Album cover for Growing’s The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light
Cul de Sac – “Dust of Butterflies”
Death of the Sun
This fascinating album (with its beautiful album art by Corot) falls under the same mystical category as Charalambides and Black Forest, Black Sea. “Dust of Butterflies” is the opener, and a lovely opener it is — more Tape than jammy post-rock, just as the rest of the tracks defy easy categorization. Some as twinkling and rich as early Tarentel, some more sound collage than song. The only way to know is to listen — so listen. (insound)
Coronation of King George IV
He has danced in every palace of every capital, played in every club. He has hunted elephants through the jungles of India, boar through the forest of Austria, pigs over the plains of Massachusetts … He has ridden through Moscow, in strange apparel, to kiss the catafalque of more than one Tzar … Be he gallant, the ladies are at his feet.
Max Beerbohm, of (I think) King Edward VII
E. Spelerini, vue en ballon de la mer de Glace et du Montenvers
Septembre 1909
Septembre 1909
What audacious criminal, what mystifier, what maniac collector, what insane lover, has committed this abduction?
L’Illustration upon the theft of the Mona Lisa