Ended Wednesday and welcomed Thursday after a swin with Douzième Journée: Le Verbe, La Parure, L'Amour by Benjamin Lew / Steven Brown, released on Crammed Discs in Belgium in 1982.

Lead out by the deliciously eerie, singed brass of ‘Bamako ou ailleurs’, which Jon K dropped to killer effect in his Reel Torque mixtape, the album remains one of the most vital early numbers on Crammed Discs, unfurling like the noirish score to a dark thriller set in their native Brussels. It was Benjamin Lew’s first recording, and an early example of Steven Brown’s work in Brussels, where he settled after his band Tuxedomoon toured Europe,,,

Lew & Brown clearly found a muse in each other, and modestly proceeded to craft this ponderous album of spare airs and ætheric suggestion, dematerialising a palette of Brown’s sax, organ and piano thru Lew’s analog synth, drum machines and tape.. - Boomkat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xCjM040He4&list=PLWg-ElXZ_aNw9TM6fqA-jTUlJfdl6-rUt&index=1

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Brattleboro man pleads guilty to manslaughter and drug dealing, gets at least 14 years in prison

Nicolas Baker had initially been charged with second-degree murder in the August 2022 shooting death of a 31-year-old man at Brattleboro’s Great River Terrace housing complex.
by Alan J. Keays March 1, 2024, 5:13 pm

https://vtdigger.org/2024/03/01/brattleboro-man-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-and-drug-dealing-gets-at-least-14-years-in-prison/

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