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Taylor Swift’s Americana aesthetics in wartime

LB — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:42:21 +0000

All art contains politics, no matter how overt or covert or messy or inconsistent they may be. This is inevitable because all expression emanates from a particular world view, and every world view is ultimately political.

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Album: Native North America Vol. 1

LB — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:31:09 +0000

This is a superb and historically important album, a compilation of music by indigenous musicians in Canada 1968-1985. It’s telling that I had only heard one of these tracks before hearing the album; it points to a disturbing lack of airplay of native music during those years.

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What might ancient Babylonian songs have sounded like?

LB — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:34:56 +0000

What did ancient Babylonian songs sound like? Possibly something close to this. Composer and performer Stef Conner and the Lyre Ensemble have put out an album of songs they believe are close to ancient Babylonian songs, using the original poetry.

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Secos & Molhados – Sangue Latino

LB — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 23:12:59 +0000

Oh 1973, I am so happy to see you yet again. Last week it was Sensations Fix, and then yesterday someone posted Sangue Latino by Secos & Molhados.

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The oldest written melody in history circa1400 BC

LB — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:46:08 +0000

Hurrian moon hymn circa 1400 BC inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablet

“This is “a “live” arrangement of the 3400 year old “Hurrian Hymn no.6″, which was discovered in Ugarit, ancient northern Canaan (now modern Syria) in the early 1950s, and was preserved for 3400 years on a clay tablet, written in the Cuneiform text of the ancient Hurrian language – The Hurrian Hymn (catalogued as Text H6) was discovered in Ugarit, Syria, in the early 1950s, and was preserved for 3400 years on a clay tablet, written in the Cuneiform text of the ancient Hurrian language.

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Textile design animation by Gavin Edwards, sound by Thomas Williams

LB — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:35:01 +0000

The short film “Textile” was inspired by the exhibition Post War British Textiles at Copenhagen Design Museum. Gavin Edwards, the filmmaker, tells me that the idea was to bring the patterns to life with the aid of motion graphics in a dynamic and intriguing way.

Mobiles on the set of a Seekers concert, 1968

LB — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:59:17 +0000

Beautiful. Why are things so overdone now? This was a great set. 1968, BBC, London.

[Sorry about the ads; being allergic to advertising I have ad blocker and never see ads, but I’m told there’s advertising on this one.]

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Stereo systems and speakers, 1960s & 70s style

LB — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:38:29 +0000

Why don’t we do this kind of thing anymore? You saw it a lot in the 1960s and 70s—speakers embedded in display shelves or on a wall, as part of the decor.

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Tame Impala / Lonerism

LB — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:36:05 +0000

The single “Elephant” from new Tame Impala album “Lonerism”

Album cover for Lonerism by Tame Impala – fenced garden, Paris

The new Tame Impala album Lonerism is out.

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor are back

LB — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:13:58 +0000

Finally, a new album after ten years. Seems it’s only available on their tour merch tables right now. Beautiful album design, including the following:

More Godspeed You!

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