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Kalle Kalima and K-18: Buñuel de Jour

by Hrayr Attarian
February 18, 2015

With the intriguingly seductive Buñuel De Jour guitarist Kalle Kalima and his quartet, the K-18, continue their paean to the rebel auteurs of cinema. Their third installment in this series, again on the Finnish TUM label, is obviously dedicated to the iconoclastic surrealist filmmaker, Luis Buñuel. His works themselves, not the scores, serve as inspiration to the dozen originals that comprise the album. Each improvisation heavy piece truly reflects the spirit of its namesake. “Belle de Jour" for ...

Kalle Kalima and K-18: Buñuel de Jour

by Anthony Shaw
December 7, 2014

This third album featuring K-18's original line-up doesn't stray very far from the content of the previous two. But in combination with vaguely remembered images from Buñuel's films the music readily transports the listener to far corners of the aural universe with its exotic and compelling mixtures of timbre and intensity. The players are all masters of the exceptional and the unexpected and along with the sumptuous packaging, featuring on the cover and inside TUM's standard selected piece of Finnish ...

Blink-182 Drummer and DJ AM Critically Burned in Jet Crash That Kills 4

Source: All About Jazz
September 20, 2008

Mayor: 'It's Absolutely Terrible And Tragic'

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people, authorities said Saturday.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane headed for Van Nuys, Calif., went off a runway, through a fence and crashed on a nearby ...
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