Tonight's spin, disc one of "The Alchemist of Pop". Very strong comp by Bob Stanley and Roger Dopson. Some songs reminded me of Morricone's "western" pop songs that got remade into Leone soundtracks. Maybe it's the "operatic" backing vocals and bright orchestras.

Just a reminder that the new Wilberforce comic was published last week. Don't like to blow my own trombone, but I'm very pleased with this panel. Multiple picture planes! comics.edpinsent.com/2025/09/19/w...

Happy to say I'll be tabling at Winchester Comics Fair again this year. Saturday 1st November 2025. #WCF25 winchestercomicsfair.blogspot.com

Windy Wilberforce in "Jackanapes Regained" - a poignant revisiting of an early 1983 theme. New comic by Ed Pinsent available now, £6 plus post. comics.edpinsent.com/2025/09/19/w...

A brand-new Windy Wilberforce 32pp comic from me is imminent...been working on it since May this year...should be back from the printers very soon! Watch this space: comics.edpinsent.com

Followers who enjoy post-punk noise (and you know who you are), hear this murderous disc if you can! Short CD of insane French improv-noise-rock! Available from Fou Records! www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/09/14/m...

Charity shop find of the day, £1.99 for this nice piece of contemporary classical music from 1984 on Hyperion. Inside, found a leaflet for the Robert Simpson Society (£5 annual membership!). Cover's a bit scuffed, but plays beautifully. "Grave, Molto Intensivo" indeed.

TSP Radio is back on the air tomorrow afternoon on @resonancefm.bsky.social . Tune in for a fine selection of Autumnal rousselments, as I concoct my 15th prog-rock show. The usual suspects from RCA Neon LPs...I can't help spinning them every September.

We're VERY excited to unveil Ed Pinsent's Colossive Package - a limited-edition featuring all three of @soundprojector.bsky.social's #ColossiveCartographies, PLUS a one-of-a-kind original, signed sketch card. Grab it for the frankly ridiculous price of £8 at bit.ly/edpinsentpackage #zines #comics

Parking (Jean-Luc Guionnet/Eric La casa/Philip Samartzis/Dan Warburton) Reviewed by Ed Pinsent In the sound projector www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/09/05/m...

We sent out our latest newsletter yesterday - featuring all sorts of fascinating stuff that you'd already know about by now if you'd got round to subscribing. Still can't be bothered? You can read it hear instead: bit.ly/colossivesep... #zines #zinefair #cats

Current listening, the 1981 debut LP by Los Microwaves. Synth-new-wave band from San Francisco. One to file alongside The Human Switchboard perhaps. Can't say it's a "lost gem", but the squiggly synths and compressed drums are "of the time". Meg Brazill's mannered vox also v. good.

"Read your brilliant [Sun Ra] comic yesterday. It was funny, precise, informative and a flight of the imagination all in one. A brilliant piece of work." - @patrickwray.bsky.social comics.edpinsent.com/2015/09/06/n... #SunRa

Lastly there's this Japanese micro-label which is always worth investigating for sheer idiosyncratic-electronica mushfests...this made me aware of Turmeric Acid who also runs the Molt Fluid label in Edinburgh. Wallow in the Magnetic Mud, that's my advice! www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/08/14/h...

Ogrob and his compadres are wild absurdists - this stuff is not for everyone, but I dig the disruptive power of nauseating noise - and it's nothing to do with table-harsh-earsplit-blasts. All Ogrob projects curdle the brain and overturn common sense. www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/08/21/n...

Rhodri Davies doing amazing things with a pegged harp. I'm convinced he's warping the fabric of musical history through sound. Incredible Welsh folk-improv-time travel adventures. www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/08/26/h...

A coupla recommendations this month..."Sparkling Sessions" is French free-jazzprov from Jac Berrocal and crew, with added vocals, dada and Jean-Luc Godard moves...cover art a treat for NWW freaks... www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/08/27/t...

Great haul I got from GoshFest @goshcomics.bsky.social last night. Also very good to chew the rags and confab with @patrickwray.bsky.social , @johnnyriordan.bsky.social , @douglasnoble.bsky.social , @marxtafford.bsky.social and @grthink.bsky.social . Adam Falp's newie also pictured.

More "grey is always good" cover art. These are all fine albums which I have reviewed this month. I especially recommend the music of Zosha Warpeha. www.thesoundprojector.com

To my astonishment, I sold another copy of Henrietta last Thursday. It's a full-colour comic, an epic picaresque adventure from the 1990s, which I finally was able to put into print recently. Still available from me directly! comics.edpinsent.com/2025/05/24/h...

Recent reading. Now I want more books by John Brunner. Very original idea and a nice crisp writing style. Unlike some sci-fi, this is a "what-if" scenario based on ideas about urban planning, tho' not as apocalyptic as JG Ballard. Lovely cover (on the left) is by Peter Goodfellow.

Today's recommendation & review is this fine French anthology / survey of modern sound art. I especially enjoyed the piece by Anne Gillis, "a short lecture on how the culture of language evolved in the human race" is my take. fernsrecordings.bandcamp.com www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/07/10/w...

Recent listening - this fine 1987 live recording of The Fall. Forgot how great these songs are, and what a line-up - Hanley, Scanlon, Wolstencroft & Brix! The punctuating scream on 'Terry Waite Sez' is, to me, sheer perfection.

Spent hours today working on my Raspberry PI with Open Media Vault. I have no Linux skills whatsoever, but I’m always determined to make these things work. Half the effort is searching for guides on the web, and forcing myself to understand them.

archive.org/details/turn... Here's a curio from US TV history (1969). Seems it was cancelled almost immediately. I found the humour and references all but incomprehensible, but it looks unusual. Kind of an "experimental" take on Laugh-In with a vague "hipster" vibe.

