Tag Archives: music
John Martyn, 1948-2009
John Martyn died this morning. If you don’t already know and love Solid Air, One World and Grace and Danger, you should obtain all three without further delay. JM cropped up two years ago in a post about the Skip … more…
Erhu – Water of Rivers
YouTube – Erhu – Water of Rivers ???. (thx to flapjax at midnight on MeFi)
mystery white boy, resolved
It’s taken almost twenty years, but I finally identified a mysterious and rather wonderful recording which iirc I posted here a couple of years ago. Ah, yes. Described at that time as a flower of exuberance, blossoming in most unlikely … more…
John Prine and Iris DeMent – In Spite of Ourselves
Working sideways from the Iris Dement post a couple of weeks ago. If you don’t love this — well, I just don’t know what to say to you…
The (other) Singing, Ringing Tree
Sound sculpture at Crown Point, near Burnley, Lancashire, by Tonkin Liu (architects). BBC news on the work, which is part of a larger project of public art works on the Pennines. More here… (via Cynical C)
links for 2008-01-05: aloha woebot, warren’s robotics
WOEBOT: Farewell So, yes, farewell then to WOEBOT, knocking it on the head after five years. Not only the blog, but apparently all his online contributions. Radical (tags: music bloggery WOEBOT) Warren Ellis ยป The Three Laws Of Robotics Excellent. … more…
Our Town – Iris Dement
Iris Dement, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Douglas, Aly Bain. Not for the first time, I find myself wishing I could pick out the key frame manually from the clip, rather than put up with whatever Youtube picks out automatically… (thanks to … more…
links for 2007-12-31: Blaze Away
Viv Fisher’s Blazing Away …is at #5 in this rag-bag, as the 365 days thing draws to a close(?). I had this on a Peel Show tape from about 1978, but I haven’t heard it for years. I’d forgotten it … more…
links for 2007-12-18: cylinder preservation
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project really old audio recording archive (via Bruce Sterling) (tags: music audio wax-cylinder history mp3)
Marquee Moon
The first twelve inch single I ever bought. Stereo on one side, mono on the other. I never did see the point of that, but a truly extraordinary record. I remember taking in to school, and producing it in the … more…