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Ash Jñānagarbha

@jnanagarbha.bsky.social
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Vinyl collector - especially 7” singles. International Triratna Buddhist. Seem to have developed a thing for vintage paperbacks. I used to date the Rokeby Venus.

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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 21h
There’s a 9 albums thing - I wrote a post but it seems it get lost in the brief Bluesky outage. And then I thought I’d do another 9. So, here are 18 albums that signify gateways to whole genres of listening for me. #WeekendSingles #9AlbumsThatMadeMe #NeitherOfThoseHashtagsReallyApply
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 22h
Good morning
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My proper #WeekendSingles post for today. I long-sought Kraftwerk cover, all the way from the USA. Some from Carnival yesterday, you can guess which ones weren’t from the bargain basement. And from the Joel boxes, a couple of 90s bangers, and an odd Gypsy Kings inflected Doobies cover by Bananarama.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Morning #WeekendSingles gang Anybody need some Elvis for a quid a pop? After more than a year around here I only just discovered the Carnival Records bargain basement. A few more sought-after ones upstairs at reasonable prices - although sadly not the Barney Bubbles Euro sleeve for ‘IBAGYFT Roses’
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good morning
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I say forget all this nonsense about investing billions in AI, and spend £11 8s 6d on giving us the future we were promised!
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m sorry to inflict this on you, but I think we can all agree that somebody should have stopped this long before it was inflicted on the public. Some may say ‘those were different days’ & that may be true, but certain values persist through time, & what’s wrong is wrong. Just say No! #12InchTuesday
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Know Your Enemy! #12inchTuesday
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another one in the series Artist Releases On A Label That Twists Your Melon: Lulu on ATCO 😵‍💫 #WeekendSingles
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Delightful day yesterday showing a chum from Melbourne round my old gaff Bristol. Not much time for digging, but absolutely delighted to find this Mustt Mustt 12”remix. Paid more than I usually do for chazzer 12”s, and astonished to see what a copy sold for on eBay a few days ago 😳 #WeekendSingles
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More stuff from boxes #WeekendSingles.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good morning
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Evening
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If I still used a radio alarm it seems I’d be waking up to Sonny & Cher every morning. Perhaps Royal Mail‘s Groundhog Day will loop forever.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DONT SPEND MONEY MONEY IS WOKE
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I missed this at the time - Alexis Patridis checks out the music press from 1976, to see what was happening just before punk.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some #WeekendSingles label fun today. Who knew: Promos were sometimes called ‘audition records’? Cool for Cats was rereleased on Old Gold? That Tappan Zee Records existed? That socialism was once tolerated in the UK? (*Ben Elton voice* ‘bit of satire there’) And all that’s just the first picture!
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hi @parami2u.bsky.social I found a record earlier that made me think of you.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social hasn’t posted in six months - maybe he’s having a fortnight’s holiday in The Community - but he’s starting to look alarmingly prescient. Also - who is the prince of Piddington? How were they chosen? Do they even have a lake? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Dear US podcast fiction makers & producers of audiobooks. If you can’t afford an English actor for roles calling for an English accent, at least use someone who has heard English accents, not just people doing impressions of them. This applies doubly for regional, Scottish, Welsh & Irish accents.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Classically posting my #WeekendSingles in the mid-afternoon lull. These are on the theme of ‘nah, me neither, but some of them look interesting enough to check out’
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good morning
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
They’re ok I guess
Damsons with faint praise
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A single #WeekendSingles contribution today. I’m leading a slightly bonkers, ten-day international meeting at the moment, but this arrived yesterday.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
8 faves from the archives for #12InchTuesday
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Me at work!
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s Bank Holiday #WeekendSingles, and to celebrate #NottingHillCarnival here’s 16 tunes that will undoubtedly have been played there over the years
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In memoriam Some of the many artists I’ve seen who have since died: Gil Scott Heron Lee Scratch Perry Nik Turner Lemmy, Eddie & Phil Phil Lynott Daevid Allen Bon Scott Ozzy Robert Calvert Richard H Kirk John Martyn James Brown Dr John Bim Sherman Keith Le Blanc Mick Farren Mark E Smith
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Quite a lot of soul, and a little bit of disco for today’s #WeekendSingles
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with the 10 least cool bands you’ve seen live. Doobie Brothers Sammy Hagar Gillan Rainbow Steve Gibbons Band The Enid Def Leppard Whitesnake Angelwitch Coldplay
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Morning #WeekendSingles Another interesting 8 unearthed in domestic crate digging
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just found this bit of groovy late 60s Latin-inflected jazz-flute gorgeousness hiding away on a B side - it’ll almost certainly improve your Friday evening (unless that kind of thing isn’t your bag, of course). youtu.be/GTO0pe3dG_c?...
youtu.be
Jose Feliciano - Hi-Heel Sneakers
YouTube video by Gotta Have More Tunes
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Oonagh @okeating.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is the Red Cross donation link for the dreadful situation in Nepal, if anyone's looking for a way to help. There are more appeals out there. Such an awful thing to happen. donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/gener...
donate.redcross.org.uk
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General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
WIN 1 OF 3 BUNDLES OF 10 BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD BOOKS! We’ve teamed up with the British Library for a huge Halloween giveaway. Please re-post – the more entries, the more promos we can run! Enter here: tinyurl.com/GW-W3ird UK only. Ends 31 Oct. Good luck!
Promotional graphic for a book giveaway set against a purple background. Large bold text in the centre reads "WIN TEN TALES OF THE WEIRD BOOKS", with "WIN" and "BOOKS" in white, "TEN" in neon green, and "TALES OF THE WEIRD" in yellow.

