{"id":1223,"date":"2022-01-13T02:25:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T02:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2022-01-13T02:25:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T02:25:40","slug":"down-the-rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Down the rabbit hole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Went down the rabbit hole this evening, starting from a post on CDM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-cdm-create-digital-music\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gEmaCbb5Jf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdm.link\/2022\/01\/get-lost-in-magical-1983-footage-of-brilliant-trees-delicate-ibm-dictaphone-looping\/\">Get lost in magical 1983 footage of Brilliant Trees, delicate IBM Dictaphone looping<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Get lost in magical 1983 footage of Brilliant Trees, delicate IBM Dictaphone looping&#8221; &#8212; CDM Create Digital Music\" src=\"https:\/\/cdm.link\/2022\/01\/get-lost-in-magical-1983-footage-of-brilliant-trees-delicate-ibm-dictaphone-looping\/embed\/#?secret=gEmaCbb5Jf\" data-secret=\"gEmaCbb5Jf\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My friend Martin turned me onto this David Sylvian album when we were young, and listening to some of the raw stuff triggered bits of memory.  I didn&#8217;t know he came out of the band Japan, and the Bryan Ferry\/Eno\/&#8221;My Life in the Bush of Ghosts&#8221;&#8230; connections.  When I did music, I used to listen to Jon Hassell and Holger Czukay, both in this video (I didn&#8217;t remember that they were part of this album!) so off I go to find them.  Czukay died, I find, in 2017, and there&#8217;s pointers to things like this<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Holger Czukay - Boat Woman Song (full lengh)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lh6TUFchwvY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>which I&#8217;d never heard, nor that he was a student of Stockhausen (I think everyone ended up being related to Stockhausen, eventually).  Memories of Can, and Sylvian, and Roedelius and all.  Nice way to spend a couple of hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went down the rabbit hole this evening, starting from a post on CDM My friend Martin turned me onto this David Sylvian album when we were young, and listening to some of the raw stuff triggered bits of memory. I didn&#8217;t know he came out of the band Japan, and the Bryan Ferry\/Eno\/&#8221;My Life in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}