Kategorie: English language stuff
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Hampus Lindwall / Brace for Impact / 2025
Or … anything with Stephen O’Malley 🙂 Thanks a lot to my good friend „Habe ich keinen“ I got aware of this musical masterpiece just the other day and this one really is worth a listen to. In the beginning I wasn’t aware that this is all about organ music played by Swedish composer Hampus…
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Darkthrone – It Beckons Us all – 2024
Up to the day I listened to this masterpiece for the first time their Punk Rock riff driven „Hate Them All“ was my favourite Darkthrone album. While they never having had a musical standstill this 2024 album is IMHO a very unique statement of the fact that Darkthrone are the undisputed masters of true Norwegian…
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Porcupine Tree // Closure / Continuation – 2022
In the past always used to be … against SW but … Steven Wilson made me aware – well, a good friend of mine did to be precise – of his universe of progressive rock some years ago … tonight I made my way home after celebrating the 18th birthday of a young woman I…
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Tangerine Dream – the sessions I – VII
It’s been quite a long time now that I wanted to start a series of short articles on music that I really like to listen to. Many albums had been chosen already but I’d like to start with Tangerine Dream’s current releases as this project exists since 1967 and TD are pioneers in electronic music…
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Front Line Assembly – WarMech – 2018
I can almost hear him say … „Mazze, why are you writing about old shit again?“ O.k. the album is already 5 years old but as I liked it from listening to it for the first time some day ago … Front Line Assembly is the child of canadian musician Bill Leeb who once used…
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Skinny Puppy – Remix Dystemper – 1998
Well, this one was lying around for many years now and I don’t know why I didn’t listen to this remix album earlier. As those familiar with my musical taste know Skinny Puppy are one of my all-time favourite bands/projects so I had to buy this one as soon as I got aware of it.…
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Frickelfest – Grenzwellen (What is going on over there?)
Just to give you an impression: I just started setting up a few playlists with our program at Frickelfest’s Grenzwellen-Program. Check it out and listen loud!
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Riverside – Wasteland – 2018
Poland … our direct neighbour … a land we share quite a few memories with and many of these are not what you’d call fond memories :-/ What can – looking at the artistically output from this beautiful country – of course not be said especially when it comes to the wide and ever expanding…
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Nazoranai – Nazoranai
Nazoranai is a project between legendary Japanese master of experimental music Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals & synth), drone doom legend Stephen O’Malley (bass) and Australian experimental/avantgarde musician Oren Ambarchi (percussion). All three somehow met. Somewhere. And decided to play this record. The Text on the rear of the record reads as: 中心の決意が 自分の中で 何度も何度も何度も 砕け散る事に 限りない歓びを 覚えよfeel the ultimate joy…
