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[hygge-musician]

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[c-40]

A-T-4 055 Satsuki Shibano - Erik Satie (France 1866-1925)

I own one musician/band t-shirt and that's for Erik Satie. I'm gutted because in my middle age I'm getting a bit big to wear it, perhaps I should do what Satie did for a while (as did Homer Simpson) and dress up in priestly dress. I adore Erik Satie he was a true eccentric and a leading figure in the French avant-garde comparable to playwright Alfred Jarry and poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The three all contributed to early 20th century artistic movements such as Dada and Surrealism but Satie is also seen as the father of modern ambient music

Satie as ambient music pioneer is what we're interested in here and 環境音楽, or, environmental music, or, kankyō ongaku. I'm a little sceptical the phrase kankyō ongaku is a bit like hygge as in its invention is relatively recent and has been widely popularised by articles and publishers. The Danish tourism board is thoroughly invested in hygge but I wonder if you ask a Japanese person what kankyō ongaku is they'd give you a strange look (similar to the bemusement over city pop)

Anyway in 2019 Light In The Attic (LITA) asked Spencer Doran to compile Kankyō Ongaku (Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980 - 1990). Spencer Doran is from Portland, USA, in the early 2000s he released albums in Japan inspired by Japanese environmental music by the likes of Hiroshi Yoshimura or Midori Takada and many others. 2010 Doran produced a mix titled Fairlights, Mallets And Bamboo Fourth World Japan, Years 1980-1986 for Root Strata's Blog. The mix and its follow up are prototypes of the LITA compilation Kankyō Ongaku. I really wanted the Kankyō Ongaku compilation but I remember the vinyl version being so expensive when it came out (hipster prices for hipster vinyls) so I never picked it up which means I've not read Spencer Doran's sleeve notes, I have read some of the interviews Doran did to promote the comp tho. I associate the phrase Kankyō Ongaku with Doran and LITA, it's the only place I've heard it

Through Doran I read about the Satie Crazy in Japan and according to him Kankyō Ongaku and the Satie Crazy began with a series of Erik Satie concerts that took place in Japan in 1975. 13-years earlier in 1962 John Cage performed a series of concerts held in Japan, Japanese media came up with the buzzword Cage Shock to report the reception. An avant-garde existed in Japan before this moment but Cage Shock was a transformative moment. I think Doran misses the connection between John Cage and Erik Satie when looking for why Erik Satie resonates with the Japanese so much. Cage isn't coy when attributing Satie's influence on Minimalism (especially 1893's Vexations), I think he's even got so far as to call Satie the father of Minimalism. It was 1969 John Cage produced Cheap Imitation for piano. This piece is based on Socrate by Erik Satie and created using the I Ching (an early example Cage using East Asian philosophical thought to create his work). Cage would base other pieces on works by Erik Satie throughout his career (especially throughout the 1970s). At least some of Erik Satie's popularity in Japan comes through John Cage

Satsuki Shibano - Erik Satie (France 1866-1925) is the third and final instalment of the Wave Notation series released in Japan by Sound Process. Sorry I've not written about the pianist as she's brilliant, this was also her debut. In 2019 Satsuki Shibano did a European tour with Spencer Doran's Visible Cloaks

It's easy to find recordings of Erik Satie but popular culture tends to focus on 1888's Gymnopédie No. 1, and more increasingly 1890s Gnossienne No. 3 - neither are in this collection

Tracklist is here

[lostandfoundindaydreams]

Slow down, you crazy child

You're so ambitious for a juvenile

But then if you're so smart, then tell me

Why are you still so afraid?

Billy Joel, Vienna

[omegaplus]

# 4,043

Paul Simon: One-Trick Pony (1979)

This is the only Paul Simon record I’ll ever own and here’s six reasons why: John Tropea, Dave Grusin, Richard Tee, Eric Gale, Steve Gadd, and Ralph MacDonald. They represent a curious era I’m still getting to know and their sounds perfectly define what I think of it. Those musicians are why I discovered Simon’s soundtrack-album as some of them perform and even star in it along with The B-52′s, Lou Reed, Tiny Tim (!) and more. So when WUSB’s Joi (Hygge) discussed it on-air with her father, I knew I had to have it. (Update: I acquired it at Patchogue’s Record Stop.) What’s wild is someone at my station who’s half my age knows and appreciates Seventies jazz / fusion like I do. I’m already familiar with Tropea, Gale, and Grusin’s work (and partially Gadd) and the soul of One-Trick Pony lines up with how I personally see and feel about the Seventies, so there’ll be no dispute about me enjoying this on Simon album. Now, I’m on the lookout for the motion picture.

[emilidickinson]

I was tagged by @aledradiolast like literally 80 days ago and totally forgot to do this but better very late than never i suppose!!!

i am tagging:

@frodo-baggins, @disneyprinceronweasley, @wherepoetsdie, @magicfolk, @flowerhope, @korpsebrides

+ everybody who’s reading it, and wants to be tagged.

rules: answer 21 questions then tag 21 people you want to get to know better!

nickname: I dislike any and all nicknames i've ever been given, so nope, none.

zodiac: i don't believe this has any meaning whatsoever - but taurus.

height: 5'5 or 165 cm.

last movie i saw: three thousand years of longing. it was strange but enchanting.

last thing i googled: "hey isn't this easy you've got a face that could lyrics". because my memory is shit and i couldn't even remember this was a taylor swift lyric.

favourite musician: omgosh - so many but uhm - oh - let's just check some spotistats to see whom i've been listening to most this year: simple plan and demi lovato (also i saw simple plan live for the very first time last week and lemma tell you it was bliss).

song stuck in my head: toxic energy by blackbear and the used. omg i love that song!

other blogs: so many!!! some would say too many :o @rhysandl - colorful multifandom blog @emilidickinson - pale multifandom / aesthetic blog @bookwyvrn - booklr / book photography etc blog @selflovewarrior - recovery / positive (pastel) blog @ohdearmordred - merlin blog @merehygge - hygge / cosy blog @cosyspring - spring / cottagecore blog @musedilluster - grandeur comme fashion & architecture and ive also got a vincent van gogh blog which i keep forgetting about @vangoghl

do i get asks: sometimes?

