with Martin Shaw.

The poet Malcolm Guite turned up at my door in a storm with a bottle of Jura. There was no power in the cottage so we sheltered by the fire and lit candles. The conversation spilled into the night and then the next day and night. This recording is a moment as we sat on the porch enjoying the songbirds and strong coffee. Erudite, charismatic and generous, the poet and priest opened up many doors. There aren’t many like him and we are very lucky to be around his work and ideas. I absolutely recommend Malcolm, he’s beautiful trouble.

P.S. It's around 30 not 1939 Lewis has the conversation with Tolkien Malcolm reminds me. 

https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/malcolmguite

Malcolm Guite: C.S. Lewis, the Gods and a Nuanced Animism

early 2015

Voyage en kaléidescope

Ian Stonehouse - Dog Morrow

Laurie Spiegel's 'Drums' played simultaneously with Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto's 'Logic Moon'.

Listen to the original tracks here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZEltJBbJV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k0a_QHxfeM

Noto | Sakamoto | Spiegel - Logic Moon Drums

The Lost

Otto A Totland - Vates

Spectral folk and electronic ambience from the Oregon coastline.

Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=621

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.621 Grouper

Not a "Greatest Hit" per se, but easily my favorite (early) Mac song, edited across multiple versions & fidelities to play somewhat seamlessly for over 2 hours, with the mix slowly being eroded by a cavernous echo that is being gated by the dynamics of the dry signal.

EDIT, 06/17/18. I was taken aback by Danny Kirwan's passing a few days after I originally posted this. One of my all-time favorites, esp. within the context of both this lineup of Mac & this particular song; the original studio session which starts off the proceedings here was his first recorded appearance with the band! 

I've taken the original premise & fleshed it out a bit further, so that it can be put it to rest; this revised version uses the following versions of "Albatross" in a program that loops three times; almost entirely dry, then slowly fading in the reverb signal, finally slowly fading out the dry signal:

UK Mono 7"
Stereo from "Pious Bird" 
1968-11-05
1968-11-17
1969-02-28
1969-09-24
1969-11-06
1969-11-11
1970-01-02 (Radio)
1970-01-02 (Bootleg)
1970-01-31
1970-03-18
Stereo from "English Rose"

early 2015

Jack Goodwin

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