I spent a weekend this November at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver, attending the annual conference of the American Academy of Religion. The AAR is an immense and frazzling event, a professional nerdfest that also serves as a bleak and pitiless opportunity for broke postdocs and recently-minted PhDs to desperately scramble for an ever…
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2 years ago · 21 likes · 4 comments · Erik Davis
TÁR looks intriguing, perhaps not as intense as The Piano Teacher (d. Michael Haneke). There may or may not be a link somewhere, but the posthumous COIL release Queens Of The Circulating Library is quite marvellous. Have it playing now (released 17 January but large online store sent it early). It's one long undulating piece of about 50 minutes duration, somewhat like Dekadrone by Cabaret Voltaire but much more gentle: like Eliane Radigue in fact. And Kali Malone... swoony.
Excellent will listen today!