with the gentle embrace

dom hans van der laan (dutch monastic architect)
schemi per tuniche represe da abiti orientali che testimoniano l'attitudine
from dom hans van der laan: le opere, gli scritti - electa - 2000

other's face reflected

train abstractions from
akira kurosawa's high and low - 1963
cinematography by asakazu nakai & takao saito

take me to your cinema

michael powell - peeping tom - 1960
cinematography by otto heller

("take me to your cinema" a great influence on the young arthur de eriomém, finally revisited as a codger)

those living waves, die one after another, monotonously, but they make no foaming sound

magic-hour & darkness (plus day-for-night) in
l'armée des l'ombres - jean-pierre melville - 1969
cinematography by pierre lhomme

the bird of passage rests on the waves, then abandons himself to their movements, full of proud grace, until the bones of his wings have recovered their accustomed strength and he can continue his aerial pilgrimage..... i want to die lulled by the waves of the stormy sea
lautréamont - maldoror (46, 47)

enneigé - covered with snow

jean-pierre melville - l'armée des ombres - 1969
cinematography - pierre lhomme
actor - lino ventura

first post in a series looking at the difference between
magic-hour/night-time photography and day-for-night
in melville's l'armée des ombres

based on an amateur's (lover's) view-point

berkeley - polish night music

(music found at various libraries around berkeley during a cat-sitting adventure)

