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dustedmagazine · 6 months
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Chris Forsyth — Solar Motel (Expanded) (Algorithm Free)
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Chris Forsyth marks the ten-year anniversary of his turn from towards rock with this expanded edition of Solar Motel, augmented with two previously unreleased studio tracks and a side-long live WFMU recording of “Paranoid Cat.” The two newly released tracks are a revelation, solidifying and reaffirming Forsyth’s connection to Television (he studied with Richard Lloyd) with cartwheeling guitar riffs and roiling, surging percussion in the epic vein of Marquee Moon.  
Forsyth was just off his 2011 release of Paranoid Cat when he made Solar Motel, stillstruggling for a way to incorporate a palette of influences—Television, Takoma-style fingerpicking, psych and drone—into a coherent aesthetic. Our own Bill Meyer saw him as only partly successful at this on the previous album, calling Paranoid Cat, “an album that is full of good ideas lifted from other people’s work, but he makes such good use of them that it’s easy not to care.”
Solar Motel, Forsyth’s first full-band album, was a big step towards the driving, boogie-ing, rock-leaning long grooves that we have since come to associate with the guitarist. In the notes, he says, “Solar Motel is the first record on which I overtly took rock tropes and twisted them into new shapes, incorporating so many of my interests and influences - the twin-guitar elegance of Television, the sprawl of West Coast psych, the boiled down Rock Minimalism of Rhys Chatham, the abstract tangles of free improv, an undercurrent of ecstatic jazz energy, and the studio textures of Eno/Cale/Roxy ‘70s art rock.… Solar Motel basically set the template for much of what I did for the remainder of that decade.”
The band for Solar Motel included Forsyth, drummer Mike Pride, bassist Peter Kerlin and keyboard player Shawn Edward Hansen, all musicians that Forsyth had worked with previously in various roles and configurations. It was recorded mostly live, though Forsyth put in additional guitar after the fact to build up Television-like layers of interplay. The music took shape in four numbered tracks Solar Motel I through IV.  “Part I” opens with tense, staccato guitar, at first alone, then joined by a second guitar and bass. The groove is insistent, cleanly minimal, and over it, Forsyth improvises warm, fluid arcs of solo guitar, and as it goes, the texture becomes less of a drone and more of a warm, living jam. This becomes a pattern over the next three track, as taut, disciplined motifs blossom into full-band free play. Repetition becomes a launching pad for the wildest swirls of improvisatory ornament, with sweet lyrical mid-range guitar vaulting over motorik grooves.
All that is still there, still striking in the way it marries austere experiment to lighter flaring guitar solo. If you haven’t heard it—or haven’t heard it in a while—all four original tracks remain very much worth a listen. However, it’s the new stuff that you’ll want to spin right away, because these two unreleased tracks take the basic experiment and launch them into richer, more exciting directions.
“Harmonious Dance,” at just under nine minutes, is the expanded release’s best tune. A slow chime of guitar notes hitting turbulence early on in Pride’s swelling drum roll. The notes get bigger, more resonant, more sustained as they go, taking on the burnished glow of Lloyd and Verlaine in tandem (though without the trebly yelp of vocals). “Long Warm Afternoon” starts out with warmth and sustained tones, building shimmering textures of guitar over a steady thump and roll. Both cuts feel less restrained, less tightly disciplined than the original Solar Motel cuts. It’s as if Forsyth had a concept for setting down guardrails and eventually swamping them with sensory data, and it took him a while to implement it fully.
The WFMU recording is fine, too, letting the twitchy glamor of “Paranoid Cat” stretch out, catch fire in a truly insane instrumental freakout and somehow stuff all that back into the bottle for a reprise of the original melody. But if you need a reason to check out this ten years after reissue, I’d look at the two unreleased tracks, where Forsyth and his band hit a groove they’ve been riding ever since.
