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Tag Archives: Music
Muntjac by Clevelode
Music Review – July 2024 Although I left this place, part of me remains (this is) very much musical psychogeography ~ Paul Newland I have fond memories of The Lowland Hundred. They provided me with a soundtrack for the middle-teen … Continue reading
Gathering of the Tribe: Landscape by Mark Goodall
Book Review – January 2023 … a personal selection dredged from years of seeking out and listening to obscure and difficult music; music that is profound but which was made for reasons which the creators and performer are often at … Continue reading
Rocketman by Lizzy Laurance
Through songs I dreamt the stories of the boat, listening to its sounds and its silences. Rocketman is the debut album of London-based sound artist and composer, Lizzy Laurance. To work on her project, Lizzy took up temporary residence in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, boat, Copenhagen, Music, review, soundscape, toxic masculinity, voice
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A Dill Pickle
This piece is taken from a longer review of the short stories of Katherine Mansfield which I published in 2013. It was used by the composer, Matt Malsky, as the programme notes for his chamber opera, A Dill Pickle, which … Continue reading
4’33” at 5.33
Recently I have become obsessed with John Cage’s composition 4’33”. I sit at the piano, with the lid closed, my daughter’s cello and bass guitar propped up beside me. Then, checking the timing on my phone, I start the piece. … Continue reading
The Masque of Anarchy (in the UK)
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy. 24th May 2004 Paper coin — that forgery … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Chartism, Corn Laws, Free Trade Hall, Henry Hunt, Manchester, Mary Fildes, Music, Peterloo, protest, radicals, Sex Pistols, Shelley, Suffrage, Wishbone Ash
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November 2018 Reviews
Books Crudo – Olivia Laing (Picador, 2018) Kathy Acker did not die in 1997. She, or someone very much like her, lives on to witness the recent rise of right-leaning populism in Europe and the United States and, when we … Continue reading
Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations of the Year
Book Recommendations Darran Anderson – Imaginary Cities (2015) Darran Anderson’s Imaginary Cities is a weighty, erudite book which propels the reader on an exhilarating journey through the history of the city in art, architecture and the human imagination. But, like some … Continue reading
Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – September 2015
This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Iain Sinclair – London Overground: A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line (2015) These days Sinclair writes like a man aware that he is running out of time: words tumble out of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Year in the Country, Books, Dead Can Dance, Elizabeth Smart, Film, hauntology, Iain Sinclair, jazz, John Cale, Karin Krog, literature, Michael Caine, Mike Figgis, Mike Hodges, Music, Poetry, psychogeography, Roger Willemsen, STEPZ, Terence Davies, travel, Uniformagazine, Werner Herzog
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