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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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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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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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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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Waimea Canyon, Kaua'i
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Cock of the walk
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 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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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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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
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I found an old London/Decca pressing of Chris Connor's self-titled 1956 lp, and I can't get over the fact that they messed with her hair. It's some sort of.. illustration over her hair? Atlantic and London covers included for reference. #ChrisConnor
Original Atlantic cover shows a black and white photograph of CC, with hair as white as snow, and somewhat wavy. London Records album cover of Chris Connors lp shows nearly identical black and white photo of CC, but something's amiss. Her hair has wavy lines in it, like someone took an eraser to the picture and tried styling her hair with it. Come to think of it, her face looks kind of weird, too - sort of a half picture, half illustration.
October 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Richard Soutar - "Episodes" (1979)

#NowPlaying #RichardSoutar #FolkRock #vinyl #VinylRecords

youtu.be/hDuCOtwluMU
White album cover features a black and white photo of RS glued to the front. He has dark, bushy hair and a mustache, and he's wearing glasses. He's looking at the camera through a window, with ivy seen to the left.
October 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Hank Crawford - "More Soul" (1961)

#NowPlaying #HankCrawford #AtlanticRecords #FatheadNewman #vinyl #VinylRecords

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Album cover features a color photograph of HC looking upward, with a golden background.
October 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Vic Mars - "Inner Roads and Outer Paths" (2019)

#NowPlaying #VicMars #ClayPipeMusic #vinyl #VinylRecords

vicmars.bandcamp.com/album/inner-...
Album cover features a color illustration of a series of identical, single level homes along a road. In the distance, there's a ruined factory a d green, vacant hills.
October 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Guy Carawan - "Green Rocky Road" (1976)

If you see a hammered dulcimer record, just get it.

#NowPlaying #GuyCarawan #FolkMusic #HammeredDulcimer #dulcimer #vinyl #VinylRecords

youtu.be/Ah4kq2XbMXE
Green album cover features black and white photograph of Guy Carawan seated on a porch by a wooded area, playing a hammered dulcimer.
October 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Kan Mikami - "Jo-You" (1992)

#NowPlaying #KanMikami #PSFRecords #CDRevival
CD cover features a pastel drawing of a very surreal scene, involving a couple of bald guys fighting while standing in an ocean. There are some giant sperm- looking things flying around and weird faces and hands in the water.
October 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Kan Mikami - "Merchant of the Pass" (1997)

Continuing a Mikami Kan theme this morning.

#NowPlaying #KanMikami #CDRevival
CD cover features a color illustration of two seated birds.
October 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Kan Mikami - "July's Man of the Month" (1994)

Probably my favorite
Mikami Kan record. I wish that they would reissue these PSF recordings on vinyl.

#NowPlaying #KanMikami #CDRevival
CD cover features a hand drawing of a pretty weird looking little dude. He has spiky hair and looks like he just woke up.
October 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I just successfully trimmed this beast's talons with a nail grinder. I am the greatest dog parent in the history of mankind.
George the Weimaraner with a look that says, "I've been really good. Why hasn't he gotten me an apple off that tree yet?"
September 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM