I would like to say that this is a beautiful movie, but this is actually a beautiful and true story. A real example that wars are not a fight between people but between leaders.
This movie is inspired by a true story, which happened during World War I, for Christmas Eve 1914, in many different places of the battlefront.
When war breaks out in the lull of summer 1914, it surprises and pulls millions of men in its wake.
And Christmas arrives, with it’s snow and multitude of family and army presents. But the surprise won’t come from inside the generous parcels which lie in the French, Scottish, and German trenches.
That night, a momentous event will turn the destinies of four characters: an Anglican priest, a French lieutenant, an exceptional tenor and the one he loves, a wonderful soprano and singing partner. During this Christmas Eve, the unthinkable will happen: rifles will be left at the bottom of the trenches to go to see those opposite, shake their hands, exchange a cigarrete and a piece of chocolate, wish them “Merry Christmas!”…
Referência em percussão corporal, o grupo Barbatuques produz música orgânica utilizando o próprio corpo como instrumento musica. Melodias e diferentes ritmos musicais são criados a partir de efeitos de voz e da exploração de sons produzidos pelo corpo humano: palmas, estalos, batidas, mãos e pés em sintonia. O resultado é surpreendente.
Toda pessoa tem um corpo sonoro e um imaginário musical próprio. A expressão do som através do corpo humano é talvez a forma mais antiga de fazer música e se comunicar em diferentes culturas. Essa “música corporal” revela os sotaques, costumes, códigos de comportamento e tradições de cada povo, em cada parte do mundo.
The Barbatuques, a reference group in Body percussion, produces organic music using the body as a musical instrument. Melodies and different rhythms are created using voice effects and exploration of sounds produced by the human body: hand clapping, cracks, beats, hands and feet, all in tune. The result is amazing.
Everyone has a sonorous body and their own musical imaginary. The sound expression through the human body is probably the older way of making music and communicating in different cultures. This “body music” reveals the accents, practices, behavior codes and tradition of each culture, in each part of the world.
In his speech at the association Iraq Veterans Against War, the corporal Mike Prysner tells of his experience in Iraq and explains how he became aware of the true nature of war:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American lecturer, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thought through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays – Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, published respectively in 1841 and 1844 – represent the core of his thinking, and include such well-known essays as Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet and Experience. Together with Nature, these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson’s most fertile period.
Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for man to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world.
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization created andsustained by Salman Khan. With the stated mission “of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere”, the Academy supplies a free online collection of more than 2,000 videos on mathematics, science, history, and economics.
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The Khan Academy é uma organização sem fins lucrativos criada e sustentada por Salman Khan. Com a missão de “fornecer educação de alta qualidade para qualquer um, em qualquer lugar”, oferece uma colecção grátis de mais de 2.000 vídeos de matemática, ciência, história e economia.
The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s.
The success sparked a revival of international interest in traditional Cuban music and Latin American music in general. Some of the Cuban performers later released well-received solo albums and recorded collaborations with international stars from different musical genres. The “Buena Vista Social Club” name became an umbrella term to describe these performances and releases, and has been likened to a brand label that encapsulates Cuba’s “musical golden age” between the 1930s and 1950s. The new success was fleeting for the most recognizable artists in the ensemble: Compay Segundo, Rubén González, and Ibrahim Ferrer, who died at the ages of ninety-five, eighty-four, and seventy-eight respectively; Segundo and González in 2003, then Ferrer in 2005.
“In the early 1960′s I had a dream of a type of singing group that I wanted to create. Not just a dream, in the wishful way, but an actual dream while I was asleep. This beautiful dream led to the creation of my group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Now, some forty five plus years later this original dream has led to so many more dreams. We have been awarded Grammy Awards, represented our homeland of South Africa at many prestigious events, including accompanying Nelson Mandela to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, traveled the world so many times and most importantly, spread a message of Peace, Love and Harmony to millions of people. (…)”
Robert “Bobby” McFerrin, Jr. (born March 11, 1950) is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and he is also a ten-time Grammy Award winner.
As a vocalist, McFerrin often switches rapidly between normal and falsetto registers to create polyphonic effects, performing both the main melody and the accompanying parts of songs. He makes use of percussive effects created both with his mouth and by tapping on his chest. McFerrin is also capable of multiphonic singing; as observed in his song “Drive” from the 2005 DVD Live in Montreal.
A notable document of McFerrin’s approach to singing is his 1984 album The Voice, the first solo vocal jazz album recorded with no accompaniment or overdubbing.
Ismail Kadaré em Gjirokastër onde presenciou a devastação da Albânia pelas tropas que se gladiaram durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, experiência que deixou marcas tanto na sua vida como na sua obra.
