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More on the hi-fi capabilities of cats in Classical music can learn a lot from our feline friends.

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Arguments about whether classical music and politics should be mixed are futile. Because the two are irrevocably intertwined. As is shown by yesterday's press release from the City of London Corporation pressing the case for a new concert hall in London's newly designated 'culture mile'. This press release makes much of the Crossrail transport link that will serve the proposed hall. One of Crossrail's non-executive directors is Michael Cassidy. As readers of my previous posts on the subject will know, Michael Cassidy - who, incidentally, is a practicing lawyer - holds a number of influential positions in the City of London Corporation. He is also non-executive chairman of Askonas Holt; this is the management agency that represents both Simon Rattle who is a leading advocate of the new hall, and his new orchestra the London Symphony Orchestra which is expected to be resident there. Daniel Barenboim is also managed by Askonas Holt and he and Simon Rattle have both taken public anti-Brexit stances.

Yet another of Michael Cassidy's roles is chairman of the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, a major commercial and residential development in the south of England. Ebbsfleet International Station is a major gateway for travellers to the EU and  plans for the area include a £3.5 billion theme park with Europe's largest indoor water park, live music venues and hotels one mile from Ebbsfleet station - see header graphic. It is not unreasonable to suggest that the commercial potential of these projects may be adversely affected by Brexit.

All the foregoing is in the public domain and I am confident it conforms to the relevant corporate governance regulations. There is a cogent argument that London needs a new concert hall. and it can be argued that Britain's exit from the EU has significant downsides. It can also be argued that conductors are entitled to use the podium to air personal political views. But I would also argue that a better understanding of the bigger picture is needed.

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That header photo shows the British Muslim musician Ali Keeler playing with his Al Firdaus Ensemble. The status of music in Islam - forbidden or permissible - is frequently discussed and almost as frequently misunderstood. So I thought it useful to share an extract from an unpublished memoir by Ian Whiteman who was multi-instrumentalist for the mod band The Action and the Sufi-influenced cult psychedelic folk rock band Mighty Baby in the 1960s. Ian went on to make what is, to use a tired and devalued label, an inexplicably neglected masterpiece, the one-off album If Man But Knew by the Habibiyya. In 1971 Ian converted to Islam and became a member of the celebrated Bristol Gardens/Wood Dalling Sufi zawiya founded by the controversial Abdalqadir as-Sufi who later wrote an Islamic interpretation of Wagner's music. After converting to Islam Ian Whiteman took the name Abdallateef and as Abdallateef Whiteman has established a considerable reputation in the Muslim world as a graphic designer. He now lives in Andalusia where together with Ali Keeler and other local musicians he contributes to recording of Islamic sacred music such as the Rawdat al-Shuhuda' which I praised recently.

In 1994 I was invited to participate in a symposium at the Royal College of Music in London, on the subject "Music in Islam: Permissible or Forbidden". Two of the speakers were pro music and two hard line against, with myself in the middle trying to have an open mind, and not really knowing much about it either, other than that I knew what I liked and what I didn't. Music had played an enormously positive part in my life and no big bearded imam was going to tell me otherwise, but I also knew the dangers of music having seen the music business in tooth and claw. We had on the panel one bearded Imam who spoke very much against it and I couldn't see much light in what he was saying but he did speak a lot about the Fire. His speech had a palpably depressing effect on the symposium. It was just a rant citing the prophetic tradition about how music when accompanied by drinking and fornication was not permissible. But I knew enough to know that traditions can be very misleading and taken out of context can be made to mean almost the opposite of what they appear. The other speaker, who was attacking music was an English convert who had been a musician at one time also spoke about sinister pop recordings which if played backwards spelled out evil incantations.

 Those who spoke in defense of music quoted Al-Ghazali and declared therefore its permissibility. There are of course prophetic traditions which seem to defend music in principle as well but I won't go into that. It is certainly not even mentioned in the Qur'an, the highest legal authority, so on a scale of seriousness it is not even up there with even minor legal infractions which are mentioned in the Qur'an. The truth is that to most scholars it's not even important – just a matter of taste.

 My belief was that music in the company of people seeking spiritual elevation or enjoining good was therefore not only acceptable but a virtue. Music was a passive force which could be used for whatever you wished whether good or bad. I knew the dangers of music, the most obvious being just bad music. It would be like saying speech was forbidden because some people used it profanely. This literalism is deep in the mind set of some people, some scholars included, and is not unconnected to some of the serious problems that beset Muslims and the general public in the 21st century. When a young man untrained in Islamic sciences, with resentments and grudges, gets hold of a book of traditions translated into English he will make enormous presumptions and errors. It has been likened to a man doing brain surgery only having read an article on the Internet. It's dangerous for everyone concerned and in the case of Islam, lethal.

Ali Keeler who sings with Ian Whiteman and others on the Rawdat al-Shuhuda' recording is a classically trained violinist and my 2015 interview with him attracted considerable attention. Ali shares Ian Whitman's belief that music in the right context is not only acceptable but a virtue, and like Ian he believes that the definition of 'right context' must be flexible to connect with the zeitgeist. As well as contributing to recordings of sacred Islamic music and being a highly respected exponent of tajwid, the art of Quran recitation, Ali actively explores wider musical contexts. In the 1990s he played on two of the albums by the trip hop group Archive and much more recently he has developed a unique and globally accessible brand of Celtic-tinged Andalusian Sufi music with his Al Firdaus Ensemble. In this his violin and voice is joined by the Spanish cellist Salma Vives, and from Morocco qanun player Yusuf Mezghildi and percussionist Omar Benlamlih; the two accompanying photos taken by me at an Al Firdaus gig show the four musicians, and one of their Sufi musical earworms can be sampled below.

 Safa, the first album from Al Firdaus Ensemble has remained high on my playlist for months and now it has been joined by their second album Nur - which translates from Arabic as 'The Light'. The new album delivers more of Al Firdaus' catchy and unique brand of Celtic-tinged Sufism, but with new more commercial and upbeat sound that is suffused with the sonic equivalent of Andalusian sunshine. Nur is available as a download from Amazon and iTunes and a taster video is below.

 It is very easy to dismiss Ali Keeler's music and my frequent posts about non-Western music as multicultural hot button fodder that is subservient to the pseudo events which dominate Western culture. But such an attitude is foolish and myopic. My interview with Ali Keeler ranks as the fourth most widely read in this blog's twelve year history. Contributing to this was a tweet by the British-Iranian singer/composer Sami Yusuf. Now Sami Yusuf's name may not mean much to those steeped in the Western classical tradition, but he is a very big property in global markets. To illustrate this, Alex Ross has 106,000 Twitter followers, Sami Yusuf has 769,000.

Those who chant the mantra that Western classical music needs new markets should note that Shelina Janmohamed's recent book Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World points out that the global Muslim population is growing more than twice as quickly as overall world population growth. Of 11 countries forecast to join the elite club of economic superpowers this century, six have a dominant Muslim majority and two substantial Muslim minorities. Two-thirds of Muslims are under the age of 30, representing a huge and rapidly growing market. And those who prefer humanitarian to commercial ideals should note that Al Firdaus have taken their multi-cultural music to countries as diverse as Indonesia and the United States, with a Washington Post reviewer writing "Their music is far from political. It's all about beauty and faith and peace and devotion..."

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 During a 1970s Festival Hall concert conducted by Bernard Haitink a serial cougher decided to accompany the posthorn solo in the third movement of Mahler's monumental Third Symphony. Maestro Haitink continued to beat time with his baton while using his left hand to extract a white handkerchief from his pocket and hold it high over his head to encourage the cougher to mute the intrusive noise.

Such an action would be unthinkable at the Proms today, because the conductor would spend the whole concert with an arm raised holding a handkerchief. At one time the Proms audience had the enviable reputation of being the best audience in the world, but now it is the noisiest. My most recent visit to a Prom was almost certainly my last. Because not only is the Albert Hall sound poor, the sight lines unacceptable, the ambient temperature too high and the foyer facilities inadequate. But I found myself surrounded by people who made it quite clear that they were not there to appreciate the music, but rather to participate in a mass sonic selfie via persistent coughing, distracting talking, playing with mobile phones and the inevitable politically correct applause between movements.

This year a new and important element has been added to this sonic selfie, the conductor's speech. Daniel Barenboim rode his personal hobby horse in his speech at a recent Prom, and next month it is the turn of his fellow Askonas Holt artist Simon Rattle - a shared provenance which, incidentally, I suggest is not insignificant. Let us hope that when Simon Rattle rides his personal hobby horse in his post-Gurrelieder speech he pleads not only for a better London concert hall, but also for a better Proms audience.

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Elgar's symphonies have hardly been neglected at the BBC Proms and elsewhere. As an example, the Second Symphony has been played 37 times at the Proms, with two of those performances in the last three years; while the First has been given 51 times, including two performances in the last two years. So it is puzzling as to why the social networks are behaving as though Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin brought two undiscovered masterpieces to the Albert Hall, and it is doubly puzzling because his interpretations were passionate but hardly revelatory. Yes, it is noteworthy that this was Elgar from a foreign orchestra. But in 2008 Roger Norrington and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra brought the First Symphony to the Proms. However it is not surprising that this European band's Elgar has been quietly forgotten, as Norrington's flexible tempo and vibrato free account ranks as one of the worst musical abominations I have ever had the misfortune to hear.

If you want your Elgar both revelatory and in foreign hands you should try the Romanian Constantin Silvestri's recording for EMI of In the South (Alassio). Silvestri, who is seen above, was principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) from 1961 until his tragically early death from cancer in 1969 aged 55. EMI planned to record the Elgar symphonies and possibly The Dream of Gerontius with Silvestri in Bournemouth, but his premature death meant only In the South - recorded in 1967 - was made as a commercial studio recording, although there are  transcriptions of BBC broadcasts of the First Symphony and Cockaigne with the BSO. Silvestri's In the South is one of those rare performances that combines ultra-high voltage electricity with respect for the score. In a time when classical music has become no more than a made-for-media pseudo-event it is sad but hardly surprising that Constantin Silvestri's revelatory Elgar is all but forgotten.

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On An Overgrown Path can exclusively reveal that according to an internal BBC source next year's Proms season will consist of 75 anti-Brexit speeches with encores of music.

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Fact can be stranger than fiction: in my most recent post about the legendary harpsichordist Scott Ross I said with tongue planted firmly in my cheek that there is a Scott Ross biopic just waiting to be made. But now a reader tells me that not only is a biopic planned, but it is in the final stages of production. See teaser video above and there is more information via this link.

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Igor Levit's BBC Proms encore was a masterstroke. Not enough political edge to ruffle feathers. But just enough to raise the media profile of an otherwise lacklustre Proms season and spark the Guardian headline 'Proms get political as Ode to Joy features on first night'; all of which is guaranteed to set #bbcproms trending. Well-meaning he may be, but Igor Levit improvised his Ode to Joy protected by the safety-net of a recording contract with multi-national Sony Music, a management contract with multi-national IMG Artists and a career trajectory launched with the help of a New Generation Artists bursary from global media giant and Proms promoter the BBC.

Others also believe that music can make political statements, but they are doing it without the aid of corporate safety nets. Such as the young French-Syrian flautist Naïssam Jalal. Born to Syrian parents in Paris, she trained as a classical flautist. After completing her studies the teenage flautist embraced improvisation and toured Mali with a radical musical collective. When she was 19 Naïssam Jalal left France in search of her cultural and musical roots; her study of the ney (reed flute ) in Damascus, Syria was followed by time as a pupil of the Egyptian master violinist Abdo Dagher. In Cairo she started to explore the common ground between Western and Eastern music while working with Fathy Salama, the Arab World's only Grammy winner.

