'... and bathed in the ganges river...'

recent discoveries in the world of alice coltrane ('... and bathed in the ganges river...')

Alice Coltrane Live At The Berkeley Community Theatre 1972

featuring alice coltrane (mostly on wurlitzer), ben riley on drums, charlie haden on bass, aashish khan on sarod, pranesh khan on tabla and bobby w. on tamboura.





'I don’t know any more than you what you are about to read’ - gustave flaubert, memoirs of a madman (part of his juvenalia, which he referred to as opuscules historiques ), chapter 1.

and so it is with horsemouth, he gets up, gets a cup of coffee and starts typing.

he consults his diary so that he doesn’t forget to include any useful material from the day before.

sometimes he will move things around, but he doesn’t make a plan first.

memoirs of a madman comes with a short story bibliomania - in the one we have a madman writing a book, in the other, a man mad about books (a bookseller). bibliomania is set in a thinly imagined barcelona.

yesterday horsemouth went back through his blogposts trying to find the ‘poems’ he had compiled together commonplace book style - he wrote them into his notebook for the upcoming musicians of bremen album (perhaps he will make use of them there).

‘here my memoirs really begin’ - gustave flaubert, memoirs of a madman, chapter 9.