amazing jim!
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One bright summer morning, seven young men and women drive away from the billboards and the traffic jams, the neon chatter and the constant digital stimulation of their lives. After walking deep into the mountains, they abandon their clothing, along with the labels that have hung heavily around their necks: “promising student,” “stoner fuck-up,” “favorite son,” “vulnerable daughter.” Liberated from the limits that have defined them, they proceed to paint each other from head to toe in richly pigmented bear fat, further obscuring their former selves and setting the stage for the ultimate experience of freedom and resurrection.
MA_TRIO
the melting ship and the copper ocean
charango_ Rudi Schmidt
double bass_ Joe Carvell
marimba _Greta Eacott
recorded by one take records
God bless you Greta, this is wonnnnnderful!

Ten years after The Mountain Goat’s “Tallahassee,” Zach Baron returned to Florida with singer-songwriter John Darnielle to search for remnants of the album’s mythic inspiration. What he found is a lesson on people who make things, people who enjoy them, and the space between the two.
“Is this a ridiculous story, do you think?” is what the recording tells me I asked first, which is unfortunate. He replied, in a kind way, “I am really, aggressively and reactionarily anti-nostalgia. Like, when people talk about the music that they liked in high school growing up, I just can’t stand it. I hate it.” He paused. “I acknowledge it’s a reactionary position, because obviously if I didn’t think people who’d been making music for 20 years couldn’t make good music, then I wouldn’t be making music. But I really consider nostalgia toxic.”
It kind of went on like that from there.

A rare photo of Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram together, believed to have been taken by Malcolm Clarke at the 25th anniversary of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Oram left the Workshop several years before Derbyshire joined, in order to set up her own studio nd develop her Oramics system, but apparently the two became friends in later life, visiting each other regularly in the years before they both passed away, within two years of each other, at the very start of the 21st century. Photo is copyright Brian Hodgson.

Charlie Parr - Simple Folk Radio Session
Simple Folk Radio arranged this session at The Well studio, Brighton it was recorded to tape by David Ringland, and Simon Pearson-Wood from our team shot this film.
“I’ve heard people refer to Charlie as being up there with the long gone greats of the blues world, and they’re right, he is that good. He’s a folk and country blues musician who is routinely labeled “authentic” and “the real deal”. He lays it on you, and you sense that the gamblers, the union workers, the criminals and the sinners that wander around his songs are peering right over your shoulder. The stories he tells get into some dark spots; that place where regret and remorse part company. A bit of a modern take on timeless conditions. Check him out and you’ll probably agree – Charlie Parr is coming from a very real place, and this has, in fact, always been a crazy world” Dillon / Simple Folk Radio