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If you are here, hear this!

You have found the secret cauldron where the next season's issue of jes' grew gets stirred up & out into cupcake molds. Sometimes there is (the) resistance.

Maria Schnedier's Data Lords falls into that category.

Whereas Wagner once said “don’t look at the trombones, it only encourages them", I had the sense that Maria Schneider must keep looking at the trombones a lot. And they certainly deliver here.^[1]

Mosquito Coast

The Sorcerers, In Search of the Lost City of the Monkey God, 2020.

A well-spent hour at Banzzaï (France Musique) led me to this memorable title,^[2] which is apparently the soundtrack to a documentary about the (re)discovery of ancient ruins in Mosquitia.^[3]

With unexpected citations and funny deformations throughout—wait! what are you doing to Antônio & Luiz in the trunk, there ?!—this made for a doubly smooth tour.

Some bob-foolery

overheard at the 2020 Wikiwiki BotSlam gala,^[4] from Easy Rider (1969). (lyrics)

It's Alright Ma, I'm only bleeding

Refs

1. Jump up ↑ Sebastien Scotney, "Album: Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords", The Arts Desk, 24 July 2020.
2. Jump up ↑ Nathalie Piolé, Fabien Fleurat & Emmanuelle Lacaze, Les ombres amis, Banzzaï, 25 Jun 2020, France Musique.
3. Jump up ↑ Douglas Preston, Dave Yoder, Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest, 2 March 2015, National Geographic.
4. Jump up ↑ ^Lev!v^ich, "well that didn't go as planned, 2020 WikiSlam Bot Bracket, InedibleHulk's TP, 4 Aug 2020