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Me too, it's financial doping, next up Newcastle United. Oil state owned football clubs won't do anyone any favours apart from the money men. In contrast, Chelsea's experience this last season goes to show how poorly managed mega-spend doesn't work. Boehly's like a kid in a sweet shop. Lots of coverage here of how City's premiership win has a bad taste to it although I fear that vested interets may find a way of prevailing.

Nice story Niko Now on this, contemporary SA Duduzo Makhathini - In The Spirit Of Ntu [Blue Note, SA 2022]

Malombo Jazz Makers - Down Lucky's Way [Tapestry Works 2023 RE] Fabulous SA jazz from 1969. Two more soon to come from Strut. I remember Julian Bahula playing around when I first came to London.

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No, not at all. Minor league football (soccer) is still town/city focussed and is either semi-pro or amateur as you go down through the tiers. The FA, our natonal football ruling body, has about 10 tiers in its pyramid. At the bottom you're looking at teams playing in very local leagues and representing small towns/villages. All tiers will have promotion/relegation making it feasible but very, very unlikely that a team representing a small town can rise through the pyramid to the four professional leagues. The FA Cup, an annual knockout competition is open to all clubs affiliated to the FA no matter which tier they play in. Occasionally a tier 5 or 6 amateur team will perform well enough to appear against a top tier side - that's what we quaintly call "the romance of the Cup" The same structure exists in rugby and cricket but is smaller as the sports are less popular. Universities have there own inter-universiry competitions but they don't intersect with the structure above. True but it's often overlooked that Leicester did have money from their Thai backers, not the amounts of Man City, Newcastle or Liverpool but they weren't financial minnows compared to all other sides and were probably the richest outside the big 5 or 6 at the time.

2015 was crazy really. An example of everything coming together for one team whilst others just didn't fulfill their potential. I fear that won't happen again for a long time. Yes, local support is a significant element for many clubs especially in lower leagues, but also for teams in the Premiership although most of the larger clubs aren't so local focussed now. It's very important to fans too and can really bring a town, smaller city or area of a larger city together. I lived in Arsenal country in their last successful period in the 90s and the celebrations were mad. I started going to Reading as a 12 yo but moved away ten years later and now follow from afar.

I struggle to understand leagues without promotion and relegation, takes away so much jeopardy. And I say that as a supporter of Reading FC relegated to League One this season. How come Leicester City if you don't mind me asking?

Just prompted me to put my copy on and remind myself, thanks

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Milford Graves - Children of the Forest [Black Editions Archive]

Hmm, and that looks very interesting...😃

Just got off the fence, thanks for the push

Yes. Only seven tracks across the whole box previously released. I don't know but suspect a lot of it must be from Skidmore's own archive. Sound quality in first four discs very good except one track which is a bit bootleggy.

I'm four discs into the box and it's well programmed. Only one dud track so far. The Morning Rise album is excellent, a good discovery

Just read your Insta post, congratulations Clifford. I used to follow Shipp's releases closely but gave up due to the sheer number so this feels like a good opportunity to reacquaint. I should purchasing from Rogue Art will be my best bet in the UK.

Morning Rise - Fortune [EGO Records, Germany 1977] bought after listening to the recent Skidmore boxset

Hadn't heard about this,I shall definitely be checking it out. The London scene is very interesting

Vocalists? Who mentioned vocalists of either gender? I didn't I just provided some facts - of 315 releases, 5 featured females as the lead artist, the focus of the boxset., 2 others had a male/female partnership as the focus of the compilation. The rest were male. I didn't make any statement as to sexism or not from those facts. Others can do that. I thought the figures might be useful as I'm not sure they've figured in the discussion, certainly not recently.

I deleted my post, but obviously not quickly enough., not because I don't stand my plea for a consideration but because I decided I really don't want to get into "The Mosaic Wars". No record label really means that much to me, I'm afraid. Edit to add: out of 315 releases listed on Mosaic's site (excluding singles), by my quick count 7 feature exclusively female lead artists, two of which are female/male collaborations

One person's shit stirring is another's giving an opinion or offering rebuttal. Personally I've not really read the OP's posts (certainly before their stated "departure") as being deliberately provocative but no more than offering a contrary opinion to the majority expressed one. Yes, the use of some terms read like getting a defence in first before the onslaught that they predicted would follow (and for the most part actually did). I do agree that having said they were leaving the thread it doesn't do their case any good coming back but as pointed out already that is their prerogative. If that diminishes their integrity in your, and other's eyes, then so be it, they'll have to live with it. And herein lies your problem - it's a forum rule that political discussions are not allowed. Quite how anyone's expected to analyse the politics of anything without that being political is a circle I don't see being squared so your wish, with which I have no issue, can't be fulfilled in this space.

A quick question, is the soundtrack available as a standalone recording? Answer to my own question,appears to have been a bootleg release a couple of years ago

Don't bother 😄 Onto this now

Yep, same response from me. Dull and sounded very contrived. Her previous album 'Vulture Prince' I found quite captivating in stark contrast. I find myself increasingly not enjoying Iyer's releases. It all started with the sextet on ECM which everyone else loved. Previously I'd been very taken by most all of his releases and saw a barnstorming trio gig at the Vortex about the time of 'Break Stuff', an album I really rated One bright spot was the recent TUM collaboration with Wadada Leo Smith

Great, thanks for this. I have heard the 'Nirvana Symphony'