blogs following: 972.

amount of sleep: on work days between 7 and 10 hours on weekend days more.

lucky number: 36 or sth?

what i’m wearing: blue jeans, long sleeved shirt and a knitted jumper in white, pink, brown and orange big stripes. oh and brown boots.

dream job: librarian. so much. it's my goal.

dream trip: gosh i've already seen some very beautiful places. but i'd love to pay a visit to rome someday. I studied latin in secondary school for 6 years, loved it a lot! but have never been to rome, which is like latinist valhalla :o

favourite food: my very own vegan spaghetti bolognese recipe. it's delish.

play any instruments: i play the fife. used to do it in a marching band, but stopped when i was about 19 (it started when i was 9).

languages: here it goes from fluent to being able to express myself: dutch, english, german, french, swedish

favourite songs: this changes so often, but right now i love demi lovato's happy ending, blackbear & the used's toxic energy, burnout by ryan oakes and the state champs

random fact: i'm a self employed part time photographer ;)

describe yourself as aesthetic things: warm blankets, vanilla lattes, cats lover, roaring hearths, the changing of seasons to blossoming trees, dancing in high grass, folk dance

[amoveablejake]

Album Of The Week: ‘Dave Digs Disney’ by Dave Brubeck

Stand out song: ‘Give a Little Whistle’

First things first, I need to tell you something. The typefaces used on the cover for ‘Dave Digs Disney’ are out of this world and the colours, oh boy, these are the colours of a 1950s vision of fun and happiness and they absolutely nail that. Hell, they’re the colours of happiness and joy all these years later at least in my Mad(men)ison Avenue head. But, whilst we could spend all day talking about the look of the album cover that isn’t exactly what we’ve come here for. No, believe it or not we have actually pulled up our chairs to discuss some music and it is music that we shall now turn to. I know, but we will get back to colours used on jazz album covers and the typefaces another time don’t you worry, you can sleep easy again.

Dave Brubeck is not one of the jazz musicians that I have had a lot of exposure to. I only (only, I know, I can hear it myself don’t worry) have one of his records on vinyl and only (why stop now) four of his albums on my iPod that I recently burned to it after what was quite a good charity shop CD haul I must admit. One of those albums hidden amongst the pick up was ‘Dave Digs Disney’ and what a breath of fresh air this album is. Now, I should clarify there. I don’t mean a breath of fresh air as in this is an album where it’s something completely new but rather that listening to it does genuinely feel like you’re taking a breath of fresh air. It is uplifting, it is invigorating and it deserves to be listened to in the early hours of the morning all the way through to lunch before you start to choose some slower jazz albums to whisk you off towards the evening. Brubeck’s usual brand of up tempo jazz is present throughout this record and from the opening of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ he takes his listeners hand and twirls them around all through a very gentle and pure album that puts me in mind of the most magical place on earth.

No, not Disneyland although there is one next door, but rather Paris. First of all, I do absolutely reserve the right to withdraw calling Paris the most magical place on earth the next time I’m talking about my hygge dreams of Copenhagen, the hills in Mallorca or the forests beyond Whistler but for now, let’s say it’s Paris. It’s almost a shame that this album has the title of ‘Dave Digs Disney’ and that the songs have the Disney titles attached because this album should exist in its own right. And yes, they are adaptations of Disney songs and so to exist in its own right is to commit some light thievery but we don’t need to worry about the legality of that today. What we do need to worry about is that this album feels like a Parisian morning. And when I say worry there I mean that we should worry that we’re not listening to it enough as we stroll through Le Marias (again, I know, I absolutely know I’m a fourth arrondissement poseur). This is an album to wake up to, to listen to as you make your tea and to soak yourself in before you take to the street or preferably, your bicycle. It’s not the end of the world having the Disney title attached as after all the album is equally at home in a 50s vision of California and up state New York with children running around in clothes that I could only dream of finding now and that would never fit, acting out the scenes from their favourite Disney films as the parents watch them listening to this record. Probably commenting on how Brubeck has made something for all of the family to enjoy and that Mr Kennedy should probably stay clear of Dallas. But that’s a while off yet so for now, let’s sit back, put on ‘Dave Digs Disney’ and be safe in the knowledge that the Dave Brubeck odyssey that we’re going to be on has only just begun.

-Jake, a man wishing his brother a happy birthday via every medium available to him it seems, 22/11/2021

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

some highlights from my dream journal:

these are all actual quotes from notes I took after waking up from some of my trademark crazy dreams. Each dream was about a full typed page long, so I’m just giving you the best-of.

- as I explain the results of my philosophy research to the king, the prince -  my love interest, whom I am expected to marry - is attempting to ask siri what philosophy is.

-  we watched a viral, animated vine with a Muslim dude checking out a Muslim girl; she winks and starts to take off her hijab. He closes his eyes and looks away respectfully. She throws the hijab at him and slowly he opens his eyes, to see that she is wearing a second hijab underneath. He has passed the test.

- then suddenly I'm Dido Elizabeth Belle, or supposedly considering that the facts were way off.

-  In the early 1990s I'm trapped in a pre-internet world, and an evil woman knows that the data on my modern phone holds the secret to inventing the internet. I'm a kid on the run, along with my dog and best friend; luckily the Witcher is there to hide us in the cute hygge-themed cafe he owns.   

-  I pick 'gay' but before they can send me through I have to run again.

-  I think there was some sort of evil heist going on, and for some reason we had to escape this room, which involved chasing down and using one of the many antelope-eared hedgehogs loose among the rows of twin beds.

-  It was difficult to get to the French Alps in this dream, and it would prove equally difficult to get out.

-  it was [friend’s name]’s birthday and we - ‘we' being her good friend Billie Eilish, some other musician who was so close to us as a group that we were the only ones who knew about his secret autoimmune disease, my family sometimes, my best friend perhaps, and my two fiancees, Jessica and Claudia Kelgren-Fozard - went to for a cruise on a flying cruise ship, as was traditional. 