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burlveneer-music · 8 months
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Brent Cordero & Peter Kerlin - A Sublime Madness
Psychic Ills keyboardist, Brent Cordero and Sunwatchers bassist, Peter Kerlin’s, first full length collab A SUBLIME MADNESS is the culmination of decades of circling each other's creative orbits. After years of casual jamming, numerous fledgling one offs, and touring sideman gigs (ibrighden addition to Sunwatchers, Kerlin was also Chris Forsyth’s long time bass player and in the John Dwyer helmed improv project, Bent Arcana. Cordero worked for years with Psychic Ills and Mike Wexler among others). Here, the two sidemen synchronize orbits and create a sound with keys and bass as a molten center. But A SUBLIME MADNESS is not a strict duo album or a COVID bedroom record, by any stretch. Drummer, Ryan Sawyer provides torrents of percussion and each tune is built out as the two invite in a crew of past collaborators, legends, luminaries, cohorts and stalwarts: Daniel Carter (woodwinds), James Brandon Lewis (tenor sax), Jessica Pavone (viola), Ryan Jewell (percussion), Charles Burst (percussion), Adam Amram (congas), Aaron Siegel (vibraphone), Jesse DeRosa (modular synth) - each person contributing their musical voice throughout. The result is an expansive sound and vision. A conjuring of spontaneous, collective spirit in which each player’s contribution is highlighted and distilled in conversation with each other over the arc of the record.  Titles of several pieces are a tribute to NYC based Black radical activist groups, Movement To Protect The People and Decolonize This Place, that organize against gentrification and economic inequality as well as for the interconnected struggle for Indigenous, Black, and Palestinian liberation. This activism has been met with state violence along with media dismissal and condescension. The first song, “Movement to Protect the People”, is a dedication to Brent’s partner, LaShaun Ellis, a member of a Black women-led group of that name, who has successfully fought corrupt developers and politicians attempting to build in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The song titles  “Affordable for Who?” and “White Supremacy in Black Face”, frame the instrumental music in a context of on-the-ground struggle against gentrification, displacement, and other racist policies.  Brent Cordero: Combo Organ, Piano, Synths Peter Kerlin: Electric Bass, Upright Bass, 8 String Bass Ryan Sawyer: Drums (except Track 3) Featuring: Daniel Carter: Alto Saxophone / Flute (Track 4 & 6) James Brandon Lewis: Tenor Saxophone (Track 2) Jessica Pavone: Viola (Track 5) Aaron Siegel: Vibraphone (Track 3) Ryan Jewell: Drums/Percussion/Tabla (Track 3) Jesse DeRosa: Buchla modular synthesizer (Track 6) Charles Burst: Percussion (Track 2) Adam Amram: Congas (Track 2 & 4) Basic tracks recorded by Matt Walsh at Oceanus in Rockaway, Queens, New York Overdub recording by Jon Erickson and Peter Kerlin Mixed by Charles Burst, Stamford, NY, June & July, 2021 Mastered by Mitch Rackin All songs by Brent Cordero & Peter Kerlin, except Track 4 by Eddie Harris.
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noloveforned · 1 year
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no love for ned is back on wlur with a new show tonight after an unplanned week off. tune in anytime from 8pm until midnight for some great new music or catch up with last week's show below!
