thethirdgracchi

A superb artist and pioneer of ambient electronic music, Éliane Radigue died yesterday at the age of 94. Radigue was making music like nobody else in the late 20th century. She's an icon, and her music is simultaneously so simple (often just one note layered over itself on an ARP-2500) and yet as vast as the ocean, seemingly containing the entire universe in the soundscapes she constructed. She was composing and making music until the last years of her life; in fact, one of my favorite pieces of hers is Occam XXV, which she made just a few years ago. Truly a titan that will be dearly missed.

Culleton has lived in the US for more than 20 years, is married to a US citizen and runs a plastering business in the Boston area. He has spent five months in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record.

Pretty crazy stuff in the article, including the horrible conditions ICE is holding these folks in. Not surprising in the slightest, but they really are running concentration camps:

After being held in ICE facilities near Boston and in Buffalo, New York, he was flown to a facility in El Paso, Texas, where he is sharing a cell with more than 70 men. Culleton said the detention centre was cold, damp and squalid and there were fights over insufficient food – “like a concentration camp, absolute hell”, he told the Irish Times, which first reported the story on Monday.

RIP Ka, unsurpassed in hip hop