johnhdavis / inundation records

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  • Turn Off “The News”.2: Rania Khalek goes where the New York Times won’t

    Korea has been on my mind recently as I was working on a song based on The Blowback Trilogy by Chalmers Johnson, who I have written about before on this blog. As I reread the trilogy looking for bits to use, I decided to try and use a teachable moment Johnson wrote about. He recounted…

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    May 14, 2023
    History, Politics, Turn Off “The News”
    Breakthrough News, chalmers johnson, Dispatches, Eugene Puryear, Jeju, Ju-Hyun Park, Korea, New York Times, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, Rania Khalek, The Freedom Side, The Real News Network
  • Listening to.2: While Whirling by Frantz Loriot

    The viola is a beautiful instrument but not often a surprising one. Not so here. I know very little about this record, but I do know that it explores the viola in ways that are unusual but aesthetically successful and fully developed. It reminds me of textures from electronic music, which it may be influenced…

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    April 12, 2023
    Listening to, Music
    Frantz Loriot, Music, Thin Wrist Recordings, Viola, Whirling
  • The Core Is Getting Soft.19: Good Kit

    It’s been a few years since I’ve done a post in this series about music production software. I’ve been more interested in learning to use a few pieces of recording hardware I’ve acquired from Overstayer in LA and studying Persian classical music of late. But – there are still some software tools that catch my…

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    November 20, 2022
    The Core is Getting Soft
    BB N105 V2, Blackbird Studios, John McBride, KIT plugins, Neve 8078, Overstayer Audio, Persian Classical Music, software reviews
  • Turn Off “The News”.1: Black Power Media on Paul Robeson

    I’m starting a new series of posts here to express appreciation for and link to pieces published online by some of my favorite sources of news, information and analysis. The title refers to the difference between these sources and what is conventionally understood as “The News,” ie, mainstream outlets like NPR and the New York…

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    October 30, 2022
    Current Events, Film, Music, Politics, Series of posts, Turn Off “The News”
    Black Panther Party, Black Power Media, Dr. Jared Ball, Gerald Horne, Internal colonialism theory, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kwame Ture, New York Times, NPR, Paul Robeson, Richard Nixon, Snoop Dogg, Socialism
  • Top 40 Over 40.33: Blemish

    I think I’ve found my personal record of the year. It’s Roberta Flack’s First Take. There’s a song on it called I Told Jesus that joins Jesus is Waiting by Al Green as the only songs that give me a feel for what it is about Christianity that moves people. (I was raised in a…

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    October 9, 2022
    Music, Top 40 Over 40
    Al Green, Already Gone, Blemish, C.L.R. James, Christianity, Cold War, David Sylvian, Derek Bailey, Divorce, Doug Henwood, First Take, Jacques Derrida, Mark Fisher, New Hampshire, Pere Ubu, Roberta Flack, Scott Solter, Simon Joyner, Specters of Marx, The Eagles, Toshimaru Nakamura, Vermont
  • Show on 7/24 in Durham

    I have been on long hiatus from performing due to COVID’s lingering and working but on Sunday, July 24th I will have the distinct pleasure of opening for my friend and sometime collaborator Simon Joyner here in Durham NC. If you are local please consider coming on out with a friend, or telling a friend.…

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    July 14, 2022
    Shows and Events
    Live music, Simon Joyner
  • Listening to.1: Brandon Lopez

    Today I’m beginning a new series of posts on the spring chickens. If you’ve followed this blog for awhile, you know I’ve done a series of posts called Top 40 Over 40 about musical artists who have done work after the big four oh that to my ears is as good if not better than…

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    May 15, 2022
    Listening to, Music
    AUM Fidelity, Bass, Brandon Lopez, NYC, Whit Dickey Quartet, William Parker
  • Feel It If You Feel It

    Feel It If You Feel It

    A few days ago, the first post – reunion Folk Implosion release came out on Bandcamp. It’s got two new songs – like a double A sided single – with two additional tracks, remixes of those two songs by Scott Solter. It came out on limited edition vinyl, cassette, and unlimited edition CD. The vinyl…

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    April 16, 2022
    Cassettes, Folk Implosion, Music, New Releases
    Bandcamp, Feel It If You Feel It, Folk Implosion, Inundation Records
  • Minimal Resource Manipulation…

    …is the name of a label out of London UK. I’m not quite sure how I found out about them, but I ended up liking the soundscape offerings they have going so much that I bought their whole digital catalogue – 71 releases! – for something like 48 bucks on Bandcamp. It’s my new favorite…

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    January 22, 2022
    Music, Record Reviews
    Bandcamp, Instrumental Music, London, Minimal Resource Manipulation
  • Remembering Thich That Hanh

    Today I would like to pay respects to Thay. His books had a big impact on me when my mom started having them around the house in the mid 80’s, which was how I started to get interested in Buddhism. Thay gave me the Dharma name Great Patience of the Heart during a 3 week…

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    January 22, 2022
    Buddhism
    Buddhism, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Diamond Sutra, Gender, Heart Sutra, Insight Meditation Center, Karl Marx, Larry Rosenberg, mental health, Patriarchy, Plum Village, Robert McNamara, Sutra On the Full Awareness of Breathing, Thich Nhat Hahn, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vipassana, Zen
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