7 January 1938 | French Jewish boy Pierre Deutsch was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 December 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy. He was among 661 of them murdered after selection in a gas chamber.

Experts waarschuwen: ‘Nederland lijkt deze week van bovenaf gevaarlijk veel op Groenland’

The poet recompensed - 1956 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20235

Cartoon about snow in four parts...

#NP: #NowPlaying: Yes - 'Yesshows' (1980) (2cd) (Japanese 1989 remaster) cd2879 #playall #playallyourcdsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #Yes #JonAnderson #SteveHowe #PatrickMoraz #ChrisSquire #RickWakeman #AlanWhite

#albumsyoucanhear Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive (1976) – ♫ bit.ly/41e66k6 - 50 years anniversary Album art and design by Stan Evenson and Richard E. Aaron. Live indeed! #art #vinyl

#NP: #NowPlaying: Di Giusto y Camerata Ambigua - 'La Cambiada' (2004) Pianist #GerardoDiGiusto and a string quartet #CamerataAmbigua blend classic, jazz and Latin into a fine world party. This is marvellous music, presented in a great pop up book cover.

6 January 1934 | A Czech Jewish boy, Ivo Klemperer, was born in Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from the ghetto in #Theresienstadt on 23 October 1944. He was murdered after selection in a gas chamber. --- Children at Auschwitz: 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

#NP: #NowPlaying: Yes - 'Drama' (1980) (2004 remaster) cd2878 #playall #playallyourcdsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #Yes #GeoffreyDownes #TrevorHorn #SteveHowe #ChrisSquire #AlanWhite

Guitarists I am influenced by: Frank Zappa Pat Metheny Mike Keneally Allan Holdsworth Robert Fripp Andy Latimer Ry Cooder Steve Howe Adrian Belew Roine Stolt (and I'm a bad keyboardist) 🙃🎼🎹

6 January 1932 | French Jewish girl Germaine Steinlauf was born in Nice. On 10 February 1944 she was deported from #Drancy to #Auschwitz in a transport of 1,500 Jews. On 13 February 1944 she was murdered in a gas chamber.

#NP: #NowPlaying: Anathema - 'Judgement' (1999) (2015 remaster) Great #Anathema album. #Anathemathon

5 January 1936 | Yugoslav Jewish girl Aniko Bohm was born in Subotica. She was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery 1973 USA Manticore #Music #ProgRock The title of this album is probably taken from "Right Place, Wrong Time" by Dr. John. There's a song of the same name, released as a single, but not on the album. There was a lot to do about the artwork of the #vinyl.

5 January 1936 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Lea Cohen, was born in Assen. In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her brother Mozes (in the picture with Lea), and mother Kaatje. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

Le sang du monde / The blood of the world - 1927 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112322

#NP: #NowPlaying: Yes - 'Tormato' (1978) (2004 remaster) cd2877 #playall #playallyourcdsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #Yes #JonAnderson #SteveHowe #ChrisSquire #RickWakeman #AlanWhite

5 January 1933 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Anna Strassberg, was born in Antwerp. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 August 1943 in a transport of 1,553 Jews deported from Mechelen. She was among 1,087 of them murdered in gas chambers after selection.

#NP: #NowPlaying: Electric Light Orchestra - 'ELO 2' (1972) (2003 remaster) #ElectricLightOrchestra second album, recorded while #RoyWood left the band. #JeffLynn leads #ELO on five proggy, rough sounding and brilliant performed pieces. 'Kuiama' is some sort of epic. #ELOthon

The Vegetable Garden with Donkey https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-vegetable-garden-with-donkey

Morning Sunday morning. #MorningSundaymorning

#NP: #NowPlaying: Frank Zappa - 'Buffalo' (2cd) (2007) Recorded live at Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY, October 25, 1980, this is a marvellous #FrankZappa concert, featuring a vocal-emphasized set list (Willis, White) of much new material at the time and lots of great #Zappa guitar solos.

3 January 1927 | A Norwegian Jewish boy, Arnold Jaffe, was born in Gjøvik. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942. After the selection - together with his father Samson and mother Ruth - he was murdered in a gas chamber.

3 January 1912 | Dutch Jewish woman Regina Caneel-Koopman was born in Zwolle. In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her son Mozes. After the selection, they were murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Le travail caché / Hidden labour - 1936 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112546

REMINDER: The latest article looks at Japan's 'Burning Bridges' from Gentlemen Take Polaroids - which was influenced by David Bowie's albums Low & Heroes. David Sylvian & Steve Jansen met Bowie in '77, the year those albums were released. Read here: sylvianvista.com/2025/12/26/b... #japantheband

#NP: #NowPlaying: Yes - 'Going For The One' (1977) (2003 remaster) cd2876 #playall #playallyourcdsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #Yes #JonAnderson #SteveHowe #ChrisSquire #RickWakeman #AlanWhite

2 January 1937 | Dutch Jewish boy Salomon Louis Turksma was born in Utrecht. In August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection. --- Children at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/ 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

3 January 1942 | Czech Jewish girl Věra Rotterová was born. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 4 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection. --- ▶ Video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

#NP: #NowPlaying: Carlos Gardel - 'The Best Of Carlos Gardel' (1997) French-born Argentinian composer and singer #CarlosCardel is the king of vocal tango, milonga, foxtrot and canción. This album collects twenty of his works, recorded 1926-1935. Melancholy at its finest.

Map of Europe if sea levels rose 6000 m

#NP: #NowPlaying: Yes - 'Relayer' (1974) (cd+bluray) (2014 remaster) cd2875 #playall #playallyourcdsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #Yes #JonAnderson #SteveHowe #PatrickMoraz #ChrisSquire #AlanWhite

2 January 1940 | Polish Jewish boy Aleksander Kleinman, was born in Będzin. He was deported from the Będzin ghetto to #Auschwitz in the summer of 1942 or 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber in Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

1 January 1940 | An Italian Jewish girl, Cesira Sonnino, was born in Rome (in the middle). On 23 October 1943, she was murdered in a gas chamber at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She was killed together with her brothers: Mario (left) and Sandro (right).

“Musician and instrument builder Fred Limire plays ‘the world's largest banjo’ (it measures 5 feet & 4 inches long) as he sits on a stool outdoors, in Rochester, New Hampshire, 1920s or 1930s.”

#NP: #NowPlaying: Electric Light Orchestra - 'The Electric Light Orchestra' (1971) (40th Anniversary Edition) (cd+dvd) (2012) The legendary #ElectricLightOrchestra debut album, recorded by #Move members messing around with weird but brilliant stuff on classical instruments. #ELOthon

Auld Lang Syne - Sun Ra and the Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra at the Detroit Jazz Center 12/31/1980 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27w...

In 2025 we explored the Hinterland. In 2026 we go home… #heldbytreesandfriends

Jaarlijkse oudejaarspost van Willem Bierman, daar komen we 2026 wel mee door. Moed houden, mensen.

Wish you all a happy and healthy new year. 🙃🎼🎹

Brian Eno's album Reflection was released on January 1, 2017

Brian Eno: Reflection - his 2017 album www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywS...

#NP: #NowPlaying: Yes - 'Relayer' (1974) (2003 remaster) cd2874 #playall #playallyourcdsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #Yes #JonAnderson #SteveHowe #PatrickMoraz #ChrisSquire #AlanWhite

Mijn nieuwe #verhaal lees je hier op @foknieuws: You can read my new story (in Dutch) here: frontpage.fok.nl/column/88749...

31 December 1929 | French Jewish girl, Francine Bejrach, was born in Paris. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 21 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- ▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

#AOTY #AOTY2025 10 Rick Wakeman - Melancholia 09 Jonathan Hultén - Eyes Of The Living Night 08 Anouar Brahem - After The Last Sky 07 Heath - Murmurations #RickWakeman #JonathanHultén #AnouarBrahem #Heath

#NP: #NowPlaying: Keith Emerson - 'Beyond The Stars' (2019) Posthumous and wonderful #KeithEmerson album with #MarcBonilla, #TerjeMikkelsen and orchestra. First recording of the glorious Beyond The Stars. Plus guests #RachelFlowers and grandson #EthanEmerson on piano. #Emersthon #EndOfEmersthon

La voix du silence / The voice of silence - 1928 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112460