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In the mail this week I received a surprise copy of Rocío Cerón’s Dark Matter translated by our Brother Dallin! Congrats to Dallin, it’s very good! Rocío Cerón’s Wikipedia page in Spanish gives a much better idea of how well-regarded she is.
Brother Spencer is back at Big Bar for Sunday, Mother’s Day. Favorite Mother’s Day dance tracks? We all know mine1!!
Our friend Yu Su’s second album, Foundry came out last Friday. The important reviews: Conor Thomas at Bkat calls it “an effortless sense of atmosphere,” meanwhile Brother Andrew over at Pitchfork: “Foundry luxuriates in empty space,” and most importantly over at Köpenicker Str. 70, “Delightfuly dubbed out Ambient / Chillout / House album.” Congratulations to Yu Su and M. Kent.
Greg wrote briefly on SoiL Thornton’s show at Swiss Institute and the David Hammons catalogue from the 2019 LA Hauser show.
As you know, May auction season is upon us. Next week we’ll do some reporting.
Prince live follow-up: just watch this performance of “Ballad of Dorothy Parker” from the October 19, 2002 concert in Berlin during the One Nite Alone tour (the entire recording is great).
Moopie on NTS was quite nice this month.
Objekt back at Nowadays for an all-nighter this weekend.
60 Minutes had a nice segment with Chanel’s Olivier Polge hanging around their fields and factories in Grasse, France. It’s important to remember that Chanel really has partnerships with huge flower farmers! My friend Hanna2 once wrote to me something that has always stuck with me: that one of her pet peeves (and mine) was, “the idea that a fragrance produced by a small niche company will always surpass its big conglomerate counterpart both in creative and qualitative terms. Even just the proposition that any of these small-time players would have access to better raw materials than the perfumers at companies like Guerlain or Chanel (with their own private fields in Grasse) is just preposterous.”
Some book news: McNally Editions is reissuing Eric Rohmer’s only novel, Élisabeth in June.
Richard Prince’s Deposition was uploaded to YouTube by Fulton Ryder (aka Richard Prince) (I missed that it was uploaded). Can we somehow get a screening at Spectacle?? Don’t forget, you can buy a copy of the transcript for reading along at Greg’s site. I’m really glad to finally now have audio of some of these great exchanges (here’s the PDF again):
Mr. Charles Munn: Do you remember the question at this point, sir?
Mr. Ian Ballon (Richard Prince’s Lawyer): If you choose to ask broad, open-ended questions, you have to allow the witness to answer them. The problem is not the witness’ answer, the problem is your question. This is a deposition.
Mr. Charles Munn (Donald Graham and Eric McNatt’s lawyer): No more speeches, objection to form only, and be quiet!
Mr. Ballon: Sir please stop yelling, stop yelling. Lower your voice. I think we need to take a break.
Mr. Munn: You want to take a break?! I’m happy to take a break!!
I enjoyed this article in The Atlantic on ‘monotasking’: “The cost of not structuring our attention is higher stress, lower productivity, and impaired performance on the most important tasks.” (PDF link)
I’m sure some of you noticed Fabio’s email last week regarding the facsimile compilation of Ongaku Otaku. Instead of ordering it from him, you can order it from Korm Plastics, or Mason Jones. “With dozens of interviews and articles, and many hundreds of reviews, the magazine was an influential voice, sharing words about Aube, Cornelius, Yamamoto Seiichi (Boredoms, Rovo, Omoide Hatoba), Shizuka, Jojo Hiroshige (Hijokaidan, Alchemy Records), Melt-Banana, Ruins, KK Null, and many more. This facsimile edition brings the original pages to readers three decades later.”
The Met Gala took place last night. I was out for most of the evening, and everyone I spoke to who watched it seemed rather bored? I’m sure by the time you read this, the credits on the Vogue site will be updated. While it’s really easy to talk about the bad looks (lol Katy Perry), I think there are some nice looks! I’ll have more thoughts a week from now. It was kind of neat to receive an email from Almine Rech with Kim Kardashian in photos by Nadia Lee Cohen (her books here at IDEA) the moment Kim walked down the red carpet3.
Meant to link this last week. Kevin sent it to me first: first new Wax 12” in two years. Is it as “no crumbs left” as Storm on Earth 1?
There is a transcript of this episode of BBC Radio 1’s Classic Albums over here. It’s nice to read what KB has to say about Hounds of Love. You should talk to Tom about “Cloudbusting” and visiting Orgonon.
One of the greatest letter-writing correspondents that I know.
Here is Kate Moss in 2013 in the same look that Kim wore last night.