Ed O'Brien - Blue Morpho (Vinyl LP) Format:Coloured Vinyl Tilting Windmills

Tilting Windmills

plus a 36-page booklet of unpublished photos and liner notes in conversation with Cameron Crowe

Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction (Secondhand Vinyl) on vinyl LP in store at the Flying Nun Record stores - Auckland and Wellington

the latter based on Lester Young's solo from the album Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio recorded in NYC exactly 70 years earlier in 1952

and more via deliberation and drift: in jam sessions that last late into the night and early mornings

Ed O'Brien - Blue Morpho (Vinyl LP) Format:Coloured Vinyl Tilting WindmillsEd OBrien likes to quote a line from the great Kentucky poet and farmer Wendell Berry: To know the dark, go dark. It is the insight, after all, that ultimately led OBrien from one of the darkest spans of his life to Blue Morpho, his absorbing second solo album. To wit, as soon as OBriens solo debut was out, he heard its faults. That was April 2020, the month OBrien turned 52 and the month the world began to reckon truly with what it meant to be shut