Lunar Bed: Battery Farm

Neal and Jack and a bitter reflection

An acoustic mini album with quite unusual melodies (in which I discovered different things each time I listened to them), interesting lyrics and a beautiful, very distinctive voice.

Down to Earth

A literal ground exercise

A short exercise in style with tears and smiles, but no faces. All audio material used is in the Public Domain and has been obtained from Archive.org via Public Domain 2ten. Public Digital Festival 2010 entry, in the Do It Your Way category.

Leermond: Castanea

Sunflower galaxy

Leermond's music is defined by the composer himself (one half of the German duo Die Schatten) as "wandering through time and the senses" - and Castanea is an album that illustrates this description in the most representative manner. Deeply introspective and thought-provoking, the sound flirts with an assortment of styles and genres, claiming its own particular "signature" through the creative assimilation of its references.

Arne Pahlke: Heimweh

Subterranean homesick blues

Each album by Arne Pahlke is a new adventure in style and a personal auto da fe. In Heimweh he embarks on a journey of return to his own sources by making direct and indirect references to his first albums, Dunkel and Abgrundtiefen, whose publication marked him as a powerful and singular poetic voice.

Nehoryn: Golden Hyphen

The hyphenation of attracted opposites

Golden Hyphen is the latest album by Nehoryn, accompanied by a lovely printable booklet that contains the song lyrics and images eloquently illustrating the artist's universe, from the deft confrontation of colour with black & white to the touches of light bursting through the dominant darkness.

Turquoise of Winter Video Clip

A slideshow video clip of sorts

A slideshow video clip of sorts for the Turquoise of Winter instrumental by Dead Admiral (from the album Queen of Clubs, 2009).

November 2009 Special

Ten anthology film scenes

A small anthology scene collection from famous, less famous, and even infamous innovative and influential films through the decades.

The Gloomster: 13 moments of death

On the pathway of doomed souls

13 moments of death by The Gloomster (yet another project by the poet Arne Pahlke) is described by the author himself as the "soundtrack" to a "film" depicting the many different ways to die. Death by accident, recklessness or illness, by law (execution), by the hand of a murderer or by one's own hand. Being killed in a war is a serious possibility as well, but that would be an entirely different story and what mostly interests Arne here is, I believe, the view of death as a private, individual experience - a more or less unpredicted occurrence in the routine of an otherwise peaceful, or at least ordinary life (with the obvious exception of Long way to the electric chair) - though "ordinary" is actually a term too generalised to apply to the vicissitudes of each particular person's way of living.

Ralph Buckley: Mary Magdalene & The Song of Solomon

An armful of modern protest ballads

In the materialistic, hypocritical apathy of our century, Ralph Buckley is one of those stubborn voices of protest - a modern troubadour of freedom (which in itself has ended up being a fairly relative concept, especially considering the way this world has turned out and what it threatens to become in the future).

Die Schatten: Solanum

Black nightshade

Solanum or "nightshades" is the generic name for a variety of plants most of which are terminally toxic; in particular, black nightshade (Atropa Belladonna in Latin) is a subshrub of the Solanaceae family, whose poison is used in medicine to enlarge the pupils of the eyes - an effect provoked naturally by darkness itself, as vision strives to adapt to it.