A quiet space for music, speech, memory, and reflection.
Listening without algorithms. Writing without noise.
Created by writer Derek Franklin
Recent Entries
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Open Up
A Brazilian afternoon of beer, Jason Donovan, Graham Central Station, Tom Waits and Mozart, while quietly trying not to think about work next week
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Isolation
An overcast Brazilian morning featuring John Lennon, Erasure, Sepultura, Frankie Knuckles and the startling discovery that some music legends have been dead for years without anybody bothering to tell me.
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Washington Wobble
The Listening Log returns internationally from Brazil with BB King in the headphones, relatives chatting in Portuguese nearby and Duke Ellington transporting me back almost a century.
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New Music Friday #1
A slight change of direction for The Listening Log this week as I wander through Spotify obscurities, vocoder fog and promotional write-ups more entertaining than the music itself.
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Threshold
Preparing mentally for two flights and a long journey to Brazil next week while drifting between 4Hero, Red Simpson, Dead Can Dance and Charli XCX on an ordinary Tuesday morning in Manchester.
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In The Stars
Football promotion, new Stones music and election afternoon background noise drift together across a blurry, overfed week of recovery, politics and quiet office listening.
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