Monthly Archives: October 2010

Midlake’s The Courage Of Others

has become a compliment to AmYzTEkNozian sound system for a long while -probably one of the most frequently spinning records this year in this part of virtual cosmos. It’s laconic, melancholic and unassuming. And it’s so beautiful we declare it ours.

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Strange is a morality

For whatever one’s take on religion or ethics might be worth, AmYzTEkNoziA is actually a place full of Jeroen Anthonissen van Aken aesthetics, even purely for the sake of it. Go on, check out the slideshow, unfold the triptychs, absorb … Continue reading

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Music from Brian Eno, part 25th

Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams apparently lend a hand here and there but make no mistake: this is a Brian Eno record from beginning to end. It’s of the ambient things of his, so let’s call it Music For A … Continue reading

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the ocean, like the innocent?

Ok, so before November comes let’s start arguing. Where are the epic hymns of the twenty tens? Stop holding your breath, an end to anticipation could happen with this: The Besnard Lakes- like the ocean, like the innocent pt1&2.

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Killing Joke are loose again

There are of course the Four Horsemen but, till the apocalypse, as far as man knows there is no other foursome as potent as Killing Joke. Recently the original 4 have broken loose. Get to see them while you can, … Continue reading

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“Amalia, this word moved me”

Amália Rodrigues could arguably move any mountain the way she sang the words. Fado was but a means, the lady would have shined in any given genre, place, time. She is a dazzling star in the  AnYzTEkNoziAn sky and her … Continue reading

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What the #@*& is Joanna Newsom doing here?

Relax baby, she is only sampled, ok and a bit self-overdubbed too, for the Roots best track on their new album, Right On. Otherwise, we don’t want no poncy queenies faking fairies in AmYzTEkNoziA, this be told.

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