Evening Drive

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 23 Apr 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths & effects.

This original version of "Downstream Procrastination" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 590: Dreadful The Stream.

dreadful the stream
without so much as a name!
early-summer rains

by: Yosa Buson

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 28 Jun 2009, Massapequa, NY, USA on the edge of the woods. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Downstream Procrastination (naviarhaiku590)

We Can Dream

made with looper, other mic, amp zoom h1 and nch and stylophone
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDD

but fr0g,how Do you REALLY feel (warning - not pleasant)

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley

Track list and start times:
00:00  Lambwool – Downpour of Fire
05:57  Hawkwind – The Night Sky
08:00  Llyn Y Cwn – The Great Henge
12:46  Loo(p)cy – Earth Calling / Northern Stars
19:23 Radio Free London – At the Edge of Forever
24:07  Aultone – Forty two [disquiet0225-serialcomposition]
30:15  Edø Pisto Sømi – 3 state steady
36:45  Gregg Skloff – Divined
44:50  Philippe Deschamps & Relief – Shifting Horizons
48:15  Serena Gabriel – Celestial Diadem
54:55  Stan Magendanz – Lutiveq Part 1
1:02:47  Dionisaf – Pollination
1:06:21  Walter Fini – Deconstruction Reconstruction
1:14:21  Snakeskin – Olive groves
1:19:56  Gregg Skloff – Conveyed
1:28:27  Hawkwind – The Black Sea
1:29:35  Philippe Deschamps – In the Wake of Ceres
1:33:44  Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt – Short Poem for Aretha Cooper
1:38:36  wellenhafen – FM SQ FX EX
1:44:10  Stan Magendanz – Lutiveq Part 4
1:52:10  windspace – Drawing The Autumn Light - naviarhaiku612
1:56:32  Serena Gabriel – Izar (excerpt)
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Image:Lexica.art


Eclectic current – The rumoured death of reality

2025-10-23

last chapter

IF YOU

This turned out a bit more Hallowe'en than I was expecting, but given the date, maybe that's OK 😁💀🎃

an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

haiku by Saitō Sanki: https://www.littermagazine.com/2023/07/review-sanki-saito-selected-haiku.html

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF skeletoN [naviarhaiku617]

I LOVE creaky floorboards. ❤️ Always have. They’re the little confessions the world doesn’t know it’s making. How could it?

This particular set — oh, these sonic beauties — were discovered in a small museum in Lille, France. A place so very quiet you could almost hear the air move somehow. The curator said the building used to be a tailor’s shop. But the neighbours reckoned it had been an intelligence post during the war; the kind of place where secrets secreted themselves into the grain of the wood.

So I waited until closing time. Set up my recorder. And walked. Slowly.

Every step had its own personality — one a whisper, one a sigh, one a shriek like a door … perhaps remembering something it shouldn’t. Somewhere between the third and fourth creak, though, the air changed and tilted weirdly. You know that cold, coiled feeling — when you’re not sure if you’ve just been noticed by someone? But I was alone ... I WAS alone.

I kept recording.

Later, when I played the sounds back, there it was: a super faint shuffle beneath and between the creaks. A pause. Then two extra footsteps … that weren’t mine. Perfect rhythm. Perfect distance. Like a partner in a dance waiting years for the next cue, which had now arrived, years later.

So I built the track around that. A haunted duet between spy and spectre, each trying to decode the other’s silence.

Enjoy … if you dare. 🎃😈

More on the 722nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spook Street — The Assignment: The Assignment: Make music for a haunted spy film — at https://disquiet.com/0722/.

halF spooK [disquiet0722]

Taiga night pre version

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My music asks listeners to be like dreamers uncovering hidden patterns in passing clouds. Support me @ patreon.com/blisterpop

Downstream Procrastination (naviarhaiku590)

Jimmy Lem