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Nothing is more sublime and innocent than nature and, different from the human behavior, the animals bring a mix of ignorance and subservience when in front of a photographic display. And this innocence provides a lovely result. That’s the purpose of the photographer Tim Flach.

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Musician of New Weird America scenery, Devendra Banhart is creating a new kind of folk: he allies psychedelia to traditional acoustic forms of making music, with six studio albums. He believes on Naturalism and Karma and search for inspiration in Brazil: he affirms himself influenced by the 1960s Tropicalismo and Caetano Veloso is his favorite artist.

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We’re driving on a highway / There’s a wide valley in front of us / The sun is shining with lightning rays... One of the main symbols of Germany, the Autobahns sang by the band Kraftwerk keep a little bit of the German history and of decisive moments for the modern Occident routes.

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If God or Gods or Angels or Devils could play a musical instrument, this would be, with no doubts, Theremin. It's an apotheosis revested by an ethereal sound, able to invade the body and break the soul into small pieces. It's magic. It's a musical instrument that can't be touched. Better: it's touched with no touch. The Theremin player, or the theremist, looks like... Read more

Listening about the decline of the nowadays pop music isn't a new thing. Superficial themes, musical weakness and sale care are the main arguments of those who defend this pessimistic way of thinking. The increasing decay of albums' sales also doesn't happen to get the whole picture better... But a voice shuts up the mouth of the critics. Not just the voice -- the... Read more

As promised and as a follow up to the article God is an Astronaut - Suicide by star, here is an interview with one of the members of the band, Niels Kinsella. Speculum: Seven years and four albums later, what has changed in the band, in the meantime? Neils Kinsella: To be honest, it has been eight years playing together, but each of us... Read more

Ireland is an extremely peculiar island. Land of literary greats, in the last thirty years, it has become the land of great music as well, just think of U2, one of the biggest bands of the last decades.... Read more

A mere mortal looks at sound equipment (the kind with exceptional quality and a matching price), with a mix of admiration and contempt. Admiration because, let's face it, a powerful amplifier or a set of electrostatic panel speakers are imposing and disdain because they can't find (or hear) such a big difference between them and the average equipment, at least not so much that... Read more