Wednesday 13 August 2008

Sadness (part I)


It's a little embarrassing, but this video has everything a hauntologist could possibly want - ruins, archives, scholars, ghosts, melancholy, dust, french, panpipes...

4 comments:

it said...

Ha ha! You're right - those ruins are particularly ace. I remember when Gregorian monk samples were all the rage. Wikipedia informs me that Enigma once released an LP called A Posteriori 'based on such sciences as astronomy, physics, history and sociology'. Splendid.

Actually, their wikipedia page is well entertaining: 'Cretu would claim that the now signature Enigma sound was inspired after falling asleep on the London Underground.' Blimey!

it said...

'From a statistical point of view, every Enigma studio album to date has sold roughly half of what the previous release did.'

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Murphy said...

thus, capitalism must be riven apart by its own mechanisms...

steve said...

This, on the other hand, is truly awful. Well done!