Tim Rutherford-Johnson
@purlis.bsky.social
Listener, CFer, wordmonger. Written books about new music; trying to write one about Schubert.
https://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com/about/
Substack here: http://purlis.substack.com
https://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com/about/
Substack here: http://purlis.substack.com
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Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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This evening, the London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) and Wigmore Hall present a programme spanning from the age of Mozart to the modern day, prefaced by a pre-concert talk from Jennifer Walshe 🎶
🕰️ 7.30pm (pre-concert talk: 6.00pm)
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/artists/jennifer-walshe-2
🕰️ 7.30pm (pre-concert talk: 6.00pm)
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/artists/jennifer-walshe-2
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This evening, the London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) and Wigmore Hall present a programme spanning from the age of Mozart to the modern day, prefaced by a pre-concert talk from Jennifer Walshe 🎶
🕰️ 7.30pm (pre-concert talk: 6.00pm)
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/artists/jennifer-walshe-2
🕰️ 7.30pm (pre-concert talk: 6.00pm)
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/artists/jennifer-walshe-2
Excited for LCMF tonight at Wigmore Hall:
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November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Excited for LCMF tonight at Wigmore Hall:
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Dammit. Whosampled is legitimately one of my favourite things on the net.
Spotify says the database will power its new SongDNA feature.
Spotify acquires music database WhoSampled | TechCrunch
Spotify says the database will power its new SongDNA feature.
techcrunch.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Dammit. Whosampled is legitimately one of my favourite things on the net.
Today I am mostly taking notes on pieces by Eric Skytterhokm Egan, Eden Lonsdale, Kaija Saariaho and Bernhard Gander. Three have led me to Couperin, Catholicism and Corelli. The fourth has led me elsewhere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzT...
Motörhead – Overkill (Official Video)
YouTube video by Motörhead Official
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Today I am mostly taking notes on pieces by Eric Skytterhokm Egan, Eden Lonsdale, Kaija Saariaho and Bernhard Gander. Three have led me to Couperin, Catholicism and Corelli. The fourth has led me elsewhere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzT...
there are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
The Swiss got rock’n’roll after it had been filtered through the rest of Europe so its version was brilliant, exaggerated and wrong. A sincere pastiche of the original.
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
there are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
I'm sure all of you are waiting on tenterhooks for today's Purposeful Listening, but I'm afraid you need to hold on a little more - this week got away from me a bit. (But the Antti Tolvi recording I'm writing about is also long and involves lots of waiting, so I guess it's thematically appropriate.)
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I'm sure all of you are waiting on tenterhooks for today's Purposeful Listening, but I'm afraid you need to hold on a little more - this week got away from me a bit. (But the Antti Tolvi recording I'm writing about is also long and involves lots of waiting, so I guess it's thematically appropriate.)
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Happy #InternationalMensDay to all who celebrate
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Happy #InternationalMensDay to all who celebrate
Confession: I was just a shade too young for Psychocandy when it came out. So I'd read lots of discourse by the time before I finally heard it, around 94/95. I was expecting a proper avant-garde noise classic, and what I got was the Beach Boys through a fuzzbox.
Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all
Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/nflmjN6
Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/nflmjN6
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Confession: I was just a shade too young for Psychocandy when it came out. So I'd read lots of discourse by the time before I finally heard it, around 94/95. I was expecting a proper avant-garde noise classic, and what I got was the Beach Boys through a fuzzbox.
Today in auto-transcription: NFL for LSO. As in, "I was really excited for the quality of musician the NFL brings ..."
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Today in auto-transcription: NFL for LSO. As in, "I was really excited for the quality of musician the NFL brings ..."
Three great records. Vijay Iyer has been on a tear this last year.
recent albums, a thread
Fieldwork (Steve Lehman / V.I. / Tyshawn Sorey): THEREUPON (2025)
pirecordings.lnk.to/thereupon
Fieldwork (Steve Lehman / V.I. / Tyshawn Sorey): THEREUPON (2025)
pirecordings.lnk.to/thereupon
Fieldwork - Thereupon
Listen to Thereupon by Fieldwork.
pirecordings.lnk.to
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Three great records. Vijay Iyer has been on a tear this last year.
Incredible work this.
The Best 100 Rap Albums List: Recast as Rock Albums.
@sonraw.bsky.social runs through Pitchfork's recent rewiring of the rap canon and re-imagines it by applying the same list-making decisions to rock albums.
8,000 words of inside baseball brilliance.
www.passionweiss.com/2025/11/14/t...
@sonraw.bsky.social runs through Pitchfork's recent rewiring of the rap canon and re-imagines it by applying the same list-making decisions to rock albums.
8,000 words of inside baseball brilliance.
www.passionweiss.com/2025/11/14/t...
The 100 Best Rap Albums Of All-Time List – As Rock Albums | Passion of the Weiss
"They'd never have the balls to do this to rock music." Son Raw dissects and inverts the new canon.
www.passionweiss.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Incredible work this.
