Album :
Robert Fripp "At The End Of Time" love him or hate him Fripp turns in a deeply spirtual record of plangent depths and ecstatic highs. recommended if you get off on TD in "Ricochet" mode and Ash Ra's "Schwerer Dino".
honourable mention to Julie Fowlis for making a great trad album without frills or tricksy production and still selling a cart load.
Box Set :
Various "Breath Of Fresh Air - Harvest Story" you forget how much latitude bands on majors had in those days to try and be all they wanted to be. Some of it misses the mark by a country mile but there's not one careerist, Satan felating, bandwagon chasing note in the whole box.
Reissue :
Roy Harper "Stormcock" no bonus tracks but a generous upgrade to the sound of the original Science Friction cd.
Gig:
Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Sun Ra tribute big band thing at QEH
and the Mingus Big Band at Ronnies
Movie:
Painted Veil
Book :
Terence Blacker "You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson" - not a music book but, with a title like that, who cares?
honorable mentions to Bracewell's "Remake Remodel", Peter Gay's "Modernism" and "Japrocksampler" of course.
Art:
Painting Of Modern Life - Hayward
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