I can’t find a thing on the band, but the Esfahan Ensemble produce lovely Persian music.
Month: January 2017
[Music] Svitlana Nianio – Spotkanie
This is a very charmingly weird slice of avant-pop from a Ukrainian singer and songwriter, Svitlana Nianio, whose one album, Китиці (Kytytsi), was released on the Polish indie label Koka Records.
[Music] Guillaume de Machaut – La Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie
Day after day, week after week, I get to scroll through my feed and finding some of the ugliest, most obnoxiously mean-spirited posts from people who wouldn’t know civility if it swatted them in the rump. A good aural cleansing is in order, courtesy of 14th Century poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut.
[Music] Alessandro Cortini – Passatempo
Alessandro Cortini is an Italian composer and keyboardist based in Los Angeles. He’s an occasional member of Nine Inch Nails, and makes quite a good company man working with Trent Reznor in a style reminiscent of the 1980s Belgian Hard Beat scene, but on his own, he veers off into Kosmische Musik territory, reminding one of artists like Klaus Schulze in this track.
[Film] Actor John Hurt dead at 77
John Hurt, whose devastating performances in movies like The Elephant Man, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Alien and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone showcased a craftsmanship rare in Hollywood today, died at the age of 77 due to complications caused by pancreatic cancer.
The Daily Mail presents the story here.
[Music] Everything is Terrific: The Bandcamp 2016 Year in Review
Bandcamp has become indispensable as a resource for me finding new music. A lot of my posts are beginning to revolve more and more around releases through the platform. It seems that 2016 was a banner year for the company, according to this report.
[Music] Mean Flow – Floating Thoughts
Mean Flow is a project headed by Theofil Tsiolakakis, a multi-instrumentalist out of Thessaloniki, Greece. He collaborates in this latest release with IDTAL (InDusTreeAlLace Productions) and Marco Lucchi, both consummate professionals and incredible musicians in their own right.
[Music] Dead Can Dance – Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book
The lyrics of this track by Dead Can Dance, off their 1988 album titled Aion, can be found in the words of the Spanish lyric poet, Luis de Góngora.
Click here to read an article in Spanish on the poet’s influence on the band.
[Literature] The Living Truth: Aileen M. Kelly – The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen
Alexander Herzen was once about as popular as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, yet he drifted away into obscurity. Author Aileen M. Kelly attempts to rectify this with a biography of this muted Russian giant.
Read more about the book here, courtesy of André van Loon, writing for The Berlin Review of Books.
[Music] Girl Band – In Plastic
Post-punk will never go away if bands like Ireland’s Girl Band have anything to say about it.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 