#linernotes

[sofakingmanyrecords]

Alex Chilton "My Rival" 10" EP. Another RSD Omnivore sale piece. The "Like Flies on Sherbet" version of "My Rival" is actually my favorite Alex Chilton solo song. I'd love to have that on vinyl. And while I have been known to piss away large sums of money on some vinyl in the past, I rarely ever do it for one song. Anyway, this is a cool little artifact like that Nilsson LP. Probably wouldn't have bought this if it was a 12" as I lack the space but I do have space where I stash my 10" records as I probably have less than 40 of them. The liner notes alone, for the price I paid, are almost worth the price of admission. But then again, I love me a good liner note. #LP #Vinyl #Records #AlexChilton #MyRival #10InchVinyl #LinerNotes #OmnivoreRecordings https://www.instagram.com/p/ChWzHcSuSBd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#lp #vinyl #records #alexchilton #myrival #10inchvinyl #linernotes #omnivorerecordings

[elysemillermusic]

Now available as a digital download on Patreon! 2021 lyric sheet liner notes and EP 7 songs, download them straight to your computer/mobile device. You won’t find this on Spotify or at your local chain retailer. Only available by joining my Patreon or by mail ordering a physical cd. When you become a patron, you can vote for the subject of our upcoming #paintandsip zoom gathering …and get invited to paint with us! Patreon link in bio 🚀 #singersongwriter #patreoncreator #linernotes #vulcanarecords https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm7AljNumAM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#paintandsip #singersongwriter #patreoncreator #linernotes #vulcanarecords

[edrake]

@beegees appreciation post @officialbarrygibb #beegees #barrygibb #robingibb #mauricegibb #classicmusic #linernotes #linernotescomic #comic #compositionbookchronicles #cqcomics #conquesopublishing https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl_flVTOt8Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#beegees #barrygibb #robingibb #mauricegibb #classicmusic #linernotes #linernotescomic #comic #compositionbookchronicles #cqcomics #conquesopublishing

[markseow]

Tutta sola October 2022

Rachel Podger, Channel Classics  Liner notes by Mark Seow

#linernotes #writing #research #rachelpodger #channelclassics #bach #matteis #vilsmayr #westhoff #tartini

[bobwehadababyitsaboy]

Finally took the time to scan all the Liner Notes pages to PDF 🐸🐹🐍⭐️🦋🚀🪢⚙️ #argmyburrito #linernotes #froggyhatvisitsgolemisland (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfSLAg1P7Dpdy7mt4n36rilQl2VoMbl7gDzOcE0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#argmyburrito #linernotes #froggyhatvisitsgolemisland

[folkimplosionmusic]

From Veit Stauffer on Facebook

JENS HAGEN (1944–2004) was a german photographer / journalist. Here in this group I met his wife, artist DOROTHEE JOACHIM. 💐🎩🎯She sent me this TIM BUCKLEY photo from Essener Songtage, Sat 28. September 1968, made by Jens Hagen.

When I later looked at my german pressing of "Starsailor" (1970), I found the linernotes in german/english by Jens. Beautiful coincidence. His well written text is not about "Starsailor" tough, but full of impressions Tim made on Jens, about his first four albums. Thanks alot Dorothee Joachim, for all your kindness and communication.

#tim buckley

[newmasterpiece]

[nmpDATA065] takuya / KONDAK

Willowy、DJエリマキトカゲ、BeaverTozanなど多くの名義でテクノ／ヒップホップに多大な影響を受けた作品を発表するtakuya。完成の待たれる新作を目前に、なんと20年前に制作しお蔵入りになっていたアルバム音源が発掘！！

This is takuya's unreleased second album, produced around 2002, just after the release of his debut album "Phosphorescence" on Ze-Koo. It was distributed on MD to a few people involved in the project under the title "BLUE OPACITY," but it never saw the light of day and was lost for a long time, until it was suddenly unearthed from his house in 2023. It was released just before Electronica was developed in Japan, but some parts of it reminded me of Eccojam, the originator of Vaporwave, and sampled city pop, so I was convinced that there would be new discoveries when I listened to it in 2023, which led to its release on New Masterpiece.

LISTEN & DOWNLOAD: Bandcamp ////////

released 24 August 2023 CAT: [nmpDATA065] fee: ¥800.-

烽火 /02:12

Shin-Gyo /05:50

Unfinished Symphony /03:08

筧の水 /02:02

Physical Dub /05:46

走り出せさあ早く /03:20

Love Is Deaf /02:07

Hypnosis Phenomenon /05:47

江ノ島 /03:14

You Are My Angel /01:52

忍者Kの落とし物 /06:13

Theme From“Time Traveler” /02:53

Listen To This Sound On The Other Song /01:11

Mon Chemin /07:21

3:00 /03:00

情熱のかけらたち /03:09

all tunes composed, arranged and performed by takuya Jacket Design & Linernotes by hitachtronics

#takuya #Bandcamp

[enmusasblog]

Dark Horse Records hedrar den legendariske artisten Joe Strummer med samlingsalbumet Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years För första gången någonsin släpps en samling av Strummers arbete med Mescaleros. Den nya boxen innehåller ej tidigare utgivna låtar, demos och ljudupptagningar av den kompletta Mescaleros-katalogen, exklusiva nya intervjuer, opublicerade bilder och mycket mer. Boxen släpps fredagen den 16 september. Dark Horse Records firar vad som skulle ha varit Joe Strummers 70-årsdag, den 21 augusti, med Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years - den första heltäckande samlingen någonsin som lyfter fram Strummers arbete med post-Clash-bandet The Mescaleros. Samlingen innehåller remastrade utgåvor av alla tre av bandets studioalbum, samt 15 sällsynta och outgivna spår som spänner över de första demos Joe skrev för Mescaleros, såväl som Ocean Of Dreams”, med Steve Jones från Sex Pistols på gitarr, och uttag av flera spår av Joes sista inspelningar med bandet. Det rikt kurerade boxsetet producerades av Joes änka Lucinda Tait och David Zonshine och innehåller exklusiva nya intervjuer med Joes vänner, medarbetare och med Mescaleros bandkamrater ihop med aldrig tidigare publicerade handskrivna anteckningar, texter och teckningar av Strummer hämtade ur Joe Strummers arkiv. Boxen innehåller fyra CD-skivor med 72-sidig bok och sju LP med 32-sidig bok, specialutgivna förpackningar och exklusiva konsttryck. Det första spåret från samlingen är den tidigare outgivna versionen av ’The Road To Rock ’N’ Roll (Demo)’ - tillgänglig att streama redan nu. Videon till låten skapades med hjälp av Joes teckningar och nedskrivna texter som finns i Strummers arkiv. Joe Strummer är mest känd som frontfigur för The Clash men producerade några av de mest spännande verken i sin karriär med The Mescaleros. Strummer sade under den här perioden att: “All that’s happening for me now is just a chancer’s bluff. I learned that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I’m far more dangerous now, because I don’t care at all.” Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years belyser denna intensiva period av kreativitet från 1999-2002 och samlar för första gången extraordinära album som Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (1999), Global A Go-Go (2001) och postumt Streetcore (2003), tillsammans med Vibes Compass, en helt ny samling av 15 B-sidor och rariteter, inklusive tidiga demos av några av de första låtarna Joe skrev för Mescaleros som "The Road To Rock 'N' Roll" , ”X-Ray Style”, ”Techno D-Day”, såväl som den tidigare outgivna ”Secret Agent Man” och originalinspelningarna från Joes senaste sessioner, inklusive uttag av ”Get Down Moses”, ”Coma Girl” och låten ”Fantastic”. Alla album är remastrade speciellt för den här releasen av trefaldigt Grammy-belönade Paul Hicks (The Beatles, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie) och är förpackade med omfattande nya linernotes, outgivna bilder och fyra reproduktionstextblad med ackorddiagram från Strummers arkiv. "There's so much great music that Joe left us in his archive,” säger Joes änka och exekutive producent, Lucinda Tait. “We started this work with '001', so to focus on Joe's work with The Mescaleros was the natural second step on '002' because those songs he made with them just seemed to resonate so strongly and reinvigorated his connection with his audience at a level he hadn't experienced since his days with The Clash. “He was so excited to work with the Mescaleros and the reception he got from the press and fans was incredible, it gave him a whirlwind of energy and confidence and he was creatively fulfilled and happy. “His words are so beautiful and honest and together with the Mescaleros some fantastic tunes were created and to listen to some of the tunes recorded as outtakes for me was really special.” I år är det tjugo år sedan den legendariske Joe Strummer gick bort. Som punkpoet, musiker, kompositör, skådespelare och stilikon tillbringade Strummer sitt liv med att krossa musikaliska och kulturella gränser, dels som sångare i The Clash men också som soloartist. Hans låtar är lika angelägna och vitala idag som när de skrevs och Stummers politiskt laddade texter kastade ljus på sociala orättvisor och gav en röst åt arbetarklassens kamp och slog an hos legioner av fans och press, med Rolling Stones som kallade The Clash ”Värdens största rock & Roll-band”. Strummer sa en gång: “Without people, you’re nothing.” och genom sin konst spelade Joe Stummer sin roll i att forma världens musikaliska landskap och lämnade efter sig ett oöverträffat och tidlöst arv. Dark Horse Records George Harrisons passion inför att introducera världen för my musik resulterade i att han i maj 1974 startade Dark Horse Records. Bolaget hade en mängd olika begåvade artister på sin lista, inklusive George själv. Vid sidan av Joe Strummer innehåller det nylanserade Dark Horse Records även Billy Idol, Leon Russell, Benmont Tench med flera. För mer information besök www.darkhorserecords.com