After returning to France in 2006 Naïssam Jalal worked extensively and toured with the Lebanese rapper Rayess Bek and Egyptian oud player Hazem Shaheen while developing her own unique jazz-influenced style. In 2009 her political awareness and Syrian roots resulted in the album To Resistance and for the last six years she has performed as the quintet Naïssam Jalal and Rhythms of Resistance accompanied by saxophone, cello, string bass and drums. As can be seen from the video below Naïssam Jalal believes in musical as well as political edge, and her style is thankfully far removed from the 'easy fusion' that is insidiously permeating World Music.

Naïssam Jalal has cut two albums with Rhythms of Resistance; her latest release Almat Wala Almazala (Death rather than humiliation) takes its title from the slogan for the 2011 Syrian protests against president Bashar al-Assad, and the album is dedicated to "the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who have died under bullets or torture, and those who starved, besieged by the regime and facing the world's indifference". Sadly but predictably the corporate hegemony of the much-vaunted single European digital market means the albums have had to be issued on Naïssam Jalal's own record label, but they are fairly readily available.

Important music is growing in the killing fields far away from the comfort zone of the Albert Hall. Art music needs political edge, and it is good that both Igor Levit and Naïssam Jalal are providing that edge. But I just wish that a little more attention was focussed on the brave activist musicians who are not darlings of the twitterati and who do not benefit from the power of the corporate spin machine.

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Three sages in the Himalayas sit in silence, meditating. Ten years go by, and the first one tweets, "What a wonderful morning." Another ten years go by and the second one tweets, "It might rain". Another ten years go by, and the third one tweets, "When will the two of you ever get off Twitter".
That is my contemporary paraphrase of a story told by Jiddu Krishnamurti and reported in The Beauty of the Mountain published by the Krishnamurti Foundation. I took the photo when crossing a high pass in the western Himalayas en route from Kalka on the edge of the Ganges plain to the alpine desert of Ladakh - see my photo essay about the journey. Krishnamurti, who taught that "Authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing.. leaders destroy the following and followers destroy the leaders" had no time for gurus. But books such as Apprenticed to a Himlayan Master by Sri M, and Living with a Himalayan Master and Walking with a Himalayan Master by Swami Ram nevertheless make invigorating reading.

At the core of the occult philosophy of Theosophy as espoused by Madame Blavatsky in Victorian times were telepathic instructions from Himalayan Mahatmas - esoteric masters who dwelt in the Himalayas. Theosophy influenced many celebrated musicians including including Alexander Scriabin, John Foulds, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Dane Rudhyar, while Nicholas Roerich, who collaborated with Stravinsky on the creation of the The Rite of Spring, was one of the prominent Theosophists who visited India in search of the Himalayan Mahatmas.

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That photo heads a Rest Is Noise post linked to Alex Ross' New Yorker article about the symbolic power of music. Alex quite correctly credits the photo as appearing in the program booklet for Toscanini's 1944 Red Cross benefit at Madison Square Garden and showing a 1943 mission by the 390th Bombardment Group. But there is another musical connection which Alex may not be aware of. During the Second World War the USAF bomber squadrons were based in East Anglia as the region offered the shortest flight paths to important targets in Germany. and between 1943 and 1945 the 390th Bombardment Bomb Group was based at Station 153 Parham in Suffolk.

Just eleven miles from Parham is Aldeburgh, and for four years from 1785 the poet George Crabbe lived at the Moat House in Parham. Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes* is, of course, based on the eponymous narrative poem in George Crabbe's poetry collection The Borough. Crabbe wrote the poems in The Borough between 1804 and 1809; although they post-date Crabbe's time in Parham it is known that the poet's stay in the village was not a happy one, and it can be conjectured that some of the darkness in Peter Grimes originated in those years.

Alex Ross' New Yorker piece reflects on the bellicose posturing of the new American president, and there are many overgrown paths to be explored between the US, pacifism, and Britten. I, like many of my peers, have lamented the tragic consequences of 'intervention' by the US and other Western powers in the Middle East. But it is also worth reflecting on what the state of the world would be today had not the brave young personnel of 390th Bombardment Bomb Group - which lost 740 aircrew killed in action with a further 754 taken prisoners of war - joined the other Allied forces in defeating Hitler, Allied forces which, incidentally, included heroic Muslims.

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Back in 2012 Alex Ross emailed me about a new bleeding-edge cycle for orchestra and electronics titled Sufi Word by the Belgian composer Jean-luc Fafchamps, and as a result of Alex's generous heads up I have written several related posts. Symbolism is an important component of Sufism, and although Jean-luc Fafchamps explains "I am not a Sufi, or even Muslim and I do not speak Arabic" the music is evolved from the symbolic interrelations between letters of the Arabic alphabet derived from a Sufi chart. This compositional system has parallels with the I Ching-derived chance operations that created the charts for John Cage's Music of Changes.

Recently I was prompted to revisit Jean-luc Fafchamps' musical exercise in Islamicate symbolism by reading the Turkish-American scholar Ahmed Hulusi's book Decoding the Quran: A Unique Sufi Interpretation - free legal download via this link. Ahmed Hulusi's thesis also draws on the decoding of Arabic letters, and is based on the following exposition by the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law Hadhrat Ali:

'The secret of the Quran is in al-Fatiha, the secret of al-Fatiha is in the Basmalah,
and the secret of the Basmalah is in the letter B (ب)
And I am the point beneath the 'B' (ب)'
This is interpreted by Ahmed Hulusi as a precursory reference to the contemporary concept of the 'holographic universe' which quantum field theory points towards. In this theory the whole is contained in the part; each and every iota of existence potentially contains the whole, and what we label as the 'whole', or the 'outside world', is no more than our personal hologram. According to Ahmed Hulusi's interpretation we live and are therefore constrained by the virtual projection of our own perceptions and beliefs; a concept that is also central to both the Buddhist and Vedanta traditions where it appears as maya - the Sanskrit word for 'illusion'.

