Recent listening: Boards of Canada - Inferno (Warp Records, 2026)

Recent listening: Lamb - S/T (Fontana Records, 1996)

Recent listening: King Crimson - Islands (Island Records, 1971)

Recent listening: Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Enth (Laaps, 2026)

Recent listening: The Beatles - S/T (Apple Records, 1968)

Recent listening: A Journey of Giraffes - Hour Club (Somewherecold Records, 2019)

Recent listening: Weather Report - S/T (Columbia Records, 1971)

Recent listening: Ava Mendoza - Alive Alone, Alive Together (Burning Ambulance Music, 2026)

Listened earlier tonight: Vazz - Submerged Vessels and Other Stories (Stroom, 2017)

Now playing: Modern Folk Electronic Ensemble - S/T (Debacle Records, 2025)

Saturday run listening: OOIOO / Lightning Bolt - The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral (Thrill Jockey, 2026)

Hi, Bluesky music community! In January I released Jiaogulan, an album of 160 piano improvisations recorded between January and May 2025. In order to get it on streaming services, I had to split it into four album-length parts. Here's Part Four on YouTube:

Just listened: Lusine - Retrace EP (Ghostly International, 2019)

Recent listening: Haco + Sakamoto Hiromichi - Ash in the Rainbow (ReR Megacorp, 2002)

Today's listening: Arovane & Hior Chronik - In-between (A Strangely Isolated Place, 2015)

Windy & Carl - Fainting in the Presence of the Lord

Recent listening: Ghost - Second Time Around (Drag City, 1997)

Now playing: Tim Barnes - Inside Energy (Island House Recordings, 2025)

Now playing: Morton Subotnick - And the Butterflies Begin to Sing (New World Records, 1997)

Today’s listening: Natural Informatiom Society & Bitchin Bajas - Automaginary (Drag City, 2015)

Return to Forever - Dayride

Recent listening: Booker Stardrum - Close-up on the Outside (We Jazz Records, 2026)

Melaine Dalibert & David Sylvian - Musique pour le lever du jour

Tod Machover - Flora

Ghost - Forthcoming from the Inside

Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt - Extended Field

Dr. Sonya Sloan and Dr. Haydée Brown warn the Trump administration is “burying the evidence.” 1,800+ measles cases already in 2026. Reports say the FDA blocked studies showing COVID-19 and shingles vaccines are safe. “If the science exposes the truth, block it.”

I repeat once more that while RFK Jr. has apparently been told to stop speaking publicly about vaccines, he is *constantly* using his existing networks and governmental powers to undermine vaccines from behind the curtain.

This regime KNOWS vaccines are safe. In fact, they are ACTIVELY trying to hide the proof from Americans. RFK Jr. and the Trump regime would rather push conspiracy theories to hide the truth than do anything that promotes and advances a healthier America. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Maral & El Kontessa - Butterfly Magic

I’m not going to be using Instagram anymore. The content it was showing me became more and more dubious, some of it even dangerous misinformation like I encountered on Twitter/X before I left and moved to Bluesky.

Polvo - The Pedlar

Hangedup - No More Bad Future

Matthew Shipp Trio - New Heaven and New Earth

Paul Motian - Conception Vessel

My friend Jeff’s cousin Van has been detained by ICE. Here’s a website with resources to help him and his family.

Currently reading Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias by Marguerite Young. (1994 Dalkey Archive edition. Originally published by Reynal & Hitchcock in 1945.)

Jiaogulan Part One on Apple Music:

Currently reading The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017)

Read today: Cauldrons by K.R. Morrison (Paper Press, 2021) Saw her perform at the Monterey Poetry Festival at Old Capitol Books on Friday night and had to buy this chapbook.

Eleventh Dream Day - Rose of Jericho

4/17/26 selfie.

Currently reading Permanent Earthquake by Evan Dara (Aurora, 2021)

Read last Saturday: Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings by Matthew Shipp (Autonomedia, 2025) I recently discovered Matthew Shipp’s music and writing and they’re so inspiring! This book explores the personal, philosophical, and spiritual dimensions of musical practice.

Slapp Happy - Child Then

Currently reading Phantom Advances by Mary Lynn Reed (Split Lip Press, 2023)

Keelhaul - New Void

Currently reading Halfway from Home by Sarah Fawn Montgomery (Split Lip Press, 2022)