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cream water

by sonja berlin-jones

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cream water 38:36
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Simple piano playing of an exclusively high lofi standard, rather lovely if given a chance, you don't have the time, I don't have the time, we shouldn't be sad, I loved making it and that is as far as any creation nowadays ever can go, there are even-more-beautiful creations churned out every day on Bandcamp and they too vanish as fast and deep and forgotten as this one

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Last night I toddled over to the Art House to watch a young woman who performs under the name of Tyger Milk (not apparently on Bandcamp), then a young woman called Laura Reznek ( laurareznek.bandcamp.com/album/agrimony ), then a young woman who used to be called Kitty O'Neal but now calls herself "march" - I've seen Kitty before and she was on Bandcamp but is now hard work trying to find under a name like that. They were all brilliant. Really beautiful gentle music.

I had a lovely evening, with a friend, and feeling I was among other friends. There were fourteen of us in the audience. We sat in comfortable chairs. We were warm. The bar is just over there. Everything is really good. Last time I saw Kitty perform, also at the Art House, and pre-pandemic, there were at least twice as many of us in the audience.

The players didn't seem upset at the low turnout - they were cheerful and clever and their between-song chat was always a joy. The first two musicians are probably in their 20s. Kitty is a little older. Which was quite a contrast to the audience. We fourteen consisted of two young couples and ten people, mostly men with totally wild hair all over their head, of around 60 and over.

Where were the young people ? We could hear them - they were out on the street, outside the Scholars Arms etc, shouting and screaming and revving-up and racing. It's a wonderful old world and I do love it - when I was young, say 20, I'd go to gigs and see bands who were a little older than me. Generally, musicians were older than their audiences. Nowadays, and last night was certainly not the first time that such a contrast was so hilariously obvious, so many musicians are about a third of the age of their audiences.

When I go to Wigmore Hall, accompanied children get in for free and anyone under 35 can get in for a fiver. And yet still you never see anyone under about 55.This is probably just a bit of luddite prejudice creeping in, but maybe if you're young you don't want to go to gigs because by now you are bored of having to hold your phone up all the time and be an amateur camera(wo)man all evening and you maybe-rightly never want to accept the fact that gig-going is bloody hard work, it's not cheap, it's usually boring, the music is terrible, most of the audience (last night excepted) is rude and stupid, everything drags on too long, and in effect we oldies only go to gigs in order to say we've been.

Okay so now I'm saying I've been. I went. I loved it. No bullshit. Even with all the rainy tedium of walking there and back thru an ugly violent city, I'm glad I went, it was one of those few gigs that happen just often enough to make me keep on going. I might go and see Scowl at the Joiners on Thursday and yes the audience there will be young - maybe even younger than the band - there to see a phoney band as confected as the Monkees. But the Monkees were brilliant.

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recorded this morning, photo by Vanessa Oliver a couple of weeks ago at, yes, Worthing

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released April 23, 2023

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