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So a little while back, an obscure gentleman going by the nom de web of Arbogast posted a comment here. Intrigued as I always am by a new p...

My lovely niece Tiana was down this weekend so I dutifully shepherded her around the city on Saturday, hitting several museums. First up was...

An outgrowth of the Galas event, this afternoon I picked up this 4-disc set on the British JSP label, "Rembetika; Greek Music from the ...

Cleared up another small matter at the Galas show that had been bugging me for a little while. I was seated at a table with composer/writer ...

Saw Diamanda Galas last night (a review will appear at Bagatellen within a few days). Hadn't seen her live since attending the Plague Ma...

Drove up to Poughkeepsie yesterday to see the folks and my brother Glen and his wife Arlo. Blasting Ligeti in both directions (very wide ran...

I came to Roach's music indirectly and still probably don't have a really good grasp of it. I think I first became familiar with his...

Birthday pelf: Simon Schama - Landscape and Memory Jim Harrison - Returning to Earth Shisaku Endo - Stained Glass Elegies Manuel de Landa - ...

I'm not the biggest Monet fan in the world. Maybe an early prejudice against certain painters I was "supposed to" like early o...

Light posting around here recently due to general busyness (and consequent lack of opportunity to delve further into Braxtonia) and paucity ...

Thank you, gentlemen.

One of the most oddly frequent search engine avenues to this site is when someone types in "bump on wrist" or the rough equivalent...

Listening through my remaining Braxton LPs on Arista... "Five Pieces (1975)" (aside from introducing parenthetical year markings i...

Found myself thinking about this album in a very different light the other evening. It had always been a big favorite of mine and holds up m...

Well, that'll learn me. In the throes of my day long Shiina Ringo obsession, I figured I'd walk up to Book Off, the oddly named Japa...

The first time I attended Record Club in 1998, one of the guests brought a track by Kahimi Karie, called "Good Morning World", an ...

Not having listened to this in quite a while, I had it in my head that Side One from "Trio and Duet" (I believe it's Compositi...

About a year ago, I posted on my general hatred of attending weddings (nothing against the pair getting so married, just despising your aver...

Recorded in February 1972, "Saxophone Improvisations/Series F" is the next solo Braxton in my collection and, more so than "F...

Some thoughts stimulated by the "sight" discussion below, probably tangential but maybe serving to illustrate how I come to hear w...