I've come out of retirement to share some things. I hope you are all well. From indoors, I've been thinking about music in public spaces or smaller private spaces, spontaneity, the acoustics, the group and crowd shared experience and so on. Something most of us absolutely take for granted. Never again! Ending with today's extraordinarily emotional nationwide clap for NHS staff.

1. Street musician in New York City

2. Drummers Paris subway

3. Piano at Brighton train station

4. Romani Singer & Accordion player in the streets of Istanbul

5. Kathmandu outdoor folk festival

6. Khamis Henkish demoing skills

7. Live music in a French restaurant

8. Paris street jazz

9. The Smoking Time Jazz Club on Royal Street New Orleans

10. אינדי סיטי - Neta Elkayam نيطع القايم - Muhal Nensah محال ننساه - for Indie City

11. Lily Jung and Sorin Gheraliu - 12. Ederlezi in Lapoutroie's church (France)

12. Clap for NHS staff, Hastings, UK, March 2020

A quickie while I get back on track. No intro due to technical issues!

Enjoy.

(will post playlist shortly)

1. Somos los Residentes - Meridian Brothers

2. Breathe Your Breath - Perhaps Contraption

3. Quail and Dumplings - Bonnie "Prince" Billy

4. Now It's Called Princeton - Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat

5. The Moon Song (Studio Version Duet) - Karen O & Ezra Koenig

6. Mazaar (feat. AR Rahman) - Niyaz

7. Peepholes - Earthling Insomniacs' Ball

8. La Chanson de Jacky - Secret Chiefs 3 & Traditionalists

9. Don'ts - David Shrigley

How many pillars a day can you squeeze in? I'm a very very new student to Taijiquan (Tai Chi). So here, roughly, some warm up, then short form, applications, and finally some qigong….It could be much much longer in reality. OR just sit back and listen. [no chit chat in this one]

1. Close Chorus - A Sunny Day In Glasgow

2. Shalvá (featuring Man Ex Maqina) - Tal Ben Arí

3. Wolcalosso - Takagi Masakatsu

4. La fé - Cat's Eyes

5. Everyone Alive Wants Answers - Colleen

6. When the Levee Breaks - A Perfect Circle

7. Pyramid Song - Radiohead

8. Blood Witness - Regis

9. Burn My Shadow (feat. Ian Astbury) - UNKLE

10. Dream Fortress - Grimes

11. Painting the Doors - Lisa Germano

12. Journey to Inaccessible Places: Part 4 - Cecil Lytle (The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff & Thomas de Hartmann, Vol. 2: Reading of a Sacred Book)

13. Distant Sounds of Summer - Susumu Yokota & Rothko

14. Port - Stephan Mathieu

15. The Fall of Glorieta Mountain - Esben & The Witch

1. Mount Saint Helens(iii) Dead Zone (May 19, 1980) - Timba Harris timbaharris.com/

2. NO NIMBUS - Scroobius Pip vs Grimes mash up - http://4ad.com/artists/grimes, scroobiuspip.co.uk/

3. In A Cage [this is radio silence] http://thisisradiosilence.bandcamp.com/

4. Jump Up - Doldrums http://pantheonrecliner.tumblr.com/#17167709288

5. Night Swim - Frankie Rose http://www.missfrankierose.com/

Very brief moment of melancholy.

Soft Sound of Your Voice - Sparrow and the Workshop

Alien Observer - Grouper

Box out of Stone - Sam Astley Band

Gozum - Taksim Trio

Blind - Michael Gira

Have a terrible cold so no intro.

1. The Wall- Tareq Abboushi & Shusmo

2. WTC 9/11 - Kronos Quartet/Reich

3. Moses (Spaceland Remix) - Elizabeth Fraser

4. La Serena - Correatown

5. The Way My Poetry Should Go - Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha

6. Svelte blonde - In Flagranti

7. Home - Friends

After finding a few loopholes through major technical issues I've managed to put this one together. I hope it plays ok!

1. Seventy Cops - Steroid Maximus

2. Shambala - Beastie Boys

3. El Ritmo - Wicked Knee

4. Mayonaka no Bossa Nova - Pink Martini & Saori Yuki

5. Siboney - Xavier Cugat/Connie Francis

6. Done and Said - She Makes War

1. One Silver Dollar - The Kills 2. Gift Horse's Mouth - Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters 3. Lava - Air 4. Soaring Science - Attilio Mineo and His Orchestra 5. Asteroid Hop - Jimmie Haskell and His Orchestra 6. Macaco (Novalima Remix) - Novalima 7. Ode to Sad Disco - Mark Lanegan Band

I recommend headphones for this one. I doubt you will be able to eat, drink, study, write, dance or sing while listening. Concentrating on anything else may be very difficult. But a good heavy dose of aural niceties including a reminder to follow your own path from Us3, an internal polar shift from Pigshackle, a postponement from Emiliana Torrini and also my little jingle which might help to deprogram you, care of The Andy K Show. And more so do listen through....

1. The Snare - Zero dB

2. Puppets (feat. Akala) - Us3

3. Open Hearts - The Hat

4. How to Be a Werewolf - Mogwai

5. Lullafly - Pigshackle

6. Lifesaver - Emilíana Torrini

7. Frere Jacques - Jean Jaques Perrey & Luke Vibert

8. Canyella jingle beep - The Andy K Show