Dark, icy blues and purples dominate the sonic landscape, punctuated by bursts of neon green and pink. Smooth, clean synths evoke the vastness of space, while a steady, pulsing simulates the rhythmic hum of celestial machinery. Faint, whispered textures evoke the mysteries of time, and distant, ethereal choirs whisper secrets of the cosmos. A perfect combination of electronic and electric acoustic.Comments closed
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This is a monster, from the MONUMENT podcast, and I wanted to save it.
Fresh off the release of her excellent debut album ‘Percussive reverie’, we welcome Aerae for MNMT 462. Aerae’s music is shaped by the organic and unpredictable forces of the natural world. In the hands of the rising French artist, techno, downtempo and drum & bass are molded into unrecognizable forms, where evolving textures lock into enveloping and ritualistic grooves.
Tune in now for a deep trip diving into the psychedelic pulse of Aerae’s sound. As the mix descends into the abyss of sonic sorcery and tribalistic hypnotism, you just might lose yourself, or your grip on reality – but for a mix this good it’s a price worth paying.
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Comments closedTuesday Feb 25, 2025
Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine, With Liana Fix and Charles A. Kupchan
Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
Liana Fix, CFR fellow for Europe, and Charles A. Kupchan, CFR senior fellow and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, sit down with James M. Lindsay on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to discuss Trump’s evolving policy toward Ukraine.
Politics podcast I recently discovered.
Comments closedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025l1q
Comments closedMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest romantic poets in Persian literature. Nizami Ganjavi (c1141–1209) is was born in the city of Ganja in what is now Azerbaijan and his popularity soon spread throughout the Persian-speaking lands and beyond. Nizami is best known for his Khamsa, a set of five epic poems that contains a famous retelling of the tragic love story of King Khosrow II (c570-628) and the Christian princess Shirin (unknown-628) and the legend of Layla and Majnun. Not only did he write romances: his poetry also displays a dazzling knowledge of philosophy, astronomy, botany and the life of Alexander the Great.
An interview with Elizabeth Bennett about her new book, Performing Folk Songs: Affect, Landscape, Repertoire.
New word for me herein: autoethnography.
Comments closedEssex is a county full of colourful characters, and we have a fine selection of eccentric folk to share with you this month…
Lifelong Essex man here.
Comments closedComments closedFor this Monument Recordings sessions we present Spectribe a longstanding and well respected DJ and Sound Engineer based in Poland.
Here he shares an ambient voyage recorded on 28th July 2024 during Salon Ambientu, curated by Up to Date Festival and Muse Festival.
Kate Molleson returns to Venice, with more music from last year’s Biennale Musica, as well as music from the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. Plus music by Olga Neuwirth and Richard Baker, performed by the UPROAR Ensemble in Merthyr Tydfil last year. And the latest in new releases.
Opens with a marvellous piece by Charlemagne Palestine.
Comments closedThe Antikythera Mechanism
In Our TimeMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical computer, one of the most important discoveries in marine archaeology.
Show moreMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2000-year-old device which transformed our understanding of astronomy in ancient Greece. In 1900 a group of sponge divers found the wreck of a ship off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. Among the items salvaged was a corroded bronze object, the purpose of which was not at first clear. It turned out to be one of the most important discoveries in marine archaeology. Over time, researchers worked out that it was some kind of astronomical analogue computer, the only one to survive from this period as bronze objects were so often melted down for other uses. In recent decades, detailed examination of the Antikythera Mechanism using the latest scientific techniques indicates that it is a particularly intricate tool for showing the positions of planets, the sun and moon, with a complexity and precision not surpassed for over a thousand years.
And now I finally know how to pronounce the word Antikythera!
Comments closedComments closedItalo Calvino
In Our TimeMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller and collector and translator of Italian fables.
Show moreMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Italian author of Invisible Cities, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, Cosmicomics and other celebrated novels, fables and short stories of the 20th Century. Calvino (1923 -1985) had a passionate belief that writing and art could make life better for everyone. Despite his parents being scientists, who dearly wanted him to be a scientist too, and his time fighting with the Partisans in Liguria in WWII during which his parents were held hostage by the Nazis, Calvino turned away from realism in his writing. Ideally, he said, he would have liked to be alive in the Enlightenment. He moved towards the fantastical, drawing on his childhood reading while collecting a huge number of the fables of Italy and translating them from dialect into Italian to enrich the shared culture of his fellow citizens. His fresh perspective on the novel continues to inspire writers and delight readers in Italian and in translations around the world.