Friday, November 20th
what’s new
Adrianne Lenker (vocals, guitar, songs), live (“zombie girl,” “two reverse,” “dragon eyes,” “anything,” “ingydar”), published 11/18/20
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Month: November, 2020
2020
Thursday, November 19th
alone
Rob Mazurek (cornet, electronics, etc.), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 5/23/20
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, outside Chicago (Maywood)
2020
Wednesday, November 18th
sounds of New York
Seraphic Light (Daniel Carter, trumpet, saxophone; Matthew Shipp, piano; William Parker, bass), live (dedicated to visual artist Marilyn Sontag, Carter’s longtime partner), New York, 2018
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random sights
a while ago, outside Chicago (Illinois Prairie Path)
2020
Tuesday, November 17th
weightless
Roger Eno & Brian Eno, “Iris,” 2020
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Monday, November 16th
sounds of Paris
György Ligeti (1923-2006), excerpts from Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano; Études for Piano; Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet; Ensemble Intercontemporain, live, Paris, 8/6/20
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random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
2020
Sunday, November 15th
three more takes
“The Storm Is Passing Over” (C. Tindley, D. Vails)
Unidentified church and lead singer, 2011
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Randall Nunn, 2016
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Mt. Mary Primitive Baptist Church, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., 2011
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
Clear sky—
the way I came by once
I now go back by.—Gitoku, 1754 (translated from Japanese; Yoel Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death (1986))
2020
Saturday, November 14th
sounds of Chicago
Brokeback trio (Douglas McCombs [Fender Bass VI], James Elkington [pedal steel guitar, keyboard], Areif Sless-Kitain [drums, percussion]), with video by Kim Alpert, live (performance begins at 13:00), Chicago (Constellation), yesterday
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random sights
other day, Chicago
2020
Friday, November 13th
sounds of Ukraine and Kazakhstan
Alyona Alyona (Ukraine), “Rayon” (feat. Fatbelly [Kazakhstan]), 10/23/20
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Thursday, November 12th
This, by someone I’d never heard of (much less heard) until yesterday, I could listen to all day.
Nikolai Korndorf (1947-2001), In Honour of Alfred Schnittke (AGSCH), string trio for violin, viola, cello (1986), excerpt (1st Mvt.); Patricia Kopatchinskaya (violin), Daniel Raiskin (viola), Alexander Ivashkin (cello), 2005
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random sights
other day, Chicago
2020
Wednesday, November 11th
two takes
“Crepuscule with Nellie” (T. Monk)
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar), live, Baltimore, 11/6/20
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Thelonious Monk (piano), live, Paris, 1969
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random sights
other day, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)
music clip of the day 