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In the early 70s Superstudio (an atelier of young architects based in Florence) imagined and designed Twelve Ideal Cities, a dystopian vision in which modern urbanization reached the most surreal and alienating levels. Calibro 35 spaceship now lands in these interweaving of geometric sci-fi structures. After taking off from the foggy slums of Milan in the 70s, and after having gone on an intergalactic journey with their 2015 album (S.P.A.C.E.), their spacecraft reaches this new metropolis, ... read more

I woke up in the middle of the night. Shaken by the creeps of a nightmare from which I cannot free myself. Still too many hours before dawn. I choose The Miraculous as soundtrack for my sleepless waiting. Pipe organ carpets and abyssal synthesizers dilate the flow of the hands, and the tolls of the clock seem to warp among dissonant melodies. It is like wandering in a house uninhabited for years. I have a sadistic attraction for darkness, but this time I have several times the temptation to ... read more

When we think about personal and intimate music, performed only by guitar and voice, we don’t think about psychedelic spirals stretched like ivy on walls of drones neither of distortions that wear themselves out and retie themselves in dark mazes generated by a ghostly voice. This is not exactly the traditional, usual, idea of intimacy. Fortunately there are some musicians - like Lili Refrain - that ignore “tradition” concept, conducting the listener to unusual paths without ... read more

Poland is one of the bastions of the Catholic religion, which in this nation has a very high specific weight from both a social and a political point of view. There could be no more fertile ground than this for the birth and development of Behemoth, one of the most explicit bands in expressing their reaction to the power of the Church. To do this, their leader (Adam Michał "Nergal" Darski) has used the same weapons as his "enemy", namely a constantly and growing attempt to ... read more