Having vowed to give up reading books, I here confess my abject failure. I’ve not only read, but reviewed, two new ones: Wendy Brown’s Nihilistic Times, for the LA Review of Books, and What’s the Use of Philosophy? by Philip Kitcher, for the LRB. What I promised you instead was rock ’n’ roll, and there I’ve had some success.
You may also like William Basinski's "The Disintegration Loops" for heavily repetitive minimalism which is vaguely associated with Richter in my mind, though there might not be much of a connection.
I woke up this morning with this line from "New Order T-Shirt" in my head: "I keep what I can of you / Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds." The song was still playing in my head when I set out on a bike ride.
Love Roomful of Teeth and Caroline Shaw. Really looking forward to the new record!
Other new music I've been enjoying during the past week: Everything But the Girl's Fuse (it's brief, but good — worthy follow-up to what they were doing 20 years ago, when last they put out a record), Rodney Crowell's "Lucky" (warm, piano-driven country tune), Worriers' "Pollen in the Air" (wistful synth-pop), HØST's Fuglesang (a cappella Danish folk music).
For Simone Weil-related music, you may be interested in "The Death Of Simone Weil" by Darrell Katz
https://www.innova.mu/albums/darrell-katz/death-simone-weil
You may also like William Basinski's "The Disintegration Loops" for heavily repetitive minimalism which is vaguely associated with Richter in my mind, though there might not be much of a connection.
I woke up this morning with this line from "New Order T-Shirt" in my head: "I keep what I can of you / Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds." The song was still playing in my head when I set out on a bike ride.
Love Roomful of Teeth and Caroline Shaw. Really looking forward to the new record!
Other new music I've been enjoying during the past week: Everything But the Girl's Fuse (it's brief, but good — worthy follow-up to what they were doing 20 years ago, when last they put out a record), Rodney Crowell's "Lucky" (warm, piano-driven country tune), Worriers' "Pollen in the Air" (wistful synth-pop), HØST's Fuglesang (a cappella Danish folk music).