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Thursday morning links
Mount Etna is erupting and it looks spectacular
90-year-old does 24 pull-ups for his birthday and makes us all feel bad about ourselves
Via Insty, Why Your Kids Should Be Lifting Weights
I wish I had started when young
Polar Bears Are a Pest – Time to End Their 'Threatened' Status
Let's get rid of these dangerous nuisances that eat Eskimos and cute seals
Huge Shake Up At World's Largest Hedge Fund: Ray Dalio Steps Down As Co-CEO
The Battle of Milo
Christians Urged To Pray On Climate Change
I will pray for a warmer climate anytime
Time Magazine's "Religion" Section: This Lent, I'm Acknowledging My Privilege As a White Heterosexual Christian Male
Victory for Free Speech at California University
GOP wants to eliminate shadowy DOJ slush fund bankrolling leftist groups
That can't be legal
Williamson: Enough with the 'Presidential'
Perhaps the term is relevant because Trump acted so wild and crazy at times
Krauthammer on Obamacare:
Media analysis: Only 3% of network news coverage of Trump's first month was positive
Media left and right give Trump's speech thumbs up
Trump speech leaves Democrats befuddled, in ruins, with question marks
Democrats Depressed, Disoriented, Demoralized, Devastated and Discredited in the Wake of Trump's Triumph
After Speech 69% of Americans Say Trump's Policies Will Move America Forward
Palis: Political Operatives Pose as Journalists, Human Rights Groups
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"Trump acted so wild and crazy at times"
Perhaps but it misses the point. I see something very different. Most politicians have developed the skill of saying thright things and doing the wrong things. Telling us lies to our face and behind the facade doing things against our will and against our best interest that they dare not let us know about. Obama was good at this. We are beginning to discover the nefarious and even anti-American acts he committed while in office but he was slick and never acted wild and crazy. Trump on the other hand spent his entire life dealing with subterfuge and people who were opposed to his work and has built up a tough no nonsense shell. He is blunt, honest, unafraid and undeterred. In politics this is kinda wild and crazy. We are more accustomed with our leaders telling us what we want to hear while they screw us over royally behind the curtains.
I think that what we hear when Trump speaks is what you get when someone speaks unscripted for hours a day. Hillary's handlers worked hard to keep her from speaking except at friendly venues and only while scripted. That is why she never called in to news shows and talk shows. Except for carefully scripted appearances she was invisible, MIA. This may well be a very smart idea especially if the candidate doesn't really have any heart felt positions or knowledge. After all in politics usually one gaff defines you forever. So which do we want? A slick politicians who rarely speaks his mind and only reads off a script or a politicians who is honest and unafraid to speak extemporaneously?
"A slick politicians who rarely speaks his mind and only reads off a script or a politician who is honest and unafraid to speak extemporaneously?"
Judging by this last election cycle, I'd say folks who are honest in their dealings with others would prefer a politician that's honest and above-board, while others would prefer a slick pol who's telling them what they want to hear even if he's robbing them blind.
Thus, Trump's appeal to me a long, long time ago. Early in the campaign. When nobody knew what would happen.
After hearing him speak a few times, I appreciated the 'real' language and not the perfectly crafted sound bites and speeches. I knew he was not lying to me, because, as Judge Judy would tell you, when the stories match - even days, months or years later - you know it is the truth.
Any other politician, Republican included, now sounds like a liar and a shyster to me. Trump has changed how I listen to politicians for the rest of my life.
Re: GOP wants to eliminate shadowy DOJ slush fund bankrolling leftist groups
It's not just the DoJ, it's all of them. The EPA is probably the worst abuser of the cy pres con game, funding groups who sue the EPA to "force" the EPA to do the things they want to do but don't have a mandate for - a court injunction bypasses a lot of that silly notice-and-comment and due process nonsense in the Administrative Procedures Act not to mention legislative intent. It's long past time for Congress and the Court to put an end to this sort of bureaucratic coup d'etat.
Between broad and vague mandates from Congress that allow the executive-branch agencies to write laws rules and regulations as they see fit and "deference" from the Court as to how the agencies' own in-house judicial process works to interpret the laws rules and regulations, adding a separate source of funds for these agencies makes them truly independent of the statutory government. Is it any wonder so many agencies in the last few years have started getting their own SWAT team enforcement arms? The bureaucrats are now a government unto themselves. They write the rules, they enforce the rules, they judge the rules without any sort of oversight or accountability.
this is among the most important proposed legislation of our generation. a bill that strips away the independent authority of the administrative agencies to make law where congress has not already acted. it has passed the House already.
it bitchslaps Chevron USA Inc. v. NRDC specifically, although not by name.
H.R.5 - Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017
This title may be cited as the "Separation of Powers Restoration Act".
Section 706 of title 5, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended—
(1) in subsection (a) (as designated by section 107 of this Act)—
(A) by striking "decide all relevant questions of law, interpret constitutional and statutory provisions, and"; and
(B) by inserting after "of the terms of an agency action" the following "and decide de novo all relevant questions of law, including the interpretation of constitutional and statutory provisions, and rules made by agencies. If the reviewing court determines that a statutory or regulatory provision relevant to its decision contains a gap or ambiguity, the court shall not interpret that gap or ambiguity as an implicit delegation to the agency of legislative rule making authority and shall not rely on such gap or ambiguity as a justification either for interpreting agency authority expansively or for deferring to the agency's interpretation on the question of law. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this subsection shall apply in any action for judicial review of agency action authorized under any provision of law. No law may exempt any such civil action from the application of this section except by specific reference to this section"; and ...
another bill, which has already passed the House, is H.R. 26, which requires an up-down vote on administrative rules with an estimated cost over $100 million
Vic, you're probably a lawyer and know what that word salad under (B) in the quote means. I hope it means the courts can no longer make stuff up out of thin air, or as the lawyers say, find new provisions in the law.
it works like this: congress enacts a law, call it the Act. then sets up an Agency to administer the Act. the Agency makes laws to interpret and enforce the Act, but where the Agency has to make decisions on what the Act means (because the Act doesn't fill in all the details), federal courts will almost always defer to what the Agency says the Act means because of that Chevron case.
this is why the EPA, the FCC and every other administrative agency keeps expanding, because there's no effective way to file a lawsuit that says the Agency is going beyond the scope of the Act or challenge what the Agency says the Act means.
HR5 and HR 26 will fix that.
While I would say that the agency interpretation of an authorizing statute should be persuasive, I don't think it should be as definitive as Chevron grants, particularly the reasonableness standard. That leaves open the ambiguity of whether it means that the interpretation is a reasonable interpretation of the words of the statute, or if it means that the regulatory regime resultant is reasonably in accord with the statute's intent. Under the second basis, you get things like the EPA declaring that CO2 is a pollutant, but not subject to the limits set forth in the Clean Air Act.
#188.8.131.52.1 Another guy named Dan on 2017-03-02 13:17 (Reply)
HR 5 actually uses the language of Chevron in stating that administrative agencies aren't entitled to a definitive interpretation on what the rules say and that courts always must defer. it overrules the case, basically.
#18.104.22.168.1.1 Vic Morrow's tommy gun on 2017-03-02 14:19 (Reply)
My probably poorly stated point is that while Chevron may have pushed the scale too far to the side of executive (and independent, but that's another question entirely) agencies, I think this may take things to another extreme, where everybody who claims the income tax is illegal because the Secretary of the Treasury's left shoe was untied when he signed the message to taxpayers on page 3 of the instruction booklet can claim a hearing for de novo review of the entire tax code.
The ultimate cure for this is for Congress to stop delegating so much rule-making authority to the agencies, and instead pass legislation that is both detailed and complete.
#22.214.171.124.1.1.1 Another guy named Dan on 2017-03-02 14:46 (Reply)
right now anyone can challenge the tax code or the tax rules or any part of either for any reason you can think of, sane or not because that's a constitutional right. I could file a complaint for lack of shoe-tying and the clerk will file it, it will be on the federal docket, but unless there's a real issue and not a made up one, the challenge won't last long and the merits will never come up. legitimate issues are heard. administrative and judicial courts dispose of lunatics every day.
#22.214.171.124.22.214.171.124 Vic Morrow's tommy gun on 2017-03-02 18:08 (Reply)
Require that regulations be submitted and passed by both houses of congress and signed into law by the president.
#126.96.36.199.2 OneGuy on 2017-03-02 14:08 (Reply)
HR 26 requires a congressional up-down vote for rules that have an estimated cost over $100 million. if you blurred the distinction between rules and statutes, congress and the courts would be unmanageable.
#126.96.36.199.2.1 Vic Morrow's tommy gun on 2017-03-02 14:24 (Reply)
But what would be the problem with Congress having to pass an "Omnibus Regulatory Register Act" every 90 days or so to enact new provisions in the Federal Register?
Get rid of shenanigans like being able to claim "Nothing in this bill says that insurance will have to pay for abortions" before passage, and then having your own executive staff write rules that require just that after the fact.
#188.8.131.52.2.1.1 Another guy named Dan on 2017-03-02 14:51 (Reply)
say the bill had 2,000 regulations. it would get hung up for years while amendments changing language or deleting provisions get debated. and since there's no line-item veto, a bill with 2,000 topics is bound to get vetoed.
#184.108.40.206.22.214.171.124 Vic Morrow's tommy gun on 2017-03-02 18:13 (Reply)
Exactly. You have hit upon the best argument for this. It would force them to write better regulation and to get more agreement and input in the writing of them. It might also force them to write fewer as well as better regulations. I think it is a win/win.
#188.8.131.52.22.214.171.124.1 OneGuy on 2017-03-02 20:00 (Reply)
One thing this may not address is the left's use of collusive litigation between activists and the agency. Here is the process.
1. Agency colludes with activists on litigation that will be filed.
2. Activists sue agency, claiming that law X requires agency to do Y, even if, for example, there is nothing in the law about Y but it is arguably within the scope of the law and the agency's discretion. (E.g. declaring CO2 a "pollutant" or including "transgenders" within the scope of Title IX, even though there is nothing in those laws about that.)
3. Agency rolls over and doesn't defend against the litigation, or "settles" and enters into consent judgment with activists that the agency will do as activists want.
4. Judgment becomes binding law against agency. Agency says it "must" do something because of judgment even though it is not in the law.
5. Court awards activists attorney's fees and costs which must be paid by the agency (that is, by you and me the taxpayers). This gives money to the activists to fund the next round of litigation against the agency.
6. Repeat as desired.
Ironically, however, Trump could now play the same game. He could have groups friendly to his positions sue the agency to invalidate rules, etc. that are claimed to be in violation of the statute. The agency rolls over and the regulations are nullified.
#188.8.131.52.3 Jim on 2017-03-02 16:15 (Reply)
RE: Time Magazine's "Religion" Section: This Lent, I'm Acknowledging My Privilege As a White Heterosexual Christian Male
St. Paul used his privileges as a Roman citizen in his missionary journeys.
"Christians Urged To Pray On Climate Change"
Christianity is about the relationship of Man to God, not Man to Earth.
While we should endeavour of course to respect God's Creation as much as practically possible, it is not a pretext to become Earth-Worshippers.
we are appointed by God as the stewards of His creation.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
-- Genesis 2:15, Orange Catholic Bible
there are many other passages like this. this is why I'm a member of Ducks Unlimited.
That prayer thing can be tricky:
"The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit."
-- James 5:16-18
Re the linked article to the New Republic via Powerline -
The line "...overt obsession with white supremacy" occurs. I have to wonder if TNR is familiar with the meaning of the word "overt." Also "obsession," or "white supremacy." I concede that it does seem to know the meaning of "with."
Polar Bears Are a Pest – Time to End Their 'Threatened' Status
Here is a short youtube by the Canadain Broadcast Corporation that unbiasly examines this issue. It is very interesting. Both sides are examined but most would concur with the viewpoint of this story after watching it. http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/Environment/ID/2505129180/


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Bruno Sanfilippo – PianetteCD'Pianette' consists of a collection of solo piano compositions inspired by dreams and the bucolic fantasy of mechanical toys, the dolls, the essence of the circus and the puppets. "Pianette is one again a milestone in the music genre" Gezeitenstrom Musik "Bruno Sanfilippo has made my favourite work of his with 'Pianette'. It's unashamedly new-classical in its composition, eerie with its tense production and melodic dissonance and oh so subtle in how it uses the piano to create mechanical life. The piano is easily one of the most expressive instruments on Earth, so playing these two ideas off against each other has created an inspired album of muted greatness" by Simon Smith · Higher Plain Music£12.50£12.50 Quickview
Enofa – ArboretumCDThis is the hand made "standard" CD version of Arboretum in an edition of 50 copies. These come in hand stamped and altered black digipaks, each with a factory pressed disc. Each copy comes with a dried leaf, and is banded with a vintage arboreal obi strip. For Enofa, nature, and the inspiration derived from walking among the trees in the park and nature preserve near his home, plays a large part in the overall tone of this one long beautiful track. Like the Arboreta, which are regularly crafted to contain a range of contrasting shapes and colours, which gives them a very unique look and atmosphere, this wondrous soundscape of sorts, incorporating field recordings, moody guitars and synth, and electronic treatments perfectly reflects the calming and mysterious feel of the long and languid glorious English days of the moment. Wind chimes…the crackle of leaves underfoot….the light, swirling wind in the treetops…the sun breaking through the clouds…put this album on and you will find yourself strolling there as well!£15.00£15.00 Quickview
Gimu – A Vida Que Deixei…CDVinyl style CDR, information sheet and a gloss photo print, all in a fold over cardboard sleeve with artwork on the front... Gimu returns to Assembly Field with his third release for the label. Eight experimental tracks using grainy drones with splashes of melody, scratchy field recordings and manipulated vocals and beats here and there. 'A Vida Que Deixei De Ver Nos Seus Olhos' = 'The Life I Can No Longer See In Your Eyes'.£6.00£6.00 Quickview
