Saturday, 15 February 2025

come on down (welcome to the velodrome)

ok in the morning a wander over to the velodrome with TG (and back again)

in the evening a wander down to stepney to meet up with minty and anthony.  there's a plan to meet up with howard out in east ham on saturday. he's trying to arrange a meeting with colin (monday, tuesday). he's got something arranged for thursday evening. 

the rest of it is free for him to fill as he sees fit.

so far no joy on the book-boxes (he may have to resort to some charity shops). the city is just very good for books (just look a the collection horsemouth has amassed - what's this? a parisian affair guy de maupassant, ah horsemouth may have started on it once). 

the walk down to stepney took about an hour. he walked back too as he was feeling suitably enthused. (saturday with howard he doesn't expect to do much walking - maybe a mile each way). 

he has packed another box of books in his wheelie-bin but would he not in fact be better off taking his CD player instead (the better to play the CDs he already has at his mum's). 

recorded this day in 1967 but the tapes not found again until 1995 - stellar regions is john coltrane with alice coltrane on piano, with jimmy garrison on bass and rashied ali on drums but without pharaoah sanders. this makes it a more lyrical proposition - some of the themes appear on the later interstellar space (a duo recording with rashied ali). the songs were titled by alice coltrane.

'to those of us who remain, the last words of one no longer among us are special... haunted by our foreknowledge that what will follow them is silence...' - david wild, album notes.  

 

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