Stormy weather ahead (always)
Sounds
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, The Skeletal Essences of Afro-Funk, 1969-1980
Endless Boogie, Admonitions
sample track: “Counterfeiter”
Bomba Estéreo, Deja
sample track: “Deja”
V/A, I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower, 1969-1970
Indigo Sparke, Echo
sample track: “Everything, Everything”
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Making History
sample track: “Making History”
Khruangbin, Mordechai Remixes
Terry Callier, What Color is Love
sample track: “You Goin’ Miss Your Candyman”
Terry Callier, The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
sample track: “900 Miles”
Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen, “Like I Used To”
Johnny Clarke, Rockers Time Now
sample track: “Ites Green and Gold”
V/A, Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul of Black Peru
sample track: Susana Baca, “Maria Lando”
Mdou Moctar, Afrique Victime
sample track: “Afrique Victime”
Steve Gunn, Other/\You
sample track: “Protection”
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Carnage
sample track: “Hand of God”
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, God’s Pee At State’s End + virtual album launch concert, live from the Imperial Theatre, Montreal, QC, March 28, 2021
Bitori, Legend of Funana
sample track: “Bitori Nha Bibinha”
Aretha Franklin, Young, Gifted and Black
sample track: “Oh Me, Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby)”
Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You
Myriam Gendron, Ma délire—Songs of Love, Lost and Found
sample track: “Go Away From My Window”
Saint Etienne, “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”
Saint Etienne, I’ve Been Trying to Tell You
sample track: “Pond House”
Shadow, Sweet Sweet Dreams
sample track: “Let’s Get It Together”
Gloria Jones, “Tainted Love” (1976 version)
Dry Cleaning, New Long Leg
sample track: “Scratchcard Lanyard”
Nairobi Matata Jazz, “Mapenzi Hayana Daktari”
Kindness, “World Restart” (featuring Kelela & Ade)
V/A, Cameroon Garage Funk
Wye Oak, “Its Way With Me”
V/A, Edo Funk Explosion vol. 1
Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever
sample track: “Your Power”
Chris Brokaw Band, Onion River Campground, Plainfield, VT, August 7, 2021
Moving Images
The Power of the Dog (2021), dir. Campion
The Underground Railroad (2021), dir. Jenkins
The White Lotus (2021), dir. White
The Velvet Underground (2021), dir. Haynes
The Sound of Metal (2019), dir. Marder
Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021), dir. Questlove
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970), dir. Lumet & Mankiewicz
C’mon, C’mon (2021), dir. Mills
A Cop Movie (2021), dir. Ruizpalacios
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), dir. King
Nomadland (2020), dir. Zhao
Bergman Island (2021), dir. Hansen-Løve
Spencer (2021), dir. Larraín
Small Axe (2020), dir. McQueen
“Alex Wheatle”
“Education”
I Married a Witch (1942), dir. Clair
Travelling for a Living (1966), dir. Knight
Support the Girls (2018), dir. Bujalski
To Hear Your Banjo Play (1947), dir. Lerner & Van Dyke
The Crown, seasons 1-4
“Danger on the Right?,” New York, New York (1964), prod. WABC-TV
The 80 Goes to Sparta (1969), dir. Davies
Un Jeu si simple (1964), dir. Groulx
Trafficopter (1972), dir. Howells
`À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre (1962), dir. Aquin
Bozarts (1969), dir. Giraldeau
Ty-Peupe (1971), dir. Bélanger
Le Chat dans le sac (1964), dir. Groulx
The Hundos (2021), prod. & dir. Cobden
Rock-a-Bye (1974), dir. Bensimon
New York Lightboard Record (1961), dir. McLaren
Opening Speech (1961), dir. McLaren
Fabienne sans son Jules (1964), dir. Godbout
Manger (1961), dir. Carle & Portugais
My Name is Susan Yee (1975), dir. Shaffer
The City (Osaka) (1970), dir. Pindal
Clinton Heylin, The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling (1941-1966)
Clinton Heylin, Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973
Andrew Marantz, Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies
Warren Ellis, Nina Simone’s Gum
Michelle Nijhuis, “I’m Just More Afraid of Climate Change Than I Am of Prison”/“The Valve Turners,” February 13, 2018/January 17, 2021
Cal Newport, “E-mail is Making Us Miserable,” The New Yorker, February 26, 2021
Brooke Jarvis, “Did Covid Change How We Dream?,” The New York Times, November 3, 2021
Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard, Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Camilla Wynne, Jam Bake: Inspired Recipes for Creating and Baking With Preserves
Luc Sante, Maybe the People Would Be the Times
Claudia Roth Pierpont, “The Many Battles of Nina Simone,” The New Yorker, August 4, 2014
Michael W. Twitty, Rice
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson, Reclaiming Popular Documentary
Steven Jacobs, Anthony Kinik, and Eva Hielscher, eds. The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars—now in paperback!
Food & Drink
Elena, Montreal, QC
Vin Mon Lapin, Montreal, QC
Bob Dylan’s 80th Birthday Party, Parc Lahaie, Montreal, QC, May 24, 2021
Heyday Farm, Cabot, Vt
Flywheel Farm, Woodbury, VT
Von Trapp Farmstead, Waitsfield, VT
Canteen, Waitsfield, VT
Poppy Café, Burlington, VT
Miscellaneous
Chana Joffe-Walt, Nice White Parents (Serial)
Zoe Chace, The Improvement Association (Serial)
Katrin Bennhold, Day X (The New York Times)
October in Vermont
Josh Levin, One Year: 1977 (Slate)
Izzy & Ozzy forever!
“The Decision of My Life,” The Daily (The New York Times)
Point Abino, ON in September
R.I.P.
Charlie Watts
Beverly Cleary
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Joan Didion
bell hooks
Martha Lou Gadsden
Anne Saxelby
Bunny Wailer
Monte Hellman
Dean Stockwell
Dan Kolesar
Arthur Amorim
plus so many more, an already immeasurable loss become increasingly so…