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in the cathedral

Kip (Naveen Andrews) and Hana (Juliette Binoche) in The English Patient (1996), directed by Anthony Minghella, based on the book by Michael Ondaatje.Filed under: art, film, freedom, love Tagged:...

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“one ventures from home on the thread of a tune”

A child in the dark, gripped with fear, comforts himself by singing under his breath. He walks and halts to his song. Lost, he takes shelter, or orients himself with his little song as best he can. The...

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julia holter – goddess eyes 1

“The first thing that came to mind was an image that gradually deteriorates with visual noise, echoing the sonic noise present in the song. We go from lightness to darkness, away from a structured,...

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capital children’s choir – shake it out

Capital Children’s Choir tribute to Florence And The Machine –  ”Shake it Out” Orchestrated, arranged and directed by Rachel Santesso Drum Coach: Nick Marangoni, Recorded and mixed by Andrew Dudman at...

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blind willie johnson – dark was the night, cold was the ground

“Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” is a gospel-blues song written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson, probably recorded in 1927. The song is primarily an instrumental, featuring Johnson’s...

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tricky – hell is round the corner (1995)

From one of the most arresting albums of the twentieth century, Maxinquaye (Island Records, 1995). I bought this CD in my final year of high school, and spent hours and hours in its company over the...

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sade – slave song

From Lovers Rock (Epic, 2000).Filed under: freedom, gender, love, music, personae, spirit, violence Tagged: darkness, dub, light, sade, sadness, slave, strength

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portishead – wandering star

Off Dummy (Go! Discs, 1994).Filed under: music, uncanny Tagged: darkness, melancholia, portishead, the abyss, trip-hop

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matthew 6: 22 – 34

The Lamp of the Body 22“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If...

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curtis mayfield – right on for the darkness

That outro… From Back to the World (Curtom Records, 1973).Filed under: music Tagged: curtis mayfield, darkness

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maya deren – the very eye of night (1958)

“The laws of macro- and microcosm are alike. Travel in the interior is as a voyage in outer space: we must in each case burst past the circumference of our surface – our here-space and now-time – and,...

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madrugada

What makes you sing so sweetly in the dark, White-eyes, hours before dawn? I want to know. Is it your sureness of the imminent arrival of the light? Or is it to wake the sun, in case it’s forgotten its...

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jesca hoop – seed of wonder (acoustic version, 2008)

From Kismet Acoustic (Phantom Sound & Vision, 2008).Filed under: music, writing Tagged: darkness, faith, flow, inspiration, jesca hoop, seed, spiders, stitch witchery, thread

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siri karlsson – när mörkret faller (2015)

Off The Lost Colony, my favourite Swedish record picked up while living there last year. Filed under: film, music Tagged: animation, darkness, siri karlsson

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leonard cohen – you want it darker (2016)

Released today, from his forthcoming new album of the same name, out on 21 October 2016. <3Filed under: music Tagged: darkness, leonard cohen, redemption

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on this day (2012)

Filed under: memory, writing Tagged: birds, darkness, facebook, marikana, they say the darkest hour comes right before the dawn

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dolly parton – my blue tears (demo)

To me, this acoustic demo is one of the most beautiful things Dolly has ever recorded. It’s an outtake from her 1971 album, Coat of Many Colours. Filed under: love, music Tagged: birds, darkness,...

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james baldwin – the artist’s struggle for integrity (1963)

An excerpt from a talk given at the Community Church in New York in 1963.  You can listen to the whole speech here.Filed under: art, freedom, philosophy, poetry, spirit, writing Tagged: darkness,...

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carl jung on accepting the darkness of self and others

Filed under: philosophy, spirit Tagged: acceptance, Carl Jung, darkness, shadow

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