The person who introduced me to this list told me later of their precision memory around the introduction. Except for other music he had ‘revealed’ this was the first time the part of one’s psyche that music reaches was tapped. To be honest, I always thought the “music thing” eluded me. I liked what I […]
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Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 26-30
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Eyes Without a Face: Georges Franju teaches us about horror
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I am not one of those ubiquitous ‘female-horror-film-buffs’ that seems to be the latest trend. My interest is in film and I am interested in any film if it is well made and excites me creatively. Completely coincidentaly, I have watched a lot of horror style or type films in the last couple of weeks. […]
Jason Kahn: Perception of the space through sound
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I ordered my first Jason Kahn today. I have a copy of “On Metal Shore” coming my way. Imagine being a drummer in a rock band. You are playing many concerts, some of which go for many hours. You are touring all over the United States and Europe. Then, as you become more and more […]
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Tomas Alfredson does the 1970’s with understated flair
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I almost didn’t see this film. I have a bunch of freebies at the moment, and to collect on this one I couldn’t go local – which for me meant leaving my bohemian nest and that is not something I enjoy doing. However, a trip to Sydney harbour to see a film so many people […]
Stefon Harris: Takes me to heaven on a cloud of Kindred beauty.
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Nothing nothing nothing in the world has the effect on the psyche that music has. There is a certain kind of access to the internal machinations that lead to the outermost void of our deepest self that music stretches toward with a warm safe hand. I find no matter what mood I am in, music […]
Fanny and Alexander: Bergmans final triumph
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At the risk of coming across all Woody Allen-ish on you, I have to declare there is something extra special about Bergman. I get this sense of ‘I-will-never-be-the-same-again after I see one of his films. This will be a shorter review because I was only able to get my hands on the 3 hour version […]
Christian Vander Ẁurdah Ïtah: Prog Rock passion with a direction all of his own
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One of the great pleasures i’ve had this week is listening to the Christian Vander soundtrack to tristan & yseult Ẁurdah Ïtah. It’s usually credited as a Magma creation, though only 4 of the Magma members worked on the album. It’s really a Vander creation – and I do think this comes through in the tracks. Ẁurdah […]
Eliane Radigue: The sound of thoughts
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One of my plans this year (promises made to myself over a bottle of wine at the start of the year) is to move deeply into the work of Eliane Radigue with the intention of transforming my relationship to sound. I had an exciting year of sound and music discovery last year, but it was […]
Michael Pisaro: stages of musical development – in touch with the divine listening experience.
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Michael Pisaro – Harmony Series No.1 from johnny chang on Vimeo. The above is a beautiful performance of Harmony series #1 as composed by Michael Pisaro. Michael Pisaro (born 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is a guitarist and composer. A member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, he has composed over 80 works for a great […]
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