Is There a Way Out to Paradise?
Photo: Hideaway by Roger Ballen. Prints available here. Today’s mix is a surrealistic, collage-like exploration of the grey area between fact and fiction. An adventurous mix in which fantasy and...
View ArticleBack Porch Summer Breeze
Photo: Cover art from self titled Jack Rose LP. Jack Rose, (lap steel) guitarist and master of blues and folk, is always likely to receive plenty of airplay at my place around this time of the year....
View ArticleOf Beauty Reminiscing
Image: Untitled by Teun Hocks. Prints available here. . “I tried to make an image about desire and about the strange feeling that something is missing, although everything seems so peaceful and...
View ArticleSur le Sable
Photo: Ola To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. ~ William Blake / Auguries of Innocence ~ Growing up near...
View ArticleShrouded in the Symbiotic Mystery of Timelessness and Romanticism
Photo: Josef Sudek (1896–1976), from the portfolio Svàty Vit (1928) . Poets don’t invent poems The poem is somewhere behind It’s been there for a long time The poet merely discovers it ~ Jan Skácel ~...
View ArticleFlutter
Image: Artwork from Boustrophedon (ECM, 2008) Here’s an eclectic jazz-oriented list to start off September with some sly foot-tapping grooves and mostly laid-back spirit. The theme of the list flows...
View ArticleBubbachups top 10 albums 2008
1. Birchville Cat Motel – Gunpowder Temple of Heaven (Pica Disk) MP3: Gunpowder Temple of Heaven (excerpt) With Gunpowder Temple of Heaven Campbell Kneale has delivered his masterpiece. Massive church...
View ArticleThe Contours of Perfect Distance
Photo: Hamed Masoumi Some folk music to unwind a bit and softly roll into a more reflective state of mind. But certainly no dreamy stuff either, there’s plenty of foot tapping and head nodding going...
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