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Observatoire IX from the Observatoires<\/a> series by Noemie Goudal<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Before Lady Raglan\u2019s intervention, this figure had been anonymous. She gave him a name: the Green Man.” Josephine Livingstone<\/a> on the persistence of a supposed figure from pagan folklore.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ben Wheatley<\/a>: “Financing a film as crazy as [High-Rise<\/em>] takes good casting”. Related (in a Ballardian sense): the abandoned hotels<\/a> of the Sinai Desert.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “We were in danger of becoming full-time, paid up musicians…” Drew Daniel and Martin “MC” Schmidt<\/a> of Matmos look back over their career.<\/p>\n

Fahey didn\u2019t make many new friends with his scything dismissal of the folk revival. He distrusted the way that folkies regarded music as a carrier for the correct political messages of the moment. As Lowenthal puts it: \u201cTo him, the student idealists had na\u00efve worldviews and dreamed of unrealistic political utopias,\u201d whereas Fahey \u201cattempted to channel darkness and dread through his music.\u201d For Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger devotees, the ideological message came first, with musical tone or trickery a distant second. As Fahey saw it, the dizzyingly strange source music they borrowed from and then built their careers on emerged as little more than a scrubbed-up ventriloquist\u2019s doll, all the coarse grain and troubling metaphysic of its original voices jettisoned. He also detected high condescension and low reverse racism in how the folk-revival people preferred their old blues guys barefoot and wearing dungarees\u2014even if they now usually dressed in sharp suits and often preferred to play amplified, electric urban blues.<\/p>\n

Ian Penman<\/a> on John Fahey<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “It\u2019s amazing how quickly a sound can lose its moorings and float off into this kind of unchartered territory,” says Robin The Fog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: FACT Mix 540 by Via App<\/a>, and Secret Thirteen Mix 178 by BlackBlackGold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Oliver Wainwright<\/a> on Edward Johnston, designer of the typeface for the London Underground.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: DC’s: Spotlight on…The Free-Lance Pallbearers<\/em> (1967) by Ishmael Reed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Each drop of Hennessy X.O is an Odyssey<\/em><\/a>: Nicolas Winding Refn makes an alcohol ad.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock<\/a> pen an open letter to the next generation of artists.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Japan’s scariest manga artist (Junji Ito) loves Japan’s creepiest cosplayer (Ikura)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “He was a sexual outlaw.” Jack Fritscher<\/a>‘s love affair with Robert Mapplethorpe.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Peter De Rome<\/a>: the RAF pilot who became “the grandfather of gay porn”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Strange Case of Mr William T. Horton<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Big George Martin<\/a> and Ken Adam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shortwave Radio World<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Viriconium FAQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Nine Feet Underground<\/em><\/a> (1971) by Caravan | Green Bubble Raincoated Man<\/em><\/a> (1972) by Amon D\u00fc\u00fcl II | Bety\u00e1rn\u00f3ta<\/em><\/a> (Outlaw Song<\/em>, 1989) by Muzsik\u00e1s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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