Those who know the blog knows that mod*mom has a great eye for cool, mod and nice designs and illustrations. Through "mom" I discovered the Japanese illustrator Toru Fukuda. His style makes me think of great commercial illustrations and childrens book's of my childhood's 1970s. Clear, kind of simple, colourful and fun. Visit his web site and his Flickr!
"Although Chelsea Girl (1967) was the first long-player from the German-born Christa Päffgen, it was not her debut solo effort. Prior to becoming involved with the Velvet Underground and..." (continue The Fringe: Nico "Chelsea Girl")
Dead End is a Brazilian blog with lots of good stuff like:
Example by Toulouse Lautrec
Photography was invented in the 1820s and developed and popularized during the rest of the century. The second half of the 19th century also saw big changes in painting - realism, impressionism and post-impressionism. This site in Spanish describes the influence which the invention of photography had on 19th century painting. Enjoy the pictures if you don't understand Spanish. La Visión Fotográfica en la Pintura - Impresionismo y Fotográfia
Update 23/1: some more links on the subject at Metafilter. Thanks PK!
Via Fogonazos
Balthazar in Recordville presents 18th Century Corporation with BACHARACH BAROQUE
"Cheeky cover - Nice easy listening..."
Leif Peng of Today's Inspiration loves the works of illustrator James R. Bingham (1917-1971). And why not? Check these posts out: 1, 2, 3 and his James R. Bingham Flickr set.
By now you probably know we are fans of the recently deceased musician Sivuca here at Martin Klasch. Reader Ron kindly pointed out the excellent Brazil music blog Loronix to us. They have among other nice things shared lots of Sivuca albums. I have noted the date for their posts thinking it might be smart to begin at the earliest - who knows they might go obsolete!
Actually I have had the exact same post title before (2006-02-20) but it is not repost. This time it is the great RYP and his TWILIGHTZONE! who is sharing this great album from 1970. If you don't have it already I suggest you consider seizing this opportunity!
Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden
Check this blog for more Lee Hazlewood (and other stuff): Realm of x
Not long ago I told you about the sad news that Mr Hazlewood is ill but also the happy news of his new record Cake or Death (link to that post).
"Strangers In the Night" is one of my favorite songs ever.
The song was originally written by Ivo Robić and then re-arranged for Frank Sinatra by one of the European kings of laid back orchestral easy listening (and I mean that in the most positive of ways!) Bert Kaempfert.
(The English lyrics were written by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder.)
I have a dozen of Herr Kaempfert's records. At least 2 of them has instrumental versions of the song.
Here is a wonderful clip of Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra doing the song with the talanted and beautiful Swedish singer Sylvia Vrethammar. I think this show was recorded in 1979. Enjoy!
The clip was originally uploaded by operationuranus
(Note: I posted a video earlier on here at Martin Klasch In which you could enjoy Sylvia sing with Sivuca and Toots Thielemans)
/Z aka mrdantefontana
Stephen at ASIFA has bought himself some Christmas presents - "a batch of various vintages of Bland Tomtar Och Troll" books, illustrated by Einar Norelius. And being a kind soul Stephen shares the illustrations with us:
"Shmoon are delicious, and are so eager to be eaten that if they are looked at by someone who is hungry they will gladly jump into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or into a roasting pan, after which they taste like beef (Raw,they taste like Oysters on the Half-Shell). They also produce eggs, milk, and butter (no churning labor needed.) Their fresh pelt is a perfect boot leather, or house timber depending on how thick it has been cut. Their eyes are ideal suspender buttons, and their whiskers are perfect toothpicks. Naturally gentle, they require minimal care, and are ideal playmates for young children. In short, they are simply the perfect ideal of a subsistence agricultural herd animal." (from Wikipedia)
The Shmoo was created and first drawn by the cartoonist Al Capp in his newspaper comic strip Li'l Abner.
Skeletal Systems
Salt'n'peppah Shmoo
Finally someone (DzmrDz) has uploaded some episodes of the Croatian cartoon Professor Balthazar. This I have been waiting for since March last year (old post). Thanks to anonymous commentator and to Fikret Karic for telling me this! One of the episodes has the very suitable title "Martin Makes it to the top". Sure the cartoon is in Croatian but if I could understand it you should too. Enjoy the colours, the characters and the music!
Did you note that in this first Balthazar episode - Izumitelj cipela - his beard is red and curly?
PS. The company DVDLAB are in the process of preparing an italian well restaurated version of whole series. We wish them good luck!
You might have noticed that we are taking it a bit easy here at Martin Klasch. Well, we will continue doing so for a little while still. But before you know it (a day, a week or so) we'll be back in good form. So don't be a stranger. Check back soon, ok?
Hi Ho! Today it's time for Martin Klasch's Christmas gift to you. It is this year's Christmas music mix - Santology. You could say it's similar to a great dopp i grytan on the Christmas smorgasboard. Enjoy!
Download-link for Santology MegaUpload
(Re-uploaded on request June 21th 2007)
Hi all! Are you ready to consume some more Christmas music? It is time for Santalicious from last year. It's a bit like grisfötter, only it tastes good.
Download-link for Santalicious