His thesis leads Ahmed Hulusi to the conclusion that there is no 'god out there' administering existence from afar. There is only the One denoted in his interpretation of the Quran by the name 'Allah', and he posits that humankind must learn to reject its holographic preconceptions and achieve unity with the One. It is a tempting thesis particularly in its resonances with other wisdom tradions, but it demands at least questioning. Ahmed Hulusi's thoughtful decoding of the Quran highlights both the benefits and weaknesses of relying on intermediary interpretations of what many believe to be a divine revelation. Another book, Theo Padnos' overlooked Undercover Muslim: A Journey into Yemen, highlights the dangers inherent in interpreting a divine revelation dating from the 7th century. In 2012 Theo Padnos was kidnapped and held hostage for almost two years in Syria by the Nusra Front, which is allied to Al-Qaeda. But the earlier journey chronicled in his 2011 Undercover Muslim takes him from teaching poetry to inmates in a Vermont prison to conversion to Islam and life in the mosques and madrassas of Yemen. It was a journey that prompted him to reach the following conclusion:

When I was in Russia recently the atmosphere of the religious schools I had attended in Yemen and Syria came back to me. The education had given me a healthy disregard for material things, to say nothing of a solid understanding of the Koran, but even as I was memorising, I knew that this education had a harmful side. In two and a half years of study, I had attended three schools and had visited friends in several more. Without exception, these academies taught that evolution is a fable, that Islam is the wisest solution to life's problems, and that the Hebrew bible is a fraud, forced on the world's Jewish population by elders who wish to hide references to Muhammad. In none of these academies were students asked to read widely. In no schools were students directed to use their reading to construct a modern. Self-supporting, nuanced system of ethics. In religious schools in the Middle East if you don't know what to do, you ask the sheikh. He has memorised much more than you. He knows what the Prophet would do and understands the Golden Time of Islam. Whatever the problem is, the sheikh, not the student knows the answer.

That is an extreme view, but then Yemen is an extreme country where extremism has been incubated by the terrible civilian casualties inflicted by Western drone and missile strikes. A more nuanced appraisal of Islam is offered by James Fergusson in his recently published and recommended Al-Britannia: My Country. His appraisal, in my view, provides the appropriate level of balancing and questioning, as expressed in this key extract:

For me, though, there remained a drawback to the Islamic social system... which was that the obligations it imposes on Muslims seem to require a subjugation of the hallowed Western traditions of liberty, free will, and individual choice. Becoming a Muslim is voluntary – the Prophet was clear that there could be 'no compulsion in religion' – but Islam also means 'Submission' and, like many Westerners, I still instinctively distrusted the implications of that. For all the good in Islam, I was wary of the total fealty it demands to its core principles. Because it is based on the literal word of God, Islam comes with a built-in resistance to evolution and reform; it is not good at accommodating social change because the laws and moral values of its patriarchal past, being God-given, cannot be deviated from. And that is problematic for any traditional Muslim living in the West, where laws and values evolve all the time and frequently clash with those of Islam.

Sufism - which has varying liberal interpretations - is currently enjoying a renaissance driven in part driven in part by a reaction against Salafi and Wahabi theological extremism. Ahmed Hulusi's unique Sufi interpretation Decoding the Quran and Jean-luc Fafchamps' Sufi Word cycle are laudable examples of reconciling contemporary culture with divine revelation, and thereby bypassing the resistance to progress highlighted by James Ferguson. So to end this post I am returning to music and presenting a video extract from Sufi Word:

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News of the untimely death of sarangi master Dhruba Ghosh took me down some fascinating listening paths yesterday evening. These included the 2005 disc seen above featuring Dhruba Ghosh's older brother Nayan Ghosh titled  Naghma - which is the Farsi and Urdu word for 'melody'. The musicians on the album artwork are from left to right Nayan Gosh (sitar), Paul Grant (santoor), Ross Daly (Cretan lyre) and Bijan Chemirani (zarb). The geographic reach of the music ranges from the Himalayas through Northern India to Kashmir, Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey and Crete, and includes a composition by Nayan Ghosh based on a traditional boatman's song from the Bengal-Ganges Plain.

Every CD tells a story through its music, graphics and sleeve notes, and that intangible but crucial narrative - which touches on the cultural, emotional and personal - loses much when the music is reduced to the postmodern bits and bytes of streaming and downloads. It is well-known that a few celebrated musicians including Olivier Messiaen and Alexander Scriabin were synaesthetes. But the latest neuroscientific research into multi-sensory neurons suggests that synaesthesia - cross talk between the human brain's sensory channels - is not as rare as commonly thought. In fact it is part of the human condition and the five senses of taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing often exhibit considerable overlap.

So it can be postulated that when a musical experience is confined to the single sensory channel of sound, as is the case with download and streaming, vital sensory crosstalk is lost. Which may well explain why the CD refuses to die, why vinyl sales are booming, why live music - which is multi-sensory - always sounds better than recorded, and also why the market for the mono-sensory eBook is in decline.

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The celebrated sarangi player Dhruba Ghosh who is seen above has died at a tragically early age. He was one of that small exalted group of musicians who are both masters of their own tradition and explorers who traveled successfully beyond their personal comfort zones to work with masters of other traditions; just one example was his exploration of the music of Tobias Hume with viol virtuoso Philippe Pierlot which featured here last year. Dhruba Ghosh's fellow explorers included the husband and wife exponents of contemporary Cretan modal music Kelly Thoma and Ross Daly, and Kelly has written the following tribute:

Terrible news today...our dear friend and phenomenal musician Dhruba Ghosh left this world and traveled to another dimension at the age of 59. He was a rare person, wonderful, kind, with great sense of humor, warm and above all a huge musical inspiration for many of us...His sound is and will always be "written" on my soul. May he rest in peace and I hope that in this "other world" he continues sharing music in any form possible or impossible for us to understand...Thank you for everything Dhruba
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Travelling round Northern France, I found myself listening to France Musique. Frank Bridge. Arnold Bax. And the incomparable performance of In a Summer Garden by Barbirolli . Presented in a way that suggested the presenter knew what he was saying.... Cf Petroc Trelawny
That comment was added by a reader to a recent post. By coincidence it was awaiting moderation when I returned from driving from Cahors in the Limousin region of south-west France to the Channel port of Caen, during which drive I too found France Musique's output unusually satisfying. When I cleared the UK border control at Portsmouth and turned onto the M27 I tuned in to Martin Handley on BBC Radio 3. In the past Martin Handley was one of the station's more erudite presenters, but I quickly switched back to the SDHC memory card in my car's audio system. Because Handley's presentation style has descended - or more probably has been forced to descend - into 'Jack and Jill radio' which treats its audience as though they are, and will forever remain, young children. Jack and Jill radio was, of course, was pioneered by Classic FM, then hijacked by Roger Wright - RIP the Aldeburgh Festival - for Radio 3, and taken to its curremt Olympian heights by Petroc Trelawny.

A recent post advocated yet again that classical music should pursue a 'minds in gear' as opposed to a 'bums on seats' strategy. BBC Radio 3 has for years unashamedly chased bums on seats in pursuit of Classic FM. But the latest official RAJAR listening figures show quite objectively that this is not working: in the quarter ending March 2017 Radio 3 had an audience of 1.8 million listeners, down from 2.1 million in the same quarter the previous year. This is a lot less bums on seats than Classic FM, which had an audience of 5.3 million in Q1 2017. So BBC Radio 3 is failing to deliver the holy grail of a big audience; but neither is it - as the comment above confirms - engaging brains, despite new controller Alan Davey's professed dumbing-down lite policy.

My varied reading while in France included Jake Humphrey's The Inside Track. Jake Humphrey who is only 38 fronted BBC TV's Formula One coverage; he then moved on to present BT Sport's football programmes and is co-owner of Whisper Films which currently provides Channel 4's F1 coverage. At first glance Formula One and classical music may appear to have little in common. But in fact Formula One is a cash-hungry big business masquerading as sport, while classical music is a cash-hungry big business masquerading as art, and there is much that classical music can learn from how BBC TV engaged the brains of its Formula One audience.

In his book Jake Humphrey explains how Formula One was very successfully repositioned from 'wallpaper TV' to 'appointment-to-view TV'. Appointment-to-view/listen is where the important loyal and knowledgeable audience is, yet classical radio is still being repositioned with a notable lack of success as wallpaper listening. Jake Humphrey advocates that decision makers in the media and elsewhere should never sit in the comfy chair. Which very precisely nails classical music's current problem: its movers and shakers refuse to move from the comfy chair, and instead spend their time providing even more luxuriously upholstered seats for their dwindling audience.

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My recent listening has taken me deeper into vinyl territory and today I bought my first new LP in more than 30 years. The identity of that vinyl will not be revealed until a post some time in the future, although some of my ultra-knowledgeable readers may be able to identify it from the graphic above. For some of us vinyl adds something that digital formats lack, but for almost all of us live music adds an essential but intangible quality that recordings lack. Quite why the most high-end audio system can never match the sound of live music is a mystery. But the following explanation of the shortcomings of sound reproduction systems from Harmonies of Heaven and Earth by Joscelyn Godwin may provide the answer. And please, before dismissing the explanation as amusing nonsense remember that some greatly respected musicians, including Jonathan Harvey and Bruno Walter, were profoundly influenced by the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. Take care while I travel...

The inevitable question, which could not have arisen before Edison's phonograph (1877) is, What happens when the tones are reproduced mechanically via a record or tape? Rudolf Steiner, speaking in 1923 shortly before his death, had condemned the gramophone as a source of music. Of course the gramophone of that time could only produce a travesty of live music, but according to his follower Ernst Hagemann the rejection was more than aesthetic. In an extraordinary passage on the borderline between occultism and farce, Hagemann solemnly described his own research with clairvoyantly gifted people in order to find out what happens to the elementals' function when music is mechanically reproduced. Not every detail was satisfactorily explained, but the consensus of several clairvoyants working independently was as follows.

On applying their second sight to the surface of gramophone records, they found them thronged with elemental forms - all dead. Looking through a magnifying glass, they could see even more of them! These, they said, are the lifeless replicas of the elementals who were constellated in the air, entered the microphone, and were 'shadowed' upon the record matrix during the original live performance. In order to carry over these dead copies into the physical world via the reproducing device, one needs the cooperation of other living elementals - tiny Gnomes, to be precise - whom the clairvoyants were able to perceive in the diamond or sapphire stylus. (One recalls that gemstones are traditionally associated with these earthly spirits). Through the Gnomes' agency, the very same kinds of elementals - presumably Sylphs and Undines - could be seen emerging from the loudspeakers as had been originally captured in the recording process.

So far the inadequacy of recordings was not proven. But the clairvoyants had more to say. At live concerts they did not just enjoy the visions of beauty which the music throws off into the air above the stage, visions which several artists have tried to capture. They also saw the concert hall beset by Spirits of Undine, vile, spider-like beings who swarm around whenever beauty is manifest, and crawl into our ears and noses while we are entranced by it. Everything must have its opposite, in order to create beauty. Man has to have the stimulus of the ugly. The greatest artistic natures, Hagemann says, are those who have felt this conflict the most keenly - even to a physical degree. During recording, however, it is only the beautiful forms who enter the microphone and whose fair corpses litter the grooves of our records. The ugly spirits (who actually are no more evil than the manure with which we nourish our roses) are absent, and so the full artistic experience is lacking.
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 Both the anti and pro-Brexiteers are doing a splendid job of confirming Jiddu Krishnamurti's thesis that leaders destroy the following and followers destroy the leaders. Just one example comes from the Creative Industries Federation - one of several music-related anti-Brexit pressure groups - which has published seven principles for Brexit. These include the objective that the UK should continue to influence the shape of the EU's Digital Single Market, but completely fail to mention safeguarding the future of physical product and non-digital distribution.

