Hearing or watching an orchestra play the music John Williams composed for Star Wars might get your insides pumping. Until suddenly the trumpet went out of tune. And like bad literature, it takes you away from the story. This week I counted Detuned story. What’s hidden behind a bad orchestral sound? Management problems and job insecurity. But there’s another thing. What if an orchestra is called very similar to a Los Angeles or Vienna orchestra, but they are different? Don’t miss this story.
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Los Punsetes (Barcelona). he ‘fuck him in the ass Tour for friends Arriving in Barcelona this Saturday, January 18th with Razmatatu. One of the most ironic Madrid indie groups of the 21st century returns in 24 years with an album that will not disappoint their fans. There are things that need to be said more (and louder), and Los Punsetes knows how. If you’re looking for a less hooligan proposal, Baiuka will also be performing at Razmatazz the day before. best neofolk Galicians today.
3 recommended books
“History of Kronen” by Jose Ángel Mañas (Aguilar). Kronen is a fictional bar familiar to those of us who went to Madrid as 20-year-olds in the early 90s. A film adaptation with Juan Diego Botto as the main character quickly became a reality, and it became what we usually call a generational milestone. Probably too many. Thirty years later, José Ángel Mañas wrote about Kronen’s backroom from an autobiographical perspective.
Chetna Maloo’s “Western Lane” (6th floor). A finalist for the 2023 Man Booker Prize, the novel marks the Kenyan-born British author’s publishing debut, and it’s a shocker. Sally Rooney said that this work was one of the novels that inspired her when writing Intermezzo. She talks about grief, family and migration through the eyes of an Indian teenager living in the UK. It will be available in bookstores from January 27th.
Hermann Hesse’s “Journey to the East” (Wunderkammer). The highly selective Wunderkammer publisher has rescued this 1932 text by Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse about a crumbling world but with an eye toward a mythical East. As is often the case with his work, the stake is more on art and spirituality than on progress. It will be in bookstores on February 3rd.
3 Recommended Movies Directed by Javier Zullo
“Sacred Fig Tree Seeds” Mohammad Rasoulof secretly left Iran after being sentenced to eight years in prison for an anti-regime film that drew criticism. This is an example of a film that packs a punch, combining the reality of women’s protests in her country with a horrifying story that’s as stifling as reality. The film offers no respite and is itself an act of resistance.
“Baby Girl.” In Venice, critics were polarized over Halina Lane’s new work. Many saw empty nonsense, others (I’m here), A wise perspective on women’s desiresto pleasure, and beneath its obvious provocation it raises interesting and many uncomfortable questions, as it could be a fantasy of feminist submission.
“From my cold, dead hands.” This phrase was said by Charlton Heston and is now the title of an amazing documentary produced by Javier Olcajada, which features videos of people using and defending themselves with weapons in the United States. It criticizes the United States’ military policy by placing it in a position of unreasonableness and reducing it to absurdity. subject. Everything is so realistic that it can be surreal, funny, and ultimately chilling.
3 Weekend Plans by Laura García Higueras
Doll Museum (Cádiz). This interesting museum aims to exhibit, record and preserve the memories of the activities of puppeteers, companies, craftsmen and creators. The permanent exhibition, titled Dolls of the World, features over 500 pieces from Spain and abroad. Admission is free.
Gorka Urbiz (Madrid). This Navarre musician and producerKnown for his work as a composer, singer and guitarist for the rock band Beli Charak, he will perform at the La Riviera Room at the Inverfest festival this Saturday. Last year, he released his first solo album. hashiera bat (Beginning) is a true gem full of raw, beautiful songs that the artist himself described as “resistant as a rock and fragile as a leaf in the wind.”
Children’s drums (San Sebastian). We have finished planning for Monday the 20th. The plan is for more than 4,500 children to parade through Donostia, fulfilling a tradition that has been celebrated since 1927. Each school has its own company and uniform, bringing music and color to the streets of the centre. of the city.
Three exhibitions by Jordi Sabate
“Lee Miller. War Chronicles” (Barcelona). Available at the FotoNostrum space in Barcelona until March 20, 2025 From an anthology about North American photographer Lee Myler that was exhibited at the Xavier Miserax Biennale at Parafurgel in Girona last summer. An artist, photojournalist, and model, Myler was a fixture in the Parisian surrealist scene of the 1930s.
When World War II began and Paris fell to the Nazis, Myler joined the U.S. Army as a battlefield photographer and participated in various episodes of the liberation of Europe, showing its raw horror. And he did not forget the absurdity of war, giving his images a deep aesthetic meaning. This exhibition is therefore a great opportunity to appreciate the work of one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century and prepare for the premiere of the biopic starring Kate Winslet, which will be released on March 7th.
“The eloquence of images. Katara Rock in America” (Madrid). The work can be seen at the American Museum in Madrid until April 13th. This sample is the work of Francesc Catala Roca, one of the best Spanish photographers of the 20th century. Produced by the Ministry of Culture and curated by museologist and researcher Lia Colombino, this tour is an unprecedented tour of Catara Roca’s creative work and travels in the Americas over several years.
The exhibition began in Mexico in 1973 and ended in Ecuador in 1979. Katara Roca’s work was part of a documentary project by Editorial Blume, which specializes in art, photography and cultural books. The exhibition presents 230 photographs out of more than 7,000 negatives taken by the photographer and stored in the National Archives of Catalonia since 2023. )
“Sneaky Beauty” (Malaga). The exhibition at the Russian Museum of Malaga will be on display until February 23rd. Comprised of landscapes and world photographs taken by Alisa Sibirskaya (Siberia, Krasnoyarsk, 1989), this work transports us to different eras of the history of painting. The purpose is to reflect on the present through formal and thematic language.
Conceived as a revision of the pictorial and moral tenets of the past, Secret Beauty presents a dialogue with a tradition that seeks to question human vanity. Sibirskaya also seeks to emphasize the emptiness of pictorial discourses that seek to convince us of the futility of worldly pleasures in the face of certain death.
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David Lynch has reportedly passed away. We like to break the news, but this isn’t it. Although it’s possible that David Lynch is on the other side of the red curtain. Javier Zullo writes the obituaries of revolutionaries.
Take a step forward with Me Too. The time has come for humanity to speak out and take action. he says very clearly actress and director half of anna In this video interview in the newsroom.
The oldest bookstore in Spain. The longest operating bookstore Located in Burgos. 175 years. Hellas. We spoke with the people in charge of this temple and other temples like Resistance.
Recommendations for Librothea
Books that make us abandon our bodies or even possess them, books that are not suitable for everyone, books that burn with desire.
