sounds of England
Street singer Poppy joined by Seal (talking, “I Shot the Sheriff” [B. Marley], “Redemption Song” [B. Marley], “Kiss from a Rose” [Seal]), live, Manchester, 2016
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of England
Four Tet (AKA Kieran Hebden), BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, 3/17/18
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there’s no shame
that you totter . . .
old chrysanthemum—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
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Tim Hecker, “That World,” 2019
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yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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Laurie Anderson, “My Right Eye” (L. Anderson), Homeland, 2010
soundtrack to a dream
Tim Hecker, Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006)
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A life that is here and now is timeless.
—William Carlos Williams, Selected Essays (1969)
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Laurie Anderson (with Bill Laswell [bass], Colin Stetson [bass saxophone], et al.), “Only An Expert” (L. Anderson), live (TV show), 2010
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A career in vestige management.
A dream job
back-engineering
shifts in salience.I’m so far
behind the curve
on this.So. Cal.
must connect with
so-calledto manufacture
the present.Ubiquity’s
the new in-jokebar-code hard-on,
a catch-phrase
in every segment.—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Manufacturing”
like nobody else
Laurie Anderson, “Language of the Future,” Dublin, 2017
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Each day we go somewhere we’ve never been before.
what’s new
The Pedrito Martinez Group (PM, percussion, lead vocals; Sebastian Natal, electric bass, vocals; Jhair Sala, percussion, vocals; Issac Delgado Jr., keyboards, vocals), “Tuvé Una Revelación,” live, Washington, D.C., 2/20/19
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Oak Park, Ill, this morning
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March!
sounds of New York
Louie Vega (DJ), live, New York, 12/18/18
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