no love for ned on wlur – may 26th, 2023 from 8-10pm
artist // track // album // label thrush hermit // marya // marya 7" // genius boyracer // we have such gifts // punker than you since '92 // 555 it thing // god's car // syrup // marthouse adele and the chandeliers // souvenirs of my mind // still thinking // orange carpet idle ray // corridors of summer (single mix) // corridors of summer 7" // tall texan velocity girl // my forgotten favorite // my forgotten favorite 7" // slumberland lisasinson // los que se pelean no se desean // un año de cambios // elefant memorials // it's in our hands // music for film: women against the bomb // the state51 conspiracy immaterial possession // to the fete // mercy of the crane folk // fire nap eyes // child’s romance // snake oil digital single // jagjaguwar wednesday // quarry // rat saw god // dead oceans annie blackman // need me // bug ep // father/daughter self esteem // prioritise pleasure (acoustic) // prioritise pleasure (deluxe) // fiction herman düne // the right path lays open before me // the portable herman düne, volume three // bb*island lisa/liza // kiss the flowers // breaking and mending // orindal george xylouris and jim white // tails of time // the forest in me // drag city califone // mcmansions // villagers // jealous butcher kammerflimmer kollektief // viertes kapitel // schemen // karlrecords eli keszler // manhattan part iii // live cassette // lucky me brent cordero and peter kerlin featuring james brandon lewis and charles burst // decolonize this place // a sublime madness // astral spirits salami rose joe louis // always on my mind // akousmatikous // brainfeeder ravyn lenae featuring smino // 3d // hypnos // atlantic alex unger // movie // all:lo vol. 6 compilation // all:lo cloth // never know // secret measure // rock action suep // onions // shop ep // memorials of distinction the blue herons // disorder // disorder digital single // (self-released) peaness // same place // same place 7" // odd box heavenly featuring calvin johnson // c is the heavenly option // le jardin de heavenly // skep wax
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Peter Kerlin - Glaring Omission
Bassist Peter Kerlin has been a key part of some killer records over the past decade, with Chris Forsyth’s Solar Motel Band and Sunwatchers (he’s a heliocentric guy), not to mention his recommended Peter Kerlin Octet record from 2013. This latest solo release sees him playing the eight-string bass in a variety of settings. Glaring Omission kicks off with an awesome jam featuring fellow Solar Motel denizen Ryan Jewell that calls to mind Future Days-era Can, Peter locking in with the drummer over a burbling wash of violin and keys. Beautiful. Another highlight is the solo “Remember This One, Maat?” — a lovely, meditative example of Kerlin’s exceptional musicianship and imagination. Get Glaring! 
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zaphmann · 4 years
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In Memory of John Peel Show 200708 Podcast & Playlist
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sweetblahg · 5 years
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Sunwatchers: Cafe Mustache 2019
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Sunwatchers tore through town once again en route to Milwaukee Psych Fest, and once again we Chicago heads benefitted from the MPF runoff. This time, the PunkJazzDrone masters were sandwiched in the middle of a h e a v y local bill. BBsitters Club, The World’s Best Jamband™, kicked off the night with a toight 40min of their ComicSans-tinged/LittleFeat-via-Ween spaceprog, which you can listen to HERE...and I highly recommend you do that, Angel Bat Dawid sits in and kicks it up another notch (as esteemed chef, Elzar, would say). Angel (whose incredible new tape is out now on International Anthem) then proceeded to bring the frickin house down post-Sunwatchers. More on that later (probably?). As for the Sunwatchers set...what can I blather abt this dang band that hasn’t already been more articulately blathered by more talented writers? @aquariumdrunkard called them “[a] quartet [that] continues to defy adequate description, incorporating elements of free jazz, psychedelia, punk, Ethiopian and Thai music into a dizzy, invigorating sound.” which does a pretty good job setting the scene for n00bs.  This Cafe Mustache set is everything you/I love about Sunwatchers, yet somehow even more vibrant, assertive and powerful. A ripper in the truest sense of the word.  Their new record, Illegal Moves, is out now. Buy it. 
Sunwatchers 4.13.2019 @ Cafe Mustache Chicago, IL New Dad Blues Beautiful Crystals Sunwatchers vs. Tooth Decay Everybody Play Love Paste > Brown Ice Strollin' Coma Blues > The Worm Store Peter Kerlin - bass guitar Jim McHugh - electric guitar, electric phin Jeff Tobias - alto saxophone, keyboard Jason Robira - drums lightly mastered by Doug Kaplan (thx doug!) stream download buy a cassette! 
previously on tehBlahg: Sunwatchers Motel Band: The Hideout 2018
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Video Premiere: John Dwyer, Kyp Malone, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Brad Caulkins, Marcos Rodriguez, Laena “Geronimo” Myers-Ionita, Joce Soubiran, and Andres Renteria share the new video for "Psychic Liberation." The band is set to release its sophomore album, Moon Drenched (@CastleFaceRecs) dropping May 28, 2021. . . . . https://ghettoblastermagazine.com/videos-2/video-premiere-videos-2/video-premiere-john-dwyer-kyp-malone-psychic-liberation/ https://www.instagram.com/p/COieLG7LFDv/?igshid=1d86rfw7v5rim
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osborgs · 3 years
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Netflix: 17 testes sobre séries e filmes do streaming para você responder!
Não tem jeito… Uma das nossas atividades favoritas é responder quiz! Pensando nisso, decidimos montar aqui um compilado de testes sobre o universo de séries e filmes da Netflix – um dos nossos serviços de streaming queridinhos – para te distrair nos próximos dias. Faça os questionários e depois compartilhe conosco os resultados, miga!
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Qual personagem mais te representa em A Barraca do Beijo?
Qual é o seu crush em A Barraca Do Beijo? Noah, Marco ou Lee?
Será que você sabe tudo sobre A Barraca Do Beijo 2?
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Irmãs Covey relembrando o passadoReprodução/Netflix
O quanto você sabe sobre Para Todos Os Garotos Que Já Amei?
Peter ou John Ambrose? Quem seria o seu crush em Para Todos os Garotos: P.S. Ainda Amo Você?
Com qual boy das comédias românticas da Netflix você ficaria?
Qual personagem do Noah Centineo seria o seu crush na vida real?
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<span class="hidden">–</span>GIF/Reprodução
Quem é você em La Casa de Papel?
Continua após a publicidade
Quem disse isso em Elite? Tente descobrir!
Que personagem de Elite mais te representa?
Você tem o estilo de qual personagem de Elite?
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<span class="hidden">–</span>YouTube/Netflix/Reprodução
Que personagem de O Mundo Sombrio de Sabrina mais te representa?
Quem é você na série Sex Education?
O quão stalker você é de acordo com a série Você?
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<span class="hidden">–</span>Reprodução/Reprodução
Você ficaria com o Ben ou com o Paxton em Eu Nunca…?
Quem você seria na série Dark e em que tempo viveria?
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celtic-cd-releases · 4 years
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dustedmagazine · 1 year
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Brent Cordero & Peter Kerlin — A Sublime Madness (Astral Spirits)
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A Sublime Madness by Brent Cordero & Peter Kerlin
The partnership of Brent Cordero and Peter Kerlin precedes the pandemic, but the 2020 shutdown set the stage for them to make something lasting out of it. At any rate, it cleared their schedules. Furthermore, the tenor of the times created a milieu that the album acknowledges and responds to. 
Cordero, who has played keyboards for Psychic Ills and Mike Wexler, provides organ, piano and synthesizer. Kerlin, of Sunwatchers and the Solar Motel Band, plays upright and electric basses. They first recorded as an improvising duo on Kerlin’s album Glaring Omission, which documents his efforts to come to terms with the eight-string bass. But, with time on their hands and the state of the nation on their minds, they set about organizing their music into a cohesive statement. While improvisation still figures in their methods and sonic orientation, the album was assembled in stages, with guest players adding drums, horns, viola and synthesizer to the duo’s original recordings. In essence, the solos function to provide focus and emotional impact to music that takes note of examples that are jazz-adjacent, but not jazz-confined.
“Movement To Protect The People” opens with a churchy organ melody. It sets the stage for an intricate countermelody articulated by an upright bass, which is then overtaken by spare piano notes, which drift in time with Ryan Sawyer’s stately, swinging backbeat. With each change, I found myself waiting for a voice that never arrives — Robert Wyatt’s. The tunes, textures and vibe all sound deeply inspired by his work, and the title suggests that their hearts beat in time with that of music’s most compassionate communist. However, the title of the propulsive waltz that follows, “Decolonize This Place,” articulates a consciousness that is very tuned into the trials of the present; Kerlin and Cordero aren’t just playing out their Soft Machine dreams. And the music is equally tuned into newer information. The effects on Cordero’s organ during the first solo show an engagement with malleable, distorted sound shaped more by pedal-hopping guitarists than post-bebop keyboardists. And a rippling performance by tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis adds to Kerlin and Cordero’s virtual community. 
