Strange Umbrellas, 18. iii. 16

Some drawings from Friday night’s event at Foyles…

Steve Beresford and Tom Skinner

Steve Beresford

Terry Day and Ansuman Biswas

Sayaka Akitsu, Terry Day, Ansuman Biswas

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Also performing: Blanca Regina, Steph Horak and Karel Doing.

Palindrome

Scan 11 Mar 2016, 18.45

Locate obscure lounge album on vinyl…preferably with ‘erotic’ overtones (and in this case with rain effects and bells).
Digitize Track 3, Side 2 (Il se fait tard).
Copy track and reverse copy.
Add echo.
Slow the whole thing down by 50%.
Fade to silence.

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Howard Riley and Keith Tippett

Pizza Express, Soho, 9. iii. 16

A rare appearance in London for Howard Riley and the first duet by these two pianists since 2003. Here they are, together and apart, at their respective pianos.

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Snapshot, Ridley Road, 5. iii. 16 at about 2 o’clock.

over a few minutes while I am sitting under an awning in the market eating a kebab roll and drinking a 35 pence cup of tea with hail coming down and on my right the grocer playing weekend only Indian film music is it? on the lower right the iron shod wooden-spoked wheel of one of the market carts carved with the name of its maker Hiller Bros on hire E2 in front of me there is a gap and then two streams of people moving left to right right to left beyond them the shoe stall the wig stall the bra stall where all the bras are white so the display is like an Antarctic landscape of cups and the stallholder picks up a detached stockinged leg and prods the fabric over his head where a pool is forming the water pours down onto the tarmac