song of solomon 2:12

 'the time of the singing of birds had come'  quotation from kilvert's diary this day in 1872.

in this he echoes the song of solomon 'the flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land' (song of solomon 2:12). here the turtle is (of course) the turtledove (unless you are john fahey).

here in the wilds the weather is a bit more equivocal. (frost this morning)

the anniversary of a waterintobeer musicians of bremen gig in 2019

horsemouth will dig up more details (and maybe even a photo).

'setlist... - satan (gospel blues), the werewolf (michael hurley), the devil, worldes blisse, when the faun met alice (musicians of bremen - you may know these from horsemouth’s solo set last time), painbirds (mark linkous - sparklehorse) he played last time also. they revived sad and lonely and dorothy.  new to the set this time a version of blue crystal fire (robbie basho) and katie cruel (trad. karen dalton), lastly they took a crack at keith hudson’s turn your heater on...'

nick doyne-ditmas played. martin howard’s set included a song about the tasmanian tiger. 

horsemouth is lucky he recorded this information. it dates back to before he blogged everyday (well ok he was blogging every day on facebook but that's semi-hidden behind some resource saving tool). he didn't start blogging every day on blogger until september 2020. 

'visual poetry, poetic visions, action music and musical actions, happenings and events...'  

- dick higgins (member of fluxus)

yesterday horsemouth read parts of american avant-garde theatre by arnold aronson. he started on page 162 with the bits about fluxus (because he'd read about fluxus before) and then read the chapter on performance art as a whole. he is gradually expanding out to the point where he can claim to have read the entire book. 

this morning a frost (to quote the ruts 'it was cold in the night') but beautiful sunshine also. for horsemouth a trip into the village to buy coffee and to post a letter.