Following hot on the heels of our Hamburg-based album Erinnerungen an eine Stadt, we’re pleased to offer up the first in (hopefully) a series of free downloads highlighting the very best of Cities and Memory. It’s been quite a first year for us, with 60 contributors, sounds spread across 23 countries and more than 150,000 listens […]
We’re really happy to add our 21st country to the Cities and Memory map today, courtesy of our 52nd contributor, Lakshmi Ramgopal, based in Rome, Italy. She’s a solo musician performing under the name Lykanthea as well as a field recordist. This piece comes from the mostly-uninhabited Greek island of Delos, known as the sacred […]
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"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of [the city] as it is today should contain all [the city's] past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the bags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Grand Prix winner and Coup de Coeur winner, Académie Charles Cros