LTO – Déjà RêvéCDBased in Bristol, LTO first made waves as part of mysterious electronic collective Old Apparatus. As a solo producer, LTO has since attracted attention with his praised debut LP "The Number From Which All Things Come" and subsequent ambient/modern classical-focussed "Storybook" LP. With "Déjà Rêvé", he expands on that classical sensibility, creating a highly expressive and nuanced release for Denovali Records.£10.00
Elektro Guzzi – PolybrassCDA trio of guitar, bass and drums, Elektro Guzzi overcome the boundary between analogue versus digital, performing techno live with the drive of a machine and the sonic detail of an instrument – without any computers or loopers.£10.00
Bruno Sanfilippo – Intro (Remastered & Expanded)CDBruno Sanfilippo relaunch and revives his acclaimed album InTRO (2006) as a special remastered & expanded edition on CD and Digital. Available worldwide via ad21 as of September 20th. The album (65:28) contains its seven original soundscapes plus two unreleased; InTROpolar (7:10) and InTROsense (6:11), taken from recording sessions in May 2006. These nine records were recently analog remastered from the original master by Ian Hawgood. The cover art was redesigned using the original photography of Helyn Davenport. 'In his nine compositions of imaginary 'InTROspective' Sanfilippo explores the interest in the unfettered possibilities of dreams. Its impact is strongly imaginative and cinematic, featuring deep piano interludes, great synthesizer pads, field recordings, soft soaring sound textures and transparent soundscapes'£12.00
Various Artists – Dialog Tapes IICD"3 years after the first Dialog Tapes project, in which artists from both labels were linked to each other in order to make a collaborative track, Eilean Rec. & Dauw label come back with the second volume. In its essence, Dialog Tapes is an ambitious attempt to connect a musical field through its own creative forces. Its about connectivity and making new unexpected musical ties between individual actors." The final result is presented as 'Dialog Tapes II' and offers 2 exciting albums including the following artists: Autistici, Benoît Pioulard, Dudal, Emmanuel Witzthum, Humble Bee, Josh Mason, Machinefabriek, Monolyth & Cobalt, Offthesky, Ojerum, Olan Mill, Omar El Abd (Omrr), R Bennny, Steve Pacheco, Stijn Hüwels, Toàn, Yadayn .£11.00
Ouvala – Multiperspectivity3", CD, DeluxePre-order: Ships 5th October, 2018... Inside the handmade gatefold CD booklet you will find hand-stamped inserts, printed on recycled paper stock sitting inside a wavy insert pocket, two hand-stamped mini CD-R's, all wrapped-up in a hand-numbered obi strip and packed inside cellophane bags for total freshness. ... Ouvala are Ian Hawgood and Tim Diagram, their first album "Psychology Of Colour" was released on Fluid Audio in 2016. Ouvala "Multiperspectivity" is the most-recent handiwork and features nine collaborative pieces, thrown back and forth several times. It is a characteristic of sound, short stories and mystical adventures where both musical perspectives are projected to the listener.£13.00£13.00 Quickview
Aaron Martin – Touch DissolvesCD• Glass Mastered CD • Handcrafted, hand numbered • Digisleeve : 400 gsm black graphic card dyed in the mass • 2 stickers Aaron Martin began his musical life at age 11, switching between guitar and drums. At the age of 17, he decided to change paths and learn how to play cello, which he went on to study in college. While earning his music degree, he began to experiment with recording. After creating several self-released collections of music, and graduating from college, he recorded Almond, which caught the attention of the Australian label Preservation, and became his debut release. He has gone on to record two more albums for Preservation, River Water and Chautauqua, as well as one album for Experimedia called Worried about the Fire and most recently Comet's Coma for Eilean Records, and A Room Now Empty on Preserved Sound. He has also collaborated with a variety of other musicians, including Machinefabriek, Part Timer, Dawn Smithson (as Winter's Day), Dag Rosenqvist (as From the Mouth of the Sun), and Christoph Berg with releases on Type, Dronarivm, Facture, and Under the Spire Recordings. Aaron Martin lives and records in Topeka, Kansas.£12.00
Zhalih – InrushesCDHannah Zhalih Mickunas is an artist living in Portand, Oregon USA. Inrushes is a compilation of improvisational works she recorded and produced between 2013-2017.£11.00
Lake Mary – KodaCDLake Mary is Chaz Prymek, a US fingerstyle guitarist, soundscape artist and composer who dwells in the lakes and rivers of the Rocky Mountains. Drawing inspiration from the environment around him and the places in between life and death. He comes back on eilean rec. for the second time, 3 years after, at the same month, for the same color, for the same season.£11.00
The Prairie Lines – Today Leap And Stop TimeCDSouth Londoner Bill Bawden has been releasing delicate ambient music since 2005 under various guises, most notably albums and EPs on Serein, 12Rec, Resting Bell, Audio Gourmet and Rural Colours under the name Herzog. In the other side, since 2015, he records under the moniker The Prairie Lines, and presents his second complete LP : Today Leap And Stop Time.£11.00
Foresteppe – MætaCDThe music of Egor Klochikhin is inspired by the place where he grew up and now lives - Berdsk, in Siberia, or more specifically by his surrounding nature - the Siberian forest-steppe. He works with some various instruments as acoustic guitar, piano, metallophone, whistle, melodica, mandolin and percussion, as well with field recordings recorded and looped into some dreamy, lo-fi and out-of-time sound collages.£11.00
Ben Rath – Anything Is PossibleCDAnything Is Possible is a brilliant collection of eight new tracks, with a total duration of about 45 minutes. Using a lush sound palette with layers of grainy, drenched in reverb, synths, whistling drones, distorted warm guitars and loops of hypnotic samples, Rath creates an intimate album, full of shimmering ambient textures and wistful soundscapes, with an orchestral feel to it. Carefully mastered by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave), Anything Is Possible is a wonderful album, highly recommended for devotees of Fennesz, Eluvium, Benoît Pioulard and Tim Hecker.£10.00
David Newlyn – Collected FictionsCDThis is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 280 gsm green-grey cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 170 gsm off-grey cardboard. Collected Fictions is made up of eight new tracks, with a total duration of something more than 32 minutes. Minimal piano chords, haunting melodic guitars, hazy synths, lo-fi drum patterns, rusted electronics and field recording tapes, all gracefully blending into a superb mixture of soothing ambient and slow moving electronica. Beautifully mastered by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave), Collected Fictions is a sublime album, highly recommended for devotees of The Gentleman Losers, Benoît Pioulard and Wil Bolton.£10.00
Ian Hawgood – LightCDIan Hawgood is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, instrument builder and sound engineer. He is the curator of the Home Normal, Tokyo Droning, Nomadic Kids Republic, Koen Music, and Folk Reels labels. He is well-known for supporting the early net-label scene and his sound design work has featured in installations and galleries around the world. His work as a mastering engineer features heavily across the ambient, experimental and post-classical scenes, and he currently writes music for theatre and film. His solo works have featured on a number of labels over the past ten plus years, and among his many collaborations he is perhaps best known as the sound architect behind the Black Elk quartet, as well as his work with Bvdub, Danny Norbury, and Maps and Diagrams. After spending much of his adult life living in Japan, he currently resides in Warsaw, Poland. Since 2012 he has been working on creating music from old disused reel to reel recorders, his childhood piano, and an array of vintage synths he has been collecting for the better part of twenty years now. '光' is his first fully developed solo album in 6 years, alongside his latest work with James Murray under their 'Slow Reels' guise.£11.00
