Good Night

Music For The Night People

Some sounds that have been swirling in the aether -

Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos plango, vivos voco

Donna McKevitt - Nunc Dimittis (Lumen)

Debashish Bhattacharya And Bob Brozman - Maa

ENJOY

The Friends Of Distinction "Grazing In The Grass" on The Ed Sullivan Show

dr. π (pi)

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enjoy!

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A Couple of Brain Teasers.

A couple of brain teasers and no googling.

1/ What is the link between a great composer who wrote one opera, a distinguished politician who served one presidency, an eminent artist who sold one painting, and a renowned footballer who scored one goal?

2/ Why might the King of Beasts claim to have cousins in California, Cornwall, Devon, Germany, and Selkirk?


Answers to them tonight or tomorrow.

Good Morning

Good Morning Grooves

Two tap toeing grooves -

Mary Lou Williams Girl Stars - Harmony Grits

Mr Bloe - Groovin` With Mr.Bloe

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Useful Info?

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops

I cannot believe this is now 20 years old. Cool ambient hauntology.

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops

William Basinski looks back on ‘Disintegration Loops’ and dying media
A new documentary at SXSW explores the serendipitous ode to uncertainty.

https://www.engadget.com/william-basinski-interview-disintegration-loops-documentary-sxsw-160100091.html?guccounter=1

Basinski said during an interview that the music heard on The Disintegration Loops dates back as far as the 1970s when he began snatching clips of audio out of the airwaves. Many of the loops were “basically Muzak” being broadcast from the top of the Empire State Building. They were “all the Mancini and Mantovani versions of the American popular standards with all the syncopation taken out: no lyrics unless there were oohs and aahs and just string galore.”

Of course, Basinski’s most influential work is undeniably The Disintegration Loops. And it’s hard to overstate its impact. He’s far from the first person to work with tape loops or to explore the ephemeral nature of sound. But, his influence on modern ambient music is unmistakable in my opinion.

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Maths Problem

Brain Teasers Repeat

So far, two of you lot have almost got my brain teasers - esp. waitingman on the first one.

Here they are again -


1/ What is the link between a great composer who wrote one opera, a distinguished politician who served one presidency, an eminent artist who sold one painting, and a renowned footballer who scored one goal?

2/ Why might the King of Beasts claim to have cousins in California, Cornwall, Devon, Germany and Selkirk?

Answer up tonight. Get those brains thinking!!!

Phone .. Oops

It has been one of those days where you know it would have been best to stay home asleep.

I popped out to town this afternoon to post an item sold on Discogs. Unfortunately, I do not have a link to the online Royal Mail postal service from Discogs as I do with eBay. So I had to physically go to the post office. I then wanted to get some food items but I needed a pee. So there I was in the Tescos toilet and when I finished and got up from the lav seat my phone falls out of my overcoat pocket and went down the toilet. I managed to get it out before flushing and dried it as much as I could.

However, now at home, it looks sad. It will not even charge up so taking advice from the net it is now surrounded by gel packs to dry it out and it says I should leave it a good few days before trying to turn it back on. I hope it will work again. I feel lost without one now.

Luckily, my friend, mary at 27m has given me her old pay-as-you-go phone from Tescos. It is also a Huawei P Smart, so same phone model but silver instead of black. It just needs topping up if I need to make a call or use data if I am not ina WiFi zone.

Seriously though, someday I may upgrade my phone anyway. The contract is due to finish soon.