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Windy & Carl - "Antarctica: The Bliss Out, Vol. 2" (1997)

Newly reissued. The cover of my original copy got destroyed by a water leak years ago, back when my records were boxed up in storage. It's nice to have a cover again.

#NowPlaying #WindyAndCarl

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Album cover features a photograph of sheets of arctic ice, as seen from the water below. It's very icy blue and alien looking.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Early Music Quartet - "Secular Music" (transcriptions &arrangements by Thomas Binkley) (1966)

#NowPlaying #ThomasBinkley #AndreaVonRamm #SterlingJones

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Album cover features ancient- looking painting of a woman playing an organ, and various others playing lutes, horns, and drums.
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Alvin Curran - "Maritime Rites" (2004)

#NowPlaying #AlvinCurran #CD #CDRevival

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CD cover features an illustration of a lighthouse jutting out from the ocean.
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Sunset of peachy orangy hues
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Akira Sakata solo performance in Wels, Austria this afternoon
🔥
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Relatively Clean Rivers - s/t (1976)

#NowPlaying #RelativelyCleanRivers #vinyl #VinylRecords

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Album cover features a psychedelic countryside of farmland and mountains with a wide river going through it. A bearded figure with glasses is shown thinking, "Relatively Clean Rivers".
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Darla has reissued Windy and Carl's legendary "Antarctica". RIYL Eno's Evening Star.
windycarl.bandcamp.com/album/antarc...
Antarctica: Bliss Out, Vol. 2, by Windy & Carl
3 track album
windycarl.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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youtu.be/uSgQiltRqNI
Sleep A Million Years
YouTube video by Kathy Heideman - Topic
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November 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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RIP Lo Borges
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Well that was incredible! Dark Breton folk with heavy hurdy gurdy drone, sparkling dulcimer and gorgeous Conny Veit style Kosmische guitar from Colin Johnco. Plus, she signed all my records!
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Nick Drake - "The Making of Five Leaves Left" (2025)

My pre-order for this got canceled because there's a fucking moron in the White House, but I managed to snag another copy for twice the price. Would that that was the only negative impact of Drumpf.

#NowPlaying #NickDrake #vinyl #VinylRecords
Box set cover features the photo from the cover of the Five Leaves Left lp in black and white, with a die cut opening around the attic window in back, which is seen in color.
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Nā Pali Coast
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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The Roches - Hammond Song
YouTube video by RochesFan
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October 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Waimea Canyon, Kaua'i
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Rooster on the idyllic Ke'e beach in Kaua'i
October 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Fairhaven Bay

#Nature #Photography #Landscape #Autumn #Walden #LincolnMA #Thoreau
Sudbury River This photo captures a beautiful autumn landscape. A tree with branches stretching across the top of the image displays a vibrant mix of golden yellow, orange, and red leaves. Beneath the tree, a field is covered with golden-brown foliage and grasses, with more trees showing fall colors in the background. The sky is lightly cloudy, adding a soft contrast to the bright, warm tones of the leaves. The scene feels peaceful and full of seasonal color.
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Hanalei Kaua'i
October 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Mountain in the north of Kaua'i
October 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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'Īao Valley State Park, Maui
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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I went snorkeling and saw these fish. They're called Humuhumunukunukuapua'a, and if I understand it correctly, the name breaks down like this:
Humuhumu = small triggerfish
nukunuku = little snout
a = like
pua = pig
A Humuhumunukunukuapua'a. I don't think he/she looks like a pig. He/she has a yellow body, pink lips, electric blue stripes between his eyes, a little red around a find, and an electric blue mustache.
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Doing island things
Scene from Maui shore
October 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I've had this song stuck in my head lately. The space-age slide guitar especially. www.youtube.com/watch?v=usOy...
Cindy Lee - Darling of the Diskoteque [2024]
YouTube video by TwizzyBroke
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October 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Oh My God I just saw a #rattlesnake in my back yard. I've lived in Santa Fe for decades and had never seen one before. It was just sitting on the grass in the middle of the yard, curled up, rattling loudly. I always wondered if I would recognize one if I saw it. Yes, you will easy recognize it.
October 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Steely Dan - "Countdown to Ecstasy" (1973)

I still don't really like Steely Dan, but I did just purchase my second SD record at a thrift store today. And I did look up the lyrics to the Bard College diss track.

#NowPlaying #SteelyDan #vinyl #VinylRecords

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Album cover features a kind of abstract painting of some naked people sitting in chairs.
October 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM