Sierra Club

Wikipedia - "The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the Scottish-American preservationist John Muir, who became its first president. ... Traditionally associated with the progressive movement, the club was one of the first large-scale environmental preservation organizations in the world, and currently engages in lobbying politicians to promote environmentalist policies. Recent focuses of the club include promoting sustainable energy, mitigating global warming, and opposing the use of coal. The club is known for its political endorsements, which are often sought after by candidates in local elections; it generally supports liberal and progressive candidates in elections. ..."
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Sierra Club
Ready For 100 | Sierra Club (Video)

John Muir

Amy Sherald’s Shining Second Act

“A single man in possession of a good fortune,” 2019; “The girl next door,” 2019.
"What a difference a presidential portrait makes. Two years ago, Amy Sherald’s painting career was slowly if belatedly picking up steam. She was 44 and after a four-year hiatus from art — for family illness and her own heart transplant — had had a handful of solo shows, including a four-day pop-up affair on New York City’s Lower East Side in March 2017. A few months later, in October, Ms. Sherald’s profile began to rise when the National Portrait Gallery commissioned her to paint a portrait of the former first lady Michelle Obama, setting the artist on the fast track to prominence. And so here we are: Ms. Sherald is having her first full-fledged New York solo in the Chelsea space of the voracious mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth. 'Amy Sherald: The Heart of the Matter...' is a magnificent, stirring show. ..."
NY Times
Amy Sherald the heart of the matter...
What Amy Sherald Is Looking At: The Painter on 8 Cultural Touchstones That Inspire Her, From Wes Anderson to WEB Du Bois

Installation view of “Amy Sherald: The Heart of the Matter...” at Hauser & Wirth.

NYCTrust Special – E’s E on Nickel & Dime Radio

"Relaxed sunday vibes with E’s E guest set on $mall ¢hange’s Nickel & Dime Radio Show. Recorded live on WFMU, 91.1FM – Jersey City, NJ. Enjoy! Tracklist: Moodie’s All Stars – Frog Leap, Jovens Do Prezda – Pina, Abdel Mohamed – Laissez Passer, Los Dandy’s – Tu Son Tu Son, Los Fantasticos De Chimbote – Quiero Que Amanesca, Pedro Miguel – Cabrita Que Tira Al Monte, Harold y Su Banda – Carretera, Carretera, Prince Buster – Funky Jamaica, Bumps Jackson – Funky In Jamaica Pt. 2, Hugh Masekela – Unhlanhla, Father & Sons – Soul In The Bowl, Les Leopards – D’Leau Coco, Minguito – Ngi Kalakala Mivu Ioso, Conjunto Tipica Contreras – Capricho Egipcio.
Brooklyn Radio (Audio)
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Charles Messier (26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817)

Wikipedia - "Charles Messier (French: [me.sje]; 26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects. The purpose of the catalogue was to help astronomical observers, in particular comet hunters like himself, distinguish between permanent and transient visually diffuse objects in the sky. ... Messier's occupation as a comet hunter led him to continually come across fixed diffuse objects in the night sky which could be mistaken for comets. He compiled a list of them, in collaboration with his friend and assistant Pierre Méchain (who may have found at least 20 of the objects), to avoid wasting time sorting them out from the comets they were looking for. The entries are now known to be galaxies (39), planetary nebulae (5), other types of nebulae (7), and star clusters (55). ..."
Wikipedia
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Hubble’s Messier Catalog
YouTube: Charles Messier: The Catalog of Space | David Rives

Messier star chart depicting all the Messier objects (plotted on a rectangular grid right ascension and declination)

Hidden Histories: The Story of Women Film Editors

Margaret Booth
"A momentous event in online film culture went mostly unnoticed earlier this year: the unveiling of Edited By, Su Friedrich’s large and invaluable web resource devoted to women film editors. Friedrich, a renowned experimental filmmaker with a body of work spanning over four decades, tells the story of coming upon a film history book, turning to the editing chapter, and finding that each reference to a film mentioned the director—but never the editor. Looking up the cited films on IMDb, she discovered that most of them were edited by women. Out of this seed of curiosity grew the enormous research effort that has now resulted in the website. ..."
Criterion

