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ok i've got this (all from my [cherished] book "The Word as Image")

This is/was fantastic. Great individual flavours of the times and places.

well all the psychedelic space rock (american, german, japanese, turkish) etc was "acidic" wasn't it? all those rock behemoths from that era - even the biggest of them - pink floyd for instance. you don't get more commercial than that. as for non technological stuff - i'm forgetting the...

you'll cling to your position - i wouldn't expect anything else - but disco was the nuum of its day. nasty, filthy, bastardised drug music. no connection to deep house at all which was always gentrified. it's the accrreted representations of disco you despise. but don't ask me to point you to...

not forgetting this fourth world fave of david toop's

ever so slightly at variance with the nuumological aspects of this thread - but the disco angle is cool too lots of indie/pitchfork banging on about arthur russell - but the underground dance music of this era (love for strictly rhythm in short supply) was the actual point of continuity to his...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Losers

well certainly i know what you mean - but there is something archaic and whispering about it. best heard to effect in mccabe and mrs miller

i expect you know his poetry? and there's that avant-garde novel he wrote (again whilst completely off his gourd on that island on LSD - "beautiful losers") - all that before he started being a songwriter.

woah! ha ha. yes. i think once i'm past worrying about tomorrow i might have another crack. check out the property i'm moving in to so to speak... what's curious about cohen and LSD is that acid is usually associated with the most shiny and technological music of that era. all the space rock...

the band too!

Never immediately struck me as being an acid-head - now I know better. It makes perfect sense that that voice was emerging from the bottom of a well. Has anyone else seen this documentary by Nick Broomfield "Leonard and Marianne." Great stuff:

eno really strives to be anachronistic. somehow above it all. i got the most pleasure listening to him as being part and parcel of his era. artrocker or quixotic electric folkie. also it helps to ignore his persona.

second this. early plus 8 was amazing. two early richie hawtin classics ("approach and identify" - and "elements of tone" - with the latter wait for the bling-blong-bleep melody.) kenny larkin "integration", psyance "motion" likeweise are classics. i interviewed him and jon in 1993 in...

ah yes. but pipe and slippers tinkling the ivories in your own boudouir. or playing a little violin as you plot the downfall of moriaty. or giving it what for at easter evensong?

playing it oneself might be an exception. or playing it with other people.

It's an entirely pervasive assumption in almost all modern societies that music is healing. Everywhere you look it's a totally unchallenged assumption - even in therapy - that music is good for you. I think it's interesting though that in various spiritual systems - in some monastic Buddhist...

amazing looking documentary. can't wait to check this out. https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81045007