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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...

Menchaca – The Demon Rubs His Palm

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When it comes to the loop or cycle, the endless maze or the infinity mirror we might think of Arvo Pärt's celebrated 1978 work Spiegel im Spiegel with its arpeggiated tonic triads, written in the composer's distinctive tintinnabuli style which was inspired by early monophonic chant and described as like the ringing of bells. We might think of James...

Hourloupe – Levitating Fields

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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...