Inside No. 9, Season 3, Episode #28: Questionable dogma
The struggle to find peace in all its forms is rife and we’re only a few months into another turbulent orbit. The selection of nine songs for this month’s show are saferooms carved out of sound; affording me, and hopefully you dear listener, the luxury of respite. I have been using this selection of nine songs to aid me in reading and fasting.
In 2024 I have found solace in books, ploughing through dozens of the bastards, filling my brain with facts and fictions, blocking out the impossible sun that is the harrowing vista of this awful decade. As I reflect and contemplate the impossible motions of activism against mass apathy I find hope in flickers of light through the words and actions of others; those braver and stronger than I.
With hope both appearing and disappearing in some skewed quantum state I suggest plugging in and listening to this selection of nine exquisite pieces that defy categorization and exist in their own perfect/imperfect worlds. My mind is soothed and my ears balmed by the fragile, caustic and powerful noises that flicker dimly through the 101 minutes running time. This is the antithesis to Orwell’s Room 101, a place for contemplation and respite amongst the torture and brainwashing of the 21st century media landscape.
Usher
Organ of Corti (Joachim Nordwall, Mattias Gustafsson, and Dan Johansson)
Usher / Trauma
7″ on Dead Mind Records
2024
Landscape with 3 Tape Recorders And…
Roberta Settels
Isolation! Meinhof In Memoria
LP on Music in Crisis
1985
cezve rock
crys cole
cezve rock
DL created for Amplify 2020: quarantine
2020
Omnht
Éliane Radigue
Feedback Works 1969-1970
LP on Alga Marghen
1970 (r.2022)
BI
Modelbau (Frans de Waard)
Insomniac’s Dream
Cassette on Aphelion Editions
2023
XXXI [edit]
Liminal Haze
Split CS w/ Buck Moon
Human Geography Recordings
2023
Taurean [edit]
Kevin Drumm
Tennenbaum
DL via BC
2016
Gong Ageng
CM von Hausswolff & Chadra Shukia
Travelogue [Bali]
Touch
2023
Hand over the Fire
Family Underground
The Acetone of Flowers
Chocolate Monk
2024
Inside No. 9 is an attempt to share unique narratives through the mixing of 9 songs. Every episode will showcase a new theme, opening up new tributaries of discovery. Inside No. 9 is presented by Peter Taylor, a former features writer for Foxy Digitalis from back in the late 2000s. Peter is a visual artist and musician and has been creating music as MAbH since 2008.
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