Category: Album

Synesthesia – the gift of seeing sound and hearing color – has long taken root in Parisian attics. The ultramarine of the night smells of damp iris, the crimson sunset responds with the melancholy of strings. The French cultural tradition of Debussy with his “Clouds” and the perfumery symphonies of the 20th century has accustomed…

“I will have children, and I will love them more than anything in the world… In their eyes I will be the smartest and the strongest person on earth,” – Holden Caulfield mused melancholically in Salinger. The rebel grasped the very essence: fatherhood is the only legal way for a cynic to become a superhero…

As old Keith Richards used to say: “Everyone has their own note. If you’ve found it – you’re a lucky one.” JD Kucharik not only found his note, he bought up the entire antique shop where those notes were stored, carefully wiped them with flannel, and arranged them on the shelves of his vintage studio.…

Night, in my view, is the best theatrical set in the world for those who prefer to hide faces but reveal feelings. In London (or somewhere in its foggy surroundings, if you believe the sparse biographical notes) a band appeared that understands this better than the others. Spiral Arms emerged – like a random glint on wet…

They say rock is dead. They say it for about forty years already – roughly since MTV started showing more advertising than music. Rock survived punk, grunge, Britpop, the Pro Tools era and the TikTok era. It survived everyone who wrote about its death. And here – with guitar slung over shoulder – Louis Emory…

“Not everyone will drink my rattling spring…” – once remarked Sayat-Nova, the great 18th-century ashugh. He admitted that his “rattling spring” would not be to everyone’s taste; he was hardly being disingenuous, since knowledge of three languages – Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani – gave him a hearing capable of catching the subtlest pauses and overtones…

What does a musician do when he finds meaning – and feels that he is losing it again? Bent Joshua recorded a whole album about this. We will be talking about Bent Joshua and his 2025 album “Keep The Faith.” The artist’s experience in the genre of spoken poetry proved very useful in creating this…

Hollywood spent a good half-century and several billion dollars to explain: Texas is not a place, it’s a diagnosis. Cowboys there are silent more eloquently than any monologue, sunsets last longer than the laws of physics allow, and love is either eternal or tragic – there is no third option. John Ford, Clint Eastwood, Wim…

Rome — a city where all roads converge. For centuries, this phrase has been more than a saying: it’s a principle etched into the very layout of the ancient road network, where thousands of kilometers of stone highways radiated outward from a single point. Rome has always been a place where paths begin — and…

On souvenir mugs in an airport shop I once saw an engraved inscription: “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” Rick Sichta, apparently, saw the same mug and took the advice with surgical seriousness. With a backpack on his back, he traveled to China, Tibet, and climbed Everest. The brainchild of…