A tidy desk
Seized the opportunity for a quiet day. Next week is busy for us. Lorraine repaired to the studio and worked on her pottery, but returned frustrated after several hours as nothing had worked properly and she had to recycle everything. The life of an artist. I tidied my study! I filed, put books back on shelves, rationalised files on my trusty old computer and dusted my desk. There is nothing more appealing than a clean and tidy desk. While listening to Jazz saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders. I discovered a late album made in 2021, a year before he died, called Promises. It features Pharaoh with a UK electronic musician called Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra. A lush mix of minimal ambient and jazz. Also heard his album Pharaoh . I first heard Pharaoh Sanders, who was an acolyte of John Coltrane, on Alice Coltrane's albums. Also read London Magazine ... A Catalan issue, which I'd file under the not for me category: some decent poetry and a woefu...