John Chantler
@johnchantler.bsky.social
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ :: artistic director @edition-festival.com / Fönstret, co-founder @VenueCMS.bsky.social
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Contact sheet, Ornette Coleman Quartet, Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, May 22, 1959
📸 William Claxton. From the Estate of Charlie Haden
📸 William Claxton. From the Estate of Charlie Haden
December 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Contact sheet, Ornette Coleman Quartet, Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, May 22, 1959
📸 William Claxton. From the Estate of Charlie Haden
📸 William Claxton. From the Estate of Charlie Haden
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This is a WILD list. Not just the albums chosen, but the order. Read it with a smile on your face.
richardblute.ca/the-greatest...
richardblute.ca/the-greatest...
The Greatest Jazz Albums Of All Time
The 100 Greatest Jazz Albums Of All Time, a list with commentary, by Richard Blute My criteria for putting this list together: -Try to feature as many different musicians as possible. (There are in…
richardblute.ca
December 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is a WILD list. Not just the albums chosen, but the order. Read it with a smile on your face.
richardblute.ca/the-greatest...
richardblute.ca/the-greatest...
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Highest possible recommendation!
A third physical edition of [Ahmed]'s landmark Giant Beauty 5CD boxset has now been put into production.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Giant Beauty, by أحمد [Ahmed]
5 track album
ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Highest possible recommendation!
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If you don’t have this, you really do need it….
A third physical edition of [Ahmed]'s landmark Giant Beauty 5CD boxset has now been put into production.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Giant Beauty, by أحمد [Ahmed]
5 track album
ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
If you don’t have this, you really do need it….
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A third physical edition of [Ahmed]'s landmark Giant Beauty 5CD boxset has now been put into production.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Giant Beauty, by أحمد [Ahmed]
5 track album
ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A third physical edition of [Ahmed]'s landmark Giant Beauty 5CD boxset has now been put into production.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Anna Högberg Attack Ensamseglaren är "Årets Avantgarde" i Lira: www.lira.se/skivorna-som...
Skivorna som gjorde Lira-året 2025 – jazzen – Lira
Häromveckan publicerade vi vår lista över de folkmusikskivor som gjort störst avtryck 2025. Här fortsätter vi med jazzen, med fokus på Sverige. Totalt 21 album på en brokig lista med allt från crooner...
www.lira.se
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Anna Högberg Attack Ensamseglaren är "Årets Avantgarde" i Lira: www.lira.se/skivorna-som...
A third physical edition of [Ahmed]'s landmark Giant Beauty 5CD boxset has now been put into production.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Giant Beauty, by أحمد [Ahmed]
5 track album
ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A third physical edition of [Ahmed]'s landmark Giant Beauty 5CD boxset has now been put into production.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
Generally available next March, but you can pre-order already here: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-...
'Apricot' ribbon for this batch.
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We built membership subscriptions into Venue and now we have our first-use of it. Working to funnel more money directly into the pockets of arts venues and artists. #venuecms #artsadmin #music #stockholm #fylkingen
Congrats to @fylkingen.bsky.social on the launch of a new supporter initiative ‘Friends of Fylkingen’ powered by @venuecms.bsky.social
fylkingen.se/en/p/support...
fylkingen.se/en/p/support...
Support Fylkingen
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Become a Friend of Fylkingen and help strengthen the future of Sweden's oldest venue for experimental music and art!</span>
fylkingen.se
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We built membership subscriptions into Venue and now we have our first-use of it. Working to funnel more money directly into the pockets of arts venues and artists. #venuecms #artsadmin #music #stockholm #fylkingen
Congrats to @fylkingen.bsky.social on the launch of a new supporter initiative ‘Friends of Fylkingen’ powered by @venuecms.bsky.social
fylkingen.se/en/p/support...
fylkingen.se/en/p/support...