Over the next five tracks a steady stream of musicians, including Jessica Pavone, Ryan Jewell and Daniel Carter, add their distinguishing voices to music that sounds like it is trying to transcend the realities alluded to by titles such as “White Supremacy In Black Face” and “Affordable For Who?” You can’t change the facts on the ground by slapping stirring names on instrumental compositions. But in a time when the American political discourse has morphed into a naked donnybrook over the means by which dissenting voices will be told how to shut up, it feels as necessary to say where one stands as it does to give comfort to those who are standing up. 
Bill Meyer
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burlveneer-music · 7 months
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Sunwatchers - Music Is Victory Over Time
In the decade or so that hard-working New York quartet  Sunwatchers have operated, the group has steadily & subtly refined their sound - a brain-blasting mixture of jazz, psychedelia, krautrock, punk, noise, & Saharan blues - into something that is avant-leaning enough to appeal to the discerning jazz & experimental music fan & weird & wooly enough to get the true heads’ toes tapping. “Music Is Victory Over Time” is the band’s 5th album, and fourth for Chicago-based Trouble In Mind Records, seeing the long-running lineup of Peter Kerlin (bass guitar), Jim McHugh  (guitars), Jason Robira (drums), and Jeff Tobias (alto saxophone and keyboards) in prime form. The album’s beguiling title stems from a note scrawled in a book about electronic music donated to PITGOOSE Prisoner Books, the grassroots prison literature program run out of The P.I.T.  (aka Property Is Theft - McHugh’s Anarchist community space, venue, and info-shop located in Los Sures, Williamsburg). Scrawled as marginalia modifying a paragraph about durational minimalist composition, the concept illuminates music’s material and spiritual power to subdue the sensation of the passage of time, both as an experiential phenomenon and as a creative, communal, and socio-political force. McHugh says: “The notion resonated with our individual and communal experiences of loss, trauma, stasis, and frustration since 2020, our three-year semi-silence as a band relative to our previous characteristic prolificacy, and our progress, projects, and evolution since.” Group Vocals by Sunwatchers and Brittain Ashford Art/Design by Josh MacPhee Head/Tree logo borrowed from the 1970s East German Green Party SUNWATCHERS STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE DISPOSSESSED, IMPOVERISHED, AND EMBATTLED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.
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noloveforned · 9 months
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it's somehow already september and while there's no formal schedule yet it's pretty safe to say that no love for ned will continue airing friday nights on wlur from 8pm until midnight for the new semester. tune in tonight to see what new sounds i'm jamming on or catch up with last week's show on mixcloud at your leisure, tracklist below!
no love for ned on wlur – august 25th, 2023 from 8-10pm
artist // track // album // label bettie serveert // sugar the pill // dust bunnies // matador babytooth // hey minnow // babytooth cassette // antiquated future idle ray // localism hours // we are time mixtape volume one compilation cassette // we are time comet gain // pinstriped rebel // the misfit jukebox // tapete dancer // cordonbleu // woman life freedom- music for iran, volume two compilation // free them now salad // what do you say about that? // singles bar // island red label claud // dirt // supermodels // saddest factory lofi legs // breakup sex // tragic magic sex // we were never being boring neo neos // total oka // act vii // under the gun keyring jeans // pinecone // keyring jeans ep // foghorn the cowboys // sick high heels // sultan of squat // feel it be your own pet // goodtime! // mommy // third man sonic youth // death valley '69 // live in brooklyn, 2011 // silver current zoh amba, chris corsano and bill orcutt // the morning light has flooded my eyes // the flower school // palilalia sandy ewen and jason nazary // as town // a beaded gesture cassette // notice scott clark featuring laura ann singh // the wind // dawn and dusk // out of your head henry threadgill // movement i, sections 6a-7a // the other one // pi damon locks and rob mazurek // suspense in the grip of suspense // new future city radio // international anthem brent cordero and peter kerlin featuring daniel carter and adam amram // freedom jazz dance // a sublime madness // astral spirits stimela // say say no // fire, passion, ecstacy // tidal waves prince and the new power generation // alice through the looking glass // diamonds and pearls (super deluxe edition) // rhino mckinley dixon featuring ms. jaylin brown // beloved! paradise! jazz!? // beloved! paradise! jazz!? // city slang girl ray // begging you now // prestige // moshi moshi the waeve // sleepwalking // the waeve // transgressive the bv's // warp (extended version) // warp 12" // kleine untergrund schallplatten party milk // wedding hair // your problem as a mountain // teenbeat
