Third Light Home / Listening to the Wind

Last-minute venue switch/distraught to discover that @TMandHL were no longer the support due to burst sewer pipe - but Portland folky Jeffrey Martin was excellent/have been spinning this on @looserec since bit.ly/4egZIyp (plus TM/HL retrospective bit.ly/3Zio5HB

The world needs more solo guitar gigs. Excellent night at Cafe Oto with Chicago luminary @BillMacKay68 last night billmackay.bandcamp.com/track/keeping-… billmackay.bandcamp.com/track/joy-ride @dragcity & @CWKJoynes cjoynes.bandcamp.com/track/mapperly…. Only regret is: forgot to buy some chutney at the end.

Super-cool Heavenly Social @thesocial gig last night with infectious Melbourne punks Delivery @heavenlyrecs deliveryband.bandcamp.com/track/digging-… and the truly excellent Expiry, who need to release something soon/one lp sold here

Couple of tracks from this round-up @tweetbytheriver David Boulter @ClayPipeMusic claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/plantage…; Natalia Beylis on Outside Time claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/plantage…; Memotone @TheTrilogyTapes memotone.bandcamp.com/track/rain-bel… thanks for reading

Sadly never caught them at the Fulham Greyhound (or somewhere in 1986), but was at Tufnell Park Dome ten years ago for a great gig. RIP Martin Phillipps 🙏 thechillsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/night-of… @firerecordings

Cool father's day present of tickets to see Ustad Noor Bakhsh tear up Cafe Oto last night. From the fine recent lp @HiveMarc honiunhoni.bandcamp.com/track/maanj

Takes something for me to wrench myself away from Spain v Italy -- something like the excellent Ryan Davis, solo complete with housey/techno interludes & Augustus Pablo melodica, at Servant Jazz Quarters last night/inc excellent version of this toughloverecords.bandcamp.com/track/flashes-… @ToughLove

Chest infection notwithstanding, the blue lights, dry ice machine, super-cool bass & @GlennDonaldson et al all conspired for an excellent Reds, Pinks & Purples gig at the Lexington last night; the perfect balm theredspinksandpurples.bandcamp.com/track/what-is-… @ToughLove

Probably my favourite album of May -- the always excellent Tidiane Thiam @sahelsounds. This track a northern Senegalese wedding song tidianethiam.bandcamp.com/track/yangue

Could have listened to Willy Vlautin & @gidcoe shooting the breeze -- discussing life, music, songwriting, tequila, Nevada, the working-class vote -- all night (at Earth in Dalston last night). Included fine versions of richmondfontaine.bandcamp.com/track/lost-in-… & thedelines.bandcamp.com/track/the-oil-…

Hard to pick out an essential couple of Steve Albini recordings when so many have soundtracked the various stages of yr life. Pulled these two off the shelf last night bit.ly/3USQEsH; bit.ly/3MHkVDE then remembered this bit.ly/4bqidyO this morning. RIP

@alextobin Thanks, Alex. Yes, contemplating all that re. pitching the tent. Hope to go back to Seeks Music-style broadcast somewhere too. Will let you know! Thanks again, Ian

4 yrs ago today since LttW was published & I started posting records (mostly) daily. Probably time to saddle up/move on. Like Hirayama, the Tokyo toilet cleaner in Perfect Days, I need to channel some inner komorebi/no more hippos eating watermelons/traffic violations/. . .

. . . 1970s football highlights/and worse . . . thanks for listening & the likes; will be back sporadically enthusing about vinyl. Happy End from @lightintheattic comp Even a Tree Can Shed Tears youtube.com/watch?v=VIo3uq…

Quintessential wet Bank Holiday Monday brightened up by Jessica Pratt's new 1960s trip jessicapratt.bandcamp.com/track/life-is @CitySlang

Digging the slight Innocence Mission vibe to the new Cara Beth Satalino lp on a gloomy Sunday afternoon (on Worried Songs) worriedsongs.bandcamp.com/track/listen-t…

Avoiding all football and getting lost in Eivind Lonning's trumpet in the Japanese Mountains (w/ Jim O'Rourke on Smalltown @supersound ) boomkat.com/products/most-…

Described by Honest Jon's as one of the heaviest dubs going, excellent speaker muffling version here from Trevor Byfield on Digikiller/Fox Fire dkr.bigcartel.com/product/trevor…

'Sounds . . . grow and wither like plants' -- Rafael Toral. Missed this first time around (1998 was the year the kids were born); v. happy to have this fine Black Truffle @orenambarchi reissue now rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/track/cycloram…