Welcome, welcome to Garden Europa! Well, no, not welcome exactly—because you cannot be allowed enter—but welcome to the fence. Peer just over the wire. Look, isn’t it beautiful? Everything’s clean, everything works! And listen, listen to this: our anthem, our glorious anthem, the height, the apotheosis of music—of culture!—itself: Beethoven’s (surely you’ve heard of him?) […]
Author Archives: Jake Romm
Jake Romm’s writing and photography have appeared in Inkstick Media, The New Inquiry, Hyperallergic, Protean Magazine, Yogurt Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Midnight Sun, VAN Magazine, and elsewhere. He can be found on twitter at @jake_romm.
Posted inInterview
A Continuum
When I first emailed Uri Caine to set up this interview, he was headed to Barcelona for a concert. When we finally spoke over the phone a week or so later, he’d just driven back to New York from the Newport Jazz festival. He’s a busy musician, performing across the world (before Newport he was […]
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A Giacinto Scelsi Playlist
The only proper word for the music of the self-taught Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi is “sublime.” Not in the common sense of the word, which comes to something like “very good”—but in the sense that Moses Mendelssohn understood it, that is, something that is frightening and overwhelming and pleasing and painful and immense and transcendent […]