Here comes another one from the Famous Andy Bautista!
This comes slightly before the disco era where he hasn’t put Disco onto his hat yet. This is a soul record played in organ, the sound is quite unique as he did most of the instrument sound generated by the Yamaha organ.
This track is really the one that brought my attention to Andy. Shaft is a VERY famous tune, with perfect performance then. Because of the performance from the original studio version is too good, too perfect, that is able to make all the subsequent covers looks silly.
While this version hasn’t lose the game w. the original.
On Request.
Andy Bautista is one of the best organist in Hong Kong that nobody knows. He’s made some interesting records that represents a very unique sound in the scene of Hong Kong Sound.
Here features one of his performance, where he orchestrate, arrange and play on the organ.
A famous Japanese TV showtune, and hear the unique bongo sound, the interplay between him and the horn sessions (yes! a long forgotten horn session until recently by Khalil)
Anyways, Virginia was featured in the record cover.
Mon Oncle - “The Revolver” movie of Jacques Tati
Tati is one of my favourite film director / screenwriter and actor, a role that only Stephen Chow could probably carried.
We will come back with more Jacques Tati later on.
That Homeless Brother is My Friend
有這樣的一個真人真事。
有個流浪漢，一百年前在火車跌落路軌死亡。身邊沒有朋友為他安好身後事，郤被一家戲班班主看上。經過粉飾番後，這屍體首便跟隨這戲班巡迴演出達五十年！
六十年代尾，戲班倒閉。屍體隨同戲班其他物件儲存在一貨倉內。
數年後，一位女仕無意中發現屍體。惻隱之心驅使她將屍體收於家中地底密室。
她沒錢將他安葬。杵葬鄰居得知這事後便免費把他安葬，但郤沒錢立碑。
故事輾轉流傳到Don McLean。他寫The Legend of Andrew McCrew 一曲紀錄此事。歌曲所賺取的，幫助Andrew McCrew 立了一個墓碑。
故，要做一件能幫助別人的事，並不難。
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如果你覺得，這些故事怎可會是真人真事時，你已經道出Don McLean 創作大碟Homeless Brother 的緣由。
Homeless Brother 描寫所有無家的兄弟 - 他想像自己是Jack Kerouac ，遊走社會最低下層，收集每一個獨特的故事，以歌曲表現出來。在上層的，不知民間疾苦，永遠都不會明白曲中細節。不清楚這會否是不碟不能大賣的原因？
This explains my entire existence, too!~
(via haunted-by-you)
In the past record label has their own character and sounds, and they consider this is a unique edge for them to survive.
It facilitates the purchase behaviour cos once you like certain sound, you almost stuck with the label
“Prelude” is one of the label that fits in this category for me - It represents the unique sound of the disco scene in New York in the late 70s.
While this record release in 1980 shows the change of the favour of the scene, less funky but more pop, synthesizer sounds. A very enjoyable music.
Let’s Skip ahead all through the weekend!
(via thegreenurbanist)
朝花夕拾是魯迅在廣州居住時的散文紀集。北新書局一九三二年出版。 書架上這本是香港新藝出版社一九六九年的出品。封面，內容，排板跟北新書局版本一模樣。 這是不折不扣的翻版書。 北新書局是帝制中國後中港台澳最好的一家出版社。北新的出品，由內容，書本設計到製作水準，以當天跟今天的造書標準來看，（註：在物質充裕，社會狀態比較安寧的今天，造書水準應該更高。但從書店裡的產品來看，可能未必能下這結論。故在剛才這句子，仍保留「當天」一詞）都是超班的。 所以，翻版叫好的作品，收入有保證。 而，北新書局造書他們會把設計、內容、製作三方面看成為不可分割的部份。 故，一些再版商會盡量保留舊有的設計，排版as much as possible 。 如今在書店裡看到的一些朝花夕拾的二次創作—新的封面設計，橫寫從左至右的排版，加上圖片、注釋、導讀。 這些二次創作，能否增加讀者閱讀的興趣？能否增加書籍的銷量？（兩者未必有必然的關係。正如，女人未必一定係阿媽。） 我不知道。
A very nice idea to conserve, to use and live with our environment.
(via unconsumption)
South China Morning Post has published a series of photo by William Klein - one of my favourite photographer whom received an outstanding award from Sony World Photography Award.
The great photographer, film-maker and iconoclast reflects on a life spent in pursuit of his personal vision
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday 28 April 2012 16.31 EDT
William Klein: ‘I had no real respect for good technique because I didn’t know what it was.’…
