Weekend links 553

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The Unknown Room by Gina Litherland.

• “He admired abstract painters like Mark Rothko, but also derived inspiration from the far less hip Pre-Raphaelite artists of the mid-1800s, especially the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Budd’s dreamy early breakthrough Madrigals of the Rose Angel, which featured a segment titled Rossetti Noise, was deliciously out of step with the hard-edged music of the 1970s.” Geeta Dayal on the late Harold Budd.

• “Here the experience is transformed into something more fabulist, and much more interesting than the memoir. In the novel, delusions of grandeur become real powers.” Elisa Gabbert on Leonora Carrington and The Hearing Trumpet.

• “The Japanese especially loved 3-inch CDs and there are many different examples throughout the 90s and 00s of them being used to great effect as promos.” DJ Food begins a series of posts devoted to one of my favourite music formats.

• New music: Viia, 24 minutes of live synthesis by Kikimore; Music For The Open Air, a free album of ambient music by K. Leimer (Soundcloud login required to download tracks).

• Sensory, Imaginative, and Psychic: S. Elizabeth interviews artist Gina Litherland.

• Puppets, Birds & Wycinanki: Clive Hicks-Jenkins talks to Anna Zaranko.

• Mix of the week: a 3-hour tribute to Monolake by Funky Jeff.

• At Wormwoodiana: The Flint Transmissions.

• At Dennis Cooper’s: Watery, Domestic.

• At Strange Flowers: 21 books for 2021.

Edge Of The Unknown (1973) by Nik Pascal | Unknown Passage (1999) by Robert Musso | The Unknown, Part 2 (2005) by Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd

2 thoughts on “Weekend links 553”

  1. The Japanese market also turned us to the mini record players in the late 90s. Wonderfully packaged mini 3” in detailed sleeves made it a pure joy to play, but mainly to display.

    With the recent resurrection/renaissance of LP culture, they’ve brought back the mini LP with many 3” records coming out annually, especially for Record Store Day. There’s also “LP artisans” that can make your own mini LP of one of your own songs -or of a song that hasn’t been made into the mini format yet (prob not legal:)

    I’m guilty of partaking and collecting as I go. The world of miniature music is a funny, and ironically, has large group of followers.

    Some links to players. I particularly love (and own) the clear one that just came out:

    https://www.amazon.com/Crosley-Turntable-3-inch-Records-Silver/dp/B07P83H6KK?th=1

    https://openformat.com/products/limited-edition-rsd3-mini-turntable-clear?variant=32175399436343

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