shakti (music)

Read Mark Richardson’s review of the box set commemorating experimental composer William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops. The 9xLP, 5xCD package is a Best New Reissue.

jimmypage-onthisday: ON THIS DAY… 14 October 1994 ‘NO QUARTER’...

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:55:01 +0200

jimmypage-onthisday:

ON THIS DAY… 14 October 1994

‘NO QUARTER’ WAS RELEASED

Today sees the release of the Page and Plant project, No Quarter. The colours, the textures, the tones; the blood, the flesh, the bones were finally revealed with the release of this album.

AUDIO: City Don’t Cry (Page and Plant)

"John Cage’s music actually seems to me to be the closest and most intimate music that could ever..."

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:47:11 +0200

“John Cage’s music actually seems to me to be the closest and most intimate music that could ever exist. When I was in college and really depressed because I was making uninspired music, I threw a CD of Cage’s toy piano music into my stereo. And when I listened to it, I was in a place where beautiful melodies just happened over and over— they were just lines that weren’t forcing me to do anything. They weren’t forming phrases leading to some dramatic peak, and then sliding down into a self-satisfied and dignified completion, like a simple sonata form or a boring SAT essay. They weren’t telling me anything. They were just there. And they happened to sound beautiful to me. Suddenly, I was free.”

- Julia Holter on John Cage— check out more anecdotes from a wide variety of artists talking about the revolutionary composer and thinker in Grayson Currin’s feature, “Lectures on Nothing: John Cage’s Century”. (via pitchfork)

serpentinesleekness: Try this if you like that combination of...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:38:58 +0200

serpentinesleekness:

Try this if you like that combination of male and female vocal. This album is cheeky and slightly humorous with a touch of sexiness.

Edit: What he said ^^.

and as there are things that are more enjoyable if there are two (or more) people involved, here’s a link for the album: X

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Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:33:24 +0200

Fees on Top of Fees Obscure Cost of Flying

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:40:24 +0200

Fees on Top of Fees Obscure Cost of Flying:

kateoplis:

2011 domestic revenues:

$3.4 BILLION from checked bags

$2.4 BILLION from penalty fees on cancelations/rebooking of nonrefundable reservations

$12.4 BILLION: total amount paid above basic fare — and that’s just from the top six domestic airlines

$22.1 BILLIONS above basic fare, globally

that’s a 66% jump in two years.