17. 28 december 2013

Ode aan Venus, the opening words of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.
And a report of the wonderfull concert of the legendary band The Low Countries in Café AMI the day before.
http://www.youtube.com/user/thelowcountries?feature=watch
https://soundcloud.com/thelowcountries

Music:
- Popol Vuh : Hungern und Dürsten (1974)
- Black Sabbath : Planet Caravan (1970)
- The Screaming Tribesmen : Looking On (1993)
- The Celibate Rifles : Back on the Corner (1983)
- The Low Countries :
  -A Friend worth the Name (2010)
  -Handmaid's Blush (Live Dec. 27th, 2013)
  -Hoor je mij? (2013)
  -Brian Cox's Locks (Live Dec. 27th, 2013)
  -The Invisible Ray (2013)
- The High Ones : Saved (1998)
- Brant Bjork : Little World (2010)
- The Sword : Winter's Wolves (2006)
- Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship : Sunrise (1970)

Whilst waiting for the next program:
- Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship : Hijack, Home, Have You Seen The Stars Tonight, XM & Starship (1970)
- Nigel Parrington : Gently Johnny (P. Giovanni)
- Acid Mothers Temple : Eleking the Clay (2008)
- The High Ones : Come Back (1998)
- InterKosmos : Hypnotizer (2008)

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)