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Mary Jane Leach / Semper Dolens / (f)lute songs Kelly Moran / Helix / Ultraviolet Akira Rabelais / Gymnopedie No.1 / Eisoptrophobia Janek Schaefer / Tree at the End of the World / What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing Shida Shahabi / Abisme / Homes Hilary Woods / Inhaler / Colt Eli Keszler / Flying Floor For U.S. Airways / Stadium Maarja Nuut & Ruum / Mahe / Muunduja Brother Ah / Nature's Children / Move Ever Onward Sebastian Gandera / La Visite Au Musée / Le Raccourci Deben Bhattacharya / Unidentified coffee grinders (two different grinders, switching hands halfway through) - Bedouin coffee grinding beats / Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road Sam Wilkes / Hug / Wilkes Sean McCann & Maxwell August Croy / Alastria / II Julia Holter / In Gardens' Muteness / Aviary Thomas Bloch & Christian Badzura / The Light She Brings (Thomas Bloch Version) / Conatus Mike Cooper / La'ap Blues / Tropical Gothic Nik Turner and Youth / Nibiru Calling / Pharaohs from Outer Space M. Geddes Gengras / Nave / Light Pipe G.B. Beckers / Walkman / Walkman Natsukashii / Wildlife / Driving East Joe McKee / Joe's Wild Imagination / An Australian Alien Jessica Moss / Fractals (Truth 4) / Entanglement Koray Kantarcıoğlu / 263 Loop / Loopworks Kasper Bjørke / 50 11 / Kasper Bjørke Quartet: The Fifty Eleven Project Mariska Aldrich / Magasan Repul a Daru, Szepen Szal / The Rare Wax Cylinder Masters Maxim Rysanov, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra & Kristina Blaumane / Concerto for Violoncello and Strings: II. Longing / Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths Molly Nilsson / Out of the Blue / 2020 Soundwalk Collective / Object of Human Pursuit / Death Must Die Prosper Razafimamdimby (5-stringed violin) / Na Inoa E! / To Catch a Ghost: Field Recordings from Madagascar Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band / Siraba Kele / Siri Ba Kele Deben Bhattacharya / Khalil Akrawi, vocals, spoons - Kasam-e-Meru (excerpt from a 25-minute piece) / Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road Ian William Craig / And Therefore the Moonlight / Thresholder Amalia Paoli / Mignon: Connais-tu Le Pays? / The Rare Wax Cylinder Masters Kim Kashkashian / Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 (Transcr. for Viola): 4. Sarabande / J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Viola Solo Deben Bhattacharya / Shapoore Delshadi, tar - Tar solo in isfahan dastgah / Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road Vikingur Olafsson / Organ Sonata No. 4, BWV 528: 2. Andante [Adagio] (Transcr. by August Stradal) / Johann Sebastian Bach The Crossing, Doris Hall Gulati, Rebecca Harris, Mandy Wolman, Lorenzo Raval, Arlen Hlusko & Donald Nally / Zealot Canticles: No. 6, Armed with Book and Beard / Zealot Canticles Laraaji, Dallas Acid & Arji OceAnanda / Full Moon Serenade / Arrive Without Leaving Loretta Lynn / Ruby's Stool / Wouldn't It Be Great

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Full track listing:

Unidentified Musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell / I Dreamed I Went to the U.N. / Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris Kathryn Joseph / From When I Wake the Want Is / From When I Wake the Want Is Laraaji / Enthusiasm (Dexter Story Remix) / Sun Transformations Prefuse 73 / Basinskitarian / Sacrifices Ben Vince / What I Can See (feat. Micachu) / Assimilation Tim Hecker / In Death Valley / Konoyo Carl Stone / Banteay Srey / Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties Scott Dunbar / The Memphis Mail / Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris Marissa Nadler / For My Crimes / For My Crimes Poemme / Awning ~ Under the Willow Tree / Moments in Golden Light Alice Sara Ott / 3 Gymnopédies: 1. Lent et douloureux / Nightfall Massimo Toniutti / Lento & Antico / Il Museo Selvatico Rafael Anton Irisarri / Un Saltador / El Ferrocarril Desvaneciente Blue Chemise / Odette / Daughters of Time Automatisme / Bureau 1 / Transit CECILIA / Teen Poise / Adoration Helios / Dreams / Veriditas The Black Dog / Who He Was / Black Daisy Wheel Ben Chatwin / Burning Witches / Drone Signals Julia Holter / I Shall Love 2 / Aviary Exploded View / Open Road / Obey Papa M / The Upright Path / A Broke Moon Rises Thalia Zedek Band / What I Wanted / Fighting Season Julia Kent & Jean D.L. / Part One / The Great Lake Swallows - EP Michael Price & Shards / Sandham / Price: Tender Symmetry Poemme / Forest Hymn / Moments in Golden Light Jlin / Blue I / Autobiography (Music from Wayne Mcgregor's Autobiography) H Takahashi / Warp / Escapism Beak> / Brean Down / >>> Oliver Coates / A Church / Shelley's on Zenn-La Giulio Aldinucci / The Eternal Transition / Disappearing in a Mirror Mountain Man / Baby Where You Are / Magic Ship Lori Scacco / Strange Cities / Desire Loop Nick Malkin / Slow Day I / Slow Day on Brilliant Drive - EP Ólafur Arnalds / they sink / re:member Penelope Trappes / Gravel Mouth / Penelope One Sarah Davachi / Gloaming / Gave In Rest Glenn Jones / The Was and the Is / The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works For 6 & 12 String Guitar Sebastian Gandera / Quand Natalia Peint / Le Raccourci Walter Lee Hood / Darling If You Must Leave / Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris

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Full track listing:

John Prine / Lonesome Friends of Science / The Tree of Forgiveness Jeremy Dutcher / Ultestakon / Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa Goldmund / Above / Occasus Simone Dinnerstein & A Far Cry / Piano Concerto No. 3: Movement II / Circles: Piano Concertos by Bach & Glass Thomas Bartlett & Nico Muhly / Festina / Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music Ryuichi Sakamoto / andata (Oneohtrix Point Never Remix) / Async Remodels Meshell Ndegeocello / Waterfalls / Ventriloquism Aukai / Oars / Branches of Sun Nina Nielsen / Free Lover / Free Lover - Single Boli Group / Toxica / N.P.D.S Cucina Povera / Kuparirumpu / Hilja Lubomyr Melnyk / Barcarolle / The Dreamers Ever Leave You - The Lauren Harris Ballet Music Mind Over Mirrors / A Palinopsic Wind / Bellowing Sun Grouper / Driving / Grid of Points Group Listening / A Little Lost / Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol. 1 Marisa Anderson / Cloud Corner / Cloud Corner Kate NV / дуб OAK / для FOR Ekkehard Ehlers / Woolf Phrase / Politik braucht keinen Feind Abul Mogard / The Purpose of Peace / Works Jherek Bischoff / Gobo / Gobo - Single Shuta Hasunuma & U-zhaan / Lal (feat. Ryuichi Sakamoto) / 2 Tone Carla Bozulich / Stained in Grace (feat. John Eichenseer) / Quieter Brian Eno / Flora and Fauna / Gleise 581d / Music for Installations Lucrecia Dalt / Edge / Anticlines Julie Doiron / No Me Lo Pidas / Julie Doiron Canta en Español Vol. 3 - EP Rabit / Possessed / Les fleurs du mal Les Halles / First Horizon / Zephyr Ragnar Johnson / Rumbung Pulpak, Bosmun / Crying Bamboos: Ceremonial Flute Music from New Guinea: Madang The Crossing & Donald Nally / Privilege: III. Burning TV Song / Ted Hearne: Sound from the Bench Bing & Ruth / Quebec (Climber) / S&S Presents: Dreams Richard Skelton / First Channel / A Channel for Water Elza Soares / Solto / A Mulher do Fim do Mundo Wrekmeister Harmonies / Covered In Blood From Invisible Wounds / The Alone Rush Rival Consoles / Memory Arc / Persona A Hawk and a Hacksaw / A Song for Old People / A Song for Young People / Forest Bathing Sarah Davachi / Garlands / Let Night Come On Bells End the Day

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Full track listing: 

