fragrance of pine, vision of death

Clickbait: Ever Heard Music Live?

Proper title: I saw ||ALA|MEDA|| live and it was awesome.

It’s good. I recommend it. Almost forgot how good it can be with the bustle of ordinary life but today these guys reminded me.

Okay winter

One more glorious day and then we’re done. Right?

Are you interested in a physical manifestation of ‘Kairo’ OST?

I was alive in August 2022

June’s blogpost was a pain and I’m old enough to try a new approach if something is not working. Starting August, I will be updating the monthly post throughout the month so that the description is free and fresh.

I was alive in July 2022

July’s main event was a gig by the almighty GODFLESH. Originally planned for the time before-Covid, the festival could finally happen this year.

I was alive in June 2022

and I’m continuing this, I haven’t forgotten!

July was busy. Life-busy, in an absolutely positive way. I decide to limit my moaning and actually live, and enjoy doing so. This month, I went kayaking. I flipped the kayak. I had a big nasty scar on my leg. Moaning to a minimum. That’s the start of a character arc, at the very least.

I also heard the water slowly plodding along. Watched horses run on a dirt road. Saw some kind of bird-predator. Saw three of them. Got splashed. Got sunburned. Had my leg swallowed up to its knee on a muddy bank.

Lived.

I was alive in May 2022

and here’s what I saw and heard.

Predictable!

After a little over two years, I’ve developed the three rolls of film I’ve accumulated and I’m as predictable as always. Can’t fault me for loving this view right?

Clinomania re-visited

Hi All,

I hope that you are enjoying the season’s shift, and the new energy building up. It’s perfect fodder for my machine after the trying winter months.

I wanted to do a little reminiscence posting about Clinomania as the album was just re-released on the UK label Wormhole World on CD. It features new cover designs from the Terranean Recordings honcho Luke Lund who I hope you are all familiar. He did a great job.

I am very happy to see this album again in the wild. Digital-only releases tend to be treated as second-rate, often. There was a short run of “vintage” cassettes made on debut but it wasn’t the ideal presentation of the album. Happens. This second go-around, the medium choice is the futuristic CD, supreme high-quality of audio, no streaming, offline, displayable on a shelf, and yours forever, even if I throw a fit and delete all my music online (I promise I’ll try not to, though).

The CD looks great and I cannot thank Paul from Wormhole enough for putting this together and allowing new ears to engage with the album.

You can get your copies from Wormhole directly:

Clinomania @ wormhole world

I also encourage you to check out their other releases. They host a diverse set of artists so try to keep an open mind and give something a chance.

If you haven’t heard it yet, or maybe thought it wasn’t for you when you tried it, I hope I can encourage you to try it (/again). Thank you for your support as always.

Business done. Now onto the memories.