-  I realised I looked crazy, a grown up alone in a soft play park, dressed in all white sports gear except for bright pink gloves, which I then had the sense to take off.

[destieltropecollection]

Destiel Trope Collection 2019 Day 25: Roommates

PB&J | @dmsilvisart Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 1785 Main Tags and Warnings: roommate au, pining Summary: Have you ever dated someone to make someone else jealous? Dean has a very important question for Cas. Cas is oblivious and apparently Dean is an asshole.

It's All Benny's Fault | @casbeanwrites Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 7904 Main Tags and Warnings: Alternate Universe - Roommates/Housemates, guinea pig, fluff, dean in denial Summary: Everything was fine in Dean Winchester's life, until the day his (ridiculously adorable) roommate forced him to adopt a guinea pig, and everything went to Hell.

Me Too | @isolemnlyswear-iamsuperwholocked Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 2736 Main Tags and Warnings: Castiel/Dean Winchester First Kiss, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Roommates/Housemates, Castiel and Dean Winchester are Roommates, Based on a Tumblr Post, Inspired By Tumblr, Miscommunication, Misconceptions, Openly Gay Castiel (Supernatural), Bisexual Dean Winchester, Mentions of homophobia, Homophobic John Winchester Summary: Dean has to get a new roommate, asap. He can't deal with it anymore- the dude has no idea what personal space even is, for one. He stares at Dean all the freaking time and it's starting to make him uncomfortable. Not to mention the fact he might have a crush on the blue-eyed weirdo. Cas has to get a new roommate, asap. He can't deal with it anymore- the dude has completely no respect for his sexuality. All his friends made jokes when Cas was with them and Dean just laughs, and Dean acts way too weird around him for it to be normal. Not to mention Cas isn't ready to have another crush on someone who could never like him back.

sunday morning coming down | @reallyelegantsharkfish Rating: Mature Word Count: 2395 Main Tags and Warnings: Recreational Drug Use, Marijuana, Demisexual Castiel, Mutual Pining Summary: Smoke can do all kinds of stuff to you, maybe. Maybe make you want to touch, want to kiss. Maybe make you want to cook dinner and lay together reading and laugh together on long drives through the Hill Country, Baby’s wheels tried and true around the curves and bends.

Holiday Traditions | @suckerfordeansfreckles Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 1356 Main Tags and Warnings: roommates, best friends to lovers, mentioned homophobia, emotional hurt/comfort Summary: Ever since Dean has known Cas, since they moved in together almost three years ago, Cas has dreaded the Christmas season. Every single time, it had taken him days afterwards to find his smile again. Every single time, he came home and hid in his room for as long as possible. Every single time, Dean’s heart broke a little more for him. But Cas survived the holidays again this year, and he’s done with family for the next few months. And Dean, the awesome (and totally smitten) best friend he is, decided to treat Cas today. Make December 29th 2018 the best one Cas has ever had. Starting with breakfast in bed.

Wake Up, Sweetheart | @breathingdestiel Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 2766 Main Tags and Warnings: au, best friends to lovers Summary: Dean decides to confess his love to Cas. It doesn't go as planned.

La Vie A Plus | @thebloggerbloggerfun Rating: General Word Count: 6260 Main Tags and Warnings: Asexual Castiel, Artist!Castiel, Punk!Castiel Summary: Dean Winchester is hopelessly, head-over-heels in love with his best friend and roommate, Castiel. Castiel - with his blue hair, and his tattoos, and his artwork, and his perfect everything. Dean never stood a chance, really. It only sucks because, as far as Dean can tell, Castiel is definitely not interested. But love, much like art, has a way of being unpredictable. Even if you think you know where you're going with it.

Truth or Dare | @lemonsorbae Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 1190 Main Tags and Warnings: Alternate Universe - College/University, First Kiss, Fluff Summary: What else is there to do when the power has been out all day?

Perfect | @galaxystiel Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 6712 Main Tags and Warnings: College AU, roommates, fluff, 5+1, Summary: Five times Dean told Cas they’d figure it out, and one time he didn’t need to.

Roommate Wanted | @supernatural9917fic Rating: Explicit Word Count: 23088 Main Tags and Warnings: Alternate Universe, Roommates, Gay Castiel, Dean thinks he's straight, Switching, Dean/Cas Big Bang Challenge 2018 Summary: Dean Winchester moved to Pontiac, Illinois six months ago when his girlfriend Carmen got a new job. Unfortunately for Dean, Carmen then left him for her boss, so he needs to find a roommate ASAP. Castiel Novak needs to move out of his brother’s house before his niece is born, and when he finds Dean’s ad on Craigslist, it seems like the perfect solution for both of them. So what if Dean is ridiculously gorgeous? Castiel can keep his crush under control. So what if Castiel is gay? Totally straight Dean isn’t at all affected by seeing him hook up with dudes. They’re just a couple of completely platonic roommates. Well… that’s what they think, anyway…

Like Home | @nickelkeep Rating: General Word Count: 4549 Main Tags and Warnings: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Mutual Pining, Cupcakes, Wedding Planning, First Kiss, Living Together, Castiel and Dean Need to Use Their Words Summary: Castiel's twin sister Hannah is getting married, and as the Man of Honor, he's been along for the Bridal Show and Wedding Planning ride. After talking about the last one with his best friend/roommate Dean, Dean suddenly wants to tag along (mostly for the free food). Can Cas handle pretending to be engaged to his best friend?

