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May. 12th, 2020 09:57 am
May. 12th, 2020
Tuesday Thoughts
May. 12th, 2020 06:02 pmA much warmer and less windy day.
Noticed that the local fish and chip shop was open again so I had fish and chis today!
They were delicious.
I also noticed that Crumbs in town was open. They do some really nice pies and pasties to take away.
The birds are having a feast on some new fat balls and the magpie was back splashing around in the birdbath.
Just three days away from my birthday. 21 again.
I am awaiting some beer from Amazon.
Noticed that the local fish and chip shop was open again so I had fish and chis today!
They were delicious.
I also noticed that Crumbs in town was open. They do some really nice pies and pasties to take away.
The birds are having a feast on some new fat balls and the magpie was back splashing around in the birdbath.
Just three days away from my birthday. 21 again.
I am awaiting some beer from Amazon.
Book 40 - Douglas Smith "Former People"
May. 12th, 2020 06:27 pmDouglas Smith "Former People" (Macmillan)
This is one of those last books I bought through charity shop perusing before the lockdown.
Douglas Smith has written about the "former people" who lived in the Soviet Union from the founding of the USSR until Stalin's death. They were those who were aristocrats in tsarist times.
This is a disturbing but fascinating book as it reveals the depth of the Bolsheviks' hatred toward these people. The equivalent of racism, there was nothing the former people could do to remove the stigma from themselves as it was only based on who their ancestors were. They could be model citizens and hard workers in the new world in which they found themselves, but it mattered not. Former people suffered waves of persecution in which they were declared ineligible for both jobs and housing. Entire families would return home from work at the end of days and find their names on a list of "Non-people" and their belongings out on the sidewalk. Smith specifically follows two families, the Golitsyns and the Sheremetevs. Some of them fled when Russia fell to the Red forces at the end of the civil war while others could not bear to leave the Motherland. Most of those who stayed died while those who left prospered. This is a truly fascinating and disturbing book that chronicles how evil man can act toward his fellow man.
This is one of those last books I bought through charity shop perusing before the lockdown.
Douglas Smith has written about the "former people" who lived in the Soviet Union from the founding of the USSR until Stalin's death. They were those who were aristocrats in tsarist times.
This is a disturbing but fascinating book as it reveals the depth of the Bolsheviks' hatred toward these people. The equivalent of racism, there was nothing the former people could do to remove the stigma from themselves as it was only based on who their ancestors were. They could be model citizens and hard workers in the new world in which they found themselves, but it mattered not. Former people suffered waves of persecution in which they were declared ineligible for both jobs and housing. Entire families would return home from work at the end of days and find their names on a list of "Non-people" and their belongings out on the sidewalk. Smith specifically follows two families, the Golitsyns and the Sheremetevs. Some of them fled when Russia fell to the Red forces at the end of the civil war while others could not bear to leave the Motherland. Most of those who stayed died while those who left prospered. This is a truly fascinating and disturbing book that chronicles how evil man can act toward his fellow man.
Book 40 - Douglas Smith "Former People"
May. 12th, 2020 06:39 pmDouglas Smith "Former People" (Macmillan)
This is one of those last books I bought through charity shop perusing before the lockdown.
Douglas Smith has written about the "former people" who lived in the Soviet Union from the founding of the USSR until Stalin's death. They were those who were aristocrats in tsarist times.
This is a disturbing but fascinating book as it reveals the depth of the Bolsheviks' hatred toward these people. The equivalent of racism, there was nothing the former people could do to remove the stigma from themselves as it was only based on who their ancestors were. They could be model citizens and hard workers in the new world in which they found themselves, but it mattered not. Former people suffered waves of persecution in which they were declared ineligible for both jobs and housing. Entire families would return home from work at the end of days and find their names on a list of "Non-people" and their belongings out on the sidewalk. Smith specifically follows two families, the Golitsyns and the Sheremetevs. Some of them fled when Russia fell to the Red forces at the end of the civil war while others could not bear to leave the Motherland. Most of those who stayed died while those who left prospered. This is a truly fascinating and disturbing book that chronicles how evil man can act toward his fellow man.
This is one of those last books I bought through charity shop perusing before the lockdown.
Douglas Smith has written about the "former people" who lived in the Soviet Union from the founding of the USSR until Stalin's death. They were those who were aristocrats in tsarist times.
This is a disturbing but fascinating book as it reveals the depth of the Bolsheviks' hatred toward these people. The equivalent of racism, there was nothing the former people could do to remove the stigma from themselves as it was only based on who their ancestors were. They could be model citizens and hard workers in the new world in which they found themselves, but it mattered not. Former people suffered waves of persecution in which they were declared ineligible for both jobs and housing. Entire families would return home from work at the end of days and find their names on a list of "Non-people" and their belongings out on the sidewalk. Smith specifically follows two families, the Golitsyns and the Sheremetevs. Some of them fled when Russia fell to the Red forces at the end of the civil war while others could not bear to leave the Motherland. Most of those who stayed died while those who left prospered. This is a truly fascinating and disturbing book that chronicles how evil man can act toward his fellow man.
Just Wondering
May. 12th, 2020 07:12 pmDo you chew on straws?
Are you a heavy or light sleeper?
Do you think fairy tales/movies/TV shows/books etc. influence your dreams?
Are you a heavy or light sleeper?
Do you think fairy tales/movies/TV shows/books etc. influence your dreams?
