Matt Ashton

I interrupted my holiday to post this.

The Pissintegration Loops

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

I should have said Ozzy. Boo.

Mick Hucknell.

The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:

"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."

"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

Kieran Mahon - Morning Brings The Light

This @kieranmahon.bsky.social on @castlesinspace.bsky.social is helping a great deal.

kieranmahon-cis.bandcamp.com/album/mornin...

Feels ironic writing this online but I've been trying to spend at least a few lots of 10 minutes a day away from devices (and everything else), in the garden or in a quiet spot to clear my head. Hasn't necessarily upped the BA quota, but it's making me feel better.

Twenty years ago today, Jean Charles de Menezes was assassinated at Stockwell station. Head of the Met Police, Ian Blair, was made a Lord. Cressida Dick, who led the operation, was promoted to Blair's position.

Sun Drawing & SEA LEVELの「Afternoons At The Library」をApple Musicで アルバム・2024年・10曲

なかなかユニークというか不思議な試みの作品。今の時代ならではとも云えるかも。
ロンドンのドローン・ポップのバンドThe Leaf Libraryのメンバーによる別プロジェクトSun Drawingと、福岡を拠点に活動する日本のバンドSea Levelによるコラボ・アルバム。

まずSun Drawingがフィンランドの図書館でアルバムのトラックを録り、その音源にSea Levelが重ね録りした作品であるとのこと。
どの音がどちらかは詳しいところまでは解らないが、アンビエントな響きが染み入ってくる。

music.apple.com/jp/album/aft...

Thank you for sharing our album.

On Monday the UK and 27 other countries signed a sharply critical letter condemning the Israeli military’s killing of hundreds of Palestinians seeking food in recent weeks and calling for an immediate end to the conflict.

What words remain for a government that goes to court to insist it be allowed to continue selling weapons to a state committing genocide, then sends a letter of complaint when those weapons are used?

Two turntables and a microphone.

Hoe verander je een 'Tourpiemel' op het asfalt in een vlinder of een uil? Een reportage van verslaggever Tom Lagerberg over de mannen die moeten voorkomen dat televisiekijkers van over de hele wereld geslachtsdelen te zien krijgen op het wegdek.

Unlikely you'll see a more melancholy 2 minutes of film this week. Just needs a Herzog narration and it'll be complete: nos.nl/collectie/13...

(thanks @levparikian.bsky.social)

Love In The Shadows by Matt Ashton!

Just remembered a short comic I made several years back for a @themagfields.bsky.social illustration project Jules Scheele was doing. Here’s my attempt for Love In The Shadows.

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LP copy of Places and Spaces by Donald Byrd

(Sort of) snap.

That's true but it's also my favourite guitar line!

Ha, that's lovely. I think it's my favourite as it was the first one I heard, on a Darla comp that Saloon were on, and was the only one I had for a long time. It's pretty seared on my brain.

Envoys

Let’s start Duran Duran’t

Thanks hun.

Air Between Us, by Coral Grief 12 track album

Not that I’ve listened to them all, but this Coral Grief might be favourite release today: coralgrief.bandcamp.com/album/air-be...

Rockhounds is a gem (as are the others)

It’s ‘your a…’

Will be at this tomorrow if anyone needs a very well behaved walking companion.

the spectacle of a cabal of white supremacists crowing that they’ve ‘dealt with antisemitism’ while enacting the worst kind of racism against the country’s first Black woman mp and propping up a genocide against palestinians should show you once and for all who these bastards are

Endless weird depths!

CD copy of Rest Proof Clockwork by Plaid

What an album.

Excellent. We'll have our top hats put through at the society of proper audio nerds if anyone finds out, though.