from freak fighter to lamp lighter
 

too much sun
not enough sun
hot air holds moisture
don't misunderstand

Here's a 2017 metal release

winter by a black metal sounding English band called FEN




https://fenuk.bandcamp.com/album/winter

the next time you're out with small oil lamps on small rock ledges one track off this might be more suitable for your playlist (the last one)

maybe I'm getting old but what are you yelling about?

I like it when they mellow out. Burn some lavender candles boys nobody is listening anyway

you ever know a dog that hated the 4th of July

it's only when they start with all that boom boom

they love the hotdogs and the drunk uncles that touches them EVERYWHERE

dogs love that

i want to draw the reader's attention to a field recording ambient musician

you can draw his music up by searching Peter James on Bandcamp

this is Peter James from Edinburgh

If you like this genre of music give his album memento (2011) a listen. It's very heavy on the field side of the equation. There's a lot of music out there recordings of rain or streams or crashing waves. Sleep. Relaxation. Xanax and bubble bath. The new new age. What separates the wheat from the chaff is how well does the artist interact with nature. James takes a modest minimalist approach using bowls and bells. It's in tune. He successfully compliments the sonic "postcard" (his word) he creates. It's a crowded genre but I recommend this one for your next nap.

Peace

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The Caretaker - Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom

What if William Basinski's Disintegration Loops weren't tapes but rather memories of The Shining in a wet brain?

Instead of making sure you've actually read The Shining I'm going to use this sentence to make note of the importance of READING The Exorcist.

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The Exorcist and The Shining both use the music of Penderecki.

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This is pleasant

Just heard it for the first time

It's 2017 stuff

Mellow indie folk from Australia

Hollow Coves

Let me be one of the first to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Dalek's debut Negro Necro Nekros. Since we got another year I should have a fair head start. If it was to just come out next year it would still be revolutionary. Beautiful seemingly non-commercial hip hop. Relaxed with beautiful textures and smooth beats. In every way an alternative. Also, a clinic on self-discipline. Absolutely remarkable. The entire thing is up on youtube:

X

Nice titties up there.

One thing thing I want to try to do in this journal is explore the careers of certain musicians who managed to play on a surprisingly large number of great recordings. I know that people who start up ideas often bite off more than they can chew. This is one I'll just have to take my time about because naturally there's more writing to do if the musician is prolific. The first of these musicians I've decided to spotlight is Philly Joe Jones. I'll be learning as we go. Please feel free to chime in.

Jones lived from 1923-1985 and played drums for the Miles Davis Quintet. Living and dying up to his name he was born and he died in Philadelphia.

I'm going to start here with this record and probably return to his discography every third post or so.

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Drums Around the World

This is a swing hard bop connection album. Plenty of solos but no bull**** monkey tricks. Every beat must swing and they all do. He's not out to prove he's the greatest drummer ever. He's out to prove that percussion can lead a jazz band within the parameters of the asthetic. The album cover doesn't even mention my favorite musician featured, bassist Jimmy Garrison, but he's in there. This is from 1959 and unfortunately some of the attempted worldliness can seem a bit cliche through our contemporary lenses. It's not perfect or crushingly profound but it's still a good record to know if you care about piecing together how jazz built on itself.

Be one of the first 500 people to check out this YouTube clip

Attaching the name of someone greater than you on you're own work of art usually strikes me as a cheap trick. How about the genius' mom?

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Barbara Monk


Thelonious Monk's mother...

She managed to take her brilliant son out of the oppression of North Carolina into NYC's elite Stuyvesant High School. Even today Stuyvesant's student
body is less than 2% African-American. But elitism doesn't foster genius so
she ended up encouraging him to drop out and focus on music. She gave the world Monk the man and saw to it that his greatness would be shared with the world.

If you dare to pay tribute it better be done right. This one is:

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ran blake the short life of barbara monk

1927

There ain't no such a thing as an unimportant year. Every year is huge and that's a mother****ing historical fact. Don't accept any bull**** revisionism. Descartes claimed thought proves existence. Kant claimed existence proves time. Every Planck unit held or will hold everything and every happening in existence. When rolling through the years I often stop at 1927 because of the Bristol Sessions. Recorded music would never go back. My favorite of all those recorded is Kentuckian Benjamin Frank Shelton.

