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2015

  1. To Pimp a Butterfly
  2. Art Angels
  3. Have You In My Wilderness
  4. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
  5. Depression Cherry
  6. In Colour
  7. What For?
  8. Currents
  9. Fading Frontier

These are the albums I couldn’t stop listening to in 2015. That is all.

Fantastic Man

Fantastic Man: A film about William Onyeabor

A documentary investigating Nigerian musician William Onyeabor, a man shrouded in mystery and myth. Directed by Jake Sumner (Alldayeveryday) the film tells the story of a label’s attempt to track William down, speaking to fans such as Damon Albarn, Caribou and Femi Kuti and travelling to Nigeria to meet those who’ve worked with him in a bid to uncover the truth about his story.

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/you-need-to-hear-this/fantastic-man-full-length—-a-film-about-william-onyeabor

Rock My Religion

Rock My Religion
Dan Graham
1983-84, 55:27 min, b&w and color, sound

Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that begins with the Shakers, an early religious community who practiced self-denial and ecstatic trance dances. With the “reeling and rocking” of religious revivals as his point of departure, Graham analyzes the emergence of rock music as religion with the teenage consumer in the isolated suburban milieu of the 1950s, locating rock’s sexual and ideological context in post-World War II America. The music and philosophies of Patti Smith, who made explicit the trope that rock is religion, are his focus. This complex collage of text, film footage and performance forms a compelling theoretical essay on the ideological codes and historical contexts that inform the cultural phenomenon of rock `n’ roll music.

http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=2421

Yet for Christians, Friday and Sunday are equally crucial. The horror of death and the beauty of resurrection are both essential. The tension of Saturday, between death and life, loss and victory, suffering and healing, is where we live. We are mortal, decaying, sin-sick creatures. Yet our redemption is secure in the resurrected Christ; we will be made new.

Art is a gift that God gives us to help us cope with Saturday life.

Brett McCracken, “Suffering, Sufjan and ‘Saturday Art’”