Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (5000)

Content

Bang Wed Murder

6.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

Tabletop Game

HILARIOUS GAME - Based Upon the Popular Party Game F Kill Marry. A party game that triggers...

Adult 18+ NSFW

The Bad Seed

William March

8.0 (3 Ratings) Rate It

Book

There’s something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and...

Cranium WOW

8.5 (8 Ratings) Rate It

Tabletop Game

Cranium WOW includes an all new gameboard, 600 new cards with 15 fun activities (we promise), a...

PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire

John Wigger

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

In the early months of 1987 Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker had it all-a popular Christian talk show,...

Caribou recommended Ethiopiques 21: Piano Solo by Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou in Music (curated)

"Those Éthiopiques reissues were so amazing. This was the 21st one of those - it was a collection of some of her recordings. She was known as ""The Singing Nun"". The reissues introduced me to Ethiopian music. I'd never heard any before then, and I think that's probably true for most people. I was so bewitched by it. When I heard the Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou album I was totally blown away. The first thing I thought of when I heard it was Thelonious Monk. He was an obsession of mine when I was a piano-playing teenager. It also made me think of Debussy and Satie and stuff - the way the harmony just hangs there in suspension. Her playing - the manual element of it, like the way you can hear her fingers moving around the keyboard, reminds me of Monk and Mingus and those more idiosyncratic jazz musicians. It's so beautiful. This was the beginning of me thinking that Ethiopia was a really interesting culture that I knew absolutely nothing about. My wife and I moved to London into a little flat on Caledonian Road and there were lots of Ethiopian restaurants around there - it was a little hub for the Ethiopian community. Getenesh, the owner of this restaurant Kokeb, we were there so much that she took us in and adopted us. We still get phone calls from her if we haven't been there for a long time. I think it was the music and that, and right before Swim came out, my wife and I were basically not going to see each other for a year because I was going to be away so much, so we decided to go on a trip and do something special together. So we went to Ethiopia and I fell in love with this record all over again. It's such a distinctive place with a distinctive musical culture. When you're there all you hear is Ethiopian music. There's no Bieber or Western music. I thought the album was a totally undiscovered gem, a rare thing, but I heard two people that had my favourite track on the record as their ringtone! That blew me away. Imagine if somebody over here had Benjamin Britten on their phone. It gave me a sense of what a deep-rooted and proud musical culture it is."

Source

Kudos

EDITION29 RETURN OF THE SURFER

Lifestyle and Magazines & Newspapers

(0 Ratings) Rate It

App

EDITION29 RETURN of the SURFER is a cinematic journal that documents the modern surf culture being...

Lindsay (1717 KP) rated Bianca's Vineyard in Books

Feb 15, 2018 (Updated Apr 9, 2019)

We learn about what life was like in Italy at that time. You can read the book in a form of a diary or as someone is telling a story in a storytelling. You can learn the secrets of this family. You also learn a bit about Italian culture. You will learn what Italian culture was at that time in history.

Most of this story is about Egisto and his wife that he married before going to America. Tough as soon as her children when to school. She decided to go back to Italy. The book really does teach us lessons that were going on in Italy.

You also see the family deals with her and the rest of the family. Egisto father was fond of his niece Bianca. Egisto knew the war was coming to Italy. We learn about Armida and her what she decides. She is going to need to make a choice. I feel bad for Armida and Egisto children especially when Armida gets a bit strange.

We learn what the vineyard is about and it meaning to the family. I really like the fact it was told somewhat in a form of a diary. You also learn about each family member that's in Egisto life. It mostly takes place in Italy and his Italian family members. The author did a really good job of showing us what it was like during World War 2 era. You see the reliant of the Italians after the war and shows how the family was back together when Egisto returns.