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Hourloupe – Last Lost Word

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In February of 1800 the great Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt headed inland from the coast of present day Venezuela with his travelling companion, the French botanist Aimé Bonpland. Their quest was to explore the course of the Orinoco River and its tributaries and to solve the long-rumoured question of a connection between the Orinoco and the Amazon. In fact...

Hourloupe – Levitating Fields

Albums
Nobody else sounds quite like Hourloupe, the duo of Frank Menchaca and Anar Badalov who over the course of the past couple of years wrapped up a triptych around the theme of our 'hidden night city' which variously took in bronze age settlements and reanimated Egyptian mummies, New Orleans crypts and Moorish reflecting pools then a late-nineteenth-century trek in...

Tracks of the Week 24.02.24

Tracks of the Week
There's a bit of the Lizard King about 'Work Song For A Scattered Past', the opening salvo from the latest Fire! album Testament, with its souped-up swagger and whiskey-soaked, careening strut redolent of everything from the 'Alabama Song' and 'Back Door Man' to 'Wild Child', the 'Roadhouse Blues' and 'Been Down So Long' which serves as a loaded riposte...