Winter Family - Searching Donkeys (by winterfamily ) New Winter Family album on the cult Belgium label Sub Rosa , really caught me off guard. Transcendent stuff. "Mournful and melancholic, haunting and ethereal, just check out the opening track, the oddly named "Searching Donkeys", with its thick layered minor key organ, the sound rich and lustrous, Rosenthal's vocals settled down in the mix, her mysterious intonations peppered with brief bits of proper singing, lush little bits of harmonized vocalizing, the sound almost chorale, perfectly matching the ever intensifying music, the vibe [...]

Je ne suis jamais allé à Jérusalem, pourtant j'ai l'impression de connaître cette ville. Simon Finn fut mon premier guide en 2007 lors d'un concert aux Voûtes à Paris , et aujourd'hui c'est avec Ruth Rosenthal et Xavier Klaine, ce couple qui forme Winter Family , que je me perds dans Jérusalem. Winter Family me fascine par son regard lucide et intransigeant sur la politique d'Israël. L'émotion et la tension présentes de bout en bout me consument, dans les instruments, le mixage des prières ou des sirènes, dans la voix grave et tendue de Ruth. Car les [...]

Je ne suis jamais allé à Jérusalem, pourtant j'ai l'impression de connaître cette ville. Simon Finn fut mon premier guide en 2007 lors d'un concert aux Voûtes à Paris , et aujourd'hui c'est avec Ruth Rosenthal et Xavier Klaine, ce couple qui forme Winter Family , que je me perds dans Jérusalem. Winter Family me fascine par son regard lucide et intransigeant sur la politique d'Israël. L'émotion et la tension présentes de bout en bout me consument, dans les instruments, le mixage des prières ou des sirènes, dans la voix grave et tendue de Ruth. Car les Winter [...]

Red Sugar is the audio version of those visual collages that present themselves through erasure and concealment. Red Sugar is the audio version of those visual collages that present themselves through erasure and concealment. Let's say someone takes an original line drawing and then attacks it, scrubs here, sharpens there, glues a twig in the corner, and replaces areas of pencil with ink or paint. Ruth Rosenthal's voice, reciting her lyrics, is that original drawing, and the wear is sometimes forced from the outside, sometimes provided by the poet herself when she...

Rarement l'automne nous aura paru si froid. Le Point Ephémère devient l'antre glaciale d'un rassemblent ténébreux et occulte, unifié par les mélodies post-shoegaze du duo Tropic of Cancer , distillant une atmosphère aussi vénéneuse que mortifère. Winter Family cultive de son côté une certaine fascination pour l'affliction, raffinant de langoureuses mélopées empreintes d'un romantisme noirâtre et d'une fascinante mélancolie. Inutile de revenir sur le cas HTRK sur lequel nous nous sommes largement répandus dans ces colonnes . Le combo se livre, à travers un entrelacs de sonorités expérimentales et d'électro noisy, à [...]
While drowning in the oceans of sickly sweet platitudes and musings on the 10 year anniversary of the September attacks I can't help but remember the inane question asked time and again a decade back: "Why do they hate us?". This was hardly a new question, nor the first generation to ask it. In 1953 [...]

Jerusalem. Paris. Brooklyn Ruth Rosenthal & Xavier Klaine our current music is like an apocalyptic report of our life,in a group, a couple, a family, with friendships and farewells. Our 2nd Album 'Red Sugar' is out both in a cd via Subrosa and 2xLP via Alt.vinyl . our music combines the two worlds that we live through. [...]

Winter Family - Red Sugar

Motorhead - Bomber John Coltrane - Part 1 - Acknoledgement - A Love Supreme Winter Family - Y -- www.youtube.com/winterfamily www.winterfamily.info Winter Family was born in Jaffa on 2004. while Xavier Klaine develops layers of piano or harmoniums and pipe organ's drones into a dark mystic universe, Ruth Rosenthal speaks her texts/poems with a low voice, inhabit by a rare deepness. Together they perform as a duet or [...]

