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Esbjörn Svensson, I’m Glad I Knew You

Esbjörn Svensson died yesterday, he was only 44, and I always think of you when it comes to Believe, Beleft, Below. You said you loved it, I think it was the first time I really stopped to listen properly and you were right, it’s a joy, another world between the storming Did They Tell [...]

February 5th

Tape Loop, keeps on turning round, forever.
Hey, I reappeared, with everything intact.
Life went by, I spent a silly amount of time in Appleton Tower’s labs, and my musical life became electronica oriented – Amon Tobin, Venetian Snares, Pitch Black. I discovered the Amen Break and its extraordinary implications for the music we know. [...]

++Age;

A birthday and people congratulate you (I hope with hand-clapping) because Facebook reminds them. Yesterday we went to the Museum on the Mound which was totally worth it because we a-built the Bank of Scotland and b-cracked the safe to get a reward of chocolate coins. And today we shall go to the [...]

An Addiction to Hands and Feet

Did I ever mention how wonderful Regina Spektor’s voice is? Human of the Year gets more and more powerful everytime I hear it. A morning of concentration and I’m free for summer. The new Wordpress release is nicknamed Getz, in honour of the tenor saxophonist who took every opportunity to chat up [...]

Masada: Jazz brilliance

I was going to write something about friends in Portsmouth and Gloucester and how my last week was awesome, but then I ran most of the way home from the pub and my chest decided to hate me. THEN I turned on Masada’s Live in Sevilla and was completely caught out by the utter [...]

Back to the slow comforts of home

I sit in my room and read books for nerdy children (apparently the walls of the Taj Mahal are filled with rubble, the marble is just a facade), look at a few hundred CDs and have to pinch my mum’s cheap player as I’ve none of my own, play Mortal Kombat’s puzzle mode over-and-over and [...]

A shiny head, a sex face, E.S.T.

Saw the Esbjörn Svensson Trio on Sunday night at the Usher Hall, I hadn’t been quite so excited about a gig in a long time! After the brilliance of the show at the Barbican in 2005 I knew what to expect and I had that strange nervous chill that only gets you when you [...]