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I don't know the first thing about traditional Korean music. Well, maybe I know a thing or two, but not very much and certainly not enou...

fwiw, my write-up of MIMEO's "Sight" was posted at Bagatellen this afternoon. Hoping it (the disc, not the write-up) generates...

Well, what with all the foofaraw about my Vision Fest comments, I thought it would be a good time to dip back into my vinyl trawling and, wo...

Some of my Vision Fest grumblings have been serving as gristle (I meant to say "grist" but I think I'll stick with gristle) ov...

When I saw Robert out in Seattle a couple weeks ago, we discussed Netflix to which I'd recently subscribed. Robert mentioned that they c...

A brief report on two evenings from the Vision Fest. Friday night proved to be fairly solid, more so that I would have guessed. The 50 violi...

So I pretty much always, these last few years, end up attending at least one jazz fest event per annum, basically due to the fact that sever...

Man, what a weekend. Things got off to a rocky start after my ill-advised ingestion of an Egg McMuffin-like object on the plane. I'm for...

Brief hiatus. Flying out to Seattle tomorrow morning, visiting friends and cousin Jana who lives in a burg called Mazama (pop. 283 last I ch...

The first time I ever met Keith, in Boston at an AMM performance in 2000 (? I think that was the year), he talked about his appreciation of ...

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Keith mentioned the idea for this MIMEO project quite a while back, maybe as much as two years. I was immediately taken with the notion on s...

Finally saw my first Bela Tarr film, "Werckmeister Harmonies", over the weekend. Jon Abbey, among others, had been touting this fe...

Just a pointer: There's an excellent interview with Tom Johnson over at Dan Warburton's Paris Transatlantic Johnson's work has a...

(Still one of the great covers) Trying to think back how I became aware of Branca's music. It was when "The Ascension" was iss...

Ok, found one. Amazing painting, imho. Sergio, in a comment below, referenced Zorn and the sort of photos he used (does he still? haven'...

Did a small experiment at Record Club last night. By Tuesday, I was still having a tough time trying to choose my selections. I generally wa...

Thinking about Gericault this afternoon. As before, I thought of the amazing, harrowing series of still lifes ( nature mortes , to be sure) ...

I don't have the above-pictured album but I hope to one day. It's one of several hundred issued (I think beginning in the late 80s, ...

Listened to "The Room" a bunch of times yesterday. Very dark, very, very dark, claustrophobic at many points. Shifts around a lot ...