Support Fylkingen
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Become a Friend of Fylkingen and help strengthen the future of Sweden's oldest venue for experimental music and art!</span>
fylkingen.se
December 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Congrats to @fylkingen.bsky.social on the launch of a new supporter initiative ‘Friends of Fylkingen’ powered by @venuecms.bsky.social
fylkingen.se/en/p/support...
fylkingen.se/en/p/support...
Anna Högberg Attack is #8 here: www.dn.se/kultur/dn-va...
DN väljer: Här är 2025 års bästa svenska skivor
Knastrande frijazz, satirisk köttpunk och drömsk afrogrunge finns med när DN:s musikkritiker röstar fram årets 10 bästa svenska skivor.
www.dn.se
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Anna Högberg Attack is #8 here: www.dn.se/kultur/dn-va...
Nina Garcia's solo concert was one of the best live things I heard all year.
4/10 find at Baba Yaga's this year. Def need Nina back soon!
Here's the Avant Rock chart that I've compiled for the Rewind issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social.
Truly an excellent year for rock*, with a bunch of other records that narrowly missed out on the top 10: Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt, Cyrus Pireh, Chuck Roth, Crippling Alcholism...
Truly an excellent year for rock*, with a bunch of other records that narrowly missed out on the top 10: Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt, Cyrus Pireh, Chuck Roth, Crippling Alcholism...
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Nina Garcia's solo concert was one of the best live things I heard all year.
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No need to speculate. Music has always been capable of indeterminacy, improvisation and generative process approaches and we have decades of thought relating to a vast array of modern generative practices. GenAI is very late to the party, the main difference is the scale of labour exploitation.
Repetition is a human invention.
Nature rarely repeats itself.
Yet, we play the same music and films over and over.
Generative art changes every time you experience it.
What if generative AI ends up feeling more NATURAL than the static media of today?
Nature rarely repeats itself.
Yet, we play the same music and films over and over.
Generative art changes every time you experience it.
What if generative AI ends up feeling more NATURAL than the static media of today?
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
No need to speculate. Music has always been capable of indeterminacy, improvisation and generative process approaches and we have decades of thought relating to a vast array of modern generative practices. GenAI is very late to the party, the main difference is the scale of labour exploitation.
@scazan.bsky.social is on an absolute tear right now banging out a lot of super useful updates.
Really hope that folks will find what we are making helpful and good value for money.
Excited to have a few new clients coming on board with sites planned for launch in early 2026, too.
Really hope that folks will find what we are making helpful and good value for money.
Excited to have a few new clients coming on board with sites planned for launch in early 2026, too.
Also.. this is one of 5 or so features we are going to take out of beta very soon. Video storage, live streaming direct from sites, custom fields, tags on everything, and many general quality improvements to the backend (& a few other things as well in the pipeline nearing completion).
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
@scazan.bsky.social is on an absolute tear right now banging out a lot of super useful updates.
Really hope that folks will find what we are making helpful and good value for money.
Excited to have a few new clients coming on board with sites planned for launch in early 2026, too.
Really hope that folks will find what we are making helpful and good value for money.
Excited to have a few new clients coming on board with sites planned for launch in early 2026, too.
Memberships are now part of @venuecms.bsky.social.
Receive monthly or annual card payments via stripe connect.
Included as part of our standard packages and we take no extra cut on top of stripe’s payment fees.
Feature-flagged for now, so get in touch for access.
Receive monthly or annual card payments via stripe connect.
Included as part of our standard packages and we take no extra cut on top of stripe’s payment fees.
Feature-flagged for now, so get in touch for access.
In the final stages of testing for the new Memberships feature right now on @venuecms.bsky.social . Excited to roll this out so venues and artists can have their own membership subscription programs! #venuecms #cms #artadmin
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Memberships are now part of @venuecms.bsky.social.
Receive monthly or annual card payments via stripe connect.
Included as part of our standard packages and we take no extra cut on top of stripe’s payment fees.
Feature-flagged for now, so get in touch for access.
Receive monthly or annual card payments via stripe connect.
