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| Artist in profile: El Perro del Mar Posted: 18 Nov 2012 06:40 AM PST  El Perro Del Mar's latest album "Pale Fire". — All rights reserved. Who? El Perro del Mar, literally meaning "The Dog of the Sea" in Spanish, began life back in 2003 in Sweden as the musical project of Sarah Assbring. After seeing initial limited success on the Swedish label Hybris, her self-titled 2006 album was picked up by UK-based label Memphis Industries, home of The Go! Team. Since then Sarah has built a strong following, is a frequent presence on the music blogs and has featured on works by upcoming artists such as Chad Valley. Why the buzz? Sarah Assbring just dropped her latest studio album Pale Fire on November 12/13 (UK/US) to widespread critical acclaim. UK-based music mag The NME rated Pale Fire 7/10, the BBC praised the chilled-out lovelorn album, poetically stating Sarah's presence on Pale Fire was "a shivery presence, like moonlight on flesh", and popular music blog Prefix mag gave Pale Fire 8.0 out of 10.0 noting Sarah's "depart[ure] from her generally twee and mostly acoustic melodies in favor of house-music-influenced electronic production". What to listen to? One of the most buzzed tracks on the album is the sublime "Walk On By," which can be streamed on Soundcloud at http://soundcloud.com/pias-france/el-perro-del-mar-walk-on-by or stream the album in full on Hype Machine at: http://hypem.com/featured/premieres. Pale Fire is available to purchase in various formats, including MP3, through El Perro Del Mar's official website at: http://www.elperrodelmar.com/shop.html. Where to see? Sarah Assbring is currently on a UK tour and will be bringing her laidback brand of dream pop to Hamburg on November 15, then Berlin on November 16 before a short break takes her to Sweden on November 22. The tour, which also encompasses France and Spain, concludes on December 13 in Helsinki. Check out full dates at http://www.elperrodelmar.com/news.html. — AFP-Relaxnews |
| ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist’ opens Doha film festival Posted: 18 Nov 2012 12:45 AM PST  Indian film director of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" Mira Nair stands along side Abdul Aziz al-Khater, the Chief Executive Officer of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in the Qatari capital, on November 17, 2012. — AFP pic The film tackles the sensitive issue of relations between Islam and the West through the dilemma of a young Pakistani Harvard graduate and Wall Street trader who struggles to reconcile pursuit of the American dream and his Muslim roots. "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," which received funding from the Doha Film Institute, also opened the Venice festival in July. Nair won the Venice Golden Lion award for her 2001 drama "Monsoon Wedding." The Tribeca Film Festival in New York, co-founded by De Niro to revitalise Manhattan's cultural life after the September 11 2001 attacks, teamed up with Qatar to organise the fourth annual Doha festival. Two other films dealing with radical Islamism are among the 27 being shown -- Moroccan Nabil Ayouch's "Horses of God," centring on the 2003 Casablanca bombings, and French-Algerian Merzak Allouache's "The Repentant," about a jihadist who leaves his hideout to return home. — AFP-Relaxnews |
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