Most of the time, films don’t need extravagant and excessively explicit stories to expose the darkness that constantly surrounds human beings. The deepest mysteries and fissures of society can be unleashed without excessive resources. Sometimes, the right formula can be achieved with a tiny house and a handful of masterfully sculpted characters. These humble scenarios …
Director: Whit Stillman Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Whatever the revisionist rock music critics would have you believe: the Sex Pistols did not take over American youth-culture in late 70s. …
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light. Mephistopheles, from Faust. Wolfgang Voigt is back with a most complex and powerful work, cementing his status as one of the most captivating contemporary artists, not just in the field of electronic music, but as conceptional …
Just that name “Vaporwave” was enough to turn me off. The aging hipster within making it very clear that I would have nothing to do with this internet creation. “Just a shiny plastic container with nothing inside”, I said defiantly. Without depth or feeling or humanity, this music was nothing I would be interested in …
Pink Floyd ~ “Cirrus Minor” (1969) Opening with one minute of dawn songbirds from the BBC sound effects library, David Gilmour’s slowly strummed acoustic guitar, Richard Wright’s misty organ, and Roger Waters’ poetic lyrics set the scene as David Gilmour sings about a pastoral spring paradise (“in a churchyard by a river, lazing in the …
(Dave Grohl expands his views on Paris, Texas for vinylwriters.com) Paris, Texas is the perfect album for a cold, gray Sunday morning on which you don’t want to leave the house and have time for yourself. Because the music is understated, you don’t have to focus on the album, you simply feel it- it can …
Director: Wim Wenders Paris, Texas (1984) is one of those rare films that captivates from the very first shots, leaving a strange and uneasy feeling that constantly attaches to us. The story is masterfully conceived by German filmmaker Wim Wenders and magnificently photographed by Robby Müller in the desert of Arizona. Ry Cooder‘s acoustic guitar …
Director: Alfonso Cuarón Many directors have portrayed the near or distant future in their films. Some have done it with optimism, others with pessimism, but very few have dared to analyze the social, political and catastrophic repercussions of a collapsed present that is totally devoid of a promising future. Apparently, the Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón …
Jann Wenner’s boring biography Sticky Fingers is still an astonishing read because it is eye opening about the fact on how his Rolling Stone distilled and defined music history and basically laid down the rock canon with simultaneous corporate help from radio stations and major labels. The RS critics’ darlings were elevated into (super)star status …
Interview by Mark Lager What were your first experiences that made you decide to become musicians? Eva: I really don’t know if I decided to become a musician, it is just a path that is part of my life. Since I was a child I have enjoyed listening to music and I have found myself …
