Month: October 2021

I do this manually each Saturday, collating most of the tweets I made the past week at twitter.com/disquiet, which I think of as my public notebook. Some tweets pop up in expanded form or otherwise on Disquiet.com sooner. It’s personally informative to revisit the previous week of thinking out loud. ▰ “Things never sounded like what they were: guns, fire. Everything terrible sounded much more innocent.” I finished Alison Stine’s […]

Rob Adams writes: Robin Morton was a hugely influential figure on the folk and traditional music scene in Scotland and across the world, and yet if he’d followed his initial musical dream, […]

Fiona Ross – Red Flags and High Heels Singer and pianist Fiona Ross returns with an album of fourteen new tracks on which she takes composition, production, and arrangement credits. Ross was […]

Spare moment yesterday in the parking lot while the sky has taken a momentary break from melting and all the cars were in REM state

Last week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed actor, musician, singer, standup comedian Jamie Foxx for my "House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). Jamie and I spoke by video Zoom and we talked about being his early years and being adopted by the same couple that had adopted his mother 13 years earlier. As anyone who has watched Ray, the Ray Charles biopic, Foxx is an […]

Lionel Loueke – Close Your Eyes (Sounderscore SO 005. Album Review by Sebastian Scotney) There is so much to enjoy in Close Your Eyes, guitarist Lionel Loueke’s first ever album of standards, […]