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'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

Allen Lowe's short bio says that the veteran saxophonist and guitarist 'spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few have'. While sharing bebop idioms and offering an especially gritty take on the avant-garde, some of his earliest records incorporated not only roots music in the form of nascent jazz and blues but tango theatrics...

The Shenzhen bookstore, record label and live venue Old Heaven Books releases a couple of solo recordings by Mamer, who performed on consecutive nights in the middle of June for the fifth and sixth installments of his 'Imitator' series. Wildly different though both feature Mamer on the electric guitar, the first night is packed to the brim with fraying distortions...