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CD: The Human Statues, The Human Statues Release date: 2008 Label: Independent The Manic-Depressive Fraternal Love-Twins of a Campfire Songster and a Motown Diva If you follow this column you’ll have noticed my weakness for any music that sounds anything like my parents? record collection from the late ?50s, early ?60s, a trove that included… Read more »

Francesco Casetti is a renowned professor of cinematography and author of the recent Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity (see Voice review here). Mr. Casetti is chair of the Department of Media and Performing Arts at the Università Cattolica in Milan and was recently a Visiting Professor at Yale University. Recently, Mr. Casetti spoke… Read more »

Book: Francesco Casetti, Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2008 Translation by Erin Larkin with Jennifer Pranolo Recovering a Balanced Turmoil “The cinema is exactly this: an experience that vacillates between the possibility of an excitement beyond measure, and an adherence to measures that avoid all risk. It is the… Read more »

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Wind-up Records is the largest independently owned music label in North America. In November the company signed a joint publishing deal with leading filmed entertainment studio Lionsgate. Ron Morse is the general manager for Wind-up Entertainment LLC. Before joining Wind-up, Morse worked for Sam the Record Man, Warner Music Canada, and Sony Music Canada. He… Read more »

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CD: Jeanne (Doucet) Currie, Serrons-nous la main Release date: 2008 Label: Deep Sound Productions Danceable Franco-Country Songs Honour Legends and Friends of Acadie In the nineteenth century, when the first boatload of displaced Acadians returned to Nova Scotia, it was to a rocky beach hemmed in by a wild forest. After years of petitioning the… Read more »

The Iguanas are a New Orleans band whose music is a delicious brew of styles, influences, and song subjects. The band weathered 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in exile in Austin, Texas, eventually returning to New Orleans to rebuild their homes and work on their newest album, the recently released If You Should Ever… Read more »

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