Quote of the day:
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. -- Comte de Lautreamont
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Ice Ages – Nullify
When i heard that there is a new album by Ice Ages after more than 10 years a few months ago, my expectations after the last releases were correspondingly high. the last two albums in particular have absolutely convinced me and, due to their sovereignty and distinctiveness, have placed a great monument in the musical landscape. Hits like This Killing Emptiness, Buried Silence, Tormented In Grace and Lifeless Sentiments have left their positive marks on my brain. when i heard the first tracks from Nullify i was extremely disappointed, because the whole album is produced in an extremely vapid way and lacks any charm. the voice sounds kind of annoying and everything seems somehow spoiled. the only two songs that made it into my playlist are Empty Shrine and Chasm. everything else couldn't convince me. Mr. Lederer, you'd better not have published this album, because it doesn't meet the high standards you are used to. i'm sorry to say this but the whole release is an auditor...
Demdike Stare - Savage Distort
same with this very similar sounding song. unfortunately it's not available anywhere and I'm not even sure if this is an official release at all. for the reasons mentioned, it unfortunately did not end up in the playlist either .
Portishead - SOS
By far their best cover and generally the best song of Portishead! so wonderfully intense and inventive that it blew me away when I first heard it. Unfortunately, this song is nowhere officially available for reasons I don't understand, so it didn't end up in the playlist.
Quote of the day:
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Noir Désir - Le Vent Nous Portera
a wonderful classic. nice song, nice video. ...in the playlist since 2018...
Another poem by my former friend that i translated into english:
Nameless Dying thrusts the sky. Insanity hides the blind glow of the blood. A lantern of the Dead flickers over cities. An empty grave calls home. Memory of God's parting word. Exanimates babbles through time lurching and cataclysms play doom in brains. A supper of pain and fear.
quote of the day:
"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh." -- Emil Cioran
LE BUNKER de la derniere rafale (Marc Caro & Jean Pierre Jeunet, 1981) CORTO SIN PALABRAS
the long forgotten masterpiece of Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
quote of the week: "believe little. question everything. think for yourself." -- Albrecht Müller
Albrecht Müller is a German economist, publicist and former politician
quote of the day: "Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing." -- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
He was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903. Both have remained in print ever since. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted today. He was also an artist.
Pharmakon - Devour (Official Video)
Great project of Margaret Chardiet, a New York born musician. Founding member of the Red Light District collective in Far Rockaway, New York. She has been active in the experimental scene since she was seventeen.
Nightfield - Bleakness (Official Video)
i made this video once with my older brother. it was my first and so far last attempt to create a music video. it was filmed in winter 2003 and finished in 2004. i made the corresponding music for it in the same year.
i just tried to translate a poem by a former friend from german to english. The many wonderful neologisms that he used and for which there is often no equivalent in english make the whole thing unfortunately very difficult...apart from that, what do you think of it?
Mirrored A despicable that shudders towards the inside. a clenching face whose paleness screams and searches retchingly. the attempt of healing echoes gnawingly. The who flows in vain around the nevermore. In staring gaze, totally in pain; and heartache blazes softly around the abyss.
quote of the day:
"Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (english poet and critic 1772-1834)
Wardruna and Aurora - Helvegen (Live)
hail norway, du vakreste landet på jorden! ...in the playlist since 2017...
Goldfrapp - Ocean Feat. Dave Gahan (Official Video)
though i don't like Goldfrapp it's quite well-made! ...in the playlist since 2020...
Susanne Sundfør - Turkish Delight
wow...amazingly what stupendous mood you can evoke only through gorgeous voice and simple piano...goosebumps...
Satyricon - Mother North (1996)
...cvlt! i even own the original VHS-Video from 1996, but still their best release is "Dark Medieval Times". ...in the playlist since 2017...
quote of the day:
"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence." -- Meister Eckhart
November Növelet "He's Dying Beside" [Official Music Video]
further stuff from germany's most serious record label... ...in the playlist since 2017...
Herz Jühning "Blood will boil" [Official Music Video]
very well Kay Jühning...as is usual. ...in the playlist since 2019...