Xu – Whisper My WorldCDXu is the solo project from Nicola Fornasari an italian musician and composer born in 1977. He's also part of the following bands: La Petite Vague, Xu(e), Twyxu, Zero Wait enSemble. He presents his fifth album under the moniker Xu, and for the second time on Eilean Rec. His works have been released on Audio Gourmet, Cathedral Transmissions, Eilean, Flaming Pines, Many Feet Under, Twice Removed and more.£11.00
Ben McElroy – The Word Cricket Made Her HappyCDBen McElroy is an ambient/drone/folk music maker living in Nottingham, U.K. Ben's sound is typically based around acoustic instruments such as guitar, strings and voice with a little additional computer based processing and his work is influenced by artists as diverse as Pauline Oliveros, Sharron Kraus and Ralph Vaughn Williams. Since 2016 he has recorded two full length Lp's, on Whitelabrecs and Unknown Tone. He presents on Eilean Rec. his third one.£11.00
Amuleto – AcreCDAmuleto is Francesco Dillon (cello, prepared cello, feedbacks, other strings, objects) and Riccardo Wanke (guitars, keyboards, electronics, synths, harmonium). The duo takes its name from Roberto Bolaño's novel and seeks to trace invisible links among distant geographical and cultural spaces, words and sounds. Good part of the inspiration comes from literature, sounds, images coming from various sides of the world. Amuleto's music emerges as a combination between contemporary, experimental and electronic music with influences of folk and classical traditions and improvisation. Amuleto's first release "11h15 local weather forecast" (Die Schachtel, 2010) has received positive reviews from international specialized press (BlowUp, The Wire, Vital Weekly). In 2015, the duo published an extended project (over 2h of music, 2CD, postcards, texts and photos) entitled "No para siempre en la tierra sólo un poco aquí" . The record has been selected as the best releases of the year by the Italian magazines Solar Ipse and Blow Up and reissued in 2017.£11.00
Federico Dal Pozzo – Untitled_VNZCD"Untitled_VNZ" is an acousmatic concert dedicated to Venice and its sound. A sound that vibrates of water, stone, re, metal , all of which in a continuous movement of sensorial and mnemonic evolution. Time becomes water that collects re exes of our hearing and later absorbing to design a story of echo in new notions of forms. An orchestrated composition from the city's topology, a city that makes one think of music papers in a continuously played music: the scores come together like sea waves, the pentagram bars are canals with its numerous "legato" of bridges, of high churches windows, and let's not forget the violins on the edge on the gondolas. Its Music is bigger than the orchestra, and there is no hand big enough to ip the score sheet.£10.00
Fallen – GlimpsesCDBlack / silver cdr in folded card sleeve with grey paper folded and printed insert. Black 'obi' style strip with silver hand written artist label. Comes in a stamped, sealed envelope and plastic film outer sleeve... I composed and recorded "glimpses" at night (for the most part) feeling really calm and serene whilst recording the pieces because of the absolute silence, because of the cold outside the windows, because of the rain outdoors. "glimpses" tries to explore human emotions and feelings, acting like a cold heartless person, or like an empathetic one, or feeling very angry or totally at peace with the rest of the world. "glimpses" is having coffee at night, "glimpses" is crying gently while thinking of a dear childhood memory, "glimpses" is listening to your loved one's breath while sleeping in the bed near to you. All this happened while I was recording in silence, while my heart was quietly beating...£11.00
Blackfilm – Zero One SevenCDOn "Zero One Seven", Blackfilm merges tracks spanning across drum and bass, dub and electronic. The sounds on the album are built from the ideas on the original Blackfilm "S/T" and "Along the Corridors" and progress to a sound built on new ground mixing modern production techniques and influences while at times referencing the Blackfilm sound we know from his previous releases. The album maintains a consistent focus on atmospherics, beats and heavy bass ranging from darker dub and drum and bass influences to vocal tracks and complex ambient soundscapes. Production wise, the familiar Blackfilm style incorporating the use of synthetic sounds mixed with samples enables the album to create an intriguing, shifting atmosphere as the album progresses. A dystopian journey through haunting vocals, hypnotic drum patterns and complex sound design.£10.00
Ensemble Economique – Radiate Through YouCDThe latest long-player of devotional noir by Humboldt County romantic Brian Pyle aka Ensemble Economique was originally titled Music Saves Lives, in response to the misguided backlash directed at underground artists in the wake of the tragic Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. Since Pyle's career threads through a decade and a half of Northern California's independent experimental music community, the blow struck a uniquely deep and personal chord. As a way to process, he began recording at his coastal home studio in Manila, California, channeling inner states of mind, seeking something "more personal and intimate, the idea of love, and shining through." Radiate Through You delivers on its title, exuding a nuanced catharsis, alternately tempestuous and transcendent, forlorn but undefeated. Vaulted heavens of interwoven electronics ebb into hushed dirges of skeletal percussion and candlelit guitar. Roiling noise seethes, swells, and subsides as an ashen string arrangement rises in the mix, keening a somber, circular elegy, as if overtaken by memory on a long walk alone. Two key guest appearances lend the album even more dynamism and drama: the first by Barcelona synthesist Alexander Molero on the questing, celestial opener, "Music Is Life," the second by New Zealand psychic sisters Purple Pilgrims on the devastating finale, "Blue Hour." Both showcase impressive shades of Pyle's finesse as producer and muse, sparking his collaborators to new heights. Whether taken as expressionist memorial, therapeutic song cycle, or something more ambiguous, Radiate Through You stands as a pensive, passionate statement by an enduring light of the West Coast canon, drawn from "a deep, special place of giant emotions, feelings."£10.00
Alaskan Tapes – You Were Always An IslandCD, DeluxeYou Were Always An Island opens with a downpour of rain. Staring out at its constant fall, listeners can only wait for it to stop. The music's already waiting: for someone, and for a moment that will never arrive… Alaskan Tapes aids in the clear-up operation, helping to cleanse the air if not the growing solitude. Quiet drones and sullen strings dispel the rain, but it lingers in the streets, overflowing around the mouth of its gutter. The music has been invaded by a longing which spreads like a tendril of ink in clear water, bruising the atmosphere with its purple, sour colour. An event shakes the soul with the magnitude of an earthquake. In this case, the cruelty of distance and the greater cruelty of war which separates a couple. As a man leaves to fight, his beloved has no other choice but to wait for his return. She sends unanswered prayers. His absence grows longer with every sunset. Unable to wait and growing increasingly anxious, she sets off to look for him, a lighthouse offering a faint lifeline in the gathering gloom, only to sadly learn of his death. The separation is permanent – death us do part.£25.00£25.00 Quickview
Fallen – ást (Deluxe Version)CD, DeluxeThis is the limited edition, hand made version of "ást", by Fallen. Available in an edition of only 60 copies. Each factory pressed disc comes in a vintage, inside and out, uniquely collaged 5" reel to reel tape box. Each painstakingly artified box comes with a factory pressed disc inside encased in a heart cut, red fleece, fold over sleeve. Each also contains an accompanying, vintage French Tarot card, a hand printed insert, your very own cut out heart, and other bits of mysterious paper ephemera.£30.00£30.00 Quickview