Eterno candidato ao Nobel, Ismail Kadaré é um dos grandes mestres da literatura actual. Este romance curto comprova-o: estilo primoso, personagens bem definidas à primeira pincelada, argumentando os absurdos dos regimes totalitários.
Kadaré tem sido comparado a Gogol, Kafka e Orwell. Mas, a originalidade da sua voz é universal, enquanto radica profundamente no seu solo pátrio.
Syd (Chris Evans) é um jovem cuja vida é largada e fútil. Depois de quase sofrer uma overdose de drogas, ele percebe que está prestes a perder a única mulher que amou na vida: London.
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Syd (Chris Evans) is a young man whose life is released and futile. After nearly suffering a drug overdose, he realizes that is about to lose the only woman he loved in life: London.
Na contracapa deste livro de Mia Couto está escrito que esta é “seguramente a mais madura e mais conseguida obra do escritor” e é bem capaz de ser verdade. É quase impossível pousá-lo depois de se ter pegado nele. E é humanamente impossível não sentir arrepios. E lágrimas a queimar nos olhos. Jesusalém é sobre o que nos persegue, sobre o que não é possível enterrar, sobre o que prevalece sempre. É sobre a impossibilidade de fugir disso mesmo que se viva num bunker e a tudo se dê nomes novos. É sobre o amor, que “vicia mesmo antes de acontecer” e sobre a luta cega para o preservar: “Durante anos, aplicara-me em maquilhagem, dieta, ginástica. Acreditara ser o modo de te continuar cativando. Só agora entendi que a sedução mora em outro lugar. Talvez no olhar. E há muito que eu deixara esmorecer esse olhar incendiado.” Sobre a doença que é a saudade (“A saudade pode ser uma repentina estiagem na boca, um lume frio na garganta?”), sobre perda e despedida (“Em criança não nos despedimos dos lugares. Pensamos que voltamos sempre. Acreditamos que nunca é a última vez.”). Sobre reencontros (“Reencontramos os nossos amores num próximo luar. Mesmo sem lagoa, mesmo sem noite, mesmo sem lua. Dentro da luz, eternos, eles regressam…”).
Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born January 3, 1975).Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and were met with continued success in the years following. After releasing their debut album Homework in 1997, they have had two successive studio albums: Discovery in 2001 and Human After All in 2005.
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Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (インターステラ5555, Intāsutera Fō Faibu) is a feature-length Japanese animated musical film originally released on December 1, 2003. The film is the visual realization of Discovery, an album by Daft Punk. Each track from the album has been animated as an episode in the story of the abduction and rescue of an interstellar pop band. The film was produced by Daft Punk, Cédric Hervet and Emmanuel de Buretel along with Toei Animation, under the supervision of Leiji Matsumoto.
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Watch here the complete Interstella 5555 musical film:
No one attended, as you ‘ve seen, your last
Chimera’s awe-inspiring funeral.
Ingratitude — that panther — has been all
Your company, but it has been steadfast!
Get used to mud: soon it will hold you fast!
Man living among wild beasts on this foul
And sordid earth cannot resist the call
To turn himself as well into a beast.
Here, take a match. Now light your cigarette!
A kiss is but the eve of being spat,
A stroking hand, my friend, may stone you too.
If your great wound still saddens anyone,
Cast at that vile hand stroking you a stone,
Spit straight into the mouth that kisses you!
Or is this the best sense of humor embedded that any poet has ever had, or is the most comical depression!
This is one of the poems of the work titled “Me and Other Poems” that is public domain and can be downloaded free at the link above (in Portuguese).
TIMATE VERSES
No one attended, as you ‘ve seen, your last
Chimera’s awe-inspiring funeral.
Ingratitude — that panther — has been all
Your company, but it has been steadfast!
Get used to mud: soon it will hold you fast!
Man living among wild beasts on this foul
And sordid earth cannot resist the call
To turn himself as well into a beast.
Here, take a match. Now light your cigarette!
A kiss is but the eve of being spat,
A stroking hand, my friend, may stone you too.
If your great wound still saddens anyone,
Cast at that vile hand stroking you a stone,
Spit straight into the mouth that kisses you!
Seu Jorge (born June 8, 1970) is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter and actor. Born Jorge Mário da Silva, he was raised in a favela in the city of Belford Roxo in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro state. He is considered by his fans a renewer of Brazilian pop samba. Seu Jorge cites samba school, and American soul singer Stevie Wonder as major musical influences.
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole also known as “Bruddah Iz” (May 20, 1959 – June 26, 1997) was a Hawaiian musician.
He became famous outside Hawaii when his album Facing Future was released in 1993. His medley of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “What a Wonderful World” was subsequently featured in several films, television programs, and commercials.
