Marianne Faithfull & Bowie
Friday 11 December 2009
Coming soon...
A preview for the forthcoming film documentary about psychedelic funk legend Sly Stone. Anticipated to be released in 2010
Repost: The Hollow Men - Margaret
1980s Australian group fronted by Billy Baxter and in this clip featuring the wonderful Barb Waters (Billy Baxter on harmonica)
"Take it easy but take it!" - Woody Guthrie
"There is no music in my work, the most beautiful music in the world is the sound of machine guns."
Portishead - Chase The Tear (For Amnesty International)
International human rights day (10 December) marks the anniversary of the United Nation’s historic ”Universal Declaration Of Human Rights” on 10 December 1948. The UDHR set out for the first time in a single document the fundamental rights to which everyone, everywhere is entitled - including the right to life, liberty, security, the freedoms of opinion, association and expression, and the right not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.
More information: amnesty.org.uk/udhr
More information: amnesty.org.uk/udhr
Jenny Wilson - Pass Me The Salt (Front Of House Fight Remix)
Upcoming 2010 Jenny Wilson gigs:
01-06 - Stockholm (SE) - Dramaten
01-14 - Groningen (NL) - EBBA Awards
01-15 - Groningen (NL) - Eurosonic Nooderslag
01-16 - Malmö (SE) - KB
01-17 - Göteborg (SE) - Lorensborgsteatern
03-25 - Strasborg (FR) - La Laitarie
03-26 - Grenoble (FR) - Le Ciel
03-27 - Paris (FR) - La Maroquinerie
Blackwater Guards Tied To Covert Raids by the C.I.A.
Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.'s most sensitive activities -- clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials.
The raids against suspects occurred on an almost nightly basis during the height of the Iraqi insurgency between 2004 and 2006, with Blackwater personnel playing central roles in what company insiders called "snatch and grab" operations, the former employees and current and former intelligence officers said ...
The raids against suspects occurred on an almost nightly basis during the height of the Iraqi insurgency between 2004 and 2006, with Blackwater personnel playing central roles in what company insiders called "snatch and grab" operations, the former employees and current and former intelligence officers said ...
Where I was and what I got up to the last week...
Thanx to all who enquired after my health/whereabouts...
and here in Oz, it is like coming back to four years ago...
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be a reference to Ruddock, Bishop and the Mad Monk et al...
* Weapons of Liberal (Self) destruction RePost: (Originally from Nov 15 2008) Mike Hart - May 20 1948 - November 15 2002. Still Missed!
I first met Mike with his two brothers (John & Andy) when he inquired at the record stall I was working at in the Barras in Glasgow whether I could get him a copy of 'Electrif Lycanthrope'.
(THE Little Feat bootleg.)
This must have been 1977.
A couple of days later all four of us trooped off to see Elvis Costello at the Watermill Hotel in Paisley.
I then went down to London to catch up for a weekend (and go to see The Clash at the RAR carnival) before eventually moving to London full time staying originally with Mike and his son and ex - wife in Wood Green.
This was 1978 and we seemed to be at gigs all the time be they punk or jazz and to be honest a list here would just make you jealous!
(Not forgetting our annual pilgrimage to the Bracknell Jazz Festival or the time that we turned up to see Kathy Acker read and we seemed to be the only ones interested in what she had to say.
Mike would later be involved romantically with her.)
Mike turned me on to so much stuff - books, records and films.
We even worked together for a while in a transport depot, moving boxes here and there and back again.
Mike also had a second - hand book stall in Camden Market (not easy for a man who didn't drive).
I remember one weekend as we went around the other stalls with our usual habit of him starting at one end and me the other and just before we met in the middle he found a first edition 'Naked Lunch' still in its WSB designed dustcover!
(Boy was I jealous.)
Then we found ourselves working in Camden, him at Compendium and me at Dingwalls.
It all sounds good but Mike put up with a hell of a lot from me.
I was a young kid still attempting to come to grips with my Mother's suicide and developing addictions left, right and centre.
Then I moved to Amsterdam (yeah I know, a really good move for my addictions!)
but I would still see Mike on my fairly frequent visits back to London and he was always suggesting that I should move back there and work at Compendium.
Through him, however, I had found myself working in the 'Melkweg' bookshop in Amsterdam.
A move to Australia in 1986 was next up for me and once every couple of months or so I would ring him up at Compendium and we would chat about this and that and it seemed as though I was just around the corner.
