wonderful documentary "DIY or DIE"

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wonderful documentary "DIY or DIE"
2008-08-05 3:29PM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看

"DIY or DIE - How to survive as an independant artist" is a wonderful documentary about independant artists and how they live, and , well, yes, survive, as it's sometimes a bit of a challenge.... It's a series of interviews with people who have great, great things to say...
This film is a celebration of the artistic underdog! FEATURING interviews from:: Lydia Lunch, Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), J.G.Thirlwell (Foetus), Mike Watt (Minutemen), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron Asheton (Stooges), Madigan Shive (Bonfire Madigan), Dave Brockie (Gwar) and more. DIY or DIE was directed by Michael W. Dean and edited by Miles Montalbano.

You won't regret buying this dvd if it's a topic you're interested in.
Here's the website, if you want to read more about this film :
http://www.kittyfeet.com/diy.htm

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France de Griessen 是一名半荷蘭,半比利時裔的歌手，音樂人以及藝人。...
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France de Griessen 是一名半荷蘭,半比利時裔的歌手，音樂人以及藝人。
她曾在布魯塞爾，巴黎，紐約和新墨西哥居住。
現居於巴黎，但她從沒有跟她的多元文化分離，因此她的歌曲有法語的，亦有英語的。

受著Hole, L7, Nirvana, The Velvet Underground, Johnny Thunders　以至Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen 或 Marie Laforêt　的影響，France－跟Shanka ( No One Is Innocent, Destruction Incorporated)一起合作－發掘了屬於她的聲音：一種混合了強而充滿詩意的帶民歌色彩的搖滾樂曲。

她以法語和英語演繹歌曲，因為她認為這些語言讓她能夠抒發她的情感，同時亦能讓她能為音樂注入獨特的節奏與能量。

« I’ve found out about country music it when I was living in the USA, and I was struck by its ability to convey emotions without any kind of artifice : the voice, a guitar, and that’s it. I always keep this in mind when creating music : I believe a good song should work with only voice and guitar. Everything else is a bonus.
I like punk and grunge because they come from the same source : sixties music. And sixties music very often had great melodies.
Then punk and grunge musicians re-interpreted it with different sounds, saturated guitars, different speeds and a different social context.
Being a rebel by nature, I was of course drawn to it ! »

她正在貫錄她的首張個人大碟，而她較早前與 « Teen Machine »的Michaël Gadrat共同合作的概念-大碟 « Billy » (2005)的靈感則來自被放逐的Billy The Kid的人生。

« I loved that story because it’s really about a man’s quest for freedom and finding one’s identity and place in a harsh world.
The fact that he was a boy and that I’m a girl did not matter to me at all, I feel powerful stories can be told regardless of gender. So I performed as a female version of Billy. »

因為這張大碟， France贏得了數個獎學金以及殊榮： Fondation Belge de la Vocation award-winner 於2003, Défi-Jeune (Direction Départementale de la Jeunesse et des Sports, France), Music Manager Forum (France) and the Division Culturelle de la SACEM (France)　亦曾給予她支持。

« Billy »曾被播放於法國，加拿大和美國的獨立製作無線電廣播臺頻道，曲目« J’ai Tué »更曾高居Radio Néo播放率排行榜達２個月之久。

Teen Machine也被邀請往法國第５頻道中演繹其中的２首歌曲。

於２００６年夏季，她開始了跟Shanka合作只有４首歌曲的細碟。
幾星期後，這慢慢演變成她的個人大碟項目。
美個歌手及音樂人 Elliott Murphy 和他的兒子 Gaspard Murphy, 鼓手 Pierre Belleville (Lofofora, Destruction Incorporated) 和 Yann Coste (No One Is Innocent, Marcel Bellucci Quartett, Doppler), 低音歌手 Bastien Burger ( Blackstrobe, Destruction Incorporated), 搖滾樂手 Vérole, 和小提琴家 Agnès Davan, 特雷門家 Olivier Daviaud 隨後亦參與了這個項目。

當No One Is Innocent的主音歌手Kemar聽到這些歌後，他提出了給予France為他們樂隊在２００７年１０月的演唱會當開幕嘉賓的機會。

一位當代的吉普賽女郎，夢想家，詩人以及獨立女性集於一身，France de Griessen創造了屬於她的世界，在這裏浪漫激情的跟甜蜜的共融，連憂鬱也被淨化了。

她未來個人大碟« Ballerina »的靈感來自於她自己的生活，再加上Marylin Monroe or Calamity Jane等其他女性。

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職業: 歌手 , 樂手
性別: 女
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