The eyes of the world were carried in the last month towards Iceland, a country that don’t find itself in the headlines often, because of the wrong reasons.
You see, the eyes of the world could have focusing on Iceland, due to a beautiful record made by local composer Olafur Arnalds. Instead, they were playing around with a silly volcano, what a waste of time.
I’m not sure how the press works in Iceland, but I do hope that this volcano won’t take too much focus of Arnalds, that with all due respect to volcanos and natuer (someththing that is important for him, so it looks) – when such an amazing album And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness – who gives about volcanos. This album IS a volcano.

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STR Mixtape : Sick Again

1. Led Zeppelin – Sick Again
2. Anthony Moore – Spinette (04:40)
3. Brown Bird – Muck and Mire (09:45)
4. Niney The Observer – Blood and Fire (14:08)
5. Sara June – Brand Of Bitterness (17:03)
6. Josephine Foster – See Thee Better In The Dark (20:31)
7. Fursaxa – Ode To Gollards (22:31)
8. Carta – Santander (28:18)
9. Greg Maclolm – Art (32:16)
10. Tape and Bill Wells – Fugue 4(36:50)
11. Brigitte Fontaine – Le Goudron (40:50)
12. Snooks Eaglin – Trouble In Mind (44:58)
13. Bill Callahan – Cold Blooded Old Times (47:44)
14. Rafael Anton Irisarri – A GLimpse
15. Robbie Basho – Mehera (57:06)

I’ve never been to Seattle. I know it’s a rainy and cold place, because I read many articles about the grunge scene. For someone who’s located in Tel Aviv, and basically hate flights that lasts more than 4 hours, Seattle looks like one of the places I won’t be visiting in the near future, unless if I’ll have to.

The rain and cold of the city, got into the core of Seattle based Rafael Anton Irisarri. And to complete the whole rain metaphor of this post, I would say that the attack of released by Irisarri in the last couple of weeks, is just like a British drizzle – quite, delicate, and penetrate deep.
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Gotta love the internet. You start walking somewhere, without knowing where will you arrive and how.
From this perspective, chaos theory – the one with the butterfly in China – is fully materialized on the net.
Two years ago I wandered around the net – a daily activity for all of us –looking for a musical kinder surprise eggs. I was wandering for a few hours, listening to gloomy singer-songwriters. I was looking for something different, with a cool cover, sheer quality inside, something that can keep you interested for more than 5 minutes,and if possible, that the artist will be nice enough to make you like him and want to eat him.
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