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Fantastic news for Tangerine Dream fans. (CD seems likely.) C/o Matthew Sawyer. #TangerineDream.

Wes Streeting tells you he's been getting into jazz and fires up a bit of Kenny G

I say 70s but we all know who the real disco urse is, don’t we

'Night all, now playing: absolute scenes with Enrique Granados. Poetic Scenes! This is shaping up to be a favourite on first listen, spellbinding

Wordle 1,787 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Thatcher, Major and Blair take me right up to age 27!

Battling Starmer Crust Ahead

Now playing: unheard charity shop pile continues. Here's Naxos' short-lived 'International' pops-orchestra imprint (got their Leroy Anderson one already, it's a blast). This is just bizarre. Yes, "Black Or White" is the Michael Jackson song. Played by a classical guitarist fronting an orchestra.

How I discovered new music (born 1980) 1985-1990 - Parents' collection, plus approved music for good Christian children 1991-1994 - finally allowed own boombox so radio, plus friends 1994-2000 - magazines, friends 1999-2006 - local library 1999-present - charity shops 2005-present - internet

Now playing: a dip into the ever-expanding charity shop pile that needs attention. Absolutely loving Fauré at the moment

oh, you only like early zappa? going tape-by-tape through the known studio z recordings, 1964-1965: spbpublishing.substack.com/p/the-known-...

'Night all, now playing: Greek piano music, by Dimitris Dragatakis

Apparently a previously uncirculated soundboard tape of the final show by the original line-up of Mahavishnu Orchestra. Mahavishnu Orchestra 30 December 1973 Venue: Masonic Temple Auditorium Location: Detroit, Michigan youtu.be/p0cnYDUJ6ps?...

YOU HEAR ABOUT THE NOISE ROCK MUSICIAN WHO WASN’T SATISFIED BY HIS FIRST GLASS OF WATER YEAH HE WAS THURSTON MOORE

a not-insignificant number of people are going to fuck the Donkey Kong barrel

If the rules of classic prog apply, assume the bird was pursued into a ravine after which he slipped into some rapids, something something the last bit makes no sense but the epilogue is a banger

winding down tonight with Emmanuel Chabrier by Angela Hewitt, magnificent

Almost comical levels of overthinking here Wordle 1,785 5/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

of course i just recently got the old box on discogs.

9 May 1976: Ulrike Meinhof dies in a prison cell in Stuttgart www.ndr.de/geschichte/k... via @ndr.de

Now playing

One niche part of my bullshit is browsing old blank tapes on eBay just to look at them, and I think I've found the wildest pairing of two albums on one cassette. The other two labelled ones make sense, but Fairports and Fad Gadget is just *incredible*

First up: Isaac Albeniz's Recuerdos De Viaje. Lovely stuff

Intrigued by the blurb here (six pianos tuned a 1/12 tone apart!), will have a listen at some point

Pynchon having been one of The Residents somehow makes perfect sense

Happy 5/8/77 to those who celebrate ⚡️💀

Sorry who was this that goes around in a giant bird suit in my constituency, and why did they not make clear on the ballot paper that they did so (even the placard slogan doesn't ring a bell)

Yesss the shitload of cheap Naxos (and couple other bits) cometh. This should keep me occupied for a while

As alluded to in the review, Ralf will do literally anything to wring another drop out of the catalogue other than acknowledge that it didn't begin ex nihilo in 1974, and that Ralf & Florian is orders of magnitude better than side two of Autobahn

Dump him, girl www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The extremely rare catcopus.

Back on my (possibly diagnosable) bullshit, ie the guy who leaves restaurant tables looking like this (chat is this ADHD or just the GAD that I already know about)

I remember that from Eno, and how much of a mixed bag Sacrilege was - but also that it was released when I'd just started buying the original albums, Damo era first. So I heard Yoo Doo Right as this beautifully lush and autumnal pop song over a year before I heard the epic minimalism of the original

Tonight!!

Oh my god she spoke to the toothbrush family www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The Frank Chacksfield 'Beyond The Sea' one is on for bedtime easy listening. Sumptuous and sublime, Decca were really on to something with the 'Phase4' tech

The Endless Plain of Fortune Ship of Fools Sanctus/Sanities Darling I Need You The Thoughtless Kind

Buffalo Ballet Big White Cloud Amsterdam Chinese Envoy Style It Takes

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

Stockbridge Oxfam report: good to finally have Climate on CD. Today's ECM sighting overlapped with a particularly epic 'Discogsification of Oxfam' example: Hassell's Last Night The Moon going for TWENTY FIVE QUID. I might as well give hope on that one at this point

Saving this to post it next year on the 5th of April, come get me, Americans on the Discover tab

so craig taborn on his own and with nicole mitchell definitely the highlight of this year’s #TectonicsGlasgow. the solo set on Saturday had sounds I’d never heard a piano make — frequency beats creating completely new tones. guy’s just got incredible instrumental command.

Act 3 Banquo:

Reassure my 15yo self that milennial dispensationalism is in fact niche America-brain Christianity, and the tribulation & rapture do not in fact take place in my early adult life, so maybe actually enjoy living (however briefly) through The End of History, rather than ratched up to apocalyptic panic

Just landed #vinyl “Appearance/Music for Solo Performer” Compositions by Toshi Ichiyanagi and Alvin Lucier, featuring John Cage and David Tudor emrecords.bandcamp.com/album/appear...