Nightlight

 

New York based band Suss released their first album Ghost Box in 2018 and they called their sound ambient country music. I had no idea what this could sound like but I was fascinated by their songs from the first time. The closest description was Brian Eno joins Ennio Morricone for making a new soundtrack for a spaghetti western. During the last year I played this record often when I would like to come down and relax. Now Suss released their third album Promise and their sound moved more to a nocturnal journey closer to space music while also having a sort of psychedelic undercurrent. Loops and light beats are sometimes present, but the music largely feels unbound by rhythm and free to drift away in wide-open spaces. Sometimes I think this could be an alternative soundtrack to Paris, Texas and I enjoyed this record much but I fear that Suss will be a best hidden secret still.

Je suis Paris

Can't believe the pictures in the new today about what happened in Paris yesterday. This terrorism makes me speechless and I ask myself when it will come to my town. I remember a poem that was written close to the attack at Charlie Hebdo:

You can destroy people probably,

but truth will remain to us,

will do our job

and for ever further write.

Fundamentalists believe,

the fact that her action is important,

if one can rob then of the freedom

or is it the silly help shout?

One can never break freedom,

why try it?

With words we will take revenge

and curse your cowardly action.

No music can be adequate to what's happened.