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Nice!!

Yeah - Edinburgh's the best.

Let me know if you're looking for any recommendations for places or things to do - or even if you fancied a coffee or a quick dig somewhere!

Yeah - keep a look out for one of these - the old recipe is next level!

Hope you have a great holiday.
I take it you're not coming up to Scotland while you're over??

Agreed; bought on a whim for £3 because I recognised Curtis Lundy from having played with Pharaoh Sanders.

It's great stuff

Ancestral Echoes is so good.

I recently picked up the entire Live at the IUCC series on CD from Soundohm...amazing stuff

I used to have that copy of An American Dream! Nice

Wow! Cool

Few better ways to spend an afternoon

The hangover starts on the train home

Heavy duty stuff!

Ominous shadow of a giant witch playing the bagpipes - love it

Got one of these in my pocket right now!

Bought a couple of CDs out of Michael Hurley's hand at his merch table after a gig - CDRs stuck inside jewel cases with very poorly photocopied artwork.

He signed the discs!

Got this on CD & LP, but boy am I looking lustfully at that cassette tape

LP cover (details in post)

Have been getting into this recently: Steve Hiett's "Down on the Road by the Beach" (1983).

Dreamy, floating, pretty, soothing, atmospheric surf guitar

Thanks!

Yeah, Manics & The Clash I was thinking, but others I was unaware of.
Cheers

Nice!

Yeah those two are incredible.

That's a very apt way of finding out about "If On a Winter's Night..."!

I'm sure there's a story with how I found it but can't remember.

I definitely lost my copy in a public place and very much hope that it was found and read by someone else along the line.

I haven't heard the live recording, but I love the studio album.

It's very original music IMO - hard to label, if we have to.
Art song, experimental big band, jazz-rock fusion...

Absolutely smokes

Have you read a lot of Calvino?
Got any favourites?

Kidney Bingo!

This was a very early vinyl purchase for me and had the feel of a magical object

Oh, great!
Yeah, it's definitely an acquired taste.

If someone tried to describe it to me, I'd guess that it would be a voice I disliked (but I love it).

One more rec from me for the albums after this one - some of my favourite music.

Sweet!

How are you enjoying it?

LP cover: Hank Mobley, The Turnaround (1965) - the artwork from which was clearly the inspiration for the artwork in the original post

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Remember discovering this in Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country (I think!)

Funny have been going through my CDs lately (after moving them from one room to another) and keep on wanting to listen to things I no longer appear to have.

"Did I really get rid of that?!?" Etc

This is what we all want to feel like

The Serene Socialism of Stereolab’s Dots and Loops - The Gryphon Music and Clubs The Gryphon

Nice article on the socialism - as well as the artistic process - behind Stereolab's "Dots and Loops".

Vonnegut, Orwell, Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger could be said to create from a socialist perspective too.

Who are some other great socialist artists?
www.thegryphon.co.uk/2025/04/23/t...

Sorry to hear about your mum.

I was reading Underworld back when I was about 20 in such a scattered and unfocused way; barely keeping track of what was going on.

But what I remember of it was the regular feeling of coming across startling, weighty, beautiful passages like this.

I should reread it

Happy birthday; this rocks