För intervjuer kontakta: Anette Ståhl / Enmusa Music, tel: [phone] [email protected] För mer information kontakta Ulrika Hammar / BMG, Tel [phone] [email protected]

#Joe Strummer #Enmusa #bmgscandinavia

[porter-alternativerock]

Freitag, 5. April 2024 – unsere vierte Single aus „GENOSHA“ erscheint.

Natürlich sind uns alle unsere Songs wichtig. Die Songs von „Genosha“ in ihrem inhaltlichen Überbau vielleicht sogar noch einmal wichtiger.

>>> "Tout est pardonné" hören: https://ditto.fm/tout-est-pardonne

Dennoch gibt es Songs, die auch für sich Ihre Wichtigkeit, ihre Dringlichkeit besitzen. Nicht, weil wir uns für besonders toll halten, sondern weil die Message einfach wichtig ist. Und die ist dieses mal nicht einmal auf unserem Mist gewachsen.

Die Lyrics für „Tout est pardonné“ haben wir uns von Sophie Scholl entliehen. Es sind mutmaßlich ihre letzten Worte, kurz vor Ihrer Ermordung durch die Nazis am 22. Februar 1943. Es sind wichtige, wahre Worte.

Es gibt heutzutage weder einen Grund, noch eine Entschuldigung, angesichts der offensichtlichen Bedrohung durch faschistische Tendenzen in der Gesellschaft den Mund zu halten.

Fragen sich nicht viele von uns immerzu, was wir in den dunkelsten Zeiten anstelle unserer Vorfahren getan hätten, als die Faschisten die Macht in Deutschland ergriffen und das barbarischste System, das Menschen sich vorstellen können, zur Norm erklärten? Und noch realer: Was werden wir tun, wenn es wieder so weit kommt? Sind wir dann die feigen Mitläufer der Hassenden, die ein solches System zum Leben benötigt – oder gar aktive Täter und Täterinnen? Oder bleiben wir aufrecht, selbst wenn man uns alles, wirklich alles nehmen sollte?

Sophie blieb aufrecht! „Tout est pardonné“, die vierte Single der Alternativerockband PORTER aus dem Album „GENOSHA“, führt die Hörer*innen mit seiner luftigen musikalischen Eröffnung zunächst durchaus gewollt auf eine falsche Fährte. Die vermutet wohlig-melancholische, beinahe heiter einnehmende Stimmung des Intros wird gebrochen, konterkariert durch den einsetzenden Text, die letzten Worte der jungen Widerstandskämpferin Sophie Scholl, kurz vor ihrer Ermordung durch die Nazis in Hitlerdeutschland am 22. Februar 1943. Kraftvolle Worte, die einen noch heute erschaudern lassen, ob Ihres Mutes, Ihrer klaren Haltung gegenüber eines so unmenschlichen, wie übermächtigen Feindes, selbst angesichts ihres nahenden und sicheren Todes.

Dieser Song handelt von Mut.

Vom Menschbleiben in Zeiten der puren Unmenschlichkeit. Er ist eine Warnung in heutigen Zeiten, die sich anschicken, das Geschehene, das Unvorstellbare als vergessenswert ansehbar zu ermöglichen. Doch er handelt auch von der unabdingbar notwendigen Hoffnung, die selbst in den düstersten Zeiten menschlichen Daseins Bestand haben kann – Bestand haben muss, wenn wir alle eine Chance haben wollen gegen die sinnfreie Barbarei gewissenloser Diktatoren und ihrer Steigbügelhalter. Letztere lassen aktuell und unverhohlen ihre Masken wieder fallen, in Form von Influencer*innen, Parteien, Faktenleugner*innen. Das Spektrum ist unendlich groß. Sie reden von „Fliegenschiss“ und meinen 50 Millionen Tote. Sie reden von Remigration und meinen Deportation. Rassismus, Antisemitismus, Homophobie und sämtliche Spielarten des Chauvinismus haben wieder Hochkonjunktur – und abermals kommen sie im Tarngewand der Biedermänner daher.

Sophie Scholl glaubte bis zuletzt daran, dass die Barbarei überwindbar ist, dass das schiere Böse nicht alle Zeiten überdauern wird, dass die Freiheit für alle erreichbar ist.

„Die Zeit, die Dich braucht, die ist jetzt!“ (Fjort) Es gilt: Was werden wir, was wirst Du tun?

„May they continue what we have started.”

>> HIER kannst Du „Tout est pardonné“ hören! Das Video zum Song erscheint in den nächsten Wochen auf YouTube.

Und dann ist da auch noch der Radiotext vor dem letzten Refrain …

>>> Linernotes zum Song: https://www.derherrgott.de/porter-tout-est-pardonne-linernotes/

..... porter #alternativerock #rock #metal #newsingle #newrelease #single #nonazis #fightfascism

#band #metal #porter #alternativerock #genosha #rock #music #art #love #newsingle #release #singlerelease #lovemusic #fightfascism #nonazis #neveragain

[snotty-freak-beat]

no*2023*complete

ok, ich höre jetzt auf.. ..also mit dem 2023

doch erst nach folgenden worten:

hallo liebe, every- respektive anywhere hier nun die end(lose)fassung 2023, teil 2 ist ungefähr gleich lang geworden, doch ebenso lauschenswert, auch da gibts wieder punk-&-wave-scherereien, im grossen ganzen entspannt bis melo, funkelig & rauhnächtig.. ich habe den bogen über, nun ja, exakt hundert songs gespannt (ja genau, wieder etwas reduziert zum extended vorjahr), klingt zwar immer noch viel, aber ist wiederum auch in ungefähr 6:42h zu schaffen (rauch-, trink- oder lärmpausen exklusive), auf die lebenszeit der meisten bezogen geht das ja noch.. (und wie immer unter dem obigen link ebenfalls verfügbar sind alle vorangegangenen jahre..)

btw linernotes: die meiste zeit brauche ich jeweils beim nachhören der eingedampften musikauswahl meines jahres, und dann vor allem für entscheidungen, welches stück ich aus meinen persönlichen favorites einer band auswählen soll, oft bleiben schlussendlich zwei stücke eines acts übrig, ich höre sie in verschiedenen stimmungen und tageszeiten, am ende hilft es mir meistens, einen der beiden in nen ordner zu werfen namens „adventure vorrat“ dieser ist nun in den jahren recht füllig geworden, dabei habe ich diesen vorrat bisher nie gebraucht oder genutzt, weil ja die musik immer weiter geht, und ich vermute, er würde so einfach immer weiter wachsen und wachsen, heute dachte ich, es wäre an der zeit, da mal radikal auszumisten, doch vorher zu stöbern und im laufe jahr mal ein extra outtakes-mixtape zu schustern.. ja richtig gelesen, der kalender ist zu einer art jährlichem mixtape geworden und als das bezeichne ich es gern, ich mag die zeiten als wir uns mixtapes zum geburtstag schenkten (später CDs, doch die tapes waren cooler..), irgendwann sind sie zwar meistens irgendwo an festival, tankstelle oder waldparty aus dem auto gefallen, als bandsalat mit matsch-dressing geendet oder sonstwie verschwunden, aber egal, gab ja immer wieder neue oder neu überspielte.. in zeiten von streaming und spotify-playlisten sind die mixtapes etwas obsolet geworden, doch eine meiner zeitlosen freuden..

ich hänge dabei auch nicht der vergangenheit nach, doch erinnere sie gern, anerkenne und wertschätze an ihr, dass sie jede* von uns individuell geprägt und herausgeschält hat, wie auch weiter formen wird, von zeit zu zeit sogar gemeinsam, eben immer dann wenn es am schönsten ist..

kisses are dying on lips no

[hitachtronics]

20230824/// [nmpDATA065] takuya / KONDAK /// Data Jacket Artwork & Linernotes /// New Masterpiece ///

#NewMasterpiece

[prettyinnoise]

Wham! – The Singles : Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven (Box Set) (07.07.2023)

