Saturday, October 21st
sounds of Western Sahara
Group Doueh, live, New Jersey (Jersey City), 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Tag: WFMU
2015
Sunday, November 29th
These sounds, which I bumped into the other night on the radio (Sinner’s Crossroads, WFMU), I can’t get out of my head—not that I’d want to.
Rev. Charles White, “How Long,” c. 1948
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2014
Saturday, November 29th
alone
Tashi Dorji, live (WFMU performance space), Jersey City, N.J., 9/7/14
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lagniappe
reading table
‘Like manufacturers’ instructions. In case of failure, try words.’
—Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
2014
Saturday, July 5th
Ernst Reijseger (cello) with Harmen Fraanje (organ), “Shadow” (Cave of Forgotten Dreams), live
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lagniappe
art beat
Timothy H. O’Sullivan (1840-1882), Pyramid Lake, Nevada, 1867
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Each week brings new discoveries. Yesterday, on the radio (WFMU, Give the Drummer Some), I heard this cellist for the first time. This photographer I bumped into Wednesday at the Art Institute of Chicago. Next week?
2014
Saturday, March 15th
serendipity*
Christopher DeLaurenti (sampling Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On” [1971]), live, Seattle, 2009
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lagniappe
reading table: passings
Bill Knott, February 17, 1940-March 12, 2014
Night Thought
Compared to one’s normal clothes, pajamas
are just as caricature as the dreams
they bare: farce-skins, facades, unserious
soft versions of the mode diem, they seem
to have come from a posthumousness;
floppy statues of ourselves, slack seams
of death. Their form mimics the decay
that will fit us so comfortably someday.
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*This I bumped into yesterday, listening to the radio (WFMU: Miniature Minotaurs [Kurt Gottschalk]).
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