First and Only | @almaasi Rating: Explicit Word Count: 35782 Main Tags and Warnings:Romance, Fluff, Mutual Pining, Porn With Plot, Porn with Feelings, Friends to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Flashbacks, Non-Chronological, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Cuddling & Snuggling, Virgin Castiel, Voyeur Castiel, Demisexual Castiel, Demiromantic Castiel, Switch Castiel, Autistic Castiel, Openly Bisexual Dean, Switch Dean, Homeless Dean, Thief Dean, Moving In Together, First Time, First Kiss, Ice Skating, Alcoholism, Public Displays of Affection, Minor Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester Summary: Single bachelor Dean bets he can have sex more times within a calendar year than his happily-married brother. But when Castiel – Dean’s roommate, best friend, and total virgin – asks Dean to be his First, Dean’s plan to bed numerous strangers goes up in smoke. Over the weeks, then the months, Cas becomes his go-to guy. His “fuck buddy”, if you will. But that doesn’t sound right. It doesn’t feel right. Dean was Cas’ First, but now he wants to be Cas’ Only. Now he’s gotta figure out how the heck to court a guy he’s successfully wooed a hundred times already.

The House That Wanted to Be a Garden | @almaasi Rating: Explicit Word Count: 32982 Main Tags and Warnings: Alternate Universe, Romance, Domestic Fluff, Domestic Bliss, Friends to Lovers, Sharing Clothes, Cuddling & Snuggling, First Kiss, First Time, Naked Cuddling, Accidentally Moving In, Home Improvement, Fairies, Magic, Believer Castiel, Demisexual Castiel, Gardener Castiel, Skeptic Dean, Musician Dean, Famous Dean, Grumpy Dean, Bisexual Dean, Dean vs Gardening, Summer, Autumn, Hygge Summary: AU where Dean accidentally moves in with his neighbour, Cas, who is surprisingly okay with it. Or: Every time Dean fixes anything in this cursed house, a random plant pops up and breaks it again. The woo-woo weirdo named Cas on the other side of the river keeps insisting that Dean must've offended the forest fairies. He offers his own home's amenities for as long as Dean needs them. But with each passing night, and every bent pipe, fritzing electrical system, or shattered window, Dean finds himself returning to his own place only to sleep. And then... one night... he doesn't even do that.

Room for Two (The Mattress AU) | @almaasi Rating: Explicit Word Count: 14548 Main Tags and Warnings: Alternate Universe - College/University, Roommates, Romance, Fluff, Crack, Sharing a Bed, Friends to Lovers, First Kiss, Literal Sleeping Together, Wet Dream, Sleepy/Unconscious Sex, Accidental Sex, First Time, Insomniac Castiel, Dominant Castiel, Autistic Castiel, Switch Castiel, Comfortably Bisexual Dean, Switch Dean, Horny Dean Summary: ✔ College roommates ✔ Buying a mattress together ✔ Faking a relationship to get a discount ✔ Sharing a bed ✔ Roleplaying as a couple to "test the bed" ✔ Fake kissing becomes real kissing ✔ Fake sex is Way Too Real ✔ Cuddling ✔ Wet dreams ✔ "Oh no I thought I was dreaming but it was real life" ✔ Matchmakers Sam & Charlie ✔ Cas seems kinda clueless but actually understands everything ✔ Mutual respect, support, and understanding ✔ Friends to lovers ✔ Mutual pining ✔ Go౦ԁ sHit

Sharing the Rain Dog | @almaasi Rating: Mature Word Count: 19837 Main Tags and Warnings: Alternate Universe - Human, Historical (1999), Fluff, Romance, No Angst, Accidental Dating, First Dates, Rain, FBI Agent Castiel, Musician Dean, Singer Dean, Flustered Dean, Shared Custody, Domestic Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Moving In Together, First Kiss, Sharing a Bed, Dean in Panties, Cuddling, Uniform Kink, Clothed Sex, Sexual Roleplay, Non-Penetrative Sex Summary: When some asshole hits a dog with his car and drives off, the first two people on the scene are Dean and Castiel. Castiel's an FBI agent with a plane to catch, and he doesn't have time to take the dog to the vet. Dean's a musician, and he doesn't have the money. An agreement is reached: Dean goes, Castiel pays, and they'll exchange details and meet again to work things out. But who gets the dog? Sooner or later they're going to realise that having shared custody of one pitbull isn't ideal. She needs one home, not two. One stable, loving home...

[karateficrec]

Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Supernatural Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel, Sam Winchester, Charlie Bradbury, Jody Mills, Bobby Singer Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Romance, Domestic Fluff, Domestic Bliss, Friends to Lovers, Sharing Clothes, Cuddling & Snuggling, First Kiss, First Time, Naked Cuddling, ACCIDENTALLY MOVING IN, Home Improvement, and tbh just plain old:, Home Imps, Fairies, Magic, Believer Castiel, Demisexual Castiel, Gardener Castiel, Skeptic Dean, Musician Dean, Poet Dean, Grumpy Dean, Bisexual Dean, Dean vs Gardening, Summer, Autumn, hygge, Jungalow, Illustrated Summary:

AU where Dean accidentally moves in with his neighbour, Cas, who is surprisingly okay with it.

Or:

Every time Dean fixes anything in this cursed house, a random plant pops up and breaks it again. The woo-woo weirdo named Cas on the other side of the river keeps insisting that Dean must've offended the forest fairies. He offers his own home's amenities for as long as Dean needs them. But with each passing night, and every bent pipe, fritzing electrical system, or shattered window, Dean finds himself returning to his own place only to sleep. And then... one night... he doesn't even do that.

[antifainternational]

