William Tyler - New Vanitas (RSD 2021) Hamish Hawk Bob Cranshaw’s reassuring upright bass

Bob Cranshaw’s reassuring upright bass

Fat Pop (Volume 1) – Paul adding the “Volume 1” to keep options open for a second volume in the future - is a diverse selection of sounds

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with the addictive “Emotion” (a collaboration between Burch and her Captured Tracks labelmate Wild

William Tyler - New Vanitas (RSD 2021) Hamish Hawk Bob Cranshaw’s reassuring upright bassThis is a Record Store Day 2021 release. The concept of vanitas in medieval art refers to the juxtaposition of macabre symbols of death with material ephemera in order to illustrate the impermanence of earthly things. What struck me about this was not the representation of death in a macabre morbid way, but rather that very sense of ephemerality and impermanence. Reading an article about the history of ephemera in art led me to the concept of vanitas,