⸖ muzika

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Een prachtig citaat, van Nietzsche nog wel! suggereert het internet. 🤔 Maar nent. 😔 Maar maakt niet – “life is music”, prentte ons in een ander tijdperk Studio Brussel terecht in. En omdat woorden er soms toe doen, een definitie:

Muziek is 🙌 een in tijd geordend akoestisch fenomeen: bevat als dusdanig niet noodzakelijk tekst, ritme, of melodie. Alle muziek heeft inherent bestaansrecht. Ja álle muziek, dus ook, zeer zeker zelfs, Frans Bauer. Maar hmh, letterlijk alle muziek? Toch liever niet Sam Gooris.. 😒 Omdat er nu eenmaal gelukkig uitzonderingen mogen bestaan. 😅 Hier staat de he.le. dag. deze of gene muziek op, ze heeft mijn leven lang mijn leven beïnvloed en gevormd.

Dat was, merkte Frits onlangs, Louis Neefs, 1970. Nog paar jaar vóór The Limits to Growth. De hippies visionair? of louter legitiem bummed door het verdwijnen van groen gras en zeezicht, natuurlijk. En ¿por qué no los dos?..

Verder hertalen moet 😒 maar er stond nog in het Engels:

Music shaped life. Presumably more profoundly so than books and movies, maybe because hearing comes before seeing, and reading. 🤔 It also served as a guide and gateway to the other arts, intermingling with them by way of subject matter, imagery, outright reference, or all of those. One of my pet peeve subject matters is life imitating art – zoals dan ook bezongen door Lana Del Rey, en.. eh. No time. ENOTIME

I could elaborate on so many things, if only time allowed. 😒

• There is the peculiar pleasure and/or benefit of playing music slower. It truly 🙌 ENHANCES – yes, a shitty word – a lot of music in many ways, though of course not all, and not all to the same extent.
• While probably.. ⅗, or ⅝ of the music I hear is devoid of any lyrics at all, lyrics of course can be quite something. Some transformational, perhaps, or prescient, even, or hermetic, or all of those things at once. Or of course rather redundant!
• I'm often grateful to my former self for having been feeding a last.fm account since late December of the year of our Lord 2007 (380 CO₂ ppm).

Aside, for most all lyrics I copy/paste here and there I've come to rely on Genius.com. It's just one of those sites.. I don't know where it came from, nor how I came across it, but it rarely disappoints, so more than well deserves a mention at least. But les go then, in no particular ord.. hmm in alphabetical order at least, but otherwise in utterly incomplete, totally unweighted total disarray:

• 🇩🇪 Aalfang mit Pferdekopf, at the time opening my mind for what at first seemed needless weirdness
• 🇧🇪 Aguirre records, doing the Lord's work
• Need to collect AMBIENT here.. 🫠 but it makes up.. ⅓? ⅗.. of my listening habits, including several artists not already noted elsewhere in this list – which until just now didn't even mention 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Brian Eno yet.. 😐 ..nor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Lustmord, arguably the Eno of dark ambient. 🇬🇧 The Caretaker.. Ehh “ambient”.
• 🇹🇳 Anouar Brahem playing the oud
• 🇬🇧 out of Greater Manchester came Autechre, decades of trailblazing electronics
• initially out of 🇳🇴 Norway came 🤘 black metal (quadruple the bass drum!)
  • 🇦🇹 Abigor – “no one could foresee the end has come so fast”
  • 🇧🇪 Ancient Rites – “remember the moment Jerusalem fell..”
  • Dimmu Borgir – 2nd wave? melodious at least
  • Emperor – “I float among them, on wings once broken”
  • 🇧🇪 Enthroned – if it had to be an unforested part of Wallonia, Charleroi was probably an appropriate urban equivalent to hail from
  • if Dimmu Borgir for melody, then even more so Limbonic Art
  • ancient Mayhem
  • 🇩🇪 Nocte Obducta
  • Troll — “Drep de kristne” may seem a little silly for a slogan in the 1990s, but then of course the entire genre may seem to be that kind of silly. It's art, imagery – who would paint their face for no reason.
• 🇸🇪 Cold Meat Industry.. As with Galakthorrö ↓ (and gothic and italo disco ↓↓) and Raster-Noton ↓↓↓ below it makes little sense to try and outline the significance of a record label, or genre, in a list item. Already merely 'cause where to begin between Bocksholm (not even on CMI, do I notice only now 🤦), Brighter Death Now, Deutsch Nepal, Raison D'être, and so many more.
  If only for its title, a fitting highlight album for these, our troubling times would be Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio's Apocalips (September 2006/379). The artist and album over time have become a bit tepid to my taste, but some tracks remain notably exceptional, if not exceptionally notable – like track 8 here: “Let the Words of My Murder Be the Last Words You Hear”.
• 🇫🇷 cute, cosy, calming Colleen
• 🎤 field recordings – a genre in themselves
• 🇨🇦 FM Attack (“dreams come true..”) but he ought to be in a sublist of.. synthwave or some such
• 🇳🇱 Frans Bauer! Steeds vol van eenvoudige wijsheid, en dat oprecht, dunkt Frits. 🤷
• 🇩🇪 Galakthorrö ⸮? November Növelet, and ⸭ Aufgabe | Hingabe ⸭ – and all.. Quite a bit of ↓ power electronics. But then, “angst pop”..
• 🇧🇪 Get Ready! – Laat (1996/365)
• All manner of 🙌 “GOTHIC”, I suppose. But what all can't be in a word. 😐 It's farrr too broad a designation, much like ambient ↑ up there. There's quite some overlap with NDT ↓ below, and with darkwave and many other vibes and 🌊 waves. It must be why the iconic WGT music festival is called that.
  “Gothic” as music comes as rock (perhapsay, 🇬🇧 The Cure, for some value, or 🇺🇸 Faith and the Muse, or 🇺🇸 Cinema Strange) and metal (ranging from I suppose maybe 🇺🇸 London After Midnight to 🇳🇴 Tristania), but “gothic” will also refer to a language, a people, architecture, fonts, and all, so.. 🤷 Well, a name, a word – language.
• 🇮🇹 italo disco (“prossima fermata è il futuro..”)
• 🇮🇹 Kirlian Camera – Schmerz (“Parte sì tutta la gente..”)
• 🇩🇪 Kraftwerk quoi – 🎶 Endlos, endlos.. 🤐😶‍🌫️
• 🇫🇷 Land: “art is our memory, art is our history, here is our destiny..” want van culturele bagage gesproken: gewoon regelrecht Иди и смотри (naar Come and See, de iconische Sovjetfilm uit 1985), maar ook minder regelrecht bracht ons pakweg Praha met vele jaren vertraging via 🎹 Mili's Carousel (Lovely Acrobatics) naar Morgiana (of retroactief, omgekeerd.. 🤔 same difference)
• 🇫🇷 Les Joyaux de la Princesse – “l'Allemagne lutte toujours avec l'énergie du désespoir..”
• 🇩🇪 Mater Suspiria Vision, witch house and trap and all — “грустная сука, грустная сука..”
• 🇺🇬 MC Yallah & 🇮🇪 Eomac – Kakana (“Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram!”)
• minimal wave, so much of it from way back then (say our own 🇧🇪 A Blaze Colour), and then its revival (“union leads to severance” (2012/391))
• 🇩🇪 NDT
  • 🇦🇹 Blut und Asche, ein Drama als Komödie verstanden.. (1997/363)
  • das Wort — das nur gedacht; die Tat — die nur geplant (1992/356)
  • “..wenn ich verwest im Boden ruh', so süß der Duft des Fliederstrauchs..”
  • 🇨🇭 “doch ich lebe, ich lebe immer noch..”
  • Gottes Tod
  • wir töteten uns jedesmal aufs Neue, Vanitas, vanitas..
• As they did out of Greater Manchester, out of 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, too, came decades of trailblazing electronics, of an entirely different, ambient kind:
  • :zoviet*france: – what to say.. “just what is not true”
  • rather prolific Rapoon – good luck to you sifting your way through a thousand-and-counting releases.. luckily “there are. no answers” anyway, as “we live in the dark. we live in a dream.. tell Charlene?”
  • underrated or maybe just lesser-known because not all that prolific Penumbra – välkommen till Skandinavien, bring your Anoraks for the trip
• 🇺🇸 Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (there we were now.. in 1991/352)
• 🇫🇮 Pan Sonic – forza Suomi, and RIP Mika Vainio
• power electronics
  • 🇮🇹 Atrax Morgue, the Game Is Closed; one of few artists walking the talk. RIP Marco Corbelli, it's been well over 15 years already..
  • 🇩🇪 Genocide Organ (“waiting for a moment that I know will come”)
  • 🇮🇹 N. – “Sapete dirmi come noi siamo diventati cattivi?”
• 🇩🇪 Predominance – Hindenburg (“oh the humanity, and all the passengers..” (1937/310))
• 🇩🇪 Born as Raster-Noton before the turn of the century, Raster-Media has been enhancing the world with lots of marvellous fringe electronics. No point here in beginning to list, and trying to describe quantity and quality of artists such as Alva Noto, Atom™, Ryoji Ikeda, and Senking.
• 🇬🇧 Red Laser Records – neo-italo? and suchlike
• 🇩🇪 Scooter – How Much Is the Fish? (there we went! there we went! there we went! again.. in 1998/368)
• 🇧🇷 Sepultura – Chaos A.D. (“strip-mine the Amazon..” (1993/360))
• 🇸🇪 Tarmvred (Oskulden, 2005/382)
• 🇺🇸 The Flashbulb – Autumn Insomnia Session (drums, oh the drums.. 2005/379)
• 🇬🇧 Ultravox?
• 🇨🇦 Vromb, like Rapoon, though luckily not as prolific: one person with a remarkable gift of reshaping and transforming their signature sound, remanifesting themselves over and over for decades on end.. Accordingly demanding dedicated listening effort, rewarding as it rarely turns bland.
• 🇩🇪 Wappenbund (“Bewegten Herzens danke ich..” – but then rather as an icon of martial industrial probably.. alongside ↑ Les Joyaux de la Princesse; but then INDUSTRIAL in general would need a mention, being a fuzzy, broad word like ↑ gothic above
• 🇩🇪 Welle: Erdball (“ich weiß's nicht, ichh könnt' ja'ber mal..” — “sei aber still!”; 1993/357)
• 🇪🇺 Whigfield – Eurodance in the 1990's (“can't you see?” Sexy Eyes ❲🙏 Amen remix perhaps❳ on a Saturday Night)
• tape loops.. like 🇺🇸 William Basinski's dreamy Silent Nights in the Garden of Brokenness (not the first, nor the last somehow obnoxious artist, forcing us to ignore the human and get away with the wonderful music)

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