Primitive Motion / Feed the Signals / House In the Wave Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton / Heron Dance / Music and Poetry of the Kesh R Beny / Light Leak / Full Blossom of the Evening Mary Lattimore / Hello from the Edge of the Earth / Hundreds of Days A Winged Victory For The Sullen / Long May It Sustain / Long May It Sustain - Single Anouar Brahem, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette & Django Bates / La Passante / Blue Maqams Phew / Just a Familiar Face / Voice Hardcore Anna von Hausswolff / The Truth, The Glow, The Fall / The Truth, The Glow, The Fall - EP Rafael Anton Irisarri / Vasastan / Sirimiri Kelly Lee Owens / Arthur / Kelly Lee Owens Hailu Mergia / Lala Belu / Lala Belu Jos Tieman / Beast / James Tenney: Postal Pieces Modern Studies / The Bold Fisherman / Swell to Great Felicia Atkinson / No Fear But Anticipation / Hand In Hand King Woman / I Wanna Be Adored / I Wanna Be Adored - Single Tom Rogerson & Brian Eno / Chain Home / Finding Shore Iona Fortune / Meng / Tao of I Tara Jane O'Neil / Cali / Tara Jane O'Neil Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / In the World, but Not of the World / The Kid EMA / I Wanna Destroy / Exile In the Outer Ring Petra Glynt / The Cold / This Trip JASSS / Cotton For Lunch / Weightless Cucina Povera / Demetra / Hilja Six Organs of Admittance / Abandoned Problems / Hexadic III Camp Cope / The Opener / How to Socialise & Make Friends Dedekind Cut / Tahoe / Tahoe Yann Novak / The Inertia of Time / The Future Is a Forward Escape into the Past Ryuichi Sakamoto / solari (Jóhann Jóhannsson Rework) / Async Remodels CV & JAB / Brick With Modern Form (B. Hepworth) / Zin Taylor's Thoughts of a Dot As It Travels a Surface Nordic Affect & Valgeir Sigurðsson / Raindamage / Raindamage U.S. Girls / Pearly Gates / In a Poem Unlimited Xylouris White / Spud's Garden / Mother Dorothy Ashby / Action Line / Afro-Harping

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Full track listing:

Unknown Streetcar Singer, Toronto / Maybe Baby Washington Phillips / Mother's Last Word to Her Son / Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams Chuck Johnson / Riga Black / Balsams Clara Engel / Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered / Vigils Schneider Kacirek / I Atlanten (feat. Sofia Jernberg) / Radius Walk Felicia Atkinson / Valis / Hand In Hand --Field recording: Miles Davis and Some Cockies in the Bush Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou / A Young Girl's Complaint / Éthiopiques, Vol. 21: Piano Solo Astrïd & Rachel Grimes / The Herald En Masse / Through the Sparkle Dmitry Evgrafov / Through the Gloom / Comprehension of Light Ora Cogan / Moonbeam / Crickets Ryley Walker & Bill MacKay / Pretty Weeds Revisited / SpiderBeetleBee --Field Recording: River in the White Mountains Golden Retriever / Sunsight / Rotations Tiny Vipers / Living on a Curve / Laughter Mica Levi & Oliver Coates / Barok Main / Remain Calm Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement / Chile's Crimson Tide / Ambient Black Magic Peggy Seeger / Lady, What Do You Do All Day? / Folkways Years, 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Politics Saltland / Under My Skin / A Common Truth Sir Richard Bishop / Bound in Morocco / Tangier Sessions House and Land / The Day is Past and Gone / House and Land John Angaiak / Nasaureluma / I'm Lost In the City Chihei Hatakeyama / Bus Terminal in Konya / Mirage Márta Kurtág / Játékok VII: 14. Fugitive Thoughts About the Alberti Bass – For András Szőllősy / Kurtág: Play Kurtág Bill Orcutt / The World Without Me / Bill Orcutt Thomas Köner / Tiento de la Luz 2 / Tiento de la Luz Ka Baird / You Are Myself / Sapropelic Pycnic Jefre Cantu-Ledesma / Echoing Green / On the Echoing Green Kjuregej Alexandra Argunova / Cuckoo / Lark Ifriqiyya Electrique / Stombali - Baba'Alaia / Rûwâhîne --Field Recording: The Pinery, Lake Huron Aldous Harding / Party / Party Buffy Sainte-Marie / My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying / Medicine Songs Irreversible Entanglements / Fireworks / Irreversible Entanglements The Fun Years / The Delusion Always Wins / Heroes of the Second Story Walkup Luka Productions / Terriya / Fasokan Olivier Alary / Autodrome / Fiction / Non-Fiction Otto A. Totland / Steps / Pinô Circuit Des Yeux / Philo / Reaching For Indigo Aunt Sally / 日が朽ちて / Aunt Sally Richard Osborn / Streets of Laredo, A Pastorale / Endless The Caretaker / Hidden sea buried deep / Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 3

