We have a marathon and two half marathons a year, it's 'kin ridiculous because they try to make the routes take in as many of the tourist attractions as they can. some people who live just outside the city centre are literally trapped where they live for the best part of 8 hours
Same applies to St Petersburg and I'm not sure the mobilisation is being persued in the same manner in the two big powerbase cities
There is a very strong element of racism in this mobilisation. In Crimea for example they are said to be actively hunting for all the male Crimean Tartars (20% of Crimea's population and broadly anti-Russian)
The large cities in the west of Russia generally has never given two shits for what happens to the ethnically very different (Non-slavic) populations East of the Urals and that is where all conscription drives are always concentrated
It's a deliberate policy and has been for a very long time
Last I read, quite a few days ago was that it was mainly defended by die hard LPR troops who were far better motivated than their Russian counterparts.
Father of Eagle-eye, step-father of Neneh and another of the jazz greats (trumpet, cornet, piano and lots of African instruments). Don also got caught up in Post-punk British music through Neneh, as both were member's of Rip, Rig and Panic which was slightly less out there for a Jazz legend than his collaboration with Steve Hillage (Gong / System 7 & Solo)
Ornette Coleman once described him as the best tenor saxophonist in the world
A true great of his genre and he worked with a lot of the other greats, John (and Alice) Coltrane, Orneter Coleman, Sun Ra, Don Cherry, Jah Wobble (ok I'm slightly teasing here) and his colaboration with Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra was widely acknowledged as one of the albums of the year last year
AL Jaz is hardly an unbiased reporter when it comes to Corbyn's Labour
And Corbyn is history, ancient history
Not watched it because I don't see the point
Another new release. Double LP compilation of Garage music (no not that dance bollocks), thats runs from the early stuff in the 60s like Psychotic Reaction by The Count Five and the 13th Floor Elevators, through to the current day, via stuff like Weed Bus by The Stairs (Edgar Jones) to Tame Impala / Pond / Oh Sees
By the same label (Two Piers) that also gave us the Pop Psychedelique compilation of French Psyche
This is not full of hidden gems but it is full of top tunes
Garage Psychedelique.
Next up is this not really an album, a 2 track 10" but it's also a soundtrack to a graphic novel, which is a bit unusual in itself and as it plays at 33 and we don't really have an EP topic, it's going in here
A favourite of mine, the Bristolian Krautrock inspired Beak>
With KosmiK Musik, soundtrack to a graphic novel of the same name by Joe Cume and Ben Wheatley
@osmark86This might be up your street
So, I'm home and this one was the first to be played
New album from The Comet is Coming - Hyperdimensional Expansion Beam
On first play, it doesn't hit you as immediately as their previous releases but I think it'll definitely be a grower. I like it, there's more subtle textures going on in the background compared to the previous albums
As an aside, Lada's orer books were doing fantastically well before mobilisation. All the dead soldiers families were buying them with the compo money.
Yuri, go to Ukraine, we need a car!
But Moma
DOn't you Moma me, Ukraine and see if you can lose a leg or something
The referendums will be totally ignored as they aren't valid. They will have absolutely no bearing on anything apart from Russian Propaganda
Its quite clearly defined by Internationally accepted convention what does and does not constitute Ukraine and Russia. Crimea is Ukraine despite what any referendum says