Thanks for checking that out, been following farmersmanual quite a while with some curiosity and still need to support the efforts... another s.nianio zviy cassette appeared at soundohm (perhaps they have a one per week purchase limit if it's not in fact soldout) so I bought that along with a Destroy All Monster's November 22nd 1963/Meet the Creeper 7", my first vinyl purchase of the year... Today, discovered Jonnine Standish of HTRK released a cassette, called Blue Hills, which I'll need to nab as her and her husband's work were the only vinyl I got last year as I'm not too much of a collector - they lived in Berlin for a while, by they way!

Terra Dei looks fascinating - I am certain Erkan would enjoy László Hortobágyi as he's very in the music of the Indian sub-continent and appreciate László going beyond common trend of bands appropriating Indian tabla & sitar instruments; instead taking a deeper approach. I will also share about László with a former last.fm user "Seven" who had enjoyed Christine Groult and was someone to whom I recommended Eliane Radique! Opera singer Jessye Norman, who by the way like Hemphill has the middle-name of Mae, sung the role of Judith in Bela Bartok's Bluebeard; Jessye Norman went to an arts high school at a place called Interlochen within a few hours drive from my current location. School's radio website has lots of live music performances available for listening (interlochenpublicradio dot org) and nature/ecological segments if you want to hear about plants, animals, etc. provided in the English language... Thank you for these spectacular suggestions + initiating this wonderful exchange!

Hello, thank you so much! I like music Hungarian and will definitely check it out today.

& Ariane Matiakh conducted her piano concerto with pianist Ragna Schirmer, definitely worth a listen... of course earlier this year we got the debut Isata Kanneh-Mason record dedicated to Clara's work as well... A few years ago local composer Tony Manfredonia had an opera accompanied by string quartet performed as a workshop for its performers (created with the intention of creating awareness for mental health) based on Clara's relationship with Robert Schumann and Brahms entitled Ghost Variations; that is also the title of a historical novel by English journalist and author Jessica Duchen exploring the peculiar nature of the 1937 premier of R. Schumann's violin concerto performed by Jelly d’Arányi, "On the basis of messages she received at a 1933 séance, allegedly from Schumann himself, about this concerto of which she had never previously heard, she claimed the right to perform it publicly for the first time. That was not to be, but she did perform it at the London premiere." (wiki)

Yes, I've noticed Owl999's recommendations on your shoutbox: Pauline Oliveros and Eliane Radigue who I've been fascinated with over the years yet need to listen more and learn about. I considered going to a performance of Radigue's music a while ago in Cleveland, OH with a duo of Nate Wooley on trumpet and Carol Robinson on clarinet, both composers themselves, and the performance usual for Radigue in featuring acoustic instruments and paired with a West Coast/San Francisco visual artist Tauba Auerbach who has made quite remarkable functional organs for in a different collaboration. Oliveros I remember passed away nearly 4 years ago and a tribute compilation was dedicated to her featuring another visual artist who does experimental efforts in music, Katie English who plays flute and electronics under the moniker Isnaj Dui - the record is called The Last Sense to Leave Us, and it was released by the Rural Colours label in the UK. There is also lots of Oliveros content being released..

...by Digitice on vimeo, the latest just four days ago! I've watched one from last year which documents her mid-sixties effort "Applebox Double" at Pierre Boulez's International Contemporary Ensemble where Ashley Fure, a composer with roots close to my locale, has studied and worked at, as well... Hope you and Owl999 both had a great Sunday. I definitely want to recommend another composer, Christine Groult, seeing that you enjoy Tod Dockstader. Christine got her primier performance in the USA only last year in Brooklyn to a full capacity crowd, I'm very pleased to note, judging by pictures of the event posted later on.

blogthehum.com / the-hum.com ; gotta thank the creator of this site for leading me onto him

I think this week we'll have a heat wave here also :-( Last week was already too hot

I'm curious whether many songwriters in Asian countries can make a living simply on lyrics and composition or must they perform as singers to be successful in music business, nowadays? Perhaps you would need to ask an insider in the industry to get an accurate notion about this concern. In the west it is not likely one could work in a traditional manner as a songwriter solely providing material.

That's a nice site and novel. I see the site has works from 121 countries and 103 languages. Which languages do you read/translate from/to ?

Sad that they will lose their place. I assume the story will go on as usual: they will get a "nice" place in grey building complexes, with less nature. Once the older generation dies, the young ones won't remember much of their old history?

Well, it's up to them to glean what they can while he's still alive; new generations can do what they will with whatever new opportunities and form relationships with people they wouldn't otherwise have met, staying in a small village. And it's very cool for a little documentation :) I look forward to watching again and receive the deep pathos in the images, not something you are often confronted with in western/first world/city day to day life... spirituality is closely tied to strife and we have lost a lot of that in our all privileges we take for granted.

