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mrpw.bsky.social
Filmmaker & Musician - Table of the Elements - Rotunda/Obliqa/Lacuna - proud member of the Jonny Halifax Invocation - board at Capsule/Supersonic - one time Dead Rider - NN1
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Great live. Terrific new EP

When it rains that persistent drizzle and you need that special something else…

Sharing some positive thoughts. 🫖

Today this - dear Mary Jane x

He keeps popping up in my thoughts… is he really dead? We used to meet for tea at The Barbican. CS Leigh… enigma, genius, crazy person… my meeting him and then working on a project together was one of the maddest times. The evening at The Horse Hospital unfortunately unforgettable!

Everyone who is an artist needs to look into subvert.fm NOW. We need to break free of corporate platforms, and this co-op provides an answer for musicians in the wake of a world where bandcamp was taken over and spotify is a pure dystopian nightmare. @subvert.fm

Andre Breton, writer, poet, anti-fascist, and the founder of Surrealism, born on this day in Tinchebray, France in 1896. #AndreBreton #BOTD #Surrealism “Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.” (Solarized portrait of Andre Breton by Man Ray, circa 1930)

‘Messiaen saw no reason to limit his options in the name of musical progress. He didn’t believe in progress; he believed in God.’ Adam Shatz on the 20th century composer: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

No Wave Big Time

It’s like a world tour…

Published today! Where have all the ravers gone? Time travel through the noughties Netherlands in this magnificent new story collection from @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social. ‘Under his eye, nothing is safe; the mundane becomes magical, the magical mundane.‘ - Ali Millar, author of Ava, Anna, Ada

The unique film & art festival in Berwick has a terrific programme as usual… and where my dear cousin and pal Kim Coleman has an edition of her experiential collaboration with Wendy Clarke. Very powerful…

It’s probably some kind of anniversary for the film we made with Shirley Collins… it always is… but who’s counting? What matters is that The Ballad of Shirley Collins is still out there and still making us proud. A film that changed us that made it… #ShirleyCollins #TheBalladOfShirleyCollins

Gearing up for the next Invocation… Always a trip when The Jonny Halifax Invocation takes the stage—expect deep breath, drones, snake hips and heavy maracas. More soon. See you in the line. #TheJonnyHalifaxInvocation #LiveMusic #DroneBlues”

I really love the work of Thomas Chimes. I was introduced to him by meeting writer, collector Mari Shaw in 2016… he’s one of those under appreciated titans… www.locksgallery.com/news/thomas-...

WOW Someone posted the Blue Note 2LP test pressing of Ornette's 1962 Town Hall show. This side was omitted from the ESP-Disk release that resulted from O.C. giving up and signing it over to Bernard Stollman for single disc release at a nominal flat fee youtu.be/su_o2BUHgiM

JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT 2/20 - Madison, WI 2/21 - Rock Island, IL 2/23 - Toledo, OH 2/26 - Richmond, VA 2/27 - Durham, NC 2/28 - Columbia, SC 3/1 - Atlanta, GA 3/3 - Asheville, NC 3/4 - Lexington, KY 3/5 - Chicago, IL Details: www.rhythmplex.com/event-directory

One of my favourites on our video channel… new activities with Rhys are being planned. Excited.

Perfectly captured.

My birthday song

We rocked it last night. Yup. #walthamstowtradeshall #jonnyhalifaxinvocation #shake

The world is still catching up to Annette Peacock

Opening a new chapter working with artists like…

Roman salute, huh? Howzabout…

This child is merry and lonely. She twinkles knowingly at no one like a revolving door or star. from ‘Inner’, a poem by Rae Armantrout: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Blimey…

My friend Dan made a beautiful film called, Washed by the Moon. It is a film about iso-polyphonic singing ("Këngë Labe") and the unique culture and traditions of southern Albania. In 2019 we bought the group here to the uk for some concerts… give the trailer a watch m.youtube.com/watch?v=MizN... -

Tickets for Chicago on 3/5 — www.seetickets.us/event/jon-mu...

Reading up on Johannes Kepler… it’s the 17th century so sex, lies, money and magic! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

‘The politics of an empire in decline are invariably a mixture of the cruel and the ludicrous. (Ask the Brits.) Nonetheless, the American case is distinctive, and its special character worth examining.’ T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Well I never… there is a word for it. Good old words: A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakisto...

On this day I listen to Charlemagne… m.youtube.com/watch?v=UpiV...

Watched Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths yesterday. Best film from 2024 I’ve seen. 5 stars. Makes me cry just thinking about it. Can’t remember when I last watched a movie that made me feel such an urge to try to give more ❤️

I woke up this morning… duh duh da duh… remembering we made this… www.tonyconradmovie.com

I’m looking in to it. What do we know? What do we think? subvert.fm

An interview from my anecdotal vortex. Background for two DOOM DOGS gigs next week (in Troy NY 1/8 & Wilmington DE 1/11) -- and adds to what my trio-mates Jair-Rohm Parker Wells and Jonathan Kane shared previously about our dedication to genre-free improv. radioradiox.com/2025/01/03/r...

“…probably the most interesting and unpredictable band of the weekend.” 👌 www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/01/10/f...

… recently a highlight of my musical week has been the Wrong Speed Records radio show - www.mixcloud.com/WrongSpeedRe...

This will be a special show

Catching up with LRB articles I find the most powerful of reads… this’d make a fabulous film…

Out in Dalston after drinks with Charlemagne & Aude…

A day begun that will find you at 5:30pm taking drinks with Charlemagne Palestine is a special day indeed…