Writing about music is like dancing about architecture Frank Zappa Grendel’s Sÿster – Katabasis into the Abaton / Abstieg in die Traumkammer Katabasis into the Abaton / Abstieg in die Traumkammer by Grendel's Sÿster Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of… Read More »Best Albums of 2024
A Recommendation A Week (A-RAW) #4 Writing about music is like dancing about architecture Frank Zappa Here’s a case of an imitation being more famous than the original, so much so that most mistake the imitation for the original. Admittedly,… Read More »David Bowie: The Man Who Sold The World(1970)
A Recommendation A Week (A-RAW) #3 Writing about music is like dancing about architecture Frank Zappa Drop out of life with a bong in hand Follow the smoke to the riff-filled land With these iconic opening lines of lyrics, 8… Read More »Sleep: Dopesmoker (1996)
A Recommendation A Week (A-RAW) #2 Writing about music is like dancing about architecture Frank Zappa Brainchild of serial sonic manipulator, Jason Kohnen (aka Bong-Ra), Here Be Dragons is the sophomore effort of this off-kilter Dutch collective. Over the course… Read More »The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble: Here Be Dragons (2009)
A Recommendation A Day (A-RAD) #1 Writing about music is like dancing about architecture Frank Zappa Let’s play a Jungian word association game. What comes to your mind first when you hear the following words – Oz Osbourne, occult and… Read More »Coven: Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls
A convoluted, surreal tale of an adventurous Buendía family, discoverers and settlers of a fictitious South American town – Macondo – and narrated over 4 or 5 generations. The book reads like a feverish dream, the allure of the story… Read More »Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude