Bloomsbury Roofs (no date) by J. Elspeth Robertson.
• “Lud Heat and Suicide Bridge…are only offshoots of a huge central corpus of mad experimental writing, prose and poetry and just research notes. Pages and pages and pages of this lunacy.” Iain Sinclair describing to Robert Davidson the genesis of his influential poem/book Lud Heat. Related: Serious houses: The Lud Heat Tapes.
• At Criterion Current: Deeper into Robert Altman, a look at five lesser-known films from the director’s expansive filmography. Good to see Quintet receiving some attention, a science-fiction film that’s not without flaws but is still closer to the written SF of the 1970s than the decade’s box-office hits.
• Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: Short Fiction, by Charles Beaumont.
• Mix of the week: Ambient Focus 26.06.21 by Kevin Richard Martin aka The Bug.
• At the BFI: Rory Doherty chooses 10 great films set in 1970s America.
• At Colossal: Frédéric Demeuse’s photos of ancient forests.
• RIP Claudia Cardinale and Danny Thompson.
• New music: If the Sun Dies by Greg Weeks.
• The Strange World of…Rafael Toral.
• Silver Forest (1969) by Organisation | A Forest (1980) by The Cure | A Forest In The Sky (2024) by Hawksmoor
Very sorry to hear about Danny Thompson. Mentioning just two among many great contributions he made, see, or hear, his live work with Tim Buckley in the UK in 1968 (Dreamletter/live in London), played without knowing the material nor much rehearsal if any; and alongside Terry Cox providing rhythm for several pieces on what are Duffy Powers’ greatest recordings, released as Innovations (Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and John McLoughlin are also on there).
Saturday Sun from Five Leaves Left could sit, meet & poignant, at either the opening or on the closing credits of ‘Withnail..’
But no matter where he was, he made you notice the bass by how he made it enrich its setting. Cheers, Danny !
Yes, I’ve got a lot of Danny Thompson in my record collection: all the early Pentangle albums, Nick Drake, John Martyn, then the various sessions he was doing in the 80s and 90s. I’ve heard the Tim Buckley but it’s one of the few Buckley albums I still don’t have.