alex in mainhattan has a new blog

and it is called Ohrensause. A German word I made up which stands for something like "ear treat" or "ear feast". I am mostly writing about music, but also about other subjects. Sometimes in English, sometimes in German. For the time being I posted a couple of short and simple reviews of songs I like. Recently I covered John Cale's Andalucia, The Rolling Stones No Expectations, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions' You Will Never be No Goodand Japancakes MBV cover What You Want. The posting frequency is pretty high for the moment, I think I succeeded in writing about five songs per week. See you there if you are interested in my eclectic taste & personal thoughts on music with an often emotional approach. You are all welcome to read & discuss.

tonight i will be writing something on dead souls, the joy div song. isn't it one of their best? i prefer it a lot to atmosphere, the a-side of licht und blindheit. the hypnotic drumming gives it a lightness few other joy div pieces have. what do you think?

thanks for the clicks. any proposal for the next song?

alex in mainhattan has superb musical nous, as evidenced by listening room choices inc black dice, fennesz & pierre boulez

thanks for the kudos, that was only a very small selection...

by the way i am about to finish my music blog project where i choose a song a day from my hard disk. each day the track selected is one second shorter. here are all >300 songs covered till now. i started last february with 5 minutes 34 seconds. yesterday's song was 32 seconds long. another month and i have to think of a new project.