Thursday, 11 June 2009

Fredo Viola - A voice like a soft cushion


The French-German TV station ARTE showed recently a live concert of Fredo Viola. A musician who irritates with his 4-, 5-, or even 6- voice recordings of his own voice. While he combines his music with a modern light carpet of instrumentation, his voice arrangements are strangely close to renaissance choir arrangements. A time where polyphony was invented and made it's first steps.
Fredo Viola is an artist to discover. And nothing easier than that with his award winning website, that is really a great trip (especially "the turn"). As he is a filmmaker as well, you'll find plenty of clips to watch!
So have a look at www.fredoviola.com/ and discover new wonderful great inspring touching overwhelming beautyful irritating new music!

Make it visual! The World of Chemistry


It might be the most simple truth ever, but if you want to explain something complicated, then make it visual.
Even the boring world of chemistry, suddenly becomes a sexy experience! Have a look! Have a laugh!
And If you are H2O, don't mess with Potassium!

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

The wonderful world of perfumes: Parfumerie Generale


Pierre Guillaume is the creative - and defenitely quite sexy - Master mind behind Parfumerie Generale, a wonderful and great inspired collection of exciting scents that started in 2002. Already with their first creation they caused an aproar in the so civilized perfume society.
The philosophy is easy to explain: to do everything better then it is done in the mass market products. So with his now 23 different scents, you will always explore something completely un-smelled, which is highly exciting.

Today I want to pick scent #9 "YUZU AB IRATO", a perfume that left me flabbergasted!
The first smell is irritatingly 'technical' freshness. You feel like you are in the one hour before opened super stylish fashion store where the interior exhales still technical smells. But this is so strikingly crystal clear and fresh that it is really appealing. It is based on the tingly freshness of the bitter citrussy Japanese Yuzu fruit in combination with the great intensive boldness of pepper.
But the scent doesn't stay there. It would be too cold. So we have a development into rich and voluptious flowers. (If we stay in the picture of the newly opened fashion store we see a enourmous bunch of flowers with Magnolia, Hyacinths and Jasmine) All these so overwhelming strong scents fit perfectly to the bold, yet fresh beginning and start to warm the whole scent.
Finally the scent lingers so long in your clothes and snuggels in to your nose, it is like a prescious little talisman that can protect you.
A perfume for strong men and women! But be aware: It can blow your mind!

Well and this is just the beginning: there are 22 more scents to be discovered. You'll find them in a good perfume store like Harald Lubner's store in Hamburg www.harald-lubner.de or at www.parfumerie-generale.com .