THE BEAST HAS ARISEN

Hello, intrepid music lovers. I've been horribly remiss in my duties here. But I return once more, hopefully this time for good. As Derek and the Dominos plays, and my Vodka is chilly, I think I'll re-begin this blog with something that links up to where we began......


When Charles Gocher Jr. passed last year the world lost a Speaker, a Mystic, a Madman, and one hell of a DRUMMER. Alan and Richard Bishop recently embarked on a tour to honour there fallen brother/sister/drummer.

Touring as "The Brothers Unconnected", they pressed a limited CD "Alan Bishop And Richard Bishop Present: The Brothers Unconnected, A Tribute to Charles Gocher Jr. and The Sun City Girls" Offering Up a hodge-podge of Classic SCG's performances re-imagined as acoustic guitar duets.

Download this! Beautiful, Exotic, Foul, Hilarious, It truly embodies everythiing the Girls were about. A fitting Coda to the legacy that is Sun City Girls.

Over the next week I'll work on getting a Re-Up post together, focusing primarily on those things that were requested in comments during my absence. So check back soon. The NBA FINALS are here, that provides me with a perfect opportunity to do the dull work.

Theoretical Static

Glenn Branca - Songs '77-'79

BEATNIK POSER

Bob Dylan - Stealin'

Side one:
Can you please crawl out your window
It takes a lot to laugh
Love - 0/no limit
She belongs to me
It's all over now, Baby Blue
That's all right Mama
Hard times in New York town *
Stealin' *

Side two:
I was young when I left home
Percy's song (take 2) **
Corrina Corrina ***
In the evening
Long John
Down in the flood *

Kicks Joy Darkness - A Kerouac Tribute

1.	Kerouac - Morphine
2.	Bowery Blues - Lydia Lunch
3.	My Gang - Michael Stipe
4.	Dream: "Us Kids Swim off a Gray Pier..." - Steven Tyler
5.	Letter to William S. Burroughs & Ode to Jack Hunter S. Thompson - Hunter S. Thompson
6.	Skid Row Wine - The Spitters, Maggie Estep
7.	America's New Trinity of Love: Dean, Brando, Presley - Richard Lewis
8.	Dream: "On a Sunny Afternoon..." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
9.	MacDougal Street Blues - Joe Strummer, Jack Kerouac
10.	The Brooklyn Bridge Blues - Allen Ginsberg
11.	Hymn - Sadie 7, Eddie Vedder, Campbell 2000
12.	Old Western Movies - Tomandandy, William S. Burroughs
13.	Silly Goofball Poems - Juliana Hatfield
14.	The Moon - John Cale
15.	Madroad Driving - Come, Johnny Depp
16.	Have You Ever Seen Anyone Like Cody Pomeray? - Robert Hunter
17.	Letter to John Clellon Holmes - Lee Ranaldo, Dana Colley
18.	Pome on Doctor Sax - Anna Domino
19.	Mexico Rooftop - Dan Chauvin, Robert Buck
20.	The Last Hotel - Lenny Kaye, Thurston Moore, Patti Smith
21.	Running Through-Chinese Poem Song - Michael Wolff, Warren Zevon
22.	Woman - Jim Carroll, Lenny Kaye, Anton Sanko, Lee Ranaldo
23.	Loneliness, Mexican - Joey Altruda, Matt Dillon, Joe Gonzalez, Pablo Calogero
24.	Angel Mine - Inger Lorre, Jeff Buckley
25.	The Brooklyn Bridge Blues - Eric Andersen

Great White Wonder

No, it's not white supremacist black metal......

Great White Wonder - John Birch Society Blues

One of the original rock bootlegs, this is culled from the basement archives of my youth, soon to be followed by, Great White Wonder (Double LP bootleg), and Stealin'.

Side One
Mixed Up Confusion
East Laredo
I'll Keep It With Mine
John Birch Society Blues
Who Killed Davy Moore?
Eternal Circle
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie

Side Two
I Was Young When I Left Home
Percy's Song
Corrina Corrina
In The Evening
Long John

Motors

Just received this LP as a holiday gift from my future Aunt-in-Law. Using some form of hand built motors Ambarchi creates passages on cymbals and guitars. A very enjoyable listen. Fans of Sunn O))), Nels Cline, and most of the other stuff I've posted on here should enjoy this.

