Table-Tipping Workshop at Rev. Jane’s House, Erie, Pennsylvania, 2014 by Shannon Taggart.
• Canadian electronic musician Sarah Davachi talks to Erik Davis about analogue synthesizers, reverberating cathedrals, attention spans, and her ambient drone album All My Circles Run.
• Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind may now be released by Netflix. (I’m restraining my excitement for the moment since this one has been a long time arriving.)
• Mixes of the week: VF Mix 86: Jah Shaka by Roly Porter, Secret Thirteen Mix 215 by Twins, and What Good Is God? (1:11:11.111 Melon Collie Mix) by Gregg Hermetech.
• Making sense of The Weird and the Eerie: Roger Luckhurst reviews the final book from the late Mark Fisher.
• Pye Corner Audio has been very productive this year (I’m not complaining); the latest release is The Spiral.
• “I don’t like acceptance,” says Cosi Fanni Tutti, “it makes me think I’ve done something wrong.”
• Jon Brooks on the Continental inspiration for his next album, Autres Directions.
• Séance: Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm by Shannon Taggart.
• Corny and clichéd: Matthew Bown on bad painting in the twentieth century.
• At Wormwoodiana: Douglas A. Anderson on Borges and a forgotten book.
• At the BFI: Samuel Wigley chooses 10 great films set in the jungle.
• Jungle Flower (1951) by Les Baxter | Jungle Fever (1973) by The Upsetters | The Jungle Dream (1973–1980) by Patrick Cowley