Happy 7th anniversary to Lingua Ignota's album ‘CALIGULA’. A harrowing masterpiece that deals with trauma, emotional catharsis, and retribution. Lingua's brilliant use of death industrial & neoclassical darkwave combined with her intense operstic vocals is astonishing.
when i was a music obsessed teen i somehow didn’t have an aphex twin / boards of canada phase, just never heard them. i think my music now would be worse if i had
And then there were none.
The passing of Sonny Rollins means there are no longer any living musicians from the iconic “Great Day in Harlem” photo session by Art Kane that was a Mt Rushmore of innovators, interpreters, and cool cats. We’ll never see their kind again.
Sonny Rollins was great, and I'm really enjoying The Bridge right now, but man, I find his passing sad mostly because he was the last real connection to one of the most incredible stretches of human artistic invention that was post-war jazz.