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Observations of Deviance

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"Observations of Deviance has become a Wire deadline weekend staple." The Wire (UK) David Mittleman DJ @wfmu.bsky.social Vinyl collector Writing @ We Jazz Magazine https://wfmu.org/playlists/OV

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 5d

New episode archived @wfmu.bsky.social

Sasquatch Landslide: The Dwarfs of East Agouza Interview

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Fatherflot @fatherflot.bsky.social · 37m

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 4h

Nusantara Beat - Tamat (Live video)

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Nusantara Beat - Tamat (Live video)

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 5d

New episode archived @wfmu.bsky.social

Sasquatch Landslide: The Dwarfs of East Agouza Interview

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 6h

"Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2" is the next album by @melvingibbs.bsky.social released by @hausumountain.bsky.social on Oct 14. It's excellent and well worth your time.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 6h

On the next episode

Amasia / Anamibia Sessions: Melvin Gibbs Interview

Sat, Oct 11, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 6h

On the next episode

Amasia / Anamibia Sessions: Melvin Gibbs Interview

Sat, Oct 11, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social

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Oren Ambarchi_Black Truffle @orenambarchi.bsky.social · 16h

Out today on Black Truffle a mindblowing early 90s archival release from Keiji Haino’s NIJIUMU project. Mysterious sonorities & free-floating melodies bathed in reverb that occasionally erupt into violence. Also includes an ahead-of-its-time scorcher from 1973. Limited 2LP+digital: shorturl.at/bnIFI

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Montréal Antifasciste @montrealantifa.bsky.social · 19h

"One thing to make clear at the outset, when describing antifascist activity, is that the vast majority of it is nonviolent. In fact, antifascism is a defensive posture—it rises as fascism rises, and falls as fascism falls, in a well-documented pattern that has lasted for decades."

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21h

in case you want some non bullshit about antifa here is something i wrote

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We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa

This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 19h

FYI "Bryan" @byroncoley.bsky.social

NOW JAZZ NOW
100 Essential Free Jazz
& Improvisation Recodings
1960-80
Neneh Cherry, Joe McPhee
"Bryan Coley," Mats Gustafsson & Thurston Moore

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 19h

NOW JAZZ NOW
100 Essential Free Jazz
& Improvisation Recodings
1960-80

Neneh Cherry, Joe McPhee
Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson & Thurston Moore

www.ecstaticpeace.net/now-jazz-now

Opening the pages of NOW JAZZ NOW will drop you into the ravenous mind of the insatiable Free Jazz and Free Improvisation record collector.

Here are the infamous and rarified recordings that challenged, advanced and, many times, polarized, the orthodoxy of a music defined by beauty, struggle, and the pure essence of inspiration.

Featuring images of albums, singles, and cassettes direct from the authors’ personal archives in all their loving wear and tear, along with Philippe Gras’ exquisite photos of Free Music legends, this is a book for all adventurous lovers of creative sound, whether they be record collectors, avant-garde Jazz enthusiasts, students of radical culture, or simply curiosity-seekers in wonder to this music’s illustrious history and lineage.

The three authors, music writer Byron Coley and musicians Mats Gustafsson and Thurston Moore, share a life-long mutual obsession to record collecting with a distinct focus on the recorded history of Free Music.

Compiling their personal archives with a long-running discussion and debate of which recordings could be considered within a list of more than one-hundred releases, they have decided on presenting the works in chronologic order, realizing the music to be preternaturally noncompetitive, non-hierarchical, and of equal value.

The gleanings of Gustafsson, Moore, and Coley along with the words of legendary musicians Neneh Cherry and Joe McPhee, will enlighten, delight, amuse, and bemuse all who enter their enthralled streams of appreciation, perception, and, most importantly, unbridled respect and regard for a universe of music devoted to the dignity of freedom and the holistic vibrations of spiritual unity

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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 20h

Hey man it's great that you don't take AIPAC money but it's easy to do that without hanging with a well-known virulently anti-semitic conspiracy theorist and holocaust minimizer

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 21h

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 22h

Have a safe journey!

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 22h

The Mark Bray situation is so completely fucked right now and if you're a journalist you need to start saying how it's fucked because you're fucking next. They won't stop at academics.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 22h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 22h

Volume Three of the excellent Öppet series via Caprice Records. Deep archival Free Jazz from Sweden, curated by Mats Gustafsson, highly recommended. #vinyl

Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 23h

Just Landed #Vinyl From Sweden

Öppet Tre
by Roland Keijser Kvartett
(Caprice 2025)

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Sweden's late '60s creative explosion saw Roland Keijser's quartet forge unprecedented music, bridging American free jazz, minimal composition, and Swedish folk heritage. These lost Öppet Tre recordings capture a pivotal moment when Swedish musicians created sounds never heard before
Stellar Tip! In Sweden's late '60s creative explosion, when free jazz collided with folk traditions and experimental impulses ran wild, Roland Keijser and his quartet were creating something unprecedented. These lost recordings from Öppet Tre capture a pivotal moment when Swedish musicians were building bridges between American free jazz, minimal composition, and their own folk heritage—creating music that had never been heard before, anywhere. The Roland Keijser Kvartett existed in that magical space where jazz hadn't yet been institutionalized. Roland Keijser on tenor sax and clarinet, Torsten Eckerman splitting time between trumpet and piano, Staffan Sjöholm making his bass sing folk melodies and abstract poetry, Bosse Skoglund behind the kit—this was collective music-making at its most pure and revolutionary.

Under the Öppet series, Caprice Music is excavating these buried treasures with archaeological precision and true believers' passion. Working with Mats Gustafsson and archivist Roger Bergner, they're pulling these 1968-69 Stockholm sessions from Swedish vaults like musical archaeologists discovering lost civilizations. What made Keijser dangerous was his refusal to choose sides. While American free jazz was declaring war on melody and European improvisers got lost in intellectualism, this Swedish visionary wove folk melodies into abstract soundscapes like a musical shaman. You can hear Don Cherry's pocket trumpet bleeding into ancient Nordic scales, Albert Ayler's holy ghost saxophone speaking in tongues while traditional Swedish fiddle tunes dance around the edges.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 1d

Me too, even though many of the tracks are new to me. Still interesting to hear the musicians talk about how their music came to be.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 1d

"Following the release of TLOAS, Bloomberg updated their estimate of Taylor’s wealth and said—as of October 2025—she now worth over $2 billion. Which is up $1 billion from just two years ago."

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It’s Official: After ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ Taylor Swift Is Worth Over $2 Billion

We’d like to think we’ve contributed a decent amount to her fortune, TYVM.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 1d

Comprehensive
by Joe Morris / Tyshawn Sorey / Peter Evans
(Fundacja Słuchaj 2025)

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Comprehensive, by Joe Morris / Tyshawn Sorey / Peter Evans

4 track album

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Dan Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 1d

I really have no idea and have done no research, but it certainly rings true.

Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 1d

I agree 100% And, sorry Swifties, that includes Taylor Swift.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

It's categorically impossible to be an ethical billionaire and I will die on that hill forever.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 1d

I agree 100% And, sorry Swifties, that includes Taylor Swift.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

It's categorically impossible to be an ethical billionaire and I will die on that hill forever.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

How Mark Bray, author of the book on antifa, was targeted with death threats:

— Trump signs EO designating antifa as terrorists
— DHS memo warns about "antifa-aligned" individuals
— Far-right trolls target Bray on X
— TPUSA treasurer launches petition against Bray

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He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 2d

West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up Serpents”

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