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Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · 12d

NEW MUSIC by ME.

A weird mix of clarinet, synths, vocals and tape recordings.

Please listen if you have a spare moment in yr busy day. Pass it on if you like it.

monstercave.bandcamp.com/album/i-will...

I Will Come Back, by rew

monstercave.bandcamp.com

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · 17d

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Six-Hundred and Eight - Mansfield Park, Jane Austen.

"" We shall probably see much to wish altered in her, and must prepare ourselves for gross ignorance, some meanness of opinions, and very distressing vulgarity of manner ...""

Austen again. Fantastic and funny as usual.

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · 27d

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Six-Hundred and Seven - Valis, Philip K. Dick.

"I am, by profession, a science fiction writer. I deal in fantasies. My life is a fantasy."

Fantasies have a lot to answer for. This is a rollicking and very entertaining bok.

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Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · 27d

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Six-Hundred and Six - The Dyer's Hand, W.H. Auden.

"To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally."

A wonderful mind.

Going to the Friend's House, by Andrew Bentley

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Sep 5

A wistful and sentimental mood rearranged to blast you towards futures unknown.

All life is here. All pasts and tomorrows reborn, re-energised.

trash panda qc @trashpandaqc.bsky.social · Sep 5

catch my new remix of @andybley.bsky.social for #BandcampFriday / #FairTradeMusicFriday!

alongside friends @rbxbx.computer.gay, @doktorb.bsky.social , @dbapplegate.bsky.social, Body Nostril, and more 🔗🤿🤌

immigrantbreastnest.bandcamp.com/album/going-...

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Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 25

So much fantastic musiks! So little time to hear it all!

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 24

ThankYOU for taking the sounds to another dimension! Magnificent work!

Going to the Friend's House, by Andrew Bentley

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 24

Fresh and raw. By turns, gritty and psychedelic, wistful and pounding. Strange, wonderful and mind-blowing. It's like listening to a great mixtape and you can't wait to hear what the next track will sound like because all the sounds are so fresh and interesting.

coffin fit ⚰️ @rbxbx.computer.gay · Aug 22

hello! i (lilienfeld) have a track on this remix comp that just came out, and there's a bunch of other good stuff on there too, peep! immigrantbreastnest.bandcamp.com/album/going-...

Politics on Trial 100th Anniversary Special: Franz Kafka’s The Trial

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Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Six-Hundred and Five - Milton's Grand Style, Christopher Ricks.

"To me, Milton is a great poet ... comparable as it is to Shakespeare and Dante."

Why did Milton need defending? Well, it seems he did. And that
spurred Ricks to write this grand book.

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 22

Kafka is so endlessly re-interpretable.
I was just listening to this yesterday, about The Trial, and Kafka in general. Might be worth a listen. The TV series 'Severance' gets drawn into the discussion of what could be considered 'Kafkaesque'.

---> www.ppfideas.com/episodes/pol...

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https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/politics-on-trial-100th-anniversary-special%3A-franz-kafka’s-the-trial

Going to the Friend's House, by Andrew Bentley

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 22

My song "Going to the Friend's House" (mostly clarinet and vocals) gets remixed. Not once, but six times. With fantastical and fascinating results.

David B. Applegate @dbapplegate.bsky.social · Aug 22

New one from label Immigrant Breast Nest. This time? remixes of @andybley.bsky.social 's hit "Going to the Friend's House." Blurred, smeared, chopped, screwed, you name it, we did it to this track, a collective creative outburst.
immigrantbreastnest.bandcamp.com/album/going-...

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Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Six-Hundred and Four - Volcanic Tongue, David Keenan.

"Beyond meaning, outside the realm of language, there is no past and no future, hence rock music's obsession with the immediacy of experience, with the now."

A beautiful, wonderful, life-affirming read.

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Six-hundred and Three - Voices of the Old Sea, Norman Lewis.

"Life had always been hard - an existence pared to the bone - and local opinion was that it was getting harder, purely because mysterious changes in the sea were directing fish elsewhere."

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Six-Hundred and Two - A Time in Rome, Elizabeth Bowen.

"Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. Substantiality comes through touch and smell, and taste, and tastes of different dusts."

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Six-Hundred and One - Careless Love, Peter Guralnick.

"This is a story of fame. It is a story of celebrity and consequences. It is, I think, a tragedy."

The second part of this massive, amazing, awesome, tale of strange, extraordinary life.

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 9

The cat remains inscrutable. So lovely.

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Six Hundred - Pariah Genius, Iain Sinclair.

"Memory is contained in architecture: doors, walls, high ceilings. secret spaces without names."

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 4

it's so funny. and trippy.

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Nine - Dedalus, Chris McCabe.

"Stephen caught his scornwet eyes and waited. Mulligan's head dipped and resurfaced. silver rivulets of water raced along his plumpwet frame. Wellfed jowls smiled back at him."

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Eight - Another Country, James Baldwin.

"For to remember Leona was also - somehow - to remember the eyes of his mother, the rage of his father, the beauty of his sister."

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Seven - Helene Cixous, Nicholas Royle.

Royle is amazing.

"There is immense tenderness and generosity in Cixous's writing. At the same time there is a constant challenge to the reader to aspire to thinking what he or she has perhaps never previously thought."

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Six - Hamlet in Purgatory, Stephen Greenblatt.

"... Shakespeare achieves the remarkable effect of a nebulous infection, a bleeding of the spectral into the secular and the secular into the spectral."

Andrew Bentley @andybley.bsky.social · Jul 21

I want to hear it echooooing out in a huge stadium. Like, instead of that Oasis who are all over my bloody facebok.