Jonathan Koven

Only on YouTube?

Totally get the production comment. Still a good record tho

Psycho Tropical Berlin, by LA FEMME 18 track album

lafemmeressort.bandcamp.com/album/psycho...

Hey Skyfam. It’s my birthday and there’s nothing I would love more than selling a few of my books today. I have four, so take your pick! You can get them here: linktr.ee/jonathankoven

graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

Invisible - El Anillo del Capitan Beto [Argentina, Rock/Psych](1976)

Invisible - El Anillo del Capitan Beto [Argentina, Rock/Psych](1976)
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All David Lynch ❤️, Studio Ghibli films, Apichatpong Weerasethakul films, old ECM / new age / ambient, Miles Davis and all his iterations, Sigur Rós live, old Argentinian music—spec. Litto Nebbia’s 70s-mid 80s run, impressionist and surrealist art, particularly Picasso and van Gogh, and so much more.

Same haha! Great first listen!

Write for your worst reader. But to upset them.

tbh bluesky has exactly the same problem as twitter — needs more people committed to the shortform poetic arts; to wielding the platform to catalyze meaningful work & prosocial ends; to uplifting and multiplying the positive forces of others…

不思議 (2023ラッカーマスターサウンド) Akina Nakamori · Album · 1986 · 10 songs

Have not stopped spinning this since first hearing it a few months ago. Unreal Japanese album from the 80’s, precursor to Cocteau Twins type sound.

open.spotify.com/album/5dtXlf...

I feel like most of my followers know this but because I see a lot of cis folks who have a specific blind spot for it:

This includes the theme park. I don't care if you want Butterbeer or want to get a wand or are already there so why not just walk in. It's all Her. Everything with the name is Her.

💯 it’s a special film. Blew my mind when I saw that they cast the actual former inmates!

Have you seen Sing Sing? That’s a recent one that blew me away.

Thrilled this piece found a home! Check out our collaborative poem, as inspired by Guglielmo Alberto Nacci’s beautiful, obscure painting below ⬇️

Hi new followers! Just a quick intro: I’m a writer based in Philly with four books out right now, two poetry books and two literary fiction novels. Grab a copy of one of them here: linktr.ee/jonathankoven! Currently working on a big fiction project with multiple timelines and POVs 📚

Been riding the Japanese music train since visiting there a few weeks ago! Have always been into Japanese ambient but loving all the non-ambient shit I’ve discovered. These guys rule.

Ramble for Thirst by Jonathan Koven My tongue sips gold from your spine tonight. Syrup squalls, cleanse my taste like rain. Streets clean, rain sweetens the eyes. Is it enough to ask: river mouth or door? Nothing to mask: river mouth a door, and I should be mere salt of the earth. And I should salt slush of your snow, whisper easy fires to sink so soft within. Scarlet and lucent, fire whispers within, and pleasure, a mountain screaming. And pleasure, a mountain screaming, stoked starlight trembling in valley water. Stars for light, lips stroke the trembling water. My tongue drinks gold from your spine tonight.

Honored to have this new duplex poem included in the ‘24 Featured Poets Anthology by @moonstonearts.bsky.social! This is my first piece to be published (outside of a collection) after almost two years 🥰

It’s been so hard to feel motivated to write lately. Asking my fellow poets and authors here… What’s keeping you going? How do you beat the fatigue?

Your monthly reminder:

Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

No Lynch tribute is extremely disappointing.

Thanks everyone for following along my musical journey this month! Until next year! #MWE

Also, def going to post here more often now that I’ve deleted Twitter. Good to be among friends! To all my new friends here, plz check out my books! I write lit fiction and poetry, and often combine the two 😎

Hell yeah. Def planning on just going through their discography at some point. Early ambient is one of my fav genres.

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon (1975)

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Tangerine Dream - Rubycon (1975)

This soaring ambient classic from Germany vaporized me with its mystical, murky grandeur, diffusing me into the molten cosmos. Gloomy, fluting mellotron echoes warble among simmering synths, dreamy piano, and majestic choirs. A perfect vortex of sound.

Fave slowcore stuff is American Analog Set, Acetone, some Red House Painters. I don't love too much of it but when it hits, it's fantastic.

Korni Grupa - Korni Grupa (1972)

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Korni Grupa - S/T (1972)

Epic welcome to the vast world of ex-Yugoslavia prog. Fitting, as it was one of the first rock albums to ever release there. Masterful exhibition of ethnic Serbian instrumentation & melodies—fusing jazz, blues, & psychedelia to a frenetic yet tasteful triumph.

Bazar de los milagros, by Litto Nebbia 8 track album

¡ Today’s Album !

Litto Nebbia - Bazar de los Milagros (1976)

Soaring synth solos, magical modulations, impassioned vox—an immersive, enchanting joyride drifting from Earth to space. Intro to “Bituca” hits me in my soul! Glad I listened to the bonus version. I fear the Discogs grail.

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Toda Canción Será Plegaria / The Naked Word Litto Nebbia · Album · 1979 · 26 songs

Weirdly enough, the other version on spotify is a better rip. His discog is sadly a mess there. I'd also rec:

Toda Canción Será Plegaria open.spotify.com/album/4zDiLZ... (tracks 1-14)
Creer
Despertemos en América open.spotify.com/album/6YXLSD... (tracks 11-19)
Muerte en la Catedral
Fuera del Cielo

2Pac - All Eyez On Me (1996)

#MWE Day 27
2Pac - All Eyez On Me (1996)

His last album before his murder, this is my intro to him. No wonder it’s deemed one of the greatest of all time. Exceptional angry & ruminative lyrics over G-funk, from the West Coast gangsta-poet / activist who transcended art into being a revolutionary 🔥

Enjoy. His run from 1972 to the early 80’s is unreal, had me obsessed all last year.