The site got a bit difficult to update due to my ISP having a DNS fault for two months – and I had client sites to look after. The videos so far are worth watching so before we post more frequently have a look again at Das Fluff 100% and Jordan Reyne and Marina Cwleste – filming these artists came about due to a single night at a venue which used to be called The Bowery. Unfortunately it appears to have changed its name but we hope its interest in the original arts is not diminished. So much of our world relies upon the acceptance of sameness. Mass agreement does not make something better than it is. A lot of modern culture is good, but is it original? Is the works of the Chapman Brothers more original than Damien Hurst? We attempt to clarify a view of oRiginality in the arts. Follow.

UPDATE: Supported by Bad Woolf

Perhaps qualifies as a rare find Bjork CD or perhaps just an uncommon selection – not a release I had encountered before – first track is a gentle introduction with a male voice as as you listen to the song, as though her voice were exploring it, it made more sense, what follows you are not quite prepared for, it is extreme and relentless in layered beauty. It is Bjork at her adventurous best composing outseide the realm of political or even emotional meaning. It is a heated abstract of electric warmth produced through Bjork’s designed to spec intruments and more conventional orchestral arrangements this modern Mozart paints in a multi dimensional tapestry of sound and dance and colourful brilliance in Bjork’s unique style of composition rich and sometimes dischodant – the slicing deprecation the album ends with is every bit as weird as the rest of it. Bjork’s art significant work is indeed a dignified and serious work of art in itself.

Sometimes it is that combination of ingredients to rather good effect that is more than interesting to listen to, and at times provocative and yet a little too insular at times. At times the petulant boyfriend discovers he has to do the dishes. And then it soars into special territory. Idiosyncratically diplomatic if rhythmically magic. The pleading voice like a very adolescent Waters whining great poetry.

Das FLÜFF

Would You Die for Me?

First CD – available here

A three piece with three extreme and inventive artists create a shocking resonance rich with dangerous landscapes tarred by an atomic blonde brush of evolved glam, a skilled pen for both an adventurous lyric and perfect electric harmonies; a flawless cabaret, colour and syllable perfection, perhaps; both movement and voice, a flawless occupation of genre ideals.

Wearing the disguise of a remorseless disregard for convention, tarnished by shocking abandon. Listen unprepared for exposed emotional skeletons quaking with European sensibility. Here for once, is something genuinely new.

It is simply a voice, a guitar and a multifarious keyboard with both heavy agenda and bad-pussycat written all over its python like assault on your sensibilities. All those self-limiting secrets are hidden away as the transference of shock leaves its marks on your skin.

This is an album of the broken. An opus to grief stricken rage – pleading at the margins of what’s left. Dawn Lintern’s powerful voice is pitch perfect revealing nearly too much in a close to the bone album. The final song, Please surrounds you helpless in its grasp. Expressive and precise.

five star * * * * originality and performance

Update: I included this page as a This Site page. I suppose the use of a sound track by itself without photography is an idea about artists submitting their work for this site by inviting me along to film, but then I would start charging for it. There is another side to this site which is subjectivity, and being able to just iisten is about as every bit important as say, just dance.

Lemonade by CocoRosie

http://www.myspace.com/cocorosie

At the Manchester International Festival, Robert Wilson masterpiece of physical theatre was staged. Here is a glimpse of this wonder of modernism and movement, the examination of the life and death of a living artist who was in the play. Two of the most seriously brilliant singing voices added to the complexity. Dafoe’s Master of Ceremonies.

Originality is the point.

RIGINALITY is a magazine project for observing the arts, music and dance. The works are documented with the camera and pen of the site’s author, Nicholas Alexander or are blog posts of found items that epitomise an original nature or artist.

The works must be original, this site is not interested in cover bands or competitions.  Ezra Pound’s MAKE IT NEW is the point.  If you do something adventurous, EXTRAORDINARY or DIFFERENT, then get in touch with us and invite us to your art event with a camera.