Ed Pinsent

Very special broadcast today at 16:00 on @resonancefm.bsky.social
"Unfaithful Cover Versions" is the theme of the show, Ed in conversation with Philip Sanderson who will be talking about his Residents cover versions CD and his "Morphover & Curl" album.

Varese ionisation, maybe?

What troubles me is creators who have the confidence crisis AND they don't produce anything either. I'd say you're right if your intuition tells you to keep making things!

I realise that page is a mistake, but it also looks great - like a graphical score or a page of concrete poetry. I for one would buy a whole book like that. Have a look at the work of Bob Cobbing.

Everyone loves mysterious pagan folk-horror these days, so here's a great experimental drone-metal record by Diairies of Destruction with the Mari Llwd on the cover.
https://www.thesoundprojector.com/2026/02/15/horse-rotorvators/

"Antennae Galaxies composite of ALMA and Hubble observations" by VesperDEM is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse.

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He seemed to prefer the realistic mode. But as time goes on I think I rather like the huge eyebrows and large noses of Supercar and Fireball XL5.

I never noticed until the 1980s, how in later Gerry Anderson shows the puppets became more "realistic". Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 for sure. An art college friend and devotee of daytime television pointed this out.

This story reminds me of the Hanafuda card for November. Rain and poet with frog. You are the poet, Woodrow!
Hanafuda are Japanese Flower Cards aligned with the seasons...it's a simple matching card game, but the images are lovely.

Yesterday's radio show is now available for streaming. I had a lot of fun putting together this tribute to the Recommended Records label (now called ReR Megacorp). Broadcast on @resonancefm.bsky.social
https://www.thesoundprojector.com/2026/02/08/recommended-records-ii/

Added this to Discogs today. Unfortunately the copy I have (HMV CLP 1163) is a bit trashed, but I'm going to attempt to clean it shortly. Jazz played on bass, violin, cello, and guitars from 1957. Wotta cover, eh?

I had subscriptions to all of those titles at one time or another. The newsagent would drop them through the letterbox every week, at my family home in Liverpool.

There's a good collection of Smash! in the Wayback Machine. Not sure if they're all under a single folder, but here's a link to one issue.

https://archive.org/details/smash19690201157monty

Burning an archive seems a drastic step! Did they offer it to a local history library first? (Asking as a professional archivist).
Secondly, zines are a good way of filling these story gaps. In fact small press is good for lotsa things. (Speaking as a self-publisher since 1982).

It's Jean Cocteau's finest film...more widely known by its French title Orphée. It's a retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Surrealism and poetry abound. The descent into the underworld sequences are among my favourite moments in cinema. Recommended!

I'd be disappointed if it wasn't this

https://youtu.be/Dn8m6GwC-jA?si=RYRABkwkXCfQJvOQ

Music-wise I am having a minimalist week...who knew you could spin this gem by Eliane Radique on the Wayback Machine? I have a copy of the CD, but if you're away from home as I was, it's a godsend.

https://archive.org/details/eliane-radigue--trilogie-de-la-mort

Pencilled version of a panel from a comic by Ed Pinsent. A tiger entered the arena. No, not a tiger, it was my dog. A gladiator looks uncertain while a woman runs away in terror. On the sand are body parts of fallen warriors.

"Are you working on a new comic, Ed?" Well, I may have started something over Christmas. Very short episodes, which may eventually add up to a longer book.

Watchmen has many such images that don't explain themselves instantly; they may be packed with semiotic layers, or may simply be odd and unusual. I like the way the creators refused quick-and-easy reading; they seemed determined to make us keep looking at the page.

The long dimly-lit scene of Woodward's sleepless night is a piece of remarkable cinema. File alongside that similar scene in Lynch's "Lost Highway".

The best opening lines Kafka never wrote.

Comics projects and publications by Pinsent for year 2025, 4 of 4: Henrietta The Pirate of Love finally saw print in full colour. I also appeared in The Jigsaw Review. Cover of Feature Fables shows Dauphin appearing in a Le Corbusier bathroom.

Comics projects and publications by Pinsent for year 2025, 3 of 4: added hand-separated colour to old Astorial booklets from 1986. The Astorial Feature Fables book was all-new stories.

Comics projects and publications by Pinsent for year 2025, 2 of 4: Windy Wilberforce in a new Jackanapes tale, plus guest appearance in The Bugle for John Bagnall. Cut-out puppet of Illegal Batman was popular at fairs.

Comics projects and publications by Pinsent for year 2025, 1 of 4: Astorial Shower app for @colossive.com , followed by 15 sketchcards for them in September.

Last night's viewing was 'Cat People' (RKO 1943). From my 2008 DVD boxed set "The Val Lewton Horror Collection". Jacques Tourneur direction; very poetic, & much narrative economy (only 73 mins long).

Anything on Kitchen Leg is pretty amazing, but try starting with this... melodic power-pop with plenty of new wave, punk and psychedelic flavours.

https://kitchenlegrecordsberlin.bandcamp.com/album/ultrabonus-el-casino-de-la-muerte

Not wishing to hijack your thread old bean, but I'm sure you'd enjoy this book of Typewriter Art I happen to have on my shelves. (Edited by Alan Riddell, 1975) A great collection of lost experiments.

Last night's viewing. All the remakes of Body Snatchers are aces with me, including the one by Abel Ferrara. This 1978 Philip Kaufman rendition is brilliant, especially the first 30 mins with unsettling hints, screams from nowhere, and stares from alien faces. Music by Denny Zeitlin - weird synths!

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