Monthly Archives: July 2012

Lol Coxhill, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker: those three blokes

Posted on July 16, 2012 by davidtoop

One of the hazards of writing difficult pieces at speed is that assumptions can turn into errors. An email from Evan Parker has set me right on the issue of the “Three Blokes”: “It seems almost churlish to offer a … Continue reading →

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end of play, for Lol Coxhill

Posted on July 10, 2012 by davidtoop

Late one night in March of this year I was sitting in an eerie hotel within Tokyo’s Haneda airport being interrogated for a Japanese magazine (see http://onbanjidai.blogspot.co.uk/). The subject of the interview was music and comedy and despite my fear … Continue reading →

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to rush down

Posted on July 5, 2012 by davidtoop

“Any old wood will do,” wrote Henri Michaux in 1949. The drum needed no skin. Just as long as your whole life could be concentrated into the impact of fingers, hand, fast, faster, less fast, slowly, very slowly. Silence was … Continue reading →

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mouth of shadows

Posted on July 4, 2012 by davidtoop

Andre Masson: Automatic Drawing (1920s) “she speaks to me a language so soft that at first I do not understand . . .” (Aimé Césaire, Son of Thunder, 1948) “I have always wondered why automatic writing has not been invoked … Continue reading →

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