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John Hawthorn
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darrenhayman.bsky.social
Painting birds on beer mats again.
January 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#CDFriday
Jooklo Duo Feat. Tero Kemppainen - Natural CDr Troglosound 2008
Limited edition of 37 numbered copies, hand painted and unique pieces.
Number 004. #jazzsky
Front cover of CD. Purple/reddish background. Profile drawing of a female head with an ankh earring and neck rings. Album title written in pink letters on a black face. Jooklo Duo Feat. Tero Kemppainen - Natural Back cover of CD White paper sleeve with a purple/reddish cross with album title, artist credits and catalogue number written in black. Stamped number 004 in black.
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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counterflows.bsky.social
It gives us great pleasure to reveal the full artist line-up for Counterflows Festival, 9-12th April 2026 in Glasgow ❤️

The final allocation of festival passes are now on sale
www.counterflows.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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dondelion.bsky.social
#MusicSky #Music #ReggaeSky #Reggae
Burning Spear & Sound Dimension - Zion Higher / Zion (version)
youtube.com/watch?v=54bH...
January 7, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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January 5, 2026 at 12:40 AM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#cassunday Snake Figures Fan (James Ferraro) - S/T Pacific City Studios 2006 #skaters
Grainy grey photocopied cover, A Buddhist statue collage.
January 4, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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harryprenger.bsky.social
Nice story on Dutch artist Marte Röling and the album covers she created in the 1960s for jazz records that have since become rare.
vinylspot.nl/story/the-mi...
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 AM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#CDFriday Dubwise & otherwise - A Blood and Fire Audio Catalogue - Various Artists CD
Blood & Fire 1997
#dubsky #reggaesky
Front cover of CD. Cardboard packaging background with 2 orange arrows pointing upwards. white, purple, black and orange text that reads: Dubwise & otherwise - A Blood and Fire Audio Catalogue Back cover of CD. Cardboard background with track listing in purple and blue reads: 1. 2. BIG JOE In The Ghetto (3.20) 3. PRINCE JAMMY & THE AGGROVATORS Wreck Up A Version (2.54) 4. KEITH HUDSON Michael Talbot Affair (2.54) 5. BURNING SPEAR Institution (3.29) 6. YABBY U & KING TUBBY'S Jah Love Dub (3.06) 7. HORACE ANDY Government Land (3.29) 8. TAPPA ZUKIE Dub MPLA (3.05) 9. THE CONGOS Children Crying (4.12) 10. JAH STITCH African People (3 in 1] (3.35) 11. KING TUBBY & SOUL SYNDICATE Ethiopian Version (3.04) 12. SCIENTIST One Man Dub (3.29) 13. KING TUBBY King Tubby's In Fine Style (3.14) 14. PRINCE ALLA Bucket Bottom (2.25) 15. GLEN BROWN & KING TUBBY Assack Lawn No.1 Dub (3.14) 16. I ROY Look A Boom (2.55) 17. MORWELL UNLIMITED MEET KING TUBBY'S Concord (3.14) 18. HORACE ANDY Good Vibes (3.05) Total running time 54.56
January 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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mpflapp.bsky.social
Milford Graves – Meditation Among Us (Kitty Records, Japan 1977) - These Afro boxes B like hard work… time for a wee break & a bite to eat… Milford & seared scallops make for a fine paring… quick smoke & back to it… now where’s that OG of Zombie..?

In Full: youtu.be/Il_EjE885fE?...
January 1, 2026 at 8:34 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
It’s definitely this one…
No further questions.
mpflapp.bsky.social MP Flapp @mpflapp.bsky.social · 8d
Anita Lane – Dirty Sings (Mute, UK 1988) – Found earlier in the African LP section… totally misfiled. Does beg the question: what is the best version of Lost in Music...? The original, The Falls cover or this one by Anita...? Open to suggestions, but I think it might be this version…
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
It’s been an Alice Coltrane kind of afternoon. #nowplaying
Alice Coltrane Sextet - Berkeley Community Theatre 1972 #jazzsky
Front cover of Alice Coltrane Sextet - Berkeley Community Theatre 1972 LP. Galaxy of stars in background. Alice in patterned outfit, glancing sideways.
January 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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mpflapp.bsky.social
Afrodisia mixes in full: soundcloud.com/mpflapp/sets...
The Afrodelicatessen collection: Mix Tapes for Club Afrodisia, Vienna, 2014 to the Present
Listen to The Afrodelicatessen collection: Mix Tapes for Club Afrodisia, Vienna, 2014 to the Present by MPFlapp #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
One of my Favourite 7”s of 2025
Ugne Uma - Rage Love Strange Love/Someone Call Donna
Somewhere Press 2025
Black and white headshot of Ugne. White label 7” with red dot housed in black paper sleeve with white band across the bottom with artist,label and track titles.
