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Before all talk of the Wire's Rewind recedes into the distance, a quick mention for 'Ist gefallen in den Schnee', the disc by the Swedish ensemble Skogen (+ Toshi Nakamura and Angharad Davies), which made it into The Wire's top 10 discs of composed music, but probably passed most IHM-ers by. As I w...

Seth - agreed with Jesse/Simon. I'd be interested in your list. It's the word "best" that screws up this kind of thing isn't it? That and the idea that anybody's list should be taken terribly seriously. Get rid of that and it's just a nice end of year ritual where we all get suggestions for things w...

10 things I really enjoyed with no attempt to be definitive (there's a lot on all the lists so far that I want to hear, but won't get around to for a while): Kevin Drumm - Relief Cat Lamb - Three Bodies Moving Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry Live at Buffalo Stephen Cornford - Binatone Galaxy Juli...

I for one would like to see something more in depth Couldn't agree more. But I don't see how that prevents me from giving such slight congratulations to AT and all involved for this little bit of recognition - which is all I was trying to do. I've not heard it, but a fair few people I know have, an...

On the basis of what I've heard from it I don't particularly disagree with that... pretty nice list. Really not keen on that Araw/Congos disc (listening to it first time today as it happens inspired by playing the thoroughly ridiculous Hotline Miami. Thought it was just plain bad - and I've been enj...

Such a broad area, and I reckon you'll pretty quickly find out which bits of it you like best. Below: not "classic era" noise, but I'm too young to have been buying records when tape trading etc. was at its peak. I got into this stuff later on. Take this as: "I'm not a huge noise listener, but these...

Could it be in part because so many people here know "this music", are to some degree immersed in it and have internalised the critical expectations that come with it? Where the music is new (in the sense that critical expectations are for a while at least uncertain) , or finds a new audience - even...

A good way to play a show is to find a cheap venue, invite some other people whose music you like to play, and also play on the bill yourself. But most importantly - you get to play by involving yourself in the music and supporting it. Buy tapes/cdrs direct from musicians you like, generally take an...

I'm a Jazz know-nothing and I know very little of his playing, but Shipp's The Trio Plays Ware (his tunes, but he doesn't play) is among my most played jazz records. Fantastic tunes.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HVL8escreAQ/T7KRezchelI/AAAAAAAAAKk/k37-k_bDk3g/s1600/spring-summer-autumn-winter-and-spring-5.jpg Kim Ki-duk, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring , 2003 I love that film. Things like the freestanding doorways sans walls - and the way they're still observed. What di...

http://www.critikat.com/local/cache-vignettes/L450xH256/1-2-3facf.jpg So I finally got round to watching Funny Games (the original German version, that is) - and am simultaneously overwhelmed by the amount of stuff written on it and (slightly) underwhelmed by the film itself. Firstly, fell off the ...

So he seems to have taken a quasi-Wittgensteinian line about that "whereof one cannot speak" There's that fantastic passage in FM which I think supports this. Again, very powerful precisely because of the separation of regimes of thought, and what that separation declines to say. Everyone has obser...

Apologies - I agree not the best way of phrasing it, and I agree it's important to be more careful than I was in this area. But as for your point about checking facts, I think that's a little off - so far as I can tell it's far from conclusive that Metaxas wasn't a fascist - his regime is very often...

Want something technically difficult? Try Xenakis's Formalized Music . As I type there is a copy of that book to my left. I took it from a library in hopes of finding new ways to control material, or at the very least better understand Xenakis' own methodology. I have achieved neither. But I do thi...

Xenakis was supposedly a pretty difficult chap too and, if I understand correctly, a fascist for a short while. He was never a fascist. (Where did you get that from?) And personally he was a generous and gentle character who however had no patience with bullshit of any kind. I remember from reading...

FM is a horrible book even if you understand the maths - which isn't actually difficult. And I love Xenakis. I never felt it was obfuscatory though - just badly expressed. There is that one grandiosely spiritual Stockhausen essay - forget the name, read it an age ago and it is just obfuscation in se...

Tonight!
I'm told it'll be mr Lescalleet's only solo UK show as it's turned out.

Arrived this morning and it's really very good

Tomorrow night!

This Sat!

Facebook event here:
If anyone has Bristolian friends but can't make it themselves we'd really appreciate it being spread around.

https://www.facebook.com/events/347586402000494/