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September 2007

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The Last Detective has recently been showing up on public television channels in North America. "Despite his handle as "The Last Detective" Dangerous Davies is actually The Last Englishman," says Lawrence Russell. "He prefers a pint rather than a Bud, an ironic rebuttal rather than a reactive fist. His composure is dangerously obsolete, as are his values and his methods." A decent man in an indecent time? See for yourself. Now available on DVD.

What exactly is binaural recording? Due to the popularity of iPod mp3 type players, headphones are back in and so is this forgotten audio format.

"Binaural recording uses two mics as in conventional stereo recording, except that they are positioned exactly as are the diaphragms inside your ears: six inches apart, back to back, pointing along the invisible axis that runs straight through your head, earthling."

Flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert and his band Luna Negra have a new live set out, Up Close: the Fritz Files, recorded entirely with the binaural dummy head. Check it out... and the free binaural vid of OL's classic instrumental Snakecharmer.

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Andy Summers. Guitar player with The Police. Early years with Zoot Money & the Big Roll Band, and Eric Burdon & the New Animals, with others like Soft Machine, Neil Sedaka & Roberto Menescal between and after.

About his memoir One Train Later LR says, "Even if you aren't a musician, the info is delivered in such a street hip manner you end up thinking you are, and you're right there with him and The Police on stage at the CBGB Club ripping out Roxanne or hanging in the Green Room upstairs at the Whiskey in L.A. accepting joints from UFOs, groupies, hustlers and mind parasites."

Is history a fiction struggling to be truth? LR examines the fascinating HBO-BBC TV serial ROME, Season I now released as a box set.

"At times ROME looks like a soap opera, an absurdist view of life today with history as a stylistic rather than an archaeological fact. Roman vulgarity is indistinguishable from contemporary vulgarity in manners, speech and action. Life in the count-down of the "Before Christ" era (52--43 BC) is occultic and tabloid, and as bloody as the six o'clock News. Sex is the greatest obsession, even when you think politics are, or even the concomitants such as war and economic advantage. Voyeurism is a way of life, "express yourself" the only real credo. Like today, just about anything goes...."

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CC is listening to & watching: JJ Cale/Eric Clapton The Road to Escondido | Ted Nugent Full Bluntal Nugity Live | Zucchero Fly | Stephen Duros Thira | Mika Kaurismaki: Moro No Brasil DVD docu [Seu Jorge, Ivo Meirelles, Margareth Menezes, Silverio Pessoa] | Joe Abernethy College Grove | Stewart Copeland: Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out

RECENTLY FEATURED IN MEDIA COURT

TV Drama: 24: Parallel Stories Must Converge [Kiefer Sutherland]
Asylum [Iain Sinclair] | Cracker [McGovern]
The Prisoner [McGoohan] | The Stone Tape [Kneale]

Muso vid: Echoes Of Forgotten Places Robert Fantinatto/Robin Guthrie

Music: One Guitar Ottmar Liebert Transit II Jon Gagan | Plank Spankin' Paul Wainwright & Sax Safari | Geisterfaust [Bohren] | Flamenco Revisited
Cranial Firestorms: Atomic Rooster Retrospective
Bohren & the Club of Gore | Transit [John Gagan] | Mambo Sinuendo [Cooder/Galban]
Hwy 101: Ottmar Liebert Live At The Secret House
Interview: Lamya [Lamya] | Lava [Ottmar Liebert & Eric Schermerhorn]
In the Arms of Love [Ottmar Liebert] | Sampling the Dead [electro-dance]
Essential Dub [King Tubby] | Bootleg Music [various] The New Flamenco [roots guitar]
Lovers Live [Sade] | Vozero [Phil Manzanera] | In The Flesh [Roger Waters]
Two Against Nature | [Steely Dan] The Best of Sade [Sade]

Music DVD: Space Is The Place [Sun Ra] Being Mick [Mick Jagger] Gimme Shelter [Stones]
Merchants of Cool [Bad Company] 2VN [Steely Dan]
Sheryl Crow: Rockin' The Globe Live