Culturedarm’s Albums of the Year 2014
Album of the Year Jolie Holland – Wine Dark Sea After the tightly drawn compositions of 2011’s Pint of Blood, Wine Dark Sea finds Jolie Holland no less composed, but its pieces rumble, scuzzy...
Album of the Year Jolie Holland – Wine Dark Sea After the tightly drawn compositions of 2011’s Pint of Blood, Wine Dark Sea finds Jolie Holland no less composed, but its pieces rumble, scuzzy...
Elvis Presley leers atop my list of the five best popular Christmas recordings. ‘Blue Christmas’, written in 1948 by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson, is ostensibly a rejoinder to ‘White Christmas’, with...
Ludwig van Beethoven – Leonore Overture No. 1, Op. 138 The Leonore Overture No. 1 is the last of Beethoven’s compositions by opus number, one of three pieces published and given an...
While on the field, the 2014 World Cup saw the rise of new superstars, the decline of footballing philosophies, the interplay between varying formations, and appeared to demonstrate the narrowing of traditional...
Here are a selection of documents and sources – videos, images, and text – relating to and referred to in the piece I just published, on the influence of Nicholas Roerich and...
Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (in French, Le Sacre du printemps) – the third ballet which Stravinsky composed for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, after The Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1911) – was written...
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali polymath, best known as a poet. Born in Calcutta – then part of the Bengal Presidency, and the capital city of British India – Rabindranath was the...
Pierrot, the sad clown in white face and loose blouse, expressing slowly and subtly in the liminal space beyond words, emerged in the nineteenth century from his roots in stock comedies and...
Asked and obliged to be concise, I would name Astral Weeks by Van Morrison as my favourite album, and ‘Madame George’ from Astral Weeks as my favourite song. This article isn’t intended...