Consumos web. 10/05/2022

• Abbey Road track-by-track - Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick: "For the first time, John and Paul knew that George had risen to their level" | MusicRadar

  Geoff Emerick: "For the first time, John and Paul knew that George had risen to their level"

  tags: Beatles beatlealbums beatlepeople beatlegear beatlehistory beatlesongs

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Consumos web. 09/18/2022

• Remixed "Revolver" to reveal new layers of the Beatles' extraordinary musical powers | Salon.com

  In each case, he has endeavored to ensure that the remixes reflect the spirit and sound of their precursors. Otherwise, he argued, "they would no longer be the Beatles."

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Consumos web. 06/25/2022

• ‘Get Back’: How Giles Martin Distilled the Beatles Musical Mojo | IndieWire

  There might even be a place for it in his future remixing of The Beatles catalog (“Rubber Soul” and “Revolver” are particularly complex in terms of separating tracks). “It’s basically about extraction — to teach the machine to find a voice out of a guitar and separate those two elements,” he added. “And that freed things up for us at the end, especially the scale and quality of mixing once you get into a movie theater [for the recent IMAX release of the rooftop performance] when everything is amplified, including the frailties of audio.”

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Consumos web. 06/01/2022

• John Lennon on why he got "sick" of Pete Best

  McCartney would later claim that Best never really shared the same humour as the rest of The Beatles and insisted that his personality drove a wedge between him and the rest of the group. He was remarkably distant and didn’t seem to share their passion for art or wacky antics.

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Consumos web. 04/06/2022

• Degas' 'Russian dancers' is renamed 'Ukrainian dancers' by UK's National Gallery

  “It is almost certain that these visiting dancers, and those drawn by Degas, were Ukrainian, rather than Russian,” the gallery said of the artwork that features the blue and yellow of Ukraine’s flag.

  tags: mojigatería mundial propiedad intelectual manipulación mediática decadencia cultural

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Consumos web. 03/13/2022

• Ukraine: Cardiff orchestra pulls Tchaikovsky music over war - BBC News

  Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra said it would be "inappropriate at this time" to perform the composer's music after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The orchestra said a member had family in Ukraine and it was also aware some of Tchaikovsky's work was deemed offensive to Ukrainians.

  tags: censura censura social mojigatería mundial decadencia cultural excesos antidiscriminación

• Ringo Starr mural unveiled at the Beatles' fan spot - BBC News

  A mural of Ringo Starr has been unveiled on the site of a former pub, streets away from where the Beatles drummer grew up in Liverpool.

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Consumos web. 03/07/2022

• La guerra en Ucrania lleva a la Filmoteca de Andalucía a anular la proyección de una película del director ruso Tarkovski

  la precipitación de los acontecimientos en la invasión de Ucrania, ha llevado a sus responsables a considerar su retirada del programa, atendiendo a las recomendaciones de la Academia Europea de Cine (EFA), que este martes que se unía a las sanciones globales masivas actualmente en vigor contra Rusia por la invasión de Ucrania y respaldaba “plenamente el llamamiento de la Academia de Cine de ese país para boicotear el cine ruso”.

  tags: mojigatería mundial excesos antiterroristas censura decadencia cultural imperialismo

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Consumos web. 02/23/2022

• Ravi Shankar Had to Keep His Mouth Shut About How Terrible He Thought The Beatles’ ‘Norwegian Wood’ Sounded

  In 1992, Guitar World pointed out that once Indian music ingrained itself into George, his guitar playing became “more elastic, yet very precise.” George was “finding more notes between the cracks, like you can in Indian music-especially on your slide work.”

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Consumos web. 02/17/2022

• 'Insensitive' Van Gogh souvenirs removed from sale amid backlash - CNN Style

  "This case feels like a small but clear example of the cynicism and commercialism that has affected the modern art landscape, as mental health and mental illness are treated as a joke -- which they aren't -- or as a novelty."

  tags: censura social mojigatería mundial decadencia cultural VincentVanGogh

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Consumos web. 02/10/2022

• "Ahora", "ahorita", "ahoritita", "ahoritica": ¿por qué es tan difícil definir el tiempo (y ponerse de acuerdo) entre los hablantes del español?

  "Así como la Ñ es para el español, el 'ahorita' es para el español de México y para toda nuestra idiosincrasia porque concentra la historia completa y el orgullo de este país", le dice a BBC Mundo. "Yo creo que básicamente podría decirse que el 'ahorita' sirve para no obedecer. ¿Cómo le respondía uno con un 'no' a los españoles que daban órdenes? Pues se le decía 'ahorita', por supuesto",

  tags: lingüística pueblos originarios

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