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De Selby

@deselbysgold.bsky.social
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De Selby's Golden Hours Expansive sounds for exploratory heads Compiled by Talksy/Nobrightside #TalksyArt Stone Club member 790 Ⓐ Ⓔ ☮️ DMs not activated deselbysgold@proton.me 📍Bristol

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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 2h
#NowPlaying #Cassunday Just time to return to Mamer & Dusty Ballz, with this surprisingly intimate, centuries-spanning set blending traditional & innovative solo guitar, recorded during Mamer's mammoth residency at Shenzhen's Old Heaven bookstore in Dec 2021 dustyballz.bandcamp.com/album/awla-t...
Cassette artwork for Mamer's Awlakta tape release on Dusty Ballz (2025)
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 4h
#NowPlaying #FreeMusic #JazzSky IST: Consequences (Of Time And Place) Rhodri Davies: harp Mark Wastell: violoncello Simon H. Fell: double bass 1997 album recorded live at the Natural Music Club, Stockwell. confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/conseq...
confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com
Consequences (of Time and Place), by Ist
6 track album
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 4h
I'm doing my bit...😉
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 4h
Now I'm not claiming to have all the answers, but if everyone spent more time getting high listening to the Cecil Taylor Unit, the world would be a better place
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 4h
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 4h
I'm very happy with those arrangements, can I come in? 😉
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 4h
Milo, man 😍
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 5h
Even after a physical & emotional nosedive of a week, The Cecil Taylor Unit can always make things seem ok for a while!
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 5h
#NowPlaying #JazzSky The Cecil Taylor Unit: Live In Bologna (Leo) Cecil Taylor: piano, poetry, voice Carlos Ward: saxophones Leroy Jenkins: violin William Parker: bass Thurman Barker: drums, marimba, voice recorded live in November 1987 💥 ceciltaylorleo.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...
ceciltaylorleo.bandcamp.com
Live In Bologna, by The Cecil Taylor Unit
5 track album
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 5h
#NowPlaying #FreeMusic #JazzSky Company: Epiphany (Honest Jon's) This 1982 edition of Derek Bailey's Company features Ursula Oppens, Fred Frith, George Lewis, Akio Suzuki, Julie Tippets, Moto Yoshizawa, Anne Le Barron, Keith Tippet, Phil Wacksmann. Wonderful. honestjons.com/shop/artist/...
Bright yellow cover with the words EPIPHANY by COMPANY centred toward the top. Beneath this in smaller text are the names of the improvisers involved.
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 7h
#NowPlaying #Cassunday Chunyang Yao: Post-Oblivion (Dusty Ballz, 2023) Fascinating, immersive explorations in sound from the Naxi artist, composer & vocal/electronics improviser Yao, based around her travels among the indigenous Ainu people in Hokkaido, Japan dustyballz.bandcamp.com/album/post-o...
Cassette art for Post-Oblivion
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 12h
And what a record that is! 👍
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 13h
There's an hour-long OTO Radio special from 2020 that's well worth a listen 👇 www.cafeoto.co.uk/archive/2020...
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OTO Radio - Old Heaven Special ← Cafe OTO
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 13h
I've barely scratched the surface but they release some great stuff...Oto carry their tapes, tho they tend to sell out pretty quickly.
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 13h
Yeah, this one? bsky.app/profile/dese...
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 13h
Photo taken from the cassette inlay card of 'A Mountain Sees a Mountain' of Drake & Thomas playing on stage at the OCT-LOFT festival. Thomas on piano, back to camera in foreground left, Drake on drums & percussion, facing camera on far side of stage right.
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 14h
#StandingStoneSunday Avebury Henge 📷 July 2026
A line of large weathered standing stones, part of Avebury Henge.
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 14h
#SundayMorningSounds #NowPlaying Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas: A Mountain Sees a Mountain (Old Heaven Books, 2025) Recorded live at the 9th OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival, B10 Live, Shenzhen, 2018. #Cassunday #JazzSky #FreeMusic oldheavenbooks.bandcamp.com/album/a-moun...
Cassette box & tape of 'A Mountain Sees a Mountain'
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Though the path ahead is shrouded in darkness, the light of love shall be your guide" (acrylic on A4 white mix media paper) #TalksyArt #AbstractArt #AcrylicArt #Painting #Expressionism
Abstract painting in black acrylic on white landscape paper, with touches of yellow & pink. There is a glowing white circle giving astral vibes top left.
Talksy '26
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just look at their little faces! #Cardiacs
Photos of Tim and Sarah Smith as children, taken from the Guns CD booklet.
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Had that myself recently 😁 bsky.app/profile/dese...
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#SaturdayMorningSounds #NowPlaying Cardiacs: Guns (1999) alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/album/guns
CD jewel case for Guns. Artwork features two disembodied dog heads in a dark cloudy sky.
