Post Midnight Music from Jazzy D #5

More avant rock music and such like -

( Cosmiche musik here )

Post Midnight Music from Jazzy D #6

More cosmiche musik -


( Music here )

And finally the full BBC documentary of the German rock scene - an excellent documentary that features the main players such as Amon Düül, Cluster,Tangerine Dream,Can, Popul Vuh, Faust, Neu!  and so on.

Krautrock The Rebirth of Germany

Enjoy.

Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral 1975

Classic footage of Tangerine Dream playing live in Coventry Cathedral form the "Ricochet" album.

Book 18 - Jen Campbell "The Bookshop Book"

Jen Campbell "The Bookshop Book" (Constable)







There are readers. There are library people and there are bookstore people and while they aren’t mutually exclusive, they aren’t necessarily the same. Some people only likes libraries because of their neatness and order and can’t even abide the used book sale shelves we have in the library. Others love the unexpected you can find in a bookstore, especially a used book store … the clutter in the midst of which you find that book you didn’t know you were looking for.

The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell is primarily for the used book store lovers, although Ms. Campbell does mention several modern, pristine looking bookstores, as well. Segmented by geographic area, she picks out the unusual, the odd, the bookstore that will attract bookstore lovers. There is the bookstore that is on a 60 foot narrowboat that runs up and down the canals in Lichfield, UK, “…where there’s tea and biscuits and a sneaky glass of wine…there are sofas to sit on, and refreshments to be had…” Makes you want to go there, huh?

Or how about Wigtown, the National Book Town of Scotland where you will find The Bookshop. For a small fee, you can join the Random Book Club, in which they will send (anywhere in the world) you a random second hand book every month. I joined and Susan just received her first book. She can’t wait to read it. You MUST watch the video on their website.

There is Tell a Story in Portugal whose goal is to “…promote Portuguese literature by selling English translations of its works to British tourists from a bookshop van that tours the country.” The Libraria Acqua Alta in Venice which overlooks the canal. I can’t imagine the moisture in those book pages.

Fjaerland Book Town in Norway has a wonderful view of snow covered mountains. The Biblioburro in Colombia, South America is a man on his burro making sure people in the outskirts have material to read.

I could go on an on. There are famous bookstores, like the Strand in New York and unknown bookstores. The book includes comments by bookstore owners, many of whom had always wanted to own a bookstore but wouldn’t take the chance until retirement age. Ms. Campbell includes Bookish Facts, and Some Wonderful Things scattered throughout, as well as comments by authors, again both famous and somewhat less so. She covers six of the seven continents…no bookstores in Antarctica, I gather.

I found this to be a charming book - Do you love bookstores? If so, go to your nearest one and pick up a copy of The Bookshop Book

Food For Thought

Here is something for our US bloggers to consider -

The U.S. has Gone F&*%ing Mad

https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-u-s-has-gone-f-ing-mad-52e525f76447#.1wz3y4ij4

Renaissance Unchained.

I have just watched the first episode of the art documentary on BBC 4 - The Renaissance Unchained.

Waldemar Januszczak challenges the traditional notion of the Renaissance having fixed origins in Italy and showcases the ingenuity in both technique and ideas behind great artists such as Van Eyck, Memling, Van der Weyden, Cranach, Riemenschneider and Durer.





Hieronymus Bosch - Garden of Earthly Delights
Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Vincent and The Docor

One of my favourite episodes of season 5 of Dr.Who is Vincent and The Doctor, where Amy and the Time Lord visit Vincent van Gogh. I watched it again tonight. Yep , i am now going through a selection of great Who adventures.

The music by Murray Gold used in the episode is gorgeous too.