Two Lightboxes

Two Lightboxes

A Side
The Peter Brotzmann Tentet (+2)
Old Town school Of Folk Music, Chicago on July 5, 2000

Jeb Bishop - Trombone

Peter Brotzmann - Reeds
Roy Campbell - Trumpet
Hamid Drake - Drums
Mats Gustafsson - Reeds
Kent Kessler - Bass
Fred Lonberg-Holm - Lightbox Operator
Joe McPhee - Valve Trombone
William Parker - Bass
Ken Vandermark - Reeds
Mars Williams - Reeds
Michael Zerang - Drums


B Side
The Come Sunday ensemble
Einstein, Munich on April 2, 2000 Come Sunday 2 "Chicago Diary"
Jum Baker - Keyboard
Jeb Bishop - Trombone
Mats Gustafsson - Reeds
Kent Kessler - Bass
Fred Lonberg-Holm - Lightbox Operator
Lou Mallozzi - Turntables, CDS, Tapes, & Microphones
Tim Mulvenna - Drums
Sebi Tramontana - Trombone
Ken Vandermark - Reeds
Michael Zerang - Drums

Spiritual Journey's

Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers

"Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964) was a popular and influential American gospel, R&B, soul, pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Musicians and critics today recognize him as one of the founders of soul music, and as one of the most important singers in soul music history.^[1] He has been called "the king of soul" by many, and while some may dispute this title, Sam Cooke's legacy is an extensive one and his impact on soul music is undeniable. He had 29 Top 40 hits in the U.S. between 1957 and 1965. He is therefore seen by many as "the creator" of the genre. Major hits like "You Send Me", "Chain Gang", "Wonderful World" and "Bring It on Home to Me" are some of his most popular songs.

Cooke was also among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of his musical career.^[1] He founded both a record label and a publishing company as an extension of his careers as a singer and composer. He also took an active part in the Civil Rights Movement,^[1] using his musical ability to bridge gaps between black and white audiences."

-From WikiPedia

The Original Tenor that gave birth to R&B, Soul, Otis Redding, Joe Tex, Solomon Burke, The Reverend Al Green, Marvin Gaye, and the Entire Lineage of Classic Black Tenors. Here are his beginnings Pious and beautiful Gospel recordings that sent teenage church going girls to their knees. Highly recommended download.

Improvised Glory

Duke Ellington - The Second Sacred Concert

The Skatalites - Hi Bop Ska The 30th Anniversary Recording (with David Murray)

Nels Cline, Rod Poole, and Jim Mcauley

Three barely related albums that have been on my mind a lot lately. As the Holidays are here, Ellington's "Second Sacred Concert" always finds it's way through the speakers. A Celebration of spirituality, (as I read it), and love. Hi Bop Ska is the 30th anniversary album of the mighty Skatalites! In which they invited many of there favorite musicians, (DAVID MURRAY!!!!) to perform some of the classics in their amazing blend of ska/reggae/jazz/world music that is the Skatalites. And Finally, The Acoustic Guitar Trio. Nels Cline, Rod Poole and Jim Mcauley in serene and thought provoking inter-changes on the acoustic 6 stringers. Improvised Glory.

"Few musicians possess as imaginative and inclusive a cosmology as William Parker. In Parker’s pantheon Sitting Bull and Harriet Tubman ride a soaring sun chariot with the Incan king Pachacuti, musical tones correspond to rainbow colors and the pinions of time and space are regularly subverted by sound. The origins of his belief system lie in the far-flung thoughts of a lonely black boy reading voraciously in a Brooklyn public library. Kaleidoscopic and tenaciously optimistic, it’s sometimes difficult for the agnostic outsider to take it all seriously. But Parker seems both sincere and devout in the face of doubt, an anchor to a musico-cultural community that continues to flourish in Manhattan.

Long Hidden: The Olmec Sessions honors a specific branch of Parker’s mythos that encompasses the indigenous forefathers of Middle America. The first ten tracks alternate improvisations for solo bass and doson ngoni (a harp-like instrument) with ensemble performances that find Parker, bassist Todd Nicholson and saxophonist Dave Sewelson in the company of a merengue quartet made up of two percussionists, accordion and alto sax. On these latter numbers, Parker bequeaths bass-playing duties to Nicholson and turns his attention to other instruments.

The stark contrasts of Parker alone on pieces like the improvisatory rendering of “There is a Balm in Gilead,” where bulbous bass notes float and reverberate in somber sound space, with more brightly-hued and busy band numbers like the percolating percussion carnival “Pok-a-Tok,” gives the album a large emotional range. The spirits of Wilbur Ware and Jimmy Garrison weigh prominently in his pulsating and suspirating bass lines, while doson ngoni pieces like “Long Hidden, Part Three” are well-designed to dissolve listener stress. And for the arco lovers there’s the stunning concert-culled “Cathedral of Light” rife with resplendent harmonics, and a solo bowed version of his venerable “Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy.”

