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Okay hi, I’m Graham. Grumpy Montrealer, imposter historian, lover of music, hater of capitalism. Will mostly be using this to share music recommendations. I send out a newsletter with a mixtape and some writing every month or so, if you’re interested: anything-everything.ghost.io
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I had the pleasure of interviewing dear friends and comrades Egyptian Cotton Arkestra about their new LP 'Time and Place' for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's latest 'Anniversary' issue

www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...
“The process is the project” : Egyptian Cotton Arkestra stays rooted in Time and Place
The Montreal free jazz ensemble’s debut channels radical improvisation, community care, and unapologetically unscalable intimacy.
www.newfeeling.ca
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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@grahamericlatham.bsky.social profiled Montreal free jazz outfit Egyptian Cotton Arkestra, who revel in the freedom they have making music that's not meant to blow up.

www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...
“The process is the project” : Egyptian Cotton Arkestra stays rooted in Time and Place
The Montreal free jazz ensemble’s debut channels radical improvisation, community care, and unapologetically unscalable intimacy.
www.newfeeling.ca
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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This Day in Labor History: November 30, 1999. The WTO protests begin in Seattle. Carefully constructed coalitions between labor, environmentalists, and other activists were blown up by anarchists who hijacked the protests for their own purposes, leading to a violent response from the Seattle cops!!!
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.
Did the climate world misread Carney?
Many in the climate movement saw a fellow traveller in Mark Carney — the man who could preach climate action in the language of finance — but what if they were wrong from the very start?
www.nationalobserver.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Green Day
Fugazi
Stars of the Lid
Getatchew Mekuria and the Ex
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Fugazi
Beastie Boys
7 Seconds
Circle Jerks
NOMEANSNO
(I wish this was longer than 5)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Fugazi
Broken Social Scene
Charli XCX
Blue Rodeo
Nick Cave
November 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I had the pleasure of interviewing dear friends and comrades Egyptian Cotton Arkestra about their new LP 'Time and Place' for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's latest 'Anniversary' issue

www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...
“The process is the project” : Egyptian Cotton Arkestra stays rooted in Time and Place
The Montreal free jazz ensemble’s debut channels radical improvisation, community care, and unapologetically unscalable intimacy.
www.newfeeling.ca
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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@grahamericlatham.bsky.social writes about the playful fury of Montreal’s Egyptian Cotton Arkestra and their “identification with the communitarian ethos of free jazz”
www.newfeeling.ca/egyptian-cot...
“The process is the project” : Egyptian Cotton Arkestra stays rooted in Time and Place
The Montreal free jazz ensemble’s debut channels radical improvisation, community care, and unapologetically unscalable intimacy.
www.newfeeling.ca
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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5. While some places (EU, US etc) use active militarization as deterrence, Canada's geographic location allows it to use slow bureaucratic violence as deterrence. Processing times for many PR streams is now 50 years (!).
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?

Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!

Here are 5 other things to know:
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Made a new mixtape with a healthy dose of jazz-adjacent and post-rock vibes, and wrote a little bit about the unnameability of depression (and a couple of books I loved reading recently)

anything-everything.ghost.io/the-fires-th...
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Some of you are not seeing history as one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of your feet, and it shows
June 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Made a new mixtape with a healthy dose of jazz-adjacent and post-rock vibes, and wrote a little bit about the unnameability of depression (and a couple of books I loved reading recently)

anything-everything.ghost.io/the-fires-th...
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
New EP from Vulture Feather to end the year and remind me why I still love rock music. Honestly THANK GOD for this band.
vulturefeather.bandcamp.com/album/cravin...
Craving and Aversion, by Vulture Feather
4 track album
vulturefeather.bandcamp.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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« Les rythmes agonaux qui hantent notre système de santé public »

Voici la 1ère partie de ma dernière chronique Point de Vue dans l'édition papier @ledevoir.com de cette fin de semaine

🙏🏽 sources:
@emilienicolas.bsky.social
@iris-recherche.bsky.social
@enap.ca
...

www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...
Les rythmes agonaux
Comme projet de société, notre système de santé public ne doit laisser personne pour compte.
www.ledevoir.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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New Feeling is five years old! To celebrate, we've refreshed our website & we're running a membership discount until the end of the year 🎶

www.newfeeling.ca/new-feeling-...
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Wrote a bit about PRAED Orchestra’s latest, ‘The Dictionary of Lost Meanings,’ for A Closer Listen. It’s a pretty wild fusion of Arabic urban pop and big-band free-jazz, and honestly just a thrilling ride.

acloserlisten.com/2025/11/01/p...

@acloserlisten.bsky.social
PRAED Orchestra! ~ The Dictionary of Lost Meanings
For nearly two decades, Lebanese experimental musicians and composers Raed Yassin and Paed Conca have been developing a thrilling hybrid of Arabic working-class popular music and psych-adjacent fre…
acloserlisten.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“land Palestinians want for a state” is a hell of a way to put it
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.
October 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
BREAKING: Three out of four business owners think we need more cops!
October 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Every morning things seem a little more horrific, but sometimes you also get to wake up to an absolutely gorgeous surprise collab from two of your favourite artists working right now. Hallelujah.

irisarri.bandcamp.com/track/ausenc...

@blackknoll.bsky.social
Ausencia (Hiatus rework), by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri
track by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri
irisarri.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Every morning things seem a little more horrific, but sometimes you also get to wake up to an absolutely gorgeous surprise collab from two of your favourite artists working right now. Hallelujah.

irisarri.bandcamp.com/track/ausenc...

@blackknoll.bsky.social
Ausencia (Hiatus rework), by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri
track by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri
irisarri.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Very grateful for 'Duvet' from Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland, released a few weeks ago by Balmat, just in time for the leaves to turn. Exceedingly gentle, ornately detailed, at once intensely calming and emotionally engaging. Incredible stuff.
balmat.bandcamp.com/album/duvet
@philipsherburne.bsky.social
Duvet, by Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland
8 track album
balmat.bandcamp.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Very grateful for 'Duvet' from Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland, released a few weeks ago by Balmat, just in time for the leaves to turn. Exceedingly gentle, ornately detailed, at once intensely calming and emotionally engaging. Incredible stuff.
balmat.bandcamp.com/album/duvet
@philipsherburne.bsky.social
Duvet, by Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland
8 track album
balmat.bandcamp.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Wrote a bit for A Closer Listen about 'Light Flowing,' Clare O'Connell's gorgeous collection of (mostly) solo cello pieces released earlier this year by NMC Recordings

acloserlisten.com/2025/09/20/c...

@acloserlisten.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social
Clare O’Connell ~ Light Flowing
In standard verbiage, light tends to glow, to shine, to radiate. In summoning an image of light as something that might flow, London-based cellist and curator Clare O’Connell evokes a subtle tensio…
acloserlisten.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM