Ever heard this instrument before? (Me neither.)
Kazue Sawai (1941-), bass koto, live, Tokyo, 2009
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reading table
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
—Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), “Worstword Ho” (1983)
Bumping into something wonderful you never heard before—something you didn’t even know existed—can lift up your entire week, as this did mine when I encountered it the other day (WFMU, Sinner’s Crossroads, 9/21/17 [archived]).
Theotis Taylor, “If I Could Just Hold out until Tomorrow,” live, Atlanta, c. 1976
mesmerizing
Enno Poppe (1969-), Stoff (2015); Ensemble Dal Niente (Enno Poppe, guest cond.), live, Chicago, 2016
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found words
I’m above the soil—and I love it.
—Neighbor’s response this morning when I asked how he was doing.
what’s new
Moses Sumney, “Doomed” (Aromanticism), 2017
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art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Izumi Masatoshi (1938-), Islands (Shima tachi), 2000
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
András Schiff (piano), live, London, 9/7/17
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Cold night: the wild duck,
sick, falls from the sky
and sleeps awhile.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Robert Hass
sounds of Jamaica
Gregory Isaacs (1951-2010), “Kingston 14” (Made in Jamaica), 2006
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
sounds of Jamaica
Lee “Scratch” Perry, Junior Murvin, The Heptones, The Congos, The Upsetters, “Play On Mr. Music,” live, Jamaica (Roots Rock Reggae [1977])
sounds of Jamaica
Burning Spear, live, France (Carhaix), 1999
old school
Lil Blair and The Violinaires, “Tell Me How Long,” live, North Carolina (near Wilmington), 2007
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random sights
this morning, outside Chicago (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
sounds of Jamaica
Sugar Minott (1956-2010)
Live, London, 1984
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Talking and singing, 1988
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