Merry Christmas to all our readers

We lost many great musicians in 2025. I try to honour a few of them on this, my last radio broadcast for the year. https://www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/12/21/2025-farewells/

Tune in at 16:00 this PM to hear the last Sound Projector radio show of the year. It's a tribute to all the great musicians who sadly passed away in 2025. Broadcast on @resonancefm.bsky.social as usual. Photo "Happs!" by u278 is marked with CC0 1.0.

In a new blog post, I review the amazing work of J. Webster Sharp. https://comics.edpinsent.com/2025/12/19/space-chameleons-and-other-chimeras-of-the-mind/ "The reader is drawn into a vortex by the hypnotic flow of images, each successive tableau more outrageous than the last"

No new radio show last week, but I was in the ResFM studio yesterday for a rare live broadcast, playing some unusual vinyl LPs. www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/12/07/f...

Part of my record fair haul from Saturday. Some scoff at these Marble Arch reissues, but not me. These Pye pressings are loud and solid! I need more Sonny Stitt LPs...he's less excessive than Ornette, more precise than Dolphy (I love both). I decided to sketch the cover. Missed some detail.

It is with some excitement that we are able to direct you to Carol Swain's new official site, where you can buy original art from throughout her career. The website also features a new interview, as well as a prose piece, Soft Concrete. Get excited, and point your browsers here: carolswaincomics.com

A page from "Colonel Pewter in Ironicus" by Arthur Horner. (PALL MALL PRESS 1957). One of three Colonel Pewter collections I happen to own.

All set up at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this fine Saturday morning

Yes, I've got a table at Thought Bubble this coming weekend, but you'll NEVER FIND ME! @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social

"How was it at Goblin Market last month, Ed?" Maybe this sketch will evoke the essence of my joyous sojourn behind the table at Stanley Arts in Norwood. Many thanks to Hannah and Mo.

@soundprojector.bsky.social at Winchester Comic Fair. Step right up, step right up, get there early to avoid disappointment. Beat the crowds and check out Windy Wilberforce, Illegal Batman, and Primitif!

I'll be at #WinchesterComicsFair on Saturday. I've made a limited reprinting of this catalogue item from 2016, now with colour covers and a more informative title. (Previous version on the left). Only available from my table, not in my shop! However, how many Pinsent completists can there be?

Last night's spin. I love Stravinsky's music, but worry that Tilson Thomas is doing too much to knock off the corners and sweeten the deal in some sort of "populist" bid. Even the cutesy cover art is saying "Hey, modernism can be fun!"

Tonight's listening. Wish I had a vinyl copy of this 1984 album! Tons of loopy DIY tape collage and reverb malarkey disrupt normal listening, as Chadbourne rips through his satirically-barbed song lyrics. The guitar playing is Derek Bailey spliced with rockabilly licks. youtu.be/Qe1pQGeaZ3I?...

Don't forget to come to Goblin Market Small Press Fair Stanley Arts in SE25 tomorrow (Sun 19th Oct), where I will have a table loaded with goodies old and new. I published three comics this year! Doors open at 12 - a roomful of unique creators await ye!

Saw these on Millbank today. Apparently they're Egyptian Geese. Beautiful markings! They were also very vocal, honking and hissing as if to say "step aside, buddy".

This jolly cut-out puppet just back from the printer's yesterday. I assembled one tonight! He's held together with brass paper fasteners.

Another Burra snap from the Tate Britain show, this one for all the cat lovers. From one of his letters - this sketch captures the discerning taste of the feline. "Milko" was I think a common expression once, a cry often heard when the milkman came to deliver. (It's in Passport to Pimlico)

Some details from the #EdwardBurra show @tate.bsky.social

Review: Windy Wilberforce - Jackanapes Regained by Ed Pinsent www.comicbooknews.co.uk/article/revi...

Today's show on @resonancefm.bsky.social is "jazz + orchestrations", with great records by Alice Coltrane, Bird with Strings, Lee Konitz, Gil Evans, Kenyon Hopkins, Stan Kenton and more. Tune in 4pm today! Image: "Penthouse View" by cogdogblog is marked with CC0 1.0.

I am delighted by this insightful and considered review of the new Wilberforce comic. Many thanks to Ben Williams of Comic Book news UK. He has correctly recognised the importance of dreams in my work. www.comicbooknews.co.uk/article/revi...

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.