franz in Salvador, Birgit Weyhe in São Paulo and Mawil in Porto Alegre repeatedly get inspired by the fresh fruits of Brazil (for example here, here and here).

Mawil Goes Brazil

Wonderful comic artist Mawil recently left Berlin and is currently traveling Brazil. After some time in the north-east he seems to have a month-long residency at the Goethe Institut in Porto Alegre at the moment before attending for example the comic fair Gibicon in Curitiba at the end of the month.

His brilliant impressions and beautiful sketches can be found at http://blog.goethe.de/osmose/.

--- Update 13.10.12: The Osmose Blog is bigger than I thought and it includes sketches from 3 Brazilian comic artists in Germany and 3 German ones in Brazil. Hence, Mawil might not have visited Salvador (yet) and the drawing I uploaded was by Aisha Franz.

Mensch-Maschine (in this direction) Worldwide

Kraftwerk's programmatic album title Die Mensch-Maschine (The Man-Machine) more topical than ever:

Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira! and Lucas Santtana on GP's Worldwide Show

In this week's Worldwide Show, Gilles Peterson focused on contemporary Brazilian music. He played some tracks from a new compilation of recent Brazilian music called Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira! (click to download a free 4-track teaser), released on the label Mais Um Discos, and he featured a short live session of Lucas Santtana.

Episode 1 of Brasil, Brasil (BBC4)

Episode 1 of "Brasil, Brasil", a great three-part BBC Four documentary series (2007) on Brazilian music (via Ley).

Don't Believe the Hype

Round 1: Mexican Coke 3 - 0 American Coke (Justin Wright)
Round 2: The taste of coke is all in your head (Jonah Lehrer, Frontal Cortex)
Round 3a: Hipster, hör die Signale (Johannes Thumfart, Die Zeit, German only)
Round 3b: What was the Hipster? (Mark Greif, NY Mag)
Round 4: What is it about 20-somethings? (Robin Marantz Henig, The NY Times)

Gilles Peterson w/ Kon & Amir

Brilliant Worldwide Show this week: GP hosting Kon & Amir.
Listen to it online...

May 25th: Happy Sad Towel Day

In commemoration of Douglas Adams, who sadly passed away nine years ago (on May 11, 2001), tomorrow people celebrate Towel Day a/k/a Geek Pride Day. Proudly carry your towel around or participate in an 'official' Towel Day event in your city (from Backnang, Germany, to Medellin, Colombia).

Graffiti Stop Motion - Broken Fingaz

In the tradition of Blu's work, there is this graffiti stop motion by Israeli Broken Fingaz Crew (via themusicsarecoming)

Space & Time Travels: Mazaworld and Krautrock

Virtually feels like travelling: A 40-year old Kiwi travel buff documents his own travels and compiles interesting information about the earth on Mazalien.com. In particular his collection of travel videos (in particular Michael Palin's Full Circle with full-length episodes) is useful!

New Urban Music Blog features a cool BBC4 documentary on Krautrock (Krautrockumentary) and the awakening of German electronic music.
German Electronic Music History from Jose Rodriguez on Vimeo.

Addendum: I don't like the krautrock as david bowie's li'l brother part at the end, but it neatly shows german music in the 60s to 80s. kraftwerk electro stockhausen synthis everything

Josa Peit - 11.11. at Admiralspalast, Berlin

Don't miss out on that one!

Josa Peit live!

11.11., 21h, Admiralspalast, Berlin

supporting Alice Russell

Mos Def - The Ecstatic (released in June)

Watching The Hitchhiker's Guide again and still admiring Mos Def's suave coolness, I felt reminded that he originally was a rapper (see this post). I checked and he just released a new album called The Ecstatic (you probably knew already).
What I heard on this week's Worldwide Show sounds very very promising. Anyways...

Addendum 22/08/09: I listened to the album and I can (very happily) say it's a worthy successor to Black on Both Sides!

Pirai Vaca, St. Germain 2009, & Gypsy Woman

...and Gilles played (a remix of) St. Germain this week - what a great re-discovery, Andreas Saag!

...and one more that fits perfectly right now (Thanks, Ludi)

New Tracks by Josa Peit

New!
Tracks!
By!
Great!
Josa Peit!

(see former posts)

Unsteady Road / Outline
Can't see the sun (also neatly produced by emski)
(...and still the amazing) Cheat
and Minutes

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Addendum: This blog just celebrated its 5th birthday!