Dusty Chalk

New Somali Yacht Club -- shoegaze-y stoner New Spiritualized -- psych/art rock

Blue Man Group w/Venus Hum do a great cover of it, and it's always a highlight every time I've seen them live. Bronski Beat also do a cover.

I went down an 80's rabbit hole. It surprised me which albums had the most tracks I loved: Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84), but not Sparkle in the Rain Joe Jackson Beat Crazy but not any of the others Ultravox Vienna (not surprised) Yello One Second and Stella (not surprised) Red Guitars Slow to Fade Wire The Ideal Copy

Happy Birthday, Jeffy! (party favour noise)

It would not kill me, not even close. It would fulfill me.

Condolences, Knucks. My heart goes out to you.

Whoa! You're getting some really great piano-like transients -- is that really modular?!?!? I'd love for you to share some recipes/visuals...did you ever think of streaming this/Twitch.tv kind of thing? You'd probably have an instant audience, and I don't just mean head-case (muffwigglers/modwigglers/&c.).

Oooh, I see Medeski and Fiuczynski (I've been listening to a lot of Hiromi lately, and the latter is a frequent collaborator), very interested, thank you for mentioning it.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/06/fungi-electrical-impulses-human-language-study?utm_source=pocket-newtab

"Tit-Bits" Science Fiction Library

I have created alcohol free whiskey -- I like the flavour anyway. Pretty simple: Boil away the alcohol Cool Drink! EDIT: April Fool's!

Finally went out and saw a concert last Friday -- Zombi -- multi-instrumentalist (synths, bass, and the occasional sax) and drummer -- was a great first concert

Happy belated birthday, Duggeh! (party favour noise)

New Placebo is super chill but still great New Stabbing Westward is 🔥 New old Flummox re-recorded is tomorrow It's a good week.

A keyboardist friend posted that to a keyboardist Discord server, saying, "this is why we practice our arpeggios". I almost responded with, "if any of us are even in the same ballpark as Hiromi, I'll..." (I didn't post, didn't know how to finish that sentence.) She's easily my favourite living keyboardist, bar none, and not just jazz, but of any genre.

Went on a Sanguine Hum binge. Example:

Finally finished Bobiverse books 1, 2, & 3 -- excellent series, love the premise, love the variety of stories Started Gideon the Ninth -- snarky necromancers in space what's not to like?

Sounds just like the sort of stuff you'd play on your show.

You're just flaunting those bananas, aren't you. Just flaunting your Bri'ish-ness, innit Bloody hell

Happy belated! Hope you are still alive and well. (party favour noise)

Her version of Mussorgsky's Pictures just might be my favourite rendition yet. https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/alice-sara-ott-pictures-1323

He's fantastic. Saw him live a couple years ago.

It's nice to see at least one Ukrainian in high spirits.