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February 24, 2010

Unedited version of my Afternoon Tea review

Keith Rowe/Pimmon/Peter Rehberg/Oren Ambarchi/Christian Fennesz Afternoon Tea Black Truffle Nearly a decade has passed between the limited edition release of Afternoon Tea on vinyl in 2000, and the CD reissue on Oren Ambarchi’s Black Truffle imprint. This spans, more or less, the time line of a developing area of improvisation generally referred to, when a …

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February 24, 2010October 31, 2014

crow with no mouth

I wish I could convey, even a little, the pith and gist of Ikkyu, the mad zen monk also called Crazy Cloud. There is a sense, in the few reliable accounts of his life, of an improbable wholeness to him. In anecdotes documented in the temple records that chronicle both his enlightened activities, and the …

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