Oct 31: Spooky

As it's Halloween, how about some spooky songs and stories...

Many people were spooked out by the Exorcist movie, and Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' piano motif reached new audiences...

Michael Jackson released this track on Halloween back in 1982. I remember watching it as it happened on MTV. There was a lot of hype around it...

Michael Jackson's 14-minute short film "Thriller" revolutionised the music video genre forever. Hailed as the greatest music video of all time by MTV, VH1, Rolling Stone and others, "Thriller," directed by John Landis, is also the only music video selected to be included in the Library of Congress' prestigious National Film Registry.

Director: John Landis 

Michael Jackson's short film for "Thriller" was the third of three short films produced for recordings from Thriller.

John Carpenter has produced a number of Halloween films, the first in 1978.

He is also an accomplished musician who has composed the theme music for his films, although he worked with Ennio Morricone for 'The Thing'. More on him to come in a future blog post.

Here's the theme tune from the original 'Halloween' film.

Some more suggestions here.... what do you think should be added to the list?

Oct 30: Elements

I'd forgotten about this track until a few weeks ago when a student used it as part of a presentation.

Lemon Jelly produced a number of albums in the early 2000s.

The first single was called 'The Staunton Lick'.

Lemon Jelly are Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen.

On this album, other musicians include John Themis.

Here's a track called 'Elements'

Oct 29: 50 years old: Olias of Sunhillow

This was Jon Anderson's first solo project and one that caused him a lot of creative challenges.

Anderson played all the instruments. He planned for it to take 2 months, but it took more than 6.

The story, from this review is:

It tells the story of a group of four alien tribes that are driven to migrate through space due to a catastrophic event on their home planet. One of these aliens, Olias, is a magician who is tasked with the construction of a spacefaring ark called the Moorglade Mover. He’s helped by fellow magicians Qoquaq and Ranyart, who use their particular skills (Qoquaq’s diplomacy and Ranyart’s music/navigation) help guide the ship through the recesses of space. After a turbulent flight, the ship finally makes it to a new planet called Asguard, and the tribes settle in, while the three magicians ascend onto a higher plane.

I remember a 6th former talking to me about this album over 20 years ago... 

It has some good moments.

Here's 'Flight of the Moorglade'...

It was wonderful to see Jon play live in person again in September at the London Palladium.

Oct 28: The music of 'Gone Fishing'

The latest series of 'Gone Fishing' returned to Sunday night TV at the weekend. The first episode was the final one to feature Ted the dog. I noticed that he joined them on the pier in the opening and closing animation.

The show is one of my favourites for its unhurried pace, genuine friendship of Bob and Paul, and the lovely locations they visit and the accommodation they stay in.

Another feature of the series is the music choices. There are several Spotify playlists which have captured music from different series. They include this one:

On Sunday there were on the River Tees... and they finished with a song from Chris Rea. who had been a previous guest on the show... the Tees is the Steel River.

Oct 28: Cursus

This is an electronic album from Robert Reed. I have a copy of this, and it's quite different to his Sanctuary or Magenta albums, and features Les Penning too. The title is geographical in the sense that the numbers in the title are a grid reference. Find the map sheet which shows Stonehenge and see what is there...

Oct 28: 51 years ago today

The greatest album of all time was released... imho....

Oct 27: Resting places

There are plenty of famous musicians whose graves have become a place of pilgrimage for fans.

In a previous post, I mentioned Pere Lachaise cemetery.

Countryfile have provided a list of 10 sites.

When I visited Paris a couple of years ago, we visited the cemetery at Montparnasse, and there were various famous people buried there.

Dean Goodman's website provides details of some famous musicians, including Amy Winehouse.

Some rock graves here.

While not a resting place, I've visited the John Lennon memorial at Strawberry Fields in Central Park.

Image: Alan Parkinson

Oct 27: Smallfilms

“If you look up at the sky at night, and see all the stars and planets against the blackness of the sky, they seem silent and still”

Smallfilms was the work of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. They created a whole range of stop-motion animations.

They made a series of 

Pogle's Wood

Pingwings

The Clangers

Bagpuss

Noggin the Nog

Ivor the Engine

Some of the music was composed by Vernon Elliott.

Here's the main theme for Ivor the Engine:

The Clangers had music at the heart of their daily life.

Tim Worthington also considered the music of Bagpuss.

What were your favourite pieces of music from these series?

I visited the Beaney Museum in Canterbury.

Image: Alan Parkinson

Oct 26: Snoopy and Thanksgiving

Around this time in the USA there is a tradition of showing a Snoopy cartoon which features Linus and 'the Great Pumpkin'....

Later, the Christmas album will also come out with a special film.

In each of these albums and films, the music is very cool and jazzy.

The music is by jazz musicians the Vince Guaraldi Trio. It will be instantly familiar to people of a certain age...

In the cartoons, the music is from Schroeder. And with dance moves from Snoopy.

Good grief!

Here's a sample of the music...

Oct 26: Songs about Food

Here's 20 of them...

Can you think of any others?

Add them in the comments.

Oct 25: John Shuttleworth

John Shuttleworth is a comic creation of the actor Graham Fellows. He has been playing Shuttleworth for decades, so much so that he no longer needs the ageing make-up he used to use.

'Nice up North' was a film which was made in 2006. A comedy documentary which was made with the photographer Martin Parr.

Shuttleworth travels to the Shetland Islands to test his theory that the further north in Great Britain you go the nicer people are, Shetland being the most far north part of the UK. He meets various Shetland people in unrehearsed situations. Many assume him to be a real person and not a comic creation, though some scenes are acted, particularly parts with famous local tour guide Elma Johnson.

There are many classic songs from his live act. 

He is billed as a 'versatile singer - songwriter' and I remember a gig in Norwich where the person sat next to us was expecting a 'normal' singer, and asked us why we were laughing... they weren't there for the second half of the show.

He has had a number of Radio 4 series, and specials. 

I have seen him several times over the last 25 years.... including last year at the Norwich Playhouse.

Here's a few classics from his back catalogue.

Here's 'You're Like Manchester'....

(you've got Strangeways....)

Save the Whale...

(its fin, its hump, its tail...)

Austin Ambassador 'Y' reg....

Here he is on 'Later with Jools Holland'.

Oct 24: Atlas

I'm enjoying this track from an album called Astralia.

This followed on from a listen to the 'Cardinal Winds' album from the band Ranges.

Oct 24: John Peel and Ommadawn

Via the Tubular World Facebook Group.

Pictures by Andrew Judge.

Back in 1975, my favourite Mike Oldfield album was about to be released. John Peel was going to play it in full on his radio show on this date, but the BBC cancelled the broadcast apparently.

Oct 24: Donal Lunny RIP

Sad news today of the passing of an Irish music legend.

Donal Lunny played with three of the finest bands ever: Planxty, The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts.

He was also involved in producing and playing on the music of many other bands and musicians, particularly Christy Moore and Andy Irvine.

Here's a few tunes:

And a report on the news:

And to finish, here's this classic... I used to listen to this while heading for Skye.

Oct 23: African drumming

Scars features a complex drum pattern in which both acoustic and electronic drums are utilised. The pattern was derived from a tribal rhythm that Neil Peart experienced while on a bicycle tour of Africa (later chronicled in his first book, The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa).

Oct 22: Down by the seaside

"Timothy went to Blackpool for the day last Eastertide.."

What could be more British than heading for the seaside?

Plenty of songs have this as a theme.

This one of course... dating back to the Music Hall period at the start of the 20th century.

Led Zeppelin

 

What other seaside songs can you think of?

Oct 21: Any road up...

A couple of songs about roads...

Columbus Avenue - Aimee Mann

Ventura Highway - America

What other road songs can you think of?

Bruce Hornsby's 'The Valley Road' springs to mind... or Dire Straits' 'Telegraph Road'....

Oct 20: Scallop Shells

The Scallop on Aldeburgh beach is a sculpture by Maggi Hambling. It was a little controversial when it was first positioned on the shingle between the village and the neighbouring village of Thorpeness. Not everyone liked its design or look.... but then that's art... you can't please everyone...

Images: Alan Parkinson

The scallop is incised with the words ''I hear those voices that will not be drowned' from the opera 'Peter Grimes'.

Hambling sees Scallop as more than just a sculpture. It was designed to also be a shelter and a seat, a place where visitors can rest and 'contemplate the mysterious power of the sea'. She wants people to interact with it: 'When somebody climbs up on it to sit down and watch the sea, or when a couple creeps in underneath it to make love, then it will be complete.'

Benjamin Britten was associated with the area.

He lived in Suffolk.

One of his famous pieces was 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'.

I've been to see a number of concerts at Snape Maltings over the years - most recently the band Altan.

The building is beautiful and the acoustics are great.

Oct 19: Trivia Quiz Question #9

In April 2019 I had the experience of heading for New York. We were going to go for my daughter's 21st but decided to go a year earlier - and it was just as well that we did.

It's just as well that we did, as if we had waited for the following year, COVID would have cancelled our trip, and the USA is temporarily out of bounds.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art had an exhibition called 'Play it Loud'.

Who played this guitar? It's an Ibanez.

She toured with Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays.... and recorded with Peter Gabriel...

And was in the vanguard of American folk music.

Oct 18: The Division Bell

The Division Bell was an album by Pink Floyd.

It was released in 1994.

When I drive to work in Ely, I pass within half a mile of where the photos were taken for the cover. 

Two large metal heads were placed in a field off Quanea Drove.

Precise Coordinates: To stand in the exact spot where the sightlines lock onto the cathedral towers, use the What3Words location: ///climber.awkward.indicated

The video for the track 'High Hopes' also starts there... and reflects on the bands roots in the area.

Oct 17: Once in a Blue Planet

I love the arrangement of this tune from Jean Luc Ponty.

From 1980. I used to have a recording from the Montreal Jazz Festival.

Guitar: Daryl Stuermer 

Violin: Jean-Luc Ponty 

Drums, Percussion: Norman Fearrington 

Piano: Patrice Rushen 

Bass Guitar: Tom Fowler 

Oct 17: The Station

This is a continuous live stream of Brian Eno's music and BLOOMs...

Oct 16: Trivia Quiz Question #8

In April 2019 I had the experience of heading for New York. We were going to go for my daughter's 21st but decided to go a year earlier - and it was just as well that we did.

It's just as well that we did, as if we had waited for the following year, COVID would have cancelled our trip, and the USA is temporarily out of bounds.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art had an exhibition called 'Play it Loud'.

Who played these drums?

Oct 15: Big Empty Country

I've mentioned the work of Brian Eno before.

His 2025 album with Beatie Wolfe is called Big Empty Country. It's a nice ambient piece.

Oct 14: 'The Magician's Nephew'

The first instalment of C.S. Lewis' Narnia series of books is 'The Magician's Nephew'. Greta Gerwig, whose Barbie was a huge critical and popular success, has now tackled this book.

This is a good analysis of the trailer and film.

 

I first read this about 50 years ago...

She persuaded Led Zeppelin to let her use their music...

Oct 14: 'Cosmos'

A landmark TV series for me was Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' - we could do with him around now to continue to challenge American politicians about climate change as he did when he was alive.

The theme tune for the TV show was very good, and I discovered that it was by Vangelis and from an album called Heaven and Hell. I had a copy of the 7" single at the time, plus the book of the series. I still refer to him every year and his Pale Blue Dot image and text.

Enjoy!

Oct 13: Apropos of nothing...

Was just listening to this earlier, and I thought you should too.... the late Gabriel Yacoub...

Oct 13: John Barleycorn

Traditional songs like this go back a long way, and their mood and them is often violent.

The song's protagonist is John Barleycorn, a personification of barley and of the beer made from it. 

In the song, he suffers indignities, attacks, and death that correspond to the various stages of barley cultivation, such as reaping and malting.

This particular performance of the track is from The Imagined Village.

Here's a performance from Martin Carthy and David Swarbrick - two giants of English folk music who I've had the pleasure of seeing live numerous times, including in small venues in Norwich.

In the climax of the Inside No. 9 episode "Mr King", - SPOILER ALERT - the song is performed by a class of schoolchildren as they prepare to ritualistically sacrifice their teacher for their harvest festival.

Oct 12: Shine on...

The local news programme has just featured a football match played at the weekend where Cambridge United won their match while wearing a special kit, for World Mental Health Day.

It was based on Syd Barrett: an original member of Pink Floyd.

Details are shown in the video below:

A pioneering songwriter, artist and founding member of Pink Floyd - one of the most influential and biggest global bands of all time who came from Cambridge - Syd's influence continues to resonate across generations, with his music and creativity inspiring artists and audiences around the world.