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Remembering this Dark Star video directed by Tim Smith. Me & Kavus were paid as crew for a day to chuck objects about from off-set! 😁 youtu.be/JJ9EBzbDoak?...
youtu.be
Dark Star - Graceadelica (Promo)
YouTube video by rp61productions
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I had completely forgotten that existed!
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Take a beatbox and add a garage racket, GO!...
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've only listened to the new Ambarchi once so far, and very good it was too, but this may have the edge for me atm
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#NowSpinning #2026Albums Christer Bothén, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin: Serpentine (Black Truffle, 2026) orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/serpen...
Black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today's listening... Mary Lou Williams: Zoning Ernest Hood: Neighborhoods Dollar Brand Duo: Good News From Africa Marion Brown & Gunter Hampel: Gesprächsfetzen
Album sleeve for Zoning, featuring a shot of Mary Lou at the pianoCover for Neighborhoods, 'Memories of Times Past', by Ernest HoodCover of Good News From AfricaCover art for Gesprächsfetzen, featuring a heavily shadowed photo of Marion Brown playing sax
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G @grassi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW BOUNDARIES ADDITIONS!! Zach Rowden (Tongue Depressor), Sholto Dobie Accordion zones, Classical meets Electronics with Vanessa Bedoret, Noise duo Pale World & Y Gwachter, Sonic Intangibles workshop creating sound from data & a stunning 360 degree immersive visual art installation by Konx-om-Pax!
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Mike Jay @mikejay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The site of the Pneumatic Institution, beautifully restored and open for visits thebristolmag.co.uk/the-doors-of...
thebristolmag.co.uk
The doors of perception - The Bristol Magazine Online
James Dale is opening the door to tell the untold story of Davy's House: the origin of psychedelic science, the Romantic movement and more.
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame was first published #OTD 1908. #BookSky
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gorgeous record 👍
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2026 #TalksyReads 📚18 #BookSky Robin Farquharson: Drop Out! (1968) This is a riot, a kinda Down & Out in Paris & London for the acid head generation with a Mad Pride edge. Expanded reisue by @strangeattractor.bsky.social to accompany their new Farquharson biog 'International Freak'.
Copy of Drop Out! (2026 SA reprint)
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, posted about this one recently too 👍
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh ffs! 😁 No I didn't but I can't keep up anymore! Thanks for the heads up tho 👍
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nice 👍 Where is it?
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Unlikely, I don't get out much these days!
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have a few downloads, well worth exploring 👍
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#NowPlaying #NewMusic #JazzSky Camila Nebbia's The Hanged One: Limbo (2026) Some statement from Nebbia's new sextet! Camila Nebbia, sax Julia Bilat, cello Arne Braun, guitar Andres Marino, electronics Vinicius Cajado, double bass Lukas Akintaya, drums relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/limbo
relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com
Limbo, by Camila Nebbia's The Hanged One
9 track album
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Seems a really interesting character but beware coz suspect there's a costly rabbit hole to be fallen down 😁
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Been dipping a toe into the weirdly wonderful world of Mamer recently and very much enjoying this outre odyssey tonight... #NowPlaying Mamer: Fake Jazz (Old Heaven Books, 2024) oldheavenbooks.bandcamp.com/album/fake-j...
oldheavenbooks.bandcamp.com
假爵士 Fake Jazz, by 马木尔 Mamer
9 track album
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Painted some more... 'Room Without' (acrylic on A4 sketchbook paper) #TalksyArt #Abstract #AcrylcArt #Painting
Abstract acrylic painting in pinks, orange, blues & black. There appears to be a brightly lit window shape within a bigger square, other random shapes in textured blues, yellow or black surround this. Background is textured bright pink.
Talksy '26
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Check this superb snippet of the CAGE collective (Kevin Ernste, Tim Feeney, Annie Lewandowski, Christopher J. Miller) improvising on Harry Bertoia sculptures at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, August 2015. vimeo.com/136241709?fl...
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Cage/Bertoia recording excerpt
Cornell Avant Garde Ensemble (CAGE) composed of Kevin Ernste, Annie Lewandowski, Chris Miller and Tim Feenney recording their music at the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, NY. using the group...
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Been revisiting Mariah this afternoon youtu.be/_UIBLA-PuUw?...
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Mariah - Utakata no Hibi ( うたかたの日々) (1983) † [full album]
YouTube video by Montel Killman
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don't know this one, read Les Choses many years ago & have a copy of Life kicking around sonewhere...may have to dig it out 👍
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
😄
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah, likewise!
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I squatted for a while in a dilapidated housing association property literally opposite! Much later than that, mind.
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Daryk Jozef @darykjozef.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Collage 449.2026 ~20 x 20 cm #Acrylic and #mixedmedia on painted paper in a #sketchbook #abstractart #analogcollage @bsky.art
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My pleasure Lisa, thank *you* 😁
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