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Full track listing: 

Advertising record / Len Spencer / Edison Gold Moulded Record: Advertising Record The Dusk Pines / High Plains / Cinderland Dolphins Climb onto Shore for the First Time / Mica Levi & Oliver Coates / Remain Calm Daffodils / Jacaszek / KWIATY Ee Chê / Anna Homler & Steve Moshier / Breadwoman & Other Tales As Much as Possible / Bing & Ruth / No Home of the Mind II / Clara Engel / Your Halo is a Swarm of Bees Ask for the Omega Man / The Fun Years / Ask for the Omega Man / Single Manna / King Woman / Created in the Image of Suffering Th Next Band / Music: Brother Soul Pt. 1 (LP Version) / Eddie Harris / The Reason Why I'm Talking S**t Laurent and Bernadette / Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler / Music Inspired by Philippe Garrel’s Le Révélateur For Piano / Sarah Davachi / All My Circles Run Wood / Cameron Webb & Tayylor Deupree / Wood, Winter, Hollow Exuberant Burning / Earthen Sea / An Act of Love '02: Be True to Your Bar / The Magnetic Fields / 50 Song Memoir Shades of Silence / Nordic Affect / Aerial Requiem for a Reaper / Pillar of Cloud (feat. Thor Harris, Heinz Riegler & Norman Westberg) / Lawrence English / Cruel Optimism Going Away, Won't Be Long / Sid Hemphill and Lucius Smith / Taken by Ascent / Six Organs of Admittance / Burning the Threshold Restore & Slip / Mind Over Mirrors / Undying Color Silent Treatment / Blanck Mass / World Eater AS Truth / Amnesia Scanner / AS Truth - Single BUFFERS=1770 / MASTER BOOT RECORD / C:\>EDIT CONFIG.SYS Classic NU S**t / No UFO's / NU LP For RS Aunchron / Marcus Fjellström / Skelektikon Flist / Oto Hiax / S/T Part 2 / Julius Hemphill / Roi Boyé & the Gotham Minstrels Erie Changys (feat. Radik Tyulyush & Michael Red) / Tanya Tagaq / Erie Changys (feat. Radik Tyulyush & Michael Red) / Single The Gathering / Wrekmeister Harmonies / Light Falls Modern chorusmusic: Lux aeterna / Helmut Franz & Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks / Ligeti: Atmosphères The Listener / Jana Winderen / The Listener

(Signal interrupts sourced from the Conet Project)

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Our email about the week and the things we read in it. This week: grief, vertical farms, branding and the executive precariat.

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Me at the Mixcloud. Full track listing: 

