Ancient Future

Futuro Antico is a pioneering World Music group.  After the demise of the group Aktuala, Walter Maioli teamed up with Riccardo Sinigaglia, a keyboardist & theoretician in musical intonations & Gabin Dabiré, a singer, guitar player, & composer from Burkina Faso. The aim of FA was D'ai Primitivi all'Elettronica, which they released in 1980. On this Opus they recruited a number of musicians from India & Africa for the recording.

The following are three untitled tracks taken from a live show in the early 80s.

Futuro Antico – Live (early 80s unreleased).

Untitled I

Untitled II

Untitled III

Enjoy,

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Fantastik

Tamburada began in the fall of 2001 in Istanbul as a music union existing in a constant state of change. In 2006 Tamburada had to slow down their forward momentum in order to spread out more, musically. During those five years, the band worked with varied musicians, played numerous gigs in & out of Istanbul. They also recorded this, their one & only Fantastik

On Fantastik, Tamburada are: Özlem Şimşek – vocals; Korhan Futacı - tenor saxophone & backing vocals; Burak Irmak - Hammond organ, Rhodes, & toccata;  Feryin Kaya - electric & fretless bass guitars; Tansu Kaner - electronic effects & samples; Özün Usta – percussion; & Berke Can Özcan - drums, logdrum, & vibraphone.

Tamburada – Fantastik, akusta records, 2004.

Tracklist –

Dolly

Atina (Athens)

Merdiven (The Stairway)

Yaz Müziði (Summer Music)

Mavi (Blue)

Kalp (The Heart)

Afrika (Africa)

Enjoy while we can.

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Red or Yellow

The Lorries – Crawling Mantra 12" 45, Red Rhino Records RED T76, 1987.

Side A –

Crawling Mantra

All the Same

Side B –

Hang Man

Shout at the Sky (live in Detroit)

Enjoy

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Dancehall by Request

Recorded at Channel One by Cedrica ‘Soljie’ Hamilton & produced by Winston Riley.

Sister Nancy – One, Two, Techniques WR1990, 1982.

Side One –

One, Two

I am a Geddion

Ain’t No Stopping Nancy

Gwan a School

Coward of the Country

Side Two –

Bam Bam

Transport Connection

Pegion Rock

Roof Over Me Head

Only Woman DJ with Degree

Enjoy…Bryce et al,

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Everyone’s Making Plans for Nigel

RE-Upped 8/19/2021

Nigel Holland – guitar, bass, & vocals with a crazy cast of guest musicians makes with the ultra-funky collection of energetic dance grooves.

Dubset – Flesh Made Word, Elektra 60347-1, 1984.

Side One –

Dice Dub Disco

Pop Roma

Erotica’s Den

The Nameless Dread

Vicious Affair

Side Two –

Flesh Beat Fever

Lounge Man

Onyeocha, Onyegee (White Man, Black Man)

Ranking Janaow

Risk Dub

Enjoy,

NØ

A Cat's Tale

Ralf just got some new Wild West mash-up & she’s in 7^th Heaven™. She loved the original Wild West & now it’s re-released, a two mix mash-up, I kid you not.

I was going to post Pain Teens today but now I’m in the mash-up mood.

Here’s “Tell Laura I Love My Blue Heaven”.

Oh, wait…

This isn’t a mash-up, it’s avant-garde skronk shizzle, fer rizzle.

Christopher Fringell – guitar & vocals; Markus Kneubühler – bass & tapes; & Alex Buess – saxophone & drums.

Electric Noise Twist – The Electric Noise Twist, Vision 23, 1989.

One –

My Trigger Finger’s Itching

Who the Fuck are You & What are You Doing in My Image Track

Slaughter

Choose Alienation

C.A. Dub

Two –

Media Assassin

Twisted Hubbub n Din

Synchronize Your Castor Oil Will You?

Tell Laura I Love My Blue Heaven

Time to Squeeze Out the Welchers

Enjoy,

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Unum Quartus

Latin Quarter – Modern Times, Cherry Red CDMRED216, 2002.
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Tracklist –

Modern Times

No Ordinary Return

Radio Africa

Toulouse

America for Beginners

Eddie

No Rope as Long as Time

Seaport September

New Millionaires

Truth about John

Cora

bonus tracks –

Modern Times 12’’ single (extended mix)

Thin White Duke

extra bonus tracks –

This Side of Midnight

Sandinista

Voices Inside

Enjoy,

NØ

Top of the Old Grey Oxford Road Pop Whistle Show

Bauhaus - TV Appearances, 1982 - 1983.

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Enjoy,

NØ

Gidget Went to Hell

 3/5ths of a Lawn 

William 'Vex Billingsgate' Ranson, Sue 'Su Tissue' McLane, & John 'John