Post Midnight Wired

Sounds from the Wire mag.


Jana Winderen - Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone (Excerpt)

Nadah El Shazly - Palmyra

This fractured patchwork of beats, punk, jazz and North African improvisation was pieced together over several years by Nadah El Shazly, who linked like-minded players from Montreal’s busy Hotel2Tango studio with hyperactive Cairo collaborators Maurice Louca and Sam Shalabi. Maha ElNabawi said: “Full of curious ideas regarding temporality, memory and disillusionment, expressed through free improvised instrumentation, electronics and powerful vocalisation.”Wire mag.

Áine O'Dwyer - Underlight

The London based Irish composer, improviser and vocalist has always made a habit of sounding out unusual spaces, but the Brunel tunnel shaft was extraordinary terrain even for her – a 15-metre high cylinder with a reverb time of several seconds, it allowed the arsenal of small instruments she lugged there to evoke the sacred sounds of keening ceremonies. Claire Sawers said: “Humans and instruments blur together in the underground shadows… O’Dwyer’s explorations of forgotten spaces, ways of listening and acoustic phenomena are as rich as ever.”

Sote - Boghze Esfahan

Ata Ebtekar (aka Sote) has been one of electronic music’s most persistent explorers since making a brief appearance on Warp in the 1990s, and his latest album was a sumptuous exploration of Iranian traditional sounds twisted into the strangest forms modern technology will allow. Tristan Bath said: “The digital processes reveal hidden tonal and rhythmic facets hidden within the traditional instrumentation – and vice versa.”

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Good Morning

Henry Miller reads "To Paint is to Love Again" (6/8)

Art Lessons

Henry Miller reads his book, "To Paint is to Love Again" (1960). Paintings by Joseph Turner (1775 - 1881)

Ends at 6:48 - Go to part 7

Few people know that the famous author of Tropic of Cancer was an accomplished and respected painter who completed
over 3000 watercolours in his lifetime. Painting, like his writing, was a metaphor for living life to the fullest.
And few people have lived with as much zest and passion as Henry Miller.


To Paint Is to Love Again: Henry Miller on Art and Why Good Friends Are Essential for Creative Work


To Paint Is to Love Again: Henry Miller painting ‘A Bridge Somewhere’ (Collection of Howard Welch)

“Only the beloved counts. Whether the beloved be a bowl of fruit, a pastoral scene, or the interior
of a bawdy house makes no difference.” – Henry Miller
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/21/to-paint-is-to-love-again-henry-miller/

Part 1 : https://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/5587698.html
Part 2 : https://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/5591123.html
Part 3 : https://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/5595450.html
Part 4 : https://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/5599196.html
Part 5 : https://pigshitpoet.livejournal.com/5605208.html

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More Of Jazzy's Classical Side

Three more slices of classical stuff -

Orlando Gibbons - The Silver Swan

Sung by the Tallis Scholars.

Dominic Muldowney — Oboe Concerto

Oboe Concerto ( 1 Oct. 1992 ) (NMC Records CD Maxi-Single
)
Artists / Credits :
Composer — Dominic Muldowney
Solo oboe — Roy Carter
Orchestra — London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor — Michael Tilson Thomas
Venue — Henry Wood Hall, London
Producer — Colin Matthews

Bill Hopkins & Anthony Gilbert - En attendant: III

En attendant: III. — · Music Projects London
Bill Hopkins & Anthony Gilbert: Chamber Music
℗ 2012 NMC Recordings

Conductor: Richard Bernas
Ensemble: Music Projects London
Composer: Bill Hopkins


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Black TV UK

I was reading an article in Wire from 1992 about the history of black TV here in the UK and  what little of it was recorded as TV originally was mostly live and broadcast tape was expensive or nonexistent at the time. . Anyway, the article mentions some snippets that have survived and here are some of them -

Adelaide Hall at the Nightingale Club, London (1948)

Billie Holiday - I Love You Porgy (Chelsea At Nine) iTV TV 1959

Billie Holiday performing "I Love You Porgy" on Granada TV's "Chelsea At Nine" February 1959. This was one of her last TV appearances before she passed away a few months later. This is videotaping would probably be one of Britain's earliest surviving B&W quad videotape recordings. This night was the last time Billie was ever on TV. She sang Please Don't Talk About Me and Strange Fruit after this song that night. 5 months later she died in New York City (Manhattan). She was 44 years old. She died from heavy drinking and drugs. She died with 70 cents in the bank and 750 dollars she had with her. Deeply sad life.

Cy Grant on Tonight BBC 1957

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Grammar Jokes

Good Night

Book 7 - New Scientist "Nothing"

New Scientist "Nothing" (Profile Books)




A very nice collection of longer articles from New Scientist on the theme of Nothing in various forms. I particularly like the cosmology (of course), and all their pieces are interesting in informative, although I have issues with the several that centre on the placebo (and nocebo) effects. These do highlight what can sometimes be a weakness of this type of article, that while explaining an apparent phenomenon it is presented in far too uncritical a fashion, which can lead the less informed reader to place too great a weight on the effect., a particular problem when it is picked up by the general media and further amplified or warped.