"Jazz"

Not only is it Bandcamp Friday, it is release day for Andrew Wasylyk's new album "Irreparable Parables" on which his lush instrumentals are augmented by vocals from six guest singers; another impeccable release from Clay Pipe Music

Today is Bandcamp Friday.

The opening chord of Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver" is so distinctive: I just got the sheet music for it, played the chord & bam! it conjured up the whole song. I played the chord for my wife to see if she could guess the song, and she got it immediately. (It's Dm#4 BTW)

Solar 76 - Sun Angle Out now on Lunar Module (@castlesinspace.bsky.social) lunar-module.bandcamp.com/album/sun-an...

Brass Mask - Cygnus Tom Challenger George Crowley tenor saxophones Rory Simmons Miguel Gorodi Alex Bonney trumpets Rory Simmons guitar Cameron Scott euphonium Caius Williams electric bass Noah Ojumu percussion Jon Scott drums released February 27, 2026 earconnector.bandcamp.com/album/cygnus

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

Why did he paint Brian Eno

Fashion's "Fabrique" is such a great album, technically synthpop but with a darker undercurrent than most. Oddly it has two songs with the word "picture" in the title; the better one IMO is "You Only Left Your Picture", a slow jam with a sweet phase shift/pan effect at the end of the chorus

WAAN - We Want WAAN - Dutch sax/keys duo cycles through synthpop, jazz-funk, doomjazz (the mellow kind), Fourth World lite, and caps the album with what sounds like a Hawkwind Nik Turner showcase ("Cecilyum")

🇸🇪 Gorgeous Swedish spiritual jazz by an “ensemble” of one man, Gustav Horneij urbanwavesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...

New music from @hannahpeel.bsky.social on its way. If the initially available track is anything to go by this album will be a highlight of the year x hannahpeelmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-en...

Nostalgic for the days I could get a new mass market paperback from the UK for well under $10.

I would never have guessed that Willow Smith would bring back the Danielle Dax sound 🤯

Autumn Glory apples are the best; I hadn't found them for a couple years but Aldi had them yesterday and I got the last two bags! Beside them all other apples taste like disappointment.

I'm intrigued by the two tracks allocated to Eno's... sidekick? alter ego? id? "Pno" on "Found a Job"

#UnTemazoDiario "Milk Spilt On Eternity", de Badge Époque Ensemble. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU_2...

Just got my ticket to see Cabaret Voltaire in Washington!

Thomas Kinkade's Wario

VA - Naive Melodies - from BBE Music, Black artists cover Talking Heads; 20 tracks! Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Aja Monet, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Theo Croker, and W.I.T.C.H., among others. "This is not just a tribute album — it’s a recontextualization. A cultural conversation. A rhythmic reawakening."

Wet Tuna - Vast - dubby & dreamy new album from Mark "MV" Valentine's psychedelic rock band

The Olympians - In Search of a Revival - long-awaited new album from Daptone's instrumental psychedelic soul act (Toby Pazner); RIYL ATA Records, library music

Dave Holland, Norma Winstone, and The London Vocal Project - Vital Spark (Music of Kenny Wheeler) - Wheeler's final compositions, recorded with jazz combo & full choir

It's going on 3 years since I bought an electric piano after not having played for 20 years. It was discouraging at first because I was so rusty, but I'm about as good as I ever was now. (so-so!) Good enough that it's fun to play every day. You can get better at something by doing it regularly! 🤯

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

🦋 𝔅𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔇𝔢𝔰𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔪 🦋 In the grottos of masonry and high up on the chimney stacks of Goblin Hill, the rare Rosa Desiderium blooms the color of deep longing, illuminated only by the moon.

That's a helluva string of descriptors!

Like to recharge, repost to fire.

Lidsville IRL

I found the Christmas tree graveyard

Machuca Cumbia - Cumbia Alivianada [Columbia, Latin/Funk] (197?) - raw percussive cover of "Stayin Alive" https://redd.it/2ij3zr https://youtu.be/8ylZF6knW08

I am really enjoying Hirayasumi - very low-key and relaxing

1. A Year in Willerby. 12 stories from a haunted village. First edition run of 100 sold out but we're building a waiting list for edition two, which will be mostly the same with some interesting differences. Here's the link for the list. More detail in thread. www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/blank

I am cracking myself up imagining this painting is based on the Red Hot Chili Peppers song

The Grodeck Whipperjenny [USA, prog funk psych] (1970) Imagine if James Brown's arranger had a funky prog band. Because that's what this album literally is. "A James Brown Production". https://redd.it/qcihke https://youtu.be/M33wF_FCgrY

#NowPlaying on Cosmic Church @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com for @campradio.bsky.social Fauna - Bland träden via Glitterbeat Records faunagbg.bandcamp.com/track/bland-... listen.camp

Small Prophets is an absolute gem

Hardly a week goes by that I don't search for a way to make a Microsoft product more convenient and the answer is "Nope, you can't do that."

LOL nope

Started reading a book from my shelves last night, a story collection. Went to log it on Goodreads today and apparently I read it in 2012! I don't remember the story I read, though, so I may keep going. Anyway, that's why I started keeping notes on short stories about 6 years ago.

I'm out seeing a 70s prog cover band called Birds of Fire. First time I've EVER heard a band do a UK cover! (Danger Money)

Muriel Grossmann :: Plays the Music of McCoy Tyner and the Grateful Dead aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/02/03/m... On a four-track double album, Austrian saxophonist Muriel Grossmann pays tribute to the music of two American visionaries: McCoy Tyner and Bob Weir.

Folding xAI into SpaceX just seems like a way to protect the CSAM generator by making it part of a company that is "vital to national security"

The Collective Move - Land Of The Sun, The Moon & Cosmic Melodies - jazz opera from an Amsterdam-based collective that is only available on streaming or (self-released) 2LP vinyl; no download available. This piece appears in a different form on the album. (snd.click/kmhg to stream)

Bonanza of Doom - s/t LP - psychedelic rock and free jazz (and a minimalist passage in the title track) from Norway; the kind of music that El Paraiso Records specializes in but it's on Sheep Chase (2023 release but is on Juno as Jan 2026; repress?)

Saw Roomful of Teeth tonight, performing Caroline Shaw's Partita and Allison Loggins-Hull's Friction. The human voice really is the most flexible of all instruments

Want affordable housing? Prosecute Realpage and every landlord that has used it for price-fixing.

The Soft Pink Truth - Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? - the new album from Drew Daniel of Matmos features a bevy of guest musicians for a tour de force of classical/electronic crossover

Pianist & composer Vitor Araújo is one to watch. Brazil’s answer to Nils Frahm.

Snorkel - Past Still Present Tense - "dubwise experimentalism, free improv, avant-funk, and post-Krautrock propulsion" - and it's a double album 😀