The Sunday Soundcloud – Dash?

As regards this and the other Musicuratum website, the last week has largely been absorbed by the work after the work, which proved to be somewhat less protracted than the former but

The Work at Last Is Done!

Another Sunday evening’s come, and after several long weeks of work on the websites, I’m happy to announce that both of them are back in order and ready for action again – each now I hope

Eines Nachts in Berlin

Poised now as we are here on the verge of Spring, I’ve been finding myself ready for a voyage – mainly a nocturnal one, though my hope is to conduct it without nostalgia – into the past and to

A Late Winter’s Night’s Tour Around Soundcloud

After nearly a week in which it seemed the new season was at last arriving in these parts, the winter returned in force during the day and is striking back now in the form of a hailstorm – and

The Sunday Evening Round-Up on Soundcloud

Sunday evening has rolled around again, and so it’s time once more for a Soundcloud round-up – though not, I hope, of any by now usual suspects. An older project of the London singer, songwriter

Tracks to Travel by: A Playlist for the Road

While I am traveling, what could be better, in lieu of a more regular schedule of posts on this site, than an international playlist of twenty-five tracks meant to fill those empty

Nostromo 7

Some days ago, a lead pursued from Ferenc Fehér’s page on Soundcloud – in the band Tripes, based in Kaposvár, Hungary, and now a duo, both he and Marcsingó András compose and play the music, while

René Baptist Huysmans’ EP: “Dawn of the Anthropocene”

With the new year there’s come a wave of releases of EPs, and among them a quite interesting one is René Baptist Huysmans’ Dawn of the Anthropocene, issued a few days ago by the small Greek label

A Concert at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ: Seth Josel, Raphael Vanoli, Ben Frost, and Their Friends

Last Friday evening at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ here in Amsterdam, under the auspices of the Amsterdam Electric Guitar Heaven festival, and in co-operation with the Bimhuis and that

Heinrich Heine’s “Ich hab im Traum geweinet” as Poem and Lied

Every so often it happens that the people, places, or times one dwells on – or circles about – in the recurrent privacy of thought, get overwritten by those which enter there unbidden on

Telefon Tel Aviv (Part III)

Apparently visual, a dream in the most literal sense of the word seems as if it were specifically addressed to the mind’s eye even though one is in the midst of sleep; yet, listening to

Telefon Tel Aviv (Part II)

This playlist includes songs drawn from the several records released by Telefon Tel Aviv from 2001 through 2009; by way of introduction it begins with a performance during a concert in

A Recording of “Cânone em π” (Luiz Henrique Yudo)

On his Soundcloud page, Luiz Henrique Yudo has uploaded a lovely performance (given on February 13, 2010) of his variable work “Cânone em π” (composed in 1983) by the

A Canal Pride 2012 Finale: Two French Chansons

To close out the Canal Pride weekend, here are a couple of French chansons. First, a short playlist with three very different renditions of “Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux”

Klaus Nomi

With the Canal Pride weekend commencing here in Amsterdam, I’ll cast an eye back three decades to the birthplace of today’s gay movement, New York, and offer a playlist featuring the

Daisuke Tanabe

The erstwhile art student Daisuke Tanabe is a DJ and electronic musician in Tokyo who’s lived in London and is currently represented by the Berlin record label

Matthias Rascher

Youtube’s character as a (in theory at least) worldwide forum, where one may catch sight or hear of interesting people worlds away whom one otherwise would never have come across at all, is

Nguyên Lê

A prolific recording artist since the 1980s and esteemed for the ensembles in which he’s participated with other musicians and for his enthusiastic reception of many varieties of

17 Hippies

Established in 1995 in Berlin, the band 17 Hippies – they aren’t hippies, though they tour very often and far, nor are there currently seventeen of them, rather it’s now a twelve-piece

René Baptist Huysmans

René Baptist Huysmans is not a professional musician, but rather a linguist specializing in one of the languages of Nepal, who divides his time in Europe between

Milosh

The singer and electronic musician known as Milosh (a.k.a. Michael Milosh) hails from Toronto, Canada, but moves about frequently, as he states on his Facebook page