Wolfgang Seidel's Friendly Electrons offers positively charged subatomic sound particles not bound to any particular genre but instead alighting on 'free' Jazz, Modern Classical and Electronic Abstraction. My favourite recent album. There are rarely any that impress me so much. Friendly? Yes. Feel the warmth and clarity!
Wolfgang Seidel doesn't have a Wiki page but the Rock band he was in does.
Seidel plays everything, proving his chops on Try Harder. Not in a showy fashion, but integrating vibes, drums and piano brilliantly. The following Film Noir eschews the obvious Jazzy big band film noir soundtrack formula in favour of tightly arranged strings resulting in dark tension. Mostly electronic, always excellent and highly recommended.
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| RTomens, 2024 |
Made a few days ago. It began with the phrase, then the typing of the 'Y' leading to the phrase before continuing on down and out of sight, just because that's where it wanted to go. 'Y' made its final appearance as a packed cluster at various angles because it wanted to fill out the bottom section.
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| RTomens, 2024 |
Emblematic of big business, Canary Wharf may represent a hellish manifestation of corporate greed...or...seen another way, as I did recently, a daunting, magnificent architectural spectacle...on a purely visual level; partly futuristic but with remnants of industry Past remaining in the form of cranes (?) like these...
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| RTomens, 2024 |
Since what were the docks for anyway but commercial enterprise? Still, the old machinery used then for the practical purpose of shifting goods, as opposed to today's button-pushing wealth creation, looks fantastic. Parts such as this, found at one end of the South Dock...
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| RTomens, 2024 |
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| RTomens, 2024 |
Walking between the buildings a few weeks earlier, it seemed as if the whole idea had been abandoned. Post-lockdown, fewer faces sat at screens in all those offices, presumably. One day, I imagined, it could be a Ballardian landscape of totally empty offices, cracked facades, broken windows and weeds having found their way through the cracks in the pavements to bloom everywhere.
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