Friday, November 4th
only rock ‘n’ roll
PJ Harvey, “The Letter,” live (TV show), London, 2004
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lagniappe
baseball: Chicago Cubs
You have to believe in order to see things, and I do believe.
—Joe Maddon, after Game 7
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: London
2016
2016
Thursday, August 11th
sounds of London
DJ EZ, live, London, 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
She went around pre-registered
for her own eventual absence.—Rae Armantrout, “Hoard”
2016
Tuesday, August 9th
sounds of London
Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden), live, London, 2016
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lagniappe
reading table
father and son
go their separate ways . . .
blossom viewing—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2015
Tuesday, October 27th
More Wadada.
Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), Louis Moholo (percussion), Steve Noble (percussion), live, London, 2010
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Listening to live music, as I was over the weekend (hearing this guy with a quartet Saturday night, then by himself Sunday afternoon), reminds one, repeatedly, that this moment is irretrievable.
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2015
Wednesday, June 10th
keep on dancin’
Four Tet (AKA Kieran Hebden), live, London, 2015
How many DJs lead off with Albert Ayler?
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lagniappe
random sights
Monday morning
Louisville, Kentucky
2015
Wednesday, April 22nd
sounds of South Africa
Fantasma, “Basbizile,” live, London, 2015
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Another take (Free Love, 2015)
2014
Saturday, February 8th
a gathering of birds
Evan Parker Quartet (EP, soprano saxophone; Peter Evans, trumpet; John Russell, guitar; John Edwards, bass), live, London, 2009
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Music offers a way out of our little cluttered closet.
2011
Monday, 9/19/11
Dub shows aren’t an everyday thing in Chicago, so last night, despite the weather (rain) and weariness (from traveling to see a client in prison), I ventured out to a club to catch this guy. A show like this isn’t just an aural experience: each beat of the bass vibrates your ribcage.
Mad Professor (AKA Neil Fraser, born 1955, Guyana)
Live, London, 2011
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Live remix, Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Lively Up Yourself,” c. 2008
Vodpod videos no longer available.2011
Wednesday, 8/10/11
keep on dancing
(an occasional series)
Peven Everett, “Stuck”
take 1: live, London, 2008
Vodpod videos no longer available.***
take 2: original recording (Soul Heaven Records 2006)
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take 3: Phil Asher Remix (2006)
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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take 4: Groove Assassin Remix (2007)
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lagniappe
Did you come up in the house music community of Chicago?
My brother was in that community before he passed away. Every night he was going out. That was a way of me basically paying homage to him, and finding the fruit, if you will, in that community that had yet to been picked. There’s so much that has to be said about music, and dance music altogether. People have been dancing since the beginning of time, so I don’t know what this whole “dance music” [label] is about.
—Peven Everett, Chicago Reader, 7/21/11
2011
Tuesday, 8/9/11
sounds of London
(an occasional series)
Drowned City
(documentary on London’s pirate radio scene [forthcoming])
#1
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#2
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