sounds of Melbourne (by way of Chicago and New York)
Honey Dijon (DJ), live, Melbourne, 2018
Honey Dijon grew up on the south side of Chicago, in a family that she describes as very musical. She began clubbing during her mid-teens with her parents’ acceptance as long as her academics did not suffer.
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last night, Oak Park, Ill.
insomniac’s delight
You can, I’ve found, stumble upon all kinds of things at 3 a.m.
Harrison Divecha, “Atmospheric Dub Techno and Deep Electronic Mix,” 2018
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other night, Oak Park, Ill.
what’s new
Jaimie Branch (trumpet, compositions), “Bird Dogs of Paradise,” published 9/26/19
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yesterday, Chicago
What better way to begin the week?
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano), “Don’t Blame Me” (J. McHugh, D. Fields), live, Denmark, 1966
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
what’s new
Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), “Happens to the Heart” (L. Cohen), published 10/25/19
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Interview excerpt, published 11/8/19
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what’s new
He’s one of a handful of DJs whose every mix I look forward to hearing.
Four Tet (AKA Kieran Hebden), live, New York, 11/12/19
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
next week in Chicago
She’s performing Monday at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Caterina Barbieri (modular synthesizer), live, Italy (Genoa), 2015
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a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
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I’ve always been aware of being an inconsistent personality. Of having a lot of contradictory voices knocking around my head. As a kid, I was ashamed of it. Other people seemed to feel strongly about themselves, to know exactly who they were. I was never like that. I could never shake the suspicion that everything about me was the consequence of a series of improbable accidents—not least of which was the 400 trillion–to-one accident of my birth. As I saw it, even my strongest feelings and convictions might easily be otherwise, had I been the child of the next family down the hall, or the child of another century, another country, another God.
—Zadie Smith, “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction,” New York Review of Books, 10/24/19
sounds of Haiti and Chicago
Nathalie Joachim (vocals, electronics) with Spektral Quartet, “Papa Loco” (trad.), live (studio), New York, published 10/29/19
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She cries. Oh no. Oh no no no.
—Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
This—more of this 12th-century composer—I could listen to all day.
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), O vis aeternitatis; Eleni-Lydia Stamellou, Aeterna Choir, Teodor Currentzis (director), live, Russia (Perm), 2016
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John Escreet Trio (JS, piano, compositions; John Hébert, bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums, vibraphone), live, Amsterdam, 2014
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Listen carefully,
Neither the Vedas
Nor the Qur’an
Will teach you this:
Put the bit in its mouth,
The saddle on its back,
Your foot in the stirrup,
And ride your wild runaway mind
All the way to heaven.—Kabir (15th century), translated from Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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