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Denmark Street - with Ray Russell
Denmark Street is not closing. Though there are changes it's still here.
Coming soon:
ONE MORE TIME: The Story of the Men Behind the music
A Documentary of the UK session players of the 50's to 70's
Follow Us:
https://www.facebook.com/OneMoreTimeDocumentary
published: 20 Feb 2015
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Ray Russell Quintet - BBC Jazz in Britain 1974
BBC Radio 3 Jazz in Britain, Broadcast on 27th May 1974, Presented by Charles Alexander
Ray Russell - electric guitar, composer
Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugelhorn
Gary Windo - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Daryl Runswick - bass guitar
Alan Rushton - drums
1. Introduction (Alexander) 1:29
2. Glimpses (Russell) 13:35
3. Sky Mother (Russell) 13:29
published: 10 Jun 2019
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Fluid Architecture. A new album by Ray Russell released today on Cuneiform records.
Ray Russell - Guitars.Simon Phillips - Drums. George Baldwin - Bass and Chapman stick. Charlie Baldwin - Found sounds and sound design. Mo Foster - Bass.
Nic France - Drums. Jim Watson - Keyboards. Chris Biscoe Soprano sax and Tenor Clarinet.
published: 19 Sep 2020
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Ray Russell Sextet featuring Harry Beckett - Forget To Remember (1970)
From the album - Forget To Remember: Live Vol.2 1970
Listen to the full album here: https://jazzinbritain.co.uk/album/forget-to-remember-live-vol-2-1970
Previously unreleased live session recorded at the Aeolian Hall 2, New Bond Street, London on the 2nd January 1970.
All tracks from the Ray Russell tape archive.
Ray Russell - guitar
Harry Beckett - trumpet/flugelhorn
Tony Roberts - saxes
Nick Evans - trombone
Daryl Runswick - bass
Alan Rushton - drums
All tracks composed by Ray Russell
Liner notes by Richard Williams
Tape transfer by John Thurlow
Produced by Matt Parker for Jazz In Britain Ltd.
© 2021 Jazz In Britain Ltd.
published: 20 Feb 2021
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RAY RUSSELL 606
RAY RUSSELL, with George Baldwin on bass, Robin Aspland on keyboards and Mark Mondesir on drums. 606 Club, London, 1 September 2014.
published: 03 Sep 2014
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Ray Russell - Ready Or Not (Full Album - HQ)
1. 0:03 Ready Or Not
2. 3:46 The Whole Of Tomorrow
3. 8:10 Amy In May
4. 10:56 Slave
5. 16:46 Liberty Caps From The Coast
6. 18:36 Living For The City
7. 22:41 The Clapping Song
8. 26:07 Teaser For Lisa
9. 29:52 Sweet Surrender
10. 33:50 Eighth House
11. 37:21 What Trousers Are These
12. 39:58
All Guitars: Ray Russell
Bass: Mo Foster
Drums: Simon Phillips, Peter Van Hooke
Percussion: John Punter, Kaplan Kaye
Keyboards: Chris Parren, Tony Hymas
Tenor Sax, Flute, Bass Clarinet: Tony Roberts
Trombone: Malcolm Griffiths
Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Martin Drover
Strings: Helen Wright, Gavyn Wright, Levine Andrade, Liz Edwards
Tenor Sax on "The Clapping Song": Andy Mackay
Alto Sax on "Sweet Surrender": Tim Whitehead
Vocals: Denny McCaffrey ("Slave"), Alan Greed and Annie Kavanagh ("The Clapping So...
published: 30 Sep 2018
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Sardonicus by Ray Russell
Russell's loving tribute to gothic fiction.
published: 17 May 2019
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tribute to Geoff - From the forthcoming album "Fluid Architecture" on the Cuneiform Label.
This is a personal account of the loss of a friend and great musician Geoff Castle. We had worked together of a number of years. We were telepathic on performance, he seemed to know me so well. On my new album, I dedicated this track to him which he would usually play on so I just did it on solo Guitar.
The essence of the music is about how many names of people that are passed that we find hard to remove as the names become a memory.
published: 04 Jun 2020
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Ray Russell - "Six In – Six Out" (Official Audio) [from 'Fluid Architecture' (Cuneiform Records)]
Ray Russell : guitar
Simon Phillips : drums
George Baldwin : bass, Chapman Stick
Jim Watson : keyboards
Chris Biscoe : tenor clarinet & soprano saxophone
Ray Russell - "Six In – Six Out" (Official Audio) [from 'Fluid Architecture' (Cuneiform Records)]. You can easily purchase this album now at: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fluid-architecture-2
Frank Zappa famously characterized music as sculpted air, a notion Ray Russell parlays into another dimension entirely on Fluid Architecture. Russell's new collection of unique sonic structures – his first solo album since 2013's Now, More Than Ever – reflects the composer and longtime Fender Strat experimentalist's sonic signature – one distinguished by diversity and combining luscious lyricism, screaming expressionism, and an alien...
published: 27 Aug 2020
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The Ray Russell Quartet - Spring Flower (1967)
Download here: https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/spontaneous-event-live-vol-1-1967-69
From the album 'Spontaneous Event'.
Recorded live in London, November 1967.
Ray Russell - guitar
Roy Fry - piano
Dave Holland - bass
Alan Rushton - drums
published: 26 Jan 2020
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Denmark Street - with Ray Russell
Denmark Street is not closing. Though there are changes it's still here.
Coming soon:
ONE MORE TIME: The Story of the Men Behind the music
A Documentary of t...
Denmark Street is not closing. Though there are changes it's still here.
Coming soon:
ONE MORE TIME: The Story of the Men Behind the music
A Documentary of the UK session players of the 50's to 70's
Follow Us:
https://www.facebook.com/OneMoreTimeDocumentary
https://wn.com/Denmark_Street_With_Ray_Russell
Denmark Street is not closing. Though there are changes it's still here.
Coming soon:
ONE MORE TIME: The Story of the Men Behind the music
A Documentary of the UK session players of the 50's to 70's
Follow Us:
https://www.facebook.com/OneMoreTimeDocumentary
- published: 20 Feb 2015
- views: 3202
28:36
Ray Russell Quintet - BBC Jazz in Britain 1974
BBC Radio 3 Jazz in Britain, Broadcast on 27th May 1974, Presented by Charles Alexander
Ray Russell - electric guitar, composer
Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugel...
BBC Radio 3 Jazz in Britain, Broadcast on 27th May 1974, Presented by Charles Alexander
Ray Russell - electric guitar, composer
Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugelhorn
Gary Windo - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Daryl Runswick - bass guitar
Alan Rushton - drums
1. Introduction (Alexander) 1:29
2. Glimpses (Russell) 13:35
3. Sky Mother (Russell) 13:29
https://wn.com/Ray_Russell_Quintet_BBC_Jazz_In_Britain_1974
BBC Radio 3 Jazz in Britain, Broadcast on 27th May 1974, Presented by Charles Alexander
Ray Russell - electric guitar, composer
Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugelhorn
Gary Windo - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Daryl Runswick - bass guitar
Alan Rushton - drums
1. Introduction (Alexander) 1:29
2. Glimpses (Russell) 13:35
3. Sky Mother (Russell) 13:29
- published: 10 Jun 2019
- views: 1110
3:54
Fluid Architecture. A new album by Ray Russell released today on Cuneiform records.
Ray Russell - Guitars.Simon Phillips - Drums. George Baldwin - Bass and Chapman stick. Charlie Baldwin - Found sounds and sound design. Mo Foster - Bass.
Nic ...
Ray Russell - Guitars.Simon Phillips - Drums. George Baldwin - Bass and Chapman stick. Charlie Baldwin - Found sounds and sound design. Mo Foster - Bass.
