I’ve been writing a little for The Sleeping Shaman in an effort to get my wheels turning again. I had a challenge putting some words around Massimo Pupillo’s new record and am reasonably pleased with what came out of that challenge. It’s a strange piece of drone/ambient exploration drawing on ideas from gnosticism and Philip K Dick…
You can read it on the site here as well as in my reviews on this site.

Pirate tales written in collaboration with a boy with great imagination:

https://gladfragments.home.blog/bits/flaptain-rook/

https://kencampbell.urbandrum.co.uk/

Also to be found on podcast apps I believe.
Have spun the first few, laughs and mind-expansion.

Some more bits up.
Jumble of seasons and spaces, some nature writing and trying to live in some new voices, see if they fit.

“As our position becomes more stark, the language that deepens the core begins to appear at the edges. It does not reveal itself in data or statistics, or political rhetoric, or Freudian analysis. It speaks in a language that once crossed every boundary on Earth, that artists and writers remember and still speak, or sing, or move, or show, or paint, if only in fragments. ” – Charlotte Du Cann, In Search of a Lexicon for the Deep Core

https://dark-mountain.net/in-search-of-a-lexicon-for-the-deep-core/

Just wanted to share a voice that is looking for ears. Link to the Deep Adaptation article also looks promising, but that’s some reading for another day.

Got a bit more organised, and a new piece up.

Non-music things are to be found here from now on.

Banged out something about Eagle Twin – The Thundering Heard.

This was certainly one of my favourite 2018 releases, I really dig it and have played it a lot.  It’s going to be one of those reviews, but frankly I’m only here writing about things I like because why waste time on the shit?

Find it in Reviews, where I hope to also pull together some thoughts about music that (in my mind) links to this – by Pombagira, Rose Kemp and Bismuth.

More doom’s a-coming.

I’ve posted a bunch of old reviews in other pages of the site, have a look in Bad Acid, Live Reviews and Reviews.

Words about Wren, Cattle Decapitation, Full of Hell, Unyielding Love, Iron Monkey, Sigiriya, Jo Quail, Boris, AMENRA, Grave Lines, OHHMS, Vodun, Millions, DŸSE, El Festival de los Viajes, Harvey Milk, Ramesses, Sons of Alpha Centauri, UFO Gestapo and others. Heavy, nasty, fast and slow, psych and Other.

New things will go in those pages but I’ll flag them here.

Enjoy!

Oh please give me airline food and Just In Time solutions
give me filter lane and courtesy transport shuttle
give me contactless payment, ticketless boarding, sightless prophets, boneless chicken and modafinil
give me zopiclone for sleepless nights and swaddle me from angst in benzos, a bible of patient information leaflets, baggage reclaim fast-track
give me biometric identification
give me voucher codes, authorised personnel authorised vehicles only
give me emergency exit