Bill Barnett

Brass Mask - Cygnus

Tom Challenger George Crowley tenor saxophones
Rory Simmons Miguel Gorodi Alex Bonney trumpets
Rory Simmons guitar
Cameron Scott euphonium
Caius Williams electric bass
Noah Ojumu percussion
Jon Scott drums

released February 27, 2026
earconnector.bandcamp.com/album/cygnus

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

YouTube video by Ultimate Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right (Official Top Of The Pops Video)

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Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right

Just a perfect single, IMO

YouTube video by The Rolling Stones - Topic She's A Rainbow

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Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow"

Why did he paint Brian Eno

Technically yes, but: they made three albums, each with a different lead singer/principal songwriter. That song is on the punkish first album "Product Perfect" with Luke James; Fabrique is the second album with Dave "De" Harris; and the third album was more generic synthpop with Alan Darby

Fashion's "Fabrique" is such a great album, technically synthpop but with a darker undercurrent than most. Oddly it has two songs with the word "picture" in the title; the better one IMO is "You Only Left Your Picture", a slow jam with a sweet phase shift/pan effect at the end of the chorus

We Want WAAN, by WAAN 11 track album

WAAN - We Want WAAN - Dutch sax/keys duo cycles through synthpop, jazz-funk, doomjazz (the mellow kind), Fourth World lite, and caps the album with what sounds like a Hawkwind Nik Turner showcase ("Cecilyum")

The Light Comes Black, by Organic Pulse Ensemble 8 track album

🇸🇪 Gorgeous Swedish spiritual jazz by an “ensemble” of one man, Gustav Horneij

urbanwavesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...

The Endless Dance, by Hannah Peel 9 track album

New music from @hannahpeel.bsky.social on its way.

If the initially available track is anything to go by this album will be a highlight of the year x

hannahpeelmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-en...

A packing slip from The Internet Bookshop (Oxford) Limited from 1998: £3.19 net goods, £0.96 postage and packing, £0.00 VAT, £4.15 total.

Nostalgic for the days I could get a new mass market paperback from the UK for well under $10.

I would never have guessed that Willow Smith would bring back the Danielle Dax sound 🤯

The Sheetz Quesarito (recently discontinued 😡)

Autumn Glory apples are the best; I hadn't found them for a couple years but Aldi had them yesterday and I got the last two bags! Beside them all other apples taste like disappointment.

I'm intrigued by the two tracks allocated to Eno's... sidekick? alter ego? id? "Pno" on "Found a Job"

YouTube video by Wire - Topic Ex Lion Tamer (2006 Remastered Version)

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Wire - Ex Lion Tamer

😁

YouTube video by Crosscut Films April Wine - If You See Kay (RESTORED VIDEO)

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April Wine - If You See Kay

(This groaner has FOUR letter homophones!)

YouTube video by Badge Époque Ensemble - Topic Milk Spilt on Eternity

#UnTemazoDiario "Milk Spilt On Eternity", de Badge Époque Ensemble.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU_2...

Just got my ticket to see Cabaret Voltaire in Washington!

Thomas Kinkade's Wario

Naive Melodies, by BBE 20 track album

VA - Naive Melodies - from BBE Music, Black artists cover Talking Heads; 20 tracks! Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Aja Monet, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Theo Croker, and W.I.T.C.H., among others. "This is not just a tribute album — it’s a recontextualization. A cultural conversation. A rhythmic reawakening."

Vast, by WET TUNA 10 track album

Wet Tuna - Vast - dubby & dreamy new album from Mark "MV" Valentine's psychedelic rock band

In Search of a Revival, by The Olympians 12 track album

The Olympians - In Search of a Revival - long-awaited new album from Daptone's instrumental psychedelic soul act (Toby Pazner); RIYL ATA Records, library music

Vital Spark (Music of Kenny Wheeler), by Dave Holland, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler 9 track album

Dave Holland, Norma Winstone, and The London Vocal Project - Vital Spark (Music of Kenny Wheeler) - Wheeler's final compositions, recorded with jazz combo & full choir

And now when I return to sheet music that flummoxed me two years ago, I can actually muddle through it, or better. It may take me a few more years to polish "Merry-Go-Round of Life," but I'm making great progress with "Frankenstein." 🤩

It's going on 3 years since I bought an electric piano after not having played for 20 years. It was discouraging at first because I was so rusty, but I'm about as good as I ever was now. (so-so!) Good enough that it's fun to play every day. You can get better at something by doing it regularly! 🤯

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Title: Blooming Desiderium The first piece of a Duotycht. A large gargoyle is crouched on a terrace wall overlooking a landscape of prairie and farm fields. The gargoyle crouches with its head down and its arms wrapped around itself in profile. In one huge claws hand it delicately cups a rose, its petals a color somewhere between pale blue and lilac. A snarl of rose bramble grows up the gargoyles back, producing similar blooms.

Title: Blooming Desiderium The second piece of a Duotycht. High on a ridge a large crumbling house in the early prairie-style grows overgrown and decays. Forlorn bay windows of leaded glass show no light and lonely chimneys stand crooked and without hearth smoke. Below the house a bramble of roses grows, blooming in a pale color between light blue and lilac. In the sky a moon with a wistful ecpfsssjon looks on.

🦋 𝔅𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔇𝔢𝔰𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔪 🦋

In the grottos of masonry and high up on the chimney stacks of Goblin Hill, the rare Rosa Desiderium blooms the color of deep longing, illuminated only by the moon.

That's a helluva string of descriptors!