Nic France - Drums. Jim Watson - Keyboards. Chris Biscoe Soprano sax and Tenor Clarinet.
https://wn.com/Fluid_Architecture._A_New_Album_By_Ray_Russell_Released_Today_On_Cuneiform_Records.
Ray Russell - Guitars.Simon Phillips - Drums. George Baldwin - Bass and Chapman stick. Charlie Baldwin - Found sounds and sound design. Mo Foster - Bass.
Nic France - Drums. Jim Watson - Keyboards. Chris Biscoe Soprano sax and Tenor Clarinet.
- published: 19 Sep 2020
- views: 428
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Ray Russell Sextet featuring Harry Beckett - Forget To Remember (1970)
From the album - Forget To Remember: Live Vol.2 1970
Listen to the full album here: https://jazzinbritain.co.uk/album/forget-to-remember-live-vol-2-1970
Prev...
From the album - Forget To Remember: Live Vol.2 1970
Listen to the full album here: https://jazzinbritain.co.uk/album/forget-to-remember-live-vol-2-1970
Previously unreleased live session recorded at the Aeolian Hall 2, New Bond Street, London on the 2nd January 1970.
All tracks from the Ray Russell tape archive.
Ray Russell - guitar
Harry Beckett - trumpet/flugelhorn
Tony Roberts - saxes
Nick Evans - trombone
Daryl Runswick - bass
Alan Rushton - drums
All tracks composed by Ray Russell
Liner notes by Richard Williams
Tape transfer by John Thurlow
Produced by Matt Parker for Jazz In Britain Ltd.
© 2021 Jazz In Britain Ltd.
https://wn.com/Ray_Russell_Sextet_Featuring_Harry_Beckett_Forget_To_Remember_(1970)
From the album - Forget To Remember: Live Vol.2 1970
Listen to the full album here: https://jazzinbritain.co.uk/album/forget-to-remember-live-vol-2-1970
Previously unreleased live session recorded at the Aeolian Hall 2, New Bond Street, London on the 2nd January 1970.
All tracks from the Ray Russell tape archive.
Ray Russell - guitar
Harry Beckett - trumpet/flugelhorn
Tony Roberts - saxes
Nick Evans - trombone
Daryl Runswick - bass
Alan Rushton - drums
All tracks composed by Ray Russell
Liner notes by Richard Williams
Tape transfer by John Thurlow
Produced by Matt Parker for Jazz In Britain Ltd.
© 2021 Jazz In Britain Ltd.
- published: 20 Feb 2021
- views: 737
9:58
RAY RUSSELL 606
RAY RUSSELL, with George Baldwin on bass, Robin Aspland on keyboards and Mark Mondesir on drums. 606 Club, London, 1 September 2014.
RAY RUSSELL, with George Baldwin on bass, Robin Aspland on keyboards and Mark Mondesir on drums. 606 Club, London, 1 September 2014.
https://wn.com/Ray_Russell_606
RAY RUSSELL, with George Baldwin on bass, Robin Aspland on keyboards and Mark Mondesir on drums. 606 Club, London, 1 September 2014.
- published: 03 Sep 2014
- views: 5257
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Ray Russell - Ready Or Not (Full Album - HQ)
1. 0:03 Ready Or Not
2. 3:46 The Whole Of Tomorrow
3. 8:10 Amy In May
4. 10:56 Slave
5. 16:46 Liberty Caps From The Coast
6. 18:36 Living For The City
7. 22:41 ...