Fallen – ástCDLimited edition hand worked, black digipak version in an edition of just 40 copies...£14.00£14.00 Quickview
Gianluca Favaron – Variations (Fragments of Evanescent Memories)CD, DeluxeCD + handmade cover by Stefano Gentile, ltd. 100 copies... Gianluca Favaron (Under the Snow, Zbeen, Ab'she) returns with a new work based on the study of repetition. "Even variation is a form of repetition": quoting Arnold Schönberg, Favaron has elaborated his concept of repetition by frangling the sound to break it down into infinitesimal parts. Therefore adding a new piece in his discography that represents an essential starting point for new research. In the sound. Of sound.£14.00
Fabio Orsi | Alessandra Guttagliere | Giardino forico n°1 – NapoliBook, CD, Deluxe60 page deluxe artwork-photo book (cm 17x24) + 2xCD, ltd. 100 copies... The city has passed through us like a big wave of dust carried by the wind we found ourselves covered by debris, passing skeletons shadows of leaves, passages, spells, voices of pianos from the windows memories of places that live in several times ardours and fervours and odours we have immortalized them. We have brought the simulacra with us we have watched them from the Estrada Atlantica, from the singing pits of Salento, from the immense Metrosideros of Monserrate with the organ of a church in the Itria Valley, from our home in one year of work the Giardino Forico appeared it behaves like life, it brings it appropriates the airs, the colours, the languages and the ways it does not represent it shows its vigour which is our own. The Giardino Forico is a way of giving back a place, a knowledge, a humanity through our languages. It is the result of a vital artistic process, we listen and observe the space and we speak it.£28.00£28.00 Quickview
Compilation of experimental music from VietnamCD"Emergence" is an introductory compilation of experimental music from active Vietnamese artists, foreign artists who are based in Vietnam and those who collaborate with Vietnamese artists. This compilation features ten tracks of both established and emerging artists from all backgrounds.£10.00
Kate Carr – I Ended Out Moving To BrixtonCDA soundscape reveals a lot about a place, through its presences, its silences, its rhythms and its pauses. A soundscape is forever being made by us all. It stitches us together in ways both subtle and sometimes overwhelming. I think in both its openness and fragility the soundscape can reveal something about the process of community making, and its sensitivity to change offers both opportunities and risks. Kate Carr, Brixton, London.£10.00
Benjamin Finger – For Those About To LoveCDNorway's Benjamin Finger plunges the listener into a pulsing, sparkling disorienting world in For Those About To Love. Part collage, part dream; by turns joyful, sombre, heartfelt and playful this album is a layered and diverse journey into the mysteries of the heart.£10.00
Compilation of Iranian experimental musicCDFaced with the task of writing about artists from Iran it is tempting to oversimplify and go with the easiest way to address them -- the way most western media has always treated art coming not just from Iran but from middle east in general. This approach places artists exclusively within the political context presented by the mainstream media, and only shows you the day-to-day politics of governments in the region. This biased approach means artists' works are only interpreted in relation to a reduced conception of the political context. By seeing things this way you only have a handful of artists addressing certain issues with enough exaggeration to be newsworthy.£10.00
Michael Vallera – All Perfect DaysCDOn All Perfect Days, Michael Vallera's second LP for Denovali, he continues to distill his singular, cinematic approach to sound. Acting as both performer and producer, Vallera constructs a lush, deeply emotional album that jettisons the overt rhythms and explicit drum programming that characterized much of his earlier work. Instead, in its tightly focused reliance on little more than guitar and amplifier feedback, supplemented by piano and synthesizer, the album explores a sparse but rich palette that evokes the ambient works of Harold Budd—although filtered through Vallera's own sharp-edged sensibility. Recorded with Greg Norman at Electrical Audio and mastered by Daniel Rejmer, All Perfect Days adds to the mounting evidence that Michael Vallera is among the most assured and compelling artists to emerge from Chicago in recent years. Michael Vallera is a musician and photographer who lives and works in Chicago. Prolific as both a solo artist and collaborator, he has released albums under his own name and as COIN (Opal Tapes), with percussionist Steven Hess as Cleared (Immune Recordings), and with Joseph Clayton Mills as Maar (Umor Rex, Entr'acte). He sings and plays guitar in the experimental rock group Luggage (Don Giovanni Records). An MFA graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.£10.00
Sankt Otten – Zwischen Demut und DiscoCDThe duo Sankt Otten from Osnabrueck (Germany), founded in 1999 and consisting of Stephan Otten and Oliver Klemm, releases music on Denovali since 2009. After Männerfreundschaften und Metaphysik (2016), a collaboration record with experimental guitarist "N", Sankt Otten finally release their first new album since Engtanz Depression (2015). Their new record starts with Das endgültige Scheitern der Melancholie (en.: the final failure of melancholy), which seems to be unfamiliar due to its euphoric mood, but also shows that Sankt Otten consequently develop their music in a sovereign way. The title track Zwischen Demut und Disco (en.: Between humility and disco) then particularly brings to the fore the duo's admiration of analog synthesizers - timeless instrumental music without nostalgic flashbacks to the past. Warm electronica, human being and machine hand in hand, infused by an almost danceable beat who induces head-nodding.£10.00
Cameron Day – The Castle and The Garden3", CD, DeluxeMade by hand, Thirteen variations of beautiful antique (early 1900's) engraved / embossed books from the Little Leather Library collection, 2 x mini CDs (finger-printed), 2 x circular coloured covers, 13 x A6 prints on luxury Tintoretto Gesso card, scented. All of the above rests inside stitched / sealed Japanese brown waxed bags. Download code Made with love...£20.00
Moss Covered Technology – And His Many SeasCD, Deluxe'His Many Seas' is a personal voyage, as the artist's father was suffering from cancer at the time of the album being written. A well-travelled man, 'His Many Seas' sets sail to quietly conquer and navigate another unexplored, painful continent: the frightening landmass of coming to terms with his father's illness, steering through the trials of life as well as acting as a dedication to his father's love of travelling. The illness itself heralded the beginnings of a new journey. Recalling the feel of the Arctic Ocean, 'His Many Seas' thematically revolves around exploration, and the release includes vintage nautical Nories tables, Elisha Kent Kane - Arctic Exploration inserts along with 'famous explorer' double side prints. ... Made by hand, Hand made book-bound CD covers (1260 g/qm FSC certified), lined inside / outside with luxury Italian paper from Florence, glass mastered CD (not CDR), vintage nautical Nories tables (circa. 1920) resting inside old glassine bags, vintage Elisha Kane Arctic Exploration inserts (circa. 1869), a collection of 9 x double sided A6 'Hassan's Greatest Explorers' prints, dried flowers. All rests inside luxury hand cut envelopes. Individually numbered / stamped. Made with love.£20.00
Prairie – After the Flash FloodCDPrairie is the project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Marc Jacobs, hailing from Brussels with roots in The Netherlands. He previously released an EP (I'm so in love I almost forgot I survived a Disaster - 2013) and an LP (Like a Pack of Hounds - 2015) on the Berlin imprint Shitkatapult. On stage, Prairie plays with two or three musicians and together they re-create a free association of musical ideas and atmospheres. Prairie has played in selected venues and festivals across Europe and toured with Apparat in 2016.£10.00
