A little late, but the old haiku masters’ take on New Year’s…
New Year’s Day
my hovel
the same as ever
Issa (1763 - 1827)
Has spring already come?
I feel wealthy this New Year
with five sho of old rice
Basho (1644-94)
New Year’s Day
nothing good or bad -
just human beings
Shiki (1867 - 1902)
(Seen at Lumpy Pudding)
What the label says. Elemental (obviously) and beautiful.
Raw Recording mix of all of my wind recordings from 2010 - 2011. Captured throughout the Northwest of USA.
Absolutely no effects were used and all sounds captured straight to a ZOOM H2 recorder and mixed together seamlessly.
Daniel Menche Wind Recordings Collection Mix 2010-2011 by Daniel Menche
Artist: Blut Aus Nord
Title: 777 Pts. 1 & 2
Label: Debemur Morti
This won’t be the first time this dictum has been voiced, but 2011 seems to have been an epochal year for black metal. Purists might argue that mainstream assimilation has only brushed the outer edges of the scene (the hipster orbit, or some daft designation) and that the assimilation is actually a false categorisation anyway: sure, Liturgy and Wolves in the Throne Room might be in the New Yorker, but the former are a special case in that they have an articulate ‘spokesperson’ and the latter are just hippies, and besides both are false metal anyway so why worry. But what this does mean, of course, is that the deeper darker reaches of the scene pick up commercial light by association. And beyond the ghoulish aesthetic fascination with the corpse-paint and church burning faction, which has a) always drawn attention and b) was never really about an interest in the music anyway, there’s no denying the increased presence of black metal in mainstream discourse, and in the relentless accursed unspooling of the end of year lists.
Read the rest of the review at The Liminal.