Letter #55

Good morning / afternoon / evening,

I hope you’ve had a belter. The weather in London has been glorious – I hope you’ve had some sunshine 🌞. This week is another short letter – work has been absolutely crackers (good crackers, mind) – and as such I’ve not had much head space. Next week will be a bumper rambling notes, I promise. Despite the lack of notes, there’s so much great music and so many interesting things in happening culture, the mixtape is filled with excellent songs, and there’s a bumper TL:DR section below.

PLAY

🌪 TL;DR section 🌪

I’ve been pitching this week, so it’s been all early mornings and late nights, but it’s been fun. It’s proper proof that “commitment has to be on extreme”. Filled with chats about culture, brilliant music, and exciting work and excellent people. It’s been hard, but I’ve had a bloody blast. There’s a load of stuff that I’ve read on my commute, and I’m nearly finished Rave On, which is excellent. I’ll give you a proper rundown next week. For now, you’ll have to make do with some interesting stuff from other people.

Stuff to do:

Watch this interview between Heidegger and a Buddhist monk
Learn about how the hell a record label managed to lose a Coltrane album (he basically wrote so much material no one knew what to do with it)
Get hyped about Iggy Pop and Underworld collaborating
Learn about the evolution of music formats
A lovely insight into the Now series and the people who decide what goes on
Read as an art historian breaks down the Beyonce / Jay-Z collaboration
Learn about Manchester’s hip hop and soul revolution
WaxPoetics has a great piece on Curtis Mayfield’s political commentary
Clash lists ten things you might not know about David Byrne
Noisey has a great breakdown of the new Jon Hassell work
If it was possible, I’m now more in love with Kamasi
This Quietus collection of brilliant music books is worth working through (I’ll be using it for building up my reading list)
This Guardian history of Roisin Murphy is great

As always, if you’ve read to here, thanks for indulging me (maybe not, you lazy gits) ♥️.

See you on the dance floor.
Love Will Save the Day

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