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Dance to Your Nobodaddy: Tríd an bpoll gan bun at Sadler's Wells
Folk musician Sam Amidon and Michael Keegan-Dolan's Teaċ Daṁsa's new piece, inspired by Blake's divine dad-gone-bad, Nobodaddy, tells stories of…
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Andy Wilson
Spectral Promises: Electronic Music 1970-1990
Listen now | From Stockhausen to Nurse With Wound, soundtracked by Iancu Dumirtrescu, David Bowie and Throbbing Gristle, Andy Wilson offers a…
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Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Not Stockhausen
A review of David Stubbs, Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen? Why do people flock to see abstract art but run screaming from…
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Andy Wilson
Fruit Flies Like a Banana: Extract from Faust: Stretch Out Time 1970-1975
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." An extract from the book Faust: Stretch Out Time 1970-1975. This was originally a chapter in the…
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Gabriel Kahane, America and the Book of Job
A friend asked me to comment on the mention of the Book of Job is a recent song, Gabriel Kahane's Empire Liquor Mart, from The Apartment Sessions. It…
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Andy Wilson
The Beautiful One Has Come: Reflections From a Damaged Jukebox
As I'm preparing to write about Job, I thought I'd fill the temporary silence with some of the music that set me off where I'm going. Over fifty years…
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Andy Wilson
Kali, Chaos Magic and the KLF: On Black holes and the Rites of Mumufication
This is based on a talk I gave for the Living Well Dying Well Foundation on the rite of MuMufication, the building of the People’s Pyramid, and the…
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Andy Wilson
Mike Westbrook, Phil Minton & The Lo-Fi Improvised Music Ensemble with Sue Lynch: Intimations of a Future for Blake’s Music
In November 2022, The Mike Westbrook Band and The Lo-Fi Improvised Music Ensemble performed settings of Blake’s texts that raise questions about how…
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Andy Wilson
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