That Old Pastoral Vocabulary
This week features thoughts on the eco-psychedelic, how glitches got sloppy, and why Alvin was immortalized for just sitting in a room. Plus a bevy of tasty recommendations you'll eat up like popcorn.
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Objective Spiritual Facts
This week, grab hold of visual sounds, hauntological echoes, and 'intergenerational cohabitation' as we explore the recent exploits of The Tonearm. Links will be clicked.
Sound Crystals in Time-Lapse
Behold! Apocalyptic cover art, molecular music, and PVC pipe organs! These are but a few of the wonders found within this week's Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter.
Heed the Song of the Symphonic Frog
This week, we explore the sounds our peeper friends make, how to recontexutalize harmonica tension, and yet another excuse to add to your guitar collection. Also: a couple of delicious album recommendations.
We Remain in the Mist-Space
This issue of your favorite Sunday newsletter explores the advantage of the ambiguous, the implications of microphone placement, the lure of bean-washing sounds, and the anarchist's trombone. Also: bicycles.
What's the Sound of One Record Skipping?
A recurring theme of constraints, as we explore counting duets, Beethoven's royalties, and elegant accidents. Also: our usual raft of recommendations and know-how.
Maneuvering the Sacred Theater
"How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon." In this weekend's Talk Of The Tonearm, we read the oracle, sing in unison, bring the noise, and then go completely gonzo.
Musical Accents + Boxcar Encounters
Microtonal bluegrass, experimenting on children, drums that aren't drums, and wobbling tape decks all feature in this week's wildly passionate episode of the Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter.
Fertilizer vs. Musikarbeiter
As the wise man said: "Take it to the limit." Compositional tomfoolery, acid jazz cosplay, romanticism giving way to factory vibes, and a 30-year path to Bowie are all revealed in this week's newsletter.
A Time Machine Operating in Reverse
Don't take the brown acid, the brown acid's bad. Also: groovy academia, exploring the sonic waterways, how not to wrestle with a ghostly Bill Evans, and the usual spritely recommendations.
A Radical Faith in Permanence
Walking as an idea machine, allergy as accent, democracy with strings, and a bunch of friendly recommendations — this can only mean another installment of Talk Of The Tonearm.
This Cloud of Lights All Blinking
Look! Up in the sky! It's Tamiko Thiel, The Vernon Spring, and Sam Sadigursky joining hands for this week's jam-packed newsletter.