Elizaveta Svilova

Harlan County, USA (1976)

Wikipedia - "Harlan County, USA is a 1976 documentary film covering the 'Brookside Strike', an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973. Directed and produced by Barbara Kopple, who has long been an advocate of workers' rights, Harlan County, U.S.A. is less ambivalent in its attitude toward unions than her later American Dream, the account of the Hormel Foods strike in Austin, Minnesota in 1985-–86. It won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards. ..."
Wikipedia
Documentary Noise: The Soundscape of Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, U.S.A.
YouTube: Harlan County USA Trailer
YouTube: Harlan County, USA 1:44:34

Cajun music

A black and white reproduction of a 1938 photograph by FSA Photographer Lee Russell depicting a group of musicians playing at a cajun dance hall near Crowley, Louisiana.
Wikipedia - "Cajun music (French: Musique cadienne), an emblematic music of Louisiana played by the Cajuns, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada. Cajun music is often mentioned in tandem with the Creole-based zydeco music, both of Acadiana origin, and both of which have influenced the other in many ways. These French Louisiana sounds have influenced American popular music for many decades, especially country music, and have influenced pop culture through mass media, such as television commercials. ..."
Wikipedia
64 Parishes
What is Cajun & Zydeco: Dance & Music
YouTube: Louisiana Cajun French Music From The Southwest Prairies 50:00, Cajun Songs from Lousiana (Folkways, 1956) 32:28, Ambrose Thibodeaux ‎– Authentic French Acadian Music (1966) 29:52, Zydeco - Louisiana Creole Cajun Music Blend 1:24:06, Balfa Brothers - Tribute to Cajun Music - 1979, Mink DeVille - Mazurka

Hohner 3002 folk/Cajun Ariette Acordeón Marrón Natural

Debatable

"The big debates, distilled. This comprehensive guide will put in context what people are saying about the pressing issues of the week. Sign up for Debatable to hear more from the voices you agree with — and better understand those you don’t."
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NY Times: Debating - News about Debating, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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NY Times: The Role of Men in the Debate Over Abortion - A man in Atlanta protesting Georgia’s restrictive abortion law in May.

Tear the Roof Off the Sucker: An Introduction to Parliament Funkadelic

Parliament Funkadelic, circa 1974
"If you don’t know much about funk, P-Funk—the legendary Parliament Funkadelic—is a great place to start. (Yes, you can make the same case for James Brown, Sly Stone, the Ohio Players, and myriad others.) P-Funk emerged in the late ‘60s and dominated the 1970s. They went through at least four somewhat distinct periods, pioneered a unique approach to groove—especially once bassist Bootsy Collins, resh from a stint with James Brown, joined the band—and combined that with psychedelia, humor, space travel, and subtle yet cutting social commentary. They were a guitar-centric outfit, but often had a horn section, embraced synthesizers, and never lost sight of their vocal roots. Parliament and Funkadelic were not two separate bands. P-Funk, under the guidance of vocalist and ringleader George Clinton, was a collective of musicians—which numbered about 50 people during their mid-’70s peak. ..."
Reverb LP (Video/Audio)

2009 January: George Clinton, 2010 December: Mothership Connection - Houston 1976, 2011 October: Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove, 2011 October: "Do Fries Go With That Shake?", 2012 August: Tales Of Dr. Funkenstein – The Story Of George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, 2015 July: Playing The (Baker's) Dozens: George Clinton's Favourite Albums, 2015 August: Chocolate City (1975), 2016 February: Maggot Brain - Funkadelic (1971), 2016 June: P-Funk All Stars - Urban Dancefloor Guerillas (1983), 2017 March: Up for the Down Stroke - Parliament (1974), 2017 May: P-Funk mythology

World’s Most Famous Replica of NYC Gets a New Shine

The Panorama of the City of New York
"On long-term view at the Queens Museum, the Panorama of the City of New York was once the highlight of the World’s Fair in 1964. The miniature replica of New York City (including all five boroughs) took over 100 full-time workers nearly three years to build, and is still the largest architectural model of any city in the world to date. The Panorama was the brainchild of 'master builder' Robert Moses, who saw it as a tool for urban design and planning after it left the fair. The City of New York spent $672,662 in 1964 to construct the miniature metropolis, which included 830,000 buildings (now there are 895,000 buildings) over an area of 9,335 square feet. The meticulously crafted, hand-painted design continues to fascinate New Yorkers and global travelers alike, even after 53 years. ..."
The Culture Trip (Video)

