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All is quiet on New Year’s Day

03/02/2026
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All is not so quiet, it’s also not New Year’s Day anymore, Blue Monday is behind us so for many of us most new year’s resolutions are dead and buried, waiting to be resuscitated next year. Still, I have a couple of my own, not the most obvious ones I hope, but important enough to…

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Dresden, 1985 (incomplete and fragmented reconstruction)

01/04/2025
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It feels like the morning after. In beautiful but pale late summer sunshine I stare at the whisky-ginger ale in front of me, freshly refilled, then at Henry on the other side of the small round aluminium table, then across the boulevard at people hurrying for lunch, or back to the office again, I don’t…

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Let’s get physical

07/07/2024
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In the age of streaming listening is continuous rather than discrete. The absence of a physical product creates a relationship that is far more fluid than it was before in the age of vinyl or CD. The absence of a physical product removes the need for albums or, to be more precise, the need for…

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Strategies for different listening

07/07/2022
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We live in times of abundance. Too much music available, too many choices to be made. However, abundance doesn’t equal diversity. Most people only listen to what they know already. Not a problem per se, but we also live in times where curiosity is actively being discouraged, not fitting into the business model of the…

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Jaki Liebezeit’s Haiku Cycle

02/08/2021
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Winter (‘Halleluhwah’) Snow flakes like feathers Dance to never touch the ground Superb wind machine   Spring (‘Vitamin C’) Steady screen of rain Breaks into rainbow so fine Greenhouse side effect   Summer (‘Spray’) One single flower Defies logic of dry spells Brightens the highway   Autumn (‘Mary, Mary so Contrary’) Last crop of pumpkin…

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No.4 in F Minor

21/02/2021
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From where she was standing, at that particular angle in front of her bathroom mirror, she could just oversee her full living room. Her apartment was so small the bathroom door was practically an insult to all those tiny house owners using every square millimeter to maximum efficiency. Still, it provided at least a much…

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Best Musicians Ever…

26/12/2020
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‘Three women, four people of colour, one from a continent other than Europe or North-America. It is a beginning, and for now I will accept it, but next year I expect different numbers. Next year I expect at least a 50/50 split in terms of gender and race, and at least four artists from Asia,…

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A character analysis in mix tapes

11/03/2020
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A mix tape, even in its modern playlist equivalent, is a multidimensional carrier of information. It contains information about its creator, the person it is created for, and at least the relationship between those two. Safe to assume that most mix tapes are created by men, to further a romantic cause and on surface level…

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Some of 2019’s best

31/12/2019
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When listing the best albums of 2019 it is difficult to ignore the voice of the critics. Most people will agree to a large extent with the critics, some, like me, with a strong dislike of authority, will take the opposite position, and claim critics only follow each other and are more focused on being…

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Music for elevators

14/11/2019
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It stopped me in my tracks. At first I didn’t know why, but then I realised, the music in the elevator I just came out was an instrumental version of ‘Don’t look back in Anger‘, complete with a sweet, nondescript string section. It stopped me in my tracks for two unrelated reasons. First, the sudden…

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