Slow Llama
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Live music. Maybe some other things, but live music.
Now listening: Charles Lloyd, Trios: Sacred Thread (featuring Julian Lage & Zakir Hussain)
It's really a Zakir album featuring Lloyd and Lage, with a number of tracks with vocals and the tabla leading the way on most songs. Appropriate for his final record with Charles Lloyd.
It's really a Zakir album featuring Lloyd and Lage, with a number of tracks with vocals and the tabla leading the way on most songs. Appropriate for his final record with Charles Lloyd.
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Now listening: Charles Lloyd, Trios: Sacred Thread (featuring Julian Lage & Zakir Hussain)
It's really a Zakir album featuring Lloyd and Lage, with a number of tracks with vocals and the tabla leading the way on most songs. Appropriate for his final record with Charles Lloyd.
It's really a Zakir album featuring Lloyd and Lage, with a number of tracks with vocals and the tabla leading the way on most songs. Appropriate for his final record with Charles Lloyd.
Now listening: Charles Lloyd, Trios: Chapel (featuring Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Such lovely, delicate music with that strong spark of liveliness that always comes through with Frisell. Lots of flute.
Wish I could have heard these three talking about the music or just what to have for lunch.
Such lovely, delicate music with that strong spark of liveliness that always comes through with Frisell. Lots of flute.
Wish I could have heard these three talking about the music or just what to have for lunch.
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Now listening: Charles Lloyd, Trios: Chapel (featuring Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Such lovely, delicate music with that strong spark of liveliness that always comes through with Frisell. Lots of flute.
Wish I could have heard these three talking about the music or just what to have for lunch.
Such lovely, delicate music with that strong spark of liveliness that always comes through with Frisell. Lots of flute.
Wish I could have heard these three talking about the music or just what to have for lunch.
Now listening: Charles Lloyd, Trios: Ocean (with Anthony Wilson & Gerald Clayton)
At times meditative (The Lonely One), at times light and lyrical (Jaramillo Blues), at times moody (Kuan Yin). Going to listen to ask three Trios albums in a row.
At times meditative (The Lonely One), at times light and lyrical (Jaramillo Blues), at times moody (Kuan Yin). Going to listen to ask three Trios albums in a row.
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Now listening: Charles Lloyd, Trios: Ocean (with Anthony Wilson & Gerald Clayton)
At times meditative (The Lonely One), at times light and lyrical (Jaramillo Blues), at times moody (Kuan Yin). Going to listen to ask three Trios albums in a row.
At times meditative (The Lonely One), at times light and lyrical (Jaramillo Blues), at times moody (Kuan Yin). Going to listen to ask three Trios albums in a row.
Now listening: Wolfgang and Brian with Ambrose and Larry Grenadier, Rising Grace
Every bit as the lineup sounds. Dramatic, beautiful, with deep grooves and gentle lift.
My favoring of the ECM sound leads me often declare Eick and Henriksen my favorite trumpet players, but Ambrose is right there too
Every bit as the lineup sounds. Dramatic, beautiful, with deep grooves and gentle lift.
My favoring of the ECM sound leads me often declare Eick and Henriksen my favorite trumpet players, but Ambrose is right there too
October 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Now listening: Wolfgang and Brian with Ambrose and Larry Grenadier, Rising Grace
Every bit as the lineup sounds. Dramatic, beautiful, with deep grooves and gentle lift.
My favoring of the ECM sound leads me often declare Eick and Henriksen my favorite trumpet players, but Ambrose is right there too
Every bit as the lineup sounds. Dramatic, beautiful, with deep grooves and gentle lift.
My favoring of the ECM sound leads me often declare Eick and Henriksen my favorite trumpet players, but Ambrose is right there too
Now listening: Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley and Brian Blade, Tokyo
Nearly an hour of stellar music that starts off with a vintage Friendly Travelers tone, becomes really light and lovely, and then heavier and more out there. Especially dig "Strumming" and the fantastic bass on "Weill You Wait".
Nearly an hour of stellar music that starts off with a vintage Friendly Travelers tone, becomes really light and lovely, and then heavier and more out there. Especially dig "Strumming" and the fantastic bass on "Weill You Wait".
October 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Now listening: Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley and Brian Blade, Tokyo
Nearly an hour of stellar music that starts off with a vintage Friendly Travelers tone, becomes really light and lovely, and then heavier and more out there. Especially dig "Strumming" and the fantastic bass on "Weill You Wait".
Nearly an hour of stellar music that starts off with a vintage Friendly Travelers tone, becomes really light and lovely, and then heavier and more out there. Especially dig "Strumming" and the fantastic bass on "Weill You Wait".
