Leonardo @leonardo@mastodon.bida.im

The calls have been minimal, but "Jason, where is the emulation-in-browser support for the Tiger GAME.COM handheld console" has been answered - every released game for it, and every instruction manual, as well as links to Diskman's absolutely fantastic fan site. Play the worst thing ever today:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_gamecom

Oh geez, went to Bandcamp via browser and my breath immediately caught. Nice #JóhannJóhannsson feature today. For those curious about the brief mention of the #shoegaze band he played in, that would be Daisy Hill Puppy Farm (which is included in the Snarl compilations on our #1001OtherAlbums list).

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/johann-johannsson-album-guide

KEXP, a Seattle-based radio station I listen to every work day, will periodically do an entire day (or more) of “6 Degrees of Separation” programming, where every DJ comes up with their playlist on the fly, connecting each song by some thread – a shared band member/writer/producer/studio, one artist covering the other’s song, a previous/future collaboration, etc. Each DJ will often try to reach a particular artist by the end of their show, and the next DJ has to continue from where the previous DJ left off.

If you follow me on Mastodon, you may have seen that I was curious if we could play the 6 Degrees game with The List. My initial aim was to simply connect 6 albums from The List, starting with the last album we had a spotlight on (with no particular album as an end goal), but that was easy enough so I kept going. One of The List contributors also came up with a set, so I incorporated those into what I came up with and kept going some more. So far, we’ve connected 50ish albums from The List in a row.

I think each set provides a nice multi-day playlist (and, for a mega nerd like myself, following these trails is quite a bit of fun), so I wanted to share them here, one set at a time. And because (spoilers!) Prince features heavily in the last few sets, we’re going to time it so the last set is on the anniversary of him leaving us (April 21), and pick out some other fun Prince-connections along the way.

Okay, here we go…

6 Degrees of Separation: Yellow Magic Orchestra to Medicine Singers

Yellow Magic Orchestra – Solid State Survivor (number 85)
>> One of the band members of YMO was…

Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async (number 901)
…Ryuichi Sakamoto, who acted in the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence alongside…

David Bowie – Low (number 537)
…David Bowie, who recruited Adrian Belew for the Isolar II (i.e., Low/Heroes) tour (and the live album Stage, then Lodger, and, later, the Sound+Vision tour). Following Lodger, Belew recorded guitar solos and played in the live band for…

Talking Heads – Remain In Light (number 946)
…this album by Talking Heads, whose David Byrne later collaborated with St. Vincent, who is on…

Swans – To Be Kind (number 646)
…this album by Swans, whose Thor Harris and Christopher Pravdica are on

Medicine Singers – Medicine Singers (number 972)
…this album by Medicine Singers. <<

Prince 6

Though we don’t have a Prince album in today’s list, here are some fun connections the above artists have to the Purple One:

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “You Do Me” (Youtube), from the international release of his 1989 album Beauty, features Jill Jones, who performed/collaborated with Prince in many of his projects (including the 1999 album, Purple Rain and Graffiti Bridge films, and the Vanity 6 and Apollonia 6 side-projects) and was on his Paisley Park Records label.
Ingrid Chavez, who was on Prince’s Lovesexy album, was originally on the Paisley Park label, and acted alongside Prince in Graffiti Bridge, also performed on Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1991 album Heartbeat.
According to the forums on prince.org, there’s a bootleg recording of a Prince rehearsal session called 1999 Revisited where Prince throws in some tweaked Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” lyrics into his “D.M.S.R.” song.
In 2018, David Byrne showed up at a tiki-karaoke bar in Portland and sang “When Doves Cry” (Youtube).
In Tom Hagler’s 2021 book We Could Be…Bowie and His Heroes, there’s a brief story about the only time Prince and David Bowie met. In 1987, after Bowie played a show in Minneapolis, Prince invited him back to Paisley Park for a party. Prince put on an album he had just recently written but not yet released, The Black Album, and everyone including Bowie and his band danced to and enjoyed the record. (Prince later said that one of the reasons why he decided to pull the album was because he didn’t like a comment that someone else who was also there that night said about the album, even though it was a compliment.)
After Bowie died, while on his Piano & A Microphone Tour, Prince incorporated a cover of “Heroes” into a few of his shows.

Tune in on Thursday for Part 2, to see how we get from Medicine Singers to REM!

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/09/6-degrees-of-separation-part-1/

#1001OtherAlbums #6DegreesOfSeparation #AdrianBelew #ChristopherPravdica #DavidBowie #DavidByrne #MedicineSingers #Prince #RyuichiSakamoto #StVincent #Swans #TalkingHeads #ThorHarris

Il secondo evento principale si svolgerà a Bari, al Bread&Roses.

