A wonderful piece by Jon Cleary.
Remembering D'Angelo
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A wonderful piece by Jon Cleary.
Remembering D'Angelo
open.substack.com/pub/jonclear...
My Music Film Festival will have a one-week run in Osaka from November 24th. These are all really good films, which you probably won't get a chance to see other than here.
An Osaka concert for Salif Keita has been announced for September 26th at Namba Hatch.
Salif Keitaの東京公演が9/22に急に決まりました！
www.schoolivebar.com?schedule/&ex...
Interesting piece on the plunging birthrate and associated topics.
‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...
Some years ago at a DJ event at Saijōji, a temple near Odawara, I was given a present of this tea made in Hakone, which was delicious. Yesterday I was DJing at the Minyō Crusaders gig in Yokosuka, and a lady from the temple gig brought a whole box!! Many many thanks from all of us!
The English version of the website for this year's Music Film Festival is up and running: pbmff.jp/english.html
Please disregard the visual which for some reason accompanies this post!
This is streaming now, unfortunately not here in Japan, but if you can see it please do!
A good opinion piece from today's paper.
Why Jimmy Lai’s persecution should worry Japan www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...
Next Friday (8/22) from 4pm at the Yokohama Bay Hotel, I'll be MCing a session at TICAD, featuring short performances of music from Zimbabwe (Japanese mbira player), Burkina Faso and Senegal. It's open to anyone, and free to get in, but you need to register in advance and bring photo ID.
I saw him in a pub in London during a business trip once, in the late '70s. Wow! That's a gig I'll never forget. RIP.
What more can you say?
音楽映画祭のクラウドファンディングに参加してくれた皆さんのお陰で、ラスト・スパートで300万円を超えることができました。ありがとうございます！
数日中にプログラムを決めて、できるだけ早く発表します。
音楽映画祭のクラウドファンディングは、気がついたら今日が最終日、後9時間あまりで終了します。
お陰さまで、後一歩で300万円....よろしくお願いいたします！
camp-fire.jp/projects/860...
It was touch and go after the tsunami warning yesterday, but I'll be DJing as planned at Oasis in Hayama this evening. There will also be a nyabinghi drummer!
葉山・森戸海岸の海の家オアシスは今日、通常営業。
今晩予定通りDJします。
"a system built on torture, murder, and repression"
The Burmese military are some of the nastiest people on the face of the earth.
今日配信されたこれは素晴らしい！最初のデモや大学仲間に記録された初期ヴァージョンから完成したアルバムまでがよく分かります。
open.spotify.com/album/6Ltprt...
Writen by a Jewish socialist about Zionists in 1886
Bon voyage!
Yup, that's it.
Nice description!
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後8日しかないので大きな挑戦ではありますが、音楽映画祭のクラウドファンディングの目標を伸ばして500万円を目指します。新たなリターンもあります。https://camp-fire.jp/projects/860290/view
Classic!
o-hisashiburi!
EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’
Watch the seismic waves from today's magnitude 7.3 Alaska earthquake ripple across seismic stations in North America.
More ➡️ loom.ly/kaJp5I0
Really interesting piece. I loved his voice, but was unaware of most of this content.
Philippé Wynne, Housewrecker open.substack.com/pub/tonysche...
Yes, that would be the version on his first album, I think. I don't remember about the other sounds, but it's definitely faster, more rock-influenced.
