Zoh Amba
Michael Cloud Duguay
Glissandro 70
haru matsui
Shane Embury
Nirosta Steel
Fire-Toolz
claire rousay
Cinna Peyghamy
feeble little horse
Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra
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Zoh Amba Eyes Full
‘This is a real guitar record tracked live in Asheville with Kevin Hyland and Jim White. Its loose acoustic blues is threaded with squally feedback and traces of Appalachian folk. The songs circle the working-class small-town lives Amba grew up alongside, like the kid numbed by medication on ‘OCD’, or the old stoner playing hide-and-seek with God on ‘Weed Eating’. They know exactly how thin the line was between themselves and the people in these songs. The live recording captures a quality of presence, of people listening hard to each other in a room, something that overdubs would have erased. It sounds unrehearsed in the best possible way, which is to say it sounds true. The pain in their words is real, but so is the movement, something Eyes Full is not short of, reflecting the mental and physical cost of going from one place to another and never really leaving.’ — God is in the TV
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Michael Cloud Duguay Pond 1
‘Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go is a collection of quietly elegiac pieces that doubles as a sort of audio documentary about Newfoundland’s organs and the congregations to which they belong. The music is collaged from recordings that Duguay made on that trip in July 2024, of the organs (which the team documented and will be available as Midi instruments later this summer) but also of church leaders and ordinary congregants talking about their lives, as well as saxophones, flutes and whatever other sounds happened to go by while the tape was rolling. Listening in headphones on a spring day can be mildly hallucinatory: are the bird calls, the rustling wind and the chattering people part of the music or the world outside?’ — Andy Cush
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Glissandro 70 Lucky Cloud
‘Glissandro 70 was the exploratory dance-music duo of Craig Dunsmuir and Sandro Perri, both central figures in Toronto’s adventurous underground. The project began in 2003 as an invitation from Chicago’s Muted Tones weblog to collaborate on music that sat between analogue dub, trance, afro-beat and pop abstraction. Their only record includes a 2005 recording of Arthur Russell’s “Lucky Cloud”.’ — RetroFuturista
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haru matsui idgaf
‘Артист и продюсер haru matsui, входящий в состав творческого объединения DOOM RUSHAZ, выпустил новый альбом. Пластинка с ярким названием «uranium graveyards» включила в себя 10 треков, в частности — совместные работы с KUDOKUSHI, RX Soulja и другими. Я попал в аварию, стальные яйца, детка, я в дерьмо, ты, зай, не пугайся. У меня есть кэш, но, блять, на мне проклятье, молодой hm, у меня молодой батя.’ –– fastfoodmusic
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Shane Embury Taurus
‘Shane Embury has long cemented his legacy as the bassist of Napalm Death, having joined the band in July 1987. His musical journey began even earlier, starting on drums in 1984 before moving to bass and becoming a defining force in the grindcore scene for nearly four decades. Today, he stands as one of the longest serving members in the history of extreme metal. Yet beyond his hardcore punk and death metal foundations, Embury has always carried a deep affection for post punk and alternative rock. His influences range from Killing Joke and Cardiacs to Cocteau Twins, The Mission, The Melvins, and Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation in particular being a major part of his musical DNA. This eclectic palette shapes his debut solo album Bridge to Resolution, a bold leap into electronic soundscapes far removed from the brutality he’s known for.’ — Zachary Nathanson
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Nirosta Steel Jovi Song
‘Nirosta Steel is the alias of Steven Hall, a Scottish-born musician who became a close friend and collaborator of experimental music auteur Arthur Russell after moving to New York. The pair worked together on Russell’s disco tracks, including the not-so-subtly dirty “Is It All Over My Face?” After Russell died, Hall began Arthur’s Landing, a tribute project dedicated to his late friend’s musical legacy. MY SKYSCRAPER feels like it comes straight from the source—velvety disco leaking out of Paradise Garage, improvisational ramblings over punk guitar—because much of it does. The album is a collection of forty years’ worth of recordings remixed and reconstructed over time. Though Hall continued to record and reshape the MY SKYSCRAPER material for decades, its songs still feel lived-in and well-worn.’ — Andy Steiner
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Fire-Toolz Balam =^..^= Says IPv09082024 Strawberry Head
‘There’s a simple beauty to the opening organ chords on Lavender Networks, which whir and crackle in the mix like the equipment is breathing and singing by itself. But maybe there’s beauty in the cartoon sounds which follow: the screamo vocals, digitised grindcore and inversions of new age, prog, IDM and everything in between. All sounds which shouldn’t gel, but Fire-Toolz has been doing so with glee for over a decade, enough so that the specific textures and emotions drawn out are as comforting as they are novel or transportive now.’ — Skye Butchard
