The liner notes in Droplets, conceived by Dominic Lash tells us of a group formed by Lash specifically to focus on performance of works by the Wandelweiser collective. This floating group of musicians will be known as The Set Ensemble, and relate primarily through a shared interest in the work of Alain Badiou who deployes mathematical set […]
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Breakthrough sometimes breaks through – Why I still love Gotan Project
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OK!OK! I know its colonizing-yuppie and oh-so Buddah-bar, but one of my weaknesses is my love for Gotan Project. I have a ‘soft spot’ for lounge music anyway, I’m a hard-core Francophile (left-bank-o-phile really) and Gotan does force me to reach for the red wine and wooden cheese board, but I can’t help it. The […]
Happy Birthday Shakespeare – Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
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All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. William Shakespeare I was adored once too. William Shakespeare
Retro Love – Songs of Leonard Cohen
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In retrospect there is music in one’s life that is recognisable as formative. I only recently ‘discovered’ my passion for avant garde music, but I would have to say looking back that there are certain albums that set me up for a love of music when I finally found my place in that vast ocean. […]
How to read Lacan: Zizek on Lacan – Part 4. Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien. (pt One)
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This is a follow on post from a previous one that you can read here. This chapter in the book is large, so I have divided it up into two separate posts. It is important to note, that this is not my own work. This is merely a condensing and simplifying of How to Read Lacan […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 66 – 70
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We’re in the 1980’s now with this wire post, and as you will see from the list, what pop is just starting to pick up, avant-garde was done with in the late 1970’s. It’s an exciting time for music with the sophistication of the electronic sounds. I’m all abuzz writing this to find out that Konrad Becker […]
Incisions by Black Cracker – The already music shuffling from immanence to silence and back again.
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Ok – colour me Peach! I’m excited about this music offering today. This hot little disc that I will wax lyrical about in just a few lines time, is the frist release on the enthusiastically titled It’ll Be Awesome label recently launched in Sydney Australia! My home town. What is even more exciting about Incisions […]
Sonore – Oto: Every assertion automatically becomes its opposite.
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01 Fragments For An Endgame Sonore is Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson; seasoned players who each have credits listed to their names. They come together as Sonore which is its own unanimous committment to their music as a process. These are players each intimately engaged with their instruments, allowing their engaging to be a perpetual lesson in […]
The Bakery Girl of Monceau – Eric Rhomer comes alive!
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Eric Rhomer is a complete enigma for me. I can’t make him out, which inevitably makes him one of my favourite directors. No film maker is more ambiguous. No film maker can slip in the wisp of wind between complete opposing view points with such a devils twinkle in the eye. I think I have […]
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