December 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
Some records released on Jazzaggression, Ultraaani, Fönstret and RR Gems deserving of more attention…
#jazzsky
Top left: Organic Pulse Ensemble- Zither Suite Top right: Pascal & Baya Rays - Sonic Joy Bottom left: Paanin Kuoro - Goats In A Hypnotic State Bottom right: Oiro Pena - Live Top left: Organic Pulse Ensemble - Ad Hoc Top right: Lauritz Skeidsvolls - Rapid Light Bottom left: Phardah - Humans And Beings Bottom right: Organic Pulse Ensemble - Oppression is nine tenths of the law Top left: Anna Högberg Attack - ensamseglaren Top right: Markus Holkko Quartet - Live in Kallio Bottom right:Marja Ahti -,Touch this fragrant surface of earth Bottom left: Jyväskylä Workshop Band 1970
December 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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mpflapp.bsky.social
…now… that said it is missing one LP: Takao Haga & Osamu Yamaguchi – Tidal Wave (Mide, Japan 1977) – Which remains my most sought-after LP… I have it as wave files: possibly one of the finest LPs made (still) without a reissue: youtu.be/KJOx1k7jD2w?...
December 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#nowplaying
Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo - S/T LP
2025 analogue remaster/ repress on All City Records Dublin.
Not sure how I missed this in 2013 as it’s very much my bag. Glad to make its acquaintance 12 years on. #jazzsky
Cover is a 1968 artwork called Conceptual Tree by Mati Klarwein. Multi coloured geometric patterns with an eye in the middle.
December 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#cassunday
LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL- DRACO-SHOP BOP VOL 1 (James Ferraro/J.C. Peavey)
New Age Tapes 2007 #skaters
Front cover of cassette White background, crude drawing of a pentagram, a hooded blue face, orange gums, teeth, a tongue. Hills in the background with HOLLYWOOD and LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL scrawled in capital letters. Insert written on gridded square paper reads: LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL DRACO-SHOP BOP VOL 1 WELCOME TO HPP& RADIO LIKE FROM HELL, JOIN US AS WE SPIN THE CLASSICS AROUND THE CLOCK, THE VERY BEST PARED, THE WPPR-ARCHIVES CAME CRUISING IN STYLE,/F YOUR EVAPORATEP ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE FIRST RADIO BROADCAST LIVE FROM KRALS HOTTEST RADIO SHOW WHEN THE DIAL OF YOUR WALKMAN POSSESED REFLECTIONS OF CHANNELS AND CHANNELS UNTIL THEY MELTED THE INTERIOR OF YOUR MIND AND.WHEN IC. PEAVEKSAID "RADIO D.J.ING IS A REFLECTION OF A SOLIPSISTIC REALITY" MAN THOOSE WERE THE DAZE BUT GET READY FOR ALL YOUR FAVORITES CAUSE THEY'RE ALL HERE CHILLERS, AND IF YOU'VE NEVER UEARD THE VAST VARIETY THAT USE TO BREEZE THROUGH THE ARWAVES ON THEIR ROLLERBLADES JUST TUNE YOUR BRAINS TO THE FANTASY HAVES, WE HOPE YOULL ENJOY THEM AS MUCH AS WEVE LOVED SPINNERSEM DESAN RIDE TENOUGS HERE ON WIPR 1.HIGHER THAN HIS SATANIC MAJESTY/PUT YOUR SHADES ON AND RIDE-THROUGH THE DONOR KE-BOP 2.WALKING THROUGH THE SOCIETY OF HELL 3.HELLS CURRENCY... ..........4. MANIC DEPRESSION 5.LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE- 6.MIAMIS NIGHT-OUT T HALLUCINATION VENERATION (ITS ONLY ONCE A YEAR) 8.COMING TO AMERICA 9.ROLLERBLADING THROUGH A VIRTUAL WORLD ANDA VERY SPEACIAL THANKS TO SAM KINISON, RENBC ARCHIVE HALLUCINATIONS ALL SONGS WRITTEN PERFORMED BY J.C. PEAVEY AND APPEARING IS JIM FERRARO, SAM GAYLORD AND EMANUEL SWEDENBORG -TUNE YOUR OOZE BECAUSE ITS SO EASY"
December 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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mpflapp.bsky.social
Akira Miyazawa – Bull Trout (Deep Jazz Reality, Japan 2022) - U can’t go wrong here…cheaper than an OG… near random elegance & dissonance… much like a good Giallo OST (less the blood)… Indulge yourself in the 26min A-side before taking the “break” to a bit more Free Form level… if U choose 😉
December 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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musicrepublic.bsky.social
This mellifluous 1974 album by the legendary Victor Uwaifo of a modern rendition of traditional Ekassa music, featuring electric guitars, brass instruments and percussion, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/12/nige...

