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#CDFriday
David Keenan/Paul Hession - BJs Breakfast CDr no label 2009
#jazzsky @reversediorama.bsky.social
Front cover of CD A blue shipping container aka BJs Breakfast near Huddersfield. COLD SNACKS HOT SNACKS BJS BREAKFAST painted in lighter blue on the outside. White CD fold out sleeve, text in black reads: David Keenan - Alto Saxophone Paul Hession - Drum set Track 1 - Cold Snacks Track 2 - Hot Snacks Recorded and mixed by Pete Coward at The Old Blue Last, Sharedtch, London in October 2007. BJs Breakfast Container is a roadside eating establishment near Huddersfield Photo: Paul Hession 2009 Keenan / Hession CDs by Capstore Ltd, Leeds BUs Breakfast is the first document of the high-energy free jazz duo of drummer Paul Hession and alto saxophonist David Keenan Recorded Ive in London during their first UK tour in October 2007, the music is completely improvised, drawing on Hession's extensive experience in jazz and improvised sound and Keenan's background in punk primitive noise and free folk. Hession and Keenan met in early 2007 and instantly bonded over a shared love of balls-to-the-wall energy, DIY folk art and the expressive power of spontaneous creation. Hession's relentlessly questing drumming style works in waves of polyrhythmic force, exploding linear approaches to form with cymbal work that sparkles like electricity and a tonal approach to the kit that would confuse harmony and time. Keenan plays all the way up inside the saxophone's most phantom registers, working modulated feedback tones and snatches of distorted folk melody into explosive love cries. On BJs Breakfast, Hession and Keenan simultaneously bolster and blow-apart the outlaw tradition of muscular UK free jazz CD inner sleeve and CD. A painting of an English fry up breakfast, a teapot, a mug of tea and a fork.
February 6, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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cowsarejustfood.bsky.social
william s. burroughs: commissioner of sewers

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William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers (1991)
YouTube video by RAY CATHODE
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February 5, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Aberdeen busker Dod Copeland, Union Terrace & Union Street, 1991.

Pic: Flickr | citizenswaine
February 4, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Caledonia Psychedelica: A little Substack on the Waldman Brothers who changed Scotland's nightlife forever - and created London's hippest underground club, Middle Earth.
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Caledonia Psychedelica : How One of London's Premiere Underground Clubs of the 1960s Was Run From Edinburgh.
Caledonia Psychedelica: How One of London’s Premier Underground Clubs of the 1960s Was Run from Edinburgh — and How Its Owners Changed Scotland’s Nightlife Forever
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February 1, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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@gianttank.bsky.social was interviewed for Into the Noise, great wee podcast with some other interesting episodes.. give it a wee listen eh 🥰❤️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
EP18 Ali Robertson
Podcast Episode · Into the Noise · 02/02/2026 · 1h 29m
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February 2, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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slackemperor.bsky.social
The Best of Sesame Street ®️
1987 Children's Television Network 🅿️©️
Golden ®️
#cassunday
Side One track list - Sesame Street Theme/ ABC-DEF-GHI/ Somebody Come And Play/Rubber Duckie/ Sing/The Commandments of Health/"C" is for Cookie/What Do I Do When I'm Alone? (the cassette is yellow)
February 1, 2026 at 3:45 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#cassunday
Vodka Soap /Acid Eagle - Shadow Watcher Meditations (2 x cassette)
Heavy Tapes 2006
Numbered edition of 100.
Spencer Clark on one tape and James Ferraro on the other #skaters
A cassette case with a blurred photocopied image of jungle vegetation, a clear cassette with a white label 90/10O written in black ink on the bottom right of the label, a black and white maze patterned cassette insert with black type reading vodka soap- shadow watcher meditations covering calls of shadow watchers the unnamable A cassette case with a blurred photocopied black and white cover, a clear cassette with a vanilla label 90/10O written in black ink on the bottom right of the label, a black and white cassette insert with ACID EAGLE MUSIC BY JAMES FERRARO RECORDED IN CALIFORNIA JANUARY-MARCH 2005 THANKS TO MY MAIN MAN MIKE AND MY MAIN GIRL MAYA Cassette cover with black and white patterned insert HEAVY TAPES written in white capital letters on black. Cassette cover with black and white patterned insert HEAVY TAPES written in white capital letters on black.
February 1, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Sony #MiniDisk night in… the player still works… two shoe boxes of disks from late 90s onwards: shared LPs, demos & forgotten radio shows… #GillesPeterson #Coil #C93 #JohnZorn et al… could be a long night… some old school mates may recognize their hand writing @mrjohn23.bsky.social ;-)
January 31, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: The CCA is "No longer able to continue operating and is entering liquidation."

