Andy Beta
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wirter
Remembering some interactions with a true gentleman:
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JD Twitch
In the early 2000s, it was more likely to know about Optimo parties (it was on a Sunday night, up in Scotland, the word “legendary” already affixed to it) well before one knew anything about just how ...
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cinquante ans
50 years of playing young, living forever, being in the sun ten minutes, big deli brain slicers, and Topdown Dialectic
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/cinquante-ans?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
6 days ago
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I wrote the cover story for a big ol' Jeff Parker feature for We Jazz Magazine, available in print only:
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Jeff Parker for We Jazz Magazine
Just a quick head’s up that I wrote the cover story for the most recent issue of We Jazz Magazine, a nice loooong feature on guitarist Jeff Parker, focusing on his post-Cali soundworld and his post-20...
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/jeff-parker-for-we-jazz-magazine?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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May you be eternally jamming in the River of Heaven:
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Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)
YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal
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11 days ago
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This could be US but u playin:
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Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/americas/bolsonaro-convicted-coup-attempt.html
13 days ago
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The Lot for September:
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The Lot for September
The Upward Spiral of Enlightenment b/w Summer’s End Beneath the Sun
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/the-lot-for-september-323?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
15 days ago
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Happy Earth Day to the sublime Marion Brown. Since I've been on a big Mal kick, here's a lovely read by the duo on a McCoy tune:
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Contemplation
YouTube video by Mal Waldron - Topic
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16 days ago
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"I’ve always admired how Ryuichi Sakamoto explored and questioned the cultural tensions between East and West — especially from within his own country. These ideas felt especially relevant to where I was heading." Jason Kolàr
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Jason Kolàr
Interview with the mercurial Barcelona artist about sincere homages to Ryuichi Sakamoto, the limits of understanding another culture, an imaginary average U.S. citizen, and two recent albums
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/jason-kolar?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
17 days ago
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“I live. For now. Wait for my return to [a] state of NOTHING.”
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Bruce Loose, Vocalist of Hardcore Titans Flipper, Dies at 66
The singer led the inspiringly anarchic and grumpy San Francisco band through its heyday, influencing torchbearers including Kurt Cobain
https://pitchfork.com/news/bruce-loose-vocalist-of-hardcore-titans-flipper-dies-at-66/
17 days ago
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Jeremy Erwin
20 days ago
50 years ago today, Miles performed the final date of his electric era - a late summer festival date at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Despite a sizable audience, extensive photos from David Gahn, and a somewhat clueless recap from the Times, aural evidence of the evening has never surfaced. ...
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Saying goodbye to a fried amp, the NYC-brand of silence, and riding shotgun with Phil Collins:
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Listening in 3 Parts
At home, outside, and listening to Phil Collins at someone else's home
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Listening in 3 Parts
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Listening in 3 Parts
At home, outside, and listening to Phil Collins at someone else's home
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/listening-in-3-parts?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
30 days ago
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Pals with Montreal/ Quebec City recos (shops, spots, food, live show listings) please lay 'em on me
about 1 month ago
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Mal Waldron is some of my earliest formative jazz listening (with Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot) and my most obsessive recent listening (What It Is and Moods esp), a sound as steady as rocks rolling in the back of a truck:
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Twofer Tuesday #11
Two for Mal Waldron at 100
https://andybeta.substack.com/p/twofer-tuesday-11
about 1 month ago
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Is Godley & Creme's "Cry" an answer song to their own "I'm Not In Love" (as 10cc)?
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Godley and Creme - Cry
YouTube video by STARCK CLUB MUSIC
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The Lot for August: new Mood Hut, Ghosted III, Jonny Nash, Chicago Underground Duo, and a wicked version of "Wicked Game":
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The Lot for August
Seedling --> Timber b/w Picasso's Blue-Red Shift
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/the-lot-for-august?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 1 month ago
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"The most compelling thing about Momoko's voice for me is actually the way she builds and shapes her backing vocals. It’s like working with an orchestra rather than a soloist." New Herbert/ Momoko album is choice.
