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Top 16 Releases this month for riwood 1. Woodstock - Back to the Garden - 50th Anniversary Experience - Various Artists 2. Piano Sonatas nos. 6, 7, 8 and 9 / Etudes for Piano - Allen Shawn; Julia Bartha, Yoshiko Sato, Allen Shawn 3. Kreisleriana / Carnaval - Schumann; Míċeál O'Rourke 4. Doppler - Mark Helias & Bobby Previte 5. When the Moon Gets High Tonight: The Blues Mandolin Experience - Christopher James 6. Amoroso… ..Only More So - Norma Winstone, Stan Tracey Trio | Bobby Wellins 7. Red Maple Tree - Sloan Wainwright 8. Kasumi - Ingrid Laubrock & Aki Takase 9. BBC Music, Volume 33, Number 10: Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending / Mozart: Requiem - Vaughan Williams, Mozart; Laura Samuel, BBC Singers, Sofi Jeannin, National Youth Choir of Scotland, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles 10. The Debut Records Story - Various Artists 11. Orchestral Works 3: Symphony no. 2 / Grave / Cello Concerto / Mala suita - Witold Lutosławski; Paul Watkins, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner 12. Shuffle About - Quickstep, John Kirk, Sara Milonovich, Trish Miller, Cedar Stanistreet, Ed Lowman 13. Familia - Rodrigo Recabarren 14. From Stan, with Love - Stan Tracey 15. Freaks in a Mellow Mood, Vol. 3 – Live Acoustic 2003 - Mike Keneally & Bryan Beller 16. Then Now - Matthew Shipp - Rob Brown
Top 16 releases for August
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Top 10 releases that I listened to this month
Today, 1,152 NAS members/Nobel Laureates (as private individuals) sent a letter to Congress regarding the cuts to science being proposed by the Administration, and currently going through the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
tinyurl.com/5n7y7853
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Lab meeting here today.
Banner by Adam Han Sifuentes, from the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Sharon Dent inducted to the National Academy of Sciences #nas162 @ekoutelou.bsky.social @srdent47.bsky.social @angelating.bsky.social @francescacole.bsky.social
Yes he was a good person too. Thanks Barbara.
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
Evidence of misconduct and an intentional blockade of scientific progress.
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Well done, Angela.
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Rustling in frustration because you missed #yearinmusic?
If you are a #lastfm user then you’re in luck! We (re)generate YIM next week, so there’s still time to sign up and import your 2024 listens and get a YIM:
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Year in Music list 2024 featuring Geoff Stradling’s “Nimble Digits” album.
Top artists listening list for 2024 year in Music. Kevin Bowyer recorded JS Bach’s complete organ works.
Listenbrainz keeps track of your listening and is non-commercial free, and is great fun. 2024 stats out today. @listenbrainz.org #yearinmusic
Thanks- Instant earworm infection. 🙉
Happy holidays!
Who is doing some holiday MusicBrainz editing? You’re not alone, it seems a lot of people unwind by entering some data - me included! MusicBrainz just hit an all time high, with 43,000+ daily edits. -a
Yes, that’s pathetic and doubly horrifying.
Florence Price / Rhiannon Giddens / Ragazze Qt – But Not My Soul (Channel Classics)
Sue Lynch – Water Drips Clear (scatterArchive)
Eri Yamamoto Quadrophonic – Fly With the Wings (Mahakala Music)
Tarbaby (Revis/Evans/Waits) – You Think This America (Giant Step Arts)
Margaret Brouwer / Marin Alsop – Rhapsodies (Naxos)
Ruth Goller – SKYLLUMINA (International Anthem)
Mike Keneally + 10 – Nonkertompf Live, Groningen 10/19/2021 (Exowax)
Ten more, misc. genre releases:
William Parker & Ellen Christi - Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity)
Sue Foley – One Guitar Woman (Stony Plain Records)
Frank Zappa – Apostrophe(‘) 50th Anniversary Edition (Zappa Records) (with 2 incredible ‘74 concerts)
Mark Helias – Snapshot (Radio Legs Music)
Kristin Korb – Sweet Dreams (Giant Sheep Music)
Dave Douglas, James Brandon Lewis, Rafiq Bhatia & Ian Chang – Gifts (Greenleaf Music)
Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall – Fanfares & Freedom (Discus)
Lionel Loueke & Dave Holland – United (Edition Records)
Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey – Brink (Intakt Records)
Max Johnson, Neta Raanan & Eliza Salem – I’ll See You Again (Adhyâropa Records)
Bea Labikova, Germaine Lu, William Parker – no Beginning, no end (Elastic Recordings)
Most “favorite of year” lists came out in November; now that it’s mid-December, here’s mine. Ten 2024 “jazz” releases that I especially enjoy: #bestof2024 #jazz 2024
Geoff Stradling & the Stradband – Nimble Digits (Origin Records)
Josephine Davies – Weatherwards (Whirlwind Recordings)
Isao!
Good innovation! I set mine to “highlighter” as the animation was overstimulating. Using ListenBrainz is stimulating enough (and fun).