sounds of New York
Craig Taborn (piano, electronics), Cory Smythe (piano, electronics), “X’s and Y’s,” live, New York, 2018
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SHOE FROM THE WAVES
oh he got a shoe from the waves
—Robert Grenier (1941-), A Day at the Beach (1984)
soundtrack to a dream
Why not begin the week with something new?
Christopher Trapani (1980-), Writing Against Time (2014); Yarn/Wire, live, New York, 2014
timeless
Wailers (Bob Marley, vocals, guitar; Peter Tosh, vocals, guitar; Bunny Wailer, vocals, percussion, et al.), “Stir It Up” (B. Marley), live (studio), London, 1973
sounds of New York
Lily Maase and the Suite Unraveling (LM, guitar, compositions; Jeff Tobias, tenor saxophone, keyboards; Nick Millevoi, bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums; with guests Val Jeanty, electronics, and Chelsea Baratz, tenor saxophone), live, New York (The Stone), 3/12/19
“Made to Be Broken”
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“Life at Stylus Point”
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
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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random sights
Oak Park, Ill, this morning
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random thoughts
March!
Feel like floating?
Brian Eno, Thursday Afternoon, 1985 (Jonathan Jolly, video, 2014)
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Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill)
sounds of the Netherlands
Binkbeats (drums, percussion, bass, electronics) feat. Niels Broos (keyboards), “Little Nerves,” live (studio), Netherlands (Utrecht), 2017
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
what’s new
Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux (QN, tenor saxophone, composition; David Binney, alto saxophone; Matt Mitchell, piano, keyboards, modular synthesizer; Nat Wood, drums; with guest Jason Barnsely, 1924 Kimball theatre organ), “Bounce,” video by Lee Hutzulak, 1/14/19
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out of this world
DJ Carl Craig and drummer Francisco Mora play Sun Ra, live, Paris, 2018
sounds of London
Yussef Dayes (drums) and Alpha Mist (keyboards), with Mansur Brown (guitar), Rocco Palladino (bass), “Love Is the Message,” live (studio), 2018
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opening the window
I see the butterfly off . . .
into the field—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