Tomorrow we're publishing the inside story of how it all went wrong for the arts organisation - read our first report and sign up below 👇
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-liquidat...
The CCA goes bust, entering liquidation
All staff are being made redundant and operations are ceasing with “immediate effect”
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 2:45 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
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jelbugle.bsky.social j-e-l @jelbugle.bsky.social · 7d
Slightly overwhelmed by the peak late 00’s-ness of this Of Montreal extreme gatefold CD #CDFriday
An Of Montreal CD / folded out to a psychedelic mess of colours - mainly flowers and jaw mouthed creatures
January 30, 2026 at 1:29 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#CDFriday
Ken Hyder’s Talisker -Dreaming of Glenisla
Reel Recordings CD 2007
#jazzsky
Front cover of CD. Colour photograph of ‘Dougal’ a white haired Highland Terrier seated on grass with his tongue sticking out. Artist and album title names in white text. Back cover of CD Black text on white reads: :KEN HYDER'S TALISKER Davie Webster~Alto Saxophone; John Rangecroft ~ Tenor/Clarinet Lindsay Cooper & Marc Megiddo ~ Bass; Ken Hyder ~ Drums 1 ~ Dreaming of Glenisla 2 ~ Diddlin' for the Bairns & Lament for Dairmid* 3 ~ Drum Salute & Lament for Mal Dean** 4 ~ Mrs. Macleod Raasay* & Soldier's Song* 5 ~ Ca the Yows* 6 ~ Mingulay Boat Song* 7 ~ Heel an' Toe, Foot an' Moo' 8 ~ Homeward 9 ~ He Mandu* 10 ~ Tha Cu Ban Againn*** 11~ The Black Bear* Additional Recordings London, February 24, 1976 All compositions Ken Hyder * Trad. Arr. Hyder **Hyder/Webster * **Hyder/Rangecroft All titles registered PRS/MCPS Recorded by Dave Ruffell,Saturn Studios, Worthing, June 14,15, 1975 Mixed by Dave Ruffell & Ken Hyder with assistance from Paul Deeley Tracks one through eight remastered from an audiophile vinyl transfer Special thanks to John Cavanaugh for preservation and perseverance Tube remastered in real time Glass mastered in real time Produced in Canada by Michael King Sound advice by Miki Dandy ©️Ken Hyder 2007 ©️Reel Recordings 2007 Black and white CD in gatefold digipack on right. White text on green on left reads: In the past few years, individuals in Talisker have been playing largely American influenced music. But a couple of years ago we realized that so much of our own traditional music was being overlooked by everyone, including ourselves. On this album we're getting back to these roots, and playing off the emotion of Scottish music. But that feeling isn't exclusive to the Celtic people. It's there in the blues, in African music, jazz, street funk, and people's nusic throughout the universe. And in particular, in the playing f John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Sonny Rollins, The Meters, the urundi people, Pipe Major John Burgess, the Black Watch Pipe Band, and the women of Skye. I hope we've done them justice. Ken Hyder Talisker's mascot and cover dog, Dougal. Album photography and design by Ray Smith. Mixed by Dave Ruffell and Ken Hyder with assistance from Paul Deeley. PRODUCED BY KEN HYDER Gatefold sleeve, black and white head shot photos of a hirsute Ken Hyder facing the camera on the left and a 4 panel composition of black and white profile head shots of the rest of the band.
January 30, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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maltlicknursery.bsky.social
GRAIN Presents:

