"It was less about rhythms or sounds than about the feeling. I learned about the feeling of the freedom that a musician can have. I'm not an expert on any rhythms or instruments. I listen to the music and then I play." Happy Birthday Airto Moreira born August 5, 1941
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Misotheist. Inselaffe. Nuisance puissance.
extreme income inequality is bad for a lot of reasons but today the one i'm mad at is people having the wealth and power to force me to live inside their delusions
If women wore smart glasses, they'd be banned. (soigomaa/x) Think about it. If millions of women wore smart glasses, recording men's behaviour, conversations, comments, their driving & bar chats ... can you imagine the panic? Trust me, smart glasses would be regulated before you can say 'Meta'.
The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was buried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle.
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
Very much this
You have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social
5year anniv FREE/nameyourprice download in Aug "Another delightful slow burner... a series of soft focus percussion experiments... Serious gong bath vibes—for fans of Philip Corner/Thomas Köner" @boomkat.com 'Percussion Studies' (LINE_122) OLIVER THURLEY lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/percus...
Percussion Studies, by OLIVER THURLEY
9 track album
lineimprint.bandcamp.com
The beauty of this song still takes my breath away on occasion. music.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Jg...
Julia Holter - Feel You (Official Video)
YouTube video by Julia Holter
music.youtube.com
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
Listening to this after some time the second movement made me cry youtu.be/nwNslq3FHcE?...
Sonata No. 1 Op. 21 Sz. 75 (1921) : II. Adagio
YouTube video by Béla Bartók - Topic
youtu.be
On behalf of British Hauntology, if we do have to stop using Jodrell Bank to look for intelligent life in the vastness of uncaring space, can we at least turn it round and use it to summon the old gods from Albion’s haunted soil?
Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy
seeing tons of posts about hummingbird hawk moths. (something something social media politics distortion something something)
steely dan came on the radio and my three year old said "this is bad music"
This guy reckons there's a new Nolan film? Anyone hear of this?
Hey, has anyone here seen the new Nolan film? Would love to get your views!
“Drum Dancer” (1973) by the brilliant Inuk sculptor Karoo Ashevak, who carved figures from stories he heard in his traditional childhood out of weathered old pieces of whalebone left by 19th-century whalers and Inuit ancestors.
‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
I might restart my "Ideal Masculinity" Twitter thread for here
Dudes rock
When my wife did chemo and radiation, she would go outside once or twice a day and shed the hair as it all fell out. Today, seven months later, we just found a nest a bird (likely a wren) made out of her hair.
My bandcamp wishlist is ballooning unsustainably. I'll never be able to buy everything I want. Its astounding how much incredible new music there is. This is a golden age.
Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:
I wonder whether John Healy will get called, "John From Accounts" or whether that name was exclusively reserved for Rachel Reeves because she is a woman.