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John Garner

@johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com
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Violin & Shakuhachi | johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com | johngarner.co.uk Director of Turquoise Coconut Records | turquoisecoconut.com Co-director of Mudita Arts | muditaarts.co.uk

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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 28/09/2026
Out today on New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings, with poet Nisha Ramayya and bassist @basspope.bsky.social! A phantasmagorical ride through free jazz, experimental spoken word, Tantra, Zen, magick, and more. Available on CD or digital. johnpope.bandcamp.com/album/new-wa...
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 28/09/2026
Turquoise Coconut (the label I run) features in this fab edition of Means Magazine! Support grassroots music and publications.
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 21/09/2026
New shakuhachi/guitar duos from me and Martin Donkin. youtu.be/DrfTiGCcjH4?...
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Stories from the Dene (jinashi shakuhachi/classical guitar)
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
There was a time when Steven Pinker was the media's favourite scientist. Then came the debunking of his field of study, a flirtation with “race science”, and links to Epstein Journalist and cultural critic @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social dissects what went wrong 🔗👇
From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: How Steven Pinker (pictured in a stylised green photograph) lost his way
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026
When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music
Depressed kermit the frog costume guy sitting hunched over on a park bench
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 08/09/2026
www.thenerve.news/p/britain-fa...
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Britain isn’t too soft on migrants; it’s too soft on Patriot Platform
Between a Home Office determined to seem tough, and a police force too slow – or too scared – to act against far-right disorder, the country is entering dangerous territory, writes Nick Lowles
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 07/09/2026
@awasteofredmeat.bsky.social @difficultart.bsky.social thought this zine may be of interest: criticalminded.org/downloads/CR...
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 03/09/2026
New series of live ambient albums launched today with @basspope.bsky.social and Athol Cassidy: triangulumhall.bandcamp.com
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Triangulum Hall
Live ambient trio named after a glorious reverb preset by audio designers Valhalla. Patiently unfolding tapestries, channelling, and devotion. Slow-motion Allan Holdsworth meets Wendy Carlos meets Wat...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Politico journalist reporting Labour getting nervous already about their blank cheque for new data centres. Keep up the pressure folks. It's the people Vs the tech bros 👇🏽
Has Polanski already forced a major turn? The BBC has elevated the line I was given from a labour official about what developers "must" do to a government spokesperson. Afaik nothing ik current policy expressly mandates this.
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 25/08/2026
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Breath Awareness Meditation: The Air Breathes Itself
YouTube video by Chthonic Breathing with Cornelius Boots
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 22/08/2026
www.thenerve.news/p/jason-arda...
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Students remember Jason Arday: ‘People would say how much they were looking forward to his classes’
A viral article by an anonymous student suggested the academic was a bad and incompetent lecturer. Undergraduates at Durham, where he taught between 2019 and 2022, tell fellow alumna Michaela Makusha ...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So the allegation of plagiarism in his PhD was investigated and dismissed. It turns out he did run all those marathons. So tell me, precisely, all you online sleuths — what exactly did Jason Arday do wrong? (Apart from being the wrong class and colour of course)
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 15/08/2026
NEW STEWART LEE column The climate crisis requires concerted global opposition to Trump and the fossil fuel industry, not just restrictions on corner shops selling grills www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
We’re banning disposable barbecues, but we’re still drilling for oil? We really are cooked. Stewart Lee on dealing with Trump and the fossil fuel industry
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 10/08/2026
New record out today on Turquoise Coconut. Three delicious works from legends of minimalism, exquisitely rendered by a master saxophonist. carlraven.bandcamp.com/album/glass-...
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 07/08/2026
Three Bandcamp Friday purchases from me. First up, the first release from label Shhh/Peaceful with the eponymous ‘Lero Lero’. shhhpeaceful.bandcamp.com/album/lero-l...
