The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble Miles Away

Discovering quite a lot of interesting new music at the moment. The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble is a project by Jazz, Hip Hop and ‘World’ cross-over supremo Madlib and ventures into the realm of heritage jazz with tracks dedicated to the pioneers. Everyone from Horace Tapscott to Pharaoh Sanders is cited for inspiration in this album and interpretations are just as cool as you would expect for something touched by the hand of Madlib. Incidentally, I only just discovered that Madlib stands for “Mind Altering Demented Lessons In Beats” and I like that.

Also checking out Rio Hunuki-Hemopo and last years’ winner of the World Wide jazz album of the year award; Robert Mitchell and also really looking forward to the release of a new joint project by Bugge Wesseltoft & Henrik Schwarz — all good stuff.

Not really sure what to do with this blog at the moment as I do tend to feel more compelled to put stuff on Blogger now, then maybe eventually host wordpress on this domain but I want to use a premier template for that. Despite everything this page is still getting a lot more traffic than my relatively new Blogger site.

Lots of ideas for photography on the go, including an essay which will attempt to discuss my perception of the contemporary idiom as manifest in artistic photography. These are complex times for the medium and creative photographers are devising ever more complex and esoteric ideas and methodologies for keeping one step ahead of the ‘noise’ of mass consumed (and deployed) camera technology.

As an aside: got to get out on some long rides very soon, the canal route into Staffordshire beckons once again!

Total mileage: 11,160