About six months after that trip, Edge began forming a band and recording his new music. This sort of atmosphere was influenced by the music he had heard in Morocco. Chrome's music contained a lot of atmosphere in the sound production, featuring three- and eight-note melodies, usually layered with an atonal drone backed by a rhythm section. In his head, he began putting a beat behind the music and started coming up with ideas for songs. While studying at the California Institute of the Arts, Edge became influenced in making unusual sounds this progressed after a trip to Morocco where he heard a lot of Arabic music. ( October 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭhrome was formed in 1975 by Damon Edge (real name Thomas Wisse: drums, vocals, synths, production) and Gary Spain (bass guitar, violin) in San Francisco. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. Edge died in 1995 subsequently, guitarist Helios Creed has revived the Chrome name for recordings and performances. They found little commercial success as part of San Francisco's 1970s music scene, but developed a cult following in the United Kingdom and Germany following the release of the LPs Alien Soundtracks (1977) and Half Machine Lip Moves (1979). They have been cited as forerunners of the 1980s industrial music boom. The group's raw sound blended elements of punk, psychedelia, and early industrial music, incorporating science-fiction themes, tape experimentation, distorted acid rock guitar, and electronic noise. Murakami’s 2017 novel isn’t hailed as his best, but so far I’m enjoying the author’s metafictional nods to a more often than not grueling creative process.Chrome is an American rock band founded in San Francisco in 1976 by musician Damon Edge and associated with the 1970s post-punk movement. He occupies a lonely house on a mountaintop, where reality bleeds with ancient Japanese legends, Germanic operas and, as Eric Margolis details, impersonal and bad sex. The book begins with a retrospective narrator, unsurprisingly male and middle-aged, who paints portraits for a living and appears to be struggling with a severe bout of artist’s block. Jessie Carbuttįollowing a months-long hiatus from the Haruki Murakami canon, I picked up my beautifully designed hardback edition of “Killing Commendatore,” a true mammoth, and was once again led into the celebrity writer’s semi-fantastical universe. Condensed until you’re tasting the most concentrated snapshots of a character’s life, emotions and thoughts, readers are stopped in their tracks by Mansfield’s uncanny ability to capture human experience with astonishing sharpness.
Great books are often referred to as “page-turners,” but this modernist’s short stories are so captivating because they often have the exact opposite effect. Amelie MarmenlindĪlthough there’s an overwhelming amount of new literature to discover in the world, Katherine Mansfield is one of those writers that I always seem to guiltily gravitate back towards. Filled with evocative descriptions, Miller’s brilliant portrait is a modern adaptation of classic mythology with a much-needed feminist touch. Crossing paths with well known figures like Odysseus, Circe tells us her story of rivalry, family intrigues and the reality of being a powerful woman in a world ruled by men. Yet as she discovers her true strength, the gods of Mount Olympus (including King Zeus himself) are overcome by fear. Pitied by her siblings for lacking qualities appropriate to someone of dignified lineage, Circe is lonely. Madeline Miller, in her second novel, introduces us to Circe, the daughter of Sungod Helios. After nearly 2,800 years of this troubling literary trend, stories which give prominence to female characters have begun to enter the thrilling, wonderful, yet tremendously patriarchal world of classics. Paul McInnesĪnyone familiar with Greek mythology will know that female characters often don’t receive adequate attention, aside from being the decorative property of men to whom they belong. It describes double lives, modern-day prostitution in Tokyo and, in some ways, resembles James Hogg’s sublime “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.” Wicked, wonderfully playful and devilish, “Grotesque” is one of the Japanese novels of our time. Her masterpiece, however, is 2007’s “Grotesque,” a story of jealousy, unrivaled beauty and murder. Her novels “Out” and “Real World” are spellbinding, violent and addictive. I’ve been mildly obsessed with the work of Natsuo Kirino for a while now.
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