Five e-mails and two scripts in... this day's already a corker.

cognizance re-freshing is going well, I think.

Great day recording with Martin Archer today! Check the Discus Music site for his many projects!

New gig: JNE Fluid Orchestra—https://www.coreymwamba.co.uk/gig/general-1481659200

I made The Gardens of Mount Carmel on this day... some time ago.

Looking forward to Bristol on Friday... Here's the full programme for the festival!

However, I'll be on dulcimer... the back needs some R and R!

Popular Delusions is four years old. Not a big milestone, but an album that meant something to make.

New gig: Contra Pop Festival (with Lauren Redhead)—https://www.coreymwamba.co.uk/gig/general-1471780800

Great time in Bristol yesterday! Lovely to see Maggie Nichols, Yvona Magda Anne Gardiner; and the workshop was ace!

Art is a delicate form of communication.

By delicate, I mean fine, intricate; it does not have to be fragile or subtle.

This intricate communication does not have to impart anything, but is always open to an interpretation.

In music, this communication is akin to a feedback loop between the self, the listener(s), and whoever you're playing with.

How/whether we present our identities through that experience is a defining question in jazz and improvised music.

When we work in groups, we balance our selves with the aim of a whole (to make music together).

This balancing act does not always work. But the experience of it, the struggle for the aim—that has an immeasurable value.

It is entirely possible to maintain that struggle, those aims, alone. But collective music making has a special magic of its own.

I watched En Bas last night. Seth Bennett had written some beautiful music for string quartet.

Within that music, four voices aim, struggle; and they make music. But you know there are independent voices within.

This feeling of sounding within, but as yourself is something I know very well from yana.

Feeling within, but as myself is something that I would want for all aspects of my life.

And that is why, based on my feeling, I am going to vote to remain tomorrow.

I could have spoken about this analytically. But choosing one way or another has to have an aesthetic dimension.

Politics is the aesthetics of power.

We react to facts and studies not analytically; but with a sense of taste. "Does this suit me?"

Remaining suits me. And I am not fond of some of the designs I have seen from the other side.

New gig: with Jamal Ross, Jason Yarde and Mark Sanders—https://www.coreymwamba.co.uk/gig/general-1467576000