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Popol Vuh and Malta
‘Krautrock’ band and frequent suppliers of soundscapes for Werner Herzog movies Popol Vuh are gradually becoming my ‘return to Malta’ soundtrack. Since I often take two or three weeks off in August to...
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Soundtrack to a speculative action scene
1. Your job is to try not to think of Dredd, but think of something more fragile and immersive. 2. We’re going deeper and wider, and the horror is closing in. 3. Running, jumping. But no fancy parkour....
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Ecstasy of influence: Bowie via Manson
I first got to know about Elmore Leonard through Quentin Tarantino – on that note, Tarantino introduced me to a whole raft of pop culture curios – and I started digging into Norse mythology after...
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Fleaing
Flea market, Birgu, Malta (2013) “The flea market ethos, like many countercultural values, paid its respects to a modernist notion of prelapsarian authenticity. In an age of plastic, authentic material...
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Witch
‘Witch’ by Goblin, composed for Dario Argento’s giallo classic Suspiria (1977) appears to have a compelling series of tributes – deliberate, direct or otherwise – in more recent songs. But I am not a...
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February Updates #3 | Awguri, Giovanni Bonello; Toni Erdmann; Brikkuni &...
Yep, I had said February was a wonderfully busy month for me, and it’s proven to be so right until the end. Awguri, Giovanni Bonello launch First off the ground is the most recent — the launch of...
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Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies | Short Fiction as Angry Pop Anthem
Still another warm Italian night, still not quite recovered from that woozy post-Worldcon feeling, but I had to jot down a few words about Brooke Bolander’s Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies; the...
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ENCORE – Issue 16 | Editorial
So, the sixteenth issue of ENCORE Magazine, which I have been editing since it’s eleventh edition, should soon be out and about in its designated pigeon-boxes across Malta and Gozo, after having...
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Easter Gothic | BILA, Camilla, Inheritance
Easter is approaching on this once-aggressively Catholic island, which is only marginally less so nowadays, as this snap I took a couple of days back gloriously, dramatically illustrates: Easter of...
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A Nostalgia Trigger From the Grotty Floating Hovel: Slipknot’s We Are Not...
So Slipknot have released a new album and it’s a winner, beating even Ed Sheeran in the charts and delivering a slice of post-nu-metal that satisfies this nostalgic punter on so, so many levels. But...
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