Well I never! Here is a rare clip of her performing @thecheshirecat.

Another person I’ve met face to face was @Clive who happened to be in Stockholm a few years ago and rung me and suggested we have a drink. And what a vey pleasant evening we had.

And today, over on Facebook, […]

That’s the one, GCU. It always makes me smile.

Two gems there, Mike! What a beautiful instrument the steel guitar can be.

By way of complete contrast, here’s Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa. 30 minutes long and a quite stunning piece of music. None more […]

That looks very promising, Steerpike.

Lovely evening here is Stockholm so I’m taking us back in time now to 1983 and Virginia Astley’s Pastoral English Ambient album : From Gardens where we feel secure. A gem!

Try this Cheshire. A jazz triocover of 21sr Century Schizoid Man

Ai Kuwabara does a lot of unexected covers. her latest album is called Opera.

I’ll confess, Slug, that if my teenage self could see me here today, gushing enthusiastically about Karen C, he would be plunged into despair.

I guess takes a while to appreciate some things.

Like this […]

I love Radka Toneff’s version of The Moon’s a Cruel Mistress.

But Charlie and Pat’s, from their album Under a Missouri Sky, is lovely too. What an amazingly unhip audience! German TV never ceases to delight […]

It’s definitely the people that I’ve got to “know” that keep me coming back.

Charming, witty and elegant: and you know such amazing stuff.

And let’s nor forget how, on those occasions when one of us has a […]

GCU did create the album cover for my ECM Beach Party mixtape.

A black and white photo of a glum, uninhabited, windy Baltic Beach. Brilliant!

I don’t think you will get many complaints, Bamber. That Petra is a talented lass.

I was looking for some pedal steel and came across this delightful oddity from the KLF of all people.

From their ambient album […]

It was my Stockholm pal, @DuCo01, who recommended the Word magazine to me fairly early on its history. I became a keen reader and had a subscription for several years.

For some reason I never visited the Word […]

Bubblegum???

This is pop music at its most sublime.

Back in the 70s I was too busy progging and then suddenly pogoing to realise this.

I am an older, wiser man now.

I completely agree, @Twang.

Threads like this is what the AW is all about: knowledgeable, enthusiastic music, whisky, film, poetry and fiction lovers sharing stuff they like. That’s why I keep coming back.

Let’s […]

K Time!

The kantele, national instrument of Finland.

Kroke, a stupendous klezmer combo from Krakow.

That was interesting, Retro. Transpositions could be an interesting thread in their own right. Timw to meet two maestros.

Off to Crete first to meet Irishman, Ross Daly, who is a master of the Cretan […]

You are on a role this evening @fitterstoke-San!

I’ve worked out that the tune is called Sakura. but did you work out the name of the artist?

Incidentally the comments on this track are a great read. […]

We’ve had some wonderful things today but that really was something else.

I notice that the koto is played by Karin Nakagawa who made an album with Lena Wiilemark which @Locusr rather liked.

Very logically, […]

I was very surprised to read that Hitler appeared as a character in the Beano during WW2.

I was even more surprised that Price Charles and Camilla made an appearance in a Bash Street strip.

The Beano and […]

We try are on the same page, Hubert!!

Eggo’s wartime eggploits led me some interesting pieces about how comic books assisted the war effort.

This one is from the Mail but the illustrations are too splendid to miss.