Dr Hugo Fagandini
@sonetlumiere.bsky.social
PhD on Krautrock in the New German Cinema. Lover of films and music of all kinds. Collector and occasional reader of books. Writings on film music @ sonetlumiereblog.wordpress.com.
Mystery solved - there was me thinking that Echoes had dissolved into light again...
www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2563607...
www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2563607...
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Mystery solved - there was me thinking that Echoes had dissolved into light again...
www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2563607...
www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2563607...
She will probably be remembered for one or two certain things, but I watched "Hobson's Choice" for the first time a short while back and thinking she was incredibly assured in what was one of, if not her first major film role. RIP.
October 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
She will probably be remembered for one or two certain things, but I watched "Hobson's Choice" for the first time a short while back and thinking she was incredibly assured in what was one of, if not her first major film role. RIP.
Interesting how this MI6 promo opens literally with the SIS Building at Vauxhall in a crosshairs - is it that no one remembers the rocket launcher attack in 2000, or are they just riffing on it...?
www.linkedin.com/posts/foreig...
www.linkedin.com/posts/foreig...
September 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Interesting how this MI6 promo opens literally with the SIS Building at Vauxhall in a crosshairs - is it that no one remembers the rocket launcher attack in 2000, or are they just riffing on it...?
www.linkedin.com/posts/foreig...
www.linkedin.com/posts/foreig...
It's actually a little spooky rereading Roszak's foreword to the 1995 edition and seeing so much foreshadowing of what we're now experiencing 30 years later, indeed as it was seemingly happening back then all in plain sight:
September 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It's actually a little spooky rereading Roszak's foreword to the 1995 edition and seeing so much foreshadowing of what we're now experiencing 30 years later, indeed as it was seemingly happening back then all in plain sight:
I was reminded seeing this post (and I admit, I did read the article and thus contribute to the algorithm) of Theodore Roszak's comments on talk radio in "The Making of a Counterculture" as simultaneously democratising and disempowering as a false means of "protest" enabled by late capitalism:
September 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I was reminded seeing this post (and I admit, I did read the article and thus contribute to the algorithm) of Theodore Roszak's comments on talk radio in "The Making of a Counterculture" as simultaneously democratising and disempowering as a false means of "protest" enabled by late capitalism:
On this, only the latest of sombre anniversaries this year, let's leave aside for a day the arguments over right or wrong, and consider the objective human cost.
Let's leave today for the victims - then and afterwards - and for the "hibakusha" whose suffering continued long after their survival.
Let's leave today for the victims - then and afterwards - and for the "hibakusha" whose suffering continued long after their survival.
August 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
On this, only the latest of sombre anniversaries this year, let's leave aside for a day the arguments over right or wrong, and consider the objective human cost.
Let's leave today for the victims - then and afterwards - and for the "hibakusha" whose suffering continued long after their survival.
Let's leave today for the victims - then and afterwards - and for the "hibakusha" whose suffering continued long after their survival.
Is it the composition in general (which is magnificent in its own right), or is it the choice of an 1. FC Koln shirt specifically...?
May 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Is it the composition in general (which is magnificent in its own right), or is it the choice of an 1. FC Koln shirt specifically...?
Eerie - it appears the East German postal service predicted a vital sensation 47 years in advance!
May 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Eerie - it appears the East German postal service predicted a vital sensation 47 years in advance!
I've been thinking about John Heartfield a lot recently, and how a) the politics behind his montage art is no less relevant today, and b) his art - with actual scissors, paper etc to turn pre-existing materials against themselves - is a perfect riposte and antidote in our current age of #AIslop.
April 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I've been thinking about John Heartfield a lot recently, and how a) the politics behind his montage art is no less relevant today, and b) his art - with actual scissors, paper etc to turn pre-existing materials against themselves - is a perfect riposte and antidote in our current age of #AIslop.
Thoroughly recommend the #Resistance exhibition at Turner Contemporary if you find yourself at a loose end in Margate: informative and thought-provoking, and a reminder of how protest movements can both flow and ebb (see image) but also be extremely powerful flashpoints that bring people together.
April 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Thoroughly recommend the #Resistance exhibition at Turner Contemporary if you find yourself at a loose end in Margate: informative and thought-provoking, and a reminder of how protest movements can both flow and ebb (see image) but also be extremely powerful flashpoints that bring people together.
I've enjoyed reading many German novels (and aware he's not everyone's cup of tea) but Hesse is probably the *author* I enjoy reading most.
Maybe it's the language or the rhythm or the world-building, but I find his work to have an absorbing, lulling, almost meditative quality.
#ShoutOutForGerman
Maybe it's the language or the rhythm or the world-building, but I find his work to have an absorbing, lulling, almost meditative quality.
#ShoutOutForGerman
March 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I've enjoyed reading many German novels (and aware he's not everyone's cup of tea) but Hesse is probably the *author* I enjoy reading most.
Maybe it's the language or the rhythm or the world-building, but I find his work to have an absorbing, lulling, almost meditative quality.
#ShoutOutForGerman
Maybe it's the language or the rhythm or the world-building, but I find his work to have an absorbing, lulling, almost meditative quality.
