Christian Molenaar

Category: Year in Review

  • 2024

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    Pandemonium of New Year’s Eve: chaos of snow and mud churned up by a thousand carriages glittering with toys and bonbons, swarming with cupidity and despair; official frenzy of a big city designed to trouble the mind of the most impervious solitary. Read more

  • 2023

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    Another banner year for barren yields around these parts. Keen eyes may have noticed I only released one new recording this year, but for once I’m not measuring my productivity by its public-facing side. Read more

  • 2021

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    This was a rough one. Read more

  • 2020

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    Some year, right? I know I’m certainly not the first to say it and there’s no way I’ll be the last, but jesus I’m glad this is all over. Let’s dwell on it! Read more

  • 2019

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    2019 allowed me the opportunity to work on and release a wide variety of music. Read more

Thought:

“Full well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E’en as thou know’st the sunlight I have lost.
Thou knowest the way of it and know’st the sheen
About her brows where the rays are bound and crossed,
E’en as thou knowest joy and know’st joy’s bitter cost.
Thou know’st her grace in moving,
Thou dost her skill in loving,
Thou know’st what truth she proveth,
Thou knowest the heart she moveth,
O song where grief assoneth!”

Ezra Pound | “Ballata, Fragment”