David Sylvian's Manafon and Lars von Trier's Antichrist

As I saw Lars von Trier’s Antichrist recently, I had to constantly think of David Sylvian’s album Manafon and the artwork, that in some strange way interacts with von Trier’s latest movie. There are three animals in Antichrist, represented by star constellations and symbolizing grief, pain and despair: deer, fox and raven. >> more

Bernhard Günter – un peu de neige salie
“Music stands out from silence and has need of silence in the same way that life has need of death, and thought (…) has need of nonbeing. As something similar to a work of art, life is an animated, limited construction that stands out against lethal infinity... >> more

Helena Gough – With What Remains
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it’s a really stupid thing to want to do.” Elvis Costello once stated... >> more

Toshiya Tsunoda – O Respirar Da Paisagem
In this little series of CDs that I picked to circumscribe my area of interest, I hope that it is clear that I don’t go for the latest releases but works that kind of grow after repeated listening as it is in this case from 2003... >> more

Hanna Hartman - Ailanthus
Every second of this short running CD is abundant with meticulously hand-graded sounds and precisely measured pauses that demands highly concentrated listening and rewards with ear-opening revelations of sonic correspondences between contrasting sound elements... >> more

Eric La Casa – Air.Ratio
Everybody knows the constant whisper of air vents in hotel bathrooms or in restrooms of public places, a permanent sonic background to many modern buildings... >> more

Jacob Kierkegaard - 4 Rooms
4 rooms was recorded in abandoned places in Chernobyl, former meeting points for people who had to leave immediately after the nuclear catastrophy... >> more

Chris Watson - Weather Report
Chris Watson is one of the world’s leading sound recordists of wildlife and natural soundscapes. He once played in bands such like Cabaret Voltaire or Hafler Trio but is more well know today for his collaboration with David Attenborough on his famous nature documentaries... >> more

Francisco Lopez - Wind
The completion of Francisco Lopez‘ tryptich of american environmental recordings moulded into compositions of formal strictness and reduction... >> more

BJNilsen - The Short Night
When it comes to processed field recordings, this is one of my favourite albums. BJ Nilsen used various location recordings from such places like Iceland, Sweden, England and Italy and mingled them through a set of old worn out tape machines and analogue equipment... >> more