Nadia Struiwigh – WHRRuCD"WHRRu" combines the warm electronics and dynamic sound of Nadia's previous works with a new film-composing orientated cinematic sound and approach. The result is a ten tracks album with electronic listening music for quiet nights and long journeys. Nadia says: '"WHHRu" is written with emotions and memories from my childhood. The use of acoustic instruments and synthesizers gave me the opportunity to settle a past/ future concept for all the chapters. Going back to those moments helped me to close a book and to find a safe place within myself. My own story has just started.'£10.00
Birds Of Passage – The Death of Our InventionCDMasterworks of minimalism and glacial beauty. With Birds of Passage, New Zealand based Alicia Merz presents us with an endearing invitation into her fragile world, a captivating journey through the landscapes of her emotional euphoria and agony, a further commitment to musical experimentation. The cold minimalist-drones, distorted field recordings, and sparse instrumentation, illustrate an icy, desolate and dark world. With allusions to dark-pop and classic broken-folk, the reverb drenched instrumentation, metaphorical fairytale lyrics, and anti-climactic compositions remind us that Alicia Merz is a singer songwriter for people who don't like singer songwriters. After four years of silence, Merz returns with the fourth full length 'The Death of Our Invention'.£10.00
Terminal Sound System – The Endless SeaCDFrom Rebirth and a four track recorder in the year 1999 to broken tape machines, untuned guitars/synths and extreme signal processing an eternity later, Terminal Sound System has remained the primary musical outlet for musician/producer Skye Klein. It is about stories. There is a narrative, albeit disjointed. Tends to come in threes, like dramatic characters; introduction, exploration, disintegration. It's about stories, creating a world with sound and words and exploring that until it (inevitably) folds back on itself and starts to self-reference, decay, but also sprout appendages, potentialities.£10.00
Barry Kernachan – LayersCDLayers is a collection of piano pieces by Barry Kernachan. The improvised nature in which Kernachan composes has delivered a relaxed and free-flowing album without control or restraint. "Playing the piano for me is a form of meditation. A piece just starts with a single note or simple melody. I try not to control anything and just let the idea flow," says Kernachan. "This, for me, is an important part of composing – my ideas are born in this way rather than being predetermined."£7.00
Gray Acres – Gray AcresCDThis is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm dark gray cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 180 gsm gray cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. The self-titled debut album of Gray Acres consists of seven wonderful tracks, containing many of the ambient elements of their Hotel Neon sound but with a sometimes softer and even more dreamy feel. Utilizing multiple layered emotional textures of immersive drones, walls of effected guitar swells, subtle piano and field recordings, Gray Acres create an impressive album that captivates the listener with its beautifully evocative soundscapes. The album was mastered by Ian Hawgood, giving more range and depth to its sounds.£10.00
Yndi Halda – A Sun-Coloured ShakerCDThis is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 285 gsm light yellow-cream cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 180 gsm ochre-brown cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. yndi halda see A Sun-Coloured Shaker as the passing of night that follows Under Summer's day. The dawn after the album's dusk has faded. They wanted to express the realisation that something as simple and everyday as sunrise can be so truly life-giving. That the natural rhythm of nightfall and daybreak is a foundation of reality and being.£10.00
A Lily – Ten Drones On CassetteCDThis is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. The physical disc includes the edited versions of all tracks. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm pale brown cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert with the tracklist and the credits printed on a 160 gsm moss green cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon which includes as bonus the full versions of the tracks, each one between 37 to 50 minutes, and a Sound In Silence card. Ten Drones On Cassette, A Lily's third full-length album and first since 2011, consists of ten new compositions with a total duration of something more than 50 minutes. As the album title suggests, the concept of the album is based on the idea of recording a collection of ten cinematic ambient and minimalist drone tracks, each one on a different cassette. Each track is named after and inspired by a specific person and takes up about a complete side of a cassette. The project was firstly self-released by A Lily in spring 2017 in just ten cassettes, each limited to one copy and including a different track. Ten Drones On Cassette was recorded using various instruments, including guitar, voice, organ, clarinet, brass and many others, and treated with a multitude of effects and acoustic processing, resulting in a sublime collection of dreamy soundscapes and hypnotic textures.£10.00
Sweeney – Middle AgesCDThis is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 300 gsm cream recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist, lyrics and information printed on a 110 gsm light yellow fabric paper. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Middle Ages is a brilliant collection of ten more song-based tracks than his usual Panoptique Electrical sound, with a total duration of about 37 minutes. With the help of his collaborators Jed Palmer and Zoë Barry who provide cello, accordion, string arrangements, guitars and bass, Sweeney creates a peaceful and emotional album full of beautiful textures and sonic landscapes. Centered on his distinctive voice and melodic piano lines, Middle Ages magnificently merges songwriting, modern classical and ambient sounds with minimal beats and field recordings. Mastered by Antony Ryan (ISAN) in Denmark, Middle Ages is a beautifully breathtaking album, highly recommended for devotees of Anohni, Scott Walker and David Sylvian.£10.00
Panoptique Electrical – Quiet EcologyCDThis is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 360 gsm dark green cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 160 gsm cream recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Quiet Ecology is a sonic memorial to these spaces and a musical act of quiet preservation. It's a relaxing collection of six quiet compositions, with a total duration of something more than 45 minutes, which sets out to slow things down. Centered on gentle piano melodies and a background full of atmospheric textures and swelling cello drones, Quiet Ecology balances between modern classical and ambient soundscapes, in the vein of both ambient pioneers like Brian Eno and Harold Budd and artists like Max Richter and A Winged Victory For The Sullen.£10.00
Yellow6 – About The JourneyCDThis is a limited edition of 100 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 250 gsm dark grey cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and two insert sheets containing tracklist and information printed on a 190 gsm saffron yellow cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. About The Journey is made up of six new tracks with a total duration of about 75 minutes. All tracks, recorded in the first half of 2017, were inspired by the concept of the album which is about the journey of life. Knowing perfectly how to create his wonderful cinematic soundscapes, Yellow6 offers a beautiful chilled out collection of sounds where loops of ambient textures and layers of nostalgic guitar melodies are filled with a background constructed by minimal beats and droning feedback. The result is one of the finest Yellow6 works to date which appeals to all fans of atmospheric music of artists like Labradford, Brian McBride, Windy & Carl, Low and Roy Montgomery.£10.00