October 11, Copenhagen - Antifascistisk Café: Besøg fra Hong Kong

GODE KAMMERATER // HYGGE // VIDENSDELING // ANTIFASCISME Revolutionære Antifascister & Antifascistiske Unge inviterer til den første af en række antifascistiske caféer. Den antifascistiske café er et sted, hvor nye og gamle kammerater kan mødes i uformelle rammer over en kop kaffe / sodavand / øl. Her kan man få en snak om, hvad der rør sig på højrefløjen og i vores bevægelse, man kan dele tips og tricks til klistermærkeopsætning og -nedrivning og opfylde sit lager af klistermærker, man kan dele historier fra “gamle dage” og informere om kommende aktioner. Og man kan hygge med gode kammerater, møde nye kammerater, lære hinanden bedre at kende og opbygge nogle af de venskaber, der er så vigtige for at gøre vores kamp holdbar og udholdelig. Nogle gange inviterer vi til oplæg eller workshop, andre gange kan det være, at nogen laver mad, at vi sammen kan male et banner, eller at vi selv eller kammerater i andre grupper sælger merch. Alle gange bliver det hyggeligt. Vi håber, at I alle har lyst til at skabe en antifascistisk café sammen med os, hvor vi støtter hinanden, deler viden og ressourcer, og sammen arbejder videre for at gøre den antifascistiske kamp så bred, tilgængelig og radikal som mulig. ------------------ DENNE CAFE Vi åbner dørene kl 16.00 til kaffe og sodavand. Kl 18.00 holder Ahkok fra Hong Kong oplæg om situationen og bevægelsen i Hong Kong. Efter oplægget kan man købe en øl og/eller en af vores nye t-shirts og hygge med nye og gamle kammerater. ------------------ OM OPLÆGGET - OBS OPLÆGGET BLIVER PÅ ENGELSK Introduction to Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (ELAB) movement and Hong Kong new black bloc culture. Since 9th June 2019, ELAB movement has been going strong and transformed into something a lot more. As an anti-authoritarian activist, Ahkok will share some of the insight and personal opinion on how world solidarity could support the movement. Ahkok is an anarchist, cultural critic, and musician. ------------------ TILGÆNGELIGHED Bumzen er desværre ikke tilgængelig med kørestol. Der er forskellige områder med siddepladser indenfor. Til nogle antifascistiske caféer vil der blive røget indenfor, drukket alkohol og spillet musik. Til nogle antifascistiske caféer vil det være muligt at skabe et område med sofaér og meget lav musik. Eventuelle oplæg og workshops bliver afholdt på hhv. engelsk eller dansk, og vi vil forsøge at finde oversættere ved behov. Skriv gerne til os, hvis du har forslag til forbedringer af tilgængeligheden, eller på anden vis kan hjælpe med at gøre den antifascistiske café mere tilgængelig. ------------------ BUMZENS GRUNDREGLER: Ingen Racisme, Sexisme, Homofobi, Transfobi, Hårde Stoffer Eller Vold!

[x--daughters-of-darkness--x]

Myrkur: the strange and surreal journey of Amalie Bruun

From hanging out with Martin Scorsese and Billy Corgan to appearing in a Michael Bolton video, Myrkur's Amalie Bruun is a black metal star like no other

An old painting hangs on the wall of the compact, one-storey house an hour’s drive out of Copenhagen that Amalie Bruun calls home. It depicts a blonde girl lost in reverie as she walks a grass path high above a fjord: a scene that’s elemental and ethereal at the same time.

The picture, by noted Norwegian landscape artist Hans Dahl, belonged to Amalie’s late grandmother, a refined woman who smoked cigarettes from an ivory holder and drank gin and tonic on a Friday morning. Amalie’s mother used to say that it was Amalie in the painting. It’s not hard to see why.

“I had a connection to it from before I can remember,” says Amalie today, as we sit at a dining table in a living room that’s one part uncluttered Scandinavian stylishness, one part hygge-style cosiness. “The album sounds like the painting looks.”

The album she’s referring to is Folkesange, her third as Myrkur, the one-woman  project she founded in the mists of the early 2010s.

Where Myrkur’s past releases have bridged worlds – black metal, post-rock, blackgaze, classical – Folkesange is different. This is traditional Scandinavian music played on traditional Scandinavian instruments, sung predominantly in Danish. There are some covers, some originals, though there’s not a trace of metal in the music or the vocals. It’s all there in the title: Folkesange. Folk Songs.

That Amalie Bruun is releasing an album of sometimes beautiful, sometimes melancholic Scandinavian folk music really shouldn’t surprise anyone who has followed her journey. Partly because that aspect of who she is has always been present in Myrkur’s music – all she’s doing with Folkesange is separating it out.

But mainly because Amalie Bruun has lived more lives than most other people. That, as much as anything, is what puts her out there on her own.

Two life-changing things have happened since Myrkur’s last album, 2017’s expansive and brilliant Mareridt, both inextricably linked.

One: Amalie Bruun got married. Her husband, Keith Abrami, is a fitness instructor and drummer with American death metal band Artificial Brain. The pair became romantically involved after Keith began playing as Myrkur’s touring drummer.

Keith is around, though he stays in the back bedroom today. This is because he is attending to the second life-changing thing that has happened to Amalie recently: the couple’s nine-week old son, Otto.

If Mareridt was the product of the vivid nightmares its creator endured before making it, Folkesange was defined by pregnancy and the impending birth of her first child.

She describes motherhood as joyous, though in her case the elation is edged with sadness. She discovered she was pregnant soon after she started writing the new album. “But I miscarried,” she says simply.

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We ask if she’s OK talking about this. She nods, and explains that the miscarriage pushed her deeper into making Folkesange. A few days after entering the studio with producer (and Heilung co-founder) Christopher Juul, she discovered she was pregnant again. And that’s when the emotion really hit her.

“I was totally out of it, but in a beautiful way,” she says. “I wasn’t my normal human self. I become something else.” She laughs. “Very nauseated.”

She noticed that her vocals were different. “I never felt so in tune with singing as I did then. I had this power and this clarity, which was crazy. But it was the exact place to be, recording folk vocals with this new life growing in you.”

There were worries, of course, as well as other emotions. One of the songs on the new album, Gudernes Viljie (English translation: ‘The Will Of The Gods’) is about the miscarriage. “There were conflicted feelings, dealing with both this new life and this guilt feeling of this other life that never happened,” Amalie explains. “It was never a heartbeat, but you still feel like a mother. It was very intense.”

Amalie Bruun grew up listening to Scandinavian folk music. It resonated with her on a different level. “With my spirit,” she says. “It’s like in England: you have that singer-songwriter folk tradition, it’s historically ingrained. It shapes who you are, even if you don’t know it. Because it’s folk music, it’s told by people for people. So it’s inherited into the spirit of a population.”

Half of Folkesange’s 12 tracks are her versions of songs that she grew up listening to, while the others are her originals, though you’d be hard pushed to tell which is which. “This is a record that I wish had existed when I was young,” she says. “And it doesn’t exist, so I wanted to make it.”

