Tuesday, April 21st
sounds of Malawi
The Very Best with Mafalika, “Let’s Go,” live, Malawi (Kumbali Village), 2/15
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Another take (Makes a King, 4/15)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: miscellaneous electronics
2015
2015
Monday, April 13th
This I could listen to all day.
Daniel Lanois, “Senegal,” “Opera,” “The Collection of Marie Claire,” live (studio performance), Washington (Shoreline), 2/27/15
2015
Saturday, April 4th
sounds old and new
Nathan Davis (mbira, electronics), Simple Songs of Birth and Return
Live, Chicago, 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
In the fifth century, the sun used to rise every morning and lie down to sleep every evening just as it does now. In the morning, as the first sunbeams kissed the dew, the earth would come to life and the air would fill with sounds of joy, hope, and delight, while in the evening the same earth would fall silent and be swallowed by stern darkness. Day was like day, night like night.
—Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), “Without a Title” (translated from Russian by Robert Chandler [Anton Chekhov’s Selected Stories, Cathy Popkin, ed.])
2015
Friday, March 20th
Sounds echo across generations. Here, on the 88th birthday of my long-gone father, are sounds I first heard through my sons.
TV on the Radio, live (studio performance), Santa Monica, 2014
2015
Tuesday, March 10th
sounds of Chicago
Matthias Kranebitter (1980-), pack the box (with five dozen of my liquor jugs) (2013)
Mocrep, live, Chicago, 2014
[vimeo 111677932 w=560&h=315]
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lagniappe
reading table
Collage=life.
—Joseph Cornell, diary entry, 1964
2014
Monday, December 29th
what’s new
Dirty Beaches, “Time Washes Everything Away,” 12/14 (video)
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lagniappe
random thoughts: New Year’s resolution #3
Give up the wish to live in a world where making New Year’s resolutions would be something more than a reminder of how laughably little is within our control.
2014
Friday, November 28th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Couldn’t make it to Paris? (Me neither.)
St. Vincent, live, Paris, 10/31/14
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lagniappe
reading table
Most of the time I think of the self as a snare, and I don’t like being trapped in it. I try to reach out beyond my pittance of experience and connect to the world, but it turns out one way to do that is to be honest and accurate about my own life. I’m not convinced the personal is all that unique, anyway. It sometimes seems immoderate to claim really exceptional personal experiences, even though some of those experiences, particularly the painful ones, leave you with the worst feelings of isolation, feelings that have all the character of an absolutely individual, completely unprecedented experience—but you always find out that you aren’t alone. There are others, lots of others.
—Charles D’Ambrosio, email interview, New Yorker blog, 11/26/14
2014
Friday, November 21st
Insomniacs of generations past could never have imagined a world where an unwelcome awakening would yield a jewel like this.
Four Tet (AKA Kieran Hebden), live, Paris, 11/1/14
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lagniappe
found words
Don’t Postpone Joy!
—album title (Joe McPhee Survival Unit III)
2014
Thursday, October 16th
Like you’ve never heard him before.
James Tenney (1934-2006), Collage No. 1 (“Blue Suede”), 1961
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lagniappe
art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), Detroit, 1955
2014
Wednesday, October 15th
sounds of Argentina
Juana Molina, live, Paris, 2013*
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Tempo, rhythm, improvisation—baseball, too, is music.
Mike Moustakas (third base), Kansas City Royals, 10/14/14
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
– Wed 21 00:50
– Eras 04:06
– Lo decidi yo 10:11
– Ay, no se ofendan 14:41
– Un dia 21:20
– Las edades 29:03
– Sin guia, no 34:59
– Final feliz 41:15
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