Dear Mailing List,

Let’s start this newsletter with some music. Our first playlist for my new book And the Roots of Rhythm Remain seemed to go down well, so Andrea and I have put together another 100-track selection of artists, songs and styles described in the book. You can find them both here. The long promised website full of clips, tracks and rabbit-holes will appear one day, but it is taking (surprise!) longer than expected.

The main event here is a return to those extended epistles o...