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My friends Ben Cohen, Max Beirne-Shafer, and Justin Fossella who comprise my band Laszlo and the Hidden Strength have a label called Cultural Music. I think they only put out their own music. Itās the best thing thatās happening for music right now imo. All three of them are intensely good composers. In an age of incessant ~vibe~ I appreciate the textuality and distinctive narrative leanings of these efforts. Something soā¦I dunnoā¦cultural about it all.
Aug 11, 2022
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Only one album out rn (The Moviegoer), yes this is my husbandās music project! I play on it too now and more coming soon :))) if youāre in LA (or anywhere) keep an eye out on our instaā weāre playing more and more shows and some shows in NY and hopefully Manchester on the map too!!
āIntroducing a revisionist exotica for these timesā¦aquatic synths & drum machines, slide guitars & santoors, stray trumpets and accordion...ethno-industrial, dub, and samples from a fifty-year old suitcase of cassettes...
The major catalyst was a suitcase of twenty cassettes my father unearthed from his teenage years in Iran, recorded between 1972-1975, taping DJ monologues off the radio, lines of movie dialogue off the TV, radio plays, spoken word translations of European pop...
That made it a kind of excavation of a bygone time, a travelogue to a place accessed only through cultural artifact & collective memory. An imaginary soundtrack to a half-remembered movie from a faraway place.ā
Apr 30, 2024
I found this album the other day and it feels so sacred to me that I almost donāt want to share it with anyone, butā¦ā¦check it outā¦
Italian avant-garde ambient realness. Your ears need this!
singular! hidden gem! overlooked!
I have been pairing my listening with open windows so that the cicadasā songs in Tennessee are in harmony and it is bringing me so much peace.
May 12, 2024
More eaze's style on this album reminds me of classically trained musicians with a modern life, sometimes I think about how the daily life of musicians like Bach influenced their music, More eaze's music sounds like classical music, tinted with the buzz of an electronic lifestyle that we all willingly or unwillingly live, I love it
Jan 17, 2025
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This is a semi-secluded place in Prospect Park. Kind of like a secret garden energy. Very special place. I used to go here in high school with friends who lived in the area mostly to smoke weed. A lot of weed-smoking in the city has to do with trying to access some kind of pastoral fantasy in this wacky town. This is exactly that embodied. Itās like a pond overgrown with various plants, and then a strange little lawn adjacent to it, where a lot of dubious characters sort of skitter around in and out of view; it makes it all the more trippy. Still go here when I need a minute. I donāt smoke that much weed any more.
Aug 11, 2022
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Out of all the anonymous posters crawling around the internet I prefer my good friend @subwaysigns the most. All Iāll betray is his gender. I love his work very much. Following this page is not only a great opportunity to find and purchase some of the finest borrowed nostalgia; itās also an invaluable archive of New York Cityās transit design throughout the ages. Big ups to the homie for monetizing his passion.
Aug 11, 2022
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Whenever I tell my father that Iāve been running around the city he likes to ask me āwhat are you running from?ā Heās totally right. One should consider the deeper implications of their chosen exercise. Iām prone to escapism, and flight from discomfort, and running is like a transfiguration of that impulse. The goal is to get to the point where you feel like youāre running at something or someone instead of from. Hear me out: itās free, it promotes longevity, it rids one of the wiggles, and itās like a tour of the city in 2x speed. I encourage running in the street and dodging people and cars.
Aug 11, 2022