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JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
YouTube video by JAGGL113
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November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Reading this thread I'm reminded of that absolutely batshit review (still somewhere online) of TSR that concluded the main problem with it was A LACK OF MELODY.
The Best Album of 1989 Round 4 Match #117
#7 The Stone Roses, THE STONE ROSES
vs.
#10 The B-52's, COSMIC THING
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#7 The Stone Roses, THE STONE ROSES
vs.
#10 The B-52's, COSMIC THING
forms.gle/UdcuSoP4FDXR...
The Best Album of 1989 Round 4 Match #118: The Stone Roses vs. The B-52’s
This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Wednesday, November 12th, 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto Round 5 (Top 8) of the bracket. If you haven’t heard either albu...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Reading this thread I'm reminded of that absolutely batshit review (still somewhere online) of TSR that concluded the main problem with it was A LACK OF MELODY.
Available now: Purposeful Listening 2a - reviews of music by James Opstad, Julia Eckhardt and Samuel Vriezen:
open.substack.com/pub/purlis/p...
open.substack.com/pub/purlis/p...
Purposeful Listening 2a
Moment/decay, energy/frame, algorithm/emotion
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Available now: Purposeful Listening 2a - reviews of music by James Opstad, Julia Eckhardt and Samuel Vriezen:
open.substack.com/pub/purlis/p...
open.substack.com/pub/purlis/p...
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Bonus issue klaxon! Purposeful Listening 2a dropping this Wednesday, 12:30GMT. purlis.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Bonus issue klaxon! Purposeful Listening 2a dropping this Wednesday, 12:30GMT. purlis.substack.com
Returning to the music of Mads Emil Dreyer this week for a sleevenote, I'm reminded of the one I wrote in 2023 for his Disappearer album - one of those happy bits of writing when the whole thing comes together cleanly and quickly. www.dacapo-records.dk/en/recording...
Disappearer
www.dacapo-records.dk
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Returning to the music of Mads Emil Dreyer this week for a sleevenote, I'm reminded of the one I wrote in 2023 for his Disappearer album - one of those happy bits of writing when the whole thing comes together cleanly and quickly. www.dacapo-records.dk/en/recording...
One thing I've not seen people mention re Qobuz (besides superior artist payments, sound quality and not funding fascism or AI slop) is that LABELS ARE CLICKABLE. I've been crying out for this on the old streaming service FOR EVER and never understood why it wasn't possible. Absolute gamechanger.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
One thing I've not seen people mention re Qobuz (besides superior artist payments, sound quality and not funding fascism or AI slop) is that LABELS ARE CLICKABLE. I've been crying out for this on the old streaming service FOR EVER and never understood why it wasn't possible. Absolute gamechanger.
Just switched from SpotAIfy to Qobuz and running some comparisons between the two - suddenly everything on the former is slower and about a semitone flat? Has it always been like this???
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Just switched from SpotAIfy to Qobuz and running some comparisons between the two - suddenly everything on the former is slower and about a semitone flat? Has it always been like this???
Bonus issue klaxon! Purposeful Listening 2a dropping this Wednesday, 12:30GMT. purlis.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Bonus issue klaxon! Purposeful Listening 2a dropping this Wednesday, 12:30GMT. purlis.substack.com
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Really nice to be asked to appear on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show over the weekend, to talk about three tracks I love as part of their new 'Listen List' spot.
Listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lnkd
I'm on at 46:05 into the show.
Listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lnkd
I'm on at 46:05 into the show.
New Music Show - Leo Chadburn's Listen List - BBC Sounds
Tom Service talks to Leo Chadburn about his listening, plus premieres from Donaueschingen.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Really nice to be asked to appear on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show over the weekend, to talk about three tracks I love as part of their new 'Listen List' spot.
Listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lnkd
I'm on at 46:05 into the show.
Listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lnkd
I'm on at 46:05 into the show.
"17 liner notes in two and a half weeks" is giving me heartburn
My textcast - where you read it, but there's also an accompanying playlist - is BACK. Some remarkable choices from @joannawyld.bsky.social that were new to me. Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thank you. #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"17 liner notes in two and a half weeks" is giving me heartburn
Two more nights for Music We'd Like to Hear this year: 28 Nov (same night as Grisey Quatre chants, argh): Maya Bennardo playing Fujieda, Bennardo, Svensson, Marino. 29 Nov: Magnus Grnaberg and Skogen playing Trouble, Had It All My Days. www.musicwedliketohear.com/2025n.html
music we'd like to hear - 2025
london concert series
www.musicwedliketohear.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Two more nights for Music We'd Like to Hear this year: 28 Nov (same night as Grisey Quatre chants, argh): Maya Bennardo playing Fujieda, Bennardo, Svensson, Marino. 29 Nov: Magnus Grnaberg and Skogen playing Trouble, Had It All My Days. www.musicwedliketohear.com/2025n.html