From last night's @colossive.com event at @goshcomics.bsky.social . The idea to create badges themed on each Cartography came from Hannah Lee Miller. As far as I know each one is unique. Just lovely!

Nifty stamps on this envelope I was sent from Warsaw about a year ago. The sticker on the left celebrates 50 Years of Comics and the characters Kajko and Kokosz, created by Janusz Christa in 1972. These comical Slavs appear to be the Polish equivalent of Asterix and Obelix.

I review the 6-CD set of Outland (Laswell / Namlook) - drones, dark, ambient, beats, samples, loops...heavy elemental sounds from the 1990s and beyond! www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/06/17/t... Available from @coldspringrecords.bsky.social

Tonight's listen, this fine CD (ED MN 1006) by everyone's favourite Romanian modernists. Iancu is pretty subdued on his half, whereas Avram lets rip with some superb orchestral dissonances on 'De Sacrae Lamentationem'. Her 'Icarus', 1993 electronic music, is also gorgeous.

I enjoyed seeing the zine collections at UAL Library today. They’ve got some lovely themed boxes, of which “Punk, post-punk, new wave (1970s/1980s)” was of great interest to me. I found some zines there by MJ Weller, who also did comics in the 1990s. lcczinecollection.myblog.arts.ac.uk/visit/

I'll be at this event on Friday 20th June - a rare public appearance from me...thanks to @colossive.com and @goshcomics.bsky.social If you're in London please say hello. I'm always happy to talk about my comics. To date I have had 3 Cartographies published by Colossive!

"A ... repository for older work from an artistic collective whose contribution to the early independent comics movement is impossible to overstate...Jason Asala, John Bagnall, Bob Lynch, Denny Derbyshire, David Metcalfe-Carr, Ed Pinsent, and Chris Webster." downthetubes.net/coming-soon-...

For no particular reason, here's a 2018 radio broadcast which I care for. Two years before lockdown, so it would have been live in the @resonancefm.bsky.social studio. My one regret was choosing the wrong version of 'Lumpy Gravy'. Still hosted on Mixcloud. www.thesoundprojector.com/2018/09/28/c...

Did I mention I will be exhibiting at Thought Bubble this year. @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social

At #TateBritain this PM, stood in front of this fab painting by R.B. Kitaj (I like the way the gallery keeps rotating the displays and bringing out goodies I haven't seen very often). One takeaway was "you can't use too much black". I hope to apply this lesson soon.

Current reading - I'm halfway through, somewhere in the mid-1970s of this unusual history. I'm neither a True Believer, a FOOM, nor a paid-up member of the MMMS, but this is an entertaining read. If feeling captious, I might say "too much internal office politics, not enough comics".

I review this great LP by @tarfumes.bsky.social "...this piece has been the result of a very creative process where the composer rewrote and destroyed his original scores ...I regard this as a very healthy way to work, and I wish more artists would do it." www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/05/31/a...

In another recent publication, Henrietta embraces personal liberation in every possible form. In this instance, by drinking large amounts of rum punch on board a ship. comics.edpinsent.com/2025/05/24/h...

The Astorial Clock - just one of many treacherous, troubling objects to be found in the Astorial Hotel. To learn more read my recent comic - more like a survival guide... comics.edpinsent.com/2025/04/28/a...

False Face was a pretty obscure and not very interesting Batman villain, whose schtick was simply being an expert in disguise. I recast him in a mini-comic for @colossive.com in 2023, and ended up with some nice halftones and scrambled texts. comics.edpinsent.com/2023/10/28/t...

New comic for sale from my website now. Cover price £10 plus post. Full colour. Please note it's unsuitable for younger readers! comics.edpinsent.com/2025/05/24/h...

New comic back from the printers today. Full colour throughout!

From Action Comics #284. Another fine example of Curt Swan compressing action and information into a single panel. Every kid holds a different prize, perfectly rendered, and they register various degrees of delight as Superman (shrunk to size of a baby) wins toys for them at a crooked funfair.

I've been enjoying this collection of Your Show Of Shows on archive.org/details/your... Sid Caesar had a real "jazz rhythm" to his delivery: short phrases and quickfire patter, almost like be-bop. You can hear it even in his short pep talk as Coach Calhoun in Grease.

archive.org/details/roug... Long thought to be lost, here's a 2009 recording of Supernatural English Noise by Pestrepeller, live on the radio @resonancefm.bsky.social . We worked to a text-instruction composition by Peter Hopen-Evans. Recorded by Sarah Nicol.

Astorial Feature Fables - I loved @soundprojector.bsky.social's latest collection of tales from the Astorial Hotel where everything has a life of its own... rogue furnishings are just for starters. comics.edpinsent.com/2025/04/28/a... #comics #Britishcomics #independentcomics #hotels #EdPinsent

Revisiting an old post from about two years ago, excellent noisy improv by Blood Luxury on their self-titled cassette. www.thesoundprojector.com/2023/05/06/t... All of these Tubapede / Dan Peck releases are recommended. tubapederecords.bandcamp.com

The name Abner Dean came up in my "feed" today. I never heard of him before but his work looks very good. Here are some pages from an American magazine dated 1949 - his illustrations for a digest of Orwell's "1984". Seen on eBay.

From my new comic "Astorial Feature Fables", here's the pencils and the finished art for a single-frame page. comics.edpinsent.com/2025/04/28/a...