MEMORA8ILIA
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Before he was a member of Propaganda (as well as in-between dual stints in Die Krupps), Ralph Dorper recorded and self-released a tribute to the film Eraserhead.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/07/02/before-he-was-a-member-of-propaganda-as-well-as/
“Poolside” is a chiming and pretty song from Tomotsugu Nakamura, the first preview of his forthcoming album on the terrific LAAPS imprint. Repeated plays will undoubtedly calm nerves.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/06/27/tomotsugu-nakamura-poolside-poolside-is-a/
A spacious new song from New Zealand’s Motte that’s giving me palpable Hugo Largo vibes.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/06/23/ba-da-bing-records-only-i-a-spacious-new-song/
❝ As self-described ‘super fans’ of the German uber-group, David and Jennifer at first happily embraced getting tangled in the mythos of Kraftwerk. Now they unashamedly encourage and propagate it. If this were one of those movie ‘expanded universes,’ you’d have to now refer to their contributions to the Kraftwerk story as canon. ❞ *
Radioactivities: The Life and Times of Mr. and Mrs. Kraftwerk
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/06/20/radioactivities-the-life-and-times-of-mr-and/
Song of my father: On the Trans-Europe Express to India
❝ At his funeral, confronting this furious emotional disquiet, attempting to fill the blanks in the tabula rasa of my father’s early life, I found the tracks that led to a hall of mirrors. The details of his life and mine, separated by a generation but united by a similar yearning. They were on a tattered vinyl record, one of his few remaining possessions: Kraftwerk’s 1977 album Trans-Europe Express. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/06/19/song-of-my-father-on-the-trans-europe-express-to/