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Robert Turman's 'Flux' That's it, that's the tweet

Listening to Skip Tracer & remembering how Lee Ranaldo singing "hello 2015" sounded so futuristic...

This idea that anyone can be a care worker is hugely disrespectful. Until British society properly values care workers & is prepared to adequately reward them financially, there will never be enough suitable British people to do what is actually a highly skilled job.

As a younger man, I believed in the inherent good of people, that caring for others & organising around the common good was ultimately the way to build a better world. The older I get, living with the persistent failures, the more it seems the only way is to burn it all down.

Great show in Bristol last night thanks to Margins Forever. Jazzy noise improv wonderment from Yoke & next level guitar noise from the incredible Nina Garcia 🎸

Back to plug this for Bandcamp Friday... New Carnivorous Plants Trio recording! NYP for digital, pre-order for limited lathe cut vinyl in unique handmade sleeves 😍 liquidlibrary.bandcamp.com/a…

Not doing this here but I am over on bluesky. With apologies to the couple of you who aren't over there yet!

#Fave1975 Day 1 Started off this morning with Mahavishnu Orchestra's psychedelic prog jazz funk odyssey "Visions of the Emerald Beyond"... youtu.be/440won1IOmM?feature…

Decided as I can't quite believe it's 2025, I'm gonna listen to some of my favourite records released in 1975 & thus turning 50 years old this year, one every day throughout the next 30 days, using the hashtag #Fave1975. Keep an eye out if the mood takes you 😁

Is it just me who still struggles to accept the term "shoegaze"? Old enough to have been around when it was coined & I swear it had negative connotations ridiculing bands for a lack of stage presence? Always thought it was a shit name for potentially transcendental music

#NowPlaying Zeena Parkins: Double Dupe Down (Tzadik, 2012) A stunning eclectic collection of music for film by the revered downtown NYC harpist, keyboardist & composer. Had this since it came out but love it more with every far too infrequent listen... youtu.be/uIubGlHNElk?feature…

Today's post-work listen was Coltrane's "Om" if you need an indication of where my head's at

Elizabeth Cotten was born on this day in 1893. An excuse, not that any is needed, to listen to this masterpiece again... youtube.com/playlist?list=OL…

#NowPlaying McCoy Tyner: The Real McCoy (Blue Note, 1967) A cold January Sunday afternoon curled up on the sofa with good coffee in the company of Tyner & friends ❤️

#TonightsListening Catherine Christer Hennix: Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord Drifting away to a higher plane...would recommend blankformseditions.bandcamp.…