Dusty Chalk

Watch 'til towards the end to understand why I find this relatable.

Yeah, I don't know if I could even pick just 5...still...so I guess I haven't changed much, but my old top 5 are no longer my top 5, so I'll give it a shot: 1 & 2: Animals and Wish You Were Here still, but I don't listen to them much, even though I have the WYWH Immersion box and Animals remaster with me, they're both unopened. So they might still be my favourites? I do still love jazz (Keith Jarrett's solo piano concerts, like the Sun Bear box; Return to Forever/Chick Corea/Al Di Meola; et al), but the new number one in that category has become: 3: Hiromi's Sonicbloom, Time Control -- it still has to be part of her Sonicbloom group. I mean, I love all her stuff, but her work with David Fiuczynski and the others was just peak. Shoutout to Greg Howard (RIP) for the single most electrifying solo instrument performance, Water on the Moon. 4: I do still love prog, but my tastes have mellowed so I'd have to go with Porcupine Tree's The Sky Moves Sideways. 5: I do still love what I used to call e-metal, but the public seem to have settled on calling it "electro-rock" (Curve, Garbage, Stabbing Westward, Placebo, Muse, Kardi, et al), but this is an easy one, as I still listen to all of their albums regularly, so pick any: Al1ce, The End of the Beginning, The Thirteenth Hour, As Above So Below Plus, it's also Post-punk! 6: My love for all the various incarnations of synthesizer-based music (from "Kosmische Musik" to synth-pop to ambient) isn't well represented here, as is neither all the centuries' worth of "classical" music or "instrumentalism" (Jean-Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, et al), so... Isao Tomita, The Planets

Does that lift the veil? 🙃

I ended up not being able to go.

Anyone going to this year's? @justin @Dreadhead?

Thanks! I'll have to do the same with Tidal (cancelled my Spotify subscription and renewed my Tidal near the start of the boycott). They do have an EP entitled, Retrospective II Rarities, but it's only 20 minutes. Oh hai, WB. Archive, nice. (I'm still a big fan.) And yeah, I need to listen to that Hania Rani.

Oh, interesting (that that exists). By sheer coincidence, I was listening to this yesterday (an EP of Alice Sara Ott playing his music on piano): https://tidal.com/album/470578411

Happy birthday, Mikey and Dr. Chris! I hope y'all are both having the best days possible under the circumstances. (party favour noise)

Utah King would need room for one or two more? AYE KEED, AYE KEED...

Nice little post-punk number. Medigs. Comments seem to like them.

Same. That song. Just...so bleak. The video is amazing. I really love "Ancestral" off that album. Learned that huge riff in the middle. Mikey, I recommend The Raven That Refused to Sing and Other Stories next. PS Your friend obviously has excellent taste.

Pork, Okra, Green Beans, half a can of mushrooms in... Very delicious.

Participating in the Spotify Boycott, so cancelled my Spotify subscription and renewed my Tidal. Have to figure everything out all over again. Started, of course, with Al1ce's latest, As Above, So Below. Turns out, they're already working on another dimension. As Within, So Without.

June Lockhart 😭

Happy belated birthday, Marc! (party favour noise)

My favourite band in the world had their friend Clint Carney make a video for them as part of their Kickstarter. The song itself already tugged at my tear ducts, it's so powerful, and the video is everything I would have wished for and more: For those that don't know, or haven't followed Al1ce since 2020 (like I do), it is very rare that Tash goes without her stage makeup. I think there is meaning behind that choice in the video... For reference, the previous video that Clint Carney made for them is also a favourite:

😭

No, I don't think so, but that's okay, their fanbase has grown by like a Brazillion since 2020, and I'm happy for them for that. Thanks everyone!

After indulging in the Deluxe Box Edition that is OMD's Crush 40th anniversary, new release from a week ago, Squeaky Feet, Overview Effect much progly:

Happy birthday, Carl, Peter, and Iain! (party favour noise)

Just finished listening to OMD's Crush 40th anniversary edition Just starting Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald, Take Love Easy and Fitzgerald and Pass...Again ...then, I don't know what, probably Tatekieto by Pulciperla (French band Pulcinella with Colombian female trio, La Perla)

Yeezh.

Yeah, sorry, good point.