10 essential UK dub and reggae albums

"Reggae was born in Jamaica, but it found a second home in the UK – the result of waves of post-war Caribbean migration, and the curatorial ambitions of labels like Chris Blackwell’s Island Records, who took names like Bob Marley and made them international celebrities. Early on, the idea that Britain could turn out reggae artists to compete with the Jamaicans seemed absurd. But around the mid-‘70s, a new wave of musicians and studio hands started bubbling up from the UK’s multiracial centres, taking the style, sound and themes of the Caribbean groups and giving them a distinctly UK twist. Red Bull Music caught up with three legends of the UK reggae and dub scene – broadcaster and DJ Don Letts, On-U Sound don Adrian Sherwood and BBC 1XTRA’s Seani B – and asked to talk through 10 essential UK reggae and dub landmarks. ..."
Red Bull (Video/Audio)

The Tale of Dirty, Old, Leaky Zalinski

Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski sank off the coast of British Columbia in 1946. Full of munitions and fuel, it began leaking oil nearly six decades later.
"An officer aboard the United States Army transport ship Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski described an autumn rainstorm on British Columbia’s north coast as a fluid wall 'so heavy that one could not distinguish rain drops falling.' Even the steel bow of the 76.5-meter ship disappeared from his view. The ship was on a routine mission in 1946 to deliver military and general cargo from Seattle, Washington, to Whittier, Alaska, a 2,500-kilometer voyage north. The crew navigated without radar, an important, but nascent, technology in the Second World War. Instead, they used echoes from the ship’s whistle to indicate proximity to shore in tight passages. The ship found safe anchorage in British Columbia’s Inside Passage—but not for long. ..."
Hakai Magazine (Audio)

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The anti-liberal moment

"Shortly after its post-World War I creation, the foundations of Germany’s Weimar Republic began to quake. In 1923, Hitler staged an abortive coup attempt in Bavaria, the so-called Beer Hall Putsch — a failure that nonetheless turned Hitler into a reactionary celebrity, a sign of German discontent with the post-war political order. One contemporary observer, a legal theorist in his mid-30s named Carl Schmitt, found the seeds of the crisis within the idea of liberalism itself. Liberal institutions like representative democracy, and the liberal ideal that all a nation’s citizens can be treated as political equals, were in his view a sham. Politics at its core is not about compromise between equal individuals but instead conflict between groups. ... Schmitt’s critique of liberalism proved terrifyingly accurate. The struggle between the Nazis and their opponents could not be resolved through parliamentary compromise; the Weimar Republic fell to fascism and took the rest of the continent down with it. ..."
Vox
The Atlantic: Will the Left Go Too Far?

6 of the Most Legendary Grateful Dead Shows That Happened at The Cap 47 Years Ago

"The early 1970s were arguably the most iconic time period for the Grateful Dead. 1971 laid the groundwork for years like 77 and 78. The stage had been set and the band began to experiment, taking the music even further than the formative years of the 60s. It was vital that the band had the right venues, with the right energy, to do this; The Capitol Theatre was one of those venues. Starting February 18, 1971, and ending February 24, 1971, the Grateful Dead played 6 legendary shows at The Cap. These historic shows capture the magic of the Grateful Dead in the early 1970s – purity, passion, musicianship, and fearlessness. The Dead pushed the improvisational boundaries of music and psychedelia in a way that changed live music forever...."
The Capitol Theatre (Video/Audio)

Ron “Pigpen” McKernan

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera (1984)

