Burning Shed News (November 23, 2018)

November 23, 2018 bradbirzer

Burning Shed

The Winter Sale

Yes Sirree, Winter is surely here and in our annual bid to help those suffering from seasonally affected misery (and those canny customers with an eye for a bargain), the latest Burning Shed sale includes items from across labels and some massive savings.

Highlights include:

Kscope label releases by Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, Mansun and many more
A third off King Crimson’s wonderful Thrak box
£10 off the Japanese edition of Bruford’s Seems Like A Lifetime Ago and BB’s Gonzo back catalogue reduced in price
Yes 50th Anniversary tour posters
50% off Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge’s Gonwards box
Rick Wakeman cardboard replica edition CDs
The final copies of the No-Man ‘EMI pressing’ of Love And Endings
Shriekback catalogue gems
Rupert Hine’s Thinkman trilogy

Ends Monday November 26th.

Les Penning & Robert Reed

In Dulci Jubilo (cd/vinyl pre-order)

Les Penning and Robert Reed‘s enchanting version of Christmas classic In Dulci Jubilo (featuring Tom Newman).

Available as a 5 track maxi-single CD and a 7″ vinyl edition featuring Tom Newman and RR mixes.

All orders of the vinyl include a free Signed Christmas Card.

Pre-order for December 14th release.

Wishbone Ash

Live at Glasgow Apollo 77 (cd/vinyl pre-order)

A live performance from the Front Page News tour of 1977 released for the first time.

Strictly limited to 1000 copies on vinyl and 3000 on CD, Live at Glasgow Apollo 77 follows the success of the 30 CD deluxe box set Wishbone Ash The Vintage Years 1970-1991.

Pre-order for January 11th release.

Big Big Train

Back Catalogue Repressings (cds)

2018 repressing of three early BBT releases: Goodbye To The Age Of Steam (1994), English Boy Wonders(1997) and Gathering Speed (2004).

A fascinating glimpse into the beginnings of one of the UK’s finest contemporary Progressive bands.

Shipping now.

Opeth

Greetings Cards / Sorceress – 3D Lenticular Card (cards pre-order)

Pack of 6 blank greetings cards featuring classic Opeth album covers (dimensions: 16cm x 16cm) and a 3D lenticular card of the striking artwork for Sorceress (dimensions: 30cm x 30cm).

Pre-order for December 7th shipping.

Michael Clark

Something To Be Won EP (vinyl pre-order)

The debut EP from singer songwriter Michael Clark on 12″ Vinyl.

Michael’s mesmerically haunting songs recall the simplicity of Elliot Smith, Pink Moon-era Nick Drake and elements of his father Gavin Clark’s (Clayhill, Uncle) work.

Pre-order for January 25th release.

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…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead -Tao of the Dead Part III (vinyl)

David Byrne – True Stories, A Film By David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack (cd)

Cosmograf – When Age Has Done Its Duty (vinyl)

Deep Purple – Fireball / In Rock (2018 remastered versions) (purple vinyl)

Genesis – Classic Logo / Lamb Faces (t-shirts)

Carl Glover – Ian Anderson (poster/print)

Stephen Lambe – Carry On On Screen (book)

John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest – The 50th Anniversary Concert (cd)

Marillion – Clutching At Straws (boxsets)

Rush – Hemispheres 40th Anniversary (Super Deluxe)

Roine Stolt’s The Flower King Manifesto Of An Alchemist (signed)

The Syn – Syndestructible (vinyl)

Tiger Moth Tales – Story Tellers Parts One & Two (vinyl)

Tom Sheehan – R.E.M: Athens GA – R.E.M In Photographs 1984-2005 (book)

The Top Of The Poppers – Sing And Play The The Hits Of David Bowie (yellow vinyl)

Andrew Wild – Queen On Track (book)

Philosophy, Politics

Law and Purpose

November 23, 2018 Mahesh Sreekandath

Effort required to *enforce* a law is a reasonable indicator of its validity. If we need to go out of the way to enforce something, then it might just not be compatible with English conception of law. Hayek says, law simply helps us coexist. Its function is not to achieve specific goals set by some authority.

“In the usual sense of purpose, namely the anticipation of a particular, foreseeable event, the law indeed does not serve any purpose but countless different purposes of different individuals. It provides only the means for a large number of different purposes that as a whole are not known to anybody. In the ordinary sense of purpose law is therefore not a means to any purpose, but merely a condition for successful pursuit of most purposes. Of all multi-purpose instruments it is probably the one after language which assists the greatest variety of human purposes. It certainly has not been made for any one known purpose but rather has developed because it made people who operated under it more effective in the pursuit of their purposes”

— Friedrich Hayek

Law is indeed a lot like language, its function is to help us transact. And when it’s not structured to help us achieve our goals optimally, then alternatives tends to emerge. Black market norms are a good example. In that sense, one of the differences between a failed and a stable nation is also the nature of laws. More the law deviates from individual needs, more the corruption, disorder etc. In other words, lawlessness might indicate a problem with the law, not the law breakers.

Biography, History, Philosophy

MASSIVE Tom Woods’s LIBERTY CLASSROOM Sale

November 23, 2018 bradbirzer 1 Comment

http://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=8149

Yep, it’s Black Friday. And, for this deal, you not only DON’T have to leave your home, but you’ll ALSO get lots and lots of nutrition for the mind!

Right now, Tom is offering a Master membership to Liberty Classroom for only $287.

