Some reflections on Tarkovsky's "Mirror"

Mirror
Tarkovsky's "Mirror", a wide weave of sepia archive footage and remembered history. Without discernable plot, pinpoints of light and scene capture precisely those snapshots moments from childhood that distill the experiences of years to vigette visual poems. …

A letter to a friend

I'm glad you like my Indistinct Borders theme. The book that inspired it and my Karelia album was written before WWII - "Chronicals of Lake Narocz", a travelogue based in what is now Belarus, but was then part of greater Poland. It is long out of print. By the wonder …

Two days in a life of travel: Mon 15 and Tues 16 October 2007

These words, my thoughts commuting to London and Reading.

Monday 15 October: My London Commute day. A walk down Charring Cross Road and a dip into my regular port of call, Henry Pordes Books. Two books of film poster art "The Queer Movie Poster Book" and "Polish …

Landschaft now on Wikipaedia

I have decided to start cleaning up the Wikipaedia Ambient page and it's child pages. It's a bit inaccurate and very incomplete. As a start I've added Landschaft! It's on the English edition at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_music - scroll down and see me in …

Another Landschaft release pending...

I have found a forgotten couple of pieces in the Landschaft vaults that I recorded one late night on my trusty Korg Karma. Well they are super Combis really that I built to learn how the instrument works. Lots of cascading glissando vibes and the like. I think they …

Review Formication: Icons for a New Religion

1. Arise or Originate
Rotate, reverberate, melody. A search in the void. Searchlights across an empty sea. Nihilistic exposition across the void to an audience of zero,,,, Formication, in this opening to their audience hold out an olive branch, a white flag, place …