SPIRITUALIZED
“I’m Your Man": nsnews.com/entertainment/music/spiritualized-i-m-your-man-track-of-the-day-1.23522430.
Jason Pierce play the Commodore Ballroom on April 2. Tickets for An Evening with Spiritualized available at ticketmaster.ca
“I’m Your Man,” written by J. Spaceman, was released on their latest album, And Nothing Hurt, which came out in Sept., 2018, on Fat Possum Records.
JIA ZHANGKE
“Ash is Purest White”: youtube.com/watch?v=l0fKX6VhovQ.
Vancity Theatre, from March 21 to March 31, presents a retrospective of the work of brilliant Chinese filmmaker Jia ZhangKe, including his latest work, “Ash is Purest White.”
Anyone who uses “Unknown Pleasures” is giving something away. How about Oshima and Antonioni filtered through some Nicholas Ray?
Unknown Pleasures: The Cinema of Jia Zhangke kicks off Thursday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m. with a keynote lecture by film critic Sean Gilman "introducing the prevailing themes and techniques which have made Jia one of the most important filmmakers at work today. Gilman runs the websites Seattle Screen Scene and The Chinese Cinema, and writes a column on Contemporary Chinese Cinema at the MUBI Notebook.
ELLA VOS
“Ocean”: youtube.com/watch?v=3Fk_521Twys.
L. A. singer/songwriter Ella Vos plays the Biltmore Cabaret on Friday, March 22. Doors 7 p.m. 19+
JAMES BLAKE
“Barefoot in the Park”: youtube.com/watch?v=vLPQujE_qc8.
Catalonian singer/songwriter Rosalía joins James Blake on the track, "Barefoot in the Park," from his new album, Assume Form. released in January. Blake performs an all-ages gig with Khushi at the Harbour Convention Centre on March 23.
LOW
“Quorum”: youtube.com/watch?v=1z1ETYnTB7Y.
Track from the Double Negative album, released on Sub Pop Records. Low play the Imperial on Tuesday, March 19. Doors 7 p.m. 19+
Tickets available via Ticketfly & Red Cat Records store locations.
COLIN JAMES
“Blues 101 with Colin James”: youtube.com/watch?v=ihG12bSaGKM.
Colin James on CBC’s q with Tom Power talking about the Blues.
James won Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year for Mile to Go on the weekend. He plays the Orpheum on Thursday, March 22.
LAILA BIALI
“Behind the Scenes”: youtube.com/watch?v=YHhnMB7pT_c.
Jazz musician, born and raised in North Vancouver, now host of CBC Radio’s Saturday Night Jazz, won Juno Award on the weekend for Jazz Vocal Album of the year.
GORD GRDINA
"Fog E Nahal" (improv live at the China Cloud from 2014): youtube.com/watch?v=kxaEyIouJE0.
Grdina, a CapU jazz music studies grad, won a Juno Award on the weekend for “China Cloud” Instrumental Album of the year. Go to Spotify to check out the tracks.
FATOUMATA DIAWARA
“Timbuktu Fasso”: nsnews.com/entertainment/music/afropop-superstar-fatoumata-diawara-extends-her-reach-on-fenfo-1.23665400.
The song was written by Fatoumata Diawara and composed by Diawara and Amine Bouhafa for Abderrahmane Sissako’s film Timbuktu (2014). It was recorded in Bamako, Prague and Paris and features Diawara on vocals with Amine Bouhafa on piano, clarinet and programming with a band and The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
Diawara opens a North American tour at Kay Meek Arts Centre in West Vancouver on Wednesday, March 20. Tickets available at tickets.capilanou.ca/TheatreManager/1/tmEvent/tmEvent1074.html.
WHEN MAN RAY MET DUCHAMP
A Handful of Dust is at The Polygon until April 28: thepolygon.ca/exhibition/a-handful-of-dust.
In 1920, Man Ray used a two-hour long exposure to document a year’s worth of dust that had accumulated on a glass etching Marcel Duchamp was working on in his New York studio. The photograph, Dust Breeding (Élevage de poussière) 1920, provides a conceptual hook for the new exhibit at The Polygon Gallery, A Handful of Dust.
In his memoirs Man Ray writes about meeting Marcel Duchamp at the Grantwood artist colony, in Ridgefield, NJ, in the autumn of 1915. Man Ray, 25, at the time, spoke no French and Duchamp, 28, knew no English, when they were introduced by modern art collector Walter Arensberg. The two artists picked up tennis rackets and began playing a game without a net. “In order to have a conversation I would give a name to each pass […] and each time Duchamp would reply in English with a single word, ‘Yes.’ “
The two, who became life-long friends, were unlikely companions.
“They seemed to be opposites in every way,” says Séverine Gossart in ‘Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray,’ translated from the French text and published as part of a press pack in the catalogue Dada (Editions du Centre Pompidou : Paris 2005). “Duchamp, born of a notable Normandy family, received a classical education. Closely linked to his brothers and sisters, who were already recognized as artists, Marcel inherited social legitimacy and cared little for a professional career. He had ‘no solutions because he has no problems.’ (M. Duchamp, quoted in M. Sanouillet, 1998, p. 212). Man Ray on the other hand, was the child of Russian immigrants. He was raised in a modest Brooklyn household, where he helped his parents in their garment workshop. He took drawing classes in New York City, frequented anarchist groups, and unlike Duchamp, his situation worried him. Fashion photography provided Man Ray with financial security and recognition. Man Ray had “no problems, just solutions.”
dada-companion.com/duchamp/duchamp-manray.php.