Books would arrive from publishers hoping that I would review them and I would think: "Thank you Mike for arranging that one."
Of course as time went on, partly due to the tyranny of distance and partly due to things that happen in life, we lost contact but his name would pop out from the dedication of this book or another from time to time.
Then one day I googled his name and found out that he died.
So this is just a few quick words about a friendship that I will treasure to my dying day and you may notice from reading below that no one ever had a bad word to say about one of the nicest and most generous people I have ever had the privilege to know.
(Finally should John, Andrew, Stephen, Angie or Laurie ever come across this then please get in touch.)
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Mike Hart, who has died of cancer aged 54, was a man who worked in a bookshop. He was also among the greatest influences on a generation of new British writers, more so perhaps than any literary critic or editor.
For 20 years, Mike, a stocky Glaswegian, presided over the fiction and poetry department of Compendium bookshop in Camden Town, north London, which from its opening in 1968 until its closure in 2001 was Britain's pre-eminent radical bookstore. Whether you wanted books on anarchism, drugs, poststructuralism, feminism or Buddhism, Compendium was the place to go. Under Mike's supervision, its modern fiction department was its greatest strength, and the tradition of bohemian bookselling was carried forward into the 1980s and 1990s.
When Mike took over the department in the early 1980s, British fiction was in a dismal, class-bound rut. Mike helped to change all that. His enthusiasms included then unheralded American thriller writers such as Elmore Leonard and George V Higgins; London writers from the forgotten Patrick Hamilton to the unknown Iain Sinclair. A new Scottish writer called James Kelman was also a favourite, as was the great African-American writer Chester Himes. If these writers have emerged from the margins to become major players in the literary landscape it is in no small part due to Mike's efforts.
To walk into Compendium, survey the novels on display and ask Mike's advice was to enter a new world of fiction. The shop became the haunt of an unlikely mixture of more or less literary luminaries, from Nick Cave to Ben Okri, Ivor Cutler to Kathy Acker.
Thanks to Mike, and others, Camden Town in the 1980s became a kind of counter-cultural nexus: a place where you could drift from record shop to caff to Compendium and thence to the pub. There you would find Mike at the heart of a group of autodidacts, musicians, writers, lowlifes and drunks whose house band was the Pogues and whose cultural heroes were Jim Thompson, Hank Williams, Tom Raworth and Little Willie John.
A GP's son, born in Clydebank, Glasgow, Mike was the eldest of four children. After local schools he went on to Glasgow Art School, before moving to London in the early 1970s. He did odd jobs and then took a history degree at North London Polytechnic, where he met his wife Angela. They split up in the late 1970s, but he maintained a close relationship with his son. He combined working on building sites with running a Camden Market stall, before Compendium in 1982.
As the 1980s moved into the 1990s, Camden became a magnet for the world's teenagers and Compendium underwent a facelift. Mike formalised its literary scene by initiating regular readings in the bookshop, something of an innovation at the time. Visiting Americans, from old beat heroes like Lawrence Ferlinghetti to new literary lions like Walter Mosley, read there; so too did the London writers Iain Sinclair, Martin Millar and Derek Raymond.
By the end of the 1990s, Camden Town was thoroughly commercialised, its last remaining outposts of bohemianism swamped by endless leather jacket stores, and it was with a sense of bowing to the inevitable that Compendium closed its doors.
Mike moved to the independent crime specialists Murder One. With his death, the literary world lost a sweet and genuinely unselfish man who freely gave of his vast knowledge and delighted in the achievements of those he influenced so profoundly.
He is survived by his son Stephen.
John Williams - The Guardian December 9 2002
Patrick Michael Hart, bookseller, born May 20 1948; died November 15 2002
Patrick Michael Hart, best known as Mike Hart, was one of London's most popular and experienced booksellers and will be fondly remembered by not just many customers, but also a score of authors, publishers and sales reps. Born in Glasgow in 1948, the son of a general practitioner he attended Glasgow School of Art locally, and later moved down to London where he studied at North London Polytechnic. A great enthusiast of all forms of modern literature and music, he was also a keen book collector who inevitably found his way into second-hand dealing in North London, and championed poetry, beat literature, small presses and crime fiction.