Valley of Dry Bones / Moor Mother / Fetish Bones We Are the Halluci Nation (feat. John Trudell & Northern Voice) / A Tribe Called Red / We Are the Halluci Nation Are you coming home to-night? / Harry Anthony and James F. Harrison / Edison Blue Amberol: 1984 The Primary Menstruum or Mother-liquid / *AR / Earth by Means of the Currents Conceptual Romance / Jenny Hval / Blood Bitch The Collector (And the Art Mob) / Terry Allen / Lubbock (On Everything) Hadirlah Suci / Senyawa / Menjadi Natural Blue / Julie Byrne / Not Even Happiness Systems / Layers / Rachel's / Systems / Layers Lift Him Up That's All / Washington Phillips / The Key To the Kingdom Where You're Meant to Be / Aidan Moffat / Where You're Meant to Be The Banks of Green Willow / Shirley Collins / Lodestar Cathedral Et Chartres / Jack Rose / Kensington Blues It's just a burning memory / The Caretaker / Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 1 Silent Inuit / Willie Thrasher / Spirit Child Arkansas River / Dylan Golden Aycock / Church of Level Track Time's Tiny Tears / Kevin Hufnagel / Backwards Through the Maze - EP INSECT / Gideon Wolf / Year Zero Stone Beacon / Deaf Center / Pale Ravine Sonata (1965): III. Allegretto / Beatrice Rauchs / Best - Sofia Gubaidulina Please / Blanck Mass / World Eater Orison / Tilman Robinson / Deer Heart Avril 14th / Murcof & Vanessa Wagner / Statea Nagisa / Isonade (feat. Dakota Suite & Vampillia) / Dakota Suite & Vampillia / The Sea Is Never Full Cosmow / BBS / Palace Deadbeat Protest / Moor Mother / Fetish Bones Wrong / King Woman / Doubt - EP Retribution / Tanya Tagaq / Retribution - Single Hey, Musicians / Xylouris White / Black Peak Object of Projection (feat. Thor Harris, Chris Abrahams & Heinz Riegler) / Lawrence English / Cruel Optimism Call me back, pal, o'mine / Elizabeth Spencer and Charles Hart / Edison Blue Amberol: 4666 Late April / Sarah Louise / Solo Acoustic, Vol. 12 Headache / Grouper / Paradise Valley - Single Closer to Closure / Jherek Bischoff / Cistern Szczecin / Christine Ott / Only Silence Remains 360° / Thalia Zedek / Eve Drunk / Svarte Greiner / Drunk, Road, Tree - Single A broken heart / National String Quartet / Edison Amberol: 257 Tear My Stillhouse Down (Home Demo) / Gillian Welch / Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out (feat. Iris DeMent) / John Prine / For Better, or Worse

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"While she spent years immersed in introspective experimentation, Oliveros’s 'Sonic Meditations' shouldn’t be mistaken for escapism or disengagement. The composer described listening as a necessary pause before thoughtful action: 'Listening is directing attention to what is heard, gathering meaning, interpreting and deciding on action.'"

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I shook his hand and I smiled at him and I thanked him for sharing his thoughts with us. Because I needed to hear him to confirm what, as a historian, I have long suspected – we’ve seen his kind before. And, apologies Mr. Kagame, but you know that – because you correctly condemn my country for minding its own business in April, May and June 1994. People like you are our business precisely because people who tell others to mind their own business tend to be the sorts of people who leave bodies in their wake. And bodies and human suffering are the cursed currency of history, as Paul Kagame’s Rwanda has taught and regrettably continues to teach.

#MindYourOwnBusiness – Africa is a Country

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“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.”

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"Black out the past. Forget the quiet cities. Bring in the steam and steel. The iron men. The giants. Open the throttle. All aboard the promised land. Pillars of smoke by day. Pillars of fire by night. Pillars of progress. Machines to make machines. Production to expand production. There’s wood and wheat and kitchen sinks and calico all ready made in tonnes enough for tens, thousands, millions. Millions! Faster and faster, better and better.

Smoke makes prosperity no matter if you choke on it.”

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"I’ve never been embarrassed by material life. I was doing my studies in a tiny studio with my dictionary in front of me and the best cheese from the store. I would know in the blink of an eye if I was going to get the good part of the ham."

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Always, we're rising. Always, we're falling.

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When cruise ships arrive at Port Vila on Vanuatu’s main island of Efate, tourists en route to private Pacific retreats rarely stop to take in the surroundings of the Melanesian island chain’s capital city. If they did, beyond the coconut palms and endless blue ocean, they would see a city and a country suffering the usual struggles of paradise – legacies of colonialism, cyclone-battered shores, rising sea levels, crumbling infrastructure and an economy still propped up by international donors and NGOs...

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Bricks and Rice. Pango, Efate island, Vanuatu. Photo by James Horan (on assignment with me for Monocle).

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Fouad Hady knows the streets of Baghdad. They’re his own. In a past life, he was a filmmaker, but he fled Saddam Hussein’s regime at the turn of the century, undertaking a journey that took him on foot to Jordan and, eventually, by boat to Australia and a waiting tent in Curtin detention centre in the Kimberleys…

Fouad Hady is a Reporter | Dumbo Feather