I’m not much of a fan of later Pink Floyd, but the Syd Barrett-era is very, very hard to beat.
[Music] The lost pre-Smiths track : Pre-Morrissey? A funky jam!
The members of The Smiths has mentioned that they loved Parliament and Funkadelic, but I had no idea that they started jamming to those tunes. Former drummer Si Wolstencroft found this ancient demo, and it will be released shortly.
[Literature] Decálogo del perfecto cuentista, de Horacio Quiroga — Poecraft Hyde
Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) Cree en un maestro – Poe, Maupassant, Kipling, Chejov – como en Dios mismo. Cree que su arte es una cima inaccesible. No sueñes en domarla. Cuando puedas hacerlo, lo conseguirás sin saberlo tú mismo. Resiste cuanto puedas a la imitación, pero imita si el influjo es demasiado fuerte. Más que ninguna […]
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[Literature] No knightly hero | Gravity’s Rainbow, annotations and illustrations for page 364 — Biblioklept
Toward dusk, the black birds descend, millions 1 of them, to sit in the branches of trees nearby. The trees grow heavy with black birds, branches like dendrites of the Nervous System 2 fattening, deep in twittering nerve-dusk, in preparation for some important message… . 3 Later in Berlin, down in the cellar among fever-dreams with shit leaking out of […]
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[Music] Antifur Want to Shake Vaporwave Out of Its Meaningless Irony — Bandcamp Daily
The creative force behind the hardvapour label discusses politics, identity and what “hard” really means.
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[Music] Peter Eötvös – Shadows (for amplified flute, clarinet and orchestra)
Tonight’s cut is a piece by Peter Eötvös, performed by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Hans Zender serving as conductor.
[Music] Alejandro Escovedo – Sacramento & Polk
From his start with groups like The Zeros and The Nuns, Alejandro Escovedo has broadened his palette from simple punk and garage rock into something bordering on cowpunk.
[Music] Joanna Gemma Auguri – Green Water
Here’s some dark, folky accordion music by Joanna Gemma Auguri, who describes the sounds she makes as ‘music from the bottom of the sea’.
[Music] Karolina Ossowska/Jeff Gburek – Visitations
The best composers make you forget they’re composing music. They offer something like a cinéma pour l’oreille, or a cinema for the ear, to their listeners. In an age before music videos blighted the listening experience, a great composition would allow you to submerge yourself into a piece and envision a world the composer may be trying to create for you.
This is the experience I’ve had in listening to Jeff Gburek, a true citizen of the world and one of the most interesting experimental composers active today. He and his parter Karolina Ossowska cover a great deal of ground on this release. There are elements of soundtrack music (think 60’s futurist films), contemporary classical music (some pieces reminded me of the legendary Egyptian-Greek composer Jani Christou) and there were even touches of progressive rock and improvisational music which came to mind.
This is easily among the top five releases of the year for these ears. Jeff’s work is worth hunting for, and you can find a good deal of it here on his Bandcamp site.
[Music] Maarja Nuut – Une Meeles
Maarja Nuut is a vocalist from Estonia. Her work straddles experimental music, tape manipulation and the ethnic music from her native land.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 