Produced with technical partners Umbro and Kitlocker, the shirt's striking diamond pattern references Shine On You Crazy Diamond, the iconic Pink Floyd composition written as a tribute to him following his departure from the band.

The orange and blue colour palette of the shirt is inspired by the distinctive floorboards featured on the cover of his acclaimed 1970 solo album The Madcap Laughs, creating a unique design that brings together football, art and music.

The launch campaign was photographed by renowned portrait photographer Charlie Gray at two locations closely associated with Syd's legacy: The Artyst cafe in Cambridge, dedicated to Syd Barrett’s memory, and Grantchester Meadows, the iconic setting woven into the story of Pink Floyd's Cambridge roots.

Source.

It was part of several schemes commemorating what would have been Syd's 80th birthday.

Oct 12: Smallcreep's Day

In 1980, Mike Rutherford of Genesis released his first solo album: 'Smallcreep's Day'.

It included a full side dedicated to one track which is based on a book of the same name.

Earlier in the year, I was reminded of this excellent progressive album which features several excellent musicians. The people who played on the album included:

Mike Rutherford - Guitar, Bass 

Anthony Phillips - Keyboards 

Noel McCalla - Vocals 

Simon Phillips - Drums 

Morris Pert - Percussion

I've seen all of these play live... other than Anthony Phillips himself...

Enjoy...

Oct 11: Exploring the American Dream

GA members who have a subscription to the 'Geography' journal can find this article in the most recent issue of the journal (Autumn 2026).

Gonzalez, T. L., & Phua, V. C. (2026). Designing a lyrical analysis class exercise: exploring the American Dream narratives in rap lyrics. Geography, 111(3), 128–134. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2026.2724690

Abstract

Videos, social media and photography are all valuable informational sources for research and teaching. 

In this article, we recommend song lyrics as another information source that can be instrumental for understanding place and culture. We posit that song lyrics are not only easily accessible online but can also offer an entertaining and educational experience. To illustrate this approach, we show how one can learn about the American Dream through rap lyrics. Specifically, we provide a sampling approach and an analytic frame for consideration. In conclusion, we discuss how an analysis of song lyrics can be used to teach different topics.

Oct 11: Sounds of the Earth

A lovely interactive from David G Haskell on the sounds made when the Earth sings.

Description

This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth. The experience is made entirely of tiny trembling waves in air, the fugitive, ephemeral energy that we call sound. Spoken words combined with terrestrial sounds invite our senses and imaginations to go outward into an experience of the living Earth and its history. How did the vast and varied chorus of modern sounds—from forest to oceans to human music—emerge from life’s community? When did the living Earth first start to sing? We invite you on a journey into deep time and deep sound that will open your ears and your imagination.

Oct 10: Richard Hawley's Sheffield

I've been exploring Sheffield quite a bit for the blog, as has Carl Lee in his numerous guest posts.

Many of Richard Hawley's songs reference Sheffield.

Image: Alan Parkinson

Richard's music has been turned into a stage show. It is set in the Park Hill flats which when they were built promised 'streets in the sky'.

I've spoken about them before at a GA Teachmeet.

Here's 'Coming Home'..

Oct 10: Album cover history

Russel Tarr has shared an excellent new resource for free on his Active History website.

An album cover can tell a story before you have even heard a single note. 

For this project, each member of the class will be given a different album to investigate. Your challenge is to look closely at its cover, discover the history behind the image, and then explore the connection between that history and the music.

Once you've uncovered its story, you'll decide which track from the album you would recommend to your classmates, and why.

The finished investigations will then come together as a classroom display, creating a collection of album covers that brings together music, art and history from different times and places.

So, what can an album cover teach us about history?

Here's some of the covers that Russel has curated for this activity.

Oct 10: Wildwood

My son is going to the World Premiere of Wildwood later, as part of the London Film Festival.

It's a LAIKA animation, based on the book by Colin Meloy of the Decemberists. The band has released a song from the soundtrack.

Here's the trailer:

Update

My son went along to the red carpet and attended the World Premiere.

Here's the red carpet, and an image of Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis too.

Images: Sam Parkinson

Oct 9: Trivia Quiz Question #7

In April 2019 I had the experience of heading for New York. We were going to go for my daughter's 21st but decided to go a year earlier - and it was just as well that we did.

