'it began to snow again last evening, but soon ceased...'
saturday the 14th. see it's just not a scary is it.
in 1855 thoreau makes a long report on nature full of different birds and their sounds.in 1841 he is reading the old scottish poet douglas (probably gavin douglas), he finds a passage he likes (a description of a sunset).
'any living word in their books abolishes the difference of time.'
yesterday's blogpost went well. horsemouth had several things he wanted to tell you but nothing in particular also.
horsemouth will now re-post and re-edit his blogpost from 31st december 2022 (where he has changed the text he has underlined it).
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horsemouth has had an even more moderate year than last year (or the year before) in terms of cultural production.
he played only one gig last year, a duo gig with howard at waterintobeer (thanks martin) on a bill with lou. thanks to the people from waterintobeer for taking photographs. musicians of bremen added eyepennies by sparklehorse to their set, played versions of amarach and am I born to die, and horsemouth sang a version of go your way (my love) based on the anne briggs version.
horsemouth did no filming or recording in 2024 (some recordings from 2022 languish unfinished on soundcloud). horsemouth played some guitar with pete (but no gigs were played or sessions recorded). he bought no new musical instruments.
horsemouth was involved in no golden glow (or similar) mixes in 2024
he thanks howard and all who have read, watched, listened to him, or liked or commented on the things he has produced (thank you people, horsemouth is very grateful).
2024 was his third full year of retirement. (following on from his redundancy nearly three and a half years ago).
for yet another year he didn’t manage a foreign holiday.
he kept on writing this blog (a daily duty) and kept scribbling in a variety of physical diaries.
he read a fair bit (though not with the concentrated effort that he has managed in previous years). he watched a lot of clips on youtube. he didn't listen to much of his existing music collection (he did not get around to replacing his amplifier). he listened to webb david's techno-dub show on new river radio, and the music of robert lawson.
robert, dave, lou, triple negative, alula down, jacken and martin all released recordings.
all in all a surprisingly good year for music. he has taken up trying to learn bell-ringing.
he saw alula down play in malvern and (backing jacken elswyth) play in camden. he saw charlie parr and two white cranes in hackney (thanks mike), lou and leo and the water chorus at waterintobeer (thanks martin), ruth crawford-seeger 'three chants for women's chorus' at the QEH foyer (thanks QEH), minny pops (thanks iona), triple negative, evan parker and bill nace (thanks cafe OTO), the renaissance music festival in crystal palace (killercorp, concrete age, die|kur etc. thanks enza), stick in the wheel and laura cannell at cafe OTO (thanks howard),
he did a fair amount of walking. over to ewyas harold, back from the forge. up on the common. down by the abbey, down to the post box, and over to sylvia's. he did not visit hereford much or get away to the wen as much as he would have liked. he visited malvern and made an unscheduled stop off in worcester.
the communal endeavour survived and the decarbonisation campaign started up (again).
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