‘Remember’ by Hank Mobley
No better single cut in jazz history.
Circulation therefore does not carry within itself the principle of self-renewal. The moments of the latter are presupposed to it, not posited by it. Commodities constantly have to be thrown into it anew from the outside, like fuel into a fire. Otherwise it flickers out in indifference.
—Marx, Grundrisse, Chapter on Capital, Notebook II.
Miriam Makeba and Nina Simone 1989.
Banlieues Bleues Festival,
Saint Denis, France
(via the-kings-things)
‘forest flower’ by alastair galbraith
forest flower
so funereal
down in Gore
the pipes took him up
into a tin sky
she stroked the wood
touched the world goodbye
like skin
soft earth or forest flower
And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in the cemeteries: the musicians hide in the tombs; from grave to grave flute trills, harp chords answer one another.
—Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, Cities & Signs 4
‘Inlets’ by John Cage
Anyone who doubts that Cage’s music works I refer to this piece.
Free and Easy Wandering
—Vandalized
Here you go. Free with email address. Folk/acoustic/americana: Footprints in Snow by Free and Easy Wandering
This is what it sounded like meditating today.
‘Po Moryam, Po Volnam’ by Mitki
Everyone should know Mitki, but nobody in this country does.
Have You Seen My Baby?
Have You Seen My Baby?
I feel, as I have arrived at not only this tune but also “I Know & You Know,” a sense of having gotten to the good stuff. All kinds of stuff I’d written before, I’m proud of. It’s about this point in my writing that I really started to sound like me,…
