Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
looking for something firm in a world of chaotic flux
Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food
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March 19, 2009
This track-----The Girls Want to be with the Girls---- is from Talking Heads' second album, More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978). It is the first of their string of three Brian Eno-produced records after their emergence out of the New York punk scene that produced the Ramones and Blondie into New Wave.
It is quirky music by an art band, with a brittle sound, in which the music appears to be assembled like an abstract painting and it is before the band wandered onto the African and Brazilian paths that would drive the groove deeper and sometimes brighter.
The eclecticism of More Songs about Buildings and Food centres around its witty distillations of disco and reggae rhythms, its merging of "art" and punk rock. The lo-fi sound and simple instrumentation with tight funk rhythms.
This arty but danceable music appeared before the Labor Decade in Australia when the large record companies were the gatekeepers of the world's popular music andpeople were searching for alternatives to modernism. The cover of the album m appeals because of the Polaroid photography that refers to the style of David Hockney:
The Heads were never really punk judging by that art work.
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