Music, folk or otherwise, is in her blood. Her father, Michael Bruun, is a retired musician. He was semi-famous as a pop singer-songwriter in Denmark in the early 80s. “But he was not interested in fame,” says Amalie. “He’s shy and misanthropic.” Does she take after him? She smiles. “I do. Sometimes I wish I didn’t but I do.”

Her mother, by contrast, was a Jungian psychologist. “She tried her best not to bring her work home, but she did. You get analysed every day.”

As well as folk music, Amalie loved classical music as a child. She learned piano as a toddler, took up violin at five, and eventually attended music college as a teenager. “I wasn’t pushed into anything. It was all my choice. I was never interested in anything else.”

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The first metal record Amalie Bruun fell in love with was Transilvanian Hunger, Darkthrone’s sub-lo-fi black metal masterpiece. Before that she’d listened to the stuff teenagers listen to: Nirvana, Björk, that kind of thing. Aside from her older brother’s Metallica and Judas Priest records, she’d never listened to much metal.

“Usually that transition takes years, right?” she says. “But all of a sudden I hear Transilvanian Hunger. It reminded me of classical music.”

“The Starter Pack” is how she jokingly describes Transilvanian Hunger today. “If you like that, a lot other black metal sounds really pleasant. A lot easier on the ear.”

When she was 22 years old, Amalie Bruun bought herself a one-way plane ticket to New York and started another life. It was the city’s rich and romantic musical history that drew her there: the poets, the punks, the freaks, the superstars. She arrived with no cellphone and nowhere to stay.  “I didn’t know what I was doing,” she says. “But that’s what New York is. You just go there and see what happens.”

She found a place to stay with friends of friends from back in Denmark, and walked all over the city, giving her demo CD to venues. “Just piano music,” is how she describes what she was doing. “Me singing little melodies.”

She played anywhere that would have her, in front of whatever crowds were there. “Oh, it wasn’t the cool people,” she says. “It was definitely uncool. But it was never about fame. I just wanted to go out and earn my stripes a little bit.”

In the early 2010s, she met guitarist and co-vocalist Brian Harding, and they put together Ex Cops. Based in oh-so-trendy Brooklyn and playing shoegaze-inflected alt-pop, they basically screamed ‘hipster’.

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She recoils at the suggestion. “I fucking hate that,” she says vehemently. “I hate the whole hipster thing.”

Ex Cops were ultimately small fish in a big indie rock pond – their main claim to fame was that their second album was executive-produced by Smashing Pumpkins major domo Billy Corgan. Amalie liked being in Ex Cops, but she liked the music industry a lot less. Or at least the part of it she where she found herself.

“I would be in the studio, working on ideas I had written and people would say, ‘Let’s just let Amalie get it out of her system,’” she says. “I was so offended by that. There were comments on what I would wear, whether or not I could have armpit hair in photos. It takes away your agency as a musician and as a woman.”

There were two Amalie Bruuns while she was living in New York. Or rather, there was one living two separate lives.

There was one Amalie Bruun who was making music with Ex Cops and dipping her toes into the world of modelling – she appeared, raven-haired, in a Chanel advert directed by the legendary Martin Scorsese – and, even more bizarrely, alongside 90s crooner Michael Bolton dressed as Forrest Gump in a video by spoof R’n’B group The Lonely Island (Bolton was dressed as Forrest Gump, not her).

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Then there was Amalie Bruun the black metal fan. She mentioned her love of the genre in Ex Cops interviews, even if she sounded almost apologetic about it. “I was,” she concedes. “People thought it was too weird.”

Few people picked up on the references anyway, let alone knew that she was quietly working on a project of her own in the shadows: Myrkur.

She had been writing folk melodies on the violin for years. Gradually she added more and more metal elements. Once in a while she dared play it to other people.

Eventually word reached underground metal stronghold Relapse Records, who released her self-titled debut mini-album in 2014. Back then her identity was a mystery: she was as much apparition as musician. “I wanted the music to speak for itself,” she says of her anonymity, as if it’s the most obvious thing ever.

But mysteries don’t stay mysterious for long these days. When someone joined the dots and uncovered her other life as one half of a trendy Brooklyn indie-pop band, the keyboard warriors went into swivel-eyed overdrive. She was a fake. A poser. Worse, a woman – one who’d dared gatecrash the testosterone-heavy sausage party that is the black metal scene.

“I was blissfully unaware of it,” she says of the negative attention she initially attracted. “Then it was, like, ‘Why am I being hated by people who don’t know me at all. At least get to know me.’” She shrugs. “It didn’t affect me much. I was there to play music, not fuck around with all that stuff.”

She has a theory: that people objected to the fact that she’d worked with Kris ‘Garm’ Rygg, frontman with former black metal avant-gardists Ulver. “Honestly, what really pissed off a lot of people in the beginning was that I did work with some of the Scandinavian black metal artists that they look up to. I think that was very annoying and provocative to that crowd.”

Not that she was a woman? She thinks carefully.

“I think it’s the fact that I didn’t follow the rules of how women in metal should behave. I’m not the first woman in metal, I just did it a little bit more my own way.”

Anyway, she says with a faint smile, she wasn’t above a little button-pushing herself.

“I was never deliberately provocative,” she begins. “But when I realised how little it took I did take a bit of pleasure in it. I knew that if you post a picture with Attila from Mayhem, then they’re just going to go off. But it’s not like I did that just to piss people off...”

If Mareridt silenced the haters, or some of them at least, then Folksange, with its absence of volume, will probably fire them up again. Amalie Bruun couldn’t care less if it does. She has more important concerns. Such as her new life, as the mother of Otto.

She’s not pretending that motherhood won’t impact on how she approaches her career. There will be no big world tours around Folkesange, for one. “You can’t pretend it doesn’t play into it as a woman. Maybe as a man, it’s different. I know a lot of metal musicians, they have kids and they continue the same life. That’s cool, but when you’re a mother you can’t do that. I want the two sides of my life to co-exist.”

