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Recent Listening

  • Hiromi's Sonicwonder: OUT THERE (2025)
  • Jon Hassell: Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street (2009)
  • Nick Bärtsch's Ronin: Live (2012)
  • Lucy Railton: Blue Veil (2025)
  • Jon Hassell: Aka/Darbari/Java (1983)
  • Can: The Lost Tapes (2012)
  • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Works, perf. Adademie für Alte Musik Berlin (2005)
  • Gaiko: Gaiko (2025)
  • Gazelle Twin: Black Cab (2025)
  • Don Cherry: Orient (1973)
  • J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 140/Magnificat BWV 243, perf. Münchener Bach-Chor und -Orchester, Richter (1987)
  • Laura Nyro: Angel in the Dark (2001)
  • Patricia Brennan Septet: Breaking Stretch (2024)
  • Michael Finnissy: Alternative Reading, perf. Marsyas Trio/Lotte Betts-Dean/Joseph Havlat (2024)
  • Bennie Maupin : The Jewel in the Lotus (1974)
  • Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (1970)
  • Julian Priester: Love, Love (1974)
  • Olivier Messiaen: Fete Des Belles Eaux, perf. Ensemble d'Ondes de Montreal (2008)
  • Masahiko Togashi: Session in Paris Vol. 1, Song of Soil (1979)
  • Alice Coltrane: Lord of Lords (1972)
  • Yo La Tengo: Old Joy (2025)
  • Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping (1968)
  • Vera Bremerton: Only Women Bleed (2019)
  • The Brian Setzer Orchestra: The Dirty Boogie (1998)
  • Ghazi & Boom.Diwan x Arturo O'Farrill: Live in the Khaleej! (2025)

Recent reading

  • Patrick J. Deneen: Why Liberalism Failed
  • Ford Madox Ford: Parade's End
  • Louis MacNeice: The Burning Perch
  • Ted Gioia: Music to Raise the Dead
  • William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 1
  • Claire Dederer: Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
  • Kim Gordon: Girl in a Band
  • Caitlin Horrocks: The Vexations
  • David Goodhart: The Care Dilemma - Caring Enough in the Age of Sex Equality
  • Neal Stephenson: Polostan
  • Adrian Tchaikovsky: Terrible Worlds, Revolutions
  • Aristophanes: The Birds (trans. Barrett)
  • Nate Chinen: Playing Changes - Jazz for the New Century
  • Ed Conway: Material World - A Substantial History of Our Past and Future
  • David Musgrave: Lambda
  • Miles Cameron: Artifact Space
  • Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time
  • Plato: The Republic, Books 1 & 7, trans Grube
  • Plato: The Last Days of Socrates, trans Tredennick
  • Dan Charnas: Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm