A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. When we perceive […]
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Touring again. Guest appearances in Stockholm and Uppsala. Visiting our beautiful capital city, yours truly, of course, takes the opportunity to spend some time with my daughter who lives there. [Picture taken twenty-four years ago at our summer residence in the Karlskrona archipelago.]
I en tid när ljudrummet dränks i den kommersiella radions tyckmyckentrutade ordblaj och fullständigt intetsägande pubertalflamsande tjafs har många av oss mer eller mindre gett upp. Radion, som en gång i tiden var en källa till både vederkvickelse och reflexion har degenererat till en postmodern ytlighetsavgud. Men det finns ljus i mörkret! I programmet Text […]
. Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Neil Young, B. B. King, Mark Knopfler, Carlos Santana, … But greatest of them all — Jimi Hendrix.
. Cette chanson emblématique sortie en 1980, est l’un des plus grands succès de Pierre Bachelet, connu pour ses chansons sensibles et nostalgiques. Elle a ses longues mains de dentellièreÀ damner l’âme d’un VermeerCette silhouette vénitienneQuand elle se penche à ses persiennesCe geste je le sais par cœurPour moi c’est sûr, elle est d’ailleurs
Två av den svenska jazzens giganter — Nils Landgren och Jan Lundgren — höll konsert igår kväll på Palladium i Malmö. Bättre än så här blir det inte.
Hitting the road again! Making some special stops in Stockholm. The usual blog posts will be back before you know it.