Thursday 17 October 2024

marina viotti

 whole album! 

Wednesday 16 October 2024

wars of the roses

 full fat three hour long doco. packed with info, very pausable, very googleable. absorbing 


*i've not watched all of this in one go. you could, if you wanted to but where's the fun in that!

Tuesday 15 October 2024

bass lines

 a wee drum machine, keep time and you're away 

Monday 14 October 2024

marco cirillo

 pretty and not difficult

Sunday 13 October 2024

Saturday 12 October 2024

caoilfhionn rose

 another winner from gondwana 

Friday 11 October 2024

starting field recording

 field recording was, and is, a bit impenetrable at times. not leastw ehn you're starting. this helps 

Thursday 10 October 2024

a true renaissance

behind the scenes with visma lease a bike on the 2024 tour. really quite an affecting wee doco. jonas appears even more grounded and poor old wout, in a team that couldn't buy luck this year, doesn't know what's coming. good watch 

Wednesday 9 October 2024

zizek gets criticized

i don't know a whole lot about religious philsophy but i'm reading a fair bit about the reformation at the moment so any information is handy. plus carefree wandering is a good yt channel for stimulating listening. thus with this, which i've really been quite enjoying 

Tuesday 8 October 2024

Monday 7 October 2024

recreating the first folio

 another pleasing wee doco from lrb  

Sunday 6 October 2024

Saturday 5 October 2024

guillaume poncelet

 more plinky plonky piano music. there's a comparison to richard clayderman in the comments, which seems a bit harsh. whatever, i find this sort of thing deeply soothing 

Friday 4 October 2024

eric hobsbawn

lovely wee doco of a time and, perhaps, a type of approach that feels like it's passed by and which wouldn't survive in the modern day politics of soundbites and name calling. nice too, to watch something where the maker doesn't treat the viewer like an idiot 

Thursday 3 October 2024

noisy noise

 then i listen to a bunch of female fronted punk bands. great energy but a law of diminishing returns and none of them get near hearing pj harvey for the first time. or now for that matter. but i had a lovely shouty afternoon.

what a great noise this squad make. their videos tho, genuinely awful and what live performances i saw were not the best. this tho, is a laugh and, if was i was going to soundtrack rita bullwinkel's novel headshot, this would be ideal. their follow up i hate when girls die is an absolute metal riff monster 


pleasing old school vibes. their frontperson knows what the job is and the band is supertight. 


as above, frontperson knows how to do her job and band solid. i read criticism of them that their latest stuff has become too generic but the l7 vibe here is clear to hear and i'm not complaining 


at points their garage band vibe seems almost too self conscious but i love this lot. plus the bass player is no nonsense 


and this? if i was in the car and in the mood, this would be my happy place 


as for this, bad brains throwback fabulousness.