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Very pleased to announce a So Watt special for this year's London Jazz Festival. This time: Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's landmark series about improvisation, projected from the best materials. In stereo and in full and in a single afternoon. November 15th.
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Derek Bailey c. 1973.
In the studio for the recording, 9 July 2025.
Stewart Lee, presenter Matthew Parris, and 'expert' Ian Greaves outside old Broadcasting House.
Radio Times 'pick of the week' preview piece.
It was a pleasure to be asked by Stewart Lee and producer Miles Warde to sit in as the 'expert' on Great Lives this coming Monday at 3pm on BBC Radio 4, to celebrate Derek Bailey.
Our chance to honour him. No idea how it will come out, but we did our best.
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All his ECM albums are excellent, with the likes of Barre Phillips and Mat Maneri chipping in occasionally. ECM at its best.
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PART CHIMP - LIVE at NO90 Hackney for Baba Yaga's Hut 19th Anniversary Celebration π₯³
Very pleased to have captured this. I love Part Chimp and it's great to finally record them with good sound - no mean feat considering they're one of the loudest bands around.
Full film in the comms πππ
Cover design for Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene.
A Beltane night treat for you all⦠We're excited to announce our latest book, Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene, delving into the making and creative development of David Rudkin's classic television film, written by @greavesian.bsky.social. Pre-order now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com
01.05.2025 19:12 β π 145 π 47 π¬ 5 π 12
first new music from Tortoise since 2016 β¨
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Available to listen back here. Happy birthday Amina Claudine Myers!
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Sofia Gubaidulina on March 13, 2025. She was regarded as the grande dame of contemporary music and the most significant Russian composer of our time.
Β© Bodil Maroni Jensen
#SofiaGubaidulina
Oh yeah, I was definitely in a minority with the Talk Talk appreciation. And I didn't like their then-current recordings when I subsequently checked them out. I can't remember the order of things, so sure you are right, though it does seem surprising. In retrospect, John Martyn was undervalued.
13.03.2025 13:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What made that day was how excited everyone - including the band - seemed to be that it was happening at all (+ it was a good show).
13.03.2025 12:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0... The same year, I got to see some other big dogs (The Who; those Rolling Stones) and the last outing of the classic MotΓΆrhead. That's enough nostalgia for today.
09.03.2025 14:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nice. Decent audio from the whole set. A grand day out. Well worth Β£9. I was very impressed with opening act Talk Talk. And just 9 weeks later, I got to see the current incarnation of Genesis at the NEC.
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Don't tell anyone, but Daniel Blumbergβs remarkable two hour live performance from an empty Oto in 2020, just before the world shut down, can be found here.
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Finally decided on a third album to jazz juice my 2024 AOTY list, after a superb concert at the Vortex in January tinyurl.com/2b6b6vrj
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This Z. M. Dagar Dhrupad sitar recording, featuring the maestroβs deep, slow, spiritual musings which create a meditative space and inspired tension of timeless universal value, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2022/02/indi...
#India
Actually, my AOTY should probably be this transplendent 1979 LP of Maquam by Arab ud lutist Jamil Ghanim, which I downloaded from the consistently excellent MusicRepublic blog. It's just beautiful. music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/04/yeme...
06.01.2025 20:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
My favourites of 2024 (keeping it short), 2/2: Graham Lambkin & James Rushford tinyurl.com/3wvzm3p5
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My favourites of 2024 (keeping it short), 1/2: SUMAC 'The Healer'
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, playing someone else's guitar at Rough Trade East earlier this evening.
01.12.2024 21:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Georgia Hubley's 'Little Black Egg', aka Yo La Tengo, on a Sounds... of Science tip at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social last night.
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2 hours 21 minutes of Tom Waits, live in Atlanta, Ga., July 2008.
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