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Alex Silver

@halfvivid

Folk music experimentalist and French teacher. Portland, Maine area. https://halfvividsongs.com https://alexsilver.bandcamp.com/

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Maybe I should. It’s not so far away. I saw them here in Portland a few years ago and it seemed like I could do that every summer night. Just raising my hand as curious…

06.03.2026 03:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🙋🏻‍♂️

05.03.2026 20:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Sounds beautiful and fortifying

04.03.2026 16:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🙌

02.03.2026 22:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🙌 Saw him play these songs at Washington Baths, gorgeous

02.03.2026 22:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This labels bats 💯

28.02.2026 17:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To win this beautiful stuff would bring me Oprah-esque disbelief, @myddling.bsky.social. The best song of all time is Cinquième Gnossiène by Erik Satie—his songs’ qualities are acutely understood by @jeremydenk.bsky.social in NYRB—but do kids agree?! I do also like The Loco-Motion by Kylie Minogue.

28.02.2026 17:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Worried Songs is a wonderful label. Beautiful physical stuff and just so many great albums. They came to town with Cameron Knowler last year and I’m thoroughly convinced 🫰

28.02.2026 16:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The video is really nice. “Its textures drawn from the landscape rather than imposed upon it.”

27.02.2026 21:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Relative Pitch!

27.02.2026 01:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Puppy Problems!

21.02.2026 21:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Love this line: “The sign with the text / «Training in progress» lights up / in the eyes of the hare.” Form seems inevitable to us, but the hare can see the sign plainly as a phenomenon.

13.02.2026 16:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is a beauty. One of my first purchases as an early member @subvert.fm 💪

10.02.2026 18:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lady Lamb! Maine!

06.02.2026 23:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Only recently learning about Shane Parish. His albums Undertaker Please Drive Slow and Repertoire take interpretation to a fascinating place. I don't know if he pulls out an essence as much as retells things in a clarified voice—the magic is in the playing rather than the intoxication of "song."

03.02.2026 23:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This album is so interesting! I really like El Haris [Anxious] for its textures. And the artwork by Evelyn Hofer led me to seek her out. Ty @juddgreenstein.bsky.social

03.02.2026 21:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This was great! Really loved the clear-headed advice about participation and understanding the web you want to live in.

03.02.2026 21:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ruined my day yesterday. Grump.

31.01.2026 16:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pierre Schaeffer on vinyl!

31.01.2026 15:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mixtape: KLOF No. 62 (Folk, Alternative, Experimental) Our latest KLOF Mixtape features a selection of folk, ambient, electronic, field recordings and experimental music, including Keaton Henson, Hen Ogledd, Weston Olencki, Joe Westerlund, and more.

A very nice mixtape from @klofmag.com from November. I believe its editor Alex Gallacher does these? Learned about Scissor Tail Records, also Max García Conover—who is apparently from Maine and recording with Haley Heynderickx. Mixtape format +1! No. 71 looks good.

klofmag.com/2025/11/mixt...

31.01.2026 15:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Love seeing several @ooyhrecords.bsky.social artists and Takuro Okada!

15.01.2026 21:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder if it's New Year's resolutions related to exercise? Last summer I got into a good habit on the stationary bike—and I used "Sidestepping" to lower my heart rate. Lovely song.

14.01.2026 22:33 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Love the conceit of singing from the dentist’s chair. Also the awareness of a set with cameras. Great song, happy for this tip!

14.01.2026 19:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Je suis un prof collégien—il y a deux ans j’étais dans mes vingtaines, mais cette année mes cinquantaines. C’est difficile d’apprendre trente années de comportement si vite.

14.01.2026 19:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Done. Avery Friedman 🙌🌀

14.01.2026 19:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's hard to imagine being so patient with the air you breathe. Eric Hehr gives great context to this album, and how it fit into Ammons' life. But also close feeling for the role of tone, which I just sit there and relish so much.

14.01.2026 16:33 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

The universal in the particular, damn 💘😵‍💫

12.01.2026 20:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"If platforms push us toward individualized survival, we can refuse that horizon. We can rebuild capacities that make journalism durable. Editing, fact-checking, legal support, beats, mentorship and labour protections can exist outside legacy conglomerates." @therewasnosound.bsky.social

11.01.2026 18:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Don't Start Another Substack Michael Rancic writes about how platforms like Substack push writers toward individualized survival strategies over solidarity.

@newfeelingcoop.bsky.social w/ great points on precarity and gig platforms.

"But for things to change, we have to imagine more than hermit crabbing from one platform to the next: we have to resist the ways our work is becoming individualized in the first place."

www.newfeeling.ca/dont-start-a...

11.01.2026 18:37 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

This was great. She gave such eloquent responses! I was also nicely transported by those old Custom House Wharf photos from the section above 🕗

10.01.2026 15:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0