That is sad, he got 75 years of age. Who knows, perhaps he also decided himself to die on this special day?

the violent death of Lounès Matoub was the sad like that of Tupac whose birthday was three weeks ago :)

Yes, thanks... enjoying Bob Dylan's lovely new record and had a nice birthday weekend with African American classical music playing on local FM radio for Juneteenth Day, the day on which l happened to be born, as well as Happy Father's Day that year... Bought some new shoes and trying pale ale that's tastes alright - the brew includes five hop varieties. Happy Father's Day, to you; l have benefited from your library and certainly your fantastic tracks!

http://www.helenjohannessen.co.uk/#/jingdezhen/ interesting porcelain works which l think are among the more important art pieces produced in the previous decades :)

https://www.last.fm/music/YKO/_/Maykumi after the particular typography on the album cover

Strange, I do not find her on lastfm :-( The album I listen also scrobbles it as artist Bach...

l did join wood and strings on a now deleted account maybe in the year 2012 or 2013 so you've probably visited a profile of mine long before l became aware of your music this year... l've still never tried spotify as l'm already slow with buying physical releases and want to hamper that further buying subscribing to a streaming service!.. l had wanted to make a playlist years ago to share with Jacqui of the band Dial but l'll probably settle with simply publishing a review on Bandcamp to express my over excess of fan-ship for the group. Today, l found out about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMgcu7TBUw & this rapper's use of word ginseng in a song title reminds me of an online friend l made recently who will be studying at a prestigious art college in London next to Tate Museum before long if that works out in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic delaying things for students - also the video effects and rappers choice of a dilapidated building for one video recalls to mind a video of hers

Nothing other than last.fm at the moment. Thought about putting a website up with art instructions and techniques but it'll take some time before l manage that along with my own artwork. Oh, SC every-so-often, l'll browse and repost things https://soundcloud.com/user-54384565 l did check out your blog and will soon spend more time with your music :) l haven't managed publishing any creative output yet, myself.

l have been thinking about approaching the music director at a local arts school radio station who studied musicology to suggest a radio segment or short podcast for their website with guests interviewed who are of a more alternative current than the usual culture they feature... glad that you reminded of my idea :)

Thanks, l didn't catch that news... verified by NHS on their website. Personally l'm not a donor yet, and will need to consider that option some more... not a fan of British health care, some laws, partisan judiciary and the unarmed policing.

3 thanks for notice about the others who passed away... it reminds me of when Bowie, Prince and others went on to the afterlife (if you subscribe to the concept) within the period of early 2016, although, more famed individuals...2018, a number of Australian musicians passed on, lesser known... Zac Denton - https://zacharylevidenton.bandcamp.com a member of many bands, who was the same age as l, myself, was at that time, and had a very unique musical identity loved a by a small "indie" community; plus, two members of important rock group, the Beasts of Bourbon, who were in the process of recording an album that year which was released under https://www.last.fm/music/The+Beasts ; Spencer P. Jones and Brian Hooper were their names ... three other Australians who passed in the last decade include an important composer Felix Werder in 2012, Sean Stewart of the band HTRK who have gone on to release several albums partly dealing with the loss after his suicide in 2010 not too long after the

death of guitarist Rowland S. Howard late in 2009 who produced their second album, and has very recently been celebrated by a Euro tour before the pandemic took hold, of tribute performances of his own material going as far back as the 1970's ; Rowland's sound's since influenced maybe 1 out of 5 rock bands at this point whether their aware of his contributions or not, a trailblazer for sonic exploration, active for only a few years time in Berlin in the early 1980s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlzYAM2RtQ - l'm not a huge fan of this band and nor were most of the members very into the singer's material which was bleak and humorless at that time, but l have one record of theirs, a vinyl 12" of "The Kentucky Click" and additionally bought an mp3 of more optimistic song "Angel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlpJBAuxxB0 without Rowland who by then focused on his band These Immortal Souls, also dark in tone but with more irony and humor than Simon Bonney's writing in Crime and the C.S.

4 something l found last week recorded in Berlin, kinda folksy yet experimental with piano, bass, drums, piano by Germans and the singing from a Romanian, all recorded in Berlin https://mariaraducanu.bandcamp.com/releases - there's a singer not Romanian who has done Romanian material l will have to again track down. Reminds me, Ana-Maria Avram passed away in 2017, a remarkable avant-garde composer... saw this post recently https://www.instagram.com/p/BpdreNeFrpH/ - l understand vampires and Vlad the Impaler are very tragic but nothing wrong with humor... recently from the HTRK members https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8XYA3CdsjM 'The penultimate “You Can Leave The Vampires” is fettered by guitar from HTRK bandmate Nigel Yang against a moody, cautionary libretto. This collaboration yields ritualistic results as the object of the spell is appealed to break with an addictive game of chance by the overlapping mantras “If I can leave you / you can leave too” and “Please, you can be free”'