'We are rough around the edges.Almost finished prototypes.'
Miles Davis famously didn't like the term Jazz as a descsiption for the area of activity which he was involved and engaged in all of his adult life.He preferred Social Music. Labels are notoriously slippery. In music and and generally just as lists of preferences ot sexual or mental descriptions can be.
But as human beings we need some ways of arranging the things we listen to and read, just as supermarkets need systems for arranging their products on shelves. Otherwise shopping would be a particularly feverish and demented social activity,
Take Imaginary Family's fascinating Builders, Believers the first newly released album that's really blown me away un 2025. The moniker of Joanna Issele, born in the French Alps, working out of Ghent singing in English. This is glorious Art.
In the Spotify bio for the project, the music here is described as Indie Folk expanding to a broader music palette. This will do. Listening to Builders, Believers is an experience akin to watching a film at your local Arts cinema. Reading a short story. Eating a rich soup at a local cafe.
Listening to it as I wrote this I experienced a range of emotions. Just as we do as we do within a short timespan as human beings. By turn I found myself engaged, reflective, intrigued, moved. In short, this is a rich and splendid cultural experience which relaxed me and just set me up nicely for the day ahead. It's highly nunaced art. Looks like 2025 is up and running on It Starts With a Birthstone,
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