The Sparking of Memory: a review of the new album by The Tangent
The Tangent, A SPARK IN THE AETHER (Insideout Music, 2015).
Tracks: A Spark in the Aether; Codpieces and Capes; Clearing the Attic; Aftereugene; The Celluloid Road; A Spark in the Aether (Part 2)
The Tangent: Andy Tillison; Luke Machen; Theo Travis; Jonas Reingold; and Morgan Agren.
So let’s get the caveats out of the way first shall we?
I’m not a musician, I can’t play a note unless its accidental, and a time signature is some bloke’s name written on a watch face … but I do love music and have tried my best to keep in touch with my love throughout my life.
But I lost touch with many things when I moved away from England. Although I had one of those embarrassing ’Oh, how are you doing these days?’ conversations with a magazine stand after a fleeting visit back to the home country. That shuffled, toe-gazing mumbling was…
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G.R. Elliott on Irving Babbitt and P.E. More, 1937
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Raymond Aron, “The Diffusion of Ideologies,” 1953
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America and the Secularization of Modern Culture
One of Dawson’s most important speeches. Given at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.
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Hilaire Belloc, Hellish Twins
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I don’t agree with Belloc, but who cares? He’s always worth reading.
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