In the Middle Ages the westernmost part of Europe was Arabic - yet we call it "The Orient". Arabs were in Iberia for 800 years - yet we call it an "occupation". We call their decline a "Reconquista" - yet the preceding rulers were Visigoth and had only been Catholic for 100 years.

Release party for "Early Music for Late Humanity" now on Thursday nov 28 - Sjätte Tunnan in Stockholm. Vox Vulgaris will play a few songs from the album and there will be DJ sets by DJ Clea and Mount Liberation Unlimited

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The Middle Ages - when men were men and women were women but they basically had the same clothing and hair styles.

In Bosch's Hell the shawm acts as a visual "bridge" between the different scales - next to the humans it looks like a bass shawm, next to the oversized instruments it looks like a soprano shawm. It is the only thing in the painting that always is to scale.

The new drama series "The Pirate Bay" from Swedish SVT has the actor portraying Vox Vulgaris member Rasmus holding a concert flute. This is appalling slander: Rasmus has never even touched a concert flute. Possibly a baroque traverse flute once in his youth but he never exhaled.

We said bye bye to the bird app, ready to go insect on Bluesky!