1. 0:03 Ready Or Not
2. 3:46 The Whole Of Tomorrow
3. 8:10 Amy In May
4. 10:56 Slave
5. 16:46 Liberty Caps From The Coast
6. 18:36 Living For The City
7. 22:41 The Clapping Song
8. 26:07 Teaser For Lisa
9. 29:52 Sweet Surrender
10. 33:50 Eighth House
11. 37:21 What Trousers Are These
12. 39:58
All Guitars: Ray Russell
Bass: Mo Foster
Drums: Simon Phillips, Peter Van Hooke
Percussion: John Punter, Kaplan Kaye
Keyboards: Chris Parren, Tony Hymas
Tenor Sax, Flute, Bass Clarinet: Tony Roberts
Trombone: Malcolm Griffiths
Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Martin Drover
Strings: Helen Wright, Gavyn Wright, Levine Andrade, Liz Edwards
Tenor Sax on "The Clapping Song": Andy Mackay
Alto Sax on "Sweet Surrender": Tim Whitehead
Vocals: Denny McCaffrey ("Slave"), Alan Greed and Annie Kavanagh ("The Clapping Song"), Annie Kavanagh and Moon Williams ("Sweet Surrender")
DJM Records 1977
All rights reserved
I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING
ENJOY AND CHECK OUT MY 2ND CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALkkEznWeuY1uvKIOjtTRQ/videos
https://wn.com/Ray_Russell_Ready_Or_Not_(Full_Album_Hq)
1. 0:03 Ready Or Not
2. 3:46 The Whole Of Tomorrow
3. 8:10 Amy In May
4. 10:56 Slave
5. 16:46 Liberty Caps From The Coast
6. 18:36 Living For The City
7. 22:41 The Clapping Song
8. 26:07 Teaser For Lisa
9. 29:52 Sweet Surrender
10. 33:50 Eighth House
11. 37:21 What Trousers Are These
12. 39:58
All Guitars: Ray Russell
Bass: Mo Foster
Drums: Simon Phillips, Peter Van Hooke
Percussion: John Punter, Kaplan Kaye
Keyboards: Chris Parren, Tony Hymas
Tenor Sax, Flute, Bass Clarinet: Tony Roberts
Trombone: Malcolm Griffiths
Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Martin Drover
Strings: Helen Wright, Gavyn Wright, Levine Andrade, Liz Edwards
Tenor Sax on "The Clapping Song": Andy Mackay
Alto Sax on "Sweet Surrender": Tim Whitehead
Vocals: Denny McCaffrey ("Slave"), Alan Greed and Annie Kavanagh ("The Clapping Song"), Annie Kavanagh and Moon Williams ("Sweet Surrender")
DJM Records 1977
All rights reserved
I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING
ENJOY AND CHECK OUT MY 2ND CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALkkEznWeuY1uvKIOjtTRQ/videos
- published: 30 Sep 2018
- views: 2608
1:40:18
Sardonicus by Ray Russell
Russell's loving tribute to gothic fiction.
Russell's loving tribute to gothic fiction.
https://wn.com/Sardonicus_By_Ray_Russell
Russell's loving tribute to gothic fiction.
- published: 17 May 2019
- views: 2466
5:41
tribute to Geoff - From the forthcoming album "Fluid Architecture" on the Cuneiform Label.
This is a personal account of the loss of a friend and great musician Geoff Castle. We had worked together of a number of years. We were telepathic on performan...
This is a personal account of the loss of a friend and great musician Geoff Castle. We had worked together of a number of years. We were telepathic on performance, he seemed to know me so well. On my new album, I dedicated this track to him which he would usually play on so I just did it on solo Guitar.
The essence of the music is about how many names of people that are passed that we find hard to remove as the names become a memory.
https://wn.com/Tribute_To_Geoff_From_The_Forthcoming_Album_Fluid_Architecture_On_The_Cuneiform_Label.
This is a personal account of the loss of a friend and great musician Geoff Castle. We had worked together of a number of years. We were telepathic on performance, he seemed to know me so well. On my new album, I dedicated this track to him which he would usually play on so I just did it on solo Guitar.
The essence of the music is about how many names of people that are passed that we find hard to remove as the names become a memory.
- published: 04 Jun 2020
- views: 282
5:03
Ray Russell - "Six In – Six Out" (Official Audio) [from 'Fluid Architecture' (Cuneiform Records)]
Ray Russell : guitar
Simon Phillips : drums
George Baldwin : bass, Chapman Stick
Jim Watson : keyboards
Chris Biscoe : tenor clarinet & soprano saxophone
Ray R...
