I just got Joe Boyd’s And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, a massive brick (900+pages) of A Journey Through Global Music (the subtitle). The first encounter with the text inspires me to look at my vinyl music holdings more analytically. A few years ago I serially numbered and photographed the covers of 2000+ ‘albums’ (as they used to be called), and began the process of making their content accessible. And a long process it would be to “complete” the project… but an overview of the Vinyl Catalog is at least a start. The subcategories I’ve broken out as separate genres [perhaps too high-flown a term…] are neither systematic nor exhaustive, and are really pretty disorderly, but gotta start somewhere.

The last few months of blog entries have mostly turned into Convivium texts and handwritten conversation on the yellow pads that follow me everywhere. I mean to be more attentive to the blog in future.