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thank you. i have to say that more than obscurity what i like is the 'one man and his instrument' approach to music, it feels intimate and expansive in the best cases. there are many examples, off the top of my head that record by john frusciante (i forget the name) and hans-joachim roedelius'...

the typical example is wine or excellent food that if you repeat too often loses its charm, the same applies to music i think.

i think it's pointless (but tempting) to want to absorb everything, in my experience it leads to numbing rather than enlightenment or whatever. the point of opening doors is not to open all of them but to arrive to a place on the other side, or to open in a way that is meaningful, at least...

and i do agree with you that a musical experience can be hiding in plain sight in the sense that perhaps you're not attuned to it at one moment, but acknowledge it exists, and wake up to it in another. this happens so frequently i never dismiss something completely out of hand, knowing that i...

i think the sublime can be found in anything, the non-polished stuff attracts me but the perfectly formed has its charms, too. i think slightly less than perfect and not completely messed up is what i like the most, and a sense of pace and narrative, one can get that from something lavish or simple.

scelsi's two-ondiola setup what mythical, impossible and obscure recordings would i like to listen to, given the chance? the big bang the shriek of medusa j. s. bach's improvisations * the telepathic thought of animals converted to human language giacinto scelsi's improvisations this last...

looks great. i love the name shackleton, every time i read it i picture that scene where he and mates arrive at the norwegian whaling station after the trek over the island and the antarctic sea, being met by terrified norwegians owing to their filthy, ragged aspect. when he meets his friend (i...

thank you padraig, the fujimori is on my list to watch. i saw these three last month. while not without faults these are masterful examples of what television can be, and why the bbc is thought so highly of abroad:

the student one is dead, nothing happened. the ex-leaders are/were on a speaking tour of europe, meeting with morin, that kind of thing.

i'm economically illiterate, but you don't have to be very bright to notice what has happened the last few years, that people are fed up with seeing the richest become ever richer while seeing their quality of life diminish, fed up with a higher tax burden, fed up with a two-tiered justice, fed...

crepax, manara and pratt are the trinity of erotic comics, i think. it's a question of taste, but i thought manara the most accomplished. the drawings are a pleasure, very elegant, and the stories are clever but mostly a vehicle to show the female form, which is what he does best. i remember one...

i think it's important to pay tribute to the things one has loved sometimes, not to worship, but to honour memory. i say this because i greeted the news like any other at first, then i found my remaining moebius book, a time machine to a different version of myself, less tired, less damaged, but...

i loved moebius, my father had stacks of métal hurlant i would scour for drawings, i also met him briefly and can attest to his good nature and patience with a young admirer. i think he is emblematic of a generation of frenchmen who took the major themes of the time, science, political/cultural...

my pleasure. this thread needs woebot, unfortunately he's into 70s major label stuff now (wink). franz, this is on guidance and rather atypical: edit: contains noodle-y soloing - sorry.

this will make you die and go to heaven:

it turns out they did lose that stock, but it's not out print, see this. i suspect they were not as hard-hit as, say, warp, who lost all their uk stock, hundreds of releases, some with complex artwork using special inks or paper unlike the plastic case and thirty+ releases of shameless. and yes...

you can find it here, here and -Thriller/Footprints-DVD-(Le-Orme)-(PAL-All-Region).html"]here. i think it's out of print as the company (shameless) lost their stock in that warehouse fire during the riots. i have not, duly noted. thanks.

yes, that makes a lot more sense.

one by alejandro zambra, a local writer. if i remember correctly it was this publisher: http://www.uitgeverijkaraat.nl/

cleary i wasn't of much help, you need someone in the uk with a better pulse on things.