Some upbeat modern jazz from Kamaal Williams, 'Last Night in Paris' (2026, Tidal, Hi-Res) tidal.com/album/531518...

New TFATD pre-order on Friday - check out Mark Buckinghams art - lovely

Happy 81st birthday singer, songwriter, actress, and co-founding member of Blondie - Debbie Harry. 🎂

Happy 43rd birthday, jazz, and classical harpist Brandee Younger. 🎂 #Jazzsky

Remembered Sky Cullercoats 2013 #RememberedSky

Surface Tensions (DiN24) by Surface 10 is free to download/name your price during July @ dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/surfac... The opening track 'B2 Gigacosm' is one of my all time favourite cuts on the DiN label with a breath-taking amalgam of electronic music styles.

From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: The 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai‘i, is seen here in a long exposure at night. Behind the telescope, the usual star trails are visible. #astronomy Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Had to be done, absolutely love this album. An odd gestation and long time to appear, but it is just fantastic. ‘Music for Abandoned Heights’ (2019, 2025, SACD). Can’t get enough. I’d use emojis to emphasise, but hey, they’re not working :(

Bluesky playing up again, can’t get in via any browser, and eventually downloaded the app to iPad which is pretty crap experience, but finally in

An album worth checking out: yourbrotherskeepergarybartz.bandcamp.com/album/where-...

Way into work, with these thoughtful, improvised solo piano pieces from Frances Shelley. Just has a knack of hitting all the right keys all of the time for me! francesshelley.bandcamp.com/album/interi...

Lining this one up, not played in a while. One of 2021's finest releases for me. Frances Shelley and 'Songs of Possibility', played to death that year, just so uplifting coming out of COVID with lots of crap going on. Hard not to be moved by this ... francesshelley.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

Now back with Martin Kohlstedt's imaginative and superb 'Feld' (2023, CD). One I can't get enough of, and his latest is now rivalling it for my attention. Beautiful electronic music, modal compositions wonderfully realised 😍

Time for some TD, and my way in, and still a favourite, 'Force Majeure' (1979, CD). From 'The Virgin Years 1977-1983'. First ever of theirs I had heard ... never forgotten ... 🍊💤

Title track from a great album, Terumasa Hino - 'Hip Seagull' (1978). Superb youtu.be/CIiC4nCP7uA?...

Another play through. Love it. It does crossover with 'Get All You Deserve' but I'm okay with that as this was such a rich and fertile period for SW.

Your reminder that Manchester is halfway up England. #thenorth

🌻😔Farewell Dame #PenelopeKeith -growing up in the 70’s I loved watching The Good Life & Margo Leadbetter was & is my heroine.She played her so well it was impossible not to love her & she had the best lines!🖤

On this day in 2021 John Lawton passed away. John sang the incredible "Little Chalk Blue" from Roger Glover's "The Butterfly Ball" but was most well known from his time in Uriah Heep and Lucifer's Friend. What are your favorite John Lawton performances? R.I.P., John.

Glad to see Tidal have come up with an AI policy. tidal.com/ai-policy?lid

Jake Long (previously behind band Maisha) with his new project - Your Brother's Keeper, including Gary Bartz no less (with whom he has played before). 'Where Rivers Meet' (2026), definitely one that will get more attention this year 😍 yourbrotherskeepergarybartz.bandcamp.com/album/where-...

Wakey wakey tunes this morning, the late Bill Reiflin with Trey Gunn and Robert Fripp, 'The Repercussions of Angelic Behaviour' (1999). Very ProjeKct like indeed, great recording of a very noisy trio billrieflin.bandcamp.com/album/the-re...

Remembered Sky Pershore 2022 #RememberedSky

A quite excellent live album, ‘In the Big Room’ (2003, 2025, 2CD). Sounds stunning, wonderful set, so well worth having. Positive blizzard of PG releases of late. Not going to complain as clearly more in the pipeline … petergabriel.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...

Don’t worry not sending out any SOS, as this is actually quite good, Sting, ‘The Night Watch’ (2026, Tidal). Not sure when this was recorded, but only recently released it seems. Worth checking out

Time for some more JUZZ and its album II released this year. Absolute belter from the Spanish jazz/fusion/prog types and more of the cracking cover art along with it 😎 amarxe.bandcamp.com/album/juzz-ii

One that’s grown on me considerably with every play. John McLaughlin, ‘Music for Abandoned Heights’ (2026, Hi-Res DL). Wonderful band around this too, with some familiar 4th Dimension names involved.

"Humor is just another defense against the universe." - Mel Brooks Happy 100th Birthday to the legendary actor, comedian, director, filmmaker, songwriter & playwright, born on this day in 1926. One of few entertainers to achieve EGOT status (winning Emmy, Grammy, Academy aka Oscar & Tony Awards).

Back into this one, Poly-Math’s ‘Zenith’ (2022, DL, Hi-Res). Awaiting the disc as it really is that good 😊 Clever, inventive, ambitious and always melodic. Will also be reaching further back into their catalogue in the coming week too 👍

Seriously good tunes here, Ryan Adams ‘The Suicide Handbook’ (2026, DL), recorded some 25 years ago

Never knew this existed until released on Headphone Dust in various digital mixes. Steven Wilson, ‘Catalogue / Preserve / Amass’ (2012, 2026, Hi-Res DL). A really nice period in his catalogue, as I seek to amass and preserve! Sounds great 😊

i only took one video at angine de poitrine tonite but it captures just a taste of the wave of humanity, young & old, that showed up ready to engage with this bizarre little music

Some more artful noise, Poly-Math (forgot the dash), with ‘Melencolia’ (2018). Lots of cleverness within the big riffs and ambience, and all of it works so well. Prog-Math could be another name … wearepolymath.bandcamp.com/album/zenith

Another cracking Polymath album, heavy but incorporating sax into the mix. Again done really very well indeed. Absolutely hooks sunk into my brain … ‘Zenith’ (2022, Bandcamp) wearepolymath.bandcamp.com/album/zenith

Absolutely love this, Polymath and ‘Something Deeply Hidden’ (2026). Disc on order from Plastic Head. Heavy post-rock math-rock that kicks out with some incredibly intelligent/hooky sounds 😎 very addictive wearepolymath.bandcamp.com/album/someth...

Been chilling with the amazing Bremer/McCoy and their early albums ‘Enhed’, (2013) ‘Ordet’ (2015) and ‘Forsvinder’ (2016), all downloaded via Qobuz as not the easiest to come across. Beautiful melodies ensue. Perfection 😎👌

Lovely Nordic jazz trio augmented by sax and vibraphones. This really works so well. Some gorgeous compositions and playing here. I don’t know much about this Danish Little North trio, but keen to find out more littlenorth.bandcamp.com/album/crossi...

Delivery with ‘Fools Meeting’ (1970). Real mash of blues rock washed through with jazz and a sense of Canterbury to follow. The live tracks are a nice bonus, and have plenty of delivery! Cuneiform’s weekend special! 😎 cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fools-...

‘Dødehavet’ (2026), an AOTY contender for me. Lots of Afro-Jazz and Eastern influences in here, and it all hangs together melodically so supremely well. Love it 🥰 kronstad23.bandcamp.com/album/d-deha...

Remembered Sky Whitley Bay 2023 #RememberedSky

Great album, JUZZ, ‘S/T’ (2018, DL, Bandcamp). Latest album from earlier this year is pretty tasty 🤤 too, big band, big sounding.

Haven’t heard much traffic around this one. Steven Wilson’s ‘Catalogue / Preserve / Amass - Live in Europe’ (2012). From the 2011 tour and now released in various digital (atmos, surround, hi-res) formats at Headphone Dust. Will be giving this a run through over the weekend 👍

This is a really fantastic album, All Them Witches, the first studio album since ‘Nothing as the Ideal’ which was nearly six years ago. Wondered if they might be able to reach the same quality and heights. Well, it seems that they have most certainly done so. ‘House of Mirrors’ is excellent 👌😎

Going in …

Tonight’s movie. Mrs H annoyed she missed the first film yesterday … ‘Aliens’ (1986, 1990 Special Edition, Blu Ray). Non-stop action here rather than the suspense, claustrophobia and lonely terror of no one hearing you scream in space … 👾

Some more awesome 🤩 youtu.be/MFYXBoL4mYE?...

Lots of awesome 🤩 youtube.com/watch?v=1HkQ...

Back to the Bootleg TV and Europe, 2000. Back into the various dates, and currently in Bonn, 6th June 😎