As is proven by numerous examples such as the one above, the move towards a single digital market is a major factor in the destruction of the recorded music market. One of the consequences of this has been the forced closure of virtually every independent bricks and mortar record retailer. Despite mouthing platitudes about 'maintaining a robust and properly enforced intellectual property (IP) regime' the music sector of the creative industries has willingly handed control of recorded music distribution - the channel through which IP moves - to mega-corporations such as Apple and Amazon whose only passion is for the bottom line. The destruction of the physical supply chain has resulted not only in the closure of priceless high street retailers, but also the demise of the unsung distributors (wholesalers) whose knowledgeable and passionate sales representatives played a crucial role in getting small labels and niche repertoire physical display space in front of customers.

Yes, those small labels can still be listed at penurious financial cost on Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon; but they are just a few files in a gargantuan online data warehouse with no visibility and hence little chance of achieving sales and income; which leaves the vitally important long tail of music dead in the water. And the move to a single digital market is not an inevitable consequence of technological progress: because it ignores the continuing and increasing consumer demand for tangible product as demonstrated by the renaissance in vinyl sales and underlined by the faltering demand for eBooks. And in their enthusiasm for the digital nirvana the Creative Industries Federation conveniently overlook that those pesky CDs and LPs provide employment for creatives who produce album artwork and sleeve notes.

Greece is a country with a distinctly ambiguous relationship with the EU. Ross Daly is a celebrated musician and savvy resident of Greece, and this statement on his website is a pithy summary of the damage to the creative industries wrought by the obsessive pursuit of a single digital market:

As of today whoever so wishes can download any or even all of my music completely free of charge (the only recording which remains for sale is my most recent one...) I have decided to do this because I would like all of the rest of my music to be easily available to anyone who wishes to listen without any financial dimension whatsoever. After so many years, I'm really really fed up with the financial side of the recording industry but I still love sharing my recordings with other people. This is the only thing that I could do in order to be able to continue enjoying that and that is more important to me than any amount of money.
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You live in time; we live in space. You're always on the move; we're always at rest. Religion is our first love; we revel in metaphysics. Science is your passion; you delight in physics. You believe in freedom of speech; you strive for articulation. We believe in freedom of silence; we lapse into meditation. Self-assertiveness is the key to your success; self-abnegation is the secret of our survival. You're urged every day to want more and more; we're taught from the cradle to want less and less. Joie de vivre is your ideal; conquest of the desires is our goal. In the sunset years of life, you retire to enjoy the fruits of your labour; we renounce the world and prepare ourselves for the hereafter - from Reflections on Life East and West' by Hari N. Dam, Professor of Philosophy at Brighham University, USA. Ensign Magazine, 1971
Photo was taken by me recently ago at one of my favourite 'thin places', the town of Katwijk aan Zee in the Netherlands where the Sufi teacher and musician Hazrat Inayat Khan taught in the sand dunes and where his followers later built a Universal Sufi Temple. However the photo was not taken at the Sufi Temple: it shows the memorial on the seafront to the 275 sons of Katwijk who have been lost fishing the North Sea. On Overgrown Path will now lapse into blessed silence while I go off-grid again. But before leaving these shores I will be at sitar master Nishat Khan Aldeburgh Festival concerts; I am particularly looking forward to Meeting of Angels with the Saint Ephraim Male Choir as Nishat Khan's long-deleted CD of the same title with Ensemble Gilles Binchois is a personal desert island favourite. Snape Music has quite rightly taken some stick here recently but is to be praised for this adventurous piece of programming. Any copyrighted material is for critical analysis only and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). Also on Facebook and Twitter. firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-8605130336806803492017-06-11T15:17:00.002+01:002017-06-11T16:12:01.268+01:00Just add complexity and stir vigorously

 Music is a multi-sensory experience. Many visionaries have exploited this, notably Alexander Scriabin who extended the multi-sensory experience into the olfactual domain in his uncompleted masterwork Mysterium. In the late 1960s light shows were an integral part of rock music performance, while in the classical tradition visual artists such as the still photographer Siegfreid Lauterwasser - celebrated for his images of Herbert von Karajan - and cinematographer Ken Russell - famed for music related movies such as the Tchaikovsky biopic The Music Lovers - exploited the common ground between the auditory and visual. But the advent of the digital age has diluted music into a mono-sensory experience: the art of the album sleeve is now dead, bland PR images are the stock-in-trade of the music industry, concert halls remain temples of sound and not multi-sensory temples, and Western classical music offers little to nourish the visually literate multi-sensory younger audience.

 But all is not quite lost. The photos reproduced here are from the website of the photographer Stéphane Louesdon who splits his time between France and Morocco. These remarkable images were captured at a Sufi sama - ritual of divine remembrance - led by Sheikh Hassan Dyck in Essaouira, Morocco. Sheikh Hassan is an adept of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order and a classically-trained cellist, and at the sama he played with his Muhabbat Caravan ensemble and Afghan rabab master Daud Khan.

Stéphane Louesdon's atmospheric photos are a salutary reminder that music is a multi-sensory and highly complex emotional force. And that force loses much of its power and appeal when distilled down to a commercial property crammed into the size constraints of Instagram and Twitter message and MP3 files. For years Western classical music has been relentlessly pursuing an audience-chasing strategy of reducing complexity by selective dumbing down. There is no evidence at all that this strategy is working, so surely it is now time to try the alternative of putting brains in gear by adding complexity and stirring vigorously.

