Tag: Hourloupe

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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...

For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

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...