Cultural Synergy

Friday, 8 June 2018

A day in the life: Mark Rothko, #2

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Mark Rothko

White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) | 1950

Saturday, 2 June 2018

Stay Here / Accroche-Moi, by Oathbreaker | Live

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Oathbreaker

Tuesday, 29 May 2018

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

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John Coltrane | A Love Supreme

Original album, December 9, 1964:

Part 1: Acknowledgement
Part 2: Resolution
Part 3: Pursuance
Part 4: Psalm

Live at Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, July 26, 1965:

Introduction by André Francis
Acknowledgement
Resolution
Pursuance
Psalm

Studio sessions, December 9 and 10, 1964:

Resolution (Alternate take)
Resolution (Breakdown)
Acknowledgement (Alternate take)
Acknowledgement (Alternate take)

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme only once in own concert (1965)

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Saturday, 26 May 2018

Respire: these scars no longer hold us

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Respire

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Respire quote from Dénouement

"this record... is an attempt at closure. a reflection on a decade spent gasping underwater. a reflection on trauma, addiction, guilt... yet it is in practice of something else: a wanting to let go. to open up. to find within. to take back agency and reveal this wounded self untethered. to expel this haunting of our hearts... the corrosive rotting of the ego... the pain we lose ourselves in. this presence... these streets... these scars... no longer hold us. this record, this attempt at catharsis... is to let you know that if you’ve ever felt the sentiments expressed here, you’re not alone... we feel the same emptiness. wherever there is hurt, there is a chance for the reverse: connection. whenever you feel alone, remember that in this life, we are only alone when we isolate ourselves. when we let our pain possess us. poison us... to those living with this spectre, we see you... your trauma, your scars... are as valid to us as our own. we hope our effort to lay bare this framework helps to break the cycle of isolation. we will reach the light... together..."

Trauma unbinds me
Pages spill out
Flood,
Overtake

Everything
And anything

The ego sheds
Detachment now
A loss profound
A heart that tears will

Bleed, endless
Breathless, I fall

Help me up
Help me up.

I wish I could undo the
Years spent drowning this in dust.
I found the deafening silence so
Comforting.
I lost all I had
Back then
Back then
Back then.

Underneath all this,
A weak heart beats, still true.

Underneath always,
A fading light still burns.

I tried to believe it all,
Tried to keep faith that
This would end someday.

But still it comes crashing,
Still the pain resounds.
I’m lost and out of rope.

You’re more than this...
You’re more than the
Things you’ve done
This hate turned in
The loss profound
Detach,
Detach.

You’re more than this.
You’re more than this,
I promise.

Tuesday, 22 May 2018

A day in the life: Edvard Munch, #2

[Philadelphia Museum of Art]

Edvard Munch | The Kiss, 1895

Thursday, 17 May 2018

Leave me here and I'm born again

[Rui Oliveira Photospot]

Cult of Luna

Out of a secret longing
They know their way from here
Out of a growing dream
They follow the road we create

I see what I've cut behind me
Lost on the bottom you often found me there
False conscience is beyond me
Lost in the backwoods I lie open to you here
Just leave me here

These men are running hard
But you keep down your voices
Living only to judge heavy
All mysteries aside there was a truth outside

Leave me here and I'm born again
Leave me here in this void again
Now I am open left for dead
Just like salvation comes in the end

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