untitled with rain

'horsemouth on the decks...  playing tracks by john surman, skip james, washington phillips, obray ramsey and more.... expect oddness and rarities...'

9 years ago now to this day horsemouthfolk curated this mix (though the mix itself was assembled by howard). 

there were (of course) no record  decks, that was just a manner of speaking even in those already digital days.

horsemouth was just dropped into it where he finished listening to it last time - judee sill's enchanted sky machines, john fahey's red cross disciple of  christ today.  

fahey's album red cross... ends with the sound of rain falling outside the studio (untitled with rain  24 minutes of it). it is the 33rd and final studio album by him, recorded a few months before his death in 2001. the posthumous releases and re-issue compilations will continue until 2023's proofs and refutations (and may indeed continue further on). 

he had forgotten skip spence's the land of the sun and was surprised when it came on. 

plaid take caerphilly in the by-election. as someone pointed out when labour were down to 50 seats one of them was caerphilly - it is really bad news for them for labour to have lost it, it does not bode well for the may sennedd elections. given the polls the tactical vote to keep out reform would have been plaid (horsemouth suspects this is what happened). 

last night horsemouth watched sidney lumet's the deadly affair - an early crack at john le carre's smiley series (but under another name with james mason). it doesn't work (but it's well enough made). the james mason / simone signoret couple just does not work, he's too old (it would have worked when he was younger). she does her best with the part. 

here a glorious autumnal morning. horsemouth failed to go out bell-ringing last night (he feels bad about this).