1.SHWEP. podcast 2.The Nietzsche podcast 3.Amanda Lear – Sweet Revenge 4.Patricia Wolf – See Through 5.Laurie Spiegel – Unseen Worlds 6.Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8 7.Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher 8: Dora Pejačević – Complete Pianoworks – Nataša Veljković 9.Henriëtte Bosmans – Frank Bridge – Mayke Rademakers & Matthijs Verschoor 10.C.W. Glück – Friedman piano transcripts – Ignatz Friedman
1.Secret history of western esotericism podcast aka SHWEP.
Open up your head with this blast of a podcast. Earl Fontainelle is the perfect guide for this deep dive into the waste basket of ‘rejected religion’: western esotericism. One of my favorite episodes:
Nev Cottee – Madrid Hermine Elaine Howley – The Distance Between Heart and Mouth Elmer – Je vader De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig – Modene Manieren Klankkal – Komt Allemaal door dat Wijf Electrelane – The Power Out Astrid Sonne – Outside of Our Lifetime Battles – Juice B Crypts Leland Whitty – Anyhow Keeley Forsyth – Debris Kirk Barley – Évier The Olivia tremor control – Dusk at Cubist Castle Zorck – Creepy Sound Stuff Otto Benson – Songs Before Bed Flaer – Preludes Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido – Sepk
Nev Cottee – Maps to the star album: Madrid
Hermine Elaine Howley – To the test album: The Distance Between Heart and Mouth
Elmer – Je vader
De jeugd van tegenwoordig – Dat streelt mij wel album: Modene Manieren
Klankkal – Komt allemaal door dat wijf
Electrelane – You make me weak at the knees album: The Power Out
Astrid Sonne – Stuck in pause album: Outside of Our Lifetime
Battles – Hiro 3 album: Juice B Crypts
Leland Whitty –Svalbard album: Anyhow
Keeley Forsyth – Large oak album: Debris
Kirk Barley – Evier album: Évier
The Olivia tremor control- frosted ambassador album: Dusk at Cubist Castle
Zorck – Creepy Sound Stuff
Otto Benson – Another long day album: Songs Before Bed
Flaer – Follow album: Preludes
Orquesta del tiempo perdido (album Sepk ) – Prins Carnaval album: Sepk
2023 dual photo challenge: 1) a photo taken in or around your workspace at dawn or twilight 2) a ‘direct sunlight’ backlight-selfie.
Nina Simone – I put a spell on you Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats John Frusciante – The Empyrean Gojira – Terra Incognita Ihsahn – Arktis Motorpsycho – The Tower Leprous – Pitfalls Full of Hell – When No Birds Sang The Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis Arctic Monkeys – AM
Nina Simone: Feeling Good
Throbbing Gristle: Convincing people
John Frusciante: Ah Yom
Gojira: Love
Ihsahn: My Heart Is Of The North
Motorpsycho: The Cuckoo
Leprous: The Skye Is Red
Full of Hell: Rose Tinted World
The Dillinger Escape Plan: Farewell Mona Lisa
Arctic Monkeys: Do I Wanna Know
2023 dual photo challenge: 1) a photo taken in or around your workspace at dawn or twilight 2) a ‘direct sunlight’ backlight-selfie.
Sama’ Abdulhadi – Boiler Room Palestine Avishai Cohen Trio – Shifting Sands Session – ARTE Concert Marvin & Guy – Superior Conjunction EP Roberta Sá, António Zambujo, Yamandu Costa e Ricardo Cruz – “Eu Já Não Sei” Jong Oisif – Pink is so Pretty Die Haut and Nick Cave – Burnin’ The Ice Brian Eno – Neroli Moor Mother – Circuit City Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile Fela Kuti – Africa 70 Live in Berlin
Sama’ Abdulhadi | Boiler Room Palestine
Avishai Cohen Trio – Shifting Sands Session – ARTE Concert
The Train of Fantastic · Marvin & Guy
Roberta Sá, António Zambujo, Yamandu Costa e Ricardo Cruz | “Eu Já Não Sei”
Jong Oisif
Die Haut and Nick Cave
Brian Eno – New Space Music
Moor Mother – Circuit City
Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile
Fela Kuti
2023 dual photo challenge: 1) a photo taken in or around your workspace at dawn or twilight 2) a ‘direct sunlight’ backlight-selfie.
