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Cover art by Alan Aldridge for The Secret Life of Plants, 1975.<\/em> Via<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Aquarium Drunkard: Alice Coltrane and band in a furious live performance at the Berkeley Community Theatre, 1972<\/a>. The audio is on YouTube, and was also released on (unofficial) vinyl a couple of years ago, but you can download the whole set at Dimeadozen<\/a>. (Free membership required.)<\/p>\n \u2022 “Black Square<\/em> is tragic; it\u2019s absurd; it can be bewildering or funny; it\u2019s certainly metaphysical; and now it serves as a precursor for works and projects yet to be imagined.” Andrew Spira<\/a> on the precursors of Black Square<\/em> by Kazimir Malevich.<\/p>\n \u2022 “The possibility of plant consciousness cuts two ways, depending on whether you see plants as friend or foe, benevolent or threatening.” Elvia Wilk<\/a> on the secret lives of plants.<\/p>\n \u2022 New\/old music: Robot Riot<\/em><\/a> by Stereolab. A previously unreleased recording from the mid-90s which will appear on the fifth instalment in the Switched-On<\/em> compilation series<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u201cDare<\/em>\u2019s good, but Love And Dancing<\/em> broke the mould and kicked off the whole modern dance scene.” Ian Wade<\/a> on 40 years of remix albums.<\/p>\n \u2022 Coming soon from Strange Attractor: Arik Roper: Vision of The Hawk<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Unquiet Things: Deborah Turbeville\u2019s unseen Versailles<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u201cThinking like a scientist will make you happier<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Karel Zeman<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n \u2022 Plantasia<\/a><\/em> (1976) by Mort Garson | Musik Of The Trees<\/em><\/a> (1978) by Steve Hillage | The Secret Life Of Plants<\/em><\/a> (1979) by Stevie Wonder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cover art by Alan Aldridge for The Secret Life of Plants, 1975. Via. \u2022 At Aquarium Drunkard: Alice Coltrane and band in a furious live performance at the Berkeley Community Theatre, 1972. The audio is on YouTube, and was also released on (unofficial) vinyl a couple of years ago, but you can download the whole … Continue reading “Weekend links 627”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 627","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,8,2,42,29,7,48,3,44,12,13],"tags":[5507,637,12300,338,12303,3109,12301,12302,191,6818,7235,2407,4006,5064,98],"class_list":["post-21695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-electronica","category-film","category-illustrators","category-music","category-painting","category-photography","category-science","tag-alan-aldridge","tag-alice-coltrane","tag-andrew-spira","tag-arik-roper","tag-deborah-turbeville","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-elvia-wilk","tag-ian-wade","tag-karel-zeman","tag-kazimir-malevich","tag-mort-garson","tag-stereolab","tag-steve-hillage","tag-stevie-wonder","tag-strange-attractor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5DV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}