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Jon Collin, “The Lowering (medley)” [Laboratorio Palestro, 2024]

Also available here.

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Thistle Group & P Wits, “Fog On My Brain” [I Dischi Del Barone, 2024]

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Georges Braque, La danse (1934)

Detroit Institute of Arts

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Heavy Rotation in 2023

Troth, “Days Became a Circle” (2023, Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox)

Yfory, “Baled Y Dolmen” (2023, Static Age)

Yo La Tengo, “Aselestine” (2023, Matador)

Tresa Leigh, “I Miss You” (1971, Great World of Sound/Efficient Space)

William Henry Meung, “Airport Song” (2023, Horn of Plenty)

Maxo, “Free!” (2023, Def Jam)

Marcellus Pittman, “Facid Trunktion” (2023, Acid Test)

billy woods & Kenny Segal, “Rapper Weed” (2023, Backwoodz)

Mal Waldron, “The Call” (1971, Japo)

Earl Sweatshirt, “Making the Band (Danity Kane)” (2023, Tan Cressida/Warner)

Jon Collin & Niclas Anderstedt Lindgren, “12:48” (2023, AKTI)

Purelink, “We Should Keep Going” (2023, Peak Oil)

K-Group, “Settings / Extension Pack” (2023, Knotwilg)

Laura Not, “Still Wading” (2023, phncrs)

Maxine Funke, “Cherry Blossom Gin" (2023, Disciples)

As always, art by MB.

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Memorable Viewing from 2023

Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)

Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987)

The Mission (Johnnie To, 1999)

The Plains (David Easteal, 2022)

Queen of Diamonds (Nina Menkes, 1991)

Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975)

The Souvenir, Part II (Joanna Hogg, 2021)

The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir, 1947)

Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021)

Hard Labour (Mike Leigh, 1973)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Dos Santos/Kemp/Thompson, 2023)

Girl with Green Eyes (Desmond Davis, 1964)

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Some Memorable Reading from 2022

Edna O’Brien, The Country Girls (1960-1964, Hutchinson/Jonathan Cape)

Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark (1915, Houghton Mifflin)

Fredric Brown, His Name Was Death (1954, E.P. Dutton & Co.)

Rudolph Wurlitzer, Slow Fade (1984, Knopf)

Sammy Harkham, Blood of the Virgin (2006-2023, Pantheon)

Tegan Quin, Sara Quin and Tillie Walden, Junior High (2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Joe Kessler, The Gull Yettin (2022, New York Review Comics/L'Association)

Imogen Binnie, Nevada (2013, Topside Press)

Joana Estrela, Pardalita (2021, Levine Querido/Planeta Tangerina)

Nazlı Koca, The Applicant (2023, Grove Press)

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seiichi hayashi’s red colored elegy || 林静一の『赤色エレジー』

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seiichi hayashi’s red colored elegy || 林静一の『赤色エレジー』

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Listen to: Drinking at a Stream by Dark Entries Records

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Yfory, “Baled Y Dolmen” [Static Age, 2023]

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Tresa Leigh, “Until Then” [Lyndell Records, 1970]

Newly available on a four-song career anthology from Efficient Space.

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Celestino Piatti