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claire rousay peak chroma
‘claire rousay’s music cascades from a well of documented experience, reflections of the past that compose the present. A prolific multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer, rousay gracefully crafts boundaryless music. From her frequent and acclaimed collaborations to her film scoring, from her own compositions to her solo pop work, rousay’s music is delicate yet powerful, carefully constructed with casual intimacy. rousay collages a wealth of found sounds and field recordings with earthy strings, stately piano, and processed instrumentation.’ — rotondes.lu
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Cinna Peyghamy Mutosy
‘On Music For Tombak & Synth, Paris-based Iranian musician Cinna Peyghamy transforms a technical experiment into something deeply personal. What began as research into contact microphones and live improvisation gradually evolved into a meditation on exile, double identity, and inherited memory. The dialogue between the Persian tombak and modular synthesis — “a piece of wood and skin” confronting a hyper-technological electronic system — becomes both sonic method and autobiographical metaphor.’ — gianmarcodelre
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feeble little horse Shady
‘“laptop twee” is exactly what it sounds like: the analog ethos of twee filtered through hyper-online, internet-native production and sensibilities. Often characterized by rapid oscillation between ironic detachment and crushing earnestness (and an obscured boundary between the two), it’s music for genre-ADHD-ridden (or just ADHD-ridden) indoor kids using digital tools of the present and rose-tinted nostalgia to piece together some semblance of a musical future.’ — Grace Robins-Somerville
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Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra the hounds are running
‘Todmorden’s experimental children’s orchestra returns with a warped concept album about a pack of hellhounds terrorising the uncanny valleys of West Yorkshire. Children make weird art. Aside from labyrinthine fantasy fiction experiments or Pollockian attempts at the visual medium, young people tend to produce odd music when given the means. From the spasmodic clanging of The Shoreditch Experimental Music School in the 60s, to the creepy pre-teen junglism of X-Cetra in 2000, there’s a keen history of freaky kids wigging out on wax. Led by former teacher and folklorist, Mark S. Williamson, the Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra weave eerie compositional webs from homemade string instruments, untuned pianos and tolling percussion to create bleak soundscapes that merge the doom of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra with the oblique creepiness of Current 93.’ — A.L. Noonan
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p.s. Hey. ** Fionn, Ah, I remember when cigarette smoke made me feel dizzy, sigh. €20? Wow. Then I should go visit Ireland where I’ve ridiculously never been. I don’t know La Grande-Motte, but I will look at it. Courtesy of that music video probably, Thanks! ** Xavier, Hi, Xavier. That video is terrific, thank you. I’ll go investigate his work in general. Everyone, A late addition to ‘Smokers’ from Xavier, i.e. a short film called ‘Burn’ by Reynolds/Jolley. You want to see this. Here. Yeah, thanks a bunch. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Of course you make your building sound like great haunted house attraction in the making. To choose one unsolved mystery, that’s hard, huh, hold on … I guess I’ll have to choose a personal one: Why, when I looked at the small suitcase of a friend who’d been living in my parents pool house and had committed suicide the day before, did the suitcase suddenly fly about a foot into the air for a second. Most inexplicable thing I ever saw. Now you have to choose one. Love wishing my pal Zac a very happy birthday, G. ** cj, Hi. Welcome. I don’t know those Jason Simon photos. I’ll see if I can find them. Is ‘Moyra’ Moyra Davey? Thanks!! ** DonW, I might love Pavement a wee bit more than I love The Fall, but they’re both way up there in my all-time favorite bands list. Okay, then stick to the Jardin. It’s fun enough. Got your email, emailed you back. ** Don., Hi, Don.! It’s really good to meet you. Thank you for negotiating whatever hurdles it takes to enter this place. Beautiful and true contemplation re: smoking. I just sat here for a moment trying to come up with some pleasure gained from slapping a nicotine patch on my arm or wearing it or peeling it off at the end of a long plane flight, and, yeah, there’s nothing there beyond the pain relief. I don’t think I saw your email. My email is weird, and I’m also pretty bad at keeping up with it. Thank you. And for what you said. How are you du jour? What are you up to? ** Sam F, The vocal minority, nice. Great that the reading landed in the satisfaction category. Congrats on the quitting. If I could snap my fingers and feel like a 100 bucks instantly, I would. Just cigarettes