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The Improvised Vision
A gallery of musicians
Recent acquisitions updated July 2010
Poetry
A concrete selection
Bob Dylan & Babylon: together through life – a talk by John Gibbens – can be digested in several chewy chunks on YouTube
Music updated 8th July 2010
THE CHILDREN
Sea People and The Base, a song about the Greenham Peace Camp, with Kath Tait on concertina and harmonica, from Equals
Heart of the World with Paul Barratt, drums, Hayereyah, harmonica, Terry Edwards, trumpet; and Democracy from The Health of the People
Holy Hill and Your Love Is My Heaven, with Jasper Hoiby on double bass, Becky Truscott on cello, Olivia Chaney on piano, from Love Walk
Going Out and Some Kind of Rain, with Bertie Fritsch on drums, from Rockingham Street
Howling Wolf and Grey Cat & the Blackbird, two creature features from Come Aboard
Get Shaggin’, with Anne Wood and Annie Whitehead on violin and trombone, respectively, Julia Doyle and Frank Hall, bass and drums; Feel Free with Anne Wood and Gail Brand, fiddle and ’bone again; and Next Millennium with Gail Brand and Alfredo Genovesi on ultramodified guitar, from Play
Track of the Pieces and Macaroon from Songs from the Red Notebook I
Guitar Victims and Three Kings from Songs from the Red Notebook II
Some other songs
NEW Looking at the Rose (Through World-Coloured Glasses)
Blake Songs – settings of The Little Black Boy and The Tyger
Moments Arrived and Nowhere Without You , two songs that appeared in the Fictitious Exhibitions of Rebecca Feiner
Sunsong in memory of Richard CostainTHE MIND SHOP, from Treetop Songs
Serinus serinus
My Bonie Bell
Prose
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We Walk the Line A rambler’s guide to the Dylans, Bob and Thomas (pdf)
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There’s Hot Stuff Here and It’s Everywhere I Go A Young Person’s Introduction to Modern Times
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61 Minutes : A Second Re-reading Chronicles (pdf)
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Bow Down to Her on Sunday On ‘To Ramona’, the High Priestess and the Wheel of Fortune
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Steady Rollin' Man: a revolutionary critique of Robert Johnson With musical examples
“No agitators, no clubs, no epidemical errors, ever were, or will be, fatal to social order in any nation. Nothing but the guilt of the upper classes, wanton, accumulated, reckless, and merciless, ever overthrows them. Of such guilt they have now much to answer for – let them look to it in time.” – Ruskin