Now listening: Palle Mikkleborg, Marilyn Mazur & Jakob Bro, Strands: Live at the Danish Radio Concert Hall
A wonderfully spacey, nearly ambient performance that grows to buzzy discord and all kinds of strangeness.
Perfect fall afternoon listening. Love when Bro starts leaning on pedals.
A wonderfully spacey, nearly ambient performance that grows to buzzy discord and all kinds of strangeness.
Perfect fall afternoon listening. Love when Bro starts leaning on pedals.
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Now listening: Palle Mikkleborg, Marilyn Mazur & Jakob Bro, Strands: Live at the Danish Radio Concert Hall
A wonderfully spacey, nearly ambient performance that grows to buzzy discord and all kinds of strangeness.
Perfect fall afternoon listening. Love when Bro starts leaning on pedals.
A wonderfully spacey, nearly ambient performance that grows to buzzy discord and all kinds of strangeness.
Perfect fall afternoon listening. Love when Bro starts leaning on pedals.
Now listening: Kurt Rosenwinkel, Undercover (Live at the Village Vanguard)
Starts out beautiful and long form and steadily builds in intensity. Great stuff. Was lucky to be at one of the sets when this was recorded.
Starts out beautiful and long form and steadily builds in intensity. Great stuff. Was lucky to be at one of the sets when this was recorded.
October 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Now listening: Kurt Rosenwinkel, Undercover (Live at the Village Vanguard)
Starts out beautiful and long form and steadily builds in intensity. Great stuff. Was lucky to be at one of the sets when this was recorded.
Starts out beautiful and long form and steadily builds in intensity. Great stuff. Was lucky to be at one of the sets when this was recorded.
Now listening: Midori Takada & Jakob Bro, Until I Met You
A gorgeously meditative acoustic ambient drift.
A gorgeously meditative acoustic ambient drift.
September 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Now listening: Midori Takada & Jakob Bro, Until I Met You
A gorgeously meditative acoustic ambient drift.
A gorgeously meditative acoustic ambient drift.
Now listening: Wayne Shorter Celebration Vol. 1
A great show from 2014 in Stockholm, with all the textures and pyrotechnics. They should release a new show twice a year!
A great show from 2014 in Stockholm, with all the textures and pyrotechnics. They should release a new show twice a year!
September 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Now listening: Wayne Shorter Celebration Vol. 1
A great show from 2014 in Stockholm, with all the textures and pyrotechnics. They should release a new show twice a year!
A great show from 2014 in Stockholm, with all the textures and pyrotechnics. They should release a new show twice a year!
Now listening: Jan Bang & Arve Henriksen's After the Wildfire
Begins atmospheric and floating but grows stranger and stranger.
Begins atmospheric and floating but grows stranger and stranger.
September 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Now listening: Jan Bang & Arve Henriksen's After the Wildfire
Begins atmospheric and floating but grows stranger and stranger.
Begins atmospheric and floating but grows stranger and stranger.
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Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here.
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
Hammer Speech
Last night, I got to stand up in front of the audience at the Locus Awards ceremony. I wound up presenting the Locus Award for Best Short Story (congratulations, Isabel J. Kim!) – but first, I deliver...
stone-soup.ghost.io
June 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here.
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
Grahame Lesh & Friends
Hudson River Music Festival
(For Pete's Sake)
6/14/25
Mason's Children >
Bertha
Half Step >
Cosmic Charlie
Roses
Doing That Rag
St. Stephen
He's Gone >
Other One >
Days Between
Music (first verses only; 3 minutes)
The Phil & Friends ethos lives on!
Hudson River Music Festival
(For Pete's Sake)
6/14/25
Mason's Children >
Bertha
Half Step >
Cosmic Charlie
Roses
Doing That Rag
St. Stephen
He's Gone >
Other One >
Days Between
Music (first verses only; 3 minutes)
The Phil & Friends ethos lives on!
June 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Grahame Lesh & Friends
Hudson River Music Festival
(For Pete's Sake)
6/14/25
Mason's Children >
Bertha
Half Step >
Cosmic Charlie
Roses
Doing That Rag
St. Stephen
He's Gone >
Other One >
Days Between
Music (first verses only; 3 minutes)
The Phil & Friends ethos lives on!
Hudson River Music Festival
(For Pete's Sake)
6/14/25
Mason's Children >
Bertha
Half Step >
Cosmic Charlie
Roses
Doing That Rag
St. Stephen
He's Gone >
Other One >
Days Between
Music (first verses only; 3 minutes)
The Phil & Friends ethos lives on!
