Damn! Can’t unsee that now.

Hmm, loads, and mostly from one of my favourite artists: Frank Zappa. Many of his songs became embarrassingly, even disturbingly, smutty round about the late-70s/ early -80s, worst offenders being on Joe’s Garage, […]

Frohes Neues, Fatima.

You might well like Tomeka Reid, the (black) (female) cellist. Mary Halvorson is my favourite guitar player, also a woman. Click here:

Stop press!

Lode, old chap, this needs to go on my list and earn a point.

It’s Michael Formanek Very Practical Trio – Even Better

Instead of Marsalis. Thanks.

HNY!

“Aren’t you being a little..um..arbitrary?”

Swidt?

1 Tomeka Reid – Old New
2 John Zorn ‎– Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus
3 Snarky Puppy – Immigrance
4 Beth Gibbons + Polish NSO – Gorecki Symphony #3
5 Holland/Hussain/Potter – Good Hope
6 Hania Rani – E […]

Christ, not just Junior but Luna and Baron as well. All the best, fellas.

Looked up “sheugh”, knew the pronunciation, didn’t know the spelling. Here’s one for you.

sheugh (plural sheughs)

(Ireland, Scotland) A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and […]

Everything cool, oh Voice of Reasonableness.
@Neilo

Yep, don’t even name the country!
😉

Thanks, Neilo. There are levels of nuance in both directions (“Brits”). I grew up at the border but have never never been a green flag type of person, and, fair enough, don’t even know how to make a fada! QED. But […]

(Intended helpfulness evaporates).

Then the word you need is Eireann. Or not. Whatever.

Well it does say Eire on our stamps and coins but we are, these days, an English-speaking country, in which case the name is Ireland, provided you’re speaking English.

Eire also carries undertones of scorn from […]

Most of my trips to Britain find me in Nottingham, favourite thing and reason for going downtown at all is the small but very fine Nottingham Contemporary modern art gallery. Free entry and open on Saturdays, […]

Oh, that’s an excellent Torn. A few more ECM’s worth mentioning are Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Nice Guys (when they were in their considerable pomp, Eicher getting the absolute best out of them); Keith Jarrett’s […]

The sheer male-hormone-ness of the Mark I Mahavishnu Orchestra probably made it inevitable (in retrospect) that they burnt out so quickly. Simply staggering levels of might and thrust and power. McLaughlin […]

Karneval music, Humba Tätärä, fair enough but, good heavens, Neger is the “N-word” in German, pretty damn close.

Anyway, just checked my albums for admissible evidence for the thread: Abba, Sinatra, Gilbert O’ […]

Karneval music, Humba Tätärä, fair enough but, good heavens, Neger is the “N-word” in German, pretty damn close.

Anyway, just checked my albums for admissible evidence for the thread: Abba, Sinatra, Gilbert O’ […]

Lovely, Colin, just lovely. Agree with everything* you say, “the pus of hypocrisy” is inspired actually. It was hard for me to find anything at all to defend them on, because why would you want to bother, the […]

Hmm, difficult one this one, Colin. Being from Ulster means dropping automatically into one’s, as it were, tribe. And never giving an inch. And obviously loathing the bible-thumping, grim-faced, wannabe-Britons of […]