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F# A# 39
It’s maybe not surprising that music from a year from winter’s collection often turns up in films, radio or television. This Christmas we’ve had a bit of the Christian Wallumrød Ensemble — I think ‘Wedding Postponed’ from A Year from Easter as the background music for an advert for Radio 4’s serialisation of A Christmas [...]
Christmas on Mars
Yesterday I saw Christmas on Mars, the Flaming Lips‘ film which has finally been released after a seven year gestation period. Going on my experience of the Lips’ music and shows I was expecting a piece of gentle psychedelic whimsy but this was altogether much darker.
The story focuses on a group of astronauts on a [...]
The fading light on your fading face
passant8R, originally uploaded by k-poon.
I’ve just been listening to Hex by Bark Psychosis, 15 years or so on, still sounding fresh and powerfully atmospheric. Part of the first wave of post-rock, textured and haunting. The sound of being awake at 3am in a sleeping city.
This photo captures the mood of the album perfectly. It’s not [...]