C.D. Rose

Aug 31, 2024 | thequietus.com | C.D. Rose |Patrick Clarke |Bobby Barry

For an upper-class Victorian lady, a pair of gloves was the embodiment of sophistication, a symbol that she did not have to sully her hands with manual labour. If she were respectable, she would never leave the house without them, and when in company would remove them only when dining. When that upper-class Victorian lady arrived at the seaside, it is said she would purposefully leave her gloves behind her on the train.

Jun 22, 2024 | thequietus.com | C.D. Rose |Robert Barry

By the 1940s, radio and telephone had revolutionized communications in the industrialized world. Its strategic use in warfare, as a way to transmit information and intelligence, was not lost on military personnel. Yet these signals needed to be protected. Especially with radio, it was easy to become an undetected eavesdropper wherever signals could be received. After World War I, the first devices to attempt secure transmission of voice were developed.

Apr 30, 2024 | thequietus.com | Eugene Thacker |Tariq Goddard |C.D. Rose

This week Faber publish Neu Klang: The Definitive Story Of Krautrock by Cristoph Dallach, the first comprehensive oral history of the diverse and radical movement in German music during the late 60s and 1970s. Including eye-witness accounts of the rise of groups such as CAN, Neu!, Amon Düül, Popul Vuh, Tangerine Dream, Cluster and Kraftwerk, from the likes of Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Holger Czukay, Michael Rother, Dieter Moebius, Klaus Schulze, Karl Bartos and Brian Eno.

Jan 27, 2024 | thequietus.com | C.D. Rose

To pass the time while we waited I was telling Anna a story I’d heard about a guy in Turkey who gets wasted one night then wakes up in a forest or something, unsure where he is. He gets up, dusts himself off, then stumbles across a search party, all in hi-vis, I suppose, with maps and whistles and stuff, and they’re out looking for someone, so being essentially a good citizen, he decides to join them, to help out. Only then— ‘He hears them calling his name?

Jan 26, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Elizabeth James |Jill McCorkle |C.D. Rose |Julie Myerson

Are you already tired of winter? Perhaps the poetry offerings this week are just the ticket to place you back in the moment: "both elegant and visceral," Theophanies, the debut collection from Muslim poet Sarah Ghazal Ali, "gives women's bodily and spiritual experiences primacy"; Russell Brakefield "draws from a deep well of emotional honesty and musical language" for the 52 poems in his Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West.