It's just as well that we did, as if we had waited for the following year, COVID would have cancelled our trip, and the USA is temporarily out of bounds.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art had an exhibition called 'Play it Loud'.

Who played this guitar?

Oct 8: When is a World Tour not a World Tour?

What do you imagine is meant by the term "world tour" when a band decides to undertake one...

Some only visit a couple of continents. Few cover more than three, and some only visit one...

Some people are on permanent tour, such as Bob Dylan's Never Ending tour.

Who has played the most concerts? Here's a REDDIT list... I wonder what the real answer is...

Oct 7: Important recording locations: Bron yr Aur

This was a location where Led Zeppelin gathered.

Bron Yr Aur is a privately owned 18th-century cottage in Gwynedd, Wales, known for its association with the rock band Led Zeppelin. The cottage is located on the outskirts of Machynlleth. It's particularly famous for being the place where Jimmy Page and Robert Plant wrote many of the songs for Led Zeppelin's third and fourth studio albums.

I've been to the bottom of the lane leading up to it and seen the sign... then drove through a major flood I seem to remember.

The track of the same name is on the album Physical Graffiti. I have previously posted about this album cover.

Oct 6: Los Santos City Map

Los Santos is the name of the city where the action happens in Grand Theft Auto V. 

Grand Theft Auto V is a huge game... but version VI is out in November.

Tangerine Dream produced some music for the game. 

On their album 'Recurring Dreams' they added a new version of the music from the game in a track called 'Los Santos City Map'.

Oct 5: Music Map

I have a lot of books on a map theme...

Here's the publishers' description of one of them.

Explore the world as you never knew it with Vargic's Astonishing Miscellany of Curious Maps.

Vargic's Miscellany is a collection of 64 maps and infographics. See the world mapped out by stereotypes; discover the Internet in cartographical form; marvel at the maps of global technology and culture; and explore the world through infographics and statistics.

This wonderful and strange atlas is a treasure trove of interesting, unexpected and bizarre facts - a glorious celebration of our big beautiful diverse world.

Martin Vargic is an amateur graphic designer from Slovakia who rose to international fame in late January 2014, when his work 'Map of the Internet 1.0' went viral, generating hundreds of thousands of hits and Facebook shares. 

Here is his website.

One of the maps is of music genres.

Oct 5: GTA6 Soundtrack

GTA6 is coming out in November.

It is the most eagerly anticipated game perhaps, and also has a huge budget.

Those who are familiar with the game will know that as you play and drive around you can tune into the radio and there is plenty of music to accompany the game. Tangerine Dream have previously provided some of the music for earlier versions of the game - and I have heard some of that performed live.

The first six tracks on the soundtrack album have been released.

Oct 4: Pigs might Fly

Pink Floyd have a strong association with Cambridge. 

Founding members went to local schools.

This website unpicks some of the locations they are connected with as a sort of walking tour of the city.

Band members Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour were raised in Cambridge, and many of their Cambridge friends, including girlfriends, roadies and album cover designers Storm Thorgerson and ‘Po’ Powell, became part of the Pink Floyd extended creative family. In London they met up with Nick Mason and Rick Wright. But while students, here in Cambridge—they forged the unique Pink Floyd sound against the backdrop of the late ‘60’s counter-culture and succeeding decades.

There are connections with particular places in the city and songs:

King’s College Chapel, which has a lawn in back where Roger Waters said inspired “the lunatic is on the grass“, (from the song Brain Damage) and Pink Floyd played a May Ball gig—Which “... went down quite well. Everyone was pissed,”

David Gilmour went to the Perse School on Hills Road, and back in June 2022, Chris Kington led a tour for the local GA Cambridge Branch where he pointed out Syd Barrett's home - also on Hills Road.

One of the places where they are linked with is a pub called The Flying Pig - just further down the road.

Back in 2022, there were fears that the pub would be demolished.

Images: Alan Parkinson

For a long time there was a plan to try to save the pub. It is now in an incongruous position, dwarfed by the huge redevelopment behind it.

Image: Daily Mail

The final link of course is with the album 'Animals'. More to come on that in December...

Oct 4: NWOBHM & Saracen

Quite an acronym... and one which was important for the promotion of a series of bands.

The new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that began in England in the mid-1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. Editor Alan Lewis coined the term for an article by Geoff Barton in a May 1979 issue of the British music newspaper Sounds to describe the emergence of heavy metal bands in the mid-to-late 1970s, as punk rock declined amid the dominance of new wave music.

From Wikipedia.

One band I liked at the time was Saracen, from Matlock in Derbyshire.

They were formed in 1980, but I started hearing them in 1982-3 during my time at Huddersfield Polytechnic when, as I've said before I developed a taste for many of the bands I still listen to a lot today.

The album I listened to was 'Heroes, Saints and Fools'.

They released a number of other albums, both of which had some very good moments... including others I have mentioned including one based on the Knights Templar.

What are your memories of bands from this NWOBHM era?

Oct 3: o/i release date

 A release date has been set for Peter Gabriel's new album. It's a very small gap between albums and also the longest album.

The songs are a mix of thoughts and feelings.

I have been thinking about the future and how we might respond to it. We are sliding into a period of transition like no other, most likely triggered in three waves; AI, quantum computing and the brain computer interface. Artists have a role to look into the mists and, when they catch sight of something, to hold up a mirror.

These are my lumpy bits – i/o: the inside has a new way out and o\i: the outside has a new way in.

We are not, and have never been, the exclusively self-determining, independent beings that have been given the run of the world. We are something else, a part of nature, a part of everything and feeling a connection, shaking our booty and giving and receiving some love can help us find our place – and put a big smile on our faces.

Some of these songs are going to form part of the brain project that I’ve been exploring for a number of years, and some just make me feel happy. I hope you like them.

Long standing band members, guitarist David Rhodes, bassist Tony Levin and drummer Manu Katché feature on many of the songs, supplemented by other members of the i/o touring band Richard Evans, 

Josh Shpak and Don E and Real World staffers Faye Dolle and Katie May. The New Blood Orchestra, led by John Metcalfe are also heard, as are the Soweto Gospel Choir and Swedish all-male choir Oprhei Drängar. 

Other notable contributions come in the shape of Mike Elizondo (who co-produced A Hard Lesson), Brian Eno, guitarists Leo Nocentelli and Tony Berg, drummer and percussionist Abe Rounds, pianist Tom Cawley, trumpeter Paolo Fresu, cellist Linnea Olsson and multi-instrumentalist Evan Smith. 

Once again Peter’s daughter Melanie provides vocal support.

Oct 3: Times like These

A reminder of better times and worse times.

A reminder of the COVID era...

And a reminder of Taylor Hawkins.

Foo Fighters - Times like These - dedicated to teachers... 

This is my favourite version of the song.

Although the original is decent too:

Oct 2: 44 years ago today...

It was a wet one...

Oct 2: Bloom

Bloom is an endless music machine, a music box for the 21st Century.

You can play it, or you can watch it play itself.

Brian Eno

Bloom is a generative music app created by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers.

I had it on my iPhone some years ago when it first came out and also on an iPad.

The app costs £3.99 and can be purchased on the app store.

A newer version of the app is also now available. This allows background play, which means it will carry on generating music when not opened. There is also the option to stream the music via Airplay to a device.

Oct 2: Songs with numbers in the title...

1,2,3,4... ready 

Here's some of the suggested songs from those who filled in the Google Form I created some time ago....

74-75 - by The Connells

'39 by Queen

50 Ways to leave your lover - Paul Simon

What would you add to the list? Add it to the comments below please.

Oct 1: International Music Day

Thanks to Kenneth Field for the tipoff to the fact that it is International Music Day today.

The day has been celebrated since 1975 at the initiative of the world-renowned violinist and humanist Lord Yehudi Menuhin, then President of the International Music Council under UNESCO. 

The decision was made in 1973 at the Council’s General Assembly in Lausanne, with the aim of promoting peace, cultural exchange, and mutual respect among nations through the universal language of music.

Kenneth has been creating a map a day all year so far, using AI to create them.

Here's his US music map and further information about today.

Oct 1: Szczecin

I hadn't ever heard of this place in Poland, but one of my favourite live Tangerine Dream concert recordings, which I have in my Bandcamp account, was recorded here.

I had a look for it on the map.

It's a city in Poland.

Check out the album... you can find tracks on YouTube, or look at the Bandcamp account, where you can listen to it, and pay for a permanent high quality download - as I did.

Just don't ask me how to pronounce it.

Here's Kiew Mission from the album....