Included as part of our standard packages and we take no extra cut on top of stripe’s payment fees.
Feature-flagged for now, so get in touch for access.
Doing a talk for composition students at KMH on Friday followed by this evening concert of fixed media works including pieces by myself and @marjaahti.bsky.social
www.kmh.se/konserter---...
www.kmh.se/konserter---...
Elektroakustiskt i december 2025
- Kungl. Musikhögskolan
Välkomna till en konsert med nykomponerad elektroakustisk musik!
www.kmh.se
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Doing a talk for composition students at KMH on Friday followed by this evening concert of fixed media works including pieces by myself and @marjaahti.bsky.social
www.kmh.se/konserter---...
www.kmh.se/konserter---...
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It’s that time of year again: m.youtube.com/watch?v=MgVO...
Richard Youngs – Advent (1988)
YouTube video by custom goesdisco
m.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It’s that time of year again: m.youtube.com/watch?v=MgVO...
This is tonight, Stockholm.
Magnus Granberg & Skogen present ‘Trouble, Had It All My Days’ next week in Stockholm (Wednesday 26/11, Konserhuset) and London (Saturday 29/11, St Mary at Hill/Music We’d Like To Hear).
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is tonight, Stockholm.
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Last Space concert of the year at We jazz festival Helsinki on Saturday 29/11
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Last Space concert of the year at We jazz festival Helsinki on Saturday 29/11
Anna Högberg Attack ‘Ensamseglaren’ is Phil England’s album of the year !
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...
Phil England presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire
The 20 November edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included music by Mulatu Astatke, Anna Högberg Attack, Test Dept, Alexander Hawkins & Taylor Ho Bynum and ...
www.thewire.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Anna Högberg Attack ‘Ensamseglaren’ is Phil England’s album of the year !
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...
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[Ahmed] أحمد
Sama'a (Audition) سماع
beautiful gatefold 2LP edition, just landed ✨
boomkat.com/products/sam...
Sama'a (Audition) سماع
beautiful gatefold 2LP edition, just landed ✨
boomkat.com/products/sam...
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
[Ahmed] أحمد
Sama'a (Audition) سماع
beautiful gatefold 2LP edition, just landed ✨
boomkat.com/products/sam...
Sama'a (Audition) سماع
beautiful gatefold 2LP edition, just landed ✨
boomkat.com/products/sam...
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Went deep on the awesome new [Ahmed] album @thequietus.com The greatest band in the world. @cafeotodalston.bsky.social thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
Who Says Free Music Can’t Dance? Sama’a (Audition) by [Ahmed] | The Quietus
With one of the great rhythm sections of our time, the free jazz quartet take the pan-Islamic music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik far out without sparing an ounce of its propulsive energy
thequietus.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Went deep on the awesome new [Ahmed] album @thequietus.com The greatest band in the world. @cafeotodalston.bsky.social thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
"...salty, bracing, strangely comforting.
It’s a big-band elegy for people who can’t sit still; a farewell that refuses to whisper; a reminder that even the loneliest voyage leaves a wake luminous enough for others to follow."
www.chaindlk.com/reviews/13231
@edition-festival.com
It’s a big-band elegy for people who can’t sit still; a farewell that refuses to whisper; a reminder that even the loneliest voyage leaves a wake luminous enough for others to follow."
www.chaindlk.com/reviews/13231
@edition-festival.com
Anna Högberg Attack - Ensamseglaren | Chain D.L.K.
www.chaindlk.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"...salty, bracing, strangely comforting.
It’s a big-band elegy for people who can’t sit still; a farewell that refuses to whisper; a reminder that even the loneliest voyage leaves a wake luminous enough for others to follow."
www.chaindlk.com/reviews/13231
@edition-festival.com
It’s a big-band elegy for people who can’t sit still; a farewell that refuses to whisper; a reminder that even the loneliest voyage leaves a wake luminous enough for others to follow."
www.chaindlk.com/reviews/13231
@edition-festival.com