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Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill
An interview with the iconic British electronic music producer and new collaborator on their primo downtempo new album, Clay
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/matthew-herbert-and-momoko-gill?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 1 month ago
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One of those days where just walking around leads you to encounter homemade Leonard Cohen paintings
about 2 months ago
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^Devendra Banhart
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about 2 months ago
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"A duo collaboration can be very vulnerable. Once Matthew realized this was happening he saw this record as an equal collaboration. He has described this as a liberating letting-go but I'm sure it took a lot of faith." Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill:
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Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill
An interview with the iconic British electronic music producer and new collaborator on their primo downtempo new album, Clay
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/matthew-herbert-and-momoko-gill?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Reporting on Eddie Palmieri back in 2016 and making it into newsprint myself
about 2 months ago
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Twofer Tuesday #9: Two albums that opened the iron gate of my landlocked mind in Texas, Super Ape and Heart of the Congos:
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Twofer Tuesday #9
Two albums positing Lee "Scratch" Perry as an outsider artist exhaling a puff of smoke in the spacetime
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/twofer-tuesday-9?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Rest easy Flaco, San Antonio's finest:
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¡Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio!
YouTube video by Flaco Jiménez - Topic
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about 2 months ago
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Twofer Tuesday #8: Nobukazu Takemura and the two mature works highlighting his childlike whimsy:
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Twofer Tuesday #8: Nobukazu Takemura
Takemura's mature works of childhood whimsy
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/twofer-tuesday-8-nobukazu-takemura?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Twofer Tuesday: two '80s albums imagining new directions in weird world music:
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Twofer Tuesday #7
New Directions not taken back in 1987: Brazilian legend Helcio Milito + the weird long life of Startled Insects
https://andybeta.substack.com/p/twofer-tuesday-7
2 months ago
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Felbm
2 months ago
summer vi - Taisho (大暑) - Great heat
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Twofer Tuesday on two random album pick-ups by lowkey Detroit great, Tommy Flanagan:
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Twofer Tuesday #6
Twofer Tommy Flanagan, the great Detroit pianist
https://andybeta.substack.com/p/twofer-tuesday-6
2 months ago
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Twofer Tuesday #5 on the joyous dynamo that is Tim Barnes (special s/o
@marcissist.bsky.social
for the deep BC story):
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Twofer Tuesday #5
Two recent albums of collaborations with Tim Barnes that recall a lost NYC topography and the potential and power behind every musical gesture.
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/twofer-tuesday-5?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 months ago
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An homage to drummer Tim Barnes and my earliest days in NYC, where he seemingly played every single night and was a dervish of motion and a steady hub for the creative music community. His two new albums of collabs are thrilling things:
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Twofer Tuesday #5
Two recent albums of collaborations with Tim Barnes that recall a lost NYC topography and the potential and power behind every musical gesture.
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/twofer-tuesday-5?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 months ago
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Since I'm late to all birthday parties... In the Fried Archives: Terry Riley
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In the Fried Archives: Terry Riley
From 2023, an unpublished interview with the legendary American composer about late Coltrane, tuning tamburas with Pandit Pran Nath, and being psychedelic rather than minimalistic.
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/in-the-fried-archives-terry-riley?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 months ago
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alex tobin 🍩
3 months ago
Absolutely enjoying these weekly aural diptychs courtesy of
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Bye Gristedes 👋
3 months ago
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Twofer Tuesday #4: Gwoka, dub, and Godlike drums from the heavens for us mortals:
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Twofer Tuesday #4
A lost masterpiece from Guadaloupe and a heavyweight dub set from the island of Great Britain and feeling mortal amid such Godlike drums
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/twofer-tuesday-4?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 months ago
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An homage to the late Billy Jones, listening back to some cheesy smooth and jazz-funk albums we both enthused over:
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Twofer Tuesday #3
Twofer the late, great Billy Jones
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3 months ago
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In the post-Kokomo days of hs, the Beach Boys were the uncoolest band possible. My bff & I swore by Pet Sounds (and SMiLE fragments) and our friend circle cringed. I wouldn't have survived that time without Brian Wilson's gentle message. To see his genius restored over time was edifying. RIP
4 months ago
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Twofer Tuesday #2 with two beautiful duos on Métron Records and Efficient Space:
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Twofer Tuesday #2
Two radiant ambient duo albums bathing in golden light
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/twofer-tuesday-2?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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In celebration of her return to NYC tonight, Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones:
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In the Fried Archives: Grace Jones
From 2017: Bloodlight, Bami, Bowie, Twerking, A One Man Show, and hitchhiking to Paris on acid.
