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THE GIGANTIC BEARD THAT WAS EVIL | A GRAPHIC NOVEL BY STEPHEN COLLINS

What a wonderful book. A friend of mine ULI GASPER gave me the hint that i had to check this graphic novel as a beard lover. So I did. It is amazing. THE TIMES says “This book is a the same time a satire, a cut-off and a catastrophe film – an experience”. THE OBSERVER: “This book must be a classic”. THE GIGANTIC BEARD THAT WAS EVIL or in german, “Der gigantische Bart, der böse war” tells the story about Dave, who is living in a land called HERE, where all people live  a monotone and regulatory overkilled life. When Dave begins someday to think over the sense about this f***ing world he lives in, a gigantic beard begins to grow: a shocking occasion which made such a chaos to Dave’s life and the whole land he lives in. This graphic novel is a bow to these great names: ORWELL, KAFKA and GODZILLA. So exciting, so very well drawn – a wonderful book done by STEPHEN COLLINS who lives in London. 240 pages, hardcover, 21,5 x 30,5 cm big. pics | LTG

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LONESOME DREAMS | AMERICANA by LORD HURON

just looking around some news on SPOTIFY i discovered LORD HURON and his new album LONESOME DREAMS which was released last week in europe. “wonderful hymns to america’s wilderness with a spheric note of FLEET FOXES” writes NEIL SPENCER from THE OBSERVER – a perfect despcription. NEIL also writes: “A folk-rock Thoreau, Michigan’s Ben Schneider has a near mystical vision of America’s wilderness, a place of peaks and prairies, “sacred dunes” and rivers that “wind on for ever”. The production of his debut is appropriately epic, its echoing acoustic guitars and yearning,  Fleet Foxy vocals mixed with cowboy cattle calls and Pawnee chants. Communion with nature and the quest for the ideal woman are joined on She Lit a Fire and Ends of the Earth, there are playful nods to wild west “dime novels”, while gamelan bells and sitars appear unexpectedly in the sonic torrent. Something original.” very nice to hear when working on sunday mornings. check the offical well done video TIME TO RUN. it’s bit crazy but pretty amazing to watch at. all pics; video | © LORD HURON