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Catchy! Plus it'll annoy the gammons. Plus he's a genuine bloke, and not some made-up-for-the-purposes-of-Eurovision group, who made his own synths and has more imagination than the last 50 years of UK entries combined. More power to him...

No. 16: Unearthly birth - Part Two I hope you will excuse me, dear readers, for the delay in continuing with my tale, but I wanted to be sure the facts were straight, which meant some considerable time spent in the British Museum, not ...

And Unearthly Birth: Part 2

#Gamine #torchsongs #musicsky #pianosky

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No. 15: Unearthly birth - Part One Dear sweet darling angel-heart readers,Summer really ought to have dropped the curtain by now, but, just as we think it's over, out she comes for another encore. My summer wardrobe has been up and dow...

I know how much you are all enjoying the reruns of #Gamine 's Claudia's Column, so here's a special double bill all about Gamine's mythical origins: Unearthly Birth: Part 1.

#Gamine #torchsongs #musicsky #pianosky

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A Good Hand, by Gamine from the album Sabotage

Music for Sunday afternoon - an epic Jimmy Webb / Nick Cave style #pianoballad from my #Gamine years with @claudiabarton.bsky.social, with gorgeous trumpet playing from @johneacott.bsky.social . From the album Sabotage - A Good Hand. gamine.bandcamp.com/track/a-good...

#piano #torchsong #ballad

Liverpool v West Ham on screen being watched intently by Kruška the silver quail.

Good first half - Kruška the quail approves...

Italian film poster for Una Venere Senza Nome Per L'Ispettore Forrester - a moody looking bloke pointing a pistol behind a moody looking girl dressed in a kind of silver tinsel and not much else.

I have the wonderful Italian poster on my wall - it's huge!

A photo of a statue of the Virgin Mary and the moon behind it. Infrared, so a dark maroon colour overall.

Virgin Mary and the moon

#photosky #infrared #fullspectrum

Looking forward to hearing it...

YouTuber Look Mum No Computer chosen as UK entry for Eurovision 2026 Singer-songwriter Sam Battle has built online fanbase through building and playing unusual instruments

Best news of the day! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#synthsky #eurovision

I like the term Ambient Landfill as a new genre description. Close relative of Modular Landfill and its bastard sibling, Ambient Modular Landfill.

We (Gamine) made an album of lullabies, the idea being that the audience would fall asleep and we'd be able to nip off early. Didn't quite work out...

Thanks - you and your mate have made my day!

It's so long ago, but IIRC the sounds were mostly done with the ESQ - it was one of the first workstations so we synced it to a Roland TR-707; I also had a Roland SH-101 which might have been on the faster tracks.

A bit more minimal than today's setup!

Works either way. If I hear something interesting I read about the artist, or if I read about something interesting I give it a listen...

Ha! Thanks! Both BPGB albums were programmed solely on the ESQ-1 - we could only afford a week's studio time (recording & mixing) per album, so we synced & overdubbed each ESQ sequencer track to tape before doing the live stuff. Always great to hear people remembering or discovering BPGB. #Bandcamp

The ESQ-1 was my first proper synth / workstation. Did a couple of albums on it (and the Mirage sampler) back in the 1980s, but I imagine putting it into some pedals, especially some of the more esoteric modern ones would make it fly. Glad to hear it's still going strong!

No. 14: England's exotic islands Somewhere happened to me recently that restored my faith in the English people. I had started using my Italian or Russian passport since the war, so embarrassed was I of my British citizenship when tr...

England is full of tropical islands, and #Gamine have explored them all. Read #ClaudiasColumn for the full rundown...

@claudiabarton.bsky.social

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#musicsky #torchsongs #lullabies #scillyisles

Pretty close, I reckon...

Framed album covers on the wall from Carmen Miranda, Klaus Nomi and Michel Polnareff's Polnarevolution...

The most recent #slaughterbackalbumgallery with #carmenmiranda, #klausnomi and #michelpolnareff and his Polnarevolution...

Fab!

I wish more strikers would go for a toe poke - they'd score so many more. Maybe Hugo has been watching some Romario videos...

Robbie Fowler in his dyed blonde phase?

Now you just have to find the missing Yarbrough and Peoples album...

Resistance isn't futile.

I interviewed him for a fanzine in 1982 when he played an Edinburgh Uni student union. Lovely bloke, and I remember thinking 'how can anyone be that good at my age?'

Villefranche Sunrise YouTube video by Slaughterback Films

New Year 2026. I did this little film on the way home using Villefranche station as my music studio (they often have a #piano at the station, so a 7 a.m. #improv was inevitable) and the train as my film location. A nice memory... youtu.be/GMtV-2wg7M8

#pianosoundtrack #soundtrack #sunrise #ambient

Trees on a hilltop, shot on a camera converted to full spectrum infrared. Dark indigo and purple, after playing with the red and blue colour channels in post processing.

Same shot of trees on a hilltop, shot on a camera converted to full spectrum infrared. Straight from the camera, so no processing. Dark red, pink and orange overall colour scheme.

Trees on a hilltop, near Cogny, France, New Year 2026, shot on a #SonyA5000 converted to #fullspectrum #infrared.

#photosky #aerochrome #naturephotography #フィルムカメラ #フィルム写真普及委員会 #フィルムに魅せられて #landscape #landscapephotography

Those AI descriptions which fail to say what condition it's in, what size it is or whether it actually works, you mean...? I wonder if people actually realise what a turn off it is. As soon as I see the word 'elevate' I'm off...

A Silver Quail sitting on a display monitor with a still from 2001 A Space Odyssey of a space station on it.

Trying to work with Kruska the Silver #Quail sitting on my monitor. I keep telling him he's a ground-dweller but it doesn't help...

She Made Me Do It - Silver Lining YouTube video by Scant Regard

Working on plenty of new sounds; some archive #synthsky material, and a groovy new #synthwave / #ebm album with singer Shaheena Dax, better known for her #glampunk #trashpop combo She Made Me Do It. Have a look at their video for Silver Lining, it's ace! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUBm...

Old style apartments in Paris with vertical and diagonal pipes everywhere.

"Turn Your Home Into A Pipe Organ. From only €20,000"

The new craze sweeping Paris.

#streetphotography #photographie #streetphoto #photosky #photography

Interesting, thanks - more stuff to investigate!