Una copia in pdf di un'edizione artigianale del volumetto di scritti e poesie The Immeasurable Equation prodotto in proprio e venduto ai concerti dell'Arkestra attorno al 1980. Questo il dono che fa ai suoi lettori il sito Adventure-Equation nel novantanovesimo anniversario della venuta a questo mondo - e a vent'anni dal suo commiato - di Sun Ra: "Sun Ra’s wordplay, poetry, and language equations are as entertaining and thought provoking as his music and all seem to be parts of the same creation/presentation. I don’t think you can fully appreciate Sun Ra's music without also considering this poetry as an element of the grand equation. With this in mind I would like to share what is perhaps my most treasured piece of Sun Ra ephemera, the small self-published volume of The Immeasurable Equation originally sold at Arkestra concerts around 1980. This particular edition includes 81 poems on as many pages, printed on the rainbow's envy of colored construction paper."

http://fromnowherehere.blogspot.com/2013/05/sun-ra-space-poetry-and-immeasurable.html

Richard Branson interviene al programma di Stuart Maconie Freak Zone, per la BBC Radio 6, per ricordare i quarant'anni dell'etichetta Virgin Records e le vicende legate ai suoi esordi. Tra un'amenità e l'altra si ascoltano Robert Wyatt, Slapp Happy, Gong, Monochrome Set, Flying Lizards, Kevin Coyne, Mike Patto, Faust, Henry Cow, Tangerine Dream, Egg e Hatfield and the North.

Marking 40 years since the very first release on Virgin Records, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, Richard Branson chats to Stuart about how the Virgin empire began with a bunch of odd records. Speaking at Virgin's new London offices Richard tells Stuart how his unique hippy capitalism started with a painfully shy 15 year-old Mike Oldfield, a bold risk-taking attitude and his faith in good music. The interview follows the history of the label up to the release of Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks. The signing propelled them from an alternative independent to major status following the publicity and controversy surrounding the album's title.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sq0hl

Gli esiti della collaborazione tra i Residents e la compagnia di danza belga Needcompany guidata da Grace Ellen Barkey sfociati nella realizzazione di Mush-Room sono documentati in una ripresa pressoché integrale pubblicata su YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/ph4bwsb. Un breve video promozionale è su Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/66816167

The iconic avant-garde American performance art collective The Residents has written music for Grace Ellen Barkey and Needcompany! The Residents leapt onto her shoulders and grabbed hold of her unruly hair, and then they galloped off together into another dimension and danced a divine duet. Just imagine: The Residents, the masters of weird, and Grace Ellen Barkey, the president of the movement against melancholy.

http://www.residents.com
http://www.needcompany.org/EN/mush-room
http://www.needcompany.org/NL/shop/18
http://tinyurl.com/ph4bwsb
http://vimeo.com/66816167