- afro cuban all-stars - a toda cuba le gusta - nonesuch - 1997
- john adams - shaker loops: II. hymning slews from shaker loops light over water - new albion records - 1994
- j.s. bach (philippe herreweghe) - bach: cantatas & masses - emi classics - 2004
- ludwig van beethoven (glenn gould) - piano sonatas vol. 1 - sony - 1980/83
- ludwig van beethoven - beethoven: complete music for cello & piano - philips - 1994
maurice gendron, mstislav rostropovich, jean françaix, sviatoslav richter
- ludwig van beethoven - beethoven: string quartets - borodin string quartet - emi classics - 2003
- lead belly - where did you sleep last night - smithsonian folkways - 1996
- ran blake - all that is tied - tompkins square - 2006
- dock boggs - folkways years 1963-1968 - smithsonian folkways - 1998
- anthony braxton - for alto - delmark records - 1969
- marion brown - marion brown quartet - esp - 1965
with bennie maupin, alan shorter, reggie johnson, ronnie boykins, rashied ali
- marion brown - marion brown quartet: why not - esp - 1967
with sirone and rashid ali
- marion brown - three for shepp - impulse! - 1967
with sirone, beaver harris, grachan moncur III, dave burrell and others
- marion brown - jubalee - fontana - 1967
with bennie maupin, alan shorter, reggie johnson, beaver harris and grachan moncur III
- marion brown - le temps fou - db/polydor - 1968
musique du film "le temps fou" de marcel camus with barre phillips, gunter hampel and others
- marion brown / gunter hampel - gesprächsfetzen - calig - 1968
- marion brown - marion brown in sommerhausen - calig - 1969
- marion brown / leo smith: creative improvisation ensemble - freedom - 1970
- marion brown - afternoon of a georgia faun - ecm - 1970
with andrew cyrille, bennie maupin, anthony braxton and others
- marion brown - geechee recollections - impulse! - 1973
- marion brown - sweet earth flying - impulse! - 1974
with muhal richard abrams ,paul bley, steve mccall and others
- marion brown - vista - impulse! - 1975
with reggie workman, harold budd and ed blackwell
- marion brown - porto novo - arista - 1975
with han bennink and others
- marion brown - november cotton flower - baystate - 1979
- marion brown - marion brown: live in japan - diw records - 1991
recorded 1979
- johnny cash - hymns by johnny cash - columbia records - 1959
- johnny cash - all aboard the blue train - varese sarabande - 2003
contains unreleased sun recordings
- johnny cash - unearthed - lost highway - 2003
- paul chambers - mosaic select 5: paul chambers - mosaic records - 2003
- don cherry - "mu" second part - actuel 31 - 1969
with ed blackwell - paris
- frederic chopin (alexis weissenberg) - chopin: nocturnes, mazurkas & waltzes - emi - 1969/83/88/2000
- nat king cole - st. louis blues - capital records - 1958
with nelson riddle
- ornette coleman - paris concert / ornette coleman: trio - 1966 & 1971
with david izenzon, charles moffett, dewey redman, charlie haden and ed blackwell
- orentte coleman - crisis - impulse! - 1969
with don cherry, dewey redman, charlie haden, denardo coleman
- alice coltrane and carlso santana - illuminations - columbia - 1974
- toumani diabate and ballake sissoko - new ancient strings - rykodisc - 1997
- walt dickerson - tell us only the beautiful things - whynot - 1975
- john dowland (paul o'dette) - john dowland complete lute works vol. 1 - harmonia mundi - 1995
- marcel duchamp - music of marcel duchamp - edition block - 1991
s.e.m. ensemble, petr kotik, john cage
- kyle bobby dunn - fragments & compositions of kyle bobby dunn - sedimental - 2008
- werner durand - remnants from paradise - absurd - 2008
- eccentric soul - the big mack label - numero - 2006
- ethiopiques 5, 7, 9, 11, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 23
- max eastly / graham halliwell / evan parker / mark wastell - a life saved by a spider and two doves - another timbre - 2008
- erik enocksson - farväl falkenberg - kning disk - 2007
- booker ervin - structurally sound - blue note - 1966
with charles tolliver
- bill evans - explorations - riverside - 1961
with scott lafaro and paul motion
- aretha franklin - chain of fools - rhino - 1993
- aretha franklin - rare & unreleased recordings from the golden reign of the queen of soul - rhino - 2007
first six years with atlantic records
- gagaku japanese traditional music - world music library - 1994
a truly beautiful recording
- judy garland - a star is born - sony - 2004
- benny goodman - sing, sing, sing - rca - 1935
- grant green - am i blue - blue note - 1963
- grant green - street of dreams - blue note - 1964
with bobby hutcherson, lary young and elvin jones
- grant green - talkin about - blue note - 1964
with larry young and elvin jones
- francisco guerau (hopkinson smith) - poeme harmonico compuesta de varias cifras por el temple de la guitarra española - auvidis astrée - 1990
- knut hamre and steve tibbets - a - hannibal - 1999
- herbie hancock - fat albert rotunda - warner music - 1969
with joe henderson and buster williams
- herbie hancock - mwandishi - warner brothers - 1971
- herbie hancock - sextant - columbia - 1973
- herbie hancock - trust - columbia - 1974
with bennie maupin
- johnny hartman - all of me: the debonair mr. hartman - bethlehem - 1956/2000
- gurdjieff de hartmann (wim van dullemen) - music for the movements - channel crossings - 1999
- eddie henderson - realization / inside out - anthology : vol. 2 the capricorn years - soul brother - 2003
- aziz herawi - memories of herat - wonderground oz - 1996
14 stringed dutar and rubab (afghan lutes)
- his name is alive - sweet earth flower: a tribute to marion brown - high two / aum fi. - 2007
- dave holland - points of view - ecm - 1998
- diane hope - elk song - touchradio
- lena horne - stormy weather - bluebird - 1990
- bobby hutcherson - components - blue note - 1965
with herbie hancock, ron carter, freddie hubbard and others
- bobby hutcherson - stick-up! - blue note - 1966
- bobby hutcherson - medina - blue note - 1968 - 1969
- bobby hutcherson - montara - blue note - 1975
- isolde - all things to fall like marching men - penny poppit - 2008
- leos janácek (andrás schiff) - a recollection : leos jánacek - ecm - 2001
- bert jansch - works
- jóhann jóhannsson - fordlandia - 4ad - 2008
- ali akbar khan - signature series, vol. 2: three ragas - ammp label - 1990
- wajahat khan - indian raags for sarod, tabla and tanpura - koch - 2000
- nusrat fateh ali khan - the early years vol 2, rare recordings 1983-84 - emi records - 2004
- charles lloyd - rabo de nube - ecm - 2008
- david lynch and marek zebrowski - polish night music - david lynch music company - 2007
with polish field recordings recorded by dean hurley
- jackie mclean - the complete blue note 1964-66 - mosaic records - 1993
includes its time 1964, right now 1965, jacknife 1965, high fidelity 1966 and others
- charles mingus - jazzical moods - period records / original jazz classics - 1954
with john laporta, teo macero, thad jones and others
- hank mobley - no room for squares - blue note - 1963
with lee morgan, andrew hill, herbie hancock and others
- federico mompou (jordi masó) - piano music vol. 1-3 - naxos - 1998 - 2000
- grachan moncurr iii - exploration - capri records - 2004
andrew cyrille and others
- thelonious monk - the complete riverside recordings (15 cd set)
- thelonious monk - live at the it club (los angeles) - columbia - 1964
with charlie rouse, larry gales and ben riley
- lee morgan - search for the new land - blue note - 1964
- lee morgan - infinity - blue note - 1965
with jackie mclean
- ram narayan - ragas alhaiya bilaval and mishra bhairavi - nimbus records - 2004
- arvo pärt - fratres - emi - 1994
richard studt, tasmin little, martin roscoe
- arvo pärt - arvo pärt: i am the true vine - harmonia mundi - 2000
christopher bowers-broadbent, paul hillier, theatre of voices
- frank perry - deep peace - !quartz - 1980
- frank perry - new atlantis - celestial harmonies - 1984
- benoit pioulard - temper - kranky - 2008
- julien priester - love, love, love - ecm - 1973
- ernst reijseger - i love you so much it hurts - winter & winter - 2002
piano - franco d'andrea
- pharoah sanders - pharoah's first - esp - 1965
- erik satie (jean-philippe collard & pascal roge) - satie: the 4-handed piano, etc. - decca - 2000
- franz schubert (florestan trio) - schubert: piano trio #1; notturno; piano trio movement - hyperion - 2001
- trygve seim - sangam - ecm - 2004
with arve henriksen and frode halti
- colin andrew sheffield - signatures + broken light - invisible birds - 2009
- archie shepp - ballads for trane - denon/nippon columbia - 1977
- archie shepp and roswell rudd - live in new york - verve - 2001
fine sans amir baraka
- richard skelton - marking time - preservation - 2008
- bessie smith - bessie smith 1925-1933 - nimbus records - 1992
- lonnie liston smith - astral traveling - flying dutchman - 1973
- lonnie liston smith - expansions - rca - 1975
- tibetan buddhism - the ritual orchestra and chants - nonesuch - 1976
recorded at khampagar monastery, essential for scelsi fans
- ralph towner - lost and found - ecm - 1996
- ralph towner - anthem - ecm - 2001
- mal waldron and marion brown - songs of love and regret - free lance - 1985
- mal waldron and marion brown - much more - freelance records - 1988
- mal waldron and steve lacy - sempre amore - soul note records - 1986
- fats waller - fine arabian stuff - high note - 2000
recorded for radio broadcast on november 20, 1939
- chris watson - cima verde - fondazione edmund mach, lol productions - 2008

photo - the night sky while walking through the university one evening

classify all risks

claude sautet - classe tous risques - 1960
novel - josé giovanni
cinematography - ghislain cloquet