Category Archives: Music

Darryl Sloan on Skylight Press

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Daniel

It has been a while since we presented a new author to the wider public so it is a great thrill and privilege to introduce Darryl Sloan – an author, musician, technician, and all around thespian who has developed quite … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Essays, Literary Criticism, Music, New authors, New books, Recommended reads, Reviews, Uncategorized | Tagged Agnosticism, Art, atheism, British, Buddhism, Christianity, Computer Programming, Darryl Sloan, Education, esoteric, fiction, Horror Movies, I Universe, irish, Magic, New authors, New books, Northern Ireland, Occult, philosophy, Protestant, Psychokinesis, Religion, Satanism, Science, Skylight Press, spirituality, Telekinesis, Ulster, Video Games, writing, Youtube | Leave a comment

A Chest of Viols: A Brief Introduction to English Viol Consort Music

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Daniel

As a cellist and guitarist I have always thought the perfect instrument to be the Viola da Gama, a gut-fretted instrument tuned like a guitar but played like a cello. As with most aficionados my introduction to the instrument came … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Uncategorized | Tagged 15th Century, 16th Century, Britain, Christopher Tye, classical, classical music, Elizabeth I, Elizabethan, England, English history, Fretwork, Henry VIII, John Jenkins, Matthew Locke, music, Orlando Gibbons, Renaissance, Tudor, Viol, Viol Consort, Viola da Gamba, William Byrd, WIlliam Lawes | Leave a comment

My Ongoing Obsession with the Bach Cello Suites

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Daniel

At the tail end of 2014 I came across a book I had been previously been unaware of at a library liquidation sale and bought it for less than the price of a cup of coffee. That the book aroused … Continue reading →

Posted in British History, Essays, Music, Recommended reads, Reviews | Tagged alchemy, Anner Bylsma, Bach, Bach Cello Suites, Baroque, Catalan, cello, Cello Suites, classical music, Composer, Compositions, double bass, Elgar, Eric Siblin, German Composer, German Music, guitar, Heinrich Schiff, Hungary, J.S. Bach, jacqueline du pre, János Starker, Mischa Maisky, Mstislav Rostropovich, music, Nature, Pablo Casals, Paolo Pandolfo, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Fournier, Pieter Wispelwey, Ralph Kirshbaum, Shakespeare, Spain, Steven Isserlis, Suites for solo cello, The Cello Suites, Truls Mork, viola, Viola da Gamba, xylophone, Yo Yo Ma | 4 Comments

Michael S. Judge on Skylight Press

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Daniel

Michael S. Judge was born in 1987 in Kansas City, MO. He grew up in an Irish Catholic enclave in Kansas City, MO and was taught and terrified by Jesuits, much as per Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist as a … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, Music, New authors, Poetry | Tagged American fiction, American literature, American Poetry, arts, Charles Baudelaire, Dalkey Archive, Dante, Divine Comedy, Djuna Barnes, Egypt, experimental literature, Ezra Pound, fiction, Fugue State, iain sinclair, indie music, James Joyce, Kansas City, Literature, Michael S. Judge, music, Nerve Institute, novel, Perdue University, poetry, Prog-Sphere, Sinthome, Skylight Press, Surrealism, T.S. Eliot, Texas, Thomas Pynchon, William Blake | Leave a comment

