Tag Archives: ambient

Joseph Noble on Skylight Press

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Daniel

The Bay Area has always been a hot-bed for experimental poetry, from the Beats and the famous Six Gallery reading to Ferlinghetti’s City Lights enclave to the San Francisco Renaissance that yielded such poetic powers as Rexroth, Duncan, Spicer and … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, Poetry | Tagged ambient, American literature, American Poetry, Andrew Joron, avant garde, Bay Area, Bay Area Poetry Scene, books., Brian Lucas, City Lights Bookstore, classical music, Cloud Shepherd, Drone, Experimental Music, Experimental poetry, jack Spicer, Joseph Noble, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Laynie Brown, Literature, music, poetry, Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, San Francisco, San Francisco Renaissance, Spoken Word, US Poetry, Will Alexander | 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

The RUINS poemscape video featuring poetry by Margaret Randall

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Daniel

Last year Skylight Press was privileged to publish a collection of poetry by the esteemed poet, Margaret Randall, called Something’s Wrong with the Cornfields. Soon after, another poetry collection was published by University of New Mexico Press for their … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, Poetry | Tagged Alchymical Muse, ambient, American History, American literature, American Poetry, Architecture, Audio-visual, books., classical music, Daniel Staniforth, Film, Literature, Luna Trick, Margaret Randall, New Mexico, Orchestral, poemscape, poetry, Pueblo, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Ruins, Soundtrack, Spoken language, video | Leave a comment

The Singularity of Whirring Vinyl Joy

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Daniel

Ah the joy of collecting vinyl… the crackles and pops while you scan through ghost-written liner notes only four record nerds in the entire universe have read in totality… that non-compressed precision in an oh-so-slightly humped side one… where horns … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays, Recommended reads, Uncategorized | Tagged afro celt, alternative music, ambient, classical music, elgar concerto, indie music, jacqueline du pre, jazz, jumble sales, LP, music, musicology, new age, rare bootlegs, record, record collecting, record collections, sir john barbirolli, thrift shops, vinyl, vinyl audiophile | 1 Comment

Skylight Authors team up on RUINS CD…

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Daniel

Daniel Staniforth and Rebsie Fairholm present ‘sonic poemscape’ readings from Margaret Randall’s new book of poetry, RUINS (University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0826350671). The music features original compositions as well as Daniel and Rebsie’s arrangements of traditional melodies. About … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, Poetry | Tagged Alchymical Muse, ambient, CD, classical, Daniel Staniforth, folk, Luna Trick, Margaret Randall, music, New Mexico, peublo, poemscape, poetry, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Skylight Press, University of New Mexico Press | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: ambient

Dead Can Dance and the Neoclassical Darkwave Legacy

The RUINS poemscape video featuring poetry by Margaret Randall

The Singularity of Whirring Vinyl Joy

Skylight Authors team up on RUINS CD…

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