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We are obviously big lovers of music but sometimes there is no substitute for losing yourself in the pages of a great book. This man, Mr Colin Wilson has been keeping us in good company this evening…
The Outsider created quite a stir when published in 1956. Written at the age of 24, Wilson offers up ideas on human alienation and the idea of the ‘Outsider’. A purposefully disjointed read, he plunders the works of a number of seminal authors including Kafka, Camus, Sartre, Hemingway, Hesse and Wells and references their characters to illustrate his ideas.
Written in the Reading Room at the British Museum and during a time when Wilson was often forced to sleep rough on Hampstead Heath, he was promptly herded up with the likes of Harold Pinter, Doris Lessing and Kingsley Amis, a new generation of writers daubed ‘Angry Young Men’.
For a truly unique voice speaking across sociology, psychology, spirituality and being lost in modern society, we have a lot to learn from Wilson’s The Outsider. Some wonderfully left field ideas lie in it’s pages… he suggests creating your own religion and reinventing your spirituality to fend off the malaise and discontent in existence. We are working on it!
Now going to go and put on something really really noisy and precocious. Yeh!
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Oh how we’ve missed the familiar tone of John Peel emanating from the radio and educating us in the ways of the musical universe.
But for all those curious Peelites out there, the ultimate in virtual voyeurism has arrived. The BBC and Arts Council have launched a joint digital cultural archival space which includes replicating Peel’s immense and fastidiously filed record collection. It’s being released in segments, the first 100 of each letter at a time.
Surely the best music reference library you could possibly want… thank you John Peel x
A great new label and a great new band have joined forces and are spawning a first release for both band and label this coming Monday.
We highly recommend that you keep your eyes and ears peeled for this double A-side vinyl from I Ching. Released on new ‘more-enthusiastic-than-a-14-year-old-with-a-sunny-d-habit’ label Best Fit Recordings.
Ooo and a lovely little live session with them here- http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2012/04/watch-i-ching-its-me-best-fit-session/
Recorded at the institution that is Rowan’s Bowling Alley in Finsbury Park no less.
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Contains four exclusive new tracks + two bonus tracks.
Packaged with a striking 4-colour CMYK screenprint depicting a refracted world where chaos is ordered, mysticism runs free and fathers and sons sit atop hills smoking in the fresh air.
Vinyl Williams is a 21 year old musician & artist based in LA.
Ultimate World
1. Teal Palm
2. Chroma Heart
3. Magic Jungle
4. Real Life (exclusive track with screen print purchase)
5. Higher Worlds (bonus track with screen print purchase)
6. Stellarscope (bonus track with screen print purchase)
The new limited edition release from Warmest Chord includes a striking 4-colour CMYK print on Heritage paper courtesy of artist & musician Vinyl Williams. Featuring a cacophany of colour, life and energy, the stamped and numbered screen prints are limited to just 100.
Included in the limited edition release Ultimate World is an immediate download of a 6-track EP from newcomer Vinyl Williams in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
Three tracks from the EP (Teal Palm, Chroma Heart & Magic Jungle) are available to download separately but the fourth and two bonus tracks (Real Life, Higher Worlds & Stellarscope) are only available with purchases of the screen print.
Each purchase of the limited edition Ultimate World release also includes an exclusive mixtape lovingly cherry-picked by Vinyl Williams.
