Music
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Serendipity
Back in 2003 I learned myself html by reading the html 4 for the worldwide web, a visual quickstart guide from Elizabeth Castro and then wrote my first website. Castro is an American tech writer who wrote numerous books about certain aspects of website development. She is also active in the Catalan independence movement. After…
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The Eurovision Controversy: Israel’s Impact on the Contest
Despite 2 years of controversy over the participation of Israël to the contest the EBU as organising body keeps asserting that the festival is not political and a force of unification. Obviously many people disagree, so much so that a number of countries decided not to participate this year. And a recurring theme after the…
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Tribute to Talk Talk Concert
This week we went to a Talk Talk tribute concert called ‘In the SPIRIT of TALK TALK‘ by a few Belgian musicians in 30cc in Leuven. Stefanie Callebaut, Lennert Coorevits, Ruben Block, Isolde Lasoen, Ewen Vernal, Geoffrey Burton, Joachim Badenhorst and David Poltrock played the iconic Talk Talk album Spirit of Eden, followed by a number of the greatest Talk Talk…
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Joan as Police Woman in Leuven 2025 Concert Review: A Night to Remember
On November 24 2025 Joan as Police Woman played a concert in 30cc in Leuven. I saw her play in Leuven long ago in the period that she had released Real Live and To Survive, 2 albums I have at home and really like. I hadn’t followed newer albums so I didn’t know what to…
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Rediscovering El Padre de un Soldado by Flaco Jimenez
When I was a teenager one of my uncles used to give me music tips every now and then. On one occasion he gave me a tape with songs of Flaco Jimenez that he liked. Until then I had never heard of Flaco Jimenez and it was not the kind of music I was listening…
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Reviving Nostalgia: Our Journey with the new Denon DCD-1700NE CD Player
Last Christmas we bought a new record player to enjoy once again some old records that had been sitting on shelf unused for years. Listening to albums on the record player triggered us to put on a few CDs again. This turned out to be a disappointment. We had an old Denon Universal Disk player…
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Timothee Chalamet Shines in Bob Dylan Biopic
Went to watch the Bob Dylon biopic a few weeks ago in the middle of the week. The theatre was almost empty and I have to say that those who were absent were wrong. The movie stars Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger. The movie…
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Rega Planar 2 Record Player
After hesitating for a few years I finally bought a new record player. I ended up chosing the Rega Planar 2. There was a nice open box deal at Eglantier hifi. I had been playing with the idea to buy a record player for some time just to be able to listen to some old…
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The Lion’s Roar – First Aid Kit
Listened to this album again during the 2020 XMas holidays. Although from Sweden, these 2 sisters have a very American folk sound. I discovered this album after hearing the hit song Blue on the radio in 2012. I bought the CD and loved it. The other hit on the album is Emmylou which is certainly…
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Unrepentant Geraldines
The 2020 lockdown imposed many limitations in our daily lives but by doing so also opened up opportunities to do other things for which there somehow never seemed to be time. One of them that I am trying to enjoy again is to actively listen to albums on our stereo. As a family it is…
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