myths of the near future/ translinear light

radio 3's composer of the week  have been following alice coltrane up into the translinear light. the show as a whole is thin on analysis - what  cinematic orchestra got from alice coltrane was the sample lifted from the album with carlos santana, not inspiration from journey in satchidananda. her collaborations with carlos santana, mcCoy tyner, charlie haden, joe henderson don't get a mention (and nor does the one with  roland kirk which horsemouth hadn't heard about). 

6 years ago horsemouth was off with howard to watch the alice's ashram choir perform. 

here we have alice in a near big band set up recorded live at carnegie hall, february 21, 1971. pharoah sanders, archie shepp (ts,ss,perc), alice herself  (p, harp), jimmy garrison, cecil mcbee (b), ed blackwell, clifford jarvis (d), kumar kramer (harmonium), tulsi (tamboura). great double bass solos. 

there was also the live at the berkeley community theater, 23rd july 1972. charlie haden (b), ben riley (d), alice herself (harp, organ, p),  aashish khan (sarod), pranesh khan (tabla), bobby w. (tamboura, perc.). 

15:18 friday listening to weird ass books #5: the complete stories of j.g.ballard

'in this episode of weird ass books..' 

the reviewer bought the book at the start of the covid pandemic (good timing right?).  58 stories from across ballard's career. that's a nice bookshelf behind him. yeah it would be a bit intense to read them all at once but that would be a good thing right? 

here's the cover of a ballard short story collection horsemouth found in a photo from an article by an artist about being trapped in athens for the pandemic. 

outlaw bookseller came down to london for a ballard- based publishing event last weekend

meanwhile there was a huge peace in palestine march and football hooligans were 'defending' the cenotaph having been encouraged in this by a rogue tory politician. (kind of like kingdom come comes to town).  fortunately outlaw managed to make it back to bath without encountering anything too dystopian. 

'now that everything had returned to normal, he was surprised that there had been no obvious beginning, no point beyond which their lives had moved into a clearly more sinister dimension,' 

horsemouth thinks there's a falling off with ballard - the last few are just not as good. there's a point where reality (or the collective fantasy) just outstrips him. horsemouth started reading a little of high rise. 

just as well horsemouth didn't lower the house electricity and gas direct debit because it's going up again in january.  it looks like they should have just enough money to cover the bill through to april - when it drops down to the summer usage. 

after yesterday's bright autumn sunshine it is rainy and grey today.