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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

Conversation with Gareth Knight

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Daniel

Gareth Knight, an author of some forty books on a wide array of subjects following his training in Dion Fortune’s Society of the Inner Light, is now firmly established as one of the world’s foremost authorities on ritual magic, the … Continue reading →

Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, Recommended reads | Tagged alchemy, Andre Lebey, Anglo Saxon, Arthuriad, Arthurian Traditions, author, Bix Beiderbecke, C.S. Lewis, Caesar, Celtic, Charles Williams, Coleridge, Count Basie, Cretien de Troyes, Daniel Staniforth, Dion Fortune, Druids, esoteric, esotericism, Gareth Knight, Golden Dawn, Hawkwood College, History, Inklings, Interview, J.R.R. Tolkien, jazz, Jelly Roll Morton, Kathleen Raine, Literature, Longmans, Magic, Magical Harmonics, Magick, mediaeval, Medieval, Melusine of Lusignan, music, mystical texts, Occult, Occult bookshops, occultism, Owen Barfield, Oxford Inklings, poetry, practical guide to qabalistic symbolism, qabala, Qabalah, Rebecca Wilby, Romantic Poets, Skylight Press, Society of the Inner Light, Stan Kenton, tarot, Theolonious Monk, vercingetorix, Victorian Poets, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, Writer tips | 1 Comment

What Skylight Authors are Reading

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Daniel

It’s always fascinating to see what writers read, where they find sustenance and inspiration for their own work. A few Skylight authors have graciously agreed to let us in on what they are currently reading, whether for guilty pleasure or … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads | Tagged 13th Century, Alan Richardson, Aldous Huxley, Alex Owen, Allen Mandelbaum, Andre Lebey, Andrew Joron, Andrew Loog Oldham, Anna Lanyon, Antonio Tabucchi, Antony Beevor, Apollinaire, Arthuriad, Arthurian Legends, Aztec, Bachelard, Barbara Pym, Bin Ramke, Bolano, Bombay, books., Borges, Brian Lucas, British Literature, Celtic, Celtic Myth, Cesar Vallejo, China Mieville, Chris Daniels, Chris Hill, Christopher Middleton, Ciaran Carson, Clark Coolidge, conquest of gaul, Creole, Daniel Staniforth, Dante, David Mitchell, Dean Radin, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Dion Fortune, Divine Comedy, Druids, Elaine Pagels, Eleni Stecopoulous, Elizabeth Robinson, Emily Toder, faery, Faery Lore, feminism, French, G. M. Fraser, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Galahad, Gareth Knight, Garry Craig Powell, Gaul, Gawain, George Devine, Gettysburg, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Gordon Strong, Grail Hallows, Greek Mythology, H.L. Mencken, Hindu, holy grail, Hugh Fox, imminent publication, Indonesia, irish, Jack Collom, Jack Schaeffer, Jeet Thayil, John Matthews, John Sakkis, John Woodhouse, Joseph Noble, julius caesar, Julius Ceasar, Karen Ralls, Kathleen Raine, Kirk Marshall, Laird Hunt, Latin America, Leonora Carrington, Lissa Wolsak, Literature, Longinus, Lucretius, Margaret Randall, Maya, Mayan History, mediaeval, Medieval, Melusine, Mexico, Michael Crichton, Michael D. Coe, Michael Flatt, Michael Ladeen, Michael Palma, Modernism, Moon Magic, Murakami, Murilo Mendez, music, Nicholas Kilmer, Nicholas Rawson, Noah Eli Gordon, Normandi Ellis, Occult, Oscar Lewis, Pablo Neruda, Perceval, Peter Akroyd, Portugal, Pre-Reconstruction, R.J. Stewart, R.S. Loomis, Rebecca Seiferle, Rebecca Wilby, Richard Froude, Ricoeur, Rikki Ducornet, rite of pan, Robert Kloss, Roberto Calasso, Roman, Romance, Rupert Copping, Rushdie, Sam Thompson, Samuel Beckett, Sea Priestess, Seth Landman, Skylight Press, Sonali Deraniyagala, Spanish, SpringGun Press, Steven Johnson, T.A. Jenkins, Taiye Selasi, Templars, Tennyson, Terence McKenna, Thailand, vercingetorix, Victorian, W.A. Nitze, Welsh, William Blake, William Carlos Williams, William Pitt Root, Wings Press, World War Two | Leave a comment

Antiphonal Airs by Joseph Noble

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Daniel

sound remembered beneath the sound board within the fingers recognizable and strange at the rim of summoning and leaving Antiphonal Airs is a mixilating series of poems from poet-musician Joseph Noble. Some are improvisational riffs on specific composers, their lives … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads | Tagged American literature, American Poetry, Andrew Joron, avant garde, Baroque, Bay Area Poetry, classical, classical music, Cloud Shepherd, composers, David Meltzer, early music, Edgar Varese, Elizabeth Robinson, Experimental Music, Experimental poetry, Haydn, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Italian Baroque, Italian Composers, jazz, John Adams, Joseph Noble, Literature, Lyrical Poetry, Monody, music, Ornette Coleman, Orpheus and Eurydice, poetry, Polyphony, Riddle, San Francisco Poetry, Seconda Practica, Songs, Sonnet, Theolonius Monk | 1 Comment

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

Paint Your Teeth – Event with Kirk Marshall

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Daniel

Kirk Marshall will be delivering a (suggestibly bilingual) “spoken-word” performance at Paint Your Teeth vol. #18 in Tokyo, on December the 8th — a live Japanese event celebrating experimental literature, music and dance — on behalf of “Red Leaves / 紅葉” … Continue reading →

Posted in Australian Literature, Literature | Tagged arts, Australian literature, Barom One, entertainment, experimental literature, fiction, hibino, Hiroyuki Hibino, Japan, Japanese event, Kirk Marshall, Literary event, Literary Journal, music, novel, Paint Your Teeth, red leaves, Red Leaves Journal, Satsujin pet sounds, spoken word performance, Takahashi Hideki, Team Donut Lolita, Tokyo, Tokyo Marry Band, video | Leave a comment

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

Tag Archives: music

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

Conversation with Gareth Knight

What Skylight Authors are Reading

Dead Can Dance and the Neoclassical Darkwave Legacy

Paint Your Teeth – Event with Kirk Marshall

How Much is My Strad Worth?

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