9/27/2009

Klang vol. 126 [27.09.2009]: Blackout



1) Fuck Buttons - Rough Steez / Tarot Sport (ATP, 2009)
2) Rameses III - The Kindness in Letting Go / I could not love you more (Type, 2009)
3) Hush Arbors - So they say / Yankee Reality (Ecstatic Peace, 2009)
4) Wereju - Not who i thought you were / Fairtytale Ending (Reverb Worship, 2009)
5) Year of no light (with Fear Falls Burning) - Les Mains De L'empereur & The Golden Horn Of The Moon / Live at roadburn (Roadburn Records, 2009)

Newspaper Blackout Poems by Austin Kleon
www.austinkleon.com




9/17/2009

Klang vol. 125 [20.09.2009]: Might hurt a bit



1) Dialing in - We burn our stillborns / The Islamic Bomb (Music Fellowship, 2009)
2) Dialing in - Griselda plans her revenges / The Islamic Bomb (Music Fellowship, 2009)
3) Austere - This Dreadful Emptiness / To lay like old ashes (Eisenwald Toschmiede)
4) Ekca Liena - Strange Dusk / Orb Night (Phantom Channel, 2009)
5) Cult of Luna - Back to chapel town / Somewhere long the highway (Earache, 2006)
6) Cult of Luna - Finland / Somewhere along the highway (Earache, 2006)

Artwork: 'The Islamic Bomb' album cover



The album name 'The Islamic Bomb' reminded me of a very meaningful and courageus short film by Sean Penn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8LfW1N7rQ&feature=PlayList&p=4837044D2BA542A6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=54

9/12/2009

Klang vol. 124 [13.09.2009]: it'll swallow you whole.


1) OM - Cremation Ghat I / God is Good (Drag City, 2009)
2) OM - Meditation is the practice of death / God is Good (Drag City, 2009)
3) Evangelista - You are jaguar / Price of truth (Constellation, 2009)
4) Evangelista - Slayer / Price of truth (Constellation ,2009)
5) Baroness - The Sweetest Curse / Blue Record (Relapse, 2009)
6) Rambutan - Middle Altar / Blue Infinity (Stunned, 2009)
7) Heavy Winged - Transparent Vapor / Shaking, Waking (Aurora Borealis)


All excerpts taken from Nate Powell graphic novel 'Swallow me Whole'





9/05/2009

Klang vol. 123 [06.09.2009] : The Road



1)Sparklehorse + Fennesz - Goodnight Sweetheart / In the Fishtank 15
2)Sparklehorse + Fennesz - If my heart / In the Fishtank 15
3)Vic Chesnutt - Coward / At the cut (Constellation, 2009)
4)Vic Chesnutt - Philip Guston / At the cut (Consellation, 2009)
5)Sharon van Etten - Consolation Prize / Because i was in love (Language of stone, 2009)
6)Sharon van Etten - For You / Because i was in love (Language of stone, 2009)
7)Noveller - Telecin / Paint on the shadows (No Fun, 2009)
8)Noveller - Salt on sand / Paint on the shadows (No Fun, 2009)
9)Ian Williams - No more shall we roam / Bible Black Heart (Adventure Club, 2009)
10) Jim O' Rourke - The Visitor (after min. 25) (Drag City, 2009)


First photo (Americana Photography) by Denise Tarantino (www.dentinophoto.com)
Second (New York 2001, Ground Zero) by James Nachtwey (www.jamesnachtwey.com)



"The world soon to be largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities themselves held by cores of blackened looters who tunneled among the ruins and crawled from the rubble white of tooth and eye carrying charred and anynymous tins of food in nylon nets like shoppers in the commissaries of hell. The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes. Out on the roads the pilgrims sank down and fell over and died and the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond.

...

Perhaps in the world’s destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence."

from 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy