Category: Music
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If last year was lively on Eponymous (aka timdracup.com), 2025 has been positively manic. In 2024, I published 26 posts and thought that was good going. But this is my 41st post of 2025. That includes 15 book reviews, 12 musical posts in my Ouroboros series, five posts devoted to our progress along various English…
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We come full circle with this 12th and final post in my Ouroboros series, each exploring a piece of music that is personally important to me. Last time round I gave the game away, explaining that I’d been unable to choose a single composition by Franco et le TPOK Jazz. There had to be at…
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Here is the penultimate post in this series of twelve, each exploring a musical composition with particular personal significance. Each choice is connected in some way with its immediate predecessor. My final selection will connect with the first. I haven’t pre-planned the steps in this sequence, so they partly reflect my preferences and predilections when…
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It’s high time for the tenth study in my Ouroboros cycle. This series will ultimately explore twelve pieces of music that are important to me, the twelfth and final choice linking back to the first. Indeed, each piece of music must link in some way with its immediate predecessor, but I haven’t planned the cycle…
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Ninth in my ‘not-planned-in-advance’ cycle, codenamed Ouroboros, in which I’m exploring twelve pieces of music that hold personal significance. This one is really a dark horse (no pun intended). It has never featured at the top of my playlists of personal favourites, and it has little in common with other selections in this sequence. Though,…
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Eighth in my Ouroboros series, about pieces of music I particularly value. This time round it’s ‘Black Diamond Bay’, from Bob Dylan’s 1975 album ‘Desire’.
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We’ve reached the seventh in this sequence of twelve posts, each exploring a musical composition with particular personal significance. Each musical choice is linked in some fashion with its immediate predecessor. I hope to end in December (or thereabouts) with a piece of music that has some sort of connection with my first selection, back…
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This is the sixth in a sequence of twelve monthly posts, each about a piece of music that has personal significance. Each choice is linked, however tenuously, to its immediate predecessor. May’s selection was ‘Saturday Night’ by the Blue Nile (1989), while June’s is ‘Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye’ by Ella Fitzgerald (1956). The connection…
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We’ve arrived at the fifth in this series of twelve monthly posts dedicated to exploring music of particular personal significance. Each post is connected, however tenuously, to its predecessor and I’m hoping to end in December where I began last January. The series began with Ya Jean by Madilu System, before moving on to Autorail…
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This is the fourth in a series of twelve monthly posts, each exploring a musical composition of profound personal significance. Each choice is connected in some way with its immediate predecessor, although these links may be tenuous because I am inventing them as I go along. I began with Ya Jean by Madilu System –…
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This is the third in a series of posts about music that is personally important to me. I intend to write twelve posts in all – one per month throughout 2025 – each post connected in some way with its predecessor; the final post somehow linked with the first. These connections are being forged as…
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This is the second in a sequence of posts about music that means a great deal to me. I’ve called the series Ouroboros – the snake with its tail in its mouth – because I’m hoping to finish exactly where I began, with Ya Jean by Madilu System (1993). I hope to write a new…
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This is the first in a series of experimental posts about pieces of music that are personally important to me. I’ve wanted to write about music for a long time. Not as a musician (because I’m not one) but as a discerning listener, endlessly fascinated by the evolving soundtrack of his life. I’m not up…
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