He joined the staff of Camden Town's now legendary independent Compendium Bookshop in the early 1980's and remained there until it's sad closure almost twenty years later. A familiar, avuncular and friendly presence usually at the front of the shop saw him for years provide advice, friendship and much-needed support for Scottish literature, independent publishers and alternative presses, and he ran the poetry, music and literature sections of Compendium with a relaxed attitude to commerce but an acute appreciation of the timelessness of good writing. Here, he established lasting friendships with many writers from the onset of their careers, organising readings and events and was himself a regular presence at book events throughout London and not just at Compendium.
When Compendium closed, I was pleased to be able to offer him a position at Murder One, where many of his previous customers gladly followed him and he made a new set of friends amongst the crime and mystery community and colleagues. He was here two years until generalised cancer was detected in the summer of 2002 and he returned to his native Glasgow where the end came mercifully quickly and he died in his sleep on 15th November with his son, brothers and sister present.
Mike Hart was a bookseller of the old school who treasured human contact and handselling and communicated the joy of books (and his other great love, blues music) like no other.
Like a lot of people, I can mark out certain important influences in my life by purchases in Compendium - in the early 1970s buying a copy of Mircea Eliade's Shamanism, for example, or the time that Nick Kimberley had a consignment of La Monte Young's 'black' album. In those days, booksellers tended to be more knowledgeable than most of their customers, and Mike Hart's expertise seemed to cover an extraordinary amount of ground. I bought my first Elmore Leonard in Compendium, and Mike directed me to Don DeLillo's Running Dog. This was long before either author was celebrated. Mike also knew which thrillers hit the spot as well-written, pleasurable escapism, and which ones were a disappointment. He would never express a negative opinion, but you could tell from his expression when to save your money. On the other hand, he was already ready with the new Beach Boys Stomp, or the latest rockabilly and deep soul fanzines; if I look through the books and magazines in my music collection, there are numerous obscure titles that remind me of our conversations, and his recommendations.
Mike was a reserved man, perhaps shy, and so he was difficult to know well. After many years I discovered that he lived in Victoria Road, Alexandra Park, almost directly opposite to a house in which I'd lived in the early 1970s. We talked often about his proposed book on the Glasgow music scene and I tried to encourage him to finish it, get it out. Perhaps he knew too much, and felt unable to make the compromises that allow a book to become a practical reality. His knowledge could always surprise me. When I was putting together an ill-fated compilation to complement my book, Exotica, I was trying to track down the license owner for J.B. Lenoir's "I Sing Um the Way I Feel". Mike took this challenge seriously, and if we bumped into each other at a book launch, he'd update me on his researches into the problem. After his death I met Paul Hammond in Barcelona. Paul was surprised I hadn't been present at the wake organised in London for Mike. I'd felt badly enough, not knowing Mike was ill, even though I'd spoken to him in Murder One during the period when he moved there after Compendium, but to have missed the wake felt terrible. What saddens me is the fact that people like Mike, who quietly and modestly informed the tastes and knowledge of such a wide range of practicing artists, musicians, authors, and poets, have now become an extinct species.
David Toop
David Toop
Agent Side Grinder - Voice of Your Noise
Voice of Your Noise by Agent Side Grinder from their debut LP, released by Enfant Terrible. Official videoclip by Edwin Stoutjesdijk.
Agent Side Grinder:
http://www.myspace.com/agentsidegrinder
Edwin Stoutjesdijk:
http://www.edwinstoutjesdijk.nl/
Enfant Terrible:
http://www.enfant-terrible.nl/
Agent Side Grinder:
http://www.myspace.com/agentsidegrinder
Edwin Stoutjesdijk:
http://www.edwinstoutjesdijk.nl/
Enfant Terrible:
http://www.enfant-terrible.nl/
Jason Lytle - Merry X - mas 2009
Hello to All! This is Jason.
It is approximately Christmas 2009, and I am letting whoever you are know that I have a gift for you, if you want it.
I set up some microphones in my living room and recorded about 35 minutes of improvisational piano music, and......
It just so happens that playing my piano at home is one of my favorite things to do (in terms of music) so it was nice to be able to capture some of these moments of me just playing aimlessly and relaxed.
So....in appreciation to those of you who bought my album this year, or came to the shows, or donated money to help my sister, or even to those of you who did none of those things....here is a gift from me.
I hope you all had a good year and that next year will be even better!
Jason
oh yes, P.S.
I should also mention that I am currently at work on a new album and although I'm quite sure none of the songs will end up on the radio......I'm guaranteeing that this will be the weirdest, most wonderful mayhem I have made yet!
I set up some microphones in my living room and recorded about 35 minutes of improvisational piano music, and......
