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I just heard the BBC Radio 3 interview with Sylvian about Manafon and was horrified that he's pronouncing the album title wrongly. Well, I say wrongly, he can pronounce it however the hell he likes, it's his album, but seeing as the whole thing is a reference to R.S. Thomas, it should be Man-AH-von,...

I'm amazed at the negativity and narrow-mindedness on display here. Vuvuzela is the purest form of improvised folk music.

Go Go Discogs Dot Com!

Tetuzi Akiyama & Gul3: Nero's Expedition
Tetuzi Akiyama: Pre-Existence
Knead: This Melting Happiness - I Want You to Realise it is Another Trap
Kuupuu: Unilintu
Yokomono 02: 55 Locked Grooves
Yokomono 03: 55 Locked Grooves

how did you end up where you are now, liking what you like, listening to what you listen to. This will sound much more flippant than it's meant to be, but in order for you to know that about me, you'd have had to have followed me around closely, everywhere, all the time, for the last 35 years. But ...

I don't know what is correctly classified as Sound Poetry or not Sound Poetry, but check out some of the stuff The Bohman Brothers get up to. In addition to their wonderful junk shop bric-a-brac work, they do things with speech, which is particularly interesting as Adam Bohman has a pronounced stutt...

I'll comment on this here, rather than directly on Richard's blog, as I'm not registered there: The problem that exists in the area of music I personally write about however is that there is a distinct shortage of writers about the music. An impossible task, but I'd be interested to know whether thi...

Belated birthday present to myself:

Thuja: Thuja...
Blind Willie McTell: Scarey Day Blues 2LP
Rhodri Davies / Louisa Hendrikien Martin: Soldercup
AMP: astralmoonbeamprojections
Empress: Empress (Geographic)
Empress: The Sounds They Made
Public Image Ltd: The Flowers of Romance

Aihiyo's excruciating, blistering, ridiculous and unrecognisable cover of Satisfaction on the second Live album is almost as good as their version of Be My Baby and Be Bop-a-Lula The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra take Jumpin' Jack Flash into outer space Not far-out, but very very good: Otis Redding's...

I moved house and forgot about this, and now I'm a week late. Next time, next time...

Looking forward to hearing everyone else's stuff, anyway.

Len Lye is certainly worth a mention - although best known for his films, he also made kinetic art. Atoll put out a CD of recordings of his 'machines' as Composing Motion . Samples on Brainwashed Might be stretching the initial request a bit, but Project Dark have also used metal in unconventional ...

Saturday morning vinyl:







More Moondog / The Story of Moondog / C-Schulz & Hajsch

you should try to find his Who'll Buy My Memories double CD (by which I mean MP3s, as it's long OOP), which is pretty much as good as country music gets IMO, and which I'd take over anything by any of the other people you mention there. if that still doesn't do it for you, then you'll never like hi...

It baffles me how anyone can take Current 93 seriously. I've tried listening to as much as I can via Spotify, and it's just laughable melodramatic teen-angst mysticism. Plus David Tibet has such a weak voice. What's that all about? Am I missing something? Someone else I simply don't get: Willie Nels...

Given that most 'things' don't emit sound without some external force compelling them to do so, do we assume that the external force in every case will purely be (electricity +) the human body? How about just the hands, rather the whole body (just thinking about hair/mouths etc)? Should we specifica...

I used to live near there. See also the Monticello Dam Glory Hole: http://xemanhdep.com/gallery/awesome_photos/awesome_photos07.jpg More big, frightening holes here: http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/09/biggest-holes-in-world.html and here: http://gallery.xemanhdep.com/2009/03/top-10-amazing-hol...

the "magic of analog" I'm not convinced there's any such thing in the way that I think you're implying. The intial question wasn't born out of any rejection of the 'cold, clinical' brutality of digital audio, I think that's nonsense - it's purely convenience for me. I don't have a CD player other t...

I've had a hard time finding anything that can beat Julie Doiron 's trio of Will You Still Love Me / Heart and Crime / Desormais for fragile, melancholy beauty. Haven't heard much of her more recent stuff, but what I did hear didn't grab me as nearly as good. Jessica Bailiff doesn't get the attentio...

Is there any? Given the small number of units sold in the world of composer/performer / EAI / you-know-what-I-mean, vinyl isn't the most cost-effective medium, but I'll be glad to hear of any specific instances or recommendations. Especially if vinyl is the only release format, i.e. not just a strai...