Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer

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This evening, the London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) and Wigmore Hall present a programme spanning from the age of Mozart to the modern day, prefaced by a pre-concert talk from Jennifer Walshe 🎶 🕰️ 7.30pm (pre-concert talk: 6.00pm) 🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/artists/jennifer-walshe-2

Excited for LCMF tonight at Wigmore Hall: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Dammit. Whosampled is legitimately one of my favourite things on the net.

Today I am mostly taking notes on pieces by Eric Skytterhokm Egan, Eden Lonsdale, Kaija Saariaho and Bernhard Gander. Three have led me to Couperin, Catholicism and Corelli. The fourth has led me elsewhere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzT...

there are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.

I'm sure all of you are waiting on tenterhooks for today's Purposeful Listening, but I'm afraid you need to hold on a little more - this week got away from me a bit. (But the Antti Tolvi recording I'm writing about is also long and involves lots of waiting, so I guess it's thematically appropriate.)

Happy #InternationalMensDay to all who celebrate

Confession: I was just a shade too young for Psychocandy when it came out. So I'd read lots of discourse by the time before I finally heard it, around 94/95. I was expecting a proper avant-garde noise classic, and what I got was the Beach Boys through a fuzzbox.

Today in auto-transcription: NFL for LSO. As in, "I was really excited for the quality of musician the NFL brings ..."

Three great records. Vijay Iyer has been on a tear this last year.

Incredible work this.

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

Reading this thread I'm reminded of that absolutely batshit review (still somewhere online) of TSR that concluded the main problem with it was A LACK OF MELODY.

Available now: Purposeful Listening 2a - reviews of music by James Opstad, Julia Eckhardt and Samuel Vriezen: open.substack.com/pub/purlis/p...

Bonus issue klaxon! Purposeful Listening 2a dropping this Wednesday, 12:30GMT. purlis.substack.com

Returning to the music of Mads Emil Dreyer this week for a sleevenote, I'm reminded of the one I wrote in 2023 for his Disappearer album - one of those happy bits of writing when the whole thing comes together cleanly and quickly. www.dacapo-records.dk/en/recording...

One thing I've not seen people mention re Qobuz (besides superior artist payments, sound quality and not funding fascism or AI slop) is that LABELS ARE CLICKABLE. I've been crying out for this on the old streaming service FOR EVER and never understood why it wasn't possible. Absolute gamechanger.

Just switched from SpotAIfy to Qobuz and running some comparisons between the two - suddenly everything on the former is slower and about a semitone flat? Has it always been like this???

Bonus issue klaxon! Purposeful Listening 2a dropping this Wednesday, 12:30GMT. purlis.substack.com

Really nice to be asked to appear on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show over the weekend, to talk about three tracks I love as part of their new 'Listen List' spot. Listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lnkd I'm on at 46:05 into the show.

"17 liner notes in two and a half weeks" is giving me heartburn

Two more nights for Music We'd Like to Hear this year: 28 Nov (same night as Grisey Quatre chants, argh): Maya Bennardo playing Fujieda, Bennardo, Svensson, Marino. 29 Nov: Magnus Grnaberg and Skogen playing Trouble, Had It All My Days. www.musicwedliketohear.com/2025n.html

NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...

Purposeful Listening 2: Stephanie Lamprea talks Aperghis, bel canto, electronics and embodiment. purlis.substack.com/p/purposeful...

New weird AI slop that Spotify tried to dump on me this morning: a *new* single by long-dead P-Funk guitarist Eddie Hazel called “I Ain’t No Brokeback Cowboy,” which, despite its title, is about being a gay cowboy.

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Purposeful Listening 2: Stephanie Lamprea talks Aperghis, bel canto, electronics and embodiment. purlis.substack.com/p/purposeful...

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Remember, remember The Fifth of November Gunpowder, treason, and a conversation about female vocality in new music. New issue of Purposeful Listening drops tomorrow. purlis.substack.com

I reviewed Mark Fell's mind-bending new album of chamber music (yes, you read that right) on the @frozenreeds.com label, plus the inaugural EP on the National Centre for Mark Fell Studies, best label name I've heard in a while pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Unless you're another robin, that is. 💀

'It's about art coming out of landscape, which seems to be a British ideal', says @andrewmale.bsky.social on the Wuthering Heights edition of Backlisted. Dare I add to that canon Leo Chadburn's Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator, discussed here? purlis.substack.com/p/purposeful...

I sent my (final-FINAL-readfyforprint-revised-v.3.doc) albums of the year list to Wire HQ yesterday, so please could people stop putting out great stuff now until Jan 1? Tq

My favourite Fall album anyway, FWIW.

Thrilled to have received my copy of this bad boy today, and to have made my own small contribution

Purposeful Listening 1 - Leo Chadburn, Mark Fell+Explore Ensemble, Michael Finnissy+Ian Pace open.substack.com/pub/purlis/p...

Or, as GP might say, 'a grand individual'.

Probably should have started on this sooner.

Heads up, composers: just three weeks left to get your entries into Follow my Score's annual composition prize. All details here: scorefol.io/callforworks

I'm enjoying the nod Louth CMS gets in this Bandcamp survey of music in Dundalk: daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report...

Lydia Lunch and Masami Akita.

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Under-spoken-of, to be sure. The telling of 20C music history tends to remember its composers by a descriptive word/technique (silence, complexity, micropolyphony etc). There isn't one of these for Berio, so he gets captured by a piece (Sinfonia, with the Sequenzas, in toto, on the side).

This is great, captures the kaleidoscopic parts in a Gershwinesque/stride manner: