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free-form thoughts on john coltrane and how NOT to remember or talk about him next time, maybe
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— 27 Aug 2017 mark sinker 26 comments

so a friend and i went to see the john scheinfeld coltrane doc at the the ica a couple of weeks back: that’s one JC-stan and one JC-sceptic…
… and we both agreed it’s bad and here’s why
it does the usual documentary thing, of hunting o[…]

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The Sound Barrier Podcast: 8: The Phantom Carriage & A Ghost Story
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— 15 Aug 2017 Pete Baran 3 comments

Spooky happenings over on Silent London this week, where the Sound Barrier Podcast dabbles in the supernatural, otherworldly and ectoplasmic. Or rather, a pair of meditative films which use death, and the afterlife, to dwell on the nature of existenc[…]

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The Sound Barrier Podcast: 7: The Battles Of Coronel And Falkland Islands & Dunkirk
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— 10 Aug 2017 Pete Baran Comment

We are back from our summer holidays, which we luckily didn’t spend off the coast of Chile, the South Atlantic or a beach in France. I’m sure all of those are nice places now, but as shown in this weeks two films, they had their moments o[…]

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