Ravel: Le jardin féerique - St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Live from Here with Chris Thile YouTube video by Radio Heartland

Every time.
Le jardin féerique (from Ma Mère l’Oye) - by Maurice Ravel
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
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“Always with huge gratitude and pleasure I remember the films of Sergei Paradjanov, which I love very much. His way of thinking, his paradoxical poetical… ability to love the beauty and ability to be absolutely free within his own vision.”
(Andrei Tarkovsky)

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Oldie but goodie.

Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting in a cafe revising his first draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I would like a cup of coffee please. No cream.” The waitress replies, “I’m sorry sir, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”

Scribbled this ten years ago today. Love this album to bits.
Masters Of Space & Time? No, we're not talking Hawkwind.

77. THE BEES – EVERY STEP’S A YES (2010) – thenewperfectcollection
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On just now on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

Come on, there must be one…

#NowPlaying

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Blood & Fire CD 2 disc reissue of The Heart of the Congos Cover artwork shows the original sleeve in the middle of some sort of shrine

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The Congos

Another Black Ark triumph & about as perfect a reggae vocal album as you can get... Can't leave this one out of my 5.

Change disco to ELO. That should be a bit more fun.

Well if she can’t, I’ll have a go meself.

Me too.

It saddens me to read that. But I guess in a lot of cases you’re right.

I am now interested in the other 4.🤔

25 years old this week. Wherever you went at the time, it was playing continuously in every cafe or bar. That and Moby’s Play. Doesn’t time fly?

Looking forward to returning to The Citz, in June, to see the stage adaptation of Denise Mina's dark drama about serial killer Peter Manuel, 'The Long Drop'.

Sadly, since this pic was taken in 1977, ticket prices have risen.

Pic: Citizens' Theatre

From the above:

“The punctum, according to Barthes, is that element of the photographic experience which is not symbolic or representational, but purely singular. It is the thing that ‘strikes’ the eye and creates a subjective, often emotional relation between the beholder and the image.”
How true.

“All the beautiful things are opaque” (Alasdair MacLean / The Clientele, 2023)
Every time I hear that line, I immediately think of the blurry Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky.
Nice feature about them here:
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Wow!

I’ve posted ‘Walk With Jesus’ by Otis G Johnson before - an incredible track - but this comes from the same collection, (Good God! Apocryphal Hymns’)
The production on those guitars is mad - and the falsettos are just ridiculous.
‘God’s Love - The Spiritual Harmonizers
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Try Baby Blue, Dracula, Til Polarity’s End, Stone Faces, If You Hear Me Crying and What’s It Going To Take - those six songs should sell it to you. If you don’t fall HOH in love with every one of them, I’d put my wallet away.

NEMS Records, Liverpool, 1962-ish

Happy Record 'Store' Day.

Caught a discussion on Radio 4 the other day about Escher’s lithograph, ‘Relativity’, a piece of art I could look at for hours on end.

I adore that song Philippe. Will have to play it tonight now.

Any excuse to post a link to this masterpiece will do. A candidate for the greatest two-bar intro in the history of pop, pure genius from Shadow Morton, and a heart-rending lead vocal (another one) by Mary Weiss. Mary was 17 at the time.

Went to see Blue Velvet three afternoons in a row at the GFT, when I should have been attending my Politics classes.

Ha! No doubt!