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8/10/13 – Robert Wyatt and Cunieform Records Release Lost Recordings From 1968. Plus a personal reflection on his music and a compact overview of his musical history.6Lost Recording’s: A personal reflection on his music and a compact overview of his musical history.

As a Robert Wyatt aficionado this is a delightful piece of news. If you do not know about Robert Wyatt then you can investigate many different stages of his career as a drummer, innovator, singer and a political voice. As part of the Canterbury scene (I recently picked up The Wilde Flowers vinyl release) along […]

Life & Death

Quote Me On That – Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr, Physicist, Philosopher (1885-1962) Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist and philosopher who famously saved 8,000 Jews from the Nazis by convincing the Swedish king, Gustav V to grant them asylum. “No, no, you’re not thinking, you’re just being logical”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr

Ian McNabb – British Dates In Support of Eclectic Warrior Album Released Earlier This Year

Ian Mcnabb will play a series of British Dates October – December 2013 in support of his Eclectic Warrior Album released earlier in the year. This will be the occasional Icicle Works singer’s tenth solo album. His second solo album Head Like A Rock was recorded in LA with Neils Young’s legendary band Crazy Horse. […]

Geoff Dyer’s Latest Book Zona About Tarkovsky’s Film Stalker – 2013

In putting up a piece on Geoff Dyer’s book about Jazz, But Beautiful, I discovered that his latest book Zona 2012 is about Tarkovsky’s film Stalker. I haven’t read it but the reviews are great and it’s another coincidental connection since I wrote the piece on Tarkovsky in the film section. Go see the reviews […]

But Beautiful – A Book About Jazz – Geoff Dyer

Recommended to me by a friend, actually my friend insisted that I read it and sent it to me across the world in the post to make sure I did. Thanks Hud. This is an evocative, warm and sensuous collection of vignettes in imagined intimacy based on fact. This is a book about Jazz that […]

The Experimental Accessibility Of James Blake Live on KCRW

Dubstep anyone? If you are over 30 and are not sure what that is exactly go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubstep I bought the first James Blake album as soon as it came out. I’d seen him on TV and thought that it was a fascinating mixture of syncopated drums and melodic vocals. But what attracted him to […]