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Kristine leschper

Member of the also great band Mothers, she writes great and weird and beautiful strict alien dream songs. I’d recommend her album The Opening, or Closing of a Door.

@cabe

Feb 9, 2024

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Amy denio

Seattle-based avant-garde artist, active from the 1980s through now. Her material is normally quite chaotic and free-improvisatory, but her album Birthing Chair Blues could have fit in on the stranger (and jazzier) side of alt-rock at the time (Soul Coughing, Laughing Stock by Talk Talk). More accessible but still really interesting arrangements, Palacinka is sort of like a jangle pop song but with drum machine, bass guitar, alto saxophone, and melodica, no guitar.

@milkcrate

Mar 28, 2025

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CHRISTINE SUN KIM: ALL DAY ALL NIGHT (AT THE WHITNEY)

Been following her work since 2015 and made a special trip to NYC to see this show. She’s a very cool Deaf artist whose work explores the experience of being Deaf in a hearing world. She works across media, dipping into performance, video, sculpture, drawing, and music (often working with amazing collaborators like Blood Orange). Her work contains lots of art history references and often critiques museums, galleries, and academia in a clear and funny way. Also, she used to work at the Whitney and piloted their ASL tours as a museum educator. What an incredible coup it is for her to have a stellar mid-career survey in her former workplace. If you’re in NYC, make a trip to the Whitney Museum and spend some time with her work. Pictured below is one of her drawings from the “Deaf Rage” series that had me chuckling. Love how humorous and serious her work is at the same time, especially when she calls out ableism in the art world.

@salad_valet

Apr 21, 2025

Top Recs from @joanne-robertson

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Improvisation/Painting/Mornings

Throughout January, I’d wake up, light a fire, and play a yellow sleeved record I found in a charity shop. As a compilation it confuses a little in terms of who wrote what, after researching the tracks, it’s mostly the collaborations between Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. I’m making new paintings at the moment, and some jazz music really keeps the paint loose. I was almost studying ‘Moose the Mooche’ and ‘A Night in Tunisia’ before walking to the studio. Another musician who I’m close with is Heather Leigh. She is an amazing improviser and she inspires me. Check the albums ‘I Abused Animal’, ‘Throne’, the song ‘Prelude to Goddess’ is about me. Heather also played extensively with Peter Brötzmann, and she creates beautiful gardens too @theglamgardener

@joanne-robertson

Apr 1, 2025

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‘Gloriosa’ restaurant in Glasgow, Scotland

Rosie Healey cooks dream food. Fresh yum amazing, she teaches me to make things I love too, like the magic dressings and green sauce. I am not as good as her and she sometimes laughs when I make gravy. 

@joanne-robertson

Apr 1, 2025

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Derek Bailey ‘Improvisation’ 1980

Karen Brookman Bailey, who was an amazing artist and friend of mine, handed me her husband's book one afternoon after I’d picked her up some cigarettes. I used to spend large amounts of time hanging out with her at the couples' house in London. Another object she gave to me was the DVD for this, Derek Bailey & Min Tanaka - Mountain Stage (1993). Karen and I met, not through the music world, but rather randomly. One day I was taking these discarded beautiful sash windows off the street in Clapton, to use as a paint palette in my studio, and  Karen’s brother was doing something similar, so we started chatting and he invited me to meet his sister, as she was having a yard sale that day, and that’s how our friendship began. I love free jazz, it’s good for you. I like the anti-consumerist attitude...however complex, it’s worth experiencing. 

@joanne-robertson

Apr 1, 2025