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mariebenz · 5 years
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Primary and Palliative Care Can Prevent Significant Number of ICU Admissions
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MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr. Weissman Gary Weissman, MD, MSHP Assistant Professor of Medicine Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine  MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: There are millions of hospitalizations every year in the United States (US) that include a stay in an intensive care unit (ICU). Such ICU stays put strain on health system resources, may be unwanted by patients, and are costly to society. As the population of the US gets older and more medically complex, some have argued that we need more ICU beds and a larger ICU workforce to keep pace. We hypothesized that some proportion of these ICU admissions could be prevented with early and appropriate outpatient care. Such a strategy would alleviate some of the strains and costs associated with ICU stays. If an appreciable proportion of ICU stays were preventable in this way, it would strengthen support for an alternative population-health based framework instead of further investments in the ICU delivery infrastructure.  MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings? Response: We found that one in six hospitalizations associated with an ICU admission might have been prevented with timely and appropriate primary care and/or palliative care referral. We identified a potentially preventable hospitalization if it met criteria for an ambulatory care sensitive condition or a life-limiting malignancy. The same pattern held across Medicare Fee-for-Service, Medicare Advantage, and a private insurance plan.  MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?  Response: As the US population gets older and more complex, simply building more ICU beds may not be the best solution for patients or for society. Instead, investing in outpatient services and community health programs may be a more cost-effectiveness alternative to keeping people healthier and out of the hospital.  MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work?  Response: We need to better understand what counts as a “preventable” admission while also understanding that the ICU is situated in the context of a larger health system. We need to study the cost-effectiveness of investments in population health management programs, including outpatient primary and palliative care services, compared to further investments in ICU beds and critical care delivery services.  The authors have no personal or financial conflicts of interests to report. Citation: Potentially Preventable Intensive Care Unit Admissions in the United States, 2006 - 2015 Gary E Weissman ; ; Meeta Prasad Kerlin , Yihao Yuan , Rachel Kohn , George L Anesi , Peter W. Groeneveld ; ; Rachel M Werner ; ; Scott D Halpern https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201905-366OC PubMed: 31581801 Published Online: October 04, 2019 Last Modified :   The information on MedicalResearch.com is provided for educational purposes only, and is in no way intended to diagnose, cure, or treat any medical or other condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health and ask your doctor any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. In addition to all other limitations and disclaimers in this agreement, service provider and its third party providers disclaim any liability or loss in connection with the content provided on this website.   Read the full article
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Chris Forsyth - All Time Present / Union Pool, Brooklyn, New York, July 28, 2018
It’s always a good day when Chris Forsyth releases a new album. Over the past several years, he’s been one of the most reliable artists out there, delivering razor sharp guitar-centric LPs that bring together all the right elements into an always pleasing whole. All Time Present, his latest, is no exception. A double album that sprawls and stretches out without once feeling overstuffed, it may well be Forsyth’s most accessible work thus far — the soaring, concise opener “Tomorrow May As Well Be Today” deserves to be a radio hit. “Dream Song” is another highlight, with Rosali’s haunting vocals drifting in like a mist over a brooding jam. Best of all is the closer “Techno Top,” which grooves and moves ecstatically like Remain In Light-era Talking Heads for nearly 20 minutes. It’s a powerful showcase for the current iteration of Forsyth’s band: bassist Peter Kerlin, drummer Ryan Jewell and keyboardist Shawn Edward Hansen. Amazing stuff — suffice to say, you need All Time Present. 
And you also might want to take a listen to some early versions of the LPs tunes via this terrific NYC Taper tape, recorded last summer in Brooklyn (with added drummer Jason Robira in the mix as well). And hey, you could also read a few things Chris has written in recent weeks: an appreciation of Robert Quine and Fred Maher’s Basic and an account of his opening of Jerry’s On Front, a great Philly DIY space. 
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