Christian Molenaar

Category: Music

  • Territory Games

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    I had the distinct honor of playing guitar for Territory Games, the self-titled debut of Nathan Hubbard’s new cross-border quintet, out today from Castor&Pollux. Read more

  • Void of Horn

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    …and not to steal my own thunder, but my piece “Void of Horn” for flute, concertina and organ is available on the excellent new compilation Antihistamine 2025 from Vermont’s Histamine Tapes. Read more

  • Folies Meurtrières

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    My new album Folies Meurtrières is out today. Read more

  • Djéliya

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    At some point a group of international film producers asked Jay if he would compose the score for Djéliya, mémoire du mandingue, the new film by Burkinabé director Boubacar Sangaré. Read more

  • How the Years Condemn

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    Those Darn Gnomes’ first album The Years turns a decade old today. In honor of our least-loved record, please, hit play on a forgotten experimental metal oddity and take a look back at the early days of a local band at a key point in their (so-called) development. Read more

  • Vanity Sounds the Horn

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    The last Those Darn Gnomes album, Calling Whitetails to a Tuned Bow, turns five years old today. Read more

  • Recantate

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    I’m back from the desert with some new (old) songs. Read more

  • Driving the Seven

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    Today is Tall Can’s birthday. (Don’t ask how old he is. He doesn’t know.) Read more

  • The Idea of Anything to Be Done

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    The Idea of Anything to Be Done, a two-part solo guitar improvisation consisting of “Myself Creating What I Saw” and “Let No Name Ever Pass Our Lips,” is out today. Read more

  • Laughlin Cantate

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    As keen readers of this blog would know (if there were any), this time last year Lucas and I drove out to Laughlin to visit his dad and do some work in Bullhead City, with digressions into Chino, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, Oatman and basically anything else planted on the long stretch of the 10… Read more

Thought:

“I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.”

Clarice Lispector