mixtape #2 from nadinekhouri on 8tracks Radio.

Track I wrote for Lhasa is shaping up nicely so far, I think – always surprised when the country music comes creeping in! 

Previewing this & some other unsung stuff on the 22nd February in London. 

“My greatest challenge is to get to the essence of the situation and not to destroy it.  Try to record it, to take it, film it in such a way that when I project it, the mood, the atmosphere of that situation is still there.  And that is not easy, I’ve discovered.  You have to choose the right moment and do it, catch it. How, I cannot tell you.  It’s something to feel because it’s invisible, but could also be visible.”  

— Jonas Mekas

Admittedly, it came into my hands a bit late, but the incredibly talented Jess Bryant has released one of the most beautiful & generous albums I’ve heard in a very long time!  A bold, authentic, and surprising work from start to finish. The album is available from Red Deer Club here.   

… is a technology.  Imagine that.  It’s an add-on.  We used to point and make mouth noises.  Terence McKenna said that language gave us our first chance to lie. Before language, lying was almost impossible to get away with. They took one look at you and just knew.” – Leslie Winer

Here for the full article by Wyndham Wallace on trip-hop pioneer Leslie Winer.