A new year starts, and with it my list of music and books for the previous year.
2015 started musicly, for me, receiving the opulent limited edition of Marilyn Manson's latest album, "The Pale Emperor". The album screams "Marilyn Manson is back", and if I had any doubts about it, they would be gone when I ended up seeing the concert the band gave in Stockholm for the correspondent tour. I just wish they'd put Portugal back in their "tour in" list... There are two compilations in this list: "Colours of Black" which shows a good collection of Russian neo-folk, but that ends up being a mandatory record to have thanks to DVAR's participation on it (in a track from Moon Far Away); 400/100 is a different kind but spetacular compilation of many kinds of experimental music, all of the tracks having in common the fact that these bands somehow gravitate around the world of Metaphysical Circuits. The highlight on that compilation goes Kokori's track "The Prisoner", and while this compilation is now sold-out, you'll be able to grab that track on Kokori's upcoming album,
Rootkit. Mindless Self Indulgence also presented a sort-of compilations, with early tracks in the fabulous "Pink". The list ends with the first album from Corpo-Mente, whom I'll be able to see live in the upcoming Entremuralhas 2016 festival.
As usual, the list of books aren't of books released in 2015, but that I've read in 2015. As you can see, the year topic was "music", too, with particular highlight to the great books about 78" and vinyl records.
See you next year!
