Canadian singer Yuya announces December and January dates for digital world tour
Blue Pie recording artist Yuya is starting a Digital Music World Tour in December 2005. He will travel the world virtually, ansering your questions by email, chat and phone; please send interview requests to yuyajoseph@yahoo.ca . All interviews with recording artist Yuya will be linked up from this blog!!!
December itinerary:
2nd arrive in Reykjavik, Iceland
4 th fly to Dublin
7th to Manchester
8th Liverpool
9 th Birmingham
10th London
13th Paris
15th Amsterdam
17th Copenhagen
18th Munich
19th Frankfurt
20th Berlin
21st Edinburgh
22nd home to Toronto for Holy Days
December Week One Itinerary:
Dec. 2nd arrive in Reykjavik, Iceland
Dec. 4th fly to Dublin
Dec. 7th to Manchester
Dec. 2nd, Reykjavik, Iceland
Iceland Underground Music Scene – Indie Website links from the BBC, Click Here for Icelandic Music
Alex Ross of The New Yorker visits Iceland, full story at NewYorker.com
My first day in Iceland was a freezing horror. Every inch of Reykjavík was covered by a film of ice. I made the mistake of trying to walk from my hotel into the center of town, and after about a mile I felt as though I had been walking for days, like some beaten-down soul in the novels of Halldór Laxness. It seemed like a hallucination when I turned a corner and saw golden light streaming from the windows of a store called 12 Tonar, which is Icelandic for “twelve tones.” The moment I stumbled through the door, a smiling record clerk offered me a cup of espresso; within a few minutes, I was warming my ears with Icelandic music.
Iceland may have more musicians per capita than any country in the world. This nation of two hundred and ninety thousand people—roughly the same population as Cincinnati—has ninety music schools, about four hundred choirs, four hundred orchestras and marching bands, and some vast, unknown number of rock bands, jazz combos, and d.j.s. Before Björk ascended to world fame, in the early nineties, it never occurred to many outsiders that such a small country could have such an active music scene. Now Icelandic acts such as Sigur Rós and Múm have gained their own international followings, and the devilishly powerful works of Jón Leifs have begun to appear on orchestral programs around the world. When considered en masse, the music of Iceland is startlingly diverse, yet much of it reflects, in one way or another, what Glenn Gould once called the “idea of north.”
Björk began her recording career at the age of eleven. Her disco-, video-, and bibliography now include five major solo records (“Debut,” “Post,” “Homogenic,” “Vespertine,” and “Medúlla”), a soundtrack album (“Selmasongs: Dancer in the Dark”), a greatest-hits record, a remix record (“Telegram”), an album of jazz standards sung mostly in Icelandic (“Gling-Gló”), two box sets (“Family Tree” and “Live Box”), a Björk book (“Björk Book”), a DVD compilation of videos by Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and other filmmakers (“Volumen”), and assorted other DVDs of live shows. She also made three records with the Sugarcubes and two records with the arty punk band Kukl; the Sugarcubes may have had the alternative-rock hits, but Kukl’s “Holidays in Europe” sounds better over time. It is difficult, if not impossible, to rank Björk’s solo records: each is indestructibly Björk-like, and if you love or hate any one of them you will probably love or hate them all.
“Vespertine” is perhaps her most unified album, a work of dazzling sonic design and almost claustrophobic emotional intimacy. “Medúlla,” despite its obsessive focus on the technical possibilities of the human voice, is earthier, more extroverted in tone—“folk music, but without any folk attached,” as Björk told me. “Greatest Hits” is probably the best place to start, with “Vespertine” and “Medúlla” as adventurous follow-ups.
Full story at NewYorker.com
Iceland Music, Arts and Culture Links
Yuya Joseph, Canadian singer, Blue Pie recording artist:
Iceland General Links
Icelandic Music CDs from NordicStore.net
Bjork speaks, from Bjork.com
Despite long lapses between her productions, creativity will always be the center of her life, she explains. “If I don’t write songs, then I’m fucked, you know?” Björk says. “I can’t just move to the Bahamas. I need that part of me for the rest of me to function.”
Instead of lounging on a sandy beach, Björk and Barney split their time between Iceland and New York, where Barney has an apartment downtown and Björk owns a house upstate “in the forest, with the Bambis.” It’s a bi-continental lifestyle that works nicely with Björk’s seasonal preferences. In December and January, she explains, “it’s colder in Manhattan than in Iceland, and the Christmasy thing is a bit insane! In Iceland, it’s like a winter wonderland, and there’s only light for one hour a day, it’s about family and drinking hot chocolate with cognac in it and cuddling.” (Summer in New York is also out: “I think it should be illegal to be in Manhattan in August.”)”
Read more of the interview in nymetro.com, where Björk talks about Drawing Restraint 9, from http://www.bjork.com/
Dec. 4th, Dublin, Eire
Ireland Entertainment links from VisitDublin.com
Irish Rock superstar group U2, via U2.com
Bono’s and Edge’s hotel in Dublin, Eire, The Clarence
Dec. 7th, Manchester, UK
TBA
January itinerary:
3rd Quebec
4th Halifax
6th Stockholm
7th Oslo
8th Brussels
9th Rome
12th Athens
14th Jerusalem
17th Cairo
19th Addis Ababa
24th Washington
25th New York
28th Detroit
29th Toronto
30th Montreal
31st Ottawa
February itinerary:
Vancouver Seattle Portland Chicago Phoenix Las Vegas Los Angeles San Francisco Honolulu Osaka Tokyo Hong Kong Singapore Sydney
Please email us with suggestions for rockin’ things to do and see alomng the way, great music websites, online rock magazines, reggae forums and wherever U believe Yuya’s music should be heard!!!
Peace and Blessings,
Yuya Joe
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