Idna Yelrohc's Golb

Images music and videos of beauty and wonder I encounter as we revolve around the Sun

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Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks by Brian Eno from 1983.  Slipped into sleep and greeted the new day with this. 

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The covers of 1st Issue Special which I finally read in full recently inspired by Tom King reusing the characters in these 13 issues for Danger Street

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Cover for The Man Within by Graham Greene the current novel I am reading. 

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Does Batman really die in the pages of this comic? What do you think reader?!

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The stunning HBO series was accompanied by a great soundtrack from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

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Ocean in a Drop by Gogo Penguin 2019 Extracts from a new soundtrack to Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 cult doc Koyaanisqatsi which I saw live at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music in 2019

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Move! by The Red Norvo Trio 1950 Vibes, guitar and a young Mingus on double bass

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Ritual of the Savage by Les Baxter 1955 Baxter described the album as a "tone poem of the sound and the struggle of the jungle."  The album's liner notes requested the listener to imagine themselves transported to a tropical land. "Do the mysteries of native rituals intrigue you…does the haunting beat of savage drums fascinate you? Are you captivated by the forbidden ceremonies of primitive peoples in far-off Africa or deep in the interior of the Belgian Congo?"

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Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists ‎– Mango Walk (Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists Volume One) Afro Cubanism in early 50s Britain!

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‘AFRO LATIN SOUL’ VOLUMES 1 AND 2 – MULATU ASTATKE “The discography of Ethiopian jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke has become the stuff of legend. Following the 2017 reissue of Astatke’s brilliant Mulatu of Ethiopia, stories spread of the musician’s early days in America in the 1960s and ‘70s. With Strut’s newest reissue, Afro Latin Soul Vols. 1 & 2, we hear Astatke’s first forays into the pioneering sound that would become his trademark.“ -Will Schube for Bandcamp

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/07/20/album-of-the-day-mulatu-astatke-afro-latin-soul/

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Pekin Duck mother and ducklings on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Parbold

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Trees reflected in one of the brooks that cross Urmston Meadows by the Mersey on New Year’s Day 2019

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Raindrops fall into a channel in Aira Beck above Aira Force in March 2019

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Love Child by Diana Ross and The Supremes 1968

A more mature socially conscious sound for the Supremes featuring the superb title track composed and produced by R Dean Taylor and the George Clinton co-authored Can't Shake It Loose which he would later remake with Funkadelic

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Brigitte Fontaine est... folle ! 1968

“Within an album or two, Fontaine would be deep in avant-garde jazz and nascent world music hybrids, so in hindsight Est…Folle sounds the most traditional, even though it’s nothing of the sort—in fact, the title translates to “Brigitte Fontaine is crazy” and its cover features Fontaine’s striking dark eyes emanating from a big white question mark. Recorded in the studio with composer/arranger Jean-Claude Vannier—who would soon add orchestral heft to France’s greatest rock export, Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson—Est…Folle is playful and charming, even if it offers few hints at the curveballs ahead.“ Pitchfork

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19022-brigitte-fontaine-estfolle-comme-a-la-radio/

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Afro-Harping by Dorothy Ashby 1968

A reviewer of Dusty Groove mentioned "One of the grooviest records ever – a sublime blend of African percussion, soulful orchestrations, and Dorothy Ashby's amazing electric harp! By the time of this landmark album, Dorothy had been knocking around the jazz world for a number of years, but it wasn't until she hooked up with Richard Evans at Cadet Records that her sound really began to cook – breaking down genres and expectations in the trademark style of the best late 60s sides from the Chicago underground. The record's got a bit of funk, a bit of jazz, and a heck of a lot of soul – and the setting works perfectly for Dorothy's harp, giving it a lot more room to work around than some of her smaller jazz combo albums"