Through his consummate ukulele playing and incorporation of other genres (such as jazz and reggae), Kamakawiwoʻole remains one of the major influences in Hawaiian music over the last 15 years.
José Ángel Hevia Velasco, known professionally as Hevia (born 1967 in Villaviciosa, Asturias), is a Spanish bagpiper – specifically, an Asturian gaita player. He commonly performs with his sister, Maria José, on drums. In 1992 he was awarded first prize for solo bagpipes at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Brittany.
Possibly his most recognisable composition is the 1999 piece Busindre Reel, from his first album Tierra de Nadie.
Brian Patrick Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American musician, songwriter and virtuoso. He has released 30 solo albums and performed on over 50 more. His music spans such diverse areas as progressive metal, thrash metal, funk, electronica, jazz, bluegrass, and avant-garde music.
Some reports say that Buckethead is an android, possibly from another planet. Others say that he is just another alien. Conspiracy theorists have wondered if Buckethead is actually Steve Vai or Paul Gilbert in disguise. Buckethead plays with speed, precision and can play almost any style of music.
“Jordan” is a song originally featured as a playable track on the 2006 music video game Guitar Hero II:
Yamandu Costa was born in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he began his guitar studies with his father Algacir Costa, band leader of Os Fronteiriços, when he was 7 years old. Later, he perfected his technique with Lucio Yanel, Argentine virtuoso who was then settled in Brazil.
Until the age of 15, Yamandu’s only music school was the folk music from the south of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Nevertheless, after he heard Radamés Gnatalli´s work, he decided to get in contact with the music of other renowned Brazilian musicians, such as Baden Powell, Tom Jobim, Raphael Rabello, among others.One of the greatest geniuses of Brazilian music of all times, young Yamandu deserves the highest praise.
Whenever he is on stage, he fills with joy the most select audience since his impressive performance shows the deep intimacy between Yamandu and his guitar. The recognition he has earned throughout the years reveals what he can offer the audience – recreation of the magic of music – once from his fingers the music he plays travels through his body and soul and is almost miraculously transformed.Yamandu is a guitar player, composer and arranger that does not fit into a single music style, yet he creates his own when he combines all of them playing his 7-string guitar.
Now that’s art! Kseniya Simonova (Ксения Симонова), born in 1985, is a sand animator from Ukraine. She started drawing with sand after her business collapsed due to the 2008 financial crisis, and had less than a year’s experience when she entered Ukraine’s Got Talent. She became the 2009 winner of that show, constructing an animation that portrayed life during the USSR’s Great Patriotic War against the Third Reich in World War II.
The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s.
“In the early 1960′s I had a dream of a type of singing group that I wanted to create. Not just a dream, in the wishful way, but an actual dream while I was asleep. This beautiful dream led to the creation of my group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Now, some forty five plus years later this original dream has led to so many more dreams. We have been awarded Grammy Awards, represented our homeland of South Africa at many prestigious events, including accompanying Nelson Mandela to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, traveled the world so many times and most importantly, spread a message of Peace, Love and Harmony to millions of people. (…)”
Na contracapa deste livro de Mia Couto está escrito que esta é “seguramente a mais madura e mais conseguida obra do escritor” e é bem capaz de ser verdade. É quase impossível pousá-lo depois de se ter pegado nele. E é humanamente impossível não sentir arrepios. E lágrimas a queimar nos olhos. Jesusalém é sobre o que nos persegue, sobre o que não é possível enterrar, sobre o que prevalece sempre. É sobre a impossibilidade de fugir disso mesmo que se viva num bunker e a tudo se dê nomes novos. É sobre o amor, que “vicia mesmo antes de acontecer” e sobre a luta cega para o preservar: “Durante anos, aplicara-me em maquilhagem, dieta, ginástica. Acreditara ser o modo de te continuar cativando. Só agora entendi que a sedução mora em outro lugar. Talvez no olhar. E há muito que eu deixara esmorecer esse olhar incendiado.” Sobre a doença que é a saudade (“A saudade pode ser uma repentina estiagem na boca, um lume frio na garganta?”), sobre perda e despedida (“Em criança não nos despedimos dos lugares. Pensamos que voltamos sempre. Acreditamos que nunca é a última vez.”). Sobre reencontros (“Reencontramos os nossos amores num próximo luar. Mesmo sem lagoa, mesmo sem noite, mesmo sem lua. Dentro da luz, eternos, eles regressam…”).
Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born January 3, 1975). Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and were met with continued success in the years following. After releasing their debut album Homework in 1997, they have had two successive studio albums: Discovery in 2001 and Human After All in 2005.