For their parts, the merengue musicians are uncommonly sympathetic. Whirring and wheezing in Tango-tinged loops on the bustling “Codex,” accordionist Luis Ramirez creates a güiro and bongo topiary pruned beautifully by Omar Payano and Gabriel Nunez. Sewelson’s alto sputters and whinnies against the robustly breathing rhythm, flanked by the alto of Isaiah Parker and the keening strains of the leader’s overdubbed bombard. The disc concludes with a solo live bonus cut, the epic hornet’s nest “In Case of Accident” borrowed from the cassette-released Painter’s Autumn on Parker’s own Centering imprint. Parker’s written musings offer revelations right alongside the music and are packed with numerous anecdotes that clearly delineate the history and intentions of the project. They leave but one burning question: how long will the wait be for the next Olmec installment?

By Derek Taylor"
- From Dusted

Exposure

By Request: Robert Fripp's Exposure.

Robert Fripp, guitars, Frippertronics; with Barry Andrews, keyboards; Phil Collins, drums; Brian Eno, synthesizer, voice; Peter Gabriel, vocal, piano; Daryl Hall, vocal; Peter Hammill, vocal; Tony Levin, bass; Jerry Marotta, drums; Sid McGuinniss, guitar; Terre Roche, vocal; Narada Michael Walden, drums; Joanna Walton, lyricist; J.G. Bennett, voice

Tracklist:
1. Preface — 1:15
2. You Burn Me Up I'm a Cigarette — 2:23
3. Breathless — 4:39
4. Disengage — 2:52
5. North Star — 3:12
6. Chicago — 2:11
7. NY3 — 2:17
8. Mary — 2:10
9. Exposure — 4:26
10. Haaden Two — 1:56
11. Urban Landscape — 2:35
12. I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough of You — 3:38
13. First Inaugural Address to I.A.C.E. Sherborne House — 0:04
14. Water Music I — 1:19
15. Here Comes the Flood — 3:52
16. Water Music II — 3:52
17. Postscript — 0:38

total time 49:43

This album definitely illustrates directions to come. League Of Gentlemen, League of Crafty Guitarists, Crimsons Mark III(Discipline Band my personal Favorite) through Mark VI (is that where he's at now?) to the soundscapes series(if anyone's interested I could probably dig some of that up). Fripps first "SOLO" album, partially an homage to his guru, partially a full fledged discussion on Frippertronics, partially a Pop-Album.

Oh, gentle reader, on this rainy December day, your wish is my command.

Bike Thieving motherfuckers

A Month ago someone stole my beloved bicycle.

yesterday I put together a new one.

Told ya I was Back

Per Mission -A Ritual Loop

Jason Noble (Rodan, Shipping news, Rachel's) solo electronic project, a mesmerizing blend of recorded dialogue, field recordings, and instrumentation, blended via laptop into a strange soundscape, part dub, part dance, pointing to the directions Rachel's took on Selenography, and Systems/Layers.

Vitriol

Ben Christian Green, a frequent Godflesh colaborator moved to the welsh country side and put together this album of ambient dubscapes. Dark, Haunting, spiritual, and soothing, If you liked the Techno Animal, you'll love this.

When It Rains

It fucking pours.


This blog is still very much active, at least in my head. The real world went a little insane a few weeks ago, and there have been lots of things to be tended to. Unfortunately they were pretty much all work related so not exciting, or necessarily adventurous.

The near future promises more Nels Cline, Robert Fripp, and Charles Brotzman. Work stress however has kept me in a pretty metal mood.

Bestial Warlust - Blood And Valour

Australian war metal from 1995. Bring on the nihil.

Blood Upon The Alter

This is a photo of the truntable I use to record all the vinyl that ends up on here, and Old AR given to me by my adopted father, it sat in his basement for 20 years, but he bought it brand new in 1972.

Blasphemy - God's Of War/Blood Upon The Alter

Canadian black metal legends Blasphemy. God's Of War/Blood Upon the alter is pure blistering twisted thrashy black metal. A Samhain special to say the least. Raining Hellfire upon all mankind!

Scrabbling At The Locks

Hallelujah, Anyway -Remembering Tom Cora
It's A Brand New Day - Tom Cora Live At The Knitting Factory


Two Separate Links!!!!
Inspired by our good friend over at Infinite Machine, here are 2 Tom Cora albums, the first really a tribute, though Mr. Cora is involved in some of the songs. The second live recordings from the Knitting Factory. An evocative spirit on the Cello, and a curious mainstay on the Downtown Scene, Cora crossed boundaries with rare ease and beauty.

Struck Down by cancer in '98, these are his 2 primary post-humous releases.

Tribute

Just what they appear to be, The Gil Evans Orchestra (Featuring the GREAT Billy Harper) playing jimi Hendrix, and George Benson (a criminally underrated Jazz Guitarist, thanks in large part to his totally bizarre turn as a Pop R&B Singer) performing songs by the Beatles.