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Rachel
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · Jan 31
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 2h
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 7h
I can see how that would be life highlight! Very jealous. 😊
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 7h
Harry.
The World of Harry Partch. The sleeve shows a grey-haired Partch sitting amongst some of his instrument creations.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 8h
Diblo “Machine Gun” Dibala bringing the Congolese fuzz on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
Diblo Dibala cassette. Mainly yellow with a close up photograph of a hand on the neck of a guitar.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 2d
Fact 195.
Belly of an Architect. The cover image is an assemblage with a portrait of Brian Dennehy in the middle.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 3d
Big uplift in recent years, invariably at least one person is reading a book (other than me), and four or five in a carriage is not unusual. Portable magic, y’know! 😊
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
That seems probable.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
Interesting little clipping come press thingy from the distributor.
Press insert for Pärt LP with photocopy of Guardian review from 1988.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
Yeah… no idea what it means.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
Music for the closing credits of another weekend.
Arvo Pärt. Passio.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
Found her!

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Julie London. Julia is her name.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
Currently reading Inside a Pearl by Edmund White, though interspersing it with other things. A rollicking memoir of Parisians and ex-pats. I will seek out the Kuper. Thank you for the recommendation.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
Appendix.
English hamlets and villages, and the English countryside. Early additions by Batsford.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
South of the river on a Sunday.
A man in a linen suit and beret plays a trombone in a street market.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
Judging by the eyes, I think that maybe a sloth on one end of the sofa.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
A name that is completely new to me. But always interested in new things outside of my usual space.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 6d
Sunday stocktake on the charity and junk shop book finds from this week. The Owen Hatherley continues to be a joy. My Paris fixation persists whereas the Sarah Waters is set only a mile or so from where I live. And others for rainy days.
A stack of nine books. From the top down Dylan Thomas adventures in the Skin trade. Jazz by Tony Morrison. The reluctant art by Benny Green number 47 in the jazz book club Dorothy Baker young man with a horn a novel of a great jazz musician. Sarah Waters the paying guests. Parisiennes how the women of Paris lived loved and died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba. Modern buildings in Britain a Gazetteer by Owen Hatherley. And finally two graphic novels, black sad, and the 100 nights of hero.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 8d
Ivy; Top Cat. 🧡🦁 #Caturday eve. #CatsAndBooks
Ivy, the cat can be seen sitting on top of the hi-fi with Books on the wall above her.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 8d
Right, I’m calling it. It’s the weekend.
A yellow sleeve with the words. Meredith Monk, Do You Be.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 11d
It has been a vintage year for findings books in charity shops, but I reckon this one from today has to be the pick of the crop.

Modern Buildings in Britain, A Gazetteer. Owen Hatherley.
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Modern Buildings in Britain. A spread from the book showing the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee. A spread from the book showing the New Art Gallery in Walsall. A spread from the book discussing various buildings in Birmingham.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 11d
I moved to Birmingham in 1986 and left in ‘90. This was my period. I also took hundreds of photographs of the city around this time, which I should go back to - the photographs that is; not the city.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 12d
Field recordings from Texas. 1934.
Jack O’ Diamonds. Library of Congress recordings from Texas. 1934. The cover illustration shows Jack portrayed in an engraving on a German playing card.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 12d
Lovely piece in the Guardian to herald the 30th anniversary release. The most beautiful of records. 💚
The Rachel’s. Handwriting. A black winged head on a mat brown ground.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 12d
Is modern therapeutic practice not built upon the principle of “unconditional positive regard”? Misgendering is surely incompatible with this principle.
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Rachel @thameschoral.bsky.social · 13d
Celebrating this album’s 35th year of being a cornerstone of my collection. For thirty of those, I reckon, people would only stare blankly whenever I mentioned it; so glad it has been more widely discovered.

As wonderful on this Sunday morning as it ever was on the 1,820 Sunday mornings before it.
Ahmad Jamal. The Awakening.
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