in my case. I quit smoking weed as a teen because I had an extreme LSD freak out and after that weed just triggered its semi-return. The coolest people carry around slim poetry books with them. Or at least said people always intrigue me unusually. Luck with the trailer! ** Bill, I’d like a smoke chair as long as it was actually fog. How interesting: your smoke work. I think or certainly assume that the tech or whatever is much refined and advanced on so on now, so presumably you could now make your masterpiece amongst that body of work maybe. ** _Black_Acrylic, I think it was just weed? But … what do I know. No loss on the no smoking, obviously. ** Uday, Do continue to avoid smoking. Take it from me. My last drugs are cigarettes and caffeine. Once in a rare while I’ll take a few sips of wine or beer at a stressful social gathering. Probably the best thing about smoking is that it gives you an excuse to stop away/outside when things and/or people inside get boring. I’ve been reading about those protests, and there you are right in the middle of them. Wow. I read that they worked, right? Take care of that ankle. Ankles can be incorrigible. Wow. ** Ezra, Not just phenomenal but absolutely so. Congrats! It sounds both, yes, spectacular and like something I’m very glad I wasn’t at. My priority is protecting my brain these days. Anyway, wild, and I hope the lecture enlightened whoever. ** Adem Berbic, Me too: I write so little that’s appropriate to being read aloud. The less readings you do the more special and covetable you’ll seem theoretically. How was Justin Broadrick? Still gloomy and fog-enshrouded, I’m guessing. Isn’t he retiring or something? ** laura w, My friend Zac’s birthday is today, but he’s out of town, so I guess he just gets a festive text from me. Nice if Criterion has ‘4NoaD’. I’ve never owned a single Criterion Blu-ray/DVD. Strange. And there is no Criterion Channel in France. But they’re still the big dog. Spend all the money wisely. Although I’m not sure money can be spent wisely. Huh. My tabac doesn’t close for another week, so I’m okay for now, thank you. I hope you enjoyed whatever got bbq’ed and ended up in your mouth. ** Steve, Ha. Weekend: saw friends, saw art, spent a lot of time drinking coffee in a cafe, and bought tickets for a visiting friend and I to go to the Serge Gainsbourg House/Museum tomorrow, which I’ve alway been vaguely curious to do. Ah, a gig for a gig! Everyone, Whether today’s blog gig is your thing or not, you should try Steve’s concurrent gig aka the new episode of his ‘Radio Not Radio’ show/podcast with, and here I quote, ‘jazz, metal, queer Latin bluegrass and child improvisers. This one features Henry Threadgill, Miles Okazaki, Akusmi, Philip Golub, Ornette Coleman & Prime Time, Bobbi Humphrey, The Afrofuturistics, Kalia Vandever, Deafkids, Pylar, Psycroptic, Devourment, Bolt Thrower, Alkuharmonian Kantaja, Cain Culto, Ray Barretto, Celeste Mendoza, Kenny Vance, D Juno, Bonobo, Kelela, Syd, Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra and Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited.’ It’s right here. ** Carsten, Cigarettes are good for the brain, I agree. Too bad they’re not good for the rest of the body. Favorite “celebrity” smoker? All I can think of is my least favorite celebrity smoker: the just mentioned Serge Gainsbourg. Even watching videos of him with a perpetual cigarette in his hand or mouth makes me feel nauseous. Cigarettes in Paris are currently 11.50 euros a pack. And, yeah, it’s a commitment. ** politekid, Oh, thank you! Yes, that’s my address. Thank you! Oh, then come. I think Zac and I will still be here in early October before we split to LA for our annual home haunt hunting phase. I described my okay weekend to someone just above. If you don’t scroll up, you’re not missing anything. That’s kind of cool about the Jean Rhys house. As always no dreams for me, or no post-sleep trace left. ** fish, Hi I do know those photos, and I’m flummoxed as to why I didn’t think to include them. Everyone, another ‘Smokers’ add from fish, and it’s a goody: Ed Templeton’s photos of teenagers smoking. Here. Thanks! I’m a big fan of confusion. My motto is ‘confusion is the truth’. But that doesn’t stop it from being painful at times. But, if I’m any indication, confusion does kind of fade out gradually with the aging process, which can really be problem if you want to stay alert and honest. ** HaRpEr //, I quit smoking twice for five years each time, and both times I was in hell for at least eight months. I let characters in my stuff smoke sometimes, but I don’t let them vape. I’m glad Trans Pride was fun. It so nice to see people happy, especially when they actually deserve that. ** Malik, Hey, M! I know Josh Kline’s work a little, but I don’t know that piece. It sounds terrific. I’ll see if it or an excerpt at least is online somewhere. Bugs Bunny and Zac have the same birthday! I’ll have to tell him. I’m so happy to hear that the theater work was a success and that people knew enough to appreciate your performance in it. Wonderful! Do you have future acting gig ideas or possibilities in mind? Happy week ahead, my friend! ** Right. So I made you another gig consisting of some things I’ve been hearing and interested by of late. Same old story. Try it out. See you tomorrow.
