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Lest we forget tho

CW: Twitter screenshot from 2016

Homer Simpson in the ironic punishment division of hell eating endless doughnuts scene but it's me eating 22 pies (I'd certainly have a go)

The b&w screen at the back makes them look like they're getting ready to fight Godzilla

[gets up to change For Philip Guston from side 13 to side 14] better get this bad boy dubbed on to 3¾ips reel to reel at some point if I want to actually enjoy it

Starting this year with a huge Morton Feldman phase has made me wonder: if we'd never had CDs, and were still limited to 30 mins per side - the Feldman recorded discography would be very small indeed, wouldn't it? Like who would have the budget (producer or consumer) for constant multi-LP box sets?

Now I think about it, my nailed-on Top 5 albums ever has two examples of 'needed CD so as not to break the spell' - Reich's Music For 18 Musicians and Göttsching's E2E4. Listening to either of those on original vinyl would just break me, they were just waiting for their perfect format

Loop music too. Basinski's Disintegration Loops having vinyl editions always made zero sense to me. You'll break the spell (repeatedly) by having to switch sides so often!

Erik Satie : Parade, Ballet rèaliste sur un theme de Jean Cocteau (1916-17) YouTube video by Rodders

"Postman Pat, Postman Pat" suddenly becoming the theme about 2½ minutes into Parade will never not be funny

Album cover of Satie: Parade, Relâche etc performed by Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse cond. Michel Plasson (EMI, 1988)

Out and about music: this is such ridiculous fun, and so modern even for the 1920s - that's what happens when your milleu is Varèse, Cocteau, Picabia & Picasso

Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

Hungered (8)

This is the first I've ever heard this song. Three thoughts: 1) it's a banger; 2) it is indeed very, very horny; 3) it's quite the choice to use "open up the bomb bay" as one of the chorus hooks, a phrase my British brain is more used to seeing Viz characters use, usually while sitting on the toilet

Thank you for your attention to these cantatas

EEEEEEEEELECTRICITTTTYYYYY!

Genesis aren't for everybody but I'll always love how obtuse a band can be that they took the whole 'Here's a song from the new album, go to the bar' gig indifference and in 1974 said "We're playing all 90mins of the new album before anything else. With a slide show & costume changes. Suck it."

Zappa doesn't half look like he's been through the wringer there! I suppose going to war with Herb Cohen will do that you...

It must've been Kurtagonals I mentioned at some point - it always reminds me of late-period Coil, and Peter Christopherson's late-life work in general: the weirdest thing to have an ECM release evoke, but it's a very satisfying listen. Don't know Face A Face, must add it to wants

frisell for a spring afternoon, a nice FM soundboard with greg leisz on pedal steel & jenny scheinman on violin.

Entertaining buried lede here for anyone who was at school in 90s SW Scotland (i.e. me) is that "Dillion" now appears to be an acceptable given name, and not just an epic quantity of flatulence - as in, "aw man I pure farted a dillion"

Iannis Xenakis always struck me as perfectly named in this way; maybe Harry Partch too, bit of hobo-savant about it

Ah perfect! That'd do nicely at some point. Got about half a dozen of those little Verve boxes on the Discogs wantlist. I do however have beef with the Astrud Gilberto one: it made I Haven't Got Anything... easily available mere months after I'd bought a *very* pricey Japanese CD of it!

The facial expression is fascinatingly of a piece with 'pissed Aslan', one of Rob's classic images from posts passim

Romantic Warrior was the first one I bought (during the period I was buying a lot of vinyl, it's probably around somewhere) - do remember liking it! One of these days I'll get hold of CD copies of all the main albums for re-evaluation.

A university friend of mine at one point got majorly into the Connors/DiMeola era of full-on shredding RTF, he was utterly bamboozled by hearing this and Light As A Feather but I think warmed to them... a bit

Same, since I got hooked on a compilation drawn from these original three albums a couple of years ago. Only now managed to get the 3CD box set (wanted the original 70s artwork too).

CD cover of Erik Satie: Ogives, Gymnopedies, Sarabandes performed by Reinbert De Leeuw (Philips, 1980)

Meditations apres-midi

Sean Shibe: Vesper album review – ever-imaginative guitar virtuoso brings mind-expanding flights of fancy This thoughtfully curated programme of work by three British composers explores the guitar’s expressive potential, and new arrangements of Harrison Birtwistle’s piano originals are a revelation

This looks good, especially the Birtwistle pieces. I remember Shibe doing a R3 'Lockdown Lunchtime Concert' that was half renaissance pieces and half Reich's Electric Counterpoint, stunning stuff; good to see his career as an album artist progressing, especially for a local lad