Yes, those bags (showing the spines of a row of LPs) were very nice. The ESP LP I sold, along with most of the other vinyl I had ... Now have all that studio Quintet music in one ugly Columbia CD package.
15.02.2026 16:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of ESP (1965). The musicians are Miles Davis + Wayne Shorter + Herbie Hancock + Ron Carter + Tony Williams: "the second Miles Davis Quintet"
Miles Davis Quintet: ESP (1965). An original Columbia pressing, the sleeve made of that thick US cardboard, bought on impulse in Dobell's on Charing Cross Road
15.02.2026 15:49 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
GStK? Ah, then I agree! Makes even Flower of Scotland sound good.
14.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Flower of Scotland is no more than a placeholder. When the nation becomes a state a better song will be found.
14.02.2026 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Feels as if Labour (= Labourism, which knows it is right and has all the answers) has to die first. Only then will a coalition of the hopeful become possible.
05.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wordle today (UK English)
25.01.2026 14:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
De verhalen pasten niet bij elkaar, het waren werelden die niets met elkaar te maken leken te hebben.
21.01.2026 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Still a few tickets left for his 4 hour epic ‘For Philip Guston’ in London this Sunday. I’ll be on my way from Scotland…
And the great Sheffield label
www.anothertimbre.com
are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been.
Happy 100th Morty
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
15.01.2026 11:30 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
"Waiter," he asked suddenly, "do you have real Guinness?"
"Sure", came the quiet answer.
"Bottled in Dublin? You're not joking?"
11.01.2026 18:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of the Italian edition (2001) of some of James Mosley's essays: Radici della scrittura moderna.
Remembering James Mosley
hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...
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The cover of the Italian edition (2001) of some of James Mosley's essays: Radici della scrittura moderna.
Remembering James Mosley
hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...
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It's not about historical accuracy (who knows what 16th-c players sounded like), more about singers/players trained in high-art conservatoires too faithfully following the notation – without the rhetorical ease / improvisatory spirit that later EM people have found. And I don't mean C Pluhar's work!
24.12.2025 16:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Copyright date is 1969. From the names of the musicians, this is likely to be the time of the recording. So, still the early days of the Early Music movement. In my ears, EM recordings from then sound *very* dated. It was only in the 1980s that such music began to be done convincingly (imho).
24.12.2025 13:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sonntag insbesonders.
02.11.2025 14:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ich muss der Blueskyschen künstlich Intelligenz danken. Er hat mich ingeladen auf deutsch zu antworten.
02.11.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Es ist als ob das Satz auf deutsch geschrieben was!
02.11.2025 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
or Ian McEwan?
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Fresh constitutions usually come after defeat in war, or after a political revolution. Neither very likely in the UK.
But these could be motivating factors (most to least likely):
Irish unity win in NI
Scotland votes for indy
Wales ditto
monarchy loses all credibility
England votes for indy
24.10.2025 10:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks for this.
Substack seemed a better place for discussions that try to reach beyond the typo/design audience.
It makes its money through subscriptions. So I wonder about the longevity there of those of us who aren't charging anything.
16.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Count me out too!
The TLS review of her latest said something similar.
10.10.2025 08:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of the book 'Free jazz communism', representing the latest post on my Substack pages: 'Books that lie open'.
Five books from Rab-Rab Press. New on my Substack:
robinkinross.substack.com/profile/posts
29.09.2025 16:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes.
Constitutions that protect individual rights can be trampled over (as now in the USA).
But a constitution that entrenches human rights, and is then overridden, and is then challenged in the courts, is better than the UK's sovereignty of 10 Downing Street.
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