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P I N T O T O N I C S n + 1 edition January 8 2018 Huis de Pinto St Antoniebreestraat 69 1011 HB Amsterdam (020) 3700210 > reservation recommended www.huisdepinto.nl www.presentsoundsamsterdam.nl 20:00 doors open 20:30 start 1st set 23:00 end of event Entrance 10 + 7 (students/cjp) SET 1 > SOLO ‘SOLAMENTE Ig Henneman/viola Intermission SET 1 > ENSEMBLE Mirko Montaldi Ensemble & the ‘Erik…

[Music] A.M Ferrari Fradejas – Requiem No. 2

//bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=2577580355/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/We’re treated to the year’s first Bandcamp surprise, thanks to our beloved friend A.M Ferrari Fradejas, currently based in Barcelona, Spain. Despite its 13-minute length, the composition packs a lot of time changes, churning guitars, an eerie choral section reminding one of a solstice ritual melded with her…

We at A Miscellany Of Tasteful…, along with our side projects The Hip Priest, A Garden Of Earthly Delights, the Carrera-Linn Cultural Exchange and RudyCarrera.com, wish you all the best for 2018, and we thank you very much for your patronage. We look forward to bringing you the best in tasteful music, film, books, art and interviews in the coming year, and are always happy to receive…

[Music] King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland

//bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=1017207616/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard cross all sorts of genres so heavily that they are nearly impossible to categorize. The band move around easily in alternative music, psychedelic rock, prog, surf (not as weird as it sounds, to be honest) and garage rock. This album is a freebie, and, as it turns…

[Music] Karolina Ossowska & Jeff Gburek – The Falls of Hyperion

//bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=249526150/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/package=1317653078/The incredibly prolific Jeff Gburek, currently based in Poland and partnering with violinist Karolina Ossowska, put together their latest labor of love, and though I don’t normally engage in Top-Ten lists for year’s end, I think it fair to say that this release is his most beautifully…

[Music] Percival Elliott – Forever

Percival Elliott isn’t the name of a musician, but a friendship. Two musicians, Olly Hite and Samuel Carter-Brazier, paired to make a deeply touching indie-folk sound which reminds me of the best of artists like Jeff Buckley (may his memory be eternal). If you’re curious about following their exploits, consider “liking” their Facebook or Twitter feeds.

[Music] Various Artists – Z Tapes Sampler 2017

//bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=322134426/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/package=245640045/For many years, I gave up bothering listening to what was laughably termed “alternative” music. That was because it was pretty much the same boring swill that major labels were serving up, and I have far better things to waste my time and money on. Thankfully, Slovakian record label Z Tapes…

[Literature] C. S. Lewis – The Turn Of The Tide

A pleasant treat courtesy of C. S. Lewis and the good monk who provided this timely quote, Richard Huggins. Breathless was the air over Bethlehem. Black and bare Were the fields; hard as granite the clods; Hedges stiff with ice; the sedge in the vice Of the pool, like pointed iron rods. And the deathly stillness spread from Bethlehem. It was shed Wider each moment on the land; Through rampart and…