Ying Jun Cheng, Brooklyn, NY.

They say to me: ‘What strange man are you, to wish us eternal sadness? Would you have us grieve while we starve? Do you not know that work is impossible with a heavy heart and cannot you see that we have lightened our hearts in order to take up the burden our dead brothers have left to us? What strange man are you?’

G.W.C.

A music video commissioned by Erased Tapes records for Ólafur Arnalds’ & Nils Frahm’s latest album “Loon”.

Bibio & Ex Confusion + Goldmund aka Keith Kenniff aka Helios aka Mint Julep aka A Pale Fire + BatteryOperated Orchestra + Carmen Villain.

By means of the ceremonies of the ancestral temple, they distinguished the royal kindred according to their order of descent.
By ordering the parties present according to their rank, they distinguished the more noble and the less. By the arrangement of the services, they made a distinction of talents and worth.

In the ceremony of general pledging, the inferiors presented the cup to their superiors, and thus something was given the lowest to do. At the concluding feast, places were given according to the hair, and thus was made the distinction of years.

C.

Kasia Majchrowska, Berlin, Germany.

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E.A.B.

Kate, Riga, Latvia.

frog pond…
a leaf falls in
without a sound

M.B.

Photos 1-4 by Nynewe, photo 5 by Stéphanie Macé.

These rites profan’d, the holy seer foreshow’d
A mourning people, and a vengeful God.

O.