NEW STUFF: Nils Okland: Lysning / BJ Nilsen: Massif Trophies / Erland Dahlen: Clocks / Stefano Battaglia: Pelagos / Greta Aagre & Erik Honoré: Tuesday Gods / Erik Honoré: Unrest / Björn Meyer: Provenance / Lusine Grigoryan: Komitas – Seven Songs / Danish String Quartet: Black Leaf /// Hannah Peel: Mary Casio – Journey to Cassiopeia / Stein Urheim: Utopian Tales / David Virelles: Gnosis / Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams / Erlend Apneseth: Ara / Seamus Fogarty: The Curious Hand / Dirty Songs play Dirty Songs (thanks to David Toop for giving me his only copy in Kristiansand) / Hannah Peel (again) /// CLOSE-UP: Brian Eno: Here Come The Wam Jets / Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) / Another Green World / Before and After Science /// TIME TRAVEL: Bark Psychosis: Hex / Michele Mercure: Eye Chant / Jon Hassell: Dream Theory in Malaya /// Lal and Mike Waterson: Bright Phoebus / Dead Can Dance: Aion / Jon Balke – Siwan: Nahnou Houm (Release Date: November 3)
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Michael: Erik, I got it all from your lecture at the Punktfestival, but tell me one thing: when living in disturbing times, like we all do, has the work on your new album on „Hubro Records“, UNREST, been a kind of retreatment space and reloading batteries? I know your answer won’t fit the „new age department“ :)
Erik Honoré: I’ve been thinking of that aspect, music (and music making) as a cathartic exercise in troubled times. But to me it is actually the very opposite: Music is a way of engaging with the world, not disengaging or finding retreat. I have that retreat in the mundane everyday life in idyllic Oslo. So what I want through music is to confront this dangerous thing that is „reality“, to feel strongly, and let it hurt when it should. I know that’s also kind of clichéd, but sometimes it’s that simple. And yes, times like these are inspiring. They open up the space for things you wouldn’t have found in normal times.