The definition of ambient music was clearly set out by one of its founding fathers and most prominent exponents, Brian Eno , who also coined the name. In 1978, when the celebrated Ambient 1 - Music for airports was released, he described his intention: to use the name ambient for music that could serve as an almost unnoticed background.
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The news of Kim Ki-Duk's death came completely unexpectedly on 11 December this year. It shook a great many people, myself and many dear friends who love his cinema and his art among them. His death is shrouded in a mysterious veil; it seems painted by his own hand, so solitary and rarefied does it appear. He arrived in Latvia on 20 November to buy a house ahead of a new film he was due to shoot, and literally disappeared, until a Latvian hospital announced his death from complications of COVID.
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Christmas isn't an easy time of year for many people, myself included. The festive, familial, playful, colourful atmosphere, with its good feelings all wrapped up and stacked beneath the tree, has always made me feel uncomfortable, even though over the years I've learned to live with it. Of course, in 2020 that atmosphere is felt less, for obvious reasons, but, for me at least, it doesn't change the recipe for surviving the Christmas season that I've put together over the years and that I'd like to share in today's pill.
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Accelerationism is a term from political philosophy, coined to describe a way of fighting the capitalist system by pushing its own characteristics to the extreme, rather than combating it with weapons turned against it. From the philosophical theory of Marcuse, who saw one of the greatest threats of the capitalist system in its ability to absorb every revolutionary form into its own logic, , accelerationism is based on the opposite principle.
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Suehiro Maruo is a Japanese comic artist, illustrator and painter whose surreal, poetic, grotesque and morbid language carries us into a reality where nightmare and dream merge, the attractive and the repulsive blend together, love and death find their union, and light and darkness play at chasing one another through stories that are moving and disturbing, yet always incredibly intense and emotional.
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Today more than ever it is essential to watch, or rewatch, Dogtooth, the 2009 masterpiece by Yorgos Lanthimos, which tells, without mincing words, the consequences of sacrificing individual freedom, culture and social relationships for the sake of an artificial security imposed from above, to protect oneself from a danger that is never clearly defined.
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Prurient is one of the faces of Dominick Fernow, a musician with extreme, violent, explosive sounds who, with an immense discography and a career begun at the age of 16, has changed forms and sounds, moving from almost unlistenable feedback-only records to the four-on-the-floor electronics of his project Vatican Shadow, without ever losing credibility and importance even in the darkest and most underground musical circles.
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Nicoletta Ceccoli is an artist who can transport you into the world of fairy tales and dreams through her illustrations, in which a magical, enchanted world comes to life, yet one that is also dark and melancholic, never predictable, always surprising and with a recognisable aesthetic.
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In Tras El Cristal, Augustin Villaronga's 1987 horror film, horror combined with a slow, composed aesthetic form leads to a deep conflict between language and content, between what is attractive and what is repellent, between what is beautiful and commonly considered good and what instead lies hidden within the human soul, capable of love and horror, of care and torture, of ethics and perversion.
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The first Black Pills article is meant as a tribute to the discovery of a fiercely avant-garde and irreverent musical and artistic current, the original industrial scene, through the controversial figure of Genesis P. Orridge, leader of seminal projects such as Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle and founder of TOPY.
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Alice Kundalini is passionate about everything that is, in some way, out of the ordinary: music, film, art. She is an electronic musician and a lover of non-conformist genres such as industrial, noise, power electronics and experimental electronica. Using synthesizers, samplers, pedals, effects and voice, she began her journey in this field in 2005.
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Roxy Lavish and the Suicide Cult will play at Cascina Bellaria on Saturday 16 June 2018: an all-Australian mix of psychedelia, garage and rock that would get even the grumpiest of your acquaintances dancing. While waiting for the concert, we asked them a few questions.
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