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Lero Lero, by Lero Lero
9 track album
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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Tomorrow on DAAM: two new pre-order albums exploring inter-generational drone and Welsh-language speculative history. To say they are both incredible and unfathomably unusual would be an understatement. Grab them from our bandcamp first thing tomorrow! difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com
a colour fun abstract album cover and a dark black and white album cover, both available for pre-order on Difficult Art and Music on Friday 7th August.
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 06/08/2026
Join me at 20:00 GMT+1 tonight for a free listening party ahead of the release of saxophonist Carl Raven’s new LP ‘glass riley reich’ on Monday. It’s a beautiful sonic space in which to pass a Thursday evening! carlraven.bandcamp.com/album/glass-...
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glass riley reich, by Carl Raven
14 track album
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Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Anti-Zionism is now a protected belief under UK law. www.brickcourt.co.uk/news/detail/...
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 05/08/2026
hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 05/08/2026
“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying. “AI” written in large wonky font against a black background
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Peter J Woods @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Pope/Garner/Byrne/Roth- Harvester @basspope.bsky.social and @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com and friends straight up ripping it. Worth it for the blast of heat that comes at the start of "Happy Face, No Crown." johnpope.bandcamp.com/album/harves...
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Harvester, by Pope / Garner / Byrne / Roth
5 track album
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Subvert @subvert.fm · 04/08/2026
Thank you @coopnews.bsky.social www.thenews.coop/subvert-co-o...
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Subvert co-operative: A future ‘Mondragón of music’?
A co-operatively owned music platform has launched this year – with over 20,000 members and a vision to become a ‘Mondragon of music’
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 03/08/2026
Saxophonist Carl Raven returns to Turquoise Coconut for his third LP with the label. ‘glass riley reich’ is out next Monday on CD and digitally, with a free listening party this Thursday at 20:00 (UK time). Give us a share to help out! carlraven.bandcamp.com/album/glass-...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 31/07/2026
Why did the British government suppress a report warning that ecosystem collapse must now be treated as a core national security threat? That’s what Caroline Lucas explores in a column for the Nerve and in her new podcast When Nature Becomes A Security Threat, from The Rest is Politics.
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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Really glad to see this has been getting a little more love recently. It's like a whose-who of genuinely inventive contemporary composers and experimentalists you don't know but probably should: difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-only...
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I Only Like Difficult Art (and music), by Difficult Art And Music
17 track album
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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
You're not supposed to admit you're struggling. But we r - and I know for a fact we're not alone. The grassroots is dying - it needs U to keep it alive. Buy something from a small label/press. Tell ppl about it who don't often support such things. Explain to them why it's so important. PLS SHARE.
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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Busy admin day today - just updated the store! We've got cool prints, magazines, tapes, shoes, mugs... Why not pick up a little something? www.artisstillhonest.com/store
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Store — Art is still honest
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Subvert @subvert.fm · 17/07/2026
Bandcamp owned by Songtradr Songkick owned by Suno Distrokid owned by Private Equity Boiler Room owned by Superstruct Subvert owned by co-op members
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Listen to what he chooses to emphasise
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 15/07/2026
#bandcamp codes wvaz-cx55 cg9k-hpbr e22u-v2sl rlva-6dhe dcg8-khp3 go get em
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 15/07/2026
Just deactivated my Facebook account. Feels awesome. F*** Meta.
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 14/07/2026
Can’t recommend this enough. Wynn-Williams’ account of her time at Meta is appalling. The company is a cancer that has done potentially irrevocable damage to the world.
The cover of Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book ‘Careless People’
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 06/07/2026
North Easterners — join us at Mudita Arts for an evening of music and poetry, raising funds for RTMinds, on July 26th. www.muditaarts.co.uk/calendar/com...
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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Will make proper ads soon but in the meantime (and coz my dayjob declined to give me a contract, again), I'm sharing my new store: www.artisstillhonest.com/store As a musician/researcher/designer (with a PhD no less), I'm really proud of this work. Plz consider buying a print or tee or something!