Das atemberaubende Hardcover-Buch enthält Linernotes zu jeder Single sowie Fotos und mehr. Eine Kassette mit Bonus-Mixes, ein massiver Metall-Schlüsselanhänger, eine Anstecknadel, Postkarten und ein nummeriertes Zertifikat vervollständigen dieses tolle Set. Ein Muss für jeden Wham! Fan. 7” single carry case with top handle and front clasp – based on the design of George Michael’s own 7” box 11 x…

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[linernotesandseasons]

It’s another happy hour, crack a beer, mega-magic, shuffle it up, NEW MUSIC FRIDAY!! I haven’t had time to put these in a nice flowing order recently, but if you follow the link in my bio you’ll find 100+ new songs (that’s 7+ hours!!) of delightful new tunes! • Anchored by full albums from linernotes&seasons fav @ezra.furman.visions (more on this one later!), @jidsv, @thevaleriejune (a covers EP? I’m in!) @mdou_moctar, @mrjacobbanks, and new @treefortfest friends @theesacredsouls!! Oh and @thenational HAVE A NEW SONG!! • Lots of good stuff, let me know what you’re digging this wkend cuz I always love to hear!! 🔀 this one up while you’re making dinner, mix up a little cocktail, and go take a walk outside! Cuz summer’s almost overrrrrr!! • #musicmusicmusic #luckylukcylucky #magicmagicmagic #newmusicfriday (at Cap Hill) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChvfKl2MrZu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#musicmusicmusic #luckylukcylucky #magicmagicmagic #newmusicfriday

[edrake]

Liner Notes - Who had be the verse on “The Symphony” @djmarleymarl @mastaacepics @mc_craig_g @kgrfilms @officialbigdaddykane #thesymphony #juicecrew #marleymarl #mastaace #craigg #koolgrap #bigdaddykane #classichiphop #oldschoolhiphop #hiphop #lyricist #comic #linernotes #linernotescomic #cqcomics #conquesopublishing https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl3dC0kudpG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#thesymphony #juicecrew #marleymarl #mastaace #craigg #koolgrap #bigdaddykane #classichiphop #oldschoolhiphop #hiphop #lyricist #comic #linernotes #linernotescomic #cqcomics #conquesopublishing

[isabeljkim]

LN: Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation Of The Self

DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE READ THE STORY HERE.

People assume that Homecoming is autobiographical or reflects my emotions in that the main character’s perspective is my own. I think this happens a lot when someone writes Immigrant Narratives, and I have a hard time saying “hey people shouldn’t do that” because I also think that a lot of time the application of the self into the story is true. But when people have talked to me about Homecoming, they’ve assumed a specific background/state of mind for me which isn’t necessarily accurate. 

It’s a pretty personal story for me in that I dropped a lot of cosmetic details about my history into the story, but not a personal story for me in that I don’t think it reflects any sort of immigrant angst that I feel, only sort of a clean desire to explain to those who have non-diaspora lives that diaspora is complicated and people don’t always feel the way you think they should feel about it. My goal with the story was to really just drive home the thesis that diaspora is messy, you don’t get to choose who you become, the line between foreigner and homeland is thin, America is like a worm that gets into your brain, please experience being uncomfortable for 6000 words, I am not here to play.

I feel a weird need to disclose that I’m not technically an immigrant. Everyone who reads this assumes I am, but I was born in NJ, and my parents lived in the states for 20 years before they had me…but I spent a lot of my childhood in Korea because my dad got a job in Korea right before I was born. I spent the first ten years of my life shuttling between California and Korea because he was a professor at universities in both countries, though I went to school in Korea. I call myself 1.5 gen, haha. I’m an edge case. 

This story was one of those cases where I wrote something kind of sad and I thought “this isn’t that sad” and everyone I showed it to was like “dude this is sad as shit” and I was like “oh is it sad?” because I considered the story more about the tension between the decisions about your life that you get to choose, versus the ones that are chosen for you, and I didn’t feel that was particularly sad as much as it is one of the clean realities of life: a lot of the choices that create who you are get made for you. 

I wrote this story because I felt that I hadn’t read any immigrant/second generation narratives that talked about the tension between the fact that we live in a global world and it’s not hard anymore to return places, held against the fact that you can never actually return to somewhere you last left, and the compounding fact the person you are has changed in the intervening time so that they would be unrecognizable to the self you left behind. 

I felt that there wasn’t a story for Guys Like Me, who went to Korea most summers after moving to the states until they stopped and then eventually realized that they had turned into someone who can confidently say “I’m from New Jersey” rather than tentatively say “I’m from New Jersey?” and what that means about loss and change. 