Ten paperbacks from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection frame the text, displayed in two rows of five with colourful illustrated covers:

Top row: Circles of Stone (blue), Cornish Horrors (teal), Into the London Fog (yellow), The Platform Edge (pink), and Summoned to the Séance (orange).

Bottom row: Spectral Sounds (purple), Phantoms of Kernow (cyan), Return of the Ancients (yellow), Medusa (green), and Eerie East Anglia (teal).
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Morning - every day I’m grateful at how fortunate I am to live somewhere with such spectacular gardens. Even after months of drought they are a delight.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hey #WeekendSingles gang 👋🏼 There were several boxfuls of new 90s & 00s 7”s in the carful. Haven’t dug through them much, but checked out some last night. Interesting use of Clash and Ruts samples/backing by Mr Bizzle, have some Maximo already, for the others the sleeves mostly better than contents.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Well here’s a rum selection for #WeekendSingles. Ami tries her hand at The Box Tops. Three Degrees go gold. I’ve been mildly obsessed by Birdland for over a year now, plus 7 finds in the Joel boxes. The last one is what arrived instead of a lovely promo copy of The Days of Pearly Spencer 👙🤦🏻‍♂️
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Waiting for the sun - but it mostly hid
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Good morning
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A man to whom the word ‘pie’ was a mystery.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Delighted to learn Mark Fry will be performing the ‘Dreaming with Alice’ album live in October. I’ve been lucky enough to see him twice, and will do my best to get to London for it. Anyway, here’s a bunch of hippy trippy stuff I’m taking back with me today. I’ve posted it all before, but who cares?
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
To celebrate International Cat Day the neighbours’ new kitten has come to see me
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#WeekendSingles
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hey #WeekendSingles folk, I’m actually with my records today and I’ve picked out some 12”s - many of which I’ve posted over the years, but a few I think not (have we had a KISS 12” before?) The Butthole Surfers is revenge against folk who tag me in whenever someone posts Rattlesnakes.
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Treating myself to a pint while an estate agent finally (after 6 months on the market) shows a prospective purchaser my house. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thought I was flying back to London City but it turned out I was booked on Heathrow flight - which left 5 minutes earlier. The options narrowed markedly when Easijet cancelled a Gatwick flight at the last minute, so I bought a new ticket for 6.00am and will have to overnight in the airport. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Record experience” offered by a hotel in France. Is this your new business @brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social ? #WeekendSingles
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Early start for me (plus I’m an hour ahead) as I’m heading back to Blighty. Here’s some I’ve posted before, although not in this precise combination. #WeekendSingles
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Guten morgen from a schloss 60km north of Berlin. I took these pics before setting off on my travels nearly two weeks ago, but I was in a field last weekend. Another interesting and unusual bunch from the Joel boxes, I hope you’ll agree. #WeekendSingles #SinglesAmWochenende
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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Guten morgen
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