Dead Can Dance and the Neoclassical Darkwave Legacy

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Daniel

Thank heavens they’re back! After a 16 year hiatus Dead Can Dance reformed to put out a new album called Anastasis, which although does not quite reach the heights of Spleen and Ideal, The Serpent’s Egg, or Aion, is still … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Reviews, Uncategorized | Tagged 4AD, Aion, Alchymical Muse, All My Faith Lost, Amber Asylum, ambient, Anastasis, Anathema, Angels of Venice, Arabic, Arborea, Arcana, Artesia, Ashram, Ataraxia, Autumn Tears, Autumn’s Grey Solace, Aythis, Azam Ali, Bacio di Tosca, bagpipe, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Blur, Brendan Perry, Breton, Brian Eno, British Folk, Bulgaria, Bulgarian, Byzantine, Camerata Mediovalo, Carter Tutti, Celtic, Chandeen, Chaostar, Chris & Cosey, cittern, Cocteau Twins, Collection d’Arnell Andrea, Corde Oblique, Cornish, Corvus Corax, Cye Wood, Daargard, Damon Albarn, Daniel Staniforth, Dead Can Dance, Delayaman, Diary of Dreams, Die Verbannten Kinder Evas, Dracula, Dunkelschön, Elend, English, Ensemble Orphique, Estampie, Fable, Faun, Finnish, flute, folk, French Provençal, Gaelic, Galician-Portuguese, German, German Folk, Gladiator, Gorillaz, Goth, Gothic, Gregorian Chant, Halgalz’ Runedance, harp, Hedningarna, Hindi, hurdy gurdy, In the Nursery, Indian, Irfan, John Renbourn, Judeo-Spanish, Karda Estra, Klaus Schultz, Latin, Lisa Gerrard, Love is Colder than Death, Love Spirals Downwards, Loveliescrushing, Luna Trick, Madrigals, Manx, Marcello de Francisci, mediaeval, Mediaeval Baebes, Mediavolo, Medieval, Mediterranean, Mirablis, Miranda Sex Garden, Mors Syphilitica, music, Myth, Narsilion, Negradonna, neo-celtic, Neoclassical Darkwave, Neoclassicism, Niyaz, Noise, North Africa, Nox Arcana, Omnia, Ophelia’s Dream, Orchestral, Ordo Funebris, Otto Dix, pagan, Patrick Cassidy, Pentangle, Persephone, Persia, Persian, Peter Ulrich, Pieter Bourke, Plainsong, Poeta Magica, Projekt Records, Qntal, Ranja, Rebsie Fairholm, Renaissance, Schandmaul, Sephardic, Sieben, Soap&Skin, Sopor Aeternus, Spleen and ideal, Stellamara, Stille Volk, sToa, Symphonic, Tehni, the Balkans, the Caucasus, The Frozen Autumn, The Moon and the Nightspirit, The Serpent's Egg, This Ascension, This Mortal Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Tinkerscuss, Trance to the Sun, Triskillian, Trobar de Morte, Ulver, Unto Ashes, Valravn, Vas, Victorian Gothic, Welsh. Circulus, Whalerider, Within the realm of a dying sun | 2 Comments

A Review of Dr. Dee: An English Opera

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Daniel

I have always been fascinated by the Welsh mathematician, scientist, astrologer, occultist, astronomer, navigator, and angelologist – Dr. John Dee – and finally got around to listening to Dr. Dee: An English Opera by former Blur, Gorillaz, The Good the … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Music, Reviews | Tagged Alan Moore, Album review, Angels, Astrology, Astronomy, Blur, British History, Damon Albarn, dr john dee, Dr. Dee, Elizabethan, English history, English Opera, folk, Gorillaz, hermeticism, John Dee, Magic, Magus, Manchester, Manchester International Festival, Occult, Opera, Palace Theatre, period music, Psyche Folk, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Virgin Records | Leave a comment

Faery Loves & Faery Lais: A Collection of Breton Lais as told by Gareth Knight

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Daniel

“The Breton lai is a relatively short narrative poem, usually accompanied by music, that appeared in France some time about the middle of the 12th century, spread by travelling musicians and story tellers called ‘jongleurs.’ What we find important about … Continue reading →

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How Much is My Strad Worth?

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Daniel

Back in the days when I worked in a luthier’s shop selling and restoring violin family instruments there was an oft occurrence. About once or twice a week someone would come into the shop positively beaming and bearing and old … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays, Music, Recommended reads, Uncategorized | Tagged Amati, antonio Stradivari, cello, Cremona, cremonese violin, Giegenmacher, Guarneri, Guarneri del Gesu, instruments, italian violin, jacqueline du pre, luthery, luthier, Mantua, Mittenwald, Mstislav Rostropovic, music, Nicolo Amati, Strad, Stradivarius, stradivarius violin, stringed instruments, strings, Venice, violin, violin case, violin family instruments, violin maker, Yo Yo Ma | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Music

Darryl Sloan on Skylight Press

A Chest of Viols: A Brief Introduction to English Viol Consort Music

My Ongoing Obsession with the Bach Cello Suites

Michael S. Judge on Skylight Press

Dead Can Dance and the Neoclassical Darkwave Legacy

A Review of Dr. Dee: An English Opera

Faery Loves & Faery Lais: A Collection of Breton Lais as told by Gareth Knight

How Much is My Strad Worth?

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