Hello my lovely treasured readers… Well I took a sort of unscheduled break throughout December and it has been wonderful for the psyche, but also for the inspiration. As of tomorrow the posts start fresh and I have a slew of beautiful music, stunning books and exciting films to talk about. The silly season was not so silly […]
Tag Archives: music
Tasogare: Twilight. The light between day and night. Music as pure beauty.
posted by lisathatcher
I was lucky enough to attend a Keith Fullerton Whitman concert earlier this year (let’s just say I’m a HUGE fan) and while I was there I picked up a stack of discs at the door as I am want to do at these sorts of thing. One of the amazing discs I happened to […]
Toc Sine – Drawings: Music defining the act of creation.
posted by lisathatcher
Despite what we think, the hurly-burly swirl that is our lives today is a choice. We talk about and act as though we are overwhelmed as life and the world come crashing in on us, but the truth is, we can turn off the internet, we can turn off our phone, we can pick up a book […]
Talibam! – music as a new species.
posted by lisathatcher
Ever feel like your music just doesn’t fuck with you enough? Ever get the feeling you want your mind placed in a blender and the high button pressed? Well, I’ve totally got the goods for you. According to their bandcamp page, The “Launch Pad” series was created by Talibam! to explore new sound relationships in […]
On a writing break
posted by lisathatcher
Hello lovely readers! I’m working to a rather daunting deadline just at the moment and am not attending to other things. This blog among them. I don’t like “apology for not posting” posts, so I will instead say, expect me back next week. Monday if i am on track, Wednesday if I am way […]
Writing for Dusted Magazine
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I promise I won’t do this every time there is a review posted, but I am pleased to let my readers here know that my first review for Dusted Magazine is up, and you can check it out here. I’ve been following Dusted Magazine for a while now and am thrilled to be a part […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 96 – 100
posted by lisathatcher
God I love these Wire posts. I’ve been writing up a petit little storm in this corner of the globe for the last couple of weeks and the blog and all its accoutrements have been suffering. I don’t listen to music when I write literature – too much head noise to capture – so its […]
Announcing changes to the Lisa Thatcher Blog
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Good morning my lovely readers. This is a post to let you know there will be some changes to the blog from today forward. I want to thank everyone for your encouraging readership. In terms of daily hit statistics and people signing up, the blog has been a great success in my little world. Many […]
Ghedalia Tazartes – 1996 – Une Eclipse Totale du Soleil. Taste the strange.
posted by lisathatcher
Ghédalia Tazartès is a French musician born in 1947. Although, initially, his work is rooted in the legacy Ladino (his family is from the Jewish Community of Turkey), Ghédalia Tazartès is an unclassifiable artist, primarily instinctive and free, and has been described as being in the making of the music rather than in the theory […]
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