Ray Russell : guitar
Simon Phillips : drums
George Baldwin : bass, Chapman Stick
Jim Watson : keyboards
Chris Biscoe : tenor clarinet & soprano saxophone
Ray Russell - "Six In – Six Out" (Official Audio) [from 'Fluid Architecture' (Cuneiform Records)]. You can easily purchase this album now at: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fluid-architecture-2
Frank Zappa famously characterized music as sculpted air, a notion Ray Russell parlays into another dimension entirely on Fluid Architecture. Russell's new collection of unique sonic structures – his first solo album since 2013's Now, More Than Ever – reflects the composer and longtime Fender Strat experimentalist's sonic signature – one distinguished by diversity and combining luscious lyricism, screaming expressionism, and an alien vocabulary of textures and colors – often within the same track. Russell's guitar can be as comforting as man's best friend or as threatening as colors out of space.
Past, present, and future entwine on opener "Escaping the Six-String Cage." This sinuous and stately, electronically enhanced edifice subliminally samples Russell's free-music masterpiece, June 11th 1971: Live at the ICA (reissued on Jim O'Rourke's Mokai label). It's the perfect introduction to the architectonic underpinnings of Russell's sound(s).
Fluid Architecture's arrangements focus on unique configurations featuring collaborators old and new. The first of the album's four extended group combustications, "Turn Right at Ventura," applies a sci-fi spin to echoes of the R&B; twang heard during Russell's mid-'60s "James Bond" era with the John Barry Seven. A quintet featuring Russell's former RMS drummer Simon Phillips (of Toto fame and oh-so-much more) cooks and careens during a slightly ominous joy ride down Blue Jay Way's somewhat less groovy neighbor.
"We Go a Short Way Back," "Six In – Six Out," and "A Room Within a Room" display Russell's free-associative compositional strategies amid different groups, all eliciting thrillingly narrative and deeply communicative performances. The first of these is a sort of cosmic shuffle, with Russell navigating at his coolest. "Six In – Six Out" reflects its title, with relatively restrained quartet playing giving way to eerier extremes. "A Room Within a Room" is a first-take-best-take gem featuring Chris Biscoe's soprano sax poking through themes within themes and a cloud of high-octane mysterioso. George Baldwin does most of the bottom-end lifting on bass and Chapman stick, with Mo Foster (the M of RMS) replacing him on "A Room Within a Room." Drummers Nic France and Ralph Salmins appear on "We Go a Short Way Back" and "A Room Within a Room," respectively.
"Moon Dog" is a harmonically formal solo, an emotionally resonant electric elegy for a brave stray dog Russell and his wife rescued from
Afghanistan. Another elegy, "One for Geoff," offers a short, sweet acoustic tribute to the late keyboardist Geoff Castle, with whom Russell worked for a half-century.
Although you'll hear little of Russell's extensive experience as a library artist and award-winning soundtrack composer in its chambers, Fluid Architecture resonates with Russell's various immersions in R&B;, cool jazz, jazz-rock/rock-jazz fusion, and absolute freedom. They're just some of design elements informing a structure that reserves the right to dissolve its boundaries at will. And if you choose to dance to Fluid Architecture, ain't nobody's business if you do.
Ray Russell : guitar
Simon Phillips : drums
George Baldwin : bass, Chapman Stick
Jim Watson : keyboards
Chris Biscoe : tenor clarinet & soprano saxophone
Ray Russell - "Six In – Six Out" (Official Audio) [from 'Fluid Architecture' (Cuneiform Records)]. You can easily purchase this album now at: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fluid-architecture-2
Frank Zappa famously characterized music as sculpted air, a notion Ray Russell parlays into another dimension entirely on Fluid Architecture. Russell's new collection of unique sonic structures – his first solo album since 2013's Now, More Than Ever – reflects the composer and longtime Fender Strat experimentalist's sonic signature – one distinguished by diversity and combining luscious lyricism, screaming expressionism, and an alien vocabulary of textures and colors – often within the same track. Russell's guitar can be as comforting as man's best friend or as threatening as colors out of space.