It just so happens that playing my piano at home is one of my favorite things to do (in terms of music) so it was nice to be able to capture some of these moments of me just playing aimlessly and relaxed.
So....in appreciation to those of you who bought my album this year, or came to the shows, or donated money to help my sister, or even to those of you who did none of those things....here is a gift from me.
I hope you all had a good year and that next year will be even better!
Jason
oh yes, P.S.
I should also mention that I am currently at work on a new album and although I'm quite sure none of the songs will end up on the radio......I'm guaranteeing that this will be the weirdest, most wonderful mayhem I have made yet!
Thursday 3 December 2009
Delusions...
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Tuesday night she was pleased President Obama "mostly heeded" her advice for the war in Afghanistan.
In a posting on her Facebook page, Palin expressed qualified support for Obama's decision to send 30,000 new troops to Afghanistan. At the same time, she voiced concern that Obama was sending fewer troops than Gen. Stanley McChrystal initially requested and disagreed with Obama's decision to set a target date for withdrawal.
In a posting on her Facebook page, Palin expressed qualified support for Obama's decision to send 30,000 new troops to Afghanistan. At the same time, she voiced concern that Obama was sending fewer troops than Gen. Stanley McChrystal initially requested and disagreed with Obama's decision to set a target date for withdrawal.
"Fewer troops mean assuming more risk," she wrote. "Talk of an exit date also risks sending the wrong message. We should be in Afghanistan to win, not to set a timetable for withdrawal that signals a lack of resolve to our friends, and lets our enemies believe they can wait us out."
"As long as we're in to win, and as long as troop level decisions are based on conditions on the ground and the advice of our military commanders, I support President Obama's decision," she said.
Palin also threw in a dig at Obama's record on the war in Iraq.
"Given that he opposed the surge in Iraq, it is even more welcome that he now supports a surge in Afghanistan," she said.
Victoria Villeneuve - drawings for 'A Book About Death'
"The first image is of course, me... the image of my aunt is from a photo shoot she offered to do to support my projects about 6 months before she died; drawings used with her permission. She is actually lying back on a pillow here; not in pain but having some difficulty lifting her neck as the disease (ALS) atrophies muscles."
Wednesday 2 December 2009
'The Father' from 'The Road'
Just noticed that this track 'The Father' which is included in the selection of songs from 'The Road' on
'White Lunar' is absent from the soundtrack just released.
Obama Makes History: Thanksgiving Proclamation First Ever to Omit Direct Mention of God
President Obama's brief proclamation of Thanksgiving Day on November 26 was unique among all recorded Thanksgiving proclamations by his predecessors: it is the first one that fails to directly acknowledge the existence of God.
The beneficence shown by God to America is a theme that traditionally defines the Thanksgiving holiday, and this theme is strongly emphasized in the original Thanksgiving Day proclamations and consistently acknowledged even by modern presidents. Obama's unprecedented proclamation, however, only makes indirect mention of God by quoting George Washington, stating: "Today, we recall President George Washington, who proclaimed our first national day of public thanksgiving to be observed 'by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God.'"
The proclamation goes on to call Thanksgiving Day "a unique national tradition we all share" that unites people as "thankful for our common blessings."
"This is a time for us to renew our bonds with one another, and we can fulfill that commitment by serving our communities and our Nation throughout the year," it continues.
All other presidential Thanksgiving proclamations directly refer to "God," "Providence," or another appellation for the divine being.
But Obama's historic decision to avoid directly mentioning God in the Thanksgiving proclamation doesn't necessarily come as a surprise. Earlier this year Obama similarly made history on Inaguration Day by explicitly referencing "non-believers" in his speech, which, according to USA Today, was the first time in history that a President had done so. Obama has also said on more than one occasion that the United States is "not a Christian nation."
The second weakest reference to God in a Thanksgiving proclamation was issued in 1975 by Gerald Ford, who in his second year as President exhorted Americans to "reaffirm our belief in a dynamic spirit that will continue to nurture and guide us." But in his first address, Ford characterized Thanksgiving as a time "all Americans join in giving thanks to God for the blessings we share."
In 1969, President Richard Nixon's address referred to the "Source of all good" who "constantly bestows His blessings on mankind." In 1978, Jimmy Carter hailed the bounty provided by "Providence"; Ronald Reagan's 1982 proclamation mentioned "a divine plan" that established America.
