A straw bale building that looks like a building

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Let me own up. I’m a Grand Designs nut. And every so often on the programme, someone builds a house of straw (bales). They generally go with a composting toilet and a banner suggesting we all go back to a pre-industrial age.

That’s why this remarkably mainstream-looking structure caught my attention. It belongs in a 21st century vernacular, not a medieval one.

High-tech Modular Demountable Café Built Of Straw Bale is a “Learning Aid in Low Impact Environmental Design.” : TreeHugger.

Believe In Peace and Improvisation — Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0

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Steve Lawson (@solobasssteve on Twitter) has some interesting stuff to say about improvisation, music and performance in this interview. Even as a non-musician, I find his influences interesting.

They’re some of the people I’ve valued most over the years. I remember back in the 80s falling out with people on Compuserve on the merits and importance of the then little-known Bill Frisell. And Keith Jarrett is just one of music’s all-time greats.

Steve also mentions the Derek Bailey/John Stevens London free crowd from the 60s. I remember seeing them during the late 70s and into the 80s in small venues all over London. That non-idiomatic music only came alive in person. I can hardly listen to it from recordings.

An Interview from AlternativeMatter about Believe In Peace and Improvisation. — Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0 — the soundtrack to the day you wish you’d had.

 

Captain Beefheart – Bat Chain Puller

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Captain Beefheart – Bat Chain Puller – YouTube.

We’re told the ‘lost’ album Bat Chain Puller will be on sale in a few weeks. I only hope it’s good, not just the stuff that wasn’t strong enough to find its way on to the Shiny Beast: Bat Chain Puller album.

In the meantime, here’s a performance from probably his last tour in Europe. I know I missed his Birmingham Odeon gig at around that time.