Past, present, and future entwine on opener "Escaping the Six-String Cage." This sinuous and stately, electronically enhanced edifice subliminally samples Russell's free-music masterpiece, June 11th 1971: Live at the ICA (reissued on Jim O'Rourke's Mokai label). It's the perfect introduction to the architectonic underpinnings of Russell's sound(s).
Fluid Architecture's arrangements focus on unique configurations featuring collaborators old and new. The first of the album's four extended group combustications, "Turn Right at Ventura," applies a sci-fi spin to echoes of the R&B; twang heard during Russell's mid-'60s "James Bond" era with the John Barry Seven. A quintet featuring Russell's former RMS drummer Simon Phillips (of Toto fame and oh-so-much more) cooks and careens during a slightly ominous joy ride down Blue Jay Way's somewhat less groovy neighbor.
"We Go a Short Way Back," "Six In – Six Out," and "A Room Within a Room" display Russell's free-associative compositional strategies amid different groups, all eliciting thrillingly narrative and deeply communicative performances. The first of these is a sort of cosmic shuffle, with Russell navigating at his coolest. "Six In – Six Out" reflects its title, with relatively restrained quartet playing giving way to eerier extremes. "A Room Within a Room" is a first-take-best-take gem featuring Chris Biscoe's soprano sax poking through themes within themes and a cloud of high-octane mysterioso. George Baldwin does most of the bottom-end lifting on bass and Chapman stick, with Mo Foster (the M of RMS) replacing him on "A Room Within a Room." Drummers Nic France and Ralph Salmins appear on "We Go a Short Way Back" and "A Room Within a Room," respectively.
"Moon Dog" is a harmonically formal solo, an emotionally resonant electric elegy for a brave stray dog Russell and his wife rescued from
Afghanistan. Another elegy, "One for Geoff," offers a short, sweet acoustic tribute to the late keyboardist Geoff Castle, with whom Russell worked for a half-century.
Although you'll hear little of Russell's extensive experience as a library artist and award-winning soundtrack composer in its chambers, Fluid Architecture resonates with Russell's various immersions in R&B;, cool jazz, jazz-rock/rock-jazz fusion, and absolute freedom. They're just some of design elements informing a structure that reserves the right to dissolve its boundaries at will. And if you choose to dance to Fluid Architecture, ain't nobody's business if you do.
- published: 27 Aug 2020
- views: 1974
4:50
The Ray Russell Quartet - Spring Flower (1967)
Download here: https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/spontaneous-event-live-vol-1-1967-69
From the album 'Spontaneous Event'.
Recorded live in London, No...
Download here: https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/spontaneous-event-live-vol-1-1967-69
From the album 'Spontaneous Event'.
Recorded live in London, November 1967.
Ray Russell - guitar
Roy Fry - piano
Dave Holland - bass
Alan Rushton - drums
https://wn.com/The_Ray_Russell_Quartet_Spring_Flower_(1967)
Download here: https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/spontaneous-event-live-vol-1-1967-69
From the album 'Spontaneous Event'.
Recorded live in London, November 1967.
Ray Russell - guitar
Roy Fry - piano
Dave Holland - bass
Alan Rushton - drums
- published: 26 Jan 2020
- views: 1565
![Ray Russell - "Six In – Six Out" (Official Audio) [from 'Fluid Architecture' (Cuneiform Records)]](http://web.archive.org./web/20220709195808im_/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_7ujCETWa7I/0.jpg "Ray Russell - \"Six In – Six Out\" (Official Audio) [from 'Fluid Architecture' (Cuneiform Records)]")
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05 Jul 2022
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05 Jul 2022
