Big Ang

   
Artist: Big Ang

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Take Me to the Clouds Above

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1

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Vatican weighing in on "good cinema"

By Eric J. Lyman


TAORMINA, Italy (Hollywood Reporter) - The Vatican said
Wednesday that it is working on a set of guidelines for what it
considers "good cinema."


The move comes two days after the Vatican told producers of
"Angels & Demons" that their follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code"
doesn't qualify.


The Vatican on Monday barred Sony Pictures' "Angels &
Demons" from shooting inside any of Rome's churches. On
Wednesday, the film crew said it will move a bit further south
and shoot the church scenes for the film inside the former
royal palace in Caserta, outside Naples, a secular building.


Priest Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the Diocese of Rome,
said Wednesday that the church was working on a set of
guidelines that will determine whether a film contains the
"proper" religious sentiment.


The Church staunchly opposed "The Da Vinci Code," the 2006
adaptation of the Dan Brown best-seller. "Angels & Demons,"
also based on one of Brown's novels, is entirely set in Rome.
As with its predecessor, "Angels & Demons" stars Tom Hanks and
is being directed by Ron Howard.


Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Francis Monkman

   
Artist: Francis Monkman

   Genre(s): 
Electronic: Progressive
   Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Energism

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 11


   
 Energism

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 11

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Best known as the founder of Curved Air, Francis Monkman is unusual regular among the ranks of progressive rock's musicians for his level of musical training. As a student at the Westminster School in the '60s, he studied organ and cembalo and he nursed the ambition to lead a Mozart opera. And later in the tenner, as a pupil at the Royal Academy of Music, he south Korean won the Raymond Russel Prize for his virtuosity on the cembalo, simply he likewise took up acting the electric guitar. During this period, he likewise became a session musician. In 1970, Monkman was the catalyst in the formation of Curved Air out of an before radical called Sisyphus. Their ternion albums carven out a permanent place for the radical in the annals of progressive rock, simply Monkman too worked as a session instrumentalist on records by the Shadows, David Essex, Kate Bush, Steve Harley, and Paul Nicholas, among many others. Monkman never took himself likewise far from good classic music, chronic to give performances at Royal Albert Hall and the Purcell Room. In the mid-'70s, Monkman was introduced to authoritative guitar player John Williams and played on his album, Travelling. The two later on formed the group Sky with Herbie Flowers, Kevin Peek, and Tristan Fry. He too performed live with Brian Eno (which appeared on the album Dali's Car) and played on albums by acts including Renaissance, Al Stewart, the Alan Parsons Project, and Kate Bush, and moved into soundtrack composition during the '80s, most notably writing the music for The Long Good Friday. He too worked with the other John Williams (the soundtrack composer) on The Empire Strikes Back's score. Monkman has too occasionally miscellaneous his classical and rock backgrounds more closely on albums such as Symphonic Rock: British Invasion, Vol. 1.

Amon Duul [Uk]

   
Artist: Amon Duul [Uk]

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Fool Moon

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 5


   
 Hawk Meets Penguin

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 2

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