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DeAge™ : 7607 days • Here since 11 august 2005

Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser The Moon and the Melodies

11 apr 22

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Most of their lyrics are incomprehensible, but this ensures absolute freedom (every text can contain them all, each of us can write our own text) and demonstrates that the group's charm easily transcends the idiomatic limits of each song. It enters the blood through the breath of the skin, flowing swiftly from the heart to the mind along paths of granite and velvet. (Alessandro Colavolo from Rockerilla n° 53 January 1985)

Kate Bush Wuthering Heights

29 apr 19

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Impetuous and unabashed, our witch/alien strikes from the very cover.

The Smiths Hatful of Hollow

29 apr 19

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"The meaning of their music is better explained (I don't know?) by the hyacinths scattered on stage, by the aesthetics of the covers, by a monotonous voice that somehow manages to linger in the air."

The Young Gods Data Mirage Tangram

27 apr 19

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Beautiful Sfascia, you have opened the "gates" to the Young Gods. The speech holds up more in the sounds than in the voice of Franz Treichler, who increasingly seems like the reincarnation of Jim Morrison. Or am I wrong?
P.S.: for the upcoming DeMeeting, I propose a mixed doubles tennis tournament for those over 50.

Vladislav Delay Anima

6 jan 19

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This sound sculpture truly sounds timeless, akin to a work by Picasso if we follow Scaruffi's words: "cubism of melodic and rhythmic fragments," giving Anima a stunning 8 for its standards.
ps: The first good news of 2019: Mille Plateaux is back in action thanks to the renewed fervor of the legendary Achim Szepansky, Stay tuned!

Biosphere Departed Glories

13 dec 18

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Easy to say drones. In reality, the entire album is made up of vocal tracks recovered from the Eastern European folk tradition. Through the Argeïphontes Lyre, a software invented by Akira Rabelais, these voices are distorted to the point of becoming a sound that evokes a world of ghosts. The specters are those that inhabit the Las Wolski forest, the stage of the Nazi deportation of the Jews of Krakow and for 800 years the refuge of Bronisława - a medieval queen who later became a nun - in her attempt to save herself from the invasion of the Tartars.
"what kind of music someone like Bronislawa might have heard while trembling among the trees. Not real music, surely, but something the fears in the mind might conjure up."
G. Jenssen

Biosphere Departed Glories

13 dec 18

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Absolute masterpiece, of his career, brilliant and of the overall ambience. I recommend listening to it multiple times while viewing the photographic archive of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. The cover photo is his, taken in 1909 (!) and part of a journey through Imperial Russia commissioned by the Tsar. Look for the archive and you'll find a treasure.
Here’s a taste:
La Russia a colori, cent'anni fa - Il Post

Biosphere L’incoronazione di Poppea

7 dec 18

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If anything, it's Fennesz who has drunk from the biospheric sources. Both are giants, but Jenssen remains the source. Then again, de gustibus.

Ben Frost The Centre Cannot Hold

18 nov 18

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How to saturate the air with blue and remain pleasantly dazed. The live set, in the theater, is memorable. It's a shame that this album perhaps lacks the concept track: Self Portrait in Ultramarine.
Applause to everyone.