“I Can’t See You” (Tim Buckley)An energetic folk-rock rhythm drives this first track from Tim Buckley’s first record. His song summons images of hippies wandering the streets in California circa 1966. A mysterious Scorpio girl who looks like Grace Slick, her eyes dark as obsidian or onyx, stares back at you. “Autumn temptress, sundown angelInside …
Albums have to be vinyl for me, not cd’s or downloads. When I am writing songs for my own albums, I always imagine at which point the listener has to turn around the record. And when I think of the artwork, I always imagine a big gatefold cover. Because that’s how I listen to music: …
The common once-in-a-century pandemic turning into mental hell because this time it is taking place in neo-liberal times and the age of surveillance capitalism. The televised genocide on Palestinians, an Israeli Apartheid based on racial superiority that’s being feverishly supported in my country. A falling Empire that’s leaving the world with the monsters and masters …
With 15, I was living in a small working-class town in the north of Sweden. I was a metal-head back then and was just starting to approach hardcore and punk, I only had a very vague idea of either. In my area there weren’t any punks, nothing happened in Sweden in that regard, there were …
Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish director and screenwriter, known for being one of the co-founders of Dogma 95 alongside filmmakers such as Lars von Trier, Kristian Levring, Jean-Marc Barr and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. The cinematographic movement sought to rescue the purity of cinema through a list of rules that, among other guidelines, dictated filmmakers to focus …
The atmosphere circulates moisture from the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) and the winds carry these clouds from the west over Mexico during May. The North American monsoon season develops during June as the rains move northward into New Mexico. The North American monsoon season peaks in July and August in …
There are three hitchhikers sitting in the back seat; Mexican immigrants in mariachi suits looking dimly into space. A girl with big glasses (Greta Gerwig) turns around euphorically to them and asks the men how life is in the USA. Without looking back, one of them replies sadly: “The USA is like a big, fat …
Amitav Ghosh‘s The Great Derangement (2016) is one tremendous book which examines the question why climate change is not being reflected in contemporary literature and modern art in general. It would be impossible to summarize Ghosh’s elaborate and nuanced thought lines in just a few paragraphs: the Indian writer takes his reader on a journey …
“As a young teenager, Blue Cheer scared me because older teenagers told me that a dog at a Blue Cheer concert dropped dead from the sheer volume of their amplification! Hell, their guitarist only left the group when he went deaf!” exclaimed Julian Cope in his appreciation of the band. “The only raucous, LOUD and …
Let us say it again, all art is in its origin essentially symbolical and ritual, and only through a late degeneration, indeed a very recent degeneration, has it lost its sacred character so as to become at last the purely profane ‘recreation’ to which it has been reduced among our contemporaries. René Guénon The dark …