Rhodri Davies / Theodora Laird (Duo) + Caius Williams / Rory Salter / Theo Guttenplan (Trio) + Zheng Hao / Mark Wastell (Duo)

Cafe OTO. Thursday 29 January 2026, 7.30pm
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/grain...
January 29, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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Masayuki Takayanagi and the Refusal of Jazz Comfort
The Japanese guitarist rejected tradition, turning jazz into a raw confrontation with sound itself.
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January 26, 2026 at 10:01 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#CDFriday
Hototogisu - Ghosts From The Sun
2xCDr Rural Electrification Program OR Heavy Blossom 2004 (Not sure which version this is. Hand delivered by Heather Leigh at the MV & EE Medicine Show/Taurpis Tula/Samara Lubelski gig at The Albany, London 2004 in the very early days of Volcanic Tongue).
Front cover. Hand coloured abstract patterned sleeve in red,blue, green, black and purple. Acetate Insert reads: Hototogisu Ghosts from the Sun Back cover. Hand coloured abstract patterned sleeve in red,blue, green, black and purple.
January 23, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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boomkat.com
Lagos’ cultural cartographer Adey Omotade with a striking debut of Afro-ambient club music steeped in polyrhythmic tradition and weft with gently psychoactive texturing, like some missing link between Dego, Ndagga Rhythm Force, Emeka Ogboh x 23 Skidoo

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January 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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maltlicknursery.bsky.social
Brion Gysin - Dreamachine

The first ever reissue for Brion Gysin's cult recordings, produced by Ramuntcho Matta in the 80s and early 90s.
Featuring Steve Lacy on saxophone

Vinyl/Digital
Releases March 13, 2026
wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/album/dreama...
January 22, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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sherricola.bsky.social
via Mississippi Records a long time ago
January 22, 2026 at 4:10 AM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
Follow the signs….
#dominatethecarcass
A sticker in the toilets at Cafe Oto. Red capitalised text on white reads: DOMINATE THE CARCASS
January 22, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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wristroom.bsky.social
When i hear the word "obvious" I like to take a moment to think about all the people to whom it wasn't
January 20, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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gianttank.bsky.social
The KLF’s Bill Drummond was in the room with us when this was recorded. He picked up an acoustic guitar, thought about playing it, watched us for a few minutes, then sloped off out of the door.
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#cassunday
USURPER WITH ALEX DROOL, MAYA DUNIETZ, ERAN SACHS AND ILAN VOLKOV S/T cassette 2016
TUTORE BURLATO #16
White cassette cover with 2 abstract (ie I have no idea what they are) line drawings. Inner cassette cover: White with black upper case text which reads: USURPER /ALI ROBERTSON AND MALCY DUFF, ALEX DROOL, MAYA DUNIETZ, ERAN SACHS AND ILAN VOLKOV RECORDED AT MAYA AND ILAN’S HOUSE, MARCH 2011 ARTWORK BY MALCY DUFF
January 18, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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adriaandthepriors.bsky.social Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 20d
You can tell by the eyes.
JOE Researchers find cocaine in every single shrimp tested in England's waterways Source | University of Suffolk
January 17, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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maltlicknursery.bsky.social
The Revolutionary Ensemble playing in a house in New York, May 1971. Photo by Val Wilmer
January 17, 2026 at 12:18 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#CDFriday
Directing Hand - Beast In
Time-Lag Records CDr 2007
copy 121/150
Front cover of CD. Textured white/vanilla card cover. Black and white collage. A woman with long black hair holding and looking into a small hand mirror with a skull on the back. Her eyes are whited out and she has black stripes on her face. There are fragments of text around her and a patterned shape coming from/entering her forehead. BEAST IN is written in black capitalised text Iin the top right corner. Back cover of CD: Black text in a mixture of upper/lower case letters reads: DIRECTING HAND - “BEAST IN” KAREN ConSTaNCE, DAVid KeeNAN, ALEX NEILSOn, DYLAN NyoUKIS, BEN REYNOIDS & PHiL tODD aRt by DyLaN tEXT by nEMO THANKS TO: KeNNY, BArrY, IisA, NemO. HEAtHeR & BeN TIME-LAG RECORDS
January 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM