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Maria Mochnacz
Maria Mochnacz is a British photographer and music video director, best known for her collaborations with PJ Harvey. Life Mochnacz holds a degree in fine arts. She also attended a photography course in Weston-super-Mare. Notably, she does not use digital cameras in her photography. She has been working with various musicians since 1991, as well as doing fashion and fine art work. She directed and designed most of PJ Harvey's music videos and album covers, including the most recognizable ''Rid of Me''. She also collaborated with other artists such as Marianne Faithfull, Robert Miles, M People, Julie Feeney, Richard Ashcroft, Robert Plant, and Nick Cave. In the 1980s she was in a relationship with John Parish. She has a twin sister, Annie Mochnacz, who is a fashion designer. Cover arts * PJ Harvey – ''Rid of Me'' (1993) * PJ Harvey – ''4-Track Demos'' (1993) * Echobelly – ''Everyone's Got One'' (1994) * Bark Psychosis – ''Independency'' (1994) * PJ Harvey – ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Video Director
A music video director is the head of music video production. The director conceives of videos' artistic and dramatic aspects while instructing the musical act, technical crew, actors, models, and dancers. They may or may not be in collaboration with the musical act. On November 8, 1992, MTV began listing directors with the artist, song, and record company credits, because music videos had increasingly become an auteur's medium. "The case for the director as music video author is strong. It is the music video director who has principal control of everything that is added to the pre-existing recorded sound text."Robert J. Thompson and Gary Burns, eds. (1990). ''Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process'', p.177. . Directors, including Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and F. Gary Gray, have gone on to direct feature films, continuing a trend that had begun earlier with directors such as Lasse Hallström and David Fincher. The most expensive video of all time was directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everyone's Got One
''Everyone's Got One'' is the debut album by English rock band Echobelly. Released to a favourable response from critics, the album reached number 8 in the UK Albums Chart in September 1994. On 21 July 2014, a 2CD expanded edition of the album was released by 3 Loop Music which featured B-sides and previously unreleased live material. In 2017, ''Pitchfork'' placed ''Everyone's Got One'' at number 48 on their list of The 50 Best Britpop Albums. Background Reflecting her fascination for wordplay, lead singer Sonya Madan titled the album ''Everyone's Got One'', with the first letter of each word spelling " EGO", a common theme throughout the album. Madan wrote the songs "Today, Tomorrow, Sometime, Never" and "Call Me Names" about her feelings of alienation due to her Indian heritage: "Even though I have a brown skin, I didn't feel Asian. I felt alien". "Father Ruler King Computer" discusses her anger towards arranged marriages: "I was brought up, I've been told, that a husband is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreamland (Robert Plant Album)
''Dreamland'' is the seventh solo studio album by English musician Robert Plant and the first album with his backing band Strange Sensation. It was released on July 16, 2002. It is a mixture of blues rock, folk rock, hard rock, and psychedelic rock. Overview Many of the songs are cover versions, mainly blues, but also some rock. It was nominated for two Grammys in 2002 — Best Rock Album and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Darkness, Darkness." Track listing Notes * – based on Bukka White's " Fixin' to Die Blues", a song Led Zeppelin used to perform live. * – contains elements of: "If I Ever Get Lucky" by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup; " Milk Cow's Calf Blues" by Robert Johnson; "Crawling King Snake" by Big Joe Williams or John Lee Hooker; and "That's Alright Mama" by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup. Personnel Strange Sensation * Robert Plant – Vocals * John Baggott – Keyboards, string arrangement on tracks 2, 3 * Pearl Thompson – Guitar * Justin Adams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How Animals Move
How may refer to: * How (greeting), a word used in some misrepresentations of Native American/First Nations speech * How, an interrogative word in English grammar Art and entertainment Literature * How (book), ''How'' (book), a 2007 book by Dov Seidman * HOW (magazine), ''HOW'' (magazine), a magazine for graphic designers * H.O.W. Journal, an American art and literary journal Music * "How", a song by The Cranberries from ''Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?'' * "How", a song by Maroon 5 from Hands All Over (album), ''Hands All Over'' * "How", a song by Regina Spektor from ''What We Saw from the Cheap Seats'' * "How", a song by Daughter from ''Not to Disappear'' * How? (song), "How?" (song), by John Lennon Other media * HOW (graffiti artist), Raoul Perre, New York graffiti muralist * How (TV series), ''How'' (TV series), a British children's television show * How (video game), ''How'' (video game), a platform game People * How (surname) * HOW (graffiti artist), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Can't Imagine The World Without Me
''I Can't Imagine the World Without Me'' is the first greatest hits album released by alternative rock band Echobelly in 2001. The album is heavily biased on the bands' first album '' Everyone's Got One'', with 9 of the 18 songs coming from that album. Track listing :All songs written by Sonya Madan and Glenn Johansson. # " I Can't Imagine The World Without Me" – 3:04 # " Insomniac" — 4:16 # "Call Me Names" – 3:52 # " Great Things" – 3:31 # "The World Is Flat" – 4:04 # "Here Comes the Big Rush" – 4:26 # "We Know Better" – 4:03 # " King of the Kerb" – 4:00 # "Cold Feet, Warm Heart" – 3:29 # "Atom" – 2:50 # " Close… But" – 2:59 # "Father Ruler King Computer" – 2:41 # " Bellyache"– 4:32 # "Iris Art" – 3:47 # "Give Her a Gun" – 3:40 # "Today, Tomorrow, Sometime Never" – 3:41 # "Car Fiction" (French Version) – 2:33 # "Dark Therapy" – 4:58 *Tracks 1, 2, 3, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16 are from '' Everyone's Got One''. *Tracks 4, 8, 17 and 18 are fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howe Gelb
Howe Gelb (born October 22, 1956, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer based in Tucson, Arizona. Projects Gelb's approach to music is collaborative and he has recorded with a number of side projects. In a 2004 interview with Gelb, ''The Guardian'' wrote "Gelb's way of dealing with it was to treat Giant Sand (not to be confused with his 1970s electro-rock band Giant Sandworms) as a loose, uncompetitive, mutually supportive musical collective, a place for friends to hang out and play. 'I just liked the idea of having this kind of removed world, this brotherhood—the idea of a band being something more than a front person or dealing with the throes of fame.'" In 2013, he worked with the Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall on her fourth studio album ''Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon''. He co-wrote and co-produced, and sang on several songs. His own solo album entitled ''The Coincidentalist'' was released on New West Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chore Of Enchantment
''Chore of Enchantment'' is a studio album by the alternative rock band Giant Sand. It was released in March 2000 by Thrill Jockey. Reception The British music journalism publication ''NME'' praised the album's "raw but tender empathy in songs full of unexpected departures". Legacy The album was included in the book ''1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die''. Track listing All tracks were written by Howe Gelb. # "Overture" – 0:48 # "(Well) Dusted (For the Millennium)" – 3:47 # "Punishing Sun" – 3:13 # "X-Tra Wide" – 3:27 # "1972" – 1:03 # "Temptation of Egg" – 3:41 # "Raw" – 3:29 # "Wolfy" – 4:25 # "Shiver" – 4:00 # "Dirty from the Rain" – 3:34 # "Astonished (In Memphis)" – 5:32 # "No Reply" – 4:34 # "Satellite" – 6:48 # "Bottom Line Man" – 4:41 # "Way to End the Day" – 4:47 # "Shrine" – 2:04 Personnel *Howe Gelb – guitar, piano, vocals *John Convertino – drums *Joey Burns – bass guitar, cello, guitar, backing vocals *Juliana Hatfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giant Sand
Giant Sand is an American musical group from Tucson, Arizona, United States. Its most constant member is singer-songwriter Howe Gelb. The group started as Giant Sandworms in the late 1970s post-punk and paisley underground scenes. They later shortened their name and developed an idiosyncratic sound rooted in alternative country, but touching on a wide range of other styles and featuring Gelb's beatnik-influenced vocals and songwriting. Since about 2012, they have also performed as Giant Giant Sand when featuring a larger ensemble than their traditional four to six musicians. Members have included keyboardist Chris Cacavas (of Green on Red), bassist Paula Jean Brown (who was briefly a member of The Go-Go's and was married to Gelb at the time), Mark Walton (of The Dream Syndicate and Continental Drifters), drummer Tom Larkins (later to become a Jonathan Richman sideman), and Iain Shedden, drummer with Australian band The Saints. For a long while the band's rhythm section consis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'' is the fifth studio album by English alternative rock musician PJ Harvey, released on 24 October 2000 by Island Records. Recorded during March to April 2000, it contains themes of love that are tied into Harvey's affection for New York City. The album became the second major commercial success of her recording career, following her successful breakthrough '' To Bring You My Love'' (1995). Upon its release, the album received acclaim from most music critics and earned Harvey several accolades, including the 2001 Mercury Prize. It spent 17 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, and was certified Platinum in the UK and Australia. It is generally regarded as one of her best works. Background and music In 1998, while shooting a film as an actress for Hal Hartley in New York, she felt inspired by the city and wrote several songs. Some of them ended up on the record. In 1999, she chose to live there for nine months. However, she insisted in inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subcircus
Subcircus were a Britpop musical ensemble, band from London. They had two singles make an entry in the UK Singles Chart in 1997. Career Peter Bradley formed Subcircus in late 1994. The rest of the band was made up of Nikolaj Bloch (guitar), whom Bradley found through an advert in ''Melody Maker'', the latter's drumming friend and Denmark, Danish compatriot Tommas Arnby, and George Brown (bass guitar, bass). Their first concert was in York, England in 1995. By May 1996, Subcircus had played more than 150 shows throughout the United Kingdom, UK, headlining two nightclub concert tour, tours and opening for Echo & the Bunnymen, Suede (band), Suede, Elvis Costello, Grant Lee Buffalo, Stereophonics and Ocean Colour Scene. Their debut album, ''Carousel'', was recorded in London at Associated Independent Recording, Air Studios, and at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bath, Somerset. It was issued in the UK by the independent record label, independent Echo record label, label in 1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looking In The Shadows
''Looking in the Shadows'' is the fourth studio album by British alternative rock group the Raincoats, released in 1996 on 17 June by Rough Trade and on 3 June by DGC. It was the band's first album in 12 years (after 1984's '' Moving''). Production The album was produced by Ed Buller. The Raincoats' original members, Gina Birch and Ana da Silva, had to relearn their instruments prior to recording ''Looking in the Shadows''. Critical reception The '' Hartford Courant'' wrote: "With a bent toward electronic sounds and a playful, revealing manner in the lyrics, the band succeeds in creating music that reflects not some sort of nostalgia for what the Raincoats used to be but considerable understanding in what they came to be." ''The Washington Post'' wrote that "the Raincoats may be grown up now, but on songs like 'Love a Loser' they still juxtapose harsh and sweet as bracingly as ever." Track listing Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12 were written by Ana da Silva, the remainder by Gina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Raincoats
The Raincoats are a British experimental post-punk band. Ana da Silva (vocals, guitar) and Gina Birch (vocals, bass) formed the group in 1977 while they were students at Hornsey College of Art in London. Signed to the label Rough Trade, the band released three albums in their early incarnation: ''The Raincoats'' (1979), ''Odyshape'' (1981), and '' Moving'' (1984). They reformed in 1993 and released the album ''Looking in the Shadows'' in 1996. History 1977–1993 Da Silva and Birch were inspired to make a band after they saw the Slits perform live earlier that year. Birch stated in an interview with ''She Shreds'' magazine, "It was as if suddenly I was given permission. It never occurred to me that I could be in a band. Girls didn’t do that. But when I saw The Slits doing it, I thought, ‘This is me. This is mine.’” For the band's first concert on 9 November 1977 at The Tabernacle, the line-up included Birch, da Silva, Ross Crighton (guitar) and Nick Turner (drums). G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
