Scott Robertson recorded and transcribed 50 of his yawns

Oh HELL yes. Five tracks from July 1975, two from May 1976. Collective personnel: Oliver Lake (saxes), Baikida Carroll (trumpet), Michael Gregory Jackson (guitar), Fred Hopkins (bass), Phillip Wilson and Jerome Cooper (drums). Primo recording, too. nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rivbea...

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

Fieldwork Thereupon (2025) Tyshawn Sorey @vijayiyer.bsky.social Steve Lehman

Eyeless In Gaza Drumming The Beating Heart (1982)

Stuck in a captcha loop where I can't prove to software that I'm human. I hate how often this happens to me.

gfm for Silviano Mora Vera, who was abducted by ICE a month ago while he was waiting with his son for the school bus in RVA @vpm.org story on the abduction: www.vpm.org/news/2025-10... gfm: www.gofundme.com/f/bring-silv...

old French fishing nets being used as protection against drones in Ukraine "The nets we are sending are made of horse hair and used for deep-sea fishing to catch monkfish which are quite powerful and hit the nets with a strength similar to that of a drone.”

“eat the rich” should be the moderate position at this point

The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.

The Dust-to-Digital Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara have partnered to make thousands of historic recordings freely accessible to the public.

People should do check in's with themselves about what things they are not saying or doing because they are afraid of conservative backlash, including threats and bombardment You need to pay attention to how you are being worked on and how fear is being used to govern you

It would be good if more non-musicians started to understand this shitty company.

the "proliferation of AI...in library and education spaces would not be possible...without the precedent of book bans...once you have a culture in which all expertise is denigrated & considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish” www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Diedre Murray Fred Hopkins Firestorm (1992)

That fucking cum rag of a human Kim Davis is back in the news. "Supreme court considering taking up case challenging legality of same-sex marriage"

Fred Hopkins bass Diedre Murray cello Newman Baker drums Brandon Ross electric guitar

Ok I may be biased but Jesse's forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book--on the white Appalachian migrant arm of Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition--is so good, with urgent lessons for anti-racist working class organizing today. John Sayles thinks so too. uncpress.org/978146969396...

Lara and Pat are doing some of the most exciting work right now in enrolling electronic and digital techniques into improvised musics. And their determination to steamroller the borders between club and concert spaces, between the spontaneous and composed, is truly inspiring. #juno3

new solo piano music from Pat Thomas

Thread. Please read this. For me and many other people like me, this is the worst-case scenario we live with every day.

good morning [cd - hatOLOGY 2-540] John Carter (clarinet), Horace Tapscott (piano), Cecil McBee (double Bass), Andrew Cyrille (drums). Recorded live at Catalina Bar & Grill, Hollywood on December 14-17, 1989. Engineer: Peter Pfister info: www.discogs.com/release/3693...

I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest. If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been. It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week. theatticmag.com/features/248...

Every morning this week has started with a double listen of this incredible album.

Learned about gas gangrene this week and that's all I could think about punching down the pizza dough I left to rise on the counter overnight.

Tin Machine on Arsenio '91 CW: Topless Bowie & Steinberger madness.

If you made $45 million/year, you would have had to start working during the last glacial maximum to make this much money. There is no reason anyone should ever have anything near this amount of money.

rulings like the one from scotus today hurt me most because i know how many trans kids and adults are quietly dying in the shadows

Good on Tom Hanks for normalizing masking, its a really bare minimum community minded practice that you can do while our government goes full fascist/eugenics.

$88 for 13 cds of the best shit.

The one time I saw Mulatu Astatke my body was so moved it had a massive allergic reaction in the middle of his set lol. Was a great show.

walking to the east everything is beautiful walking to the west everything is beautiful walking to the north everything is beautiful walking to the south everything is beautiful Jim Pepper - Witchi-Tai-To

Another morning where I am also a clumpy galaxy, possibly merging, and observed. Must be time for another cup of coffee.

A green card holder is being indicted for basically having zines in their car. This is incredibly alarming.

Nicole Mitchell & JoVia Armstrong at Artspace on Monday for a 60th anniversary celebration of the AACM

"Antifa materials" is intended to sound sinister but the government is talking about ESSAYS. If you read literature the regime disapproves of, you might be a terrorist, too.

Paul Motian Quintet Jack of Clubs (1985) Jim Pepper Joe Lovano Ed Schuller Bill Frisell

Pat Thomas & Mark Fell? Sign me up!

Jim Pepper Amina Claudine Myers Anthony Cox Leopoldo Fleming Afro Indian Blues (2006) Recorded live at the Jazzfestival Raab Austria, May 19, 1991

I wrote an essay on @defector.com about my archival misadventures putting together the book that is Gendertrash From Hell. Many thanks to @laurentheisen.bsky.social it was really nice to *get* edited for once. Lauren u rule!

In 10 days. Thrift store gigs are always the best.

Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy :: African Skies (1993) digital: Nov. 7, LP: ? :: Listening Position www.stonesthrow.com/store/africa...

Listen. We aren’t stopping til we win this thing.

Last night. (Tonight, we'll demonstrate how this all works in a performance.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-j9...

This album is one of my favorites.

Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor Kaiso Stories (2010) Roy Campbell Daniel Carter William Parker Charles Downs @freesongsinger.bsky.social

Reminded myself of the great Bobby Previte piece The 23 Constellations Of Joan Miró. The 2001 recording on Tzadik youtube.com/playlist?lis... The 2008 revised version bobbyprevite.bandcamp.com/album/the-23...

Good to see the return of Another Screen with films by Helena Solberg, Letícia Parente, Regina Camlian, Inês Castilho, Eunice Gutman, Maria Inês Villares, made between 1966–1985.