con_cetta – OrigineCDThis is a limited edition of 150 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm pale brown cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 160 gsm moss green cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card. Origine, con_cetta's third full-length album and first solo release in nine years, consists of eight new compositions with a total duration of something more than 30 minutes. Meticulously built up from simple abstract piano melodies, harmonious ambient drones, washes of electronic treatments and heavily processed guitars, field recordings and manipulated found sounds, Origine is a mesmerizing and enchanting album full of emotional and evocative sonic vignettes, rich in tone and texture.£10.00
Nanook of the NorthCDNanook of the North are Stefan Wesołowski and Piotr Kaliński (also known as Hatti Vatti) - two acclaimed Polish musicians whose simpatico merging of compositional roles are blended as seamlessly as their use of acoustic and electronic sounds. Recording sessions broadly found Stefan playing violin and piano parts with additional synth touches and Piotr taking care of electronics, more synths and the final mix. Upon being invited by the Sopot Film Festival next to their hometown of Gdansk to perform an improvised score to a film screening, the duo chose Robert J. Flaherty's classic 1922 silent movie of the same name - 'Nanook of the North'. Keen to maintain and nurture the initial ambient essence of the film, the duo travelled to Iceland where they recorded the album in Reykjavík and later mixed it in Greenland.£10.00
Orson Hentschel – FacadesCDnly six months after his sophomore album, which has showcased a "tense repetition of short phrases, often building big, dramatic pieces starting with a single stuck-in-the-machine sound" (Decoder) and an "analogue cyber trip-hop of an impressive depth of focus as an acoustic furniture for an apocalypse lounge" (Groove), Hentschel returns with a two-piece EP showcasing yet another aspect of his musical spectrum. While the first two albums featured only instrumental tracks, "Facades" are the first two pieces in which Orson Hentschel works with text as a main musical element for his composition, although he approaches vocals from a rather particular perspective.£10.00
Waelder – Non PlacesCDWælder are moving between ambient, industrial and pop. Their rhythms and soundscapes of voices, obscure samples and distorted field-recordings build spaces of barren material and soft ground, which teem and crawl - strange and harmonious. To present their music live, Wælder are mixing analogue and digital effects with guitar, synthesizers, vocals and loops. Rhythms and atmospheres blur, dissolve and re-assemble. Their live shows are often framed by visuals, generated in collaboration with various visual artists.£10.00
Alapastel – Hidden for the EyesCDEach heavyweight custom double sleeve is individually rubber-stamped and numbered by hand in a limited first edition of one hundred and fifty copies for the world. Every package includes a concealed handwritten download code, glass-mastered CD and insert with original artwork by Silvia Bobeková and an individually numbered, handwritten dedication from the artist himself. Hidden for the Eyes is the exquisite debut album from Slovakian composer Lukáš Bulko recording as Alapastel. This treasure trove of neo-classical grandeur, electro-acoustic production and subtle folk undertones was eight years in the making and clearly signals the arrival of a unique and original new talent. Lukáš speaks with spirited and assured musical voice in an ambitious, pastoral and otherworldly collection, enhanced by the vocal talents of Alex Lukáčová and Marián Hrdina and the sensitive mix and mastering of Adam Dekan.£14.00
Aries Mond – Come On Let's WaitCDsouthern France. He started to compose with environmental sound recordings in 2002. He toured with different solo projects, playing "acousmatic" concerts. He often collaborated with contemporary theatre. From 2013, he started to focus on instrumental music, with a particular interest for piano, and to share tracks under Aries Mond pseudonym. His first release, "Come On Let's Wait" came from his land, where, Indian Summer 2016 turned into an endless Autumn lasting the whole Winter of 2017. Before time definitively stops, he decided to record a few piano takes again.£11.00
Emmanuel Witzthum – Songs Of Love And LossCDEmmanuel Witzthum - violist, composer, multidisciplinary artist, and lecturer. Studied at the Manhattan School of Music, NYC with Michael Tree of the Guarneri Quartet. Performed with numerous orchestras such as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in NYC, the Berlin Staatskapelle, ensemble Intercontemporain and others. As electronic musician and composer participated at the year long cursus at IRCAM, Paris and was guest composer of the DAAD artists program in Berlin. Performed at the ZKM, the 104 Paris, the Matadero Madrid, the Jewish Museum Berlin amongst others and recorded for Deutsche Grammofon under Pierre Boulez with ensemble Intercontemporain. Seven years after his first album released on the wonderful label Cotton Goods, he presents on eilean rec. his second opus. 4 tracks, 4 Haikus like 4 seasons. In parallel, Since 2010, he has recorded with Craig Tattersall (Humble Bee) under the project E & I, three releases and one Ep.£11.00
Benjamin Finger – Scale of BlindnessCDBenjamin Finger is a composer, electronic music producer, DJ, photographer and film-maker based in Oslo, Norway. Since his 2009 debut solo album "Woods of Broccoli", he has produced a prolific output of films and music with a healthy disregard for genres. His works have been released on How is Annie Records (NO), Time Released Sound (US), Digitalis Recordings (US), Watery Starve Press (US), Eilean Records (FR), Shimmering Mood Records (NL) Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records (UK), Oak Editions (IT), Sellout! Music (NO), and Flaming Pines (UK).£11.00
Śruti – Heard, UnspokenCDŚruti is the collaboration between Egyptian experimental musicians Omar El Abd (Omrr) & Mohammed Ashraf (Pie Are Squared). "Heard, Unspoken" is their debut album, created over the past two years between Cairo, Egypt & Ravenna, Italy.£11.00
Benjamin Louis Brody – Far Away MusicCDFar Away Music sees Benjamin Louis Brody reimagine his previous compositions to create what he calls "music inside of music". "When I started this project, I asked myself whether I could give my music depth perception, similar to a painting or drawing – the classic illusion of train track perspective that gives a painting a certain sense of distance," says Brody. "With Far Away Music, I set out to do that with sound." "The music and sounds you hear could only have been created through computer technology. By manipulating the speed and texture its allowed me to change the perspective of the original content," says Brody. "Far Away Music represents how I experience my work in a more personal way – it's vast and subconscious."£7.00
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Below the great escarpment of the Drakensberg - the 'mountains of the dragon', with their breath of smoking cloud - sits one of the world's most celebrated national parks: Kruger. Bordered on its northern flank by the mighty Limpopo River, the Kruger is the largest of all South Africa's national parks - in fact, encompassing almost two million hectares it's only a tad smaller than Wales!
Hot and dry in the north, wetter and subtropical in the south, its immense size and range of habitats ensures that wildlife is varied and abundant. More than 500 species of birds and around 150 different species of mammals have been recorded in Kruger - and our February tour will introduce you to many of them!
After arriving in Johannesburg, we first travel south - via spectacular scenery and displaying Long-tailed Widowbirds - towards the Central Drakensberg. From our base in the foothills here, we take a trip next day into the mountains, climbing high into the realm of the Lammergeier to search peaks at around 3000m (9800ft) for the endemic Drakensberg Rockjumper.
From here, we swing northeast through the highlands to explore the most threatened habitat in South Africa: the pristine upland grasslands around Wakkerstroom. The extremely localised Rudd's and Botha's Larks are two key endemics here, occurring alongside larger and more eye-catching specialities such as the wonderful Blue Crane, Southern Bald Ibis and Blue Bustard.
Continuing north, we enter Kruger National Park, its mix of woodland, grassland and scrub home to a fabulous cross-section of African birds. Natal Francolin, Martial Eagle, White-headed Lapwing, Purple-crested Turaco, Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike, Eastern Bearded Scrub Robin... and many more delights await our discovery here!
On reaching our first camp in Kruger, we'll switch from our minibus to a custom-built, open-sided wildlife viewing vehicle equipped with three tiered rows of seats, great visibility and a canopy roof for protection from the sun. We'll use this vehicle on two of our three full days within the park, reverting to our minibus again on our 'changeover day' when we make the more lengthy transfer between our camps in the south and centre of this vast national park.
Giraffe, African Elephant, Zebra and White Rhinoceros are among many large mammals to watch for during our slow drives through the park - and we've a good chance of sighting Africa's two largest cats, Lion and Leopard, too!
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Match Report
Following on from last Saturday's table-top clash with Gillingham Anchorians, Ashford travelled to eighth placed New Ash Green for what, at least on paper, should have been an easier task. However, Ashford were mindful that in the corresponding fixture last season, they had put on their worst performance of the season and the home side had won comfortably, so the game had to be viewed as a potential banana skin to their 100% record.
A number of Ashford's regular first team pack were unavailable on Saturday, but the game saw the return of a now fit Ben King to the fray, and an opportunity for Owen Piper to make his first team debut. The late withdrawal of Rhys Fussell due to a family bereavement also resulted in a late call-up for Joseph Campbell, who had been playing well in the club's 2ndXV.
Making the most of a dry, warm afternoon, Ashford attacked from the off, and following early pressure attacked the home side's left wing, where a timely incursion by captain Chris Baker opened the defence for Ashford's first score, and a simple conversion for Steve Tanner that created an early 7-0 lead.
The following twenty minutes showed a marked contrast between the two teams, with New Ash Green expending much energy to no avail and Ashford looking dangerous whenever they stepped up a gear. The home side were, however, monopolising possession, thanks in no small measure to Ashford's propensity to give away penalties, and the culmination was a kick to the corner, followed by several phases of play before securing the equalising score after 22 minutes.
The home team's joy was, however, short-lived, as Ashford struck twice before half time. The first came when Henry Hall released Farai Myezwa, giving the winger a metre of space in which to outpace his opposite number, and then cut infield leaving two despairing defenders in his wake and touching down near the post. Steve Tanner's conversion extended the lead to 14-7. The second started with a fine midfield break by newcomer Owen Piper who breached the defensive line and then offloaded to Henry Hall whose slight of hand confused the defence and created the opening for Farai Myezwa to exploit and score his second try, which was not converted.
Just before half time, the home side launched one more attack, producing wave upon wave of assaults on the visitors' line. This culminated in a pile-up on the Ashford line and, to some surprise, the referee awarding a try to New Ash Green.
At the midway point, Ashford enjoyed a 19-12 lead and showed their desire to create a more comfortable lead with a series of attacks, culminating in a driving maul that took play towards the home side's line with prop Marc Huxted touching down to secure the bonus point for the four tries scored. Steve Tanner's conversion extended the lead to 26-12.
The rest of the game can best be described as disjointed. This was caused primarily by a series of injuries to New Ash Green players that culminated in having to play uncontested scrums, a real disadvantage to Ashford whose scrummaging is a strong feature of their game. The litany of injuries reached its nadir when the referee was struck in the face by the ball, fell to the ground and had to be revived by medical staff.
In the closing minutes, New Ash Green launched one final attack and having failed to breach the Ashford midfield defence where Danny Bushell had been outstanding all day, a speculative kick to the corner was collected by their winger who scored out wide. This proved to be the final score in a game that had started brightly but deteriorated into an essentially forgettable spectacle.
For Ashford, there is the satisfaction that their record remains intact and a further five points added to their tally. But this was an occasion when they allowed themselves to drop to the level of their opponents instead of imposing their standard. In doing so, they passed the initiative to their opponents. Future teams may not be as charitable and the team will need to reflect on what they need to do, individually and collectively to set and maintain a level of performance that will maintain their league campaign and for the forthcoming trip to Uckfield for the RFU Intermediate Cup game.


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Frosty Mornings, Crispy Golden Leaves, and New Scarves
Late Autumn 2018 - The latest scarf collection is here!
Full of vibrant colors and gorgeous patterns, this collection is a brilliant launch for P&M. It's the best time of year to prepare a new look for festivities, brighten up wardrobes, and find the perfect scarf for "that outfit".
We're loving Autumn 18 - full of colors and excitement! Happy shopping and wearing.
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Ahhhh... The Late Summer '18 Collection is Here
Summer. What compares to summer?
Intense Heat. Warm Dancing Breezes. Long Days. Sun, Sun, Glorious Sun. Water. Picnics. Family. And so much more! Speaking of more - P&M is excited to launch the Late Summer '18 Collection. Packed full of vibrant and beautiful silks, it's sure to delight. Enjoy summer. Enjoy the new collection.
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New City Series Collection - Launching Soon!
The creative team at Pacific & Main, in collaboration with stores in many locales, have been working on a new series over the last few months.
Finally, we're excited to announce that scarves for all participating cities have been drawn, created, edited, sampled, and are now in production!
These scarves are beautiful not only for the sake of fashion and the Pacific & Main classic design aesthetic, they also make a valued memento and fantastic souvenir. What better way to complete an outfit for remembering a weekend or friend?
We'll keep you posted when these scarves will be available.
Until then, check out all the other designs online!
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2018 Spring Color Trends
Whoosh! 2018 roared in.... And what should we expect. We at P&M think a year of bold and bright and brilliant - pops of color and print - moments of style and flair and sophisticated wow!
According to a range of fashion experts the fashion world will see overabundance of bold, bright colors! Think bold. Think bright. Think beautiful. In addition to a surfeit of sunny yellows, expect a jelly-bean bowl of blazing oranges, lime greens and cherry reds along with an old favorite - bright and springy pinks. Not only bright - think lots of bright and mixed brights.
Along with brilliant colors, bold prints such as tartan plaids, metallics, patterns, and animal prints are forecasted to be very in-vogue for 2018 spring, summer, and fall.
At Pacific and Main, we're just excited to be bringing scarves that offer these great elements along with classic style to you! We have new collections slated to launch soon along with heaps of designs in progress!
Here's to looking fabulous in 2018!
farewell 2017 & welcome 2018
We want to say a large thank you loyal partners!
Thanks for a great year!
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2431 Berlin Turnpike Newington, CT
175 Newington Ave New Britain, CT
Very great service! I had a remote start system installed with an alarm. The company came and picked up my car and had it back within an hour or so, and the whole process was quick and friendly. They dropped the car off cleaner than it had gone out, too!5