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/in-the-fried-archives-grace-jones-10c?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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Wait til he learns about the Puerto Rican Day Parade
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4 months ago
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New (hopefully weekly) mini-feature I'm trying out over at Beta Music for Beta People. Inaugural one is on the sunny new Resavoir/ Matt Gold album and Resavoir drummer Pete Manheim's solo debut:
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Twofer Tuesday
Perhaps a new weekly experiment in talking about albums in tandem
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4 months ago
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"By going for walks in the forest more often, I started to notice all sorts of small changes happening in nature...Once I started observing with this calendar as a guide, my experience of the seasons truly became deeper and more intense."
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Felbm
Chatting with the Dutch artist about nature walks, micro-seasons, M.C. Escher, making and breaking patterns, and avoiding Vivaldi
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/felbm?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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Loved Felbm's minimalist beauty cycli infini a few years back and he followed it up with an even more ambitious new album following the micro-seasons/ constant metamorphosis of nature. It was so lovely that I kept hitting pause to mind all the birdsong around me:
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Felbm
Chatting with the Dutch artist about nature walks, micro-seasons, M.C. Escher, making and breaking patterns, and avoiding Vivaldi
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/felbm?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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Just bought this funky Larry Willis album in part because Foster's cymbals sound so massive on it. You could just tell Miles heard it and knew that was his new drummer.
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4 months ago
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Felbm
4 months ago
Very grateful to have done this in depth interview for
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‘s substack. Find it here:
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Felbm
Chatting with the Dutch artist about nature walks, micro-seasons, M.C. Escher, making and breaking patterns, and avoiding Vivaldi
https://andybeta.substack.com/p/felbm
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On Universal Consciousness, Carnegie Hall, continuous sound, and being a candle in the midday sun:
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Alice
On Universal Consciousness, Carnegie Hall, continuous sound, and being a candle in the midday sun.
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/alice?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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Heaps of new music for this month's Lot Radio show, featuring Qasim Naqvi, Amina Claudine Myers, Stephen Vitiello, Walt McClements, Holden & Zimpel, Time Barnes, Julia Mestre, Resavoir, and more:
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The Lot for May
Homeland Lakeland b/w Sparkles on a Painted Ocean
https://open.substack.com/pub/andybeta/p/the-lot-for-may-83d?r=dh1l0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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"The magic isn’t like, real, it’s setup. It’s like a cooking show shot outside...The dish is changing, but I think we follow a similar kind of recipe – it’s assemblage and the flavour comes from whatever we can scrounge up in our surroundings, in the moment."
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Wilson Tanner
Chat with the woozy (or is that Woo-zy?) Aussie ambient duo about wheelbarrows of gear, janky bricolage, music-as-home-cooked-meal, and being handymen masquerading as musicians.
https://andybeta.substack.com/p/wilson-tanner
4 months ago
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"We both had utes and seemed to share a love of janky bricolage. I was shaking off classical music, electronic music baggage, and John had some bluegrass in the closet. We made do." A chat with Aussie ambient duo Wilson Tanner about food, wine, and utes:
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Wilson Tanner
Chat with the woozy (or is that Woo-zy?) Aussie ambient duo about wheelbarrows of gear, janky bricolage, music-as-home-cooked-meal, and being handymen masquerading as musicians.
https://andybeta.substack.com/p/wilson-tanner
4 months ago
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NY's best party, if by “party” you mean slurping homemade soup, lying on a ground pad in the dark for a few hours, wholly lost in music:
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Planetarium
Deep listening and deep breathing in deep Ridgewood for the last Planetarium of the season
https://andybeta.substack.com/p/planetarium-bdc
4 months ago
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Hoping these unreleased Gal Costa gems inexplicably shelved in '72 get something beyond a digital release:
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O Dengo Que A Nega Tem
YouTube video by Gal Costa - Topic
https://youtu.be/qSuxpcFxzTo?feature=shared
5 months ago
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Happy Universal Mother's Day to all who celebrate:
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Alice Coltrane: Universal Consciousness
Read Andy Beta’s review of the album.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/alice-coltrane-universal-consciousness/
5 months ago
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