17 e 18 maggio, ossia venerdì + sabato.

Ci saranno talk, workshop, eventi speciali, ospiti, musica, concerti.

Avremo un ospite speciale che non vediamo l'ora di annunciare.

Vuoi proporre un gioco, un talk, qualsiasi cosa? Compila la call for papers:
https://cloud.kenobisboch.it/apps/forms/s/iem8f9XMQTQZwabbbSN8TBTa

Beautiful alternative to the periodic table created in 1975 by James Franklin Hyde.

If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?"

I Punkreas ci dedicano una canzone!
Non sempre ci piace farci pubblicità, ma alle volte facciamo un'eccezione.

Siamo molto contenti di poter rendere disponibile in anteprima l'ultimo singolo della band dei Punkreas, che riprendendo alcuni temi del loro ultimo disco "Electric deja-vu" ci hanno dedicato un pezzo in cui si parla di tecnologia ribelle, rivoluzione e rivolta, di cui rendiamo disponibile un estratto:

Buon ascolto!
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2024/04/9903

Because more music is never ever a bad thing, last weekend we added a new feature to the blog, a Links page that points to some other cool online spaces that are dedicated to sharing excellent music. In putting a call out to Mastodonians to send in links for their own sites and personal favorites, a blog by two of our List contributors was brought to my attention, Digital LoFi. I was especially thrilled to find that, on their blog, @SpaceAce (aka Robotron, aka Tom Q.) has a fantastic write-up for one of the albums they had submitted, Forest’s The Full Circle, number 480 on The List.

Since the whole point of the 1001 Other Albums project is to share music and our thoughts on said music with each other, I feel like pointing to a contributor’s thoughts elsewhere rather than trying to reinvent the wheel here is a great fit. And so, at the risk of appearing to be phoning it in, please join us over at Digital LoFi for today’s spotlight – a surrogate guest post, if you will. But first make sure to grab yourself a snack, something warm to drink, maybe a kitten, and a pair of headphones, because this is a nice loooong read, complete with a history lesson on British folk music in the 50s/60s, a review of the band’s first LP, a close-up look at the album cover art, a deep dive into the lyrics, and (*swoon*) footnotes.

Happy reading/listening!

>>> Digital LoFi: The Trees In The Forest <<<

Songwhip: Forest – The Full Circle
Discogs: Forest – The Full Circle

[Alt text for accompanying image: The album artwork is a drawing or painting in light colors. There’s a stone church at the top of a small hill in the background and a woman holding a baby in the foreground, surrounded by some sort of scribbles representing perhaps a bush or wind or water. The band and album names are in yellow font, printed in a circle to the left of the woman.]

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/03/30/forest-the-full-circle-1970-uk/

#1001OtherAlbums #1970s #BritishFolk #folk #Forest

Version 2, jetzt mit besseren outlines #antifasticker

Hello Fedi.
Let's play a game,
Attached to this post is a poll,
I would like you to collectively produce a Bell curve.
No cheating now

🧩

Why did I just leave Spotify?

Nobody has ever reached out by saying they were interested in knowing more, after finding my music on there. Since this is *by design*, I removed all the music and deleted both my personal and artist accounts.

Same as when I deleted my SoundCloud a few weeks ago, it feels pointless to scatter songs over centralised online silos.

The sanest direction of travel from now on is to follow the principles of #BeYourOwnPlatform

#Spotify

in case you too want to cross-stitch it

I believe it was @thomholwerda (?) who mentionned some days ago Inter Display font.

Looks pretty good indeed.
Using it now on both #PopOs and #HaikuOS desktops.

You can get it here:
https://rsms.me/inter/

Note: the terminals use
Iosevka Term Nerdfont.

Un lunedì mattina in piedi prima dell'alba: la situazione perfetta per ascoltare il nuovo album di Julia Holter uscito venerdì scorso, «Something in the Room She Moves»

https://juliaholter.bandcamp.com/album/something-in-the-room-she-moves

#FediRadio #ArtPop #JuliaHolter #NewMusic

Superb new collaboration on Chicago's International Anthem, between French ambient/new age titan Ariel Kalma and Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer.

#ambient #electronic

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/the-closest-thing-to-silence

Secret Panel HERE ☝ https://tapas.io/episode/2682252

This font - Inclusive Sans - looks lovely.
https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans
Might try it on my eReader. I only wish it had a bold variant.

#Font

Attenzione attenzione! È in arrivo un nuovo album degli Shellac siore e siori

https://store.touchandgorecords.com/products/shellac-to-all-trains-cd-lp

Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA, 2023.

All the pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52977939495/

#photography