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If you don't like this you should kill yourself because your life isn't worth living. This is one of only four songs that we still have record of.

What else about 1927?

This and that. Who gives a ****?

Charles Lindbergh flew The Spirit if St. Louis from NYC to Paris.

THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING HOAX Bruno Richard Hauptmann: Wrongly Executed April 3, 1936

Ah, the good old days.

Edgard Varèse finished composing Arcana.

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Father of Electronic Music

(He's your Daddy, bitches)



Also Show Boat premiered. And with it, one of the greatest songs ever written, Ol' Man River. The signature voice of this classic was card carrying communist and brilliant in every ****ing way Paul Robeson.

He could **** NWA up.



Don't believe any of the suicide bull****. Albert Ayler was murdered by the pigs. Here's his brilliant unspeakably beautiful version

Joe Meek killed himself in 1967 after getting amped up on ****oads of speed and killing his landlady for being a bitch and constantly hassling him about the ****ing rent.

I think I speak for everyone when I express my deepest gratitude that 2 Live Crew took the time to preserve the best 80's nostalgia ever made



You can't put a ****ing price on it.

I'm gonna charge 50 Cent for it, bitch.

I'll stomp a mud hole in your ass, Quarter Flash.

Listen to P-A-N

I'm sure all across America, We Want Some Pussy, was THE party anthem of the year. Just in time for our pilgrimage to the beach for spring break. Open beercans and lit joints at 105 MPH the whole way. Just completed my Scared Straight program. Sand, waves, bikinis, rap music, and drugs and alcohol. I wasn't on the sidelines. I got mine. Hot and tidy. 5'5'' 115lbs 17 year old c cups. She got passed around a bit but I got my turn. I didn't like any other dicks going into it but you know a book ain't no worse just cause you got it at the library.

Next spring break cliche. Dude falls off the balcony. Me and two homies find him there all smashed and groaning. Did his life destroying circumstances penetrate my very stoned brain with empathy? Nope. Just a surreal fascination with a realization that if someone else calls 911 the fuzz will start with that fuzzing.

Back to the hotel. **** the entire 11th and 12th grades are packed into the room. 2 Live Crew and the Beasties on the boom box. Cops. Pigs. Bacon.

"Let's get head count in here"
Grabs dick, "I got your head count right here!"
"Hey aaay we want some puuusay"

While a couple of my friends were arrested my scared straight skinny white boy ass stumbled out to the beach where the soft wind and moonlight made for perfect frisbee tossing.

My top ten reggae songs:

10) I and I Survive (Slavery Days) - Burning Spear
9) Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley and the Wailers
8) King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown- Augustus Pablo
7) Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff
6) Pressure Drop - The Maytals
5) I am that I am - Peter Tosh
4) Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers
3) Israelites - Desmond Dekker
2) Fisherman - The Congos
1) Zion Blood - Lee Scratch Perry/The Upsetters

What if I told you the best music Jimmy Page and Robert Plant ever made came way after the death of John Bonham?

That would be so cool if Plant wasn't involved.

I actually think he's good. Page kind of throws it off for a second when he first jumps in louder but then he catches the groove.

Those guys hopping on the Moroccan scene is some appropriation dick riding though. I still like it. I also like The Shore OST and naturally Ornette's stuff. Still though, the best way to listen to the Master Musicians of Jajuoka is on their own.

More on...

PHILLY JOE JONES

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TOGETHER
1961

with the greatest drummer of all time

ELVIN JONES

also features Paul Chambers and Hank Mobley

Page six of the NYTimes five sentence blurb: Entire Algerian Village Found Dead

Every few months or so in the late '80s early '90s. Whatever terror occurred in that era it's been lost. The French journalists had long since been driven out. Image search Algerian War and you'll find some of the most horrible images out there. But those aren't from then. That was earlier. So little documentation of whoever was killing who and why. I don't know. I'm not sure anyone cares enough to know. Was it worse in Angola? Burma? Nicaragua? How can terror so profound become so misplaced? This world...Goddamn...

Algeria's Souad Massi



Souad Massi: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR

I love the Tiny Desk Concert. I mean, NPR, Christ, I know. But she's so sincere. She's pure. Is it really so bad to actually enjoy something? And she's beautiful, too.

