The postman just brought a package of 5 Sussan Deyhim CDs. This pretty much defines my playlist for the rest of the day. Simply amazing stuff. There’s a nice package deal for 5 albums still up on her website… go for it!

“Not to know one’s true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing – a golem. And, indeed, this image, sickeningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies…”

As the year’s darkest hours are at hand, it is time to consult Janus about things gone and things to come. The Solstice provides a stopgap where one can rewind and fast-forward without much interference of background noise and other distractions. Quick reflections follow.

“Music has the ability to enrich the moment, to potentiate and dramatise the feelings of the individual, and sometimes to create channels of communication, exchanges of energy. It’s a form of communication, it’s a mutational form, which alters in relation to the listener’s being. The bottom line is that many artists don’t really know why [...]