Featuring a vocal contribution from Scout LaRoue, daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Wilis, Nicolas Jaars latest offering is a slow burning, seductive offering. Looking forward to a lot more from this man in 2012.
The Lost Continent
Explorations in music, media and art
John Talbot: “Destiny” Ft. Pional
New music from Spanish dance producer John Talbot.
Out now on Permanent Vacation.
Porcelain Raft: “Unless You Speak From Your Heart”
From Strange Weekend, out now via Secretly Canadian; also from the “Unless You Speak From Your Heart” 7″, out 02/20/12
Apples Of The Golan
Warmly received at this weeks JDIFF.
Directed by Keith Walsh and Jill Beardsworth, Apples of the Golan – filmed entirely in the Golan Heights over four years – poses many questions about the clandestine occupation of Golan. Israel seized the Heights from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six Day War, during which time most of the Syrian Arab inhabitants fled the area. Today, surrounded by electric fences, landmines and trenches the area is home to about 20,000 Syrian Arabs who share Israeli-occupied Golan with an estimated 20,000 settlers who live in more than 30 Jewish settlements.
Prior to the occupation there were 139 villages in the Golan. Today, only five remain and one of these – Majdal Shams – is the backdrop to this fascinating documentary in which a myriad of characters, from shepherds to rap singers, speak. Apples, brought to the region by a holy man in 1945, are both the lifeblood of the Druze Arabs and a metaphor for survival: “we cling to our homeland like the apples cling to the trees”. The Arabs of Golan are neither Israeli nor Syrian and are classed as ‘undefined’. As one person puts it, “we are like birds in a cage: you give the birds food and water, but the birds cannot escape.” – Barrie Dowdall, Documentary filmmaker
Forbidden Fruit Line Up Revealed
Day by Day:
Saturday June 2nd:
Leftfield
Booka Shade
Bloody Beetroots
The Field
Bear In Heaven
Le Galaxie
Toby Kaar
Sunday June 3rd
New Order
The Rapture
Death in Vegas
Mode Selektor
Atlas Sound
Austra
Grimes
Rarely Seen Above Ground
Kool Thing
Monday June 4th
Wilco
James Vincent McMorrow
Beirut
Mazzy Star
Andrew Bird
Field Music
Julia Holter
Windings
A brief stop off in Galway
Captured this image on Sunday when driving from Dublin to Galway.
Buenos Aires Inception Park
Clever greenscreen overlay work directed by Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films
Battles: My Machines
The video for Battles’ My Machines as Directed by Daniels referenced in the Podcast below.
The Lost Continent Podcast #1
Listen to The Lost Continent Podcast #1 This first podcast features music from Bantum, Fourtet, Lemonada, Burial and Nicolas Jaar
The Lost Continent Podcast #1 , posted with vodpod
