recent music and reading

JOY!  A LOVELY HARDBACK COPY OF "MUSE and REVERIE' by the wonderful CHARLES De LINT has been my companion for two weeks. Another journey to Newford and all those incredible residents...I often imagine the bookshop to be situated around Lower Crowsea!


Superb albums from "Telling the Bees".  A blend of dark English psyche/folk with a lovely progressive feel. Great songs and production, quite unique!

And pebble painting in the garden as the sun goes down.........

olafur arnalds

The post" Low Horizons" fallow period continues... One wonderful highlight was a trip to Bridgewater Hall with Nicky to a concert featuring the Royal Northern College of Music Orchestra performing with one of my favourite Icelandic composers Olafur Arnalds. What a superb night. A string quartet playing Radiohead tracks from "kid a" greeted us in the foyer, The R.N.C.M. performed Jonny Greenwood's "popcorn superhet receiver" followed by the amazing Dyad Percussion Duo . Stravinsky "Rite of Spring followed ...this was truly mindblowing. The evening ended with the premier of Olafur Arnalds'  "and they have escaped the weight of darkness". Truly magnificent

john elric Rogers ....plus "White Peak Dawning"..

another green world

even more stuff...

early Fathers Day

My early Fathers Day present is fantastic! I get a day out in London Town with Liz ! Its such fun .We wander around Trafalgar Square with its "THAILAND DAY"....trip down Brick Lane doing some Vintage shopping and people watching from a bar playing The Doors at full volume . After pizza. Liz has tickets for the Barbican to see The Michael Clark Company perform "come , been and gone" . It is an amazing show. Dance and audio visuals to music by David Bowie, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground. What incredible choreography and inspiring art. A real treat. In a lovely way this show kind of put "Low Horizons" in perspective as much of the music played influenced part of my exhibition work.

An awesome day!

the cars on fire and theres no driver at the wheel...

wandering around ,aimless, just doing stuff,,,,....aches and emptyness....

The joys of Finland far behind.....

Godspeed you Black Emperor the soundtrack to life....

No inspiration....

Then ,out of nowhere, I catch my daughter pinning a flower to her dress, the light ,the posture...just right....