I also wrote this story because I thought “haha wouldn’t it be fucked up if immigration worked like github instancing?”

I don’t know if I’m going to write more things about Korea Stuff. This is my first bigboy publication (but check out my game at Sub-Q!! It’s good!!) and I don’t want to get pigeonholed as a diaspora writer/asian things specifically by the market. I am just some guy who likes wizards and lasers. I am kind of an ambivalent asian. i just go here. You just think I go here because I’ve got the eyes and hair and skin tone. 

The folktale about the knife, fisherman, is a bastardized version of a folktale I heard in elementary school, which I couldn’t find online even though I searched for it quite a bit. There’s a lot of stories about “guy goes to the fae court under the sea, comes back, oh shit, time has passed,” but I made up all the stuff about the knife, the killing of the self, etc. Based on a real story though! That’s real! 

I named Soyoung after my childhood best friend, who I’ve lost touch with for the last decade on account of her living in Korea and me moving permanently to the states. Don’t read too much into that. Claire Soyoung Ko if you’re out there…..

I accidentally named Jungwon after one of my cousins because I forgot it was his name because I always call him by his American name and now I can’t show him the story because it has his name in it. I swear this wasn’t on purpose.

In the first draft, Soyoung was bisexual, but I couldn’t fit that fact in the final draft. Know in your heart that this is true and canon, though.

The grandfather’s apartment, the Shinsegae department store basement, and the grandfather’s gravesite are all based on my actual human grandpa’s apartment/grave/places near it, and it was really just an exercise in nostalgic laziness that I described places I was pretty intimately familiar with. (If you want to know something meta that’s a little sad and strange related to the story: my family is talking about what to do with my grandfather’s grave now, because it’s too far from most of the family for them to visit. We’re trying to figure out where to take my grandparent’s ashes. I learned about this a month after my story was published and felt some kind of way).

Homecoming really is the best example I’ve written of how a story is sad or happy depending on where you end it. I ended it at the saddest moment. Soyoung’s life ends up pretty good! Soyoung ends up happy mostly, in the way that happiness is a mutable state for most people.

I cannot stress enough that Dr. Crouton, best cat, does get sent for and Soyoung DOES get her cat back. This is fucking crucial.

I always think about doing more with this story, because I think it’s an interesting concept that says a lot about migration/diaspora/immigration stuff, but I hesitate because I don’t know if I’m the best writer to write a story about this. 

#linernotes

[citylightsbooks]

5 Questions with Daphne A. Brooks, Author of Liner Notes for the Revolution

Daphne A. Brooks is the author of Jeff Buckley's Grace and Bodies in Dissent, and winner of the Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American performance studies. A professor at Yale University, she has written liner notes to accompany the recordings of Aretha Franklin, Tammi Terrell, and Prince, as well as stories for the New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and Pitchfork.

Daphne Brooks is in conversation with Ann Powers discussing her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound in our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on Wednesday, February 24

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Where are you writing to us from? I am writing to you from?

I am writing to you from New Haven, CT… but my heart, and I’m not kidding about this, is in San Francisco—and Berkeley and Oakland and Menlo Park/Palo Alto—my hometown turf!

What’s kept you sane during the pandemic?

Baking, late-night television (Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon—watched in the 2AM hour), I May Destroy You (more episodes, please!), The Forty-Year-Old Version, the Childish Gambino record nobody listened to but me, the Fiona Apple record that everybody listened to early in the pandemic, Arlo Parks’ debut album, our beloved and beautiful young chocolate lab Gibson who, so incredibly sadly, we just lost . . . 

What are 3 books you always recommend to people?

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man; Toni Morrison, Jazz and/or A Mercy; Crime and Punishment (had to read it in the 6th grade)—plus one short story: James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues"

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

- Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century; - Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century; - Ann Powers, Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music; - Albert Murray, The Hero and the Blues & assorted essays; - Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man & assorted essays; - Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals; - Toni Morrison, Jazz, Beloved, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination; - Farah Jasmine Griffin, If You Can’t Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday; - Gayle Wald, Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe; - Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America; - Fred Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, The Universal Machine, Black and Blur, Stolen Life

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, full coffee bar, turntables and listening booths, extensive newsstand, extensive music books section, BIPOC sections, critical gender studies and queer theory sections, performance space, public library/donations space, extensive children’s lit area. It’s called: Words In Stereo. Bestseller: that’s a tough one! Maybe some kind of a book that hasn’t been conjured up yet, a collaborative endeavor by Amanda Gorman and Greta Thunberg.

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