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Vision Of Darkness Vol. II by Various Artists

Visions Of Darkness in Iranian Contemporary Music Vol. II

❝ … further confirmation of the creative richness and variety of musical languages that flourished in the Persian land. In spite of the title, this second volume of the legendary anthology also gives us a broad picture of the musical experience of the Iranian underground that is not limited to the dark ambient, but explores sonic territories that reach concrete music, electro-acoustic experimentation and sonic abstractionism. Persia, the cradle of a millenary culture, is teeming with young talents who continue their musical research with enthusiasm, pride and self-denial in the territories of drone music, as in electronic experimentalism and in the contamination of genres. ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/07/12/unexplained-sounds-group-koohestan-visions-of/

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John Miller Dress Rehearsal for the Revolution, 2019

❝ For Dress Rehearsal for the Revolution, Miller configured a mannequin school of rock, deadpan and frozen in a state of detached contemplation. Read together, the ensemble prompts questions about youth culture as a projection screen for hopes of societal renewal. How might one reconcile this optimism with the realities of nine-to-five conformism and corporate ownership of labor? ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/07/12/john-miller-dress-rehearsal-for-the-revolution/

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❝ With Return of the Prodigal Son, [director Evald] Schorm’s apparent risk was not so much that he took his story so far over the edge of believability that he needed to apologize in advance to his audience, but almost precisely the opposite. His trenchant portrayal of the numbing effect of life in contemporary Czechoslovakia, and his lead character’s indifference to the rewards of success that his society offered, was simply too devastatingly accurate, and potentially contagious, if its message were allowed to disseminate without some form of official reprimand hanging over it. Perhaps it was Schorm himself who provided the dismissive foreword, in order to get the censors to back off a bit, after he saw the fate of Daisies and A Report on the Party and Guests when they were both mothballed by government officials immediately upon completion. ❞ *

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Návrat ztraceného syna | celý film | Česká filmová klasika

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/07/08/navrat-ztraceneho-syna-cely-film-ceska-filmova/