16. 14 december 2013

From Jan van Aken's book 'De Afvallige' (2013) we tell about the not so bad emperor Julianus (361-363). There's a statue of him in Tongeren.
Sounds from a flute found in a German cave, around 35.000 years old.
And the hope for new genealogic information from recent found human-DNA.
Again and again we take note of the abuse of Mac Beth's name, this time of Gruoch, Lady Mac Beth: 
The Vlaamse Opera brings a play from Dimitri Sjostakovitsj, who apparently did not know better.   Our distant cousin Ludwig van Beethoven did!

Sounds from:
- Popol Vuh : Andacht, Nicht hoch im Himmel & Andacht (1972)
- In Gowan Ring : Wind that Cracks the Leaves (2005)
- Lyres : Shake it some more (1993)
- Birdbone Flute (35.000 years b.p.)
- Ole Lukkøye : Kachun (1996)
- Electric Wizard : The Chosen Few (2007)
- Bert Jansch : Just a Dream (1995)
- Dragontears : Borderline (2007)
- The Walking Seeds : Gates of Freedom (1990)
- The Low Countries : Low Country (2013)