people rejoice. the second deadliest conflict of the 21st century is drawing to a close

an entirely written in the morning blogpost

horsemouth has just added pagodas his version of various parts from claude debussy's piano piece pagodes. he's slightly regretful about the title - it should have been primitive american pagodas or cuban pyramids or thunderbolt pagoda or something like that but at the last minute he bottled out. howard always favours short snappy one word titles. 

horsemouth on guitars, organ, crash cymbal and marching drum.

howard on production 

anyway it still sounds good to him. it's the most guitar-y of his tunes. its inspirations? well the debussy piano piece crossed with john fahey's classical borrowings, albatross by fleetwood mac, that part of another green world by eno that used to head up arena (mostly because of its habanera rhythm that resembles the one debussy opens his piece with). 

horsemouth hadn't worked out an ending for it (because he never thought he's get to the end of it) so it just splutters to a halt. 

the crash cymbal was a happy addition. the cymbal and stand (cheap CB ones) he found  in a bin. the drum he found on the street also. 

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it looks like the assad regime in syria is falling. but falling to what? and at what price?

'the war has resulted in an estimated 470,000–610,000 violent deaths, making it the second-deadliest conflict of the 21st century, after the second congo war.' -  wikipedia

'the syrian population has been brutalized, with nearly a half a million killed, 12 million fleeing their homes to find safety elsewhere, and widespread poverty and hunger.' - the united states institute for peace (early 2023). 

so people of the world rejoice. the second deadliest conflict of the 21st century is drawing to a close (maybe). 

had you heard of first deadliest conflict of the 21st century? the second congo war? it is way out in front with 5.4 million deaths. (horsemouth was aware that there was a war going on but he wasn't aware of the scale of it).

'the second congo war and its aftermath caused an estimated 5.4 million deaths, primarily due to disease and malnutrition, making it the deadliest conflict since world war II, according to a 2008 report by the international rescue committee. however, this figure has been disputed, with some researchers arguing that many of the deaths may have occurred regardless of the war and that the actual death toll was closer to 3 million...' (wikipedia)