Related Overgrown Path resources include:
* See the light
* How sleeve artwork changes the sound of CDs
* Learn as if you were to live forever
* Why classical music needs to see the light
* Classical music must return to its esoteric roots
* Music should be dangerous

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Paul Richardson's travelogue Not Part of the Package tells how:

The world has always needed pockets of a different kind of reality. A place where there is relative peace and relative freedom. A place that's available for freedom of the spirit.
One of the drivers of the 1967 'Summer of Love' was a search for places - both geographic and experiential - where the spirit was truly free. Among the places where that freedom can still be found is the south coast of Crete, which is where my photo was taken. Crete stands at a cultural crossroads and the island's new modal music reflects that trans-cultural position. In the TED talk below long-term Cretan resident Ross Daly explains how modal music is a musical crossroads.

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When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind...

 Authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the following and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.
Those quotes are by Jiddu Krishnamurti who is seen above. Below is a video of the pianist Maria João Pires talking about Krishnamurti before a 2016 Cadogan Hall concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of the death of the great thinker and teacher. Linked by the theme Silence, Music and the Arts the concert featured Aditi Mangaldas leading Indian classical dance, Nigel North playing Bach's Suite BWV 995 for lute, and Maria João Pires playing Beethoven's Op. 111 Sonata. The complete concert can be viewed via this link

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In his book Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco the lead singer of The Charlatans Tim Burgess recounts how:

I've always thought that I was defined by records. Not just ones I've been involved in recording but every one I've ever loved, bought, fallen out of love with or that has soundtracked a particular chapter of my life. They are like punctuation marks. If I need to think back to an event in my life, it's easiest to do it with singles and albums.
This theme of music as punctuation marks in our lives is taken up by Earle H. Waugh's study of the mystical chanters of Morocco's Sufi brotherhoods titled Memory, Music and Religion, in which he proposes that music functions as a grounding tool by subconsciously reclaiming the past. It is a view I subscribe to, and during the 1960s and '70s albums from the psychedelic rock band the Moody Blues punctuated my life, with their set at my university in 1969 providing a never-to-be-forgotten example of the power of live music. Much emphasis is now placed on attracting a new young classical music audience. But little importance is placed on understanding how the much-derided ageing core audience - of which I am proud to be a member - came to classical music. Music education for young people is vitally important. But also important yet overlooked, is that many - if not the majority - of the current core audience came via rock music and popular culture.

In 1971 two albums spent much time on my Pioneer PL-12D turntable: one was the soundtrack album for Visconti's newly-released Death in Venice movie which introduced many of us to Mahler through the Adagietto of the Fifth Symphony, the other was the new Moody Blues album Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. But today social media's bubble filters and the internet's infinite possibilities for personalisation have all but eliminated serendipitous cross-genre and cross-media grazing. Gone are the days when Visconti's Death in Venice, Ken Russell's Music Lovers, Martin Scorses's The Last Temptation of Christ and Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Pictures At An Exhibition could add a new diacritic to young lives. Instead the mantra of our digital age is 'more of the same please' driven by the insidious dynamic of social media approval.

As can be seen from the accompanying artwork by Philip Travers, the Moody Blues' albums were a truly immersive experience, unlike today's stripped-of-everything-but-binary-data audio files. So much attention has been paid to decoding their albums' lyrics - including a book from a New Age publisher - that the band's bassist John Lodge composed I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) for their 1972 Seventh Sojourn album to refute suggestions of hidden meanings. Among those obsessed with these chimerical hidden meanings was American arch-criminal and cult-leader Charles Manson who banned all music in his commune except the Beatles' White Album - notably the Helter Skelter track - and Moody Blues' albums.

That infamous connection introduces the dark side of the psychedelic movement. In the 1960s and '70s an extremist fringe of young people who felt alienated from an increasingly materialistic and arguably decadent Western society expressed their alienation by acts of horrendous violence against innocent people. This alienation spawned the abhorrent terrors of the Manson Family, the Baader-Meinhof gang, the Weathermen and the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski. Philosopher and essayist George Santayana told us that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. It is imperative that the roots of the current wave of global terror are identified and eliminated. But crucial to that process is both the eradication of the current hate-filled extremism, and remembering and learning from past terror movements. As the French political scientist and commentator on radical Islam Olivier Roy explains:

...contemporary jihadism, at least in the West – as well as in the Maghreb and in Turkey – is a youth movement that is not only constructed independently of parental religion and culture, but is also rooted in wider youth culture. This aspect of modern-day jihadism is fundamental.
On the track Legend of a Mind from their 1968 In Search of a Lost Chord album, the Moody Blues sing that "Timothy Leary's dead/No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in". In just the same way the root causes of those terror outrages of the 1960s and '70s are not dead, they are just outside looking in as history repeats itself.

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That photograph is of the Egyptian American composer and musicologist Halim El-Dabh. I am indebted to cellist Paul Rah for pointing out an invaluable interview with Halim El-Dabh on the website of Music & Literature, a non-profit organization devoted to publishing and promoting the work of artists whose work has yet to reach its deserved audience. The interview which discusses, inter alia, the genre of 'Fourth world music' - a label used for music that combines avant-garde electronics with world music influences - can be read via this link. Halim El-Dabh's early non-electronic work Juxtaposition No. 1 can be sampled in the video below and his more abrasive Michael and the Dragon for electronics via this link.

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Committed atheists, like their fundamentalist religious counterparts, live in a world of black and white, good and bad, right and wrong. To the mind of [Christopher] Hitchens, anything that was not rational was not only wrong, but also stupid. Evil and idiocy were always out there — in someone else. Yet as long as we continue to project evil out there, onto some other tribe, nation, or belief system, we fail to see that evil is a product — not of any religion or people in particular, but of the human heart. That is where the danger to civilization lies: as close to us as our own jugular vein. If all religions were banished, evil would still exist, though perhaps by another name - from Keeping the Faith Without a Religion by Roger Housden
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I, speaking on behalf of the majority of peace loving Muslims am horrified by such evil acts done in the name of the One whose most important name and attribute is Al Rahman, the Most Merciful. For those who claim to follow the prophet who according to the Quran was sent as a mercy to the whole universe:
You are a disgrace to Islam and a disgrace to humanity and have marred this sacred month of Ramadan, the month of charity, generosity and self-restraint in which if anyone insults us, we can only respond saying, I´m sorry I´m fasting. and cannot argue or engage in any aggressive act.

