Christmas gift? Burial is back.

Reveal not thy grief to enemies
Because they will say ‘La haul’ but rejoice.

S.

Swanlike EP “Years” is out now.
Quality music flowing by new band Swanlike. Does Norway have all the best singers?

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Tidal
Apple Music

Swanlike: Line Kåsa and Halvor Nordal Strand with Øyvind Mathisen, Sarah Nordal Strand, Trym Gjermundbo.

A Soroban, or ancient Japanese abacus, could be considered one of the first computing machines. This is not a Soroban. It’s merely an abstract, fractal interpretation of a really deep Soroban.

Andrea Vitti, Milano, Italy.

I know it, I know it; for a champion arose to avenge the mourning dead; but to me no champion remains; for he who yet was left hath been snatched away.

S.

BAM, Ben & Martin photography.

The Master said, “If the scholar be not grave, he will not call forth any veneration, and his learning will not be solid.”

C.

Art Director, Designer and Illustrator Rus Khasanov.

Among the elements of the weak form of democracy enshrined in the constitution, presidential elections continue to pose a dilemma for the left in that any form of participation or non participation appears to impose a significant cost on our capacity to develop a serious opposition to the corporate agenda served by establishment politicians.

N.C.