[New Song Of The Week] AVEC - Darling

AVEC are from Vöcklabruck, a small Austrian mountain village so small you shouldn’t have heard about it before. Their first single Granny became a small hit last year in her home country, with airplay on national radio, and even ended up getting synced for a tv-spot in Germany. Smart placements in popular (German) Spotify-playlists around themes like relaxing, autumn and coffee made her streaming career grow to the point where she has over 400.000 listeners per month.

Join them in a singer-songwriter universe which will without a doubt appeal to fans of Daughter (she also has a song called Youth weirdly enough). Her mesmerizing soft voice in combination with mellow melodies will bring you in a state between lullaby and daydreaming. These are the voices we’d love to hear to echo through the mountains, in all their mysterious and dark ways.

Earlier this year she played at the Reeperbahn, toured in and out of Germany, and a couple of days ago AVEC and her band played probably the most important showcase event in the Alpine-region, Waves Vienna. We think a place on the Eurosonic line-up would be well-deserved and a logical next step in her mission to get the word out. Let’s hope she’ll be there in January to lighten up the mood. Her album What If We Never Forget is out now, just in time to get us in the perfect autumn mood.

Enjoy!

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Studio Mumbai. Copper House II. India. beautiful video by Daniele Marucci and Enrico Cano

I’ve been going insane waiting to share this one with you since a lucky early preview, courtesy of Win and Woo, who are baes like that. The Chicago based duo’s new work of heart melting beauty is an official remix of San Fermin’s Emily, which just so happens to be my favorite song off the amazing baroque pop act’s sophomore album, Jackrabbit. I’m drunk on the remix’s chill tropical vibes, which envelope San Fermin’s The National evoking and Amber Coffman reminiscent vocals in such sweet, plush splendor. Warm guitar and a feathery, soft groove join together in what can only described as pure bliss. Download the remix for free, here.

How To Make An Attractive City by The School of Life

Tuesday morning

Restauración de la Casa Luis Barragán. La única vivienda en América catalogada Patrimonio Mundial.

Cyber-Dys-Punk-Topia

“There was a place near an airport, Kowloon, when Hong Kong wasn’t China, but there had been a mistake, a long time ago, and that place, very small, many people, it still belonged to China. So there was no law there. An outlaw place. And more and more people crowded in; they built it up, higher. No rules, just building, just people living. Police wouldn’t go there. Drugs and whores and gambling. But people living, too. Factories, restaurants. A city. No laws.”

—William Gibson, Idoru

It was the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century, where a room cost the equivalent of US$6 per month in high rise buildings that belonged to no country. In this urban enclave, “a historical accident”, law had no place. Drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes lived and worked alongside kindergartens, and residents walked the narrow alleys with umbrellas to shield themselves from the endless, constant dripping of makeshift water pipes above….

Kowloon ‘Walled’ City lost its wall during the Second World War when Japan invaded and razed the walls for materials to expand the nearby airport. When Japan surrendered, claims of sovereignty over Kowloon finally came to a head between the Chinese and the British. Perhaps to avoid triggering yet another conflict in the wake of a world war, both countries wiped their hands of the burgeoning territory.

And then came the refugees, the squatters, the outlaws. The uncontrolled building of 300 interconnected towers crammed into a seven-acre plot of land had begun and by 1990, Kowloon was home to more than 50,000 inhabitants….

Despite earning its Cantonese nickname, “City of Darkness”, amazingly, many of Kowloon’s residents liked living there. And even with its lack of basic amenities such as sanitation, safety and even sunlight, it’s reported that many have fond memories of the friendly tight-knit community that was “poor but happy”.

“People who lived there were always loyal to each other. In the Walled City, the sunshine always followed the rain,” a former resident told the South China Morning Post….

Today all that remains of Kowloon is a bronze small-scale model of the labyrinth in the middle a public park where it once stood.

This isn’t to say places like Kowloon Walled City no longer exist in Hong Kong….

— from Anywhere But Here: Kowloon “Anarchy” City

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