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MY DOWNFALL
Every single music critic has branded My Downfall as a companion piece to Venetian Snares' 2005 release Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett. Technically, this is correct but it doesn't really do much to aptly describe the album either.
Ever since his 2001 album Songs About My Cats, Aaron has been using the kind of operatic and avant-garde tones found in this particular release. The artist obviously has a deep-rooted interest in modernist music, and in My Downfall this resonates more than anything else.
I do not mean to sound snobbish, but I think that many of the fans do not recognize these elements and subtleties, so much that when My Downfall came out, it was immediatly percieved as "soft" or "too classical". You really have to know a bit about ...
Advantages: Brilliant View, Never Crowded Disadvantages: Can be Very Hot, Quite A Steep Walk
Description
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The construction of the Rethymno fortress (or Fortezza), by the Venetians, started about 1571 and continued until about 1600. It was built for the protection of the local inhabitants from the Turkish threat, i.e. the usual reason a castle is built on a Greek island.
It is appears to be star shaped, with three gates and six bastions, and dominate the town below.
In the middle is the church of St Nicolas which was turned into the Mosque of the Sultan Ibrahim Han by the Turks during their occupation of the island of Crete.
There were the Commander' s house, the Counsellor' s house, barracks, stables, ammunition - storehouses, a cistern and houses which were later destroyed and are just ruins now.
There does not seem to have been any systematic excavation on the site. There is evidence of the odd ...
Advantages: Good characters, good descriptions of Venice Disadvantages: not too thrilling
of the other books. As always we occasionally join the family in the dining-room and get to know some tasty recipes of the Venetian cuisine.
Brunetti's colleagues at the Questura are an assortment of more diverse and thus more fascinating characters, I always look forward to reading about his pompous, vain and essentially stupid boss, the intelligent, pretty secretary Signorina Ellettra, who's not loyal to her boss but on the side of the staff, a gifted hacker who can get all necessary information from all sources imaginable - very useful for an author when the official means of communication are exhausted and the case comes to a dead end. They and Brunetti's partner Vianello are round characters, new facets are added in every instalment.
How Donna Leon describes Venice for the umpteenth time and makes the description readable again is simply ...
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