Does environment affect music taste?
Does environment affect music taste? I have been in Southern California for about a month. It is a sea change from Brooklyn, where I spent the past year. I live near the beach, in no danger of getting robbed, knifed, or otherwise menaced by neighbors. It is quiet, sunny, and rather un-metal here. As a...
Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
The Divinity of Oceans (Napalm, 2009) is a remarkable album about a remarkable subject: the sinking of the American whaleship Essex in 1820. (A book about the event inspired Moby Dick, which inspired Ahab‘s first album, The Call of the Wretched Sea, as well as Mastodon’s Leviathan.) After a whale rammed the ship and sank...