If you use the link below and purchase a LC Master membership, I (Brad) will happily and eagerly and joyfully send you a signed copy of IN DEFENSE OF ANDREW JACKSON as well as RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE as my gift.

http://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=8149

After you’ve purchased your membership with the link, let me know, and I’ll send the books to you. Make sure to let me how you want them inscribed.

To Tom! To Liberty! To Classrooms of the mind!

Faith, History

Polish nun who helped saved Jews during Holocaust dies at 110 – Catholic World Report

November 23, 2018 bradbirzer

Polish nun who helped saved Jews during Holocaust dies at 110 – Catholic World Report
— Read on www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/11/21/polish-nun-who-helped-saved-jews-during-holocaust-dies-at-110/

A Polish Cecylia.

Faith, History, Politics

The Rise of Viktor Orbán, Right-Wing Populist ~ The Imaginative Conservative

November 23, 2018 bradbirzer

To secular and leftist Europeans, Hungary’s Fundamental Law came as a shock. The preamble set the tone—it is the opening line of the Hungarian National Hymn (anthem): “God, bless the Hungarians.” That was already too much for The Guardian. A writer for that left-wing British newspaper noted that the new constitution’s “preamble is heavily influenced by the Christian faith and commits Hungary to a whole new set of values, such as family, nation, fidelity, faith, love and labour.” It was enough to point this out: further criticism would apparently have been superfluous.
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/viktor-orban-hungarian-resistance-lee-congdon.html

I consider myself an anti nationalist, but I found this article absolutely fascinating–BB.

Faith, Music, Poetry

Ad Fontes

November 22, 2018 kruekutt

From Lutheran Service Book’s Daily Lectionary for November 22:

Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,

“Hallelujah!
For the Lord our God
the Almighty reigns.” (Revelation 19:6)

Or, to put it another way (especially if you’re George Frederic Handel (and his librettist Charles Jennens):

But wait, there’s more …

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, “Come, gather for the great supper of God, to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.” (Revelation 19:17-18)

Or, to put it another way, if you’re Genesis with Peter Gabriel:

— Rick Krueger

Faith, History

Harmony and Order: Giving Thanks ~ The Imaginative Conservative

November 22, 2018 bradbirzer

Of course, I do not want or desire to conflate that which is sacred with that which is profane. The Sabbath does not exist for the right of association. Yet, as we pause and reflect on the many great and grand blessings bestowed upon us as Americans, we would be foolish to ignore the tradition of self-governance, of community building, and of the right to association. Once again, it is healthy to remember what we should cherish. Plato, after all, told us we must love what should be loved and hate what should be hated. In rough times, we too readily remember the hate part but forget the love part. As you celebrate your time with your family, eat turkey and mashed potatoes, and watch, for the 1000th time, Home Alone, don’t forget to give thanks—to all of those who came before us and, especially, to He who created us in His image to know, to serve, and to love Him.
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/harmony-order-thanksgiving-bradley-birzer.html

Music, Poetry

Cecilian Ode #2: “Welcome to All the Pleasures”

November 22, 2018 kruekutt

In 1683, a new organization, the Musical Society of London, commissioned a setting of Christopher Fishburn’s ode Welcome to All the Pleasures for performance on St. Cecilia’s Day — November 22nd. The Society chose Henry Purcell, 24 years old and already the organist at both Westminister Abbey and the Chapel Royal, as the composer.

Welcome to All the Pleasures proved a hit, with Purcell’s innovative use of the ritornello (a riff for strings punctuating a section of the work) and the ground (a repeating bass line anchoring vocal variations) causing quite the sensation. Not only it was published the following year — a rarity for an extended work in Restoration England — it became the first in a series of Cecilian odes commissioned by the Musical Society for their annual celebration. Purcell wrote three more such odes before his untimely death in 1695, as did contemporaries like John Blow and successors like George Frederic Handel, often setting libretti by renowned poets such as John Dryden and Alexander Pope.

This year, St. Cecilia’s Day is also Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Why not give thanks for the gifts of music and poetry by spending 15 minutes with Welcome to All the Pleasures? The text of Christopher Fishburn’s ode follows below the playlist.

Welcome to All the Pleasures:

Symphony

Alto, tenor and bass: chorus: ritornello
Welcome to all the pleasures that delight
Of ev’ry sense the grateful appetite,
Hail, great assembly of Apollo’s race.
Hail to this happy place, this musical assembly
That seems to be the arc of universal harmony.

Alto: ritornello
Here the Deities approve
The God of Music and of Love;
All the talents they have lent you,
All the blessings they have sent you,
Pleas’d to see what they bestow,
Live and thrive so well below.

Two sopranos and bass: ritornello
While joys celestial their bright souls invade
To find what great improvement you have made.

Alto, tenor and bass: chorus
Then lift up your voices, those organs of nature,
Those charms to the troubled and amorous creature.
The power shall divert us a pleasanter way,
For sorrow and grief find from music relief,
And love its soft charms must obey.
Then lift up your voices, those organs of nature,
Those charms to the troubled and amorous creature.

Tenor: ritornello
Beauty, thou scene of love,
And virtue thou innocent fire,
Made by the powers above
To temper the heat of desire,
Music that fancy employs
In rapture of innocent flame,
We offer with lute and with voice
To Cecilia, Cecilia’s bright name.

Tenor: chorus
In a consort of voices while instruments play
With music we celebrate this holy day;
Iô Cecilia!

(This is the second in a series exploring the Cecilian Ode, a uniquely English poetic and musical genre that spans the centuries from the late 1600s to the present. Check out Ode #1 here; look for a new ode on or about the 22nd of each month!)

— Rick Krueger