thank you!!! yes i asked a nurse on my oncology ward if she would mask and she went off on me in a deranged way: saying its not required -> then i cant bully people into wearing a mask -> saying my main nurse shouldnt be masking ->

OTOROKU is proud to present the first vinyl reissue of Blue Notes for Johnny - a defining statement by one of the greatest ensembles in the history of jazz. Recorded in mid-1987 by Blue Notes - then reduced to the trio of Dudu Pukwana on alto sax, Louis Moholo-Moholo on drums and Chris McGregor on piano - it encounters the band 25 years after their founding embarking on an inward meditation through collective music making dedicated to Johnny Dyani, their former bandmate and friend. 
Blue Notes were founded in Cape Town in 1962, and stand among the most important ensembles in the history of jazz. Artistically brilliant and groundbreaking - gathering, within a few short years, a devoted following that includedDon Cherry, Steve Lacy, Abdullah Ibrahim, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew, Keith Tippett, Evan Parker, John Stevens and numerous others - they were also the first widely visible multiracial band in South Africa.

As a mixed race band under apartheid, this group of friends and like-minded artists - Chris McGregor, Mongezi Feza, Dudu Pukwana, Nikele Moyake, Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo-Moholo -  existed within a context that viewed their mere existence as a dangerous and subversive act. In 1964 they joined an exodus of musicians leaving for Europe and eventually settled in London the following year. Sadly, not long after arriving and facing continued economic peril, the group buckled. Johnny Dyani left to join Don Cherry’s band. Moholo-Moholo and Dyani followed suit and joined Steve Lacy on tour, and the remaining members morphed into a number of ensembles that eventually grew to become Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath.   

Following the death of Mongezi Feza in 1975 the remaining members of the group had come back together to record Blue Notes For Mongezi, reigniting a sporadic period of activity over the coming years. Following the untimely passing of Johnny Dyani in late 1986, the last three members of the original line-up - McGregor, Pukwana and Moholo-Moholo - reformed to pay tribute to yet another of their fallen brothers. 

Blue Notes for Johnny, the group’s second musical memorial to a band member, incorporates a considerably broader range of touchstone and practices than its predecessor, nodding toward the band’s foundations in be-bop and post-bop without abandoning where they had journeyed along the way. Internalising equal elements of hard-bop, modalism, and free improvisation, it is a startling creative statement, imbued with a tension that renders an equally radical and sophisticated challenge; a furious tide - slow in pace and it slow to reveal itself - masquerading in gentler forms. 

A celebration and a memorial. Joyous and tragic. A real time resurrection of personal experience, Blue Notes for Johnny dodges, dances, and transforms across its two sides, refusing to be nailed down. As the trio pushes against each other, bristling tonal and rhythmic collisions leave the impression that something is bound to explode, without ever fully letting go. 

Blue Notes for Johnny’s memorialisation is unwittingly doubled by capturing the final time that the Blue Notes would come together in the studio. Both Dudu Pukwana and Chris McGregor would pass away three years later in 1990, leaving Moholo-Moholo - who continues to carve a groundbreaking trajectory across the world of jazz - as the last surviving member. The album remains as a journey between an imaged future and the beginning of it all. Six friends meeting and communing through sound. Six friends who had triumphed against the odds, becoming some of the greatest creative voices of their generation. Six friends who were five, then four, and then three, before they were done. Friends who never failed, in whatever form, to come together and play. It is a story begun 60 years ago that remains just as prescient today.

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DUDU PUKWANA / alto sax

CHRIS McGREGOR / piano

LOUIS MOHOLO / drums 

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ROKURE006 - Blue Notes "Funk Dem Dudu - To Erico"

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New album released.

「森と海」
Bandcamp page
https://satoshisugiyama.bandcamp.com/album/--3

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以下、アルバムについて。


「森と海がまじわるところ」

鬱蒼とした森の記憶を辿るように、レコーダーを手にし土と枯れ葉の小道を登る。
まず、その小高い森の中心と思われる場所で一度目の録音。
そして同じ場所でレコーダーのマイクを空に向け二度目の録音。
遠くに僅かに波音が聴こえた。

その音に誘われて、数日後、友人たちと森を抜け海に降り立つ。
岩場の潮溜りにハイドロフォンを落とす。
マイクを通して海中の音を聴くのはそれが初めてで、海の中から外の世界を見ているような気持ちになった。
小さな生き物たちの気配、波音と森のざわめきと
すべてがまじわるところに僕はいた。


※この録音を聴き返すうちに、10年前に三木葉苗が書いた「美の基準についての覚え書き」を思い出し読み返す。合わせて読んでももらえるといいなと思いこれを付属することにしました。

録音と編集　杉山聡
絵　三木咲良
言葉　三木葉苗

森と海 -Excerpts-

crossing

Piano solo commissioned by the Ian Potter Foundation for Marilyn Nonken and premiered by her at the Musica Nova Festival, Helsinki, February 2009. The 4 movements are: I. Autumn, 6′ II. Winter, 6′ III. Spring, 7′ IV. Summer (Sema), 10′ (starts at 18'22). info at: http://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/the-four-seasons-after-cy-twombly-2009/

The Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly), 2008 - 09

Beatrice speaks with Alice Wong about Alice's campaign to reinstate a mask mandate at UCSF, a hospital system home to a number of physicians who have played an outsized, deleterious, role in advocating for a premature end to covid protections.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/alice-wong-ucsf

Find Alice's call to action here: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/25/n95s4ucsf-call-to-action/

Find our template letter from Abby here: 
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Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny (out this week!) here:
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Further reading:

Alice Wong’s most recent column for Teen Vogue: COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-isnt-going-anywhere-masking-up-could-save-my-life

Alice Wong, August 2022 (Disability Visibility Project): My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2022/08/07/my-icu-summer-a-photo-essay/

Alice Wong, 2020 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus/

Alice Wong, March 2023 (Teen Vogue): The “Unwinding” of Medicaid Coverage Will Be Difficult for Disabled Americans, Leave More People Uninsured
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/medicaid-coverage-covid

Alice Wong’s 2023 interview with KQED: Alice Wong: I Still Have a Voice
https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601142614/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice

Alice Wong, January 2024 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/

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小雨蛙 Microhyla ornata (Dumeril and Bibron, 1841)
Huge density of this tiny frog chorusing like hell around a little pond in a little forest, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Also present, the 斑腿樹蛙 Polypedates megacephalus (Hallowell, 1861) invasive species in Taiwan.
The site is located near little factories and roads, the background noise hasn't been filtered.
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