. . .

7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
(Revelation 6 : 7-8)

“Se Tu M’ami ”

01. Pergolesi – Se Tu M’ami
02. alva noto + opiate – opto file 4
03. J.S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C Minor (“Arnstadt”)
04. David Aubrun – 11 septembre 2001
05. J.S. Bach – Schubler Chorale Prelude BWV 694 (“Wo soll ich fliehen hin”)
06. philoid – soleil e
07. Billie Holiday – Gloomy Sunday
08. Mitchell Akiyama – empêcher l’océan
09. Francis Dhomont – Les moirures du temps (rp)
10. The Focus Group – Bromiding place
11. J.S. Bach – Fugue in G Minor BWV 542 (“The Great”)

note: A Halloween list. Following No.1 and No.2 of apocalyptic & love, mix of classical and ambience and waiting for MdM sorting out file hosting. This one has very wide style contrast, but less dynamic change than No.1, essentially Bach list mashed with drone/dark ambient list. I fel this works better than No.1. Happy Halloween.

image credit: the Four Horsemen by Albrecht Dürer

‘At the time when it happens,’ she had said, ‘you do mean it.’ He had meant it. He had not merely said it, he had wished it. He had wished that she and not he should be delivered over to the –

Something changed in the music that trickled from the telescreen. A cracked and jeering note, a yellow note, came into it. And then — perhaps it was not happening, perhaps it was only a memory taking on the semblance of sound — a voice was singing:

‘Under the spreading chestnut tree

I sold you and you sold me –’

The tears welled up in his eyes. A passing waiter noticed that his glass was empty and came back with the gin bottle.

-George Orwell, 1984 (Ch.6)

“Love at the end of Time”

01. Nikolai Medtner – Tale Op.42-2 in C phrygian (pianist, composer)
02. Stephane Leonard – Secret Life Remix (info)
03. Aphex Twin – Power Pill Pacman
04. Explosions In The Sky – Your Hand In Mine (w/Strings)
05. Caroline – Sunrise (web)
06. DJ morsanek – The Black Isle (Byrne/Eno Remix)
07. Miho Hatori – Barracuda (web)

Note: I tend to believe that MdM best output is when things are unraveling fast. The sense of urgency to salvage a moment gives little steps that made the whole thing moves again. Or probably it’s me having a mild melancholia with head swirling from some yucky liquids they make take. At anyrate, this is exactly that, one would need a certain urgency and detachment to follow the sudden dynamic change, in order to hear it all. Russian piece opening, remix of famous 1981 Eno’s album, thumping Aphex Twin, and sunk deep into a collage of odd pops. It’s apocalyptic view of love, a gentle remnants of feeling wrapped by maddnes of place and time. One is infinately aware of love, hate and end of time. Abstract yet very real.

image: click icon

Ya no se a quien reinventan y a quien revientan estos brotes de luz. Ahora paso las mañanas entre el barro y apagando fósforos en el agua de la tina para ocultar el olor a sal.
Lo mío me toca a mí. Quedarme en casa, sin teléfono, ni mails, ni los seis vasos de agua, ni las tareas pendientes. Quedarme en el agua y poner algo de música. La escuela de Sechuán nos dice que el agua no es agua pero moja, que hacer arder la apariencia, crepita.
Ya despúes veremos.

Clinic – earth angel
(internal wrangler, 2001)
Can – cascade waltz
(flow motion, 1976)
Beach House – master of none
(beach house, 2006)
Euros child – costa rita
(chops, 2005)
Plone – bibi plone
(for beginner piano, 1999)
Tipsy – kittie takes a ride
(uh-oh!, 2001)

Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto – en el baño del asesino.

Es que últimamente oscurece muy pronto…

Jill Tracy – Evil Night Together
Rasputina – How We Quit The Forest
Rufus Wainwright – Matinee Idol
Morrisey – How Could Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel
Dandy Warhols – You Were The Last High

fotografía de la serie “new skin” de Peter Franck

Donovan – get thy bearings
(the hurdy gurdy man, 1968)
The Zombies – summertime
(Begin here, 1965)
Blossom Dearie – long daddy green
(That’s Just the Way I Want to Be, 1970)
Jacqueline Taieb – le couer au bout des doigts
(french mademoiselle anthology, 2002)
Margo Guryan – sunday morning
(take a picture, 1968)
The turtles – you showed me
(the turtles present the battle of the bands, 1968)
Matthews Southern Comfort – Woodstock
(later that same year, 1971)

Image: Birkin + Bardot – still from the movie Don Juan, 1973.