Jérôme Reuter, the Luxembourger behind ROME, dedicated a double album to a racial state that lasted a mere fourteen years before being buried by its own illegitimacy. A Passage to Rhodesia is musically competent, artistically ambiguous, and politically slippery.
The structure is clever: the first disc is acoustic neofolk with symphonic arrangements and martial percussion, warm as a hotel room overlooking the savanna; the second, House of Stone, descends into industrial ambient ... read more
Marked in the count yet withheld from the act, he exists only as the missing alignment of an intended sequence
Esse álbum funciona como uma peça de propaganda étnica que utiliza a estética de "world music" para branquear e legitimar o projeto zionista. Através de uma produção polida, o disco promove uma apropriação sistemática de elementos culturais africanos, especialmente etíope, e árabes, submetendo-os a uma moldura hegemônica que tenta vender a imagem de Israel como um oásis de diversidade e ... read more
Excerpt from David Toop’s Ocean of Sound:
1967, The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London.
Waiting at the head of the queue late in the evening, then almost first into the building — an emptied, circular shell once used for turning steam engines. The interior has the dark, soaring atmosphere of a ruined abbey; an abandoned factory of shadowed, grim corners and filthy alcoves. Lights are being rigged from the roof of a small hut in the centre of the floor. On stage, men are aimlessly busy, ... read more
William Bennett, eu estou te desafiando para uma luta de boxe em público. Não é briga de rua, mas sim uma luta, seguindo as regras internacionais e com toda a segurança devida.
Qualquer hora, qualquer lugar. Cabe a você aceitar meu desafio ou ser um covarde.
Mama, can you hear me yell
Your baby boy's gone back to hell
Os vocais genéricos de bossa nova e as letras sem alma tiram um pouco do brilho do que seria um incrível álbum instrumental.
Nenhum álbum representa tanto uma cidade quanto Da Lama ao Caos representa Recife
Listened to this while doing spreadsheets at work and got a headache
esse álbum me transporta pra uma realidade meio distante me deixa confortável ao mesmo tempo que passa uma inquietude não sei explicar direito em palavras
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On EarCandy's review of AMM - AMMMusic
"To circumscribe music within the pursuit of beauty is to amputate a considerable portion of its expressive range.
For these reasons, I would argue that music is any form of sound intentionally organized for artistic expression."
On EarCandy's review of AMM - AMMMusic
"Despite the absence of traditional instrumentation or voice, these works convey emotional density and narrative suggestion; they are, in every meaningful sense, musical.
My second reservation concerns the requirement that music must “produce beauty.” This strikes me as an ingenuously reductive view of what music is capable of achieving. Countless albums are conceived precisely to reveal what is harsh, grotesque or disquieting in the human condition. They resist the conventions of harmony, symmetry or aesthetic pleasure, not because they fail to be music, but because their artistic purpose lies elsewhere: in confronting the listener with anxiety, abrasion, despair or collapse. ..."
On EarCandy's review of AMM - AMMMusic
"Do you, personally, agree with this Oxford definition? I find myself at odds with two of its central premises: the limitation to “vocal or instrumental” sounds and the expectation “to produce beauty.”
The first issue arises because there is a substantial corpus of works constructed entirely without vocals or instruments, and yet they are undeniably,at least to me,music. Many field-recording albums contain neither of these elements, and still they embody deliberate artistic intention. One may organize the natural cadence of trains arriving and receding, as in Chris Watson’s El Tren Fantasma, or the submerged acoustic world of marine life captured in Jana Winderen’s projects..."
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