Nabokov on music
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“Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of
more or less irritating sounds.”
- Nabokov, *Speak, Memory*
"I have no ear fo...
that's why they call it a...
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Missed this 2016 tune, nodding back to / riding on a 1997 tune
that's some folk-memory persistence
some contiNUUMity
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Ooh a U...
Corduroy Psychedelia
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Interesting piece at *Split Infinities *on a band that is getting talked
about at the moment but written before all the are-they-or-aren't-they buzz
"Am...
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
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In honour of the new RHCP doc, which is focused on Hillel Slovak, their
tragically-died-young guitarist, and in further honour of Flea's jazz
album, here...
Glam bandwagon jumpers (1 of ??)
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Is this undignified, or just Donovan reclaiming the small debt that Bolan
owed him?
Visconti-ish strings.
Here he performs "Cosmic Wheel" sitting down a...
The Deep Purple Of ________
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The improbable existence of this book of scholarly essays on *Deep Purple* fer
fuck's sake made me re-contemplate this band's deep u...
Futuromania - the paperback
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The paperback edition of Futuromania has just come out
Older eyes will recognise the graphic design's nod to this best-seller of
the 1970s
...
Books of Note
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Far be it from me to encourage you to buy any music book this year that
isn't called Still In A Dream.... But I concede that there are some other
interesti...
Sad Songs
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Quite some time ago, Glen Goetze asked me about sad songs, for which
publication I cannot remember,
*1. What are your earliest memories of music?*
The ...
angel delights
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
*Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica!
Another vintage release, with a vi...
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