1 Paula Bujes e Pedro Huff com Adriano Coelho – Sandaia de Coro (2017) 2 Anastasiya Petrishak en Lorenzo Meo – Ange Terrible – Debussy Sonata voor viool en Piano in G Minor (2023) 3 Bukka White – Baton Rouge Mosby Street (1972) 4 Massimo Raoul Beckers – 7 Piano Notations & Da Capogiro (2023) 5 Will Santt – Emarandho (2023) 6 Indila – Mini World (2014) 7 Vicius Moraes & Odetta Lara – Samba da Bencao (1963) 8 Atahualpa Yupanqui – Los Ejes de Mi Carretes (1960) 9 Ер Тұран – Turan Ethno-Folk Ensemble (2011) 10 Germaine Taillefer – Image – Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni
1 Paula Bujes e Pedro Huff com Adriano Coelho – Sandaia de Coro (2017)
2 Anastasiya Petrishak en Lorenzo Meo – Ange Terrible – Debussy Sonata voor viool en Piano in G Minor (2023)
3 Bukka White – Baton Rouge Mosby Street (1972)
4 Massimo Raoul Beckers – 7 Piano Notations & Da Capogiro (2023)
Hossein Alizadeh, Dariush Zargari – Chaharmezrab Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir – Like a Ship (Without a Sail) Black Flag – Damaged Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die (world war) David Eugene Edwards & Crippled Black Phoenix – The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project Andreas Scholl and Edin Karamazov – Bach, Brouwer: Canciones Pickin’ On Series – The Bluegrass Tribute To Air: Blue Safari Wu-Lu – Loggerhead Kham Meslien – Fantômes… Futurs The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Don’t Get Lost The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely Straw Man Army – SOS EBEN & Godmode – Remember the Name
Hossein Alizadeh · Dariush Zargari – Chaharmezrab
Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir – Nobody Knows (Like a Ship (Without a Sail))
Black Flag – Rise Above – (Damaged)
Jaimie Branch – Burning Grey – (Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die (world war))
David Eugene Edwards & Crippled Black Phoenix – Just Like a Mexican Love (The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project)
Andreas Scholl and Edin Karamazov – English Folk Songs: I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Bach – Brouwer: Canciones)
Pickin’ On Series – Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi (The Bluegrass Tribute To Air: Blue Safari – Featuring Old School Freight Train)
Wu-Lu – Ten (Loggerhead)
Kham Meslien – F comme (Fantômes… Futurs)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Melodys Actual Echo Chamber (Don’t Get Lost)
The Raconteurs – Carolina Drama (Consolers of the Lonely)
Straw Man Army – Human Kind (SOS)
EBEN & Godmode – Remember The Name (Magic Cover Release)
2023 dual photo challenge: 1) a photo taken in or around your workspace at dawn or twilight 2) a ‘direct sunlight’ backlight-selfie.
Vaundy – Replica (2023) Otoboke Beaver – Itekoma Hits (2019) Sogumm – Sobrighttttttt (2019) Tomggg & ena mori – いちごミルクsingle (2023) JIWOO 지우 – Maison EP (2019) Lester Nowhere & Evan de Cloù – Stargazing (2017) Mokyo Ft. DEAN – Accent Fried (2020) Abe M Beats – New Beginnings EP (2021) Amon Tobin – Music from Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart single (2022) Seori – ?depacse ohw – m (2020) Tricky – Fall to Pieces (2020) Ghostpoet – Dark Days + Canapés (2017) Charlie toØ human – Wat. (2015) Ako(a子) – 潜在的 MISTY – EP (2020) Satanicpornocultshop – OYASUMI (2020) SOPHIE – OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES (2019) Dos Monos – Dos City (2019) Leenalchi · 이날치 – SUGUNGGA (2020) Cero – POLY LIFE MULTI SOUL (2018) my little airport – 跟你開玩笑 (2022) Ana hisbbuR · Lonely when I’m With You single (2021)
Here in Hong Kong, as the space is limited is one of the densest populated cities globally. This scarcity translates in that there is an enormous demand for spaces. Consequently, the price per square/feet is approximately one of the highest in the world. Which makes it difficult for artists to find affordable studios. If you find something, you can be paying for a tiny 6 Sq/m space, which is super small, a little fortune, which is too much when you think that this is added on top of a nano apartment here for around 1200 – 2000 USD p/m. Because of this, artists either work quite modestly sized, or digital, in fields like sound, new media art or other mediums that do not require a lot of space. You become very aware of space and real-estate. There are some lucky ones that get subsidized spaces, but these are limited require the right connections. Because of this lack of suitable space, many artists need to be creative and one of the solutions is to use the roofs in Hong Kong as their workspace. As do I, and the roofs of Hong Kong are a world-in-itself. I live on a walk-up (no elevator) on the 8th floor, in a Tong Lau (Chinese Mansion) building, basically a very old residential building, with shops and workshops on the street level, and many brothels and massage parlors in the buildings, to keep things cheapish relatively. So, the experience is very ‘Bladerunner’ (the first one) which was inspired on this neighborhood in Hong Kong (Sham Shui Po). My stairways, which are small and narrow, and illuminated by colorful LED’s that replaced the glorious neon’s of the past, advertising the brothels on the lower 3 floors. After that it becomes darker and more thrashy. I live on the top floor. I like it, as it is reminiscent of living in a cinematic sci-fi world inside a dystopian future. When crossing the border to China you enter Shenzhen, which is more a utopian Sci-Fi scenery, where the future is already happening there and is perhaps 10 years ahead of Hong Kong and maybe 20 of Europe.
Now for the music list, it was much harder than expected to make a proper selection that resonates with this city. Living in Asia, in Hong Kong, where the demographics consist of mostly Chinese, (both HK and mainland) Korean, Taiwanese, Japanese, Thai, Philippine, Pakistani and Indian, and a tiny percentage of (mostly quite annoying) western Expats, (predominantly from US, UK, FR, DE, and some from ES) They work usually in the Finance Industry and often behave like neo-colonialists and live mostly on HK-island. Initially the music I choose, is the music of course I listen to most, but also is representing to me somehow this assemblage of sounds and languages of HK as a multicultural and multi-ethnic region, with a feel not unlike New York or even het Oude Noorden in Rotterdam (somehow). Ergo, my choice of limiting western music, but of course I will include some, as to represent the different people of this city, finishing with two bands from Hong Kong singing respectively in Cantonese and in English, the two main languages of the city.
Vaundy · 踊り子 (album: Replica 2023)
Otoboke Beaver · おとぼけビ~バ~- Don’t Light My Fire · ハートに火をつけたならばちゃんと消して帰って(album: Itekoma Hits 2019)
Sogumm – Kimchisoup (Album: Sobrighttttttt 2019)
Tomggg & ena mori · いちごミルク (Album: Single 2023)
IWOO(지우) · Comme des Garçons (Album: Maison – EP 2019)