I’ve been practicing again. Small monochrome pieces. Two of them. They are as yet incomplete. Works in progress. Continuations, extensions, ruminations. More shit.
Anyhoo I thought it might be of absolutely zero interest to everyone if I told you what music has been keeping me company as I make marks, dots and lines.
Started in at 6:00am by mixing up four batches of lamp black. Four different saturations, four different densities of pigments.
First up.
Poseidon by Lau Nau.
Followed by Origin And Echo by Snow Palms.
Tea break.
Mixed up a small quantity of violet using ultramarine and a touch of windsor red accompanied by Hexadic III by Six Organs Of Admittance. Followed swiftly by The Crowneater the latest album from Alder & Ash.
The images are becoming clearer now. I am beginning to see what needs to be retuned. What I need to adjust my thinking towards. This means a slight swerve towards some jazz namely Moving Cities by Antoine Berjeaut and then Swagism from Ghost-Note followed by Do Not Be Afraid by Vula Viel.
Lunch.
Suggestions for other assorted noises are welcomed. Music definitely influences outcomes.
What do Artists listen to all day?
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Lovely to hear you’ve been hard at it, Mr Pencil. I’ve only heard (of) two of those.
The soundtrack to my much less artistic morning (cleaning the black mold spots from the grouting in the shower) were the two episodes of David Boiwe: AlbumToAlbum featuring Samira Ahmed on Space Oddity.
I now have the smell of bleach in my nostrils and the back of my throat. Eurgh.
Two. Let me have a guess…the Lau Nau and the Six Organs Of Admittance?
I do listen to podcasts quite often when working, Backlisted, Lore, Criminal, The Jazz Podcast and The Art Detective mostly. At the moment I’m listening to an audiobook of Rebecca read by Anna Massey. It is a pure unadulterated pleasure. I adore a bit of Daphers.
I have a twice-removed ‘in’ to the London jazz scene as the son of my mastering engineer pal is a drummer on the Mark Kavuma, Judy Jackson, Ashley Henry etc circuit. Talented little sod that he is!
Another Art Detective fan. Love it!
@fentonsteve fared better than me. I haven’t heard of any of them which doesn’t mean they are not any good of course. I have been surprised by a number of new artists hitherto unknown to me this year.
@pencilsqueezer if you are partial to Daphers see if you can get hold of The House on the Strand – not one of her household name books but spectacular and an example of her ability as a thriller writer.
I read it years ago. I read most of Daphers scribbles years ago. It is on my re-read pile along with the short stories, The Birds, Don’t Look Now etc, Frenchman’s Creek, Jamaica Inn, The Parasites.
I read voraciously. Just finished some Patricia Highsmith another much loved writer and I’ve just started in on Red Snow by Will Dean a bit of scandi-noir. His first Dark Pines was excellent and so far this is just as enthralling.
Try the Ghost-Note Steve it’s a funky muthafuc*er. You chaps were discussing on the recent podcast what you would follow Aja with. I’d follow it with this, not that it’s alike but there is a weird assonance or maybe it’s just me.
There must be some sort of DdM vapours afloat in the ether, as I am just about to dive into her “Rule Brittania” yarn!
How ripping. That’s one I’ve never read.*
*includes on frankly ridiculous wish list.