Il Comitato Verità per Aldo organizza un presidio il 27 febbraio alle ore 9:00, di fronte al tribunale vecchio di Perugia.

Grazia Zuffa torna sulla lotta boliviana contro la proibizione della foglia di coca per la rubrica di Fuoriluogo per il Manifesto del 22 febbraio 2012,

Sostenere il Manifesto e aderire a Forum Droghe. Due piccoli gesti prima che tutto ci travolga.

The Bad Boys! George Antheil, Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein - Steffen Schleiermacher, pianoHat Now 1994Today is the 10th anniversary of the passing away of Leo Ornstein at the astonishing age of 109 years.Notes from the booklet (enclosed):It is Antheil- Futurist, Vorticist, self-made enfent terrible of the 1920's avant-garde who provides a name for this co […]

Toru Takemitsu-VARIOUS KEYBOARD WORKS (Decca/Head) 1974Today is the 16th anniversary of the passing of Toru Takemitsu at the age of 65 years,4 months.notes excerpted from the insert (enclosed):"In a positive sense, for me the activity of composing consists in creating an environment where sounds can meet dramatically". To the listener educated in w […]

Today is David Murray's 57th Birthday.This album was recorded in 1978, when he was only 23 years old. It has all the qualities of his early work- The adventurous soloing, the compositions falling somewhere between the smoke-and-grit "down-home"ness of Charles Mingus and the abstract, seemingly familiar folkyness of Albert Ayler.Murray's s […]

Massacre - Killing Time (OAO/Celluloid) 1981Today is Fred Frith's 63rd Birthday.Album cover has no notes to speak of. This info from wiki:Guitarist Fred Frith, who was a co-founder of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow, moved to New York City in 1979 after Henry Cow split up. There he met and began performing with bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fr […]

Today is the 53rd anniversary of the passing away of George Antheil, at the age of 58 years.He was born July 8, 1900.Here are the cover notes in their entirety:Having heard some, but by no means all, of Antheil's later work, I have to strongly disagree with the beginning of the closing paragraph above. These works are, while perhaps simpler in their str […]

The Sounds of Nature: A Walk in the Forest released on CD in 1993It's been a bit long between nature sounds posts. I hope to do this weekly again sometime soon. Enjoy a nice stroll in the forest.From the liner notes:Our walk begins serenely, with the soothing melodies of Sparrows and Mourning Doves, Robins and Blackbirds. Listen carefully, and soon you […]

Syrinx-SYRINX (True North) 1970The birth pangs of electronic music within pop were often tentative affairs. Bands like the Fifty Foot Hose and the Silver Apples had to absorb such obtuse luminaries as Karlheinz Stockhausen or Morton Subotnick and then attempt to incorporate their complex ideas into the rather simple guitar/bass/drum rock idiom. By the sevent […]

Sun Ra and his Arkestra - HORIZON (Saturn Records 1972)Sometime in the mid-late 1980's I was lucky to be in attendance for a talk and performanceby Sun Ra and his Arkestra in front of a small audience.After the talk I went along to a privateparty for the Arkestra, where I was fortunate to sit (literally) at the feet of the Master.At one point during thi […]

Marius Constant / Karlheinz Stockhausen-14 STATIONS / ZYKLUS(Erato STU 70603) 1972?Today would have been Marius Constant's 87th Birthday.He died 15th May, 2004, aged 79.The (rather spare) cover notes are in French, and I dare not risk the translating of technical terms.Since I couldn't find anything much online, you're stuck with my two bits w […]

Today is Alice Cooper's 64th Birthday.First, A True Story:When I was a youngster in 1975 or so, I used to have to go to church on Sunday mornings. Mostly it was just Sunday-School; United Church style- which is to say; a pretty loose affair.I used to enjoy exploring the innards and hidden places in the Church: The teeny hallways, small doors, and windey […]