Wikipedia - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Czech: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history. Although written in 1982, the novel was not published until two years later, in a French translation (as L'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être). The original Czech text was published the following year. The Unbearable Lightness of Being takes place mainly in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It explores the artistic and intellectual life of Czech society from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and three other Warsaw Pact countries and its aftermath. The main characters are: Tomáš, an adulterous surgeon; his wife Tereza, a photographer anguished by her husband's infidelities; Tomáš’s lover Sabina, a free-spirited artist; Franz, a Swiss university professor and lover of Sabina; and finally Šimon, Tomáš’s estranged son from an earlier marriage. ..."
Wikipedia
Guardian - Light but sound: John Banville rereads The Unbearable Lightness of Being
20 Quotes From The Unbearable Lightness of Being To Heal A Broken Heart
New Yorker: The Unbearable Lightness of Being By Milan Kundera and Michael Henry Heim (March 11, 1984)
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Why No One Watches Baseball Anymore

"... This past weekend is not just a snapshot, or an unrepresentative sample. It speaks to a broader problem about the future of the sport. For years, articles bemoaning baseball’s ability to attract a younger audience have shot up like weeds, but in 2019 they have more currency, because we have more data. A recent Gallup poll shows that only 9 percent of people in the United States are listing baseball as their favorite sport. That’s the lowest number since Gallup started asking the question in 1937. Recent statistics also show that ballpark attendance is down in 19 of the 30 stadiums around the league. Camera shots of games being played in front of near empty crowds are now plentiful. There is also the embarrassing spectacle of the sparsely watched Tampa Bay Rays looking to play half their games in Montreal. Baseball also has the oldest average fan base of any of the major sports. ..."
The Nation
Guardian: Baseball no longer a supergiant but it is still the most American of sports
This is why baseball is so white (Video)

When Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947, he ushered in an era of great black players. But the number of African American fans and baseball stars is on the decline.

The Sculptor Who Reconceives Classical Myths

Yoko Kubrick sculpting at her workshop in Pietrasanta, Italy. At right is “Tides” (2019).
"To understand the ethereal sculptures made by the American artist Yoko Kubrick, you have to know your Greek mythology: The quarrels and trysts of those gods and goddesses inform her work just as they’ve inspired sculptors since the Athenian master Phidias, who, in the fifth century B.C., carved anthropomorphic statues of Zeus, Athena and their cohort in fine detail, from their flared nostrils down to their sandaled feet. Kubrick, who works primarily in Tuscany, uses the same milky Italian marbles and handwork techniques as her mostly male predecessors, but to experience her abstract pieces is less to stare into the face of the divine than to encounter three-dimensional renderings of divinity’s ineffable essence. ..."
NY Times
Yoko Kubrick
NY Times: Italy's Marble Mecca (Aug. 8, 1993)
Massimo Galleni - Sculptor in Pietrasanta

Kubrick’s workbench.

From John Cage to Kool Herc: A Brief History of Turntablism

John Cage
"Coined by DJ Babu of the Beat Junkies crew, the term ‘turntablism’ emerged in 1995 to reflect the artistic practices of the hip hop DJ and, specifically, to denote the difference between playing back records and using turntables to manipulate sound. What’s described as turntablism today however, extends beyond hip hop, and its history starts much earlier. In fact the creative use of reproductive technology started early in the development of the equipment. From the mid-to-late 1800s, buyers of cylinder phonographs and graphophones were using the equipment not only to listen to pre-recorded music, but also to make their own vocal and instrumental recordings. ..."
The Vinyl Factory (Video)
A Brief History of Turntablism (Video)
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DJ Grandmaster Flash

Holger Czukay - Cinema (2018)

"'Holger has been probably the best editor with tape I ever came across,' says producer and recording engineer Rene Tinner, who worked closely with his studio partner Czukay from the seventies to the nineties. 'He could have 90 or 100 slices of tape on a table, and he could by magic put them back together with music, perfectly. In that, he was a pure master.' The music in this box set does indeed demonstrate masterful arrangements of sounds and sources, movement and melody, humour and seriousness, that can well be described as magical. It is also a set of unpredictable keys and ciphers, revealing a unique worldview where high artistic rigour meets continual openness to chance and serendipity. In this, Holger not only cut and pasted music, but time, place and mindsets, when such things in popular culture were not only technically near impossible, but virtually unprecedented. ..."
Holland Tunnel Dive
Discogs (Video)
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YouTube: Cinema - CD1 (Anthology), CD2, CD3

