Ssssshhhhhh! Don’t tell anyone but here is the only place to get the Secret Solstice episode! It’s also where I tell you that I did the thing and have some albums to release.

As loyal listeners, you get to know first. There will be a proper release plan and stuff going on at some point (probably), but for now, just for you, there are three new albums if you want to have a look. I’ve described the series as “Play” and they consist of

And you can get them - pay what/if you want from the website here.

Have a good solstice!

The last additional notes for season 5. Ebows, evolution, and excitement. Looking forward to Uncanny summer specials and catching up on Poker Face season 2.

This might be an odd way to do a 100th episode and final in the season, but I’m staying true to the intent - it’s been a mixed day and this is ambiguous, not simply happy or sad but a mixture of happy and frustrated and comforted and many other things all at the same time.

Additional Notes for 29/05/2025.

Other than talking a bit about space, playing less, and thinking about highlight albums, here are the links that I mention:

Bonkcast EP (my Bonk Wave/No Bonk Wave tracks)

Melondruie - Variations on Into the depthsan excellent album to get and listen to

This Occasional Society Newsletter Signup - worth getting this each month and the archive of past newsletter is linked so you can see

I mean it how it is, how it sounds. Sculptures made out of fractured breath. Whose breath? Ssshhh, that’s a secret.

Shorter this week (I hear sighs of relief)! Quick tech update on using a mixer more, musings about having a break and possibly having an idea for Season 6.

Completely forgot to say I’m also working out whether to do the highlight albums thing that I normally do. Ideas welcome!

What’s that in the distance? Not black helicopters coming over the border, no. Blackcurrant helicopters, rotors beating a pattern into your brain that just won’t go away.

Long ramble this week about overusing a preset, loving my guitar, and working out how to be active in the world without creating the wrong influence. Possibly by turning a WWII airplane into the new Mystery Machine.

Rokay!

I get my guitars here: Munson Guitars

A space, holy, candle lit, fragrant. Also made of rather runny lime jelly.

Is there a difference between underwater and under waves? Either way, I get the date wrong, so don’t write in to tell me. I already know. Probably got the background music wrong too!