A day in the life, Jun 30, self portrait by night
Saturday, July 2, 2016
First Lines: Quentin Crisp - The Naked Civil Servant
From the dawn of my history I was so disfigured by the characteristics of a certain kind of homosexual person that, when I grew up, I realized that I could not ignore my predicament.
Friday, July 1, 2016
New Stuff: Okkyung Lee
Okkyung Lee has played with a whole list of amazing artists, some of my favourites like Cecil Taylor and Swans, and in 2013 she curated the Music Unlimited festival in Wels, Austria - a festival I regularly visi. This year she'll be perfomring there.
Komodo (1999)
A young boy comes face to face with Komodo dragons while suffering the loss of both his parents.
Mediocre creature feature that hardly offers any frights or suspense.
Halliwell (no star): "Feeble low-budget horror with no scares and little suspense."
Thursday, June 30, 2016
New Stuff: Neil Young
Neil Young continues his revolutionary streak with "Earth", experimenting with animal sounds on his new live album.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
First Lines: Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi
The characteristic features of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple-guru relationship.
New Stuff: Raime
Moving away from the sample-based strategies that characterised their early work, Andrews and Halstead looked increasingly to live instrumentation for their first full-length work, mounting intensive recording sessions for percussion, guitar and strings before painstakingly piecing the album together at their home studio. The gothic and industrial signifiers in their music remained, but more submerged and oblique than ever – no more pronounced as influences than jungle’s percussive dynamism and doom metal’s oppressive weight, or aspects of techno, modern composition and dub.
New Stuff: Mats Gustafsson
In 2014 the sax-player extraordinaire celebrated his 50th birthday by inviting many artists he currently plays with to Vienna. Three days at Porgy & Bess in October 2014, 16 shows, the best moments are captured on this 4cs box set.
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
First Lines: Mary Karr - The Liars' Club
My sharpest memory is of a single instant surrounded by dark.
