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:

“What needs to be returned to is what I call the ‘social imagination,’ which is the idea that human beings have the right to be the authors of their own worlds rather than being simply an expression of the world that they happen to have been born into. They always have the right, and indeed the obligation, to be makers of their own world, which capitalism, of course, doesn’t allow.”

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