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Design by Julian House.<\/em><\/p>\n

Always good to hear of a new release on the Ghost Box label, and a new album by The Advisory Circle (due on 5th December) is especially welcome. From Out Here<\/em> is described thus: “Exploring darker territory than 2012\u2019s more pastoral As The Crow Flies<\/em>, The Advisory Circle hint at a Wyndham-esque science fiction story, where bucolic English scenery is being manipulated and maybe even artificially generated by bizarre multi-dimensional computer technology.” The Belbury Parish Magazine<\/a> has extracts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jon Hassell’s\u00a0Fourth World Music Vol. I: Possible Musics<\/em> receives a long-overdue reissue<\/a> next month. Possible Musics<\/em> was a collaboration with Brian Eno, and Eno has some of his own albums reissued again<\/a> in expanded editions. Most notable is the first official release of My Squelchy Life<\/em>, an album that was withdrawn in 1991 to be replaced by Nerve Net<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Some Halloween theatre on Friday (the 31st) at the Museum of Bath at Work<\/a> with a dramatisation of Ringing the Changes<\/em> by Robert Aickman. There’s a repeat performance the following week (8th November) with added spectral atmospherics from the Electric Pentangle<\/a>. Free admission.<\/p>\n

The value of these books wasn\u2019t anything wholesome they contained, or any moral instruction they offered. Rather, it was the process of finding them, the thrill of reading them, the way the books themselves, like the men they depicted, detached you from the familiar moral landscape. They gave a name to the palpable, physical loneliness of sexual solitude, but they also greatly increased your intellectual and emotional solitude. Until very recently, the canon of literature for a gay kid was discovered entirely alone, by threads of connection that linked authors from intertwined demimondes. It was smuggling, but also scavenging. There was no internet, no \u201ccustomers who bought this item also bought,\u201d no helpful librarians steeped in the discourse of tolerance and diversity, and certainly no one in the adult world who could be trusted to give advice and advance the project of limning this still mostly forbidden body of work.<\/p>\n

Smuggler: A Memoir of Gay Male Literature by Philip Kennicott <\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Getting in before the Mixcloud Halloween rush, mix of the week is Samhain Seance 3: Better Dead Than Never by The Ephemeral Man<\/a>. My Halloween mix for this year is almost finished; watch the skies.<\/p>\n

\u2022 For those who can’t wait until December for From Out Here<\/em>, there’s a new Howlround album, Torridon Gate<\/em><\/a>, out this week from A Year In The Country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Last week, Yello’s Boris Blank was choosing favourite electronic albums, this week he runs through a list of thirteen favourite albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Altered Balance: A Tribute to Coil<\/a><\/em> by Jeremy Reed & Karolina Urbaniak. Richard Fontenoy<\/a> reviewed the book for The Quietus.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cut-Ups: William S. Burroughs 1914\u20132014<\/em><\/a>, an exhibition of Burroughs’ typescripts at Boo-Hooray, NYC, from 7th November.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Brando<\/em><\/a>, a film by Gis\u00e8le Vienne for the song by Scott Walker & Sunn O))).<\/p>\n

\u2022 NASA has a Soundcloud page<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 The art of leaves<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Cobra Moon<\/a><\/em> (1979) by Jon Hassell | Moon On Ice<\/a><\/em> (1987) by Yello feat. Billy MacKenzie | Moon’s Milk Or Under An Unquiet Skull Pt. I<\/a><\/em> (1998) by Coil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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