Even President Bill Clinton affirmed in his first such proclamation that, "From the beginnings of our Nation, we have sought to recognize the providence and mercy of God with words and acts of gratitude," and called the spirit of Thanksgiving "acknowledging God's graciousness."
@'Life Site News' via 'Mutate'
RePost - The little girl from Mornington
When I lived in Mornington this stencil appeared and was on a wall for almost a couple of years and then she was painted over.
So it is nice to see her still on the Australian Centre For Contemporary Photogaraphy's wall in Fitzroy.
I always smile when I see her as though I was seeing an old friend again.
I know that she was designed by a couple of young artists who were originally from Mornington, but if anyone out there knows who they are then please do let me know.
Ian Fisher: American Soldier
This is how an American soldier is made.
For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to watch and chronicle his recruitment, induction, training, deployment, and, finally, his return from combat. A selection of photos from Ian’s journey are posted below.
The story was written by Kevin Simpson with Michael Riley, Bruce Finley and Craig F. Walker. It was reported by Riley in Colorado and at Fort Benning, Ga., Finley at Fort Carson and in Iraq, and photographer Craig F. Walker throughout.
The multimedia project, including all the photos, video and special features, can be viewed at www.denverpost.com/americansoldier
(Thanx again Stan!)
Blek Le Rat @ Metro Gallery, Armadale December 2 - 24
James Bond', acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
The first time I saw Blek in 1991 he was stenciling his Madonna character. Caravaggio’s masterpiece brought alive to everyone by modern means, I was intrigued. We started talking and haven’t stopped ever since. My struggle is to put this into a few words.
But the art of Blek le Rat doesn’t need many words because, as he says : “If you want to know me, just look at my stencils. His paintings just give themselves away.
After having studied the art of etching and architecture (a family tradition) at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, Blek, then simply Xavier Prou, realised that one couldn’t paint like Caravaggio or even Picasso on the edge of the 21st century. In oil on canvas, everything had been said and done. Inspired by graffiti he had encountered in New York in the early 1970s and a slumbering childhood memory of a Mussolini stencil he had seen in Italy in the sixties, he painted black life-size rats running along the walls in Paris in 1981 with a stencil. The rat, frightening, clever, revolving (regenerative) and most importantly omnipresent in Paris as well as in any urban space, is said to survive the human mankind in case of an apocalypse, and thus became Blek’s trademark and furthermore the metaphor of Street Art. And if rat symptomatically bears the anagram of art, urban art has spread throughout the world. So far that Blek le rat is coming to Metro, Melbourne, for his first show down Under, as we call Australia at the other end of the world.
“Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods,” art critic David Sylvester says. Blek, true heir Andy Warhol’s, followed and continued the way paved by his master : he’s turned to the people themselves. The stencil became the key to the world of art, litterally opened the doors both to spectators and creators. People who would not necessarily walk into museums encounter art on their way to work. Whether they like it or not, the fact that they didn’t pay and thus didn’t expect to see it, engenders an always authentic and private alliance between the passer-by and the the image on the wall. And just like Warhol made us reconsider the myth of the painter, Blek says, “you don’t need to go to art school to make a stencil”. The stencil has become the favourite mean of expression in Urban Art, if not the very symbol of the democratization of art.
Some would argue that Street Art doesn’t belong in the closed space of a gallery. It is true that the aha-reaction is unique in the living environment of the public space just like one has to have seen a movie at the theatre before viewing a dvd. If Street Art is by its very nature ephemeral, photographs are the sole witnesses, the Memory keepers of what has become the biggest art movement ever and that is the point. Yet, the stencil is more than a young art technique, it has eventually become an art form of its own, a style. “Le Ciel Est Bleu, La Vie Est Belle “is proof of it.
Blek‘s first exhibition on Australian ground is an iconographic journey featuring more than 30 ( ?) works including iconic characters stenciled on wooden panels, spraypaints on canvas, screen-prints and photographs. “Le Ciel Est Bleu, La Vie Est Belle “, The sky is blue, life is beautiful, thoroughly ironic, traces Blek’s œuvre from the early eighties over iconic characters to most recent works. The exhibition will be on view from December 3 through …….., 2009 at Metro Gallery, Melbourne.
“I want to give food for thoughts,” he says
Since Blek started the stencilism back in the 1980s he has been a witness of his time who looks back and forward, invents but actually mirrors what happened (The revisited theme of Adam and Eve, happens (The beggar-child and the old homeless who is none other Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, with whom Blek tackles the problem of the homeless) or is going to happen like “The Venus of Milo” who shows, true greek comedy style, her middle-finger to the declining macho world.