Has she worked out how that will work?

“I don’t know yet how that works.”

Is she looking forward to it?

“It’s nerve-wracking.”

Is she worried?

“No, I’m not worried. I’m in control. It will be how I plan it to be.”

With perfect timing, the sound of a baby crying drifts from the back room. Amalie gets up and returns a few seconds later holding Otto, a tiny bundle of nine-week-old humanity.

It’s only then that you realise how unique Amalie Bruun, and Myrkur, is: not just a woman operating in such a male-dominated field, but a mother as well.

Before we leave her and her family, she says that she’s looking forward to following up Folksange with “another metal-style record with distorted guitars”. But for now that’s in the future. Another chapter, another life.

[hygge-musician]

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nickname // i don’t really have one :/

zodiac // taurus sun, aquarius moon

height // idk lol

last thing i searched // ‘cool stairways and bridges minecraft’ lol

favourite musicians // matt maltese, peach pit, chet baker, the beatles, bruno major

song stuck in my head // bad contestant - matt maltese

if you had a time machine, would you go back in time or visit the future // i’d probably visit the future bc i’d rather make sure that i eventually get to where i wanna be and learn how i’m going to get there

do i get asks // nope

amount of sleep // 9 hours

would you rather be rich or famous // rich

lucky number // 3 & 7

what i’m wearing // pjs babeyy

dream trip(s) // 1. the nordics (finland, denmark etc) 2. ireland & the uk, down to france, italy and greece

dream job // some sort of botanical illustrator? getting to work in a natural environment but with the addition of a creative task? ye

favourite food // paneer tikka masala, eggs benedict, warm buttered bread with pumpkin soup (i’m hungry now)

what are some of your favourite books/films/shows/games //

books - out of my mind • sharon draper

films - labyrinth, the goonies, la la land, psycho, any tarantino movie

shows - the office, adventure time, game of thrones, peaky blinders

games - i only really play minecraft

if you were an animal, what would you be // idk something that lives in the forest. some sort of small bastard.

play any instruments // baritone ukulele, a little guitar, i also sing i guess

languages // just english

describe yourself as an aesthetic // mossy stone walls, a candlelit bedroom, chamomile, deep greens & browns, oil on canvas, hanging plants, coffee scrubs, curly brown hair, cottage homes, hygge

tagging: @sawmise @head-garden2002 <3

[cloud-gays]

Phanfic Finder Fest! :D

so, i’ve really had so much fun with this fest, all the searching process was something i really didn’t do since i started reading fic back in 2016. i discovered so many good stories that really made me happy in so many ways! 

thanks to the phandom phanfic fests! this was an amazing idea! :D

i) musician au

Golden Dandelions by @mylionbabe!

my heart was so full of love after reading this one! is a short story but the way it flows is really amazing. a really sweet musician au, i’d love to read more about this universe! 

ii) pinof filming

Lioness by @phinalphantasy7!

gosh! there’s something i love so much about an outsider pov and this story just went and made me love it that so much more! the narration was just so lovely, following the amazing year of 2009. so sweet, everyone needs to read it! 

iii) snow

Pacing by @dan-howells-tongue!

this story had me crying of happiness! the interaction between dip and pip is just so sweet, and how the whole situation was narrated! gosh! so atmospheric! for a second there it was like i was there sitting with dan while it was snowing outside. oh, all my heart goes to this story!

iv) set in 2019

you’re the choice i’ll keep making by @maybeformepersonally!

the narration! the sentences of context in between! all of this story is just breathtaking! i love soulmate AUs, but this story is just the next level! a really sweet narration that shows how phil felt at their beggining of their whole relationship! a whole rollercoaster of emotions! a little look on how dip and pip have grown together along all this time! this story has everything! i loved it so much!

v) ft. an original character

Home For Good by @hygge!

oh! good good good! some good parent phan for the heart! kinda, is a good angsty story with some really amazing words that made a more amazing story! and a little good original character that made me cry at the end, to be honest this story made me cry in a really good way! 

vi) coffee shop (non-au)

at a coffee shop by @huphilpuffs!

you gotta love a review on how dip and pip had grown together all these ten years, and this story has this! has this growth story along coffee! oh so good, good for the heart! 

vii) blackpool

always having your hand to hold by @tobieallison!

young love! young love! you have to love a story about young love! i have to admit that i didn’t know anything about the whole thing with blackpool. and this story just shows how doesn’t matter the place, dip and pip have each other! oh my heart!

viii) song fic

missing words by @heartfeltfangirl! 

there is something so special about this to me. a little inside view into the machinations of dan’s mind in this weird time that was the start of 2018. it’s so beautifully narrated, and you can see! you can see all the thoughts and how you can get dragged by your own thoughts! also some sweet song that goes along to the story, amazing truly!

my friend was in a coma and all I got was this lousy t-shirt by @heartfeltfangirl!

i just had to put this story, too. this time we have a little inside view into phil’s mind and his fears. its so good and i cried a lot, in some way this story hits close to home for me. it’s so beautiful and offers so much comfort at the end. i love it a lot!

ix) supernatural elements

The cauldron of life by @TheOrangeAurora!

this story! my heart was just so full of sweetness at then end! i love stories full of magic and this was just so amazing and wonderful! an amazing narration about feelings and magic and amazing phils who want to meet lonely dans. so sweet! i love it so much! 

x) doing shots

Inebriation by @scifiphan!

there’s something i love a lot about this and it’s the playfullness! some dip and pip being drunk and high in the love for each other, just flirting and being playful with each other in such a place like they are in. its so sweet and great! 

