Archive - Songs and Objects

Run. Listen. Repeat.

Thinking about chaos, silence and running-while-listening.

Jun 15 •

Richard Elliott

May 2025

April 2025

Blue Moments with Frank Sinatra

It's seventy Aprils since In The Wee Small Hours.

Apr 25

Words from the New World Part 3: The Transience of Adventure

Patti Smith turns formative events into evocative objects.

Apr 19 •

Richard Elliott

Words from the New World Part 2: Patti Smith and the Weight of Horses

Can those who write about Patti Smith manage to see beyond her most famous album?

Apr 11 •

Richard Elliott

From the Archive: Nina Simone, 'Sunday in Savannah / Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) / Mississippi Goddam'

Nina Simone mourns Martin Luther King on 7 April 1968.

Apr 7 •

Richard Elliott

Words from the New World: Patti Smith’s Banga

Part 1 of a three-part essay on adventure and memory in Patti Smith's later work.

Apr 3 •

Richard Elliott

March 2025

February 2025

All of This is Fado (I)

An untranslatable longing or a longing for untranslatability?

Feb 27 •

Richard Elliott

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