#ShoutOutForGerman
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
March 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
It's been years since I last watched it, and I'm still trying to incorporate "Gnampf" into my general vocabulary.
February 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
It's been years since I last watched it, and I'm still trying to incorporate "Gnampf" into my general vocabulary.
Gave this a listen the other week knowing little if anything of either lead man - fantastic stuff and great blowing, especially if (like me) you knew little of Getz beyond the Latin jazz/Jobim/Gilberto recordings.
February 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Gave this a listen the other week knowing little if anything of either lead man - fantastic stuff and great blowing, especially if (like me) you knew little of Getz beyond the Latin jazz/Jobim/Gilberto recordings.
How Tr*mp sees himself vs how the rest of the world sees him
February 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
How Tr*mp sees himself vs how the rest of the world sees him
It gets cooler - George Martin adapted two of her idents into a single in the early 60s, released under the joint pen name of Ray Cathode.
February 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It gets cooler - George Martin adapted two of her idents into a single in the early 60s, released under the joint pen name of Ray Cathode.
Taz really nailing their colours to the mast in their election coverage... 😬 #bundestagswahl2025
February 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Taz really nailing their colours to the mast in their election coverage... 😬 #bundestagswahl2025
Recollection from memory rather than historical source so I can't verify 100%, but I remember coming across these a few years back - both grotesque and hilarious how petty they were in specifying what was allowed/"good" and what wasn't ("at most 10% syncopation"): www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
February 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Recollection from memory rather than historical source so I can't verify 100%, but I remember coming across these a few years back - both grotesque and hilarious how petty they were in specifying what was allowed/"good" and what wasn't ("at most 10% syncopation"): www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
Useful summary, although I disagree slightly with the paragraph below. Yes, "gates of hell" is melodramatic, but Merz opened up a Pandora's box even before last week when he said he didn't care whose support or votes he got on his immigration legislation, it *had* to go through. So not unjustified!
February 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Useful summary, although I disagree slightly with the paragraph below. Yes, "gates of hell" is melodramatic, but Merz opened up a Pandora's box even before last week when he said he didn't care whose support or votes he got on his immigration legislation, it *had* to go through. So not unjustified!
My experience was a little like this (especially the grunting)...
January 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
My experience was a little like this (especially the grunting)...
Biopic of "classic" Kraftwerk THE MAN MACHINE announced starring David Hyde Pierce, Kelsey Grammer, Rowan Atkinson and Jim Parsons.
January 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Biopic of "classic" Kraftwerk THE MAN MACHINE announced starring David Hyde Pierce, Kelsey Grammer, Rowan Atkinson and Jim Parsons.
Going to try and post more about music I listen to, and thankful that I've found @fritzpape.bsky.social again on here as it was likely his Twitter feed that steered me in the direction of this brilliant set - probably no secret for proper jazz heads/KW fans, but a new one for me, and a ripper!
January 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Going to try and post more about music I listen to, and thankful that I've found @fritzpape.bsky.social again on here as it was likely his Twitter feed that steered me in the direction of this brilliant set - probably no secret for proper jazz heads/KW fans, but a new one for me, and a ripper!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This being Berlin, I imagine the arts will find some way to survive, but apart from in purely economic terms (tax revenues etc), this decision is woefully shortsighted in terms of what the "state" arts sector contributes to society, as Wegner demonstrates:
This being Berlin, I imagine the arts will find some way to survive, but apart from in purely economic terms (tax revenues etc), this decision is woefully shortsighted in terms of what the "state" arts sector contributes to society, as Wegner demonstrates:
December 31, 2024 at 9:25 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This being Berlin, I imagine the arts will find some way to survive, but apart from in purely economic terms (tax revenues etc), this decision is woefully shortsighted in terms of what the "state" arts sector contributes to society, as Wegner demonstrates:
This being Berlin, I imagine the arts will find some way to survive, but apart from in purely economic terms (tax revenues etc), this decision is woefully shortsighted in terms of what the "state" arts sector contributes to society, as Wegner demonstrates:
I bought Mariss Jansons's live recording with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra shortly after it came out, purely on the strength of its selection as Record of the Week on BBC Radio 3. A decent recording for Jansons to go out on, and an interesting pairing with Shchedrin's Carmen Suite.
December 14, 2024 at 5:10 PM
I bought Mariss Jansons's live recording with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra shortly after it came out, purely on the strength of its selection as Record of the Week on BBC Radio 3. A decent recording for Jansons to go out on, and an interesting pairing with Shchedrin's Carmen Suite.
Seeing as it's that time of year again - what song are they singing? Wrong answers only.
I'll start:
"I'm representing for them gangstas all across the world,
(Still) Hitting them corners in them low-lows, girl"
I'll start:
"I'm representing for them gangstas all across the world,
(Still) Hitting them corners in them low-lows, girl"
December 2, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Seeing as it's that time of year again - what song are they singing? Wrong answers only.
I'll start:
"I'm representing for them gangstas all across the world,
(Still) Hitting them corners in them low-lows, girl"
I'll start:
"I'm representing for them gangstas all across the world,
(Still) Hitting them corners in them low-lows, girl"