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...in the playlist since 2017...

Jean Paul (born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825) was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.

  ...in the playlist since 2017...

...in the playlist since 2017...

it sounds so wonderfully gentle, warm, familiar and peaceful...  

 

(Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” who dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and homophobia. As a poet, she is best known for technical mastery and emotional expression, as well as her poems that express anger and outrage at civil and social injustices she observed throughout her life. Her poems and prose largely deal with issues related to civil rights, feminism, lesbianism, illness and disability, and the exploration of black female identity.)

 

 

 

this album is really very special and one of the best I've heard in a long time. Marnie is usually known as Ladytron singer but her solo debut is an all-round successful litter. A work that you can listen to over and over again. it is so incredibly beautiful and so incredibly peaceful that you feel like you are in a home that you never had. it gives you t he feeling of home...of what home could mean. it sounds so warm and tender that sometimes you could almost cry. I like to listen to this album in the car at night and then i have the feeling of being safe in a larger context. The feelings that this music evokes are a mixture of joy, sadness about a lost paradise, melancholy, happiness and peace. such an authentic work is unfortunately far too rare. it is a very harmonious work. my absolute favorite track is 'laura' and the almost hypnotic 'submariner' as much as the embracingly 'gold'. with the follow-up "Strange Words And Weird Wars" I can't ...

great avantgarde-black metal from switzerland. in the playlist since 2018.  

  Nicholas Farrar Hughes (January 17, 1962 – March 16, 2009) was an English-American fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology. Hughes was the son of the American poet Sylvia Plath and English poet Ted Hughes and the younger brother of artist and poet Frieda Hughes. He and his sister were well known to the public through the media when he was a small child, especially after the well-publicized suicide of his mother. On March 16, 2009, Hughes hanged himself in his home in Fairbanks, Alaska. According to his sister Frieda and his UAF colleagues, he had been very depressed.

  Assia Esther Wevill (15 May 1927 – 23 March 1969) was a German woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Palestine, then later the United Kingdom, where she had a relationship with the English poet Ted Hughes. She killed herself and their four-year-old daughter Shura using a gas oven, similar to Hughes's first wife Sylvia Plath's suicide, six years earlier. On 23 March 1969, Assia killed herself and four-year-old Shura in their London home at 3 Okeover Manor, Clapham Common. She had first sealed the kitchen door and window, then dissolved sleeping pills in a glass of water, chased with whisky, and then turned on the gas stove. She and Shura were found by the family's German au pair, Else Ludwig, lying together on a mattress in the kitchen.

  Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She died by suicide in 1963. Plath was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning with her head in the oven, having sealed the rooms between her and her sleeping children with tape, towels and cloths. At approximately 4:30 a.m. Plath had placed her head in the oven, with the gas turned on. She was 30 years old.

Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man. (Wladimir Iljitsch Uljanow in ‘Socialism and Religion’ from 1905) Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. (Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Law: Introduction. In Marx and Engels Collected Works, pp. 175-6)

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein  

nice video, nice song that sticks in your mind; just like 'Feder - Goodbye feat. Lyse' it turned from sleeper to cult.  

Pias ‎– PIASD5039CD CD, Album Germany 2019 Rock, Pop Alternative Rock, Vocal I recently came across this young artist from the tranquil village of Landau in the Palatinate by chance and was very surprised by his skill and ingenuity. 'love is' is his only record so far and it reminds me a bit of Antony and the Johnsons. overall, however, this work is very independent and not a mere copy of the comparison used. but the softness of the tones and his voice are somehow similar. my favorite track of this release is clearly 'Wound wrapped in Song' for which there is also an official music video that is especially nice due to its nonconformism and simplicity. The great voice of this young man sounds very familiar and very 'big' and grown up. particularly surprising is the song 'love is', which makes an unexpected turn towards the end. this record is definitely something that will stand the test of time. it's a work that touches hearts and disturbs minds in ...

Label: ECM Records Format: 2 × CD, Album Country: Germany Released: 30 Mar 1998 Genre: Classical Style: Contemporary this album is one of my absolute favorite records. I bought it back in 1998 when it was released and was thrilled and touched by the atmosphere, the seriousness, the religious depth and the sadness of this work. In my opinion, it's the best that Pärt has created so far. when listening, absolute concentration is appropriate. although I reject religion in the cognitive or political sense, this record sounds like an adoration right in front of the altar of the lord. Amen. tune in: http://stream.laut.fm/ad_infinitum

  from: Xenobyte ‎– Moods In Motion Format: Cassette-Album Country: Germany a few years ago I received this tape by post from a listener. I haven't heard of this project before and the sound quality is admittedly not the best, but this song was particularly noticeable to me, so I converted it to mp3 format and put it in the playlist. it's an interesting dark atmosphere from an interesting time in the early 90s.

Tegh ‎– Downfall Label: Midira Records ‎– MIDIRA 035 Format: CD, Album Country: Germany Released: 05 May 2017 Genre: Electronic Style: Drone, Experimental    very intense and experimental atmospheric ambient from iran. there seem to be some very special talents in the experimental electronic genre in iran. I was pleasantly surprised. The entire album has recently been added to the playlist. just tune in.