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Strange Textures

Strange Textures

By: Strange Textures
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Summary

Hi, I’m James and this is my personal journal.

I have difficulty sometimes with words, so I wanted to keep a journal that wouldn’t involve them. Instead I try to communicate by improvising a piece of music every week.

Some call it ambient and post-rock. It has things in common with those, and others. Abstract and impressionist, it changes.

It’s me, recorded most often in a moment and not repeated, it contains all the happy accidents* that occur with this sort of thing. It often has a soothing effect and is meant to be listened to, but can work in the background.

Check out other things I do at strangetextures.com.

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Episodes
  • Muniments

    Muniments
    10 Nov 2026

    Simple one this week - I’ve been to Hardwick Hall. It’s been a long time since I could actually go in the house, and it was lovely.

    Get your muniments in order and enjoy!
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    1 hr and 5 min
  • Bright in the fields

    Bright in the fields
    3 Nov 2026

    I fully intend to not talk this season unless I have to. I might do some additional notes episodes, and I suppose I might need to make announcements, but I’d rather not. I’m aiming at a more full abstraction if you like, although I’d say the words are the abstraction and this is reality. Unless I’m slipping away?

    Things I’m enjoying this week:

    • For the Setting Sun by CommsBreakdown & Socool listening to it as I write this in fact.

    • Witch BBC radio show exploring what it means to be a witch today

    • Julie Enfield Investigates another BBC radio show which is a deep and peculiar crime drama

    • I’m also reading this article from Liz Pelly that I found vis the Mirlo newsletter - a quick and interesting read
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Additional Notes

    Additional Notes
    29 Oct 2026

    Additional notes - an explanation of what’s been happening, why it’s taken a while, and what might be coming next.

    Content warning - around 18 minutes in I talk a little bit about the impact of pet bereavement - there is a warning and pause before I do.

    Sinister Viscosity is available from Bandcamp as a digital download or on actual real live CD media.
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    30 min
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