#Nigeria
December 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
#CDFriday
Peter Sellers - A Hard Days Night EP
EMI CD single 1993
Front cover of CD Orange background A 4x3 grid of 12 black and white photographs of Peter Sellers as different characters Blue text above reads Peter Sellers A HARD DAYS NIGHT. Parlophone and EMI logos in black text on white top border in left hand corner. Track listing in black, stereo in black. COMING NEXT WEEK - "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT" #2 - CONTAINING A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, HELP!, YES IT IS AND SHE LOVES YOU (INSPIRED BY DR. STRANGELOVE). 1. A Hard Day's Night 2. She Loves You (Twits Version) 3. Can't Buy Me Love All tracks by Lennon-McCartney/Northern Songs Ltd. Peter Sellers "Lennon & McCartney Sessions" took place at EMI's Abbey Road studios in 1965 under the watchful eye of producer George Martin. These sessions which resulted in the Parlophone single "Help/A Hard Day's Night", , proved to be particularly fruitful. Sellers had tried a number of Beatles songs in different styles before he and producer George Martin recorded the tracks which wound up on the single. Following Sellers death three versions of "She Loves You" found their way onto record release, but it wasn't until the "EMI Comedy Classics - Peter Sellers Collection" that the much rumoured version of "Can't Buy Me Love" was finally released. Now in the "Celebration Of Sellers", more Lennon and McCartney gems have been uncovered. It is apparent from the many attempts at recording a number of different Lennon and McCartney songs in many styles that Sellers and Martin were determined to succeusfully lampoon at least one of The Beatles singles. The versions of "She Loves You" and the other Lennon and McCartney tracks which lay in the vaults until after Sellers death in 1980 testify to this. It was in 1981 that a single was released consisting of two of the versions of "She Loves You" that had lain untouched since 1965. The tapes were dusted off, polished up for release and the versions inspired by Phil McCafferty - The Irish Dentist and Dr Strangelove were unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Then in 1983 yet another version of "She Loves You" was issued. This time as a part of a compilation of some of Sellers more musical items "Songs Of Sellers". Entitled "The Cockney Version" it featured Sellers performing the song in his well known "Goon Show" characterisation of Willium Mate. MARK COUSINS CD inner sleeve, black text on white reads: 1. A Hard Day's Night The theme from the Beatles first film provided Sellers with a vehicle for his own chart success. This single was recorded in the manner of Laurence Olivier's Richard Ill and subsequently Sellers performed it in full costume in "The Music of Lennon And McCartney" for Granada TV. The 50 minute special was recorded at the studios of Granada TV in Manchester and featured several artists (including The Beatles themselves) performing songs by Lennon and McCartney. Sellers did not have much time to record his piece for the show because of his other film commitments so his performance was pretaped in London. However, it was not without mishap and there are some hilarious outtakes which testify to Sellers enjoyment of the piece. "The Music Of Lennon And McCartney" was broadcast in December 1965. 2. She Loves You (Twits Version) Sellers attempted many different versions of this, The Beatles fourth single. In this is a previously unreleased "Twits Version" Sellers plays a couple of upper class idiots. (The "Twits Version" does not appear in the Celebration of Sellers boxed set.) 3. Can't Buy Me Love This was another Beatles song to get the Sellers treatment and its meaning takes on a whole new dimension when we hear the two characters in this recording. The voice Sellers uses for the female character is reminiscent of the one he used for Crystal Jollybottom in his long run with radios "Ray's A Laugh". The CD itself Red background, profile pic of Sellers in a suit, tie and glasses. He is laughing. Black text with track listing
December 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
Sunny Christmas Day greetings from my walk along Tottenham Marshes/River Lea..
A sunny Christmas Day photo taken on the River Lea. Canal path, narrow boats, trees and a setting sun. Bullrushes on the River Lea, narrow boat in background..
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Delighted to see Colour Out Of Space festival is back this year. It’s been too long.
Black background, white text announcing dates for this years Colour Out Of Space festival 17th to 19th April 2026
December 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
Last gig of the year for me.
New festive tradition. This used to be the first Oto jazz gig of the year until recently.
maltlicknursery.bsky.social Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 19d
Alan Wilkinson / Steve Noble / John Edwards (Trio)

Cafe OTO. Monday 22 December 2025, 7.30pm
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/wilki...
December 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Ernie Bushmiller, 1947
Black and white comic strip panel dancing is walking up to Sluggo saying don't stand there slugo the FBI will get you sluggo is puzzled. Sluggo carries a big hammer over his shoulder. on the wall behind him is a poster advertising that the hardware store inside is selling Garden implements. it has a picture of a sickle on the poster the hammer and the sickle combine to make an iconic shape
December 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
mrjohn23.bsky.social
Last one for the night…
Rashied Ali/Frank Lowe - Duo Exchange - Complete sessions 2xLP Survival Records 2019 #nowplaying #jazzsky
LP cover.. Rashied and Frank leaning on a tow truck parked on a city street
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM