BLACK MAGIC plastic bullet

I see it’s been a long, long time I’ve left you without a beat to step to. Sorry about that — and no, I haven’t been in jail for almost t...

Over my years of record collecting, one of the biggest frustrations has been the phenomenon of “the partial series.” I’d find Volume 1 of so...

In the mid 1980s the music usually known as soukous from the countries then known as Zaire and the Congo was my favourite African music. I w...

PW Botha, once president of South Africa, is dead. “Do not speak ill of the dead,” advised The Seven Sages, according to Diogenes Laertius i...

It’s a beautiful sunny day here on Whidbey Island. Things are drying out nicely . . . but blog obsession has set in and so here I am. Cheeku...

Okay, this is getting silly! This is not rhythm! Nearly four months with no posts!! However, life on a mock homestead in the woods of Washin...

To get things rolling, the platters spinning, I'll cue up with a few words about myself. Or at least, I'll point you to some words w...

Black magic plastic bullets soon come, as Lee Scratch Perry might say. When the time is right—or left, as the case may be.