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Hey Dennis. Hope you’ve been well. I’ve been playing some of the Bach Fugues at the moment, which are pretty nice. They’re incredibly complicated, and have 3 or 4 separate melody lines you need to keep track of between the hands, which is pretty challenging. I used to hear them a lot growing up, so when I get to a particular part, or crack a particular rhythm, I sometimes get slightly startled when I recognise the exact piece, which is fun.
I also saw Obsession yesterday, which was decently fun. It wasn’t revelatory, but it was certainly very scary, and quite funny at points. I felt like a bit of a psycho in the theatre, the average audience member was covering their eyes and gasping (including the boy I went with), whereas I was largely just enjoying myself; which was very enjoyable, as the person I went with largely positions himself as a less feeble person than me. I preferred it to Backrooms, I enjoyed the way the scariest moments of the film were largely just well-scripted monologues.
Anyway, hope you’re doing well, it’s all going great on my end. Adios!
I realise that I forgot to toast sal’s incredible and valiant Guyotat re-typesetting from the other day. (And yes, fuck Minuit, I don’t understand how everyone who had anything to do with publishing Beckett all turned into protection racket sleazebags.) Thank you to sal, wherever they may be. And happy birthday to Mr Z, wherever he may be as well. Maybe where sal is, who knows.
As far as I’m aware, Justin has retired live Godflesh performances and anything else involving vocals for health reasons, but the brooding techno is still going. He walked onstage in a lime green raincoat and shades like the coolest fucker on the planet. Me and a few of my friends there all felt like it took the first half of the set to really get in the groove, but then the remaining forty-five minutes seemed to go by in an instant. Glorious dub bass and shovel-to-the-head beats.
Reassuring to hear. I’ll hold that close and do my utter utmost to not fall into the weird thing here of becoming a ‘circuit reader.’ I’m not against readings necessarily, but only if they have the right emphases and space is made to handle the inherent, I don’t know, perversity of presenting writing in that way. Which I rarely find to be the case. Not to blow my own trumpet, but again, I’m actually pretty proud of how we handled it for the launch, I feel like we managed to engender a very positive relationship between the spectators and the writing (and music) on show. I’d like to think there’ll be the chance to do another one.
Presently kicking myself to learn that Paul McCarthy did a bunch of events and retrospectives and things in London earlier this month, and they all completely passed me by. Whoops.
Oh, and by the way, a pack of Camel Blue retails for about £19 = €22 in London, so enjoy your eleven euro smokes. Oh, to live on the continent.
Hi!!
It’d be interesting to turn our building into a haunted house attraction, for sure.
Huh. That must’ve been quite shocking—the suitcase suddenly flying into the air. I’ve never experienced anything similar, although I’ve seen a few people over the years who turned out not to have been there. Or at least nobody I was with saw them apart from me. My to-be-solved-by-love mystery must be a boring and predictable one, I’m afraid: I’d like to know what exactly happened to Richey Edwards.
Very happy birthday to Zac!
Love reparenting his inner child, Od.
Very much digging the Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra who happen to be from Todmorden in West Yorkshire, which is my neck of the woods. Brings back happy memories of the Langley Schools Music Project whose output remains timeless.
Hey again! I hope you’re well. I’m also equally bad with emails, so I understand you.
feeble little horse are a lovely band; I found them on a tape made by one ‘jane remover’ a while ago. I don’t do much in my day-to-day. I’m an undergrad and so I don’t have much to do over the summer beyond reading (not that I mind that). I did make up with someone I’m fond of — aided by quite a lot of alcohol — that I had stopped talking to because of a difference in feelings for the other between us, so I’m quite contented.
