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Au Lion d’or (1965) by Mimi Parent.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 After the recent announcement of Jon Hassell’s health issues it’s good to see he has a new album on the way at the end of July. Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)<\/em><\/a> follows the form of the first volume, Seeing Through Pictures<\/em> (2018), in reworking elements of earlier recordings into new forms. Not remixes, more reimaginings, and a process that Hassell has been applying to his own work for many years, most notably on his collaboration with Peter Freeman, The Vertical Collection<\/em><\/a> (1997). The latter is an album which is impossible to find today and really ought to be reissued, together with more scarcities from the Hassell catalogue.<\/p>\n \u2022 Death of a typeface: John Boardley<\/a> on Robert Granjon’s Civilit\u00e9, a type design intended to be the national typeface of France but which fell out of favour. It wasn’t completely forgotten however; I was re-reading Huysmans’ \u00c0 Rebours<\/em> a couple of weeks ago, and Civilit\u00e9 is mentioned there as being a type that Des Esseintes chooses for some of his privately-printed books.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Plutonium Shores: Kurosawa versus Leone in A Fistful of Yojimbo<\/a>. Christopher Frayling makes a similar analysis in his landmark study, Spaghetti Westerns<\/em> (1981), but I didn’t realise that Leone had based so many of his shots on Kurosawa’s film.<\/p>\n \u2022 More lockdown art: Seen from Here: Writing in the Lockdown<\/a><\/em> is a collection of new writing edited by Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat. A PDF book whose sales will go to support the Trussell Trust, a UK food bank charity.<\/p>\n \u2022 The week’s culture guides: Ben Cardew<\/a> on where to start with the back catalogue of Miles Davis, and Hayley Scanlon<\/a> on where to begin with the films of Yasujiro Ozu.<\/p>\n \u2022 “We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression,” says Robin Carhart-Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Laraaji<\/a> returns with a new album, Sun Piano<\/em>, and a preview of the same, This Too Shall Pass<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mixes of the week: The Ivy-Strangled Path Vol. XXI by David Colohan<\/a>, and XLR8R Podcast 647 by The Orb<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Penelope Rosemont<\/a> on the humorous Surrealism of Mimi Parent.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Jeff Jackson presents Free Jazz Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Golden Lion<\/a><\/em> (1967) by Lomax Alliance | Dread Lion<\/a><\/em> (1976) by The Upsetters | Gehenna Lion<\/a><\/em> (1982) by Chrome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"