2011 September: Can, 2011 February: Plight & Premonition, 2011 June: Persian Love, 2013 October: Flux + Mutability - David Sylvian and Holger Czukay (1989) , 2014 June: Holger Czukay - Der Osten Ist Rot, Rome Remains Rome (1984/7), 2016 March: Invaders Of The Heart - Jah Wobble (1982), 2017 April: Jah Wobble, The Edge, Holger Czukay - Snake Charmer (1983), 2017 June: The Legend Lives On… Jah Wobble In Betrayal (1980), 2017 July: Can - The Singles (2017), 2017 September: Holger Czukay (1938-2017)

This Week’s Sky at a Glance, September 6 – 14

"... Saturday, Sept. 7. Look left of the gibbous Moon at dusk for Saturn, as shown above. Much farther to the Moon's right is brighter Jupiter. Once night is fully dark, can you piece out the Sagittarius Teapot below the Moon and behind its light? Sunday, Sept. 8. Now Saturn glows to the Moon's right at dusk, as shown above. A winter preview: Step out before the first light of dawn this week, and the sky displays the same starry panorama it does at dinnertime around New Year's. Orion is striding up in the southeast, with Aldebaran and then the Pleiades high above it. Sirius sparkles far down below Orion. The Gemini twins are lying on their sides well up in the east. See Bob King's Good Morning, Orion! ..."
Sky and Telescope

America America - Elia Kazan (1963), The Immigrants - Criterion

"... This epic, physical, elemental, almost monomaniacal film is an important touchstone for [Martin] Scorsese, a talisman of the passage from and between the old world of Classical Hollywood and the new, more distinctly personal and modern cinema of such directors as John Cassavetes, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Scorsese’s varied contemporaries in the soon to emerge New Hollywood. Kazan’s film is also a driven tale of the passage from the old world of Europe and Asia Minor to the new, ambivalently cleansing world of America. Kazan’s film itself sits between these opposed and entwined worlds. Its extensive use of European locations in Greece and Turkey (mostly the former due to the Turkish authorities’ objections to Kazan’s choice of locations and subjects), deployment of modish techniques associated with the new waves of Europe such as the jump cut and a more episodic, novelistic narrative structure, dexterous deployment of Haskell Wexler’s lucid and fluid hand-held camera, and reliance on non-professional actors and less well-known faces, all combine to grant the film both a freshness and a sense of grounded authenticity. ..."
sensesofcinema - “People are waiting”: Elia Kazan and America America
W - America America
MoMA
amazon
YouTube: America America, America America - Elia Kazan, The Dance of Vartan

Why President Trump’s Sharpied weather map was likely a crime — and should be

The Best Weather Map - New Yorker
"On Wednesday, President Trump displayed a National Weather Service map in the Oval Office showing Hurricane Dorian’s cone of uncertainty (the probable paths of its center). The map had been crudely altered with a Sharpie to extend the cone into Alabama in an attempt to align the map with the president’s earlier tweet falsely claiming that the hurricane was forecast to hit the state. Social media commentators and late-night talk show hosts mocked #Sharpiegate as an absurd and brazen falsehood that not only flouted reality but also broke the law. That last criticism was news to many. Until this week, few Americans knew that a provision in the U.S. Code titled 'False weather reports' makes it a crime to falsely claim the authority of government weather science. ..."
Washington Post
NY Times: The Real Donald Trump Is a Character on TV
****NY Times: Commerce Chief Threatened Firings at NOAA After Trump’s Dorian Tweets, Sources Say
TIME: President Trump Displays Altered Hurricane Dorian Forecast Chart Showing It Was Expected to Hit Alabama (Video)

President Trump on Wednesday holds a chart showing the original projected track of Hurricane Dorian that appears to have been extended with a black line to include parts of the Florida Panhandle and Alabama.