The Strawbs "From the Witchwood 1971 Full LP"
1. A Glimpse Of Heaven 00:00
Autoharp – Tony*Banjo – Dave*Celesta [Celeste] – Rick*Choir – The Choir And Congregation Of Air Strawbs
2 Witchwood 03:53
Banjo, Dulcimer – Dave*Clarinet – Rick*
3 Thirty Days 07:19
4 Flight 10:13
Electric Piano – Rick*
5 The Hangman And The Papist 14:40
6 Sheep 18:54
Synthesizer [Moog] – Rick*
7 Cannondale 23:11
Harpsichord – Rick*Recorder [Tenor] – Dave*Tambourine – Tony*
8 The Shepherd's Song 26:57
Mellotron, Synthesizer [Moog] – Rick*
9 In Amongst The Roses 31:34
Harpsichord – Rick*
10 I'll Carry On Beside You 35:26
Bonus Track
11 Keep The Devil Outside 38:35
The Strawbs’ clunking UK number one hit “Part Of The Union” has rendered the rest of their fascinating output largely invisible. In fact the single is highly untypical; from their mid-60s bluegrass beginnings and brief association with Sandy Denny, they moved towards a form of Progressive pastoral rock that found perfect expression on the wild, wuthering songs of From The Witchwood. Featuring Rick Wakeman on keyboards, just before he gallivanted off with Yes, the record makes beautiful use of organ, Mellotron, celeste, dulcimers and clarinet. The sleeve reproduced a tapestry of St Jerome’s vigil in the wilderness, and vocalist Dave Cousins sings like a man in a trance as he wanders through transfigured landscapes that either give “A Glimpse Of Heaven” or grow imprisoning limbs, as in the forest of “Witchwood”. The fabular mode of most of these songs is well-grounded, as on “The Hangman And The Papist”, where the tale of religious separation in Northern Ireland mirrors Cousins’ own family background.
1. A Glimpse Of Heaven 00:00
Autoharp – Tony*Banjo – Dave*Celesta [Celeste] – Rick*Choir – The Choir And Congregation Of Air Strawbs
2 Witchwood 03:53
Banjo, Dulcimer – Dave*Clarinet – Rick*
3 Thirty Days 07:19
4 Flight 10:13
Electric Piano – Rick*
5 The Hangman And The Papist 14:40
6 Sheep 18:54
Synthesizer [Moog] – Rick*
7 Cannondale 23:11
Harpsichord – Rick*Recorder [Tenor] – Dave*Tambourine – Tony*
8 The Shepherd's Song 26:57
Mellotron, Synthesizer [Moog] – Rick*
9 In Amongst The Roses 31:34
Harpsichord – Rick*
10 I'll Carry On Beside You 35:26
Bonus Track
11 Keep The Devil Outside 38:35
The Strawbs’ clunking UK number one hit “Part Of The Union” has rendered the rest of their fascinating output largely invisible. In fact the single is highly untypical; from their mid-60s bluegrass beginnings and brief association with Sandy Denny, they moved towards a form of Progressive pastoral rock that found perfect expression on the wild, wuthering songs of From The Witchwood. Featuring Rick Wakeman on keyboards, just before he gallivanted off with Yes, the record makes beautiful use of organ, Mellotron, celeste, dulcimers and clarinet. The sleeve reproduced a tapestry of St Jerome’s vigil in the wilderness, and vocalist Dave Cousins sings like a man in a trance as he wanders through transfigured landscapes that either give “A Glimpse Of Heaven” or grow imprisoning limbs, as in the forest of “Witchwood”. The fabular mode of most of these songs is well-grounded, as on “The Hangman And The Papist”, where the tale of religious separation in Northern Ireland mirrors Cousins’ own family background.
latest Wire
May. 12th, 2020 08:35 pm
And you know
what that means ...
Some avant-garde-ish music related posts !!!
Wired For Sound #1
May. 12th, 2020 09:37 pmLatest discs reviewed - Wired!
Gary Bartz & Maisha - Harlem To Haarlem
Philippe Cohen Solal, Chassol - Living's Variation
Fra Fra - Destiny (Orphans)
Celia Hollander - Spared Time
Celia Hollander works with digital audio as a medium to intuitively form temporal experiences. Each song in Recent Futures aspires towards a different type of temporal movement: a swing between the recent past and near future, an accelerating present, a temporal eddy, a juxtaposition between massive and microscopic durations, a flowing momentum and a preserved stillness. An assemblage of field recordings drenched, sampled, tumbled, stretched, diced, dyed, layered and reversed, Recent Futures yields varying terrains of the abstracted mundane, a magical realism of audio.
Celia Hollander is an LA based composer and artist working with audio, scores, performance, installation and text. Her work critically engages ways that audio and the act of listening can shape temporal perception, generate narratives, question cultural infrastructures and cultivate social connection.
Enjoy
Gary Bartz & Maisha - Harlem To Haarlem
Philippe Cohen Solal, Chassol - Living's Variation
Fra Fra - Destiny (Orphans)
Celia Hollander - Spared Time
Celia Hollander works with digital audio as a medium to intuitively form temporal experiences. Each song in Recent Futures aspires towards a different type of temporal movement: a swing between the recent past and near future, an accelerating present, a temporal eddy, a juxtaposition between massive and microscopic durations, a flowing momentum and a preserved stillness. An assemblage of field recordings drenched, sampled, tumbled, stretched, diced, dyed, layered and reversed, Recent Futures yields varying terrains of the abstracted mundane, a magical realism of audio.
Celia Hollander is an LA based composer and artist working with audio, scores, performance, installation and text. Her work critically engages ways that audio and the act of listening can shape temporal perception, generate narratives, question cultural infrastructures and cultivate social connection.
Enjoy
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