the gathered thoughts of Richard Pinnell

Sunday 31st May

So the first two Creative Sources releases then. The first here is titled Abstract Mechanics and is credited to João Lucas, who is the composer here and one half of the musical duo that performed the music, playing piano, accordion and electronics alongside cellist and long-term collaborator Miguel Mira. The music was composed to accompany a dance performance by a dancer named Andresa Soares. All of this information comes from the liner notes. I had never heard of either musician or Soares beforehand. The first of the seven tracks here is inexplicably a three minute long improvisation that does not seem linked in any way to the main six-part composition ...

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On Creative Sources

Before I post tonight's mini-reviews of two recent Creative Sources releases I thought I ...

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Saturday 30th May

Another long day at work, tired with barely a moment to myself. But then you knew that ...

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Friday 29th May

Another hectic day without a moment to call my own. I need a holiday. Anyway following last night's promise to listen to at least one album a day properly so as to get the "to listen" pile ...

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Thursday 28th May

Such a frustrating day today.I go tnothing that I intended to get done sorted, and so will now have to be up really early in the morning to catch up. I did a lot today, everything from gardening to dodging a fence pole thrown at me by a drunken moron, but nothing I set out to do in the first place. And its hot... so hot, really hot and humid and I hate this kind of weather. It puts me in a bad mood. Can you tell? ;) For a few weeks there was a bit of a lull in people sending me CDs, so I actually had managed to get soemwhere with making a dent in the pile of CDs as yet unheard, but this last week, mainly because I haven't had much of a chance (and also not ...

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Wednesday 27th May

Kind of a pondering day today when it comes to listening to music. The only CD I managed ...

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Tuesday 26th May

First of all a heads-up on a blog designed to document the meetings of three of London's ...

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Monday 25th May

At work again today while what felt like the rest of the country sat about in the sun... bah humbug. Home quite early though and sat with another glass of ropey chardonnay and the same ...

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