Designing The New Age: The Art Of Andy Martin

Today is the day the 'avant-gardeners' arrive

Sun City Girls - Gladtree Festival (Amherst MA 10/4/04)

Here's a playlist of the Sun City Girls 2004 mini-tour that I filmed. One more vid to come (not a show, but a talk about Sublime Frequencies at Anthology Film Archives) if I can get that tape to digitize! https://t.co/bR3nFNbFGA

— Marc Masters (@Marcissist) March 17, 2021

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Alan Bishop (Sublime Frequencies) has a monthly radio show archived

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Once Upon A Time in the Maghreb

Jason Isbell - Cover Me Up (Austin City Limits)

I had this song stuck in my head the entire week I was printing these @jasonisbell lyric posters. Don't get me wrong it's a great song, but c'mon, man, can I get a new earworm around here?
5 colors, hand-pulled on @frenchpaperco Butcher Blue. pic.twitter.com/aqHKAfeDg3

— Skillet Gilmore (@skilletgilmore) March 18, 2021

Peter Brötzmann: Tree on Hill 2 (Ink and instant coffee on paper 2009)

Peter Brötzmann Paintings & Objects

Peter Brötzmann: Along The Way (Artwork from 2010 - 2020)

Being on the road so much, the time-space between the tours is not long enough for preparing big canvases and starting oil-paintings. You use what’s on the table - paper, cardboard, an empty cigar box, pens, felts and brushes, ink in a glass or a Chinese ink stone. You use what there is and that’s what we musicians call improvising and that’s what the works in this book are about [and my life too]: IMPROVISATION 

Peter Brötzmann, Wuppertal, October 2020 

Texts by Brötzmann, Stephen O'Malley, John Corbett, Karl Lippegaus, Heather Leigh, Sotiris Kontos, Thomas Millroth, Markus Müller 

228 pages, in English, hardcover, first edition 2021

HERE

My eldest kids thirty odd years ago...

No Opinion (Anti-Thought)

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Richard Hell by Martyn Goldacre (London 1994)

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...Oh But man these are all about THAT jacket!

Kevin Richard Martin - White Light / Red Light

 

Kevin Richard Martin confesses he has "always had a love/hate relationshipwith the saxophone.". "After you hear Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler or Peter Brotzmann even, you just question any possibility of finding a fresh sound or approach, due to the instant connotations the sound has.." Having given up professionally playing the instrument since 'Curse of the Golden Vampire's 'Mass Destruction' in 2003, he may have temporarily lost the will to blow the horn, but he hadnt lost the long term aim to "reduce its sound to pure gulf stream air" by other means. So for both 'White Light' and 'Red Light', Kevin decided to resample his old sax recordings, and additionally explore various sound libraries/vst instruments as the departure point, to see just how heavily the instrument could be chopped, screwed, stretched and dubbed in his lab, to try and locate his "own sound". Martin informs me enthusiastically, "there were no other sounds or sources utilised on these albums, other than saxophone or additionally, specifically synthetic sax, filtered through layer upon layer, wave upon wave of fx..." 

More on White Light here and Red Light here

Mark Stewart's Booker's Dozen

Mark Stewart answers thirteen questions 

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'I don't do nothing' (1911 Census Glasgow)

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James King & The Lone Wolves - Fly Away & Fun Patrol

Scotland's favourite albums: James King and the Lonewolves - Lost Songs of the Confederacy (2014)

Nick Cave: Things I’m Not Happy With (1978)

'I wrote that when I was very young … and confused. I’m very glad I didn’t implement some of those changes. Mick, for example, became my chief collaborator, completely indispensable, for twenty years, and Phill, well, I always had a real soft spot for Phill, he was a lovely guy, but his drumming was ultimately at odds with what the band wanted to do, I think' 

From ‘Stranger Than Kindness' 

Photo by Ashley Mackevicius

Hell & Bella

The Hell drawing was a copy of that particular week's NME cover pic which had Hell holding a skull. It was drawn at my Nana's place in Liverpool in 82/83 with pencil, felt tip and gold pen on A4 lined paper with lots and lots of cawfee consumed. Check the stain. The portrait of a random from a magazine was given to my friend Bella many years ago as it did look like her (and I went to a lot of trouble making the frame just right) This had blue pencil, blue felt tip, spray paint (both can and a diffuser) and used molten wax to mask the spray on certain areas. Not recommended but I didn't have any rubber cement handy