Street: the embalmer

Yes ladies and gentlemen mycological history has been made on my windowsill and I have cultivated the world's tiniest mushroom

Toumani Diabaté - Kaouding Cissoko (Official Audio) YouTube video by World Circuit Records

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M G Boulter - Nights at the Aquarium YouTube video by Hudson Records

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Quincy Bones and Simbleton, "Every Time" (Andy Kershaw BBC1 1996 15) YouTube video by franksm2001

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Awful to hear of the death of Andy Kershaw, who did so much to normalise world music in the media and introduced me to so many great artists via his radio shows. Examples in comments, but not the ones you might expect . . .

Am beginning to suspect that this is not a gingko at all, it is an audacious impostor

Baby gingko still not sure what a gingko leaf looks like

Ina Mina Dika (Female) (HD) - Aasha Songs - Kishore Kumar - Vyjayantimala - Asha Bhosle - Filmigaane YouTube video by Shemaroo Filmi Gaane

All sorts of craziness here, goodbye to Asha alas

Alas poor Asha!

Ajvar, delicious multi-purpose sauce with a roasted pepper base, then add what you likey

It's Balkan round our house

Baby gingkos!

How many LPs X time taken for washing 1 = project length

Good morning Buddha

Nine websites that prove the Internet isn't totally awful It seems like a long time ago.

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First of the year brings this poem to mind:

Perhaps the tulip knows the fickleness
Of Fortune’s smile, for on her stalk’s green shaft
She bears a wine cup through the wilderness

- Hafiz

Yay, keep the great globe in existence

also the drummers on this track are sensational

Chitti Babu - Raga Nattai YouTube video by mbalax32

Kids come running for the great sound of Chitti Babu!

Chitti Babu is on heavy rotation in our house and some believe that should he ever stop playing, the world will go out, bang! like a candle.

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Sometimes it is Spring
Sometimes it is not any thing

- Joni Mitchell

Good morning Buddha

And even a woodpecker on claves! One of my fave album titles (and it will now be yours too) is Evan Parker's The Ericle of Dolphi.

At least on Reddit they have a downvote button

Signs of spring on the Capital Ring! (Hendon to Kenton, widdershins)

To the Hockney exhibition: lots of reverse perspective, photocollage and explosive colour just right for a spring day

We live in an old chaos of the Sun
Or old dependency of day and night

- Wallace Stevens

Three rocks from the Sahara desert, Morocco

Kneeling woman, Aztec, 15th century

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