Haven't done this in a long time, but I've just started the 11.5 hour Dark Star from 1972.
40 minutes in and coming out of a jangly weirdness.
40 minutes in and coming out of a jangly weirdness.
April 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Haven't done this in a long time, but I've just started the 11.5 hour Dark Star from 1972.
40 minutes in and coming out of a jangly weirdness.
40 minutes in and coming out of a jangly weirdness.
Happy Palm Sunday to those who celebrate. Only played live twice.
youtu.be/AWVHRkeKx9A?...
#jgb #JerryGarcia
youtu.be/AWVHRkeKx9A?...
#jgb #JerryGarcia
Palm Sunday [Encore]
YouTube video by Jerry Garcia - Topic
youtu.be
April 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Happy Palm Sunday to those who celebrate. Only played live twice.
youtu.be/AWVHRkeKx9A?...
#jgb #JerryGarcia
youtu.be/AWVHRkeKx9A?...
#jgb #JerryGarcia
Now listening: Phish 3/15/91 Gothic Theater.
Classic.
Classic.
April 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Now listening: Phish 3/15/91 Gothic Theater.
Classic.
Classic.
I love the use of the Netflix Daredevil theme in Born Again, just slipped in for a moment here and there at the end of an episode or when credits roll.
March 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I love the use of the Netflix Daredevil theme in Born Again, just slipped in for a moment here and there at the end of an episode or when credits roll.
I really like all the interstitial City shots in Daredevil: Born Again.
They're just so true to life in New York.
They're just so true to life in New York.
March 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I really like all the interstitial City shots in Daredevil: Born Again.
They're just so true to life in New York.
They're just so true to life in New York.
One last time, for now, with the psychedelic odyssey that was Phil Lesh & Friends.
March 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
One last time, for now, with the psychedelic odyssey that was Phil Lesh & Friends.
Back again for one more voyage with the psychedelic odyssey that was Phil Lesh & Friends.
(Love this '07/'08 lineup.)
(Love this '07/'08 lineup.)
March 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Back again for one more voyage with the psychedelic odyssey that was Phil Lesh & Friends.
(Love this '07/'08 lineup.)
(Love this '07/'08 lineup.)
Back for one more night of the psychedelic odyssey that was Phil Lesh & Friends.
March 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Back for one more night of the psychedelic odyssey that was Phil Lesh & Friends.
One more of the psychedelic musical odyssey that was Phil Lesh & Friends.
😢
😢
March 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
One more of the psychedelic musical odyssey that was Phil Lesh & Friends.
😢
😢
Now listening: Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje, Touch of Time
With songs titles like the opening Melancholia and The Beauty of Sundays and Winter Haze, this album is as beautiful as you'd expect. Meditative and yearning.
With songs titles like the opening Melancholia and The Beauty of Sundays and Winter Haze, this album is as beautiful as you'd expect. Meditative and yearning.
March 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Now listening: Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanje, Touch of Time
With songs titles like the opening Melancholia and The Beauty of Sundays and Winter Haze, this album is as beautiful as you'd expect. Meditative and yearning.
With songs titles like the opening Melancholia and The Beauty of Sundays and Winter Haze, this album is as beautiful as you'd expect. Meditative and yearning.
Now listening: Tord Gustavsen Trio, Seeing
The most recent ECM release. Just gorgeous, empathetic piano trio music that builds to gentle swells. An ideal ECM vibe.
The most recent ECM release. Just gorgeous, empathetic piano trio music that builds to gentle swells. An ideal ECM vibe.
March 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Now listening: Tord Gustavsen Trio, Seeing
The most recent ECM release. Just gorgeous, empathetic piano trio music that builds to gentle swells. An ideal ECM vibe.
The most recent ECM release. Just gorgeous, empathetic piano trio music that builds to gentle swells. An ideal ECM vibe.
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
& many essays about Julia Alvarez's Before We Were Free.
& many essays about Julia Alvarez's Before We Were Free.
If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend!
I'm reading an Ellis Peters Brother Cadfael mystery, THE PILGRIM OF HATE.
I'm reading an Ellis Peters Brother Cadfael mystery, THE PILGRIM OF HATE.
If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend!
I'm finishing up Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword (history/saga-type storytelling is catnip for me), and excited to crack open Amal el-Mohtar's The River Has Roots next.
I'm finishing up Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword (history/saga-type storytelling is catnip for me), and excited to crack open Amal el-Mohtar's The River Has Roots next.
March 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
& many essays about Julia Alvarez's Before We Were Free.
& many essays about Julia Alvarez's Before We Were Free.