I’ve heard similar anecdotes about paranormal experiences right after a loved one has died, but I wonder if we’re primed to expect them.
Is the Gainsbourg museum cigarette-scented?
Very good Gig Day! You finally got me to check out Zoh Amba, and I really liked Michael Cloud Duguay and Cinna Pehgamy. Duguay’s mix of drones and field recordings seems very Ideologic Organ.
Honestly, I’ll just be winging it with whatever I want to try onstage. I have a lot of dream productions to direct, but never gave much thought to what roles I’d want to play. Clay in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman has come to mind, but that’s also something I’d like to direct. No way I’m brave enough to do both.
The Kline piece definitely made me want to seek out more of his work. Part of that experience was being in that space with this couple, a young man and woman, the guy was a bit of a bro-ish type with a backwards Orioles cap. They stayed for the whole thing, and I was overhearing them slowly analyzing the theme of it before coming to a realization by the end, then reading the museum description. Love hearing people come to understand art in real time.
Always good to see another Gig post. Immediately putting Nirosta Steel, Cinna, feeble little horse, and PPYO on the docket. Plus a reminder to get back into Fire-Toolz.
And a big happy birthday to Zac! Gonna see if Looney Tunes in the background will help me get these quick fanfic exchanges done.
oh it’s also zac’s birthday! that’s so fun! i’m going to start a club for people with birthdays on the 27th of any month. call it the 27 club (wait a minute…)
this is a great post because i’ve personally felt sort of stagnant in my music taste lately. i keep defaulting to the same old artists or same old songs. i suppose it could be worse, i know people who have entirely stopped listening to music as they’ve gotten older and now just listen to, like, podcasts. audiobooks, too, but that feels less bad, even if i’m decidedly not an audiobook-er. i thought it was interesting that closer is getting or has gotten an audiobook- i suppose it was inevitable but the form of the novel is a big part of why it works and that’s totally lost in audiobooks.
despite my reservations about the cover i did in fact buy the closer rerelease today. the lynne tillman introduction is incredibly lovely; i’m happy it made it in the american edition. i found a first edition of one of her books at a used bookstore recently- i figured out it was a first edition because it credited your blurb as “the author of safe”!
hope you had a chill weekend/monday and i hope zac had a good birthday! my bank account is slightly bruised but still intact.
(Forgot to hit send or something again. This is from Sunday)
friend I very much like this post. Me smoking these past two days before sunday while the theres been a nice cacophany of a thunderstorm. It came right at such alleviating time. I just finished the semester and have been writing and pianoing and it was nice to just let the mind meditate with a cigarette on my porchh watching the rain slosh down from the pipes
I have my ocassional vice of smoking while I play piano.
Its feels nice .
From my blindless open window which exposes me before the world with a nice view. SOmetimes i’ll just watch the geese slowly trot on past. THey are such sage creatures I take wisdom from, as sometimes im in the midst of a stressful sensation when I see them fuckers just lazily trotting along. Im like “Gosh, I should be more like you guys!”
From this unfleshed window, I get a nice view of a gazebo and the cat sanctuary within the long green trees. (Bast’s sacred place + her fellow felines abode.)
I had looked out this window during the storm after writing and drinking coffee.
I saw magic while drinking coffee after writing!
There were two peopl sheltered under the gazebo, probably with no home
holding plastic bags, one in some kind of wheelchair.
all. the cats came running out from the woods to these two people as if they summoned them! IThey mustve held some magic! It was quite a visceral image! All them sweet little babies just running to the humans in the rain, i cant tell if they were comforting the humans or the humans comforted them.
Im going to see Bob Dylan this Wesnday! Im so excited. little 12 yr old me’s dream.
He will probably sound like shit but thats the fun!
. I sent you something yesterday on instagram, I forgot exactly what I did but in case ya didnt know.
I saved a couple of these.
Oh today was very new and riveting! So the human I like who I will call “Melvin.” took me to the jazz jam today which is almost like atypical every Sunday thing. Well they also took me to their opera rehearsal!!! Wow! Grateful for such experience! Its cool becasue ive been into the idea of cathedrals being used as a spiritual amplifier to sing for God. Medevial monasteries + martyrdom .The funny thing about this word I just used is that it contains the person I admire’s actual name in it. Alas, I will not tell you, but maybe you can easily solve that riddle. If you desire ofc.
Ha.
Are you aware of the Hellraiser Revival game coming out?
I desire to get back into gaming as an unwindable art form. I might not get as much work done possibly, Although simoltaneously I think it would help balance stress since im always so uptight about productivty. Been working on that mindset sucessfully lately.
Recently ive been into philosophies surrounding pain. It comess back to my novel about the boy who desires to feel power in his shame by having his body extremely violated and bruised
Ive been researching medevial martys, woman who were tortured “in the name of God” to reach divinity and purity ascension .
Well by that logic, in my book, Oskar becomes James’ God
Anyways, I wont talk too much about itsince I know Religion doesnt typically fascinate you. Oddly enough I find myself reintrigued by Christianity and angels outside my mothers tightened belt. This is a good sign to come,or foreboding, If im thinking about years ago.
Oh I dont know. Everything is great.
Rich people and well-off people from structured childhoods scare me.
But then again, I suppose seeing someone unintelligible or struggle with basic care is just as scary.
I dont think I care. Oh you must know im not so impulsively verbose when u meet me! Or…maybe I am. Just very unintelligible at times. I really need to learn to not share things that excite me with people on my stories, they’ll probably think im showing off, but to me, the only thing im showing off is a mediocre job/craft/beat/art/piano song by a person who did something ok but really more than anything just wants to be buried beneath dirt and worms gnawing on flesh like peanut butter. I just like showing things.
Oh gosh! I unintentionally unveiled that darkness to my conscious!! Ugh.. now I have to sleep with it. I think I want to craft a noise beat that sounds as if its only fleetingly composing itself into order (Like some chemical compound) before collapsing into disorder at the end.
Something fragile, intentful, focused, intense.
Like a trembling atom
I’ve been listening to Claire Roussay lately, too. And Nirosta Steel. I haven’t heard the Fire-Toolz album yet but I know some are raving about it. Also in my current rotation I’m listening to Liturgy, the new Charli, Natural Snow Buildings, Les Rallizes Denudes, Black Dresses, and The Cramps (pretending in my head that it’s Halloween) to name a few.
Well actually, smoking does come into play in my finished novel, but just because it felt natural and the smoking section of the sixth form college it’s set at is where a lot of stuff happens. I had a smoking section at school, and that’s how I got hooked at sixteen. I remember the first cigarette I smoked I became violently ill and still I kept coming back for more. I put myself through that stage of giddyness just so that I could look cool. A rite of passage I guess. Vaping sucks, I agree, but the gaudiness of it has some writerly potential somewhere?
By the way, I have a new post on substack. Not a story but a series of things I’ve found on the internet over a long period and put in a sequence. I’m pissed off at the moment that all of these short pieces I’ve written are being turned down everywhere, so I might just put them on substack if I have to, but there’s still a few places I can try. I don’t think I’m made for online literary journals. I’m not casual enough or something. I don’t have a relatable experience to sell.
Many curious gigs today. I enjoyed Nirota Steel, and Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra is very fine. Reminds me of Randy Porter, one of the improvising old-timers here, who was a music teacher in Oakland schools for decades. His elementary school students would play wacky jazz arrangements and Sun Ra tunes. They made a CD in the pre-bandcamp days that’s out-of-print!
https://www.ubuweb.com/sound/big_music.html
More info: https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/hear-elementary-school-musicians-perform-43-songs-by-sun-ra-1994.html
Happy birthday, Zac!
Bill
sorry for the few day lag — my mind is a muffler, at some point my brain broke and I struggle to use social media and stay in communication… but im delighted they delighted you!! i took the liberty after laying out Eden Eden Eden in that form to lay out a “harsh noise wall” edition of it, where it completely filled two, I think it was, 36×48 pieces of paper I hung in the kitchen in the apartment I was sleeping on the floor of at the time. it destroyed the energy flow of the place completely… that much text that densely in your field of view is an absolute cognitive black hole, which felt appropriate for the work…
Im backkk! Been a minute hum what can I say im always molting into something better and well this time hum I can only be myself instead of what I want to be. Ive never asked this but how did you come to manage your darkness? I’ve realized light is clinical and hot but the burning raw hot that cuts darkness is sort of warm and welcoming if not all consuming. I picked up on it early when discovering you actually it’s probably what I like best about you control and you can direct your mind extraordinarily well. If you resonate with De Sade and why not he was innovative and intune I resonate with Damien(The Omen) In some and in the world itself I inspire a sort of compulsion I get what I want deserve and morality have nothing to do with me it just so happens I don’t want anything bad I know youll get that. Enjoy my latest declaration and well my real voice its measured well no!?
