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a post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 7

Charles Ives – The unanswered question —————— “there is a great man living in this country – a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one’s self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives” Arnold Schoenberg “Beauty in music is too often [ READ MORE ]

a post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 6

Arthur Honegger – Pacific 231 —————— A few favourite travel memories: Taking a very early bus from Palermo to Catania, leaving at 5 AM and listening to Autobahn and Trans Europe Express on repeat as the sun would rise Taking a train from Lyon to Turin on my way to my parents’ house, and listening to Boom Boom Satellites’ [ READ MORE ]

looking ahead

…or should it be ‘looking back’? Either way, the end of the year is around the corner, and before you know it, we’ll be in 2010. What happened? Where did 2009 go? Before I get all introspective and sentimental, let’s not forget that there is still a whole month left, and I’m sure there will be time [ READ MORE ]

a post-rock guide moves to Wednesday

Hey there, just a quick one for those of you who follow this weekly diversion: a post-rock lover’s guide to Classical music will now be published every Wednesday. This has more to do with a timetable conflict than anything else, and Wednesday seems like a better choice for me at this point. I do have more [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 5

Igor Stravinski, the Rite of Spring (apologies for the lack of podcast this week. The podcast will resume on the 1st of December) ————— Here is an analogy. All we have to do is go back a Century. Let’s assume that the canon of post-rock as we know it is this music of epic proportions, soundscapes unfolding in rising [ READ MORE ]

getting ready

The past two gigs have been a blast. The JUICE mag party at Zouk was interesting, because I had never played there, and the soundsystem definitely makes my live setup sound as good as it gets. Lots of basses there! At first it felt like practice, because I couldn’t see how many people there were with [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 4

Dimitri Shostakovich, Symphony n.11 in G minor (apologies for the lack of podcast this week. The podcast will resume on the 1st of December) ————— ” Meaning in music – that must sound very strange for most people…What was the composer trying to say? What was he trying to make clear? The questions are naive of course, but [ READ MORE ]

A post-rock lover’s guide to classical music: episode 3

Béla Bartók, Music for strings, percussion and celesta – IV allegro molto —————— One thing I am very thankful to the much-maligned centre-left press in Italy is their left-of-center choice of musical retrospectives. For the whole summer of 1996 there was a weekly compilation of the greatest moments in Twentieth Century Music that came with the week [ READ MORE ]

Then we saw the album launch

All good things come to those who wait… This will probably be the last show of the year, unless something shows up for Christmas or New Year’s eve! In any case, this one will be a bit special, and I really hope you will be able to make it if you are in town. There will be [ READ MORE ]

when it rains it pours

Funny how sometimes everything happens at once. I hadn’t played since July at the Twilight Galaxy show, and then we got really busy to get the album ready on time for September. The album has been out for almost 2 months. There haven’t been that many reviews so far, but reviews have been good. So what we [ READ MORE ]

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