The merciful will receive mercy from the All-Merciful,
So, have mercy to those on earth that the One in heaven may have mercy on you!
A saying of the prophet Muhammad, (peace and blessings be upon him and all his brothers among the prophets)
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These photos have just been uploaded to the Facebook feed of Syrian singer and oud player Waed Bouhassoun with the tag 'Feeling festive in Cardona, Cataluna, Spain. Félicitations #amour #amitiés #bonheur'. Waed has featured frequently On An Overgrown Path and has played many times with Jordi Savall. I have no official information but the groom is obviously Jordi, so my wife and I feel it is in order to add our Félicitations.

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Back when I was a very young child I remember when my Grandfather used to boil an old kettle to brew his tea and I can still remember that kettle as a matter of fact, I can still picture it (even smell that tea). The reason it sticks out is that it was locally made by a tinsmith and the quality of the workmanship was astounding. The metal had turned dark and it has stains on it from the fire used to heat it. I wish I had kept that kettle!
These books covers how tinsmithing and sheet metal work was done and is still done today. How metal roofing is made, How metal is used to make beautiful pieces of art in Churches etc....,How metal work is thought to students, The amount of material used and so much much more. It is truly amazing what could be made from a plain piece of metal when you know how to do it. And here's how!
Just see the titles of each book to find out what they are about as follows.
Advanced metal-work (1898) 170 pages
Applied science for metal workers (1919) 498 pages
Architectural sheet metal goods and sheet metal specialities. 1900 36 pages
Church metal work. (1887) 62 pages
Edwards metal roofing, siding, ornamental ceilings and other sheet metal work. ( 1925) 66 pages
Elementary metal work a practical manual for amateurs and for use in schools (1894) 136 pages
English metal work; (1906) 116 pages
Estimating Sheet Metal Work (1921) 437 pages
Examples of ornamental metal work (1836) 108 pages
First lessons in metal-working (1890) 193 pages
Historic Ornament Pottery enamels ivories metal-work furniture; textile 441 pages
Home instruction for sheet metal workers (1922) 424 pages
Instruction Manual for Sheet-metal workers 169 pages
Laying out for boiler makers and sheet metal workers; (1913) 318 pages
Machines and tools employed in the working of sheet metals (1903) 332 pages
Metal-plate work it's Patterns and Their Geometry, Also Notes on Metals, and (1899) 481 pages
Metal-work; a handbook for teachers and students (1914) 358 pages
Modern sheet-metal workers' instructor practical geometry, mensuration, properties of metals and alloys (1906) 332 pages
Practical sheet and plate metal work for the use of boilermakers, braziers, coppersmiths, ironworker's, plumbers, sheet metalworkers, tinsmiths 507 pages
Practical sheet and plate metal work; for the use of boilermakers, braziers, coppersmiths, ironworker's, plumbers, sheet metalworkers, tinsmiths 560 pages
Practical sheet metal duct construction; a treatise in the construction and erection of heating and ventilating ducts (1916) 207 pages
Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns; a comprehensive treatise (1910) 125 pages
Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns; a comprehensive treatise (1910) 159 pages
Sheet metal building material for interior and exterior use. ( 1900) 114 pages
Sheet metal drafting (1921) 254 pages
Sheet metal primer .. (1920) 36 pages
Sheet metal work (1920) 128 pages
Sheet metal workers' manual; a complete, practical instruction book on the sheet metal industry 1918 568 pages
Sheet-metal work a manual of practical self-instruction in the art of pattern drafting and construction work in metal, skylight, roofing, cornice work, etc. (1920) 296 pages
Sheet-metal work; a manual of practical self-instruction in the art of pattern drafting and construction work in light- and heavy-gauge metal (1909) 298 pages
Shop problems in sheet metal for secondary schools, with notes on equipment, materials and shop methods (1918) 78 pages
Shop-work leaflets, metal work (1918) 78 pages
Silversmith's art and ecclesiastical metal work at its home Benziger brothers' factory .. (1894) 64 pages
Stencil and block-print Designing ; Leather- and Metal-work Designing (1916) 743 pages
Teacher's Handbook of Manual Training Metal Work (1903) 166 pages
The Compendium of Architectural Sheet-metal Work Embracing Rules (1877) 565 pages
The new metal worker pattern book. A treatise on the principles and practice of pattern cutting as applied to sheet metal work (1896) 449 pages
The new tinsmith's helper and pattern book 1922 373 pages
The Tinman's Manual and Builder's and Mechanic's Handbook (1863) 214 pages
The tinsmith's helper and pattern book, with useful rules, diagrams and tables (1912) 144 pages
The tinsmiths' Pattern manual (1894) 282 pages
Tinsmithing (1903) 52 pages
Triangulation applied to sheet metal pattern cutting; a comprehensive treatise for cutters, draftsmen, foremen and students; (1917) 296 pages
XXth century sheet metal worker; a modern treatise on modern sheet metal work 1910 100 pages
Just about as much info as I could put on a CD ( 672 MB).
Note; these Ebooks were scanned and digitized from old books from the late 1800's to early 1900's. So they may not be in perfect condition, a couple of books may be a little blurry and tipped slightly?
1 of the gallery pictures is a label added to the CD! CD can also be plain with no label if you prefer?
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Hi Larry~
This message indicates your printer's black ink mode differs from the print settings sent to it, so if your printer is in MK mode, and you sent a print job for a glossy paper that uses PK ink, you will receive this black ink mismatch message. What black ink mode is your printer currently in, and what media setting did you select in the print driver?
Hi, DanaI just realized that myself, printer says PK... when and how I changed from matte------? I don't know. I have been printing matte only for over a year.. so now my printer is dumping lots of black ink ....
Well, that would certainly explain the message you got.
Best regards and happy printing~ Dana


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