Winter Family - Searching Donkeys Carlo Gesualdo - ... Avey Tare - Laughing Hieroglyphic Winter Family - Dancing In The Sun

Hé, Oh, Dieu où es-tu ? Comment grimper ? Les chemins sont nombreux, à rendre fou, Ici une sélection de vols pour s'approcher de Là-Haut, Un Motet ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J osquin_des_Près) Josquin Desprez - Inviolata, Integra, Et Casta Es, Maria Une envolée folk Le Loup - Saddle Mountain Laissez moi partir Max Richter - Iconography Hallelujah Actus Tragicus, Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV 4 - 3.Versus II - Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt Une harpe, une [...]

Une errance nocturne bien accompagnée, un programme séduisant pour un lundi soir. wilco -solitaire- the dodos -horny hippies- atlas sound -my halo- winter family -shooting stars-

Winter Family - Auschwitz Pipas - Amsterdam Wilco - Impossible Germany Savoir Adore - TransylvanianCandyPatrol [...]
Le duo Winter Family , que vous avez vu en Concert à emporter par ici se produira demain jeudi au musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme à Paris. Pour l'occasion, nous offrons cinq places à tarif réduit (10 euros), aux premiers qui enverront un mail à Chryde (at) blogotheque (point) net.

Though she may be relatively unknown in the rest of the world, Danish dj/local hero Djuna Barnes is always ready to rock your socks off. She's been setting fire to parties all around town for what seems like an eternity, and she's still incredibly good at it. She just dropped a new mix in her Urbanizer series, and I would very much recommend checking it out. It's filled with plenty of nice music, and as always Djuna shows her superior taste when it comes to throwing down an awesome mix. This third part of the Urbanizer series provides plenty of [...]
'This is our love story,' she says, 'from my own point of view.' Old love letters are bright burials, sore memories blinking out as the lid lifts . They are words offered up in tenderness, words offered up in passion, and words burned and crumbled into the hearth. This song expresses it more beautifully than I could have hoped for. Winter Family - Garden Edit: broken link fixed! sorry guys... [...]

Oh, Allentown. I don't miss you one bit! Actually, that's not true. I miss Wegmans. God, I miss Wegmans... Where was I? Oh, right. an Allentown native on vacation in Colorado sued an 8-year-old boy and his father following a skiing collision. After the crash, the guy who brought the suit underwent surgery to fix his rotator cuff and clavicle, then asked the boy's family to pay $35,000 in medical bills, citing the Colorado Ski Safety Act, which states children are just as responsible for their actions as adults. Since filing suit, the Allentown man has [...]
1. The Necks – Townsville ( Milk of Fish / ReR ) MP3: Townsville (Excerpt) Last October – in what normally would have been nothing but a typical autumn week with darkness setting in early and people wrapped in warm clothes, hiding from the cold wind – I experienced what was most definitely the musical highlight of the year for me. Maybe even the musical highlight of many, many years. That entire week the city was besieged by music and film dedicated to "minimalist" composer and legend Philip Glass. Every [...]

My regular post Twelve Thursday Tunes is back from vacation with a lot of goodies. For our new readers, don't mix this up with the Theme songs about thursday, - these posts (=12TT) have absolutely NOTHING to do with Thursday other than that they usually are posted on a thursday. These are just twelve songs found somewhere on artists/labels/promo/magazine- sites that I want to share with you. Lots of great songs in this mix. Enjoy the music! Canonball Jane - Take it to fantastic (from promo agency) - Cool and very enjoyable underground electro [...]

Photo credit: omnia Mt Macedon Cemetery in Victoria, Australia is home to Peter Schipperheyn 's dramatic sculpture "Asleep". It is one of the most intriguing and beautiful contemporary works of art I've come across in recent years. The beautiful contradiction between the young women's vulnerability and the unsettling surroundings of the cemetery. The way her right hand lovingly grips the edge of the tombstone. It simply takes my breath away every time I look at it. The story goes that the artist was commissioned by a woman to make this sculpture [...]