Seven degrees to Kevin Bacon. Link this to that.

Starting at The End





Butthole Surfers - Sweat Loaf



Sweat Loaf is a homage to Sweet Leaf

Beastie Boys - Rhymin and Stealin samples the guitar riff from Sweat Leaf on top of the drum beat to When the Levee Breaks

Goddamn this is ****ing brilliant



Satanic Circle ‎– Black Dominate And Sodomy Metal

All I know about it is it ought to be famous as ****

Raw

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...2BezwM7BXBKnY8

https://bangsnap.bandcamp.com/music

This is a ****ing emergency

KURT BAUER

****ing good lord this guy a goddamn genius and nobody cares

This is some of the best music ever made

look how ****ing cool this is

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You heard it here first

Holy **** you are not overreacting. Listening to Voodoo Blues right now and it's some instant classic material.

Oh man, and breathe sounds like it could've been the original recordings from Womblife before Fahey manipulated them.

i dont get it

Those Who Know Darkness, See The Light

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It wears you out. It doesn't make you stronger. It just wears you out. Blisters. Sores. Nerves. Exposed bone. Marrow. You're not sucking the marrow from life. Life is sucking the marrow from you.

You know. You know the brutality of misogyny. Misopedia. Is there a word for self-hatred?

Go back before time and give the universe an abortion. Crucifixion by vacuum. Space hates a vacuum.

Point. Counterpoint.

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This band pulled a Negativland style stunt disguising their demo as leaked Trump/Comey conversations and sending it to Jewish record producers with return addresses of extreme right groups like the KKK.

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You can Google the story if you want. It made Pitchfork.

All I can say is that at least this one video is pretty good. I like this song:



The Domestics. As opposed to Foreigner?



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This always pissed me off the Rollins changed the lyrics to "white man had the MONEY"

Not that it's not historically more accurate it's just how can justify making punk rock LESS offensive than the original? Be Damaged bitch...

In the great sample department we got Semi Hendrix sampling Marian Anderson

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Carl Ruggles was a crazyass American who died in his 90's in early 1970's. He managed to get rich selling his paintings. He was a very dark cynical bastard and a brutal vulgarian. He hated everybody except for Ives. He called Charlie Parker a worthless n*gger and described Schoenberg as a shallow k*ke who should've moved to Treblinka. Ives defended his music vigorously. When Ruggles' music was booed for its dissonance he berated the audience to appreciate "masculine" music and to one fellow to "use his goddamn ears like a man".

Here's one of his paintings:

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and here's one of his compositions



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In order to commemorate the 40 years of space travel by Voyager I & II let's spacey.

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Featured artist: Robert Scott Thompson

You can find his music generously offered on bandcamp.

https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com

Next let's explore the music of Kevin Braheny. Here he is collaborating with Steve Roach



The album Galaxies can be found on bandcamp, YouTube, and Spotify. Maybe it's just the cover but it's the one I'm drawn to.



Finally, three being the magick number, Constance Demby

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Originally released on cassette in 1986.

Clifford Brown was in two major car crashes in his short life. The first was when he was 19. The driver swerved to miss a deer. Two died and two were seriously injured. Brown was of the latter. His hip and shoulder were permanently impaired but that didn't stop him from becoming a jazz legend. Six years later the driver fell asleep at the wheel leaving no survivors. Richie Powell was also killed in the second crash.

Soon after his death Blue Note released a compilation record entitled Memorial Album. Art Blakey drums on Side A and the musician whose career I've promised to chronicle in this blog, PHILLY JOE JONES, plays on Side B. Both sides were recorded in 1953 by Rudy Van Gelder. Unfortunately, the CD version is littered with unnecessary alternative takes.

Cotton Plant, Arkansas

Birthplace of Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Is that curfew supposed to be for kids or is Cotton Plant, AK an Orwellian dystopia?

*ar

Even Bill Clinton probably doesn't know or care how to abbreviate Arkansas.

*ar

Why the **** can't I capitalize *AR ?

*-15

I don't know what that means but if it's commentary on the ****tiness of the past few posts, I agree.

*ar-15

The system will put posts that are in all caps into all lowercase, even if it's only one or two letters. You gotta slip a little Cyan coloured l or . in there.