December 7, 2024
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.
March 9, 2015
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.
February 25, 2015
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.
February 6, 2014
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.
November 14, 2013
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.
November 2, 2013
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.
April 25, 2013
Beautiful. Why are things so overdone now? This was a great set. 1968, BBC, London.
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October 24, 2012
October 6, 2012
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.
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!
