new archival recordings

If anyone's still checking in here, I've just added a couple of recently compiled collections to the A Tiny Window archive.

One involves acoustic guitar and saz improvisations recorded with Joel here at the farm on Dartmoor between December last year and April this year. They're rough Zoom recordings of wonky jams, basically, but there was enough material there to edit down to about 40 minutes of pleasing nuggets.

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There will hopefully be a lot more of this to come, involving Joel's hurdy-gurdy and tabla playing too.

This is some material recorded around Summer Solstice, when out and about in the Avebury landscape, my usual midsummer adventurings. There are also some jams from a week earlier, here on the farm, with Joel plus some Bristol muso friends – Conrad (Evil Usses, etc.), Graeme (Dubi Dolczek) and Ben (tasteful acoustic blues player). That was a spontaneous fireside kind of thing, the Sunday of my birthday weekend.

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The Friday of my birthday weekend involved me doing what usually happens on a Saturday evening here – putting together a three-hour mix for Radio Routestock in one of the barns, with a few people around to enjoy that. These go out as Professor Appleblossom's Friday Night Dance Party on the Routestock stream 7-10PM UK time each Friday, and then get archived here. I got dressed up for that one, got really into it, had some trance-loving neighbours over to enjoy the sounds, so it went pretty electronic towards the end.

The Saturday I got taken to Falmouth by lovely Rosy and Jules as a sort of surprise - they'd got us on the guest list to see Dubi Dolczek playing at The Cornish Bank, a new venue on the High Street (an old bank, naturally) opened by Smugglers Records/Festival impressario Will Greenham with his friend Rufus. Japanese one-man-band/performance artist Ichi supported (we arrived about a minute beforehand!). This was my first gig (if you don't count the Canterbury Cathedral Choir singing Randy Newman in the Precincts) since spring 2020 when Sarah, Megan, Dan and I drove down to Folkestone to see Vula Viel in a mostly empty venue (Covid paranoia was kicking in). Hence Graeme, Ben and Conrad being at the farm with us the next night.

Summer solstice was followed by a really uplifting week in East Kent, mostly staying with Juliet and friends in Tyler Hill, where I DJ'd a double house party (an early set and a late set, about ten hours total) in a garden facing out onto a pastoral landscape. Bliss.