One week from today, I'll be at Prototype 237 in Paterson for Psych Ambient Daydream, a full day of music lovingly curated by @recordcratesunited.bsky.social & @seawindofbattery.bsky.social featuring The Royal Arctic Institute, Garcia Peoples, Emergency Group, and others. See you there?

New Jeff Tweedy album & new Paul Thomas Anderson film out today. Plus Stardust Memories released on this date in 1980; Abbey Road released & The Brady Bunch premiered in 1969; first US performance by Pink Floyd in 1967; & the birthdays of George Gershwin and Martin Heidegger. Very Bruno-coded day.

School is here, autumn is near. I find myself forever firmly in service and debt to the poetry and magic hiding plainly among the quotidian moments of a given day. Allow yourself the time and permission to discover as much unheralded beauty as you can.

Buy the magazine; buy the album. seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/album/save-t...

Garbage country, but here are some photographs I've made of fireworks anyway.

Another impeccable @recordcratesunited.bsky.social Garden Party is in the books, this time featuring the lilting folk reveries of Ornamental and the literate jangle boogie of Heat Manager. (I, very lamentably, had to leave before the @seawindofbattery.bsky.social / Royal Arctic Institute crossover.)

Worth your time, attention, and money.

Happy Pops' Day to all the fellow dads out there trying to cultivate a few more kind, compassionate souls. Here are a couple good ones, Mike and Jarrod of @seawindofbattery.bsky.social, shot on 4x5 Ektachrome at last year's Deep in the Valley festival with a passel of children (none of them theirs).

Simple squares from my walk around town last week. @ilfordphoto.com SFX 200, Hasselblad 500cm.

Me at the function.

Backyard daisies, yesterday afternoon.

This afternoon in Piscataway, the Hands Off protest organized by @50501movement.bsky.social and @pwaydems.bsky.social.

Psychedelic Sangha’s Chöd: Sonic Sadhana event at Judson Church with Garcia Peoples, Isaiah Mitchell, Kendraplex, Chris Dingman, etc. was a voyage for the mind, soul and third ear. Check out my first hand account, with stellar photographs by @cbruno.bsky.social recordcratesunited.com/2025/04/14/c...

Don't know about perfect, but if I'm being honest to my 16yo self (didn't get into Modest Mouse, Apples in Stereo, The White Stripes for another year) these were the contemporaneous releases with the heaviest rotation (although technically Midnite Vultures came out two days before my 16th birthday).

Exposed six sheets of 4x5 on New Year's Day, four @ilfordphoto.com HP5 and two Kodak Ektachrome. In hindsight, probably should have used color for the confetti cannon. Either way, here's to shooting more sheet film in 2025.

These are the only kinds of friends worth a damn.

The energy I'm bringing into 2025.

Make CEOs afraid again.

"It's-a me, Luigi!"

I know, Art, and thanks for noticing.

Souled American last night at the Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY.

Went hard drive spelunking this morning and discovered amidst a very small cache of watercolors I'd painted ten years ago this nearly forgotten masterpiece: "Don't Hassle the Hof(ner)."

This is perhaps the finest and most succinct summation of late period Roy Andersson I've yet heard.

At home and afield; a diptych from the first week of November.

Check out our coverage of Psychedelic Sangha’s Blotter Bath event last Friday with Garcia Peoples, Jesse Jarnow, Isaiah Mitchell, Kendraplex and Chris Dingman & more with amazing photos by Chris Bruno. recordcratesunited.com/2024/05/07/s...

Wilco’s Patrick Sansone chatted about his new ambient album, Infinity Mirrors, how it relates to his photography and much more with our guest writer and fellow photographer, Christopher Bruno. recordcratesunited.com/2024/03/12/s...

Manhattan Saturday. Jandek, 222 Bowery, 24 February 2024.

Manhattan Friday. Jandek, 222 Bowery, 23 February 2024.

"It's the day of love. This is a song about death." Vera Sola; Public Records, Brooklyn, NY; 14 February 2024.

Ambient Country Fall Festival 2023 @ Monty Hall (Jersey City, NJ) - 2023.11.16 📸 @cbruno.bsky.social

I made this.

I suppose I should kick off my Bluesky feed with something good, so here are a few images from the Psychedelic Sangha Bardo Bath which took place at Weylin on June 16. A whole bunch more over here: https://recordcratesunited.com/2023/06/20/om-soaking-up-psychedelic-sanghas-bardo-bath-deep-dive/ 📸