Although Blek enjoys swapping images, he has too much respect for the feelings and thoughts of the others to turn turn his stencils into distateful or vulgar characters. He wants “to give food for thoughts”, never kidnappes the beholder, always leaves some private space for imagination, sometimes is ahead of his time.
Sybille Prou
November 2009
November 2009
John Cage
I once had a wonderful book that collected a lot of John Cage's written scores. A remarkable and beautiful body of (art) work.
WTF???
Sacked UK government drug adviser says Gordon Brown is from another universe
The scientist who was sacked as the government’s chief adviser on drugs has mocked Gordon Brown as someone whose views come from “some other universe”.
An unrepentant Professor David Nutt reiterated his controversial position that horse riding was more lethal than Ecstasy and suggested that smoking cannabis during pregnancy was less dangerous than drinking alcohol.
At a conference of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, an organisation which calls for the legalisation of many drugs, Prof Nutt accused the Government of failing to protect people against the dangers of drugs.
“We have a Prime Minister whose view (on drugs) is formed in some other universe,” he said.
He was sacked this month as head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary who accused him of ”crossing a line into politics” after he criticised the decision to reclassify cannabis as a Class B drug.
“When I was sacked Alan Johnson said he was ‘big enough, bold enough, strong enough’ to make the decision. I’d say he’s not big enough, bold enough or strong enough to tell the truth about drugs,” he said at the conference at Leeds University on Sunday.
He also attacked Mr Johnson’s predecessor, Jacqui Smith or “Jackboot” as he called her, saying that she phoned him 30 minutes before she was due to answer questions about her expenses. He added: “When Charles Clarke was Home Secretary he didn’t like my advice, but at least he had the courage to accept it.”
During his 10 years on the advisory council he said he found talking with politicians very difficult and that fewer people were now voting in elections because the House of Commons is nothing more than a “pantomime”. He said: “I never realised how unintellectual politicians are.”
In answer to a woman’s question about the harm of cannabis, after she admitted smoking it while she was pregnant, he suggested its use while pregnant was less harmful than drinking alcohol – because the cost to the public of dealing with alcohol abuse is far higher than any illegal drug.
He said: “Alcohol costs £1,000 pounds per year in excess health care costs and about three times that of other costs.”
Since he was dismissed the professor said he said he had received hundreds of emails from people, of which 95 per cent have been supportive.
After his dismissal five members of the advisory board handed in their notice from the unpaid posts leaving the entire committee’s place within Government in some doubt. Prof Nutt said: “The Government will find it very difficult to appoint a new chairman.”
He said he will continue to offer advice to the Government and is planning on setting up a parallel committee to work side by side with the committee he was removed from.
He said: “Hopefully, this new independent board will be the first port of call on drugs policy in the UK.” In the future he said he wants to look into the possibility of creating a new, legal drug which could be a safer alternative to alcohol.
Mark Bradley – Absolution [basses frequences, 2009]
Tracklist:
01. Evolving
02. Harmonium
03. In Unison
04. Absolute
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Mark Bradley is a solo performer, portraying emotional states of being through his audio. Once you immerse yourself in this claustrophobic and atmospheric ambient world, you become oblivious to your surroundings. High level deep listening. A man of few words and full of mystery Smoke and mirrors. Brainwave entertainment. Moonlight ambient. (Basses Frequences)
Mark Bradley is a solo performer, portraying emotional states of being through his audio. Once you immerse yourself in this claustrophobic and atmospheric ambient world, you become oblivious to your surroundings. High level deep listening. A man of few words and full of mystery Smoke and mirrors. Brainwave entertainment. Moonlight ambient. (Basses Frequences)
Get it
HERE
A weird slice of synchronicity as just yeasterday I was chatting to a friend who had been offered a deal with a record label and was asking for some (general) advice...
As I am opposed to the ways of most of the record companies I was pointing out that these days there are other ways to get your music out there and I mentioned that one of the ways is thru the use of blogs, and I did mention bolachas.org.
Anyway when I came home I had an e/mail from Mark Bradley asking where was the review of the record above on 'Exile'?
Now Mark maybe you would like to get back to me and explain why you choose this route to get yr music out?
Do grab the album while you are here, it certainly ticks all the boxes if you are into ambient/drone/noise.
Ghost Inna Dub (Adrian Sherwood Mix) - Screaming Soul
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