Posts Tagged ‘Italy’

Library Addition: Michael Swanwick’s A Fantasist’s Guide to Venice

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025

Another Dragonstairs chapbook:

Swanwick, Michael. A Fantasist’s Guide to Venice. Dragonstairs Press, 2025. First edition chapbook original, #30 of 79 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Collection of short essays on various fantastic elements of Venice, in fact and fiction, following the author’s visit there.

Note that this is one of at least four different cover patterns for this title, all done in reds and yellows.

I will have a small number of copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, which should be out in May.

Shoegazer Sunday: Novanta’s “Windows”

Sunday, June 26th, 2016

Milan-based Novanta seems to be on my Shoegaze wavelength with “Windows.”

Hat tip: Primal Music Blog.

Shoegazer Sunday: Stella Diana’s “Sulphur”

Sunday, April 10th, 2016

Stella Diana hails from Naples, Italy. Here’s “Sulpher.”

Shoegazer Sunday: Starframe’s “Broody Soldier”

Sunday, October 6th, 2013

Here’s another dose of Italy’s Starframes with “Broody Solider,” whose message seems to be that war is bad and stuff.

The video appears to have been done by somebody who watched Tapeheads.

Shoegazer Sunday: Murnau’s “Winter Breath”

Sunday, February 10th, 2013

Here’s the pleasant, verging on ambient “Winter Breath” by Italian band Murnau.

I’m guessing they’re named after the German film director.