The Week When The Field Opens – The Super Full Moon in Gemini the new post at The Polymath is a clear, atmospheric look at the Gemini Super Full Moon of December 4/5, 2025 , a night of double-sight, thresholds, field shifts, and the quiet rearrangements before Sagittarius and the Solstice.
You can read The Week When The Field Opens – The Super Full Moon in Gemini here.
Europa is one of the largest moons of Jupiter. It’s part a large electro-acoustic piece I’m working on. It exists with, and without saxophone.
When Francisco Silva heard his bluesy guitar in it, he was surprised at the contrast between it and the colder background – the saxophone version came later. The bluesy guitar represents the cooperish “veins” that can be seen in the image.
Personnel: Raquel Pinheiro: composition, concept, effects, ambients, sounds, mixing, production Francisco Silva: guitar Rui Guerra: saxofone
Raquel Pinheiro – Europa w/ saxophone excerpt
On the programme I’m in excellent company: Rafael Anton Irisarri Holger Czukay Mark Spybey Jasmine Guffond & Robin Storey Mark Hjorthoy Euphotic Sonologyst Trod Kallevag Rafael Toral Annette Vande Gorne Giuseppe Ielasi + Jack Sheen @C Sandor Valy Illusion of Safety + Z’Ve Rushab Nandha Doris Dana Ma Estrella Peter Wullen Brandon Auger
words: Neno Costa (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Telma Mota
A welcome surprise on Maus Hábitos stage: Norway’s Mayflower Madame made their Portuguese debut.
Shunning any inflated posturing and maintaining all the discretion they could, the four musicians from Oslo delivered a strong concert, focused on a spotless performance that moved through all three of their albums to date, with a particular emphasis on the most recent, Insight.
Songs such as Lovesick, Paint It All Blue and A Foretold Ecstasy coloured the room with captivating atmospheres, blending – quite fluidly – the sweep of gothic-tinged epics with post-punk exaltation.
Trond Fagernes’s voice, the arrangements, and the rhythm section occasionally summoned cinematic moods, in an immersive performance that did not disappoint.
Decidedly, a band to keep in mind for any Michelin guide to post-sonorities.