[shiiimmer]

i kno tumblr doesn’t care much about non-american politics, but i’m sick of hearing the argument that Danes deny their racism because of the concept of “hygge” (est. translation, “coziness”) - basically that it wouldn’t be “cozy” to bring up social issues (i mean, i guess that’s true) - as if white Danes would ever just give up their privilege. it’s ahistorical and disrespectful to Black people and other people of color. the truth is: Black people never came to Denmark in large enough numbers to challenge the system. the only reason there’s even a conversation about racism in the U.S. is the organized efforts of Black Americans to develop a language of resistance. meanwhile, Denmark just floats by on vague, unchallenged white privilege (with a nice, social democratic face). this is why I am so excited by the music coming from a broad range of 2nd generation immigrant musicians, not only does it go so fkn hard, but they’re literally building Denmark’s first ethnic counterculture.

if ur interested, some solid examples are Fouli, MellemFingamuzik, Jamaika, Artigeardit, Kesi, NODE, Molo, Beko, AMAL, Omar, ZK, and Gilli (he’s white, but worth mentioning considering class position, where he grew up, as well as his incredible contribution to the scene)

feel free to add countercultural songs from your country (not the U.S., we all know ur songs already), i want to see more of this!! 

[amoveablejake]

My Five Key Songs of August 2021

The songs of the summer, or at least part of it. 

In my head autumn begins exactly on September 1st which means that this is our last key songs piece for the summer. Does that mean all of my choices are sun soaked Californian hits, well, I think we already know the answer to that from this person whose head always seems to be in fall. This past month has been a busy one filled with many adventures and events such as my move to a new city and my birthday so without further ado lets see if those escapades influenced the song choices for August 2021. 

First in the lineup for this month, ‘Wanted, Never Asked’ by Vetiver 

Although in my head ‘Wanted Never Asked’ is infact more of an autumn song (I know, its only taken the first track for me to go back to fall) it has been featuring quite a bit this last month. When I wrote the album of the week post for ‘Up On High’ which is where ‘Wanted Never Asked’ is from, I wrote how I couldn’t quite believe how long it took me to pull the trigger on getting the album after the amount of times I had listened to ‘Wanted, Never Asked’. And even though I have now had ‘Up On High’ on the roster for a little while I am still amazed that it did take me so long because this is a record that I immediately felt drawn to. ‘Wanted, Never Asked’ always makes my mind wander to driving through the mountains in Canada and on one drive in particular where it was incredibly sunny and warm. I was about to say that this is a song that will cast your memories with a rose tinted hue however, thats not strictly true. The memories on their own are already wonderful and ‘Wanted, Never Asked’ from the moment it begins to play can’t help but elevate them. 

Next up for the second choice is ‘Silver Roses’ by Rose City Band 

Sticking with my theme of songs that make me think of my time in Canada, the second track to feature this month is ‘Silver Roses’ by Rose City Band. As this was the album of the week for last week I won’t repeat myself here with my thoughts on what is a truly special album but instead I will talk a little bit more about ‘Silver Roses’ itself. This is a song that contains multitudes, it could as easily be a first dance at a wedding song as it could be the track that plays at someone’s funeral. It is haunting in its beauty and will draw you in completely. It is a track that forces you to listen to it. And yes, forces is quite an aggressive word and this is not an aggressive song but I’m going with forces there to highlight how strong the pull of this track is. This past month seems to have been one where I have found some songs that feel like they have wrapped themselves around me and won’t let go and with ‘Silver Roses’ I am not complaining at all. 

Coming in at number three ‘Shopping Spree’ by Dan Mason 

Whilst I am seemingly on a little hiatus from my vapourwave music at the moment, I would be a fool to not include this particular track from the ever alluring Dan Mason. When I found ‘Shopping Spree’ I had no idea that it was a song from Mason and when I found myself tapping along to it, feeling the music take over, I thought this sounds like it should be a song from the genius of Dan Mason and then I looked and well, I couldn’t help but smile. Its a song that makes me think that I’m somewhere cycling next to palm trees as the ocean breezes brushes past me. And when I say that I am taking a break from my vapourwave music and with it Dan Mason that isn’t a slight on the genre or the artist, far from it. At present its not what I’m drawn to however, Dan Mason does continue to circle my thoughts on who my artist of the year may be. And ‘Shopping Spree’ is yet another piece of evidence in the case thats building for him. 

Number four for this month is ‘Great Pumpkin Waltz’ by Vine Guaraldi 

First off, yes, I am fully aware that I have picked a song from the Peanuts Halloween special in my songs of August special. I know it and I am completely okay with it. More than okay in fact because ‘Great Pumpkin Waltz’continues to be one of my favourite songs around. Its bewitching in its simplicity and quiet beauty and playing on those themes how could it not completely charm me and set up camp quite comfortably in my heart and soul. I mentioned in the section above about ‘Shopping Spree’ that I am not drawn to vapourwave at present and that is because I have moved back to jazz music in a near complete way. Jazz has once again picked up the mantle of consuming my every thought as I am constantly diving to find those down tempo hits from the golden age of Blue Note. And whilst I am being completely consumed by jazz music it is only right that Guaraldi is at the centre of it all as he battles it out with Coltrane to be not only my favourite jazz musician but my favourite artist in general. And at the moment, it doesn’t look like a fair fight. 

And for the fifth track, the song of the month it is ‘Christmas Time Is Here Again’ by Vince Guaraldi

Yes, Guaraldi is featuring twice this month but quite frankly we should be impressed that he doesn’t take four or infact all five slots every month. On my birthday in 2020 I wrote about how the Charlie Brown Christmas album is a record for all year. Now I don’t bring that up because its true, although it absolutely is, I am bringing it up because on my birthday last year I wrote about Vince Guaraldi. On days of note we are drawn to what we hold dear and what we feel comfortable with. What is, oh I don’t know, able to provide us with a feeling of being hygge. It is therefore of no surprise that I yet again turned to Guaraldi as I do every single day and that is no exaggeration. His work continues to be the jewel in the crown of my records and on my roster and he more than deserves the song of the month for August and a place in the 2021 playlist. 

So there we have it, the five songs of the month for August. As I look at them now I can definitely see that they are mainly autumnal songs and perhaps more than anything that is because I can feel myself actually being close to my favourite time of the year. Like a flower about to bloom in spring, I am a leaf about to turn golden orange as I absorb that chilled autumnal air around me and my hands become even colder than usual. 

-Jake, a man trying to wrap his head around ‘Tenet’, 29/08/2021