La foi de Jean Calvin - Pierre Wheeler

Voici la vidéo d'une conférence que Pierre Wheeler a donné à Château-Gontier pendant son exposition sur Jean Calvin, que l'association protestante évangélique castrogontérienne a organisé pour commémorer la 500e anniversaire de la naissance de ce réformateur français.

Free Music - Bill Hammond

I came across this guy while looking for some acoustic guitar music to use in a video project. He's excellent! He has a CD entitled "Speechless" available for purchase here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bhammond

He also has available on his site a free download of another album he recorded, which is since out of print: "Skywriter". Here's the link, it's a great listen for acoustic guitar lovers, and roots/folk based music lovers: http://billhammondmusic.com/skywriter.html



Here's the video with the music in, just a little souvenir of the exhibition created by my kid's school, "Ecole Maternelle Jacques Prévert", as part of "L'art dans les jardins 2" exhibition.

Free Music - John Butler Trio

The John Butler Trio are offering a 4-track live EP free for downloading through their myspace page. Excellent opportunity to here this guy live and discover some great playing and songs.

Just click on the image to be taken to their myspace page, scroll down to find the download offer :-)



If you're have any trouble with myspace try using this direct link to the subscription page of the newsletter which once completed gives the link for the free tracks : http://johnbutlertrio.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=f6eb3552c3dcb8ebdc4bb582d&id=8a5b636f07

Château-Gontier

I just discovered this cool video on Youtube presenting Château-Gontier in all its beauty!

Here it is for your pleasure :-)



Incidentally, there is another video created officially by the the Château-Gontier council at the following page : http://www.ville-chateau-gontier.fr/page/p-316/index.php

Free Music - Jan Krist Live

Jan Krist? Never heard of her? You're missing out!

Jan Krist is an acoustic american singer/songwriter who released "Love Is Not To Blame" in the early 90s (Released as "Decapitated Society" in the States, I think). She's one of those artists that doesn't really fit into a mould, she writes great songs, with excellent lyrics, thoughtful, searching, well-crafted.

I recently visited her website to discover that there are 5 live audio tracks available for download. Here's the link http://jankrist.net/audio

If you like what you hear, several of her albums are available for download on Amazon or Itunes, as well as various other mp3 distribution sites.

Free Music - Faith, Folk & Anarchy

While meandering around the net recently, I came across a link to download the album "Faith, Folk & Anarchy" free of charge and legally! The album contains tracks by Tom Robinson, Steve Knightley & Martyn Joseph, a personal favourite of mine. As the album titles implies, the tracks are all acoustic based songs, and as you'd expect from theses particular songwriters, the tracks all have a lot to say about faith, life, love, society, etc.



Download the album at http://faithfolkanarchy.com/mailordr.htm

Also of interest on Tom Robinson's website are a load of previous albums, again available for free download. Check it out : http://www.tomrobinson.com/records/music/index.htm

Bannerman!

Back in the '90s Steve Taylor toured with his album Squint. The album was a sort of comeback for him. It's an excellent album with great tracks such as "Jesus is for losers", "The Finish Line" and plenty of others.

The tour came to the UK, with Guardian supporting, and maybe a couple of other bands, but I can't really remember them, sorry.

Anyhow, on sale during the tour was this comic "Bannerman" following the story of the hero of the song "Bannerman", with a couple of little shorts about the bands on the tour. It's basically a bit of fun, but a nice memento of the tour all the same.

You can read the comic in CBR format if you have a Comic Reader such as Comic Rack installed. Alternatively just rename the file to .zip and extract the images.

For more information, bootlegs, videos, etc on Steve Taylor and his band Chagall Guevara check out : www.sockheaven.org.

N.B. Steve Taylor was not into (and hopefully is still not into) being politically correct, this applies to his music and comic.

Get Squint
Get Bannerman comic

Manga - Le Messie

Génial! Ce BD raconte en 280 pages la vie de Jésus depuis l'annonce de sa naissance jusqu'à sa résurrection. C'est plein de dynamisme, les desseins sont vraiment du style manga, y compris l'usage des petits bonhommes "mignon" pour montrer l'incompréhension du personnage, ou sa peur, comme on voit souvent dans les dessein animés.

Par contre, les images, contrairement à beaucoup de livres manga, sont en couleur.

C'est donc un manga qui est beau, facile à lire, et qui reste quand même très proche du texte original de la Bible. Bien sur, l'auteur n'a pas utilisé le texte biblique tel quel, il l'a transformé pour que ça marche dans ce média. Par exemple, souvent l'explication des mircales, en les lit dans les pensées des disciples. Mais ce bouquin reste fidèle au texte biblique.

Je n'ai trouvé aucun endroit ou ce BD n'est pas fidèle au texte biblique. Je croyais que l'auteur s'était trompé à deux reprises, alors j'ai vérifié dans la Bible elle-même, et à mon grand étonnement, c'était moi qui s'est trompé ! Comme quoi, lire ce BD pour ce qui connait déjà pas mal la Bible, parfois ça nous aide à découvrir les histoires autrement, et peut-être de faire plus d'attention. Et ce qu'il y a de génial, c'est qu'en bas de chaque page, les références bibliques y sont pour lire l'épisode dans le Bible aussi.

Moi, j'ai vraiment aimé et apprécié ce BD, en tant que passionné de BD et en tant que passionné de la Bible. Ca m'a aidé à voir des choses dans les passages bibliques que j'nai jamais vu auparavant. Et à travers des personnages, j'ai découvert d'autres pistes à explorer pour mieux comprendre la bonté et l'amour de Dieu.

Trop fort ce Manga - Le Messie ! Vivement Manga - La métamorphose !