Agnes Hvizdalek & Jakob Schneidewind, who go by the group name Demi Broxa, are two experimental music artists working out of Vienna, Austria. This piece doesn’t seem to have a title to it, but it showcases how well both musicians blend in with each other.
Month: March 2017
[Music] Cermaque – Neboj (i.e. Don’t Worry)
Indies Scope Records is one of my favorite record labels in the European continent. Their latest comes from poet, director and songwriter Jakub Čermák (doing business as Cermaque). The album is a wonderfully heady mish-mash of indie folk, alternative pop, elements of hip-hop, all held together by Čermák’s lyrical oeuvre.
Check out the album here.
[Music] Achref Chargui Trio – Tajaliyat
Afoforo Music Club is a label out of Tunis, Tunisia, specializing in a fusion of oud music, indie rock and an odd jazz hybrid. The Achref Chargui Trio boast members from Tunisia, France and Italy, and they gel together quite nicely.
[Music] “Bust Free 20” by Various Artists from Cold Busted
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[Music] The Durutti Column – Domo Arigato [FBN 52 / CD]
Wonderful news for Durutti Column fans! Factory Benelux has given the royal treatment to the band’s Factory Records live album, which was the first work of theirs I ever heard. The set has been expanded to three CDs, which includes archive material as well as a DVD of the concert, which was held in Japan in 1984.
[Literature] Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment Presented in a Beautifully Animated Short Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gknIrdEx6VI
From OpenCulture.com’s website:
In this darkly poetic animation, the Polish filmmaker Piotr Dumala offers a highly personal interpretation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novel, Crime and Punishment. “My film is like a dream,” Dumala said in 2007. “It is as if someone has read Crime and Punishment and then had a dream about it.”
[Music] Artur Tuźnik / Nils Bo Davidsen / Jakob Høyer – Artur Tuźnik Trio
Beautiful, not-quite-straight-ahead jazz by Artur Tuźnik, a pianist out of Poland.
[Music] Penguin Café – Cantorum
On a label like E’G Records, which featured some of the mightiest bands of the 1980s like Killing Joke, King Crimson and Brian Eno, The Penguin Café Orchestra were something of a charming anomaly. Sitting between classical, New Age music and avant-pop, they cut a singular path and made some absolutely beautiful recordings. After the death of leader Simon Jeffes, the band floated in and out of activity for a decade. It seems that Jeffes’ son, Arthur, is leading a new incarnation of the band, and a brand new recording is due shortly. You can order the new album, The Imperfect Sea, at their Bandcamp website..
[Music] Cristóbal de Morales – Mass for the feast of St. Isidore of Seville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI1LxgzAJJs
Cristóbal de Morales is among my favorite Spanish composers of the Renaissance era. Saint Isodore of Seville, the patron saint of the Internet, happens to be one of my favorite saints. I’m surprised I missed this composition.
[Literature] T. S. Eliot reading Ash Wednesday
I wish goodwill and a prosperous Lent to my Roman Catholic friends. T.S. Eliot reads his poem, “Ash Wednesday,” which fits the day well.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 