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Month: April, 2023

Thursday, April 13th

How about something quiet, delicate, beautiful?

Jürg Frey (1953-), Extended Circular Music No. 8 (2014): Klaus Lang (organ); Ranjevš & Óbasz (Jakub Švejnar, percussion; Štefan Szabó, electric guitar); Prague Quiet Music Collective (Anna Paulová, clarinet, bass clarinet; Milan Jakeš, violin; Luan Gonçalves, bass; Ian Mikyska, string and wind instruments), live, Prague, 2022

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random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Tuesday, April 11th

never enough

Hearing the right music at the right time can alter the trajectory of your day, as I found, again, yesterday, listening to this.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), piano

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random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

Monday, April 10th

sounds of Johannesburg 

Kebra Ethiopia Sound System, live, Johannesburg (South Africa), 4/6/23

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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

Sunday, April 9th

sounds of Chicago

Pilgrim Jubilees, “Father, I’m Coming Home,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1968

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random sights

other day, Chicago

Saturday, April 8th

sounds of Buenos Aires

Juana Molina (1961-, voice, guitar, keyboards, electronics, compositions) with Diego López de Arcaute (drums, percussion), live, Buenos Aires (CCK [Centro Cultural Kirchner]), 2022

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yesterday, Chicago

Tuesday, April 4th

basement jukebox

Bobby Womack (1944-2014), “Across 110th Street” (B. Womack, J. J. Johnson), 1973

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other day, Chicago

Monday, April 3rd

sound . . . by . . . sound . . . by . . .

AMM (Eddie Prévost, percussion; Keith Rowe, electric guitar, electronics; John Tilbury, piano), live, Berlin, 2019

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reading table

The old pond—
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694; translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass)

Sunday, April 2nd

back to church

“I Came to Jesus as I Was,” Citywide Hymn Choir of Charlotte, N.C., live, Charlotte (Antioch Baptist Church), published 2021

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Saturday, April 1st

like nobody else

Lonnie Holley (1950-), “I Am a Part of the Wonder” (L. Holley, et al.), feat. Moor Mother, 2023

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other day, Chicago