Daniel Bachman

The Witness Tree | Daniel Bachman Check out my new multimedia documentary project The Witness Tree. The album was created using biodata sonification of 16 remarkable trees from all around Virginia who have lived through significant moments in history or climate driven disasters.

Were doing more singer bios & thought I would share this one. This is Nannie Harrison Ware from Amherst VA. Prof Davis says she's 85 years old at the beginning of the record putting her born in the 1850s. Really interesting look into mid 19 century tunes. I like the lady of the lake.

My new fretless guitar is coming this weekend and I'm so excited to adapt some of these ballad melodies to that thing. This "silver dagger" one really haunts me.

Before Aldona and I had any luck with support from the humanities orgs and getting the folklore society revived, Rhizome was supporting our research. I don't know of another arts space in the US supporting everything from local avant garde music/art to independent scholarship.

Local screening of the Witness Tree at Rhizome DC coming up. Rhizome has been so supportive of my work for the last ten years or longer, hope people enjoy the film! Microcinema: Daniel Bachman - The Witness Tree — Rhizome DC

Ursula Le Guin American Masters tonight.

I just heard a vehicle coming down the road really slow and I thought it was a school bus but it was the biggest dumbest truck I’ve ever seen.

Today, we cover record king tide flooding in the Southeast U.S., record river flooding the Four Corners region, plus cyclones in the WPac and Bay of Bengal: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/reco...

Ive said it before but I think we should talk more about early christian zionism in colonial America/Virginia during the early 18th century. The English/Germans that settled here in Madison co brutally ethnically cleansed the Manahoac people here, then named the valleys & towns Hebron, Syria, etc.

I really feel seen with this one 😂

Re uploading a lot of the stuff that 3Lobed wiped from the internet when I spoke out about not getting paid. This was a performance I taped for my Axacan record.Still proud of this one, cannot believe its been 5 years!

My new favorite music to work or write to during the day is stacking as many free phone apps for oscillator/tone generator/shruti box apps that I can at the same time and just letting them roll into each other.

Alright Gordonsville!

Norman Finkelsteins piece on abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison refusing to condemn Nat Turner after the revolt, to the events on 10/7, was a mind changer for me. Garrison takes shit for softening after the Civil War but this stance was 100% the most violently unpopular opinion in the US in 1831.

Our first online event for the Folklore Society is this Thursday “An Evening With Nat Turner”. Who was Nat Turner, & how did he become an icon of revolution/resistance all over the world? Hear from Turner descendant Bruce Turner & co clerk Rick Francis as they explore the oral & material history.

Radio Free Europe (such a beautiful name) reports on what just happened in my #Serbia

All the elections and protests are so inspiring and beautiful to witness but damn it’s a reminder of how fucking fascist our country is.

yup.

Lula Goes HARD

Surprisingly deep cut Watch Mojo staff pics for best Halloween movies.

Congratulations president Lula! That shit had me pretty nervous I’m ngl 😂

Windows open in late October, might be the hottest I remember this time of year?

New Sarah Davachi out Nov 6 is really sounding good. sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/book-o... Book of Carols | Sarah Davachi

Still forcing summer squash into everything we can. Today is the anchovies lover squash focaccia 😮‍💨

Just caught a clip of hoards of people cheering when trump removed the US from the Paris Agreement and it’s like watching a Nazi rally that will have greater and longer lasting consequences for all life on Earth. I really believe it’ll be one of those clips people look back on in disbelief.

Damn it’s hot as hell outside.

Good amaranth harvest this year. I’m convinced this is a plant of the future. Really wish we could mill this stuff, but rn I pop it and add it to stuff like granola and it has more protein than tofu.

Just found a 2006 CDr with Knuck If You Buck on it. What an insane era, I remember that year that track was banned from all the school dances in every county around Fburg.

Got this one out while working outside this morning. Don’t see many of these Jack Rose Tequila Sunrise CDs on the internet. I had so much of this stuff that I’ve lost over the years. I heard the pic was some ancestor of Jacks in King George co VA.

Does anyone know how to stream the Elon Musk doc for free?

Revisiting this one on the abandoned DeJarnette Sanatorium in Staunton. DeJarnette was a eugenicist who was in contact with the Nazis & there are wild local legends of gas chambers & no doubt many people Still buried here. Few videos on this place on the internet, Fife Paranormal did a great job!

"One of the foundations of humanity’s collective response to climate collapse is going to have to be a return to real justice.” - @ghostpanther.bsky.social Full conversation on WPKN's Digging In The Dirt: wpkn.org/program/digg...

Its not too late to order some onion plants for overwintering. We did Hoss multiplier onions last year and they worked great. We will get one 50' bed planted with this bundle of 150 plants.

Bevis is doing really good with the leash, still a healthy fear of cars though and won’t go near the road. Can’t wait for the winter time when all the snakes and ticks are gone and we can let her roam wherever she wants.

The Norm Macdonald doc is really sweet and funny. “In my opinion, if you're going to fight the war on terror, a good place to start would be this nation's haunted houses."

Honest question…as the USA becomes responsible for 70% of new planet heating emissions, why does the music press & other cultural media continue to stay silent. Is it the corporate consolidation & editors, or do people just not care? I keep up with this stuff, other countries are doing it different.

This week it’s all about the sweet potatoes we just harvested. These are an heirloom variety from Orapeake farms in Suffolk Va. “The Virginia Baker Sweet Potato was developed at the Virginia Agriculture and Trucking Station in Virginia Beach, Virginia in the mid 1900's.”

I never knew about Jim Glover’s music before, or his association with Phil Ochs, but damn that dude lived a wild/completely ordinary life. Seems like his parents were heavily surveilled during the McCarthy era, has some pretty wild stories about spies & the CIA during the folk revival. Jim Glover

Story from KOAT-TV in ABQ about the northern NM flooding. Amazed this is not getting more national coverage. www.koat.com/article/new-...

Watching antiques roadshow season one.

New adventures in dinner, Aldona got some of this olive vegetable for a tofu greens stir fry base tonight. Really good, deep oily and has that fried onion taste.

Finally getting our garlic in the ground, first year supplementing our order with our own seed!