The Streets of New York - Phil Penman

West Side Highway, New York City, September 14, 2012
"If I was to say what I hope to achieve with my street photography, it would be to keep documenting the ever-changing streets of New York City in all its rat-infested, garbage-piled glory. Perhaps I’m fascinated by all the grime and grit this city has to offer because I grew up in the countryside in the United Kingdom with only the sound of cattle moving in the night. On my path to New York, I’ve done just about everything, working as a street-cleaner, garbage-hauler, milkman, paper delivery boy, Champagne waiter, nightclub barman, DJ, and real-estate broker. I was willing to learn everything and anything, so when I was offered a job as a photographer with a celebrity news agency in New York, I jumped at the opportunity. ..."
NYBooks
Interview: Dynamic Street Shots Document the Quirky Everyday Scenes of New York City
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West Village, New York City, September 15, 2015

American Swamp - Katy Tur / Jacob Soboroff

"Katy Tur and Jacob Soboroff have been talking to each other since they were teenagers growing up around Los Angeles. Now MSNBC audiences will get to see them discuss what are likely to be much more serious subjects. The two NBC News journalists will lead the new four-part MSNBC documentary series 'American Swamp,' which launches Sunday, July 28 at 9 p.m. Each week, the duo will travel across the United States and examine areas of political dysfunction. In the first broadcast, Tur and Soboroff journey to Arizona and Montana to look at how big money influences local elections. In another, they examine who has influence at Mar-A-Lago, the Florida club controlled by President Donald Trump. ..."
Variety
MSNBC: American Swamp (Video)
NY Times: Why Has Trump’s Exceptional Corruption Gone Unchecked?
YouTube: American Swamp: Following The Dark Money Buying Our Elections | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

Music of Ethiopia

Wikipedia - "The music of Ethiopia is extremely diverse, with each of Ethiopia's ethnic groups being associated with unique sounds. distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with characteristically long intervals between some notes. The music of the Ethiopian Highlands uses a fundamental modal system called qenet, of which there are four main modes: tezeta, bati, ambassel, and anchihoy. ... From the 1950s to the 1970s, Ethiopian popular musicians included Mahmoud Ahmed, Alemayehu Eshete, Hirut Bekele, Ali Birra, Ayalew Mesfin, Kiros Alemayehu, Muluken Melesse and Tilahun Gessesse, while popular folk musicians included Alemu Aga, Kassa Tessema, Ketema Makonnen, Asnaketch Worku, and Mary Armede. Perhaps the most influential musician of the period, however, was Ethio-jazz innovator Mulatu Astatke. Amha Records, Kaifa Records, and Philips-Ethiopia were prominent Ethiopian record labels during this era. ..."
Wikipedia
The 10 Best Ethio-Jazz Tracks, according to Hejira (Video)
An introduction to Ethio-Jazz in 10 records (Video)
NY Times: In Ethiopia’s Capital, a Resurgent Jazz Scene (Video)


2016 January: New York–Addis–London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965–1975, 2017 March: Mulatu Astatke - Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974, 2018 March: Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information (2009), 2018 March: Ernesto Chahoud presents TAITU - Soul-fuelled Stompers from 1960s - 1970s Ethiopia

Interview: Designer Restores Beloved 19th-Century Botanical Catalog and Places It Online

Water Lily tribe
"Designer Nicholas Rougeux has spent the last year combining his love for data visualization with his tech skills to lovingly restore and place 19th-century texts online. After the success of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours and the geometry tome Byrne’s Euclid, Rougeux is tackling a new topic—botanical illustration. After scouring the internet for different 19th-century botanical catalogs, Rougeux set his sights on Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants by Elizabeth Twining. This 1868 two-volume catalog is the second edition of a work first published in 1849 (volume 1) and 1855 (volume 2). The rare first edition can go for upward of £40,000 (about $49,000), but luckily for Rougeux, the second edition is available for consultation online at the Internet Archive (volume 1, volume 2) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. ..."
My Modern Met

Scan of the Camellia tribe and description from the 1868 edition

scanner - Unearthly Powers (2019)

"A little unreleased work from a forthcoming album. I was given access to tapes by a famous deceased British writer, and amongst recordings of his messages and notes were examples of him playing the piano. I took one of these hissy ancient portable cassette recordings and put it through the Make Noise Morphagene sampler and Strymon Magneto. In many ways the Morphagene and Magneto emulate old tape recorder technology. What you hear here is the slowly decaying material, disappearing into the distance, as the tapes collapse."
soundcloud (Audio)

2012 October: Scanner, 2015 December: Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), 2017 September: The Great Crater (2017), 2018 January: Podcast 523: Scanner