06 agosto 2023

 

E' l'impeccabile Uniformbooks a produrre la nuova attesa pubblicazione di Peter Blegvad su uno dei temi più cari e ricorrenti nel suo universo creativo, il latte: Milk - Through a Glass Darkly.

For over fifty years, since he was in his early twenties, Peter Blegvad has been collecting quotations about milk, the primary substance of nutrition and of wonder. All the while his belief in the numinousness of milk has been compounded, that in its opacity and fluid density it is a thing full of both meaning and mystery. Milk - Through a Glass Darkly gathers these quotations into a mosaic, or literary collage, consisting of almost three hundred and fifty separate passages that consider “light, smell, writing, mothers, fathers, colour, nothingness, regression, gender, race, food, cattle, ectoplasm, anti-matter, the moon, sex and insanity amongst other things”. It is, in its enigmatic way, a kind of Lactatus Logico-Philosophicus…

https://www.colinsackett.co.uk/milkthroughaglassdarkly.php

05 agosto 2023

 

E per festeggiare il suo secondo album da titolare, Groove Study, Yumi Hara convoca collaboratori e colleghi di lunga e lunghissima data - Chris Cutler, Tim Hodgkinson, Chlöe Herington, Toshiaki Sudoh e Pierre Chevalier, oltre a Marina Organ con il suo DJ set - invitando amici e ammiratori domani pomeriggio al Cafe Oto londinese. L'inizio è alle ore 14.00.

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/yumi-hara-groove-study-launch

04 agosto 2023

 

Dave Stewart e Barbara Gaskin festeggiano domani a Londra al Kings Place ben quarantadue anni di attività. E' il loro ultimo concerto per il 2023, ovviamente da non perdere: This Shining Night.

"Just a reminder that our concert at Kings Place Hall One, London takes place tomorrow, Saturday August 5th 2023. The setlist (an epoch-spanning selection of Stewart-Gaskin songs, some never played live in the UK before) has been decided. As with last year's Kings Place performance, this is a trio gig featuring Barbara Gaskin (vocals), Dave Stewart (keyboards) and Beren Matthews (guitar), with our longstanding sound engineer Ted Hayton handling the mix.

Tickets have been selling fast as the hour approaches, so if you plan to attend but haven't yet bought a ticket, it's advisable to do so now. We're promoting this gig ourselves, which means tickets can only be bought via our online store, operated by our colleagues Burning Shed. This is a General Admission event with no support band: doors open at 7pm, the concert starts at 7.30pm and finishes around 10pm, including an intermission. There will be a bar, and a selection of our delectable merchandise can be purchased before the concert and during the intermission (but not after the show). 

We selected Kings Place after considering many other venues on the grounds that Hall One offers by far the best listening experience. This will be our last concert of 2023 and loyal listeners are flying in from all over the globe, so we hope you'll be able to join them and us for this celebration of 42 years of happy Stewart-Gaskin music-making!"