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Store — Art is still honest
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"So that's Theft, Fraud, Financial Misconduct, Political Misconduct and Misconduct in a public office. That's just the EU. In the UK, all of the above plus Treason, Money Laundering and Tax Evasion. The list probably goes on but that's enough of a start. Criminal Filth." via Timothy O'sullivan
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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ok, it's here! My new site, incorporating the majority of my creative work. I've set up a great store too, where you can purchase prints, magazines, music, merch and more. Support grassroots and indie makers! www.artisstillhonest.com
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 23/06/2026
Farage's £5m problem: do any of his defences hold up? www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
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Farage's £5m problem: do any of his defences hold up?
Nigel Farage has offered a succession of explanations for failing to declare a £5m gift he received in 2024 from crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne. Ex-MP and professor of law David Howarth exami...
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Car mechanic looking at car with crazy stuff under the hood: “here’s your problem: the cartoonist has no idea what the inside of a car looks like.”
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aJazzNoise @ajazznoise.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Daily Tune #3056 - "Happy Face, No Crown" johnpope.bandcamp.com/track/happy-... @basspope.bsky.social - double bass @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com - violin, shakuhachi Dee Byrne - alto saxophone Simon Roth - drums, accordion Turquoise Coconut
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Happy Face, No Crown, by Pope / Garner / Byrne / Roth
from the album Harvester
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 11/06/2026
This swinging slice of weirdness is out today on Bandcamp (we’ve even got CDs)! Such a joy to work with @basspope.bsky.social, Dee Byrne, and Simon Roth. Give it a whirl: johnpope.bandcamp.com/album/harves...
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Beware! The Radio @bewaretheradio.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A reminder that #3 of Beware! The Zine awaits your greedy eyes - either in person from e.g. Housmans, Cafe Oto, Good Press; or via keshco.bandcamp.com/merch/beware... It's 40 pages of A5 full-colour goodness - articles, reviews, poetry, strips, hot sex (Check this. Ed) @zinepromo.bsky.social
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Beware! The Zine - Issue #3 from Keshcology
Beware! The Zine - Issue #3 from Keshcology
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 08/06/2026
Hey YOU! There’s a Bandcamp listening party starting in just over 40 minutes. It’s free. The music is great AND human-made. Win win. Join us! johnpope.bandcamp.com/merch/harves...
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Harvester Listening Party from John Pope
Listening Party from John Pope.
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 05/06/2026
How do Yin & Yang relate to shakuhachi playing and music in general? johngarner.co.uk/writings/the...
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The dark and light of shakuhachi — John Garner
Of all the exports from China which populate our lives, one of the most enduring is the Yin-Yang symbol. Even if you don’t know it by name, you can’t have missed it. Two teardrop-like shapes, one bl...
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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Release day! You know what? This is really good. A bit different for DAAM, but really good. Do us a favor and check it out! difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/split-...
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 28/05/2026
Weirdo jazz / improv from me, @basspope.bsky.social, Dee Byrne and Simon Roth coming on June 11th. Available to preorder now! johnpope.bandcamp.com/album/harves...
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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs45... New music video for our latest pre-order: a split tape of experimental song-writing by Partager and Column of Trout. Get it here: difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/split-...
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Column of Trout - 'Ear'
YouTube video by kerchiefs
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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Don't want to sound desperate, but we've had a Nearly 70% drop in advertisers for issue 6. At the same time, we got the most artist submissions ever, and the issue looks amazing! Just hoping we can afford to actually make the thing! Please consider supporting us (so we can support grassroots art!)
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 14/05/2026
Delighted to have an article in the latest zine from @bewaretheradio.bsky.social! There’s some awesome stuff in there. Support these groovy folks by picking up a copy at keshco.bandcamp.com/merch/beware....
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
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John Garner @johnjamesgarner.bandcamp.com · 12/05/2026
Stoked about this! @subvert.fm offers a clear path for digital music in a nightmarish industry. Check it out now. subvert.fm/johngarner
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