Onyx Collective: 97 Allen St.

heard two other albums by this band and it didn't really get my attention, but this track did; frantic hard driving intense free jazz

Body connection is our desired "magnificent integration of all the things", with electricity built-in.

Physical training, daily routines, and food choices can be spaces to practice building your path based on having a memory of what you did, which is a reflex in musical composition and improvisation.

Individual practice without the intensity of group training may seem less "intense" or "focused" as you find your way, but it also takes extra energy to self-organize and adapt so that sessions are possible in environments that are fluctuating, noisy, less private, not purpose-built, or adverse for other reasons.

[An aptronym is a surname amusingly appropriate to one's occupation, such as poker champion Chris Moneymaker or British neurology duo Russell Brain and Henry Head.]

What is a woman?

[Plastic surgery, anti-balding hair products, shoulder pads, top surgery for overweight boys, push-up bras, and wigs are examples of gender-affirming care.]

[It's common for people born intersex to have doctors "pick one" without telling anyone in order to save the family from the burden of that choice.]

[Frogs change their sex based on the population's gender distribution, and penguins change their gender.]

[What exists is natural. We consider biological expressions "unnatural" until they happen.]

DOTA: Für die Sterne

like her compositional style, cliché pop/folk rhythms with nice rhyming and surprises, pretty musical.

also liked Grenzen and the lovely words in Zuhause.

Unplugged Cypher DLX

german hip-hop cypher with a live band

6. Megaloh: merging word sounds into each other
7. Bengio: combining percussive hits with switching words

Samy Deluxe: Requiem

lyrical bullets like a German Eminem, nice contrast and musicality in the verse

G.R. Mocidade Independente De Padre Miguel: Repique Reza Forte

plucky old-time guitar solo on a groovy samba

The sadness truly begins when adaptation becomes an entrance fee for dignity.

[Much of migration is the labour of making yourself acceptable to people in the target culture.]

My dinner with Andre

[New York is the new model for a prison that's built by the inmates themselves. The inmates are also the guards and very proud of what they've built. Having been lobotomized, they have little capacity to leave the prison they've made or even see it as a prison.]

Pharoah Sanders: The Creator Has A Master Plan

impressive vocal control with this rapid falsetto breaking; nice n' crazy free jazz before and after

Tor Saksit [ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ เวชสุภาพร]: Phenomenon [ปรากฏการณ์]

catchy Thai melody I stumbled upon in 2023 but never got around to learning; some cliché jazzy chords with nice surprises

Why are you obsessed with US?

[Profit from environmental exploitation wastes tangible resources to generate hypothetical value in the form of money, which derives its vaue from the resources being wasted; like a system that consumes itself by merely existing.]

Comedian Harmonists: Mein Kleiner Grüner Kaktus

more silly German music suggestions in response to my question, this one about "my little green cactus".

also, some vulgar Mozart in Good night, You are quite an ox and one I won't translate.

Why just wash my hands with soap and water when I can hand-wash the dishes with soap and water?

Mussorgsky/Ravel: The Great Gate Of Kiev

bone-chillingly majestic as it is, but it probably feels stronger to listen to the 11 parts before. from Pictures at an exhibition

[The deaf] can comfortably sign while watching someone else sign. In large groups it still makes sense to have one "speaker" at a time, because people cannot look in more than one direction at a time, but conversations between pairs [have more overlapping communication than spoken conversations, as if they talk and listen simultaneously.]

[Conversation is best as duet over duel: each positioning the other to say great things, playing for the game and assist rather than the score.]

[Debate features adversarial "zero-sum" conversation, where weakening their position is as good as strengthening yours, and largely militaristic metaphors of] defending a statement, attacking a position, falling back to a weaker version of a thesis, countering one accusation with another.

[An alternative to the debate game could be one where two sides are given seemingly incompatible objectives for an upcoming legislation and scored on how well they argue that it supports their side. The score of each side added up and given to both sides, so they rank higher by collaborating more.]