Wednesday 22 April 2015

Why are you still here?

Australian Anti Vaxxers Hit A New Low

Probably best not to read the comments

Vivian Goldman: Jah Punk - New Wave Digs Reggae (Sounds, 3 September 1977)

Don Letts & Bob Marley

Via

Jagged Little Pill

Asian Dub Foundation - Fortress Europe

On immigration, the language of genocide has entered the mainstream

Oliver Sacks: Spalding Gray's Catastrophe

Tuesday 21 April 2015

Frankie Boyle: Britain’s criminally stupid attitudes to race and immigration are beyond parody

Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity

Elmo Hope was at the piano, with his trio, on an elevated stage. I sat and listened to them. Several minutes later, a small man in a gray leather suit, holding a large saxophone, brushed by me and jumped up on the stage. He had a black beard with a little patch of white in it. He was not introduced and, ignoring the trio, he began to blow his horn. The other musicians stopped and looked at him. No words were exchanged. Elmo Hope quietly closed his piano, the bass player parked his bass, the drummer put his sticks down, and they all sat back to listen. He was playing solo, and he kept right on playing for twenty to thirty minutes, just a burst of music. It seemed like a second; it was no time at all! Then he stopped and jumped down from the platform, covered with sweat. I approached him and said, “Your music is beautiful. I’m starting a record label, and I’d like you to be my first artist.” And a small voice in the back of my head said, “Oh, you are, are you?”

Bernard Stollman

Bernard Stollman R.I.P.

A man responsible for the release of one of my desert island discs

Saturday 18 April 2015

Star Spangled Banana - Nag Nag Nag

Star Spangled Banana was Aslan Kastanetz, Bob Katz, Midi Hi-Fye, Klaus Action & McGill.
Produced by Joe Mckechnie
Out on a 7" single on Agitated Records for Record Shop Day, 19th April 2014
Free download for RSD 2015