The huge demonstrations full of violence and conflict in the center of Kiev have gone on for days until last night, a kind of cease-fire and temporary understanding was accepted, leaving this Friday full of questions and a more subdued mood. Pictures and video, commentary are all over the internet.
Also very troubling is the state of turmoil that Venezuela suffers in this week. The photos in the link will bring things generally to date as of yesterday. But last night and today were supposed to be worse in ominous ways.
In these times, a ten-year T-bill: what's it for and what it shows, gets explained in under six minutes, comically from marketplace.
February is Black History Month. February 20, 1969, Miles Davis and his group recorded a couple songs. Early Minor and The Ghetto Walk (which now reminds me is a lot like Pharoah's Dance). A couple days before, this band had recorded what is now known as the classic album, In A Silent Way. One of the very first times Miles mostly used electric instruments in the studio. Mostly that is a couple electric keyboards, guitar and bass. But what a group! Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Dave Holland, Tony Williams. Six months later he would have a bigger band and begin recording the famous Bitches Brew. Early Minor in particular is a lot like the sound of the later record.
more music? Something completely different, from the last decade, the somehow seasonally appropriate Remote Controller, and this one for Carnival Kuroi Orufe which is on a playlist if you want even more Shiina Ringo
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