“ If they are thread I am silk. If they are iron I am golden. They are weak I have always been strong.
They stand together I tower alone. I find my way They turn from their fate. Blue Blood Royal Made Modern and Childish. Blood Drenched Tyrant made kind and Cold.
You as you are will burn away and not remember or be remembered as will the rest. I am the dawn you will never see the day you can’t return to and the darkness you fear inside.”TTYLXOX
Happy belated to Zac! And also Bugs Bunny I suppose. Wrong day for a gig post for me since I’m out and about walking but I will listen to it later. Promise. Yeah the protests achieved one of their aims, but too soon to tell if they were successful. I suppose you’d have liked the anarchic, self-organising nature. I did too, but it meant that they couldn’t be harnessed to something. Ah well, I’m on to the next. New Charli album out and it’s good, but a palate cleanser for her I think; a way to get these ideas out so that she can move on. I like the last two songs a lot, both stemming from the death of her friend Sophie. A friend and I were having a discussion about what the world would look like if penile length we’re constantly correlated with age, and decided that it would probably be pretty similar except all the rich size queens (so boring!) would have supercentenarian boyfriends as status symbols.
Ohh yeah the gig days take me awhile to work thru… missed commenting on Smokers, but i looooooved it. Been hard to find time to comment… Part of what made it easier to quit smoking was acknowleging how much I love it, if that makes sense… when I was in denial of how much pleasure it gave me it felt easier to fall back into it weirdly enough. Wish I still smoked, but I have too many other problems with potentially risky things that I just cut that one entirely this year…
Zine launch was nice. Just a few people showed up, but we treated it like an open mic. Eventually like three of us just pulled out our phones and found scraps in our notes apps to read from haha. Like I found stray paragraphs or turns of phrase that we all got a kick out of. One of my friends who started Epiphyte Press with me said his coworker who came started writing for the first time in 10-15 years since we started doing more of this stuff. Feels really nice! We just need to hustle around and spread the zine locally. Im sure issue 2 will come together quickly in comparison… I wanna put my more out there or gross or weird stories into solo zines also! Here is the link to the site with PDF (do links work here?) https://epiphytepress.neocities.org/ but also your copy should be on the way, if you prefer the paper like I do… sent it out a week ago, so idk what average times are haha. Its not airtight but I think my story is pretty cool… I have found that I need a mechanic in place for prose writing to happen, if that makes sense. Its a really fun way to work, and i have mixed feelings about people missing the mechanics haha. I always hope that a piece of writing works either way tho, wherher or not someone picks up on all the tricks etc…
Anywayz thanks for all the music recs to dig thru as usual, and hope the week is starting off OK! Byeeee
I’m really looking forward to catching Zoh Amba live; her unique sound blends perfectly with Michael Cloud Duguay’s experimental approach. Plus, it’s always a treat to see haru matsui perform! Can’t wait for July 2026. REPLY see here
Absolutely thrilled to see Zoh Amba on the lineup! Her sound is so refreshing and unique. Can’t wait to catch her live. Such an exciting mix of talent in this gig; it’s going to be one for the books! check this out
Excited to see Shane Embury on the lineup! His work with Napalm Death always brings such intensity. Looking forward to how his collaboration with the other artists will unfold at the gig. REPLY check this out
I’m really excited to see Zoh Amba on this lineup! Her unique sound is always a breath of fresh air and fits in perfectly with the diversity of this gig. Can’t wait to hear what she’ll bring to the stage. REPLY related tool
I’m really excited to see how Fire-Toolz will blend their eclectic sound with the other artists at the gig. There’s so much talent in this lineup! Can’t wait to experience that energy live; it’s bound to be a memorable night! check this out
I’m really intrigued by the inclusion of Fire-Toolz in this lineup! Their innovative style always pushes boundaries, and it’ll be fascinating to see how they mesh with the likes of claire rousay and Glissandro 70. This gig is shaping up to be a groundbreaking experience! worth a look
Super excited that Fire-Toolz is part of this lineup! Their fusion of genres always creates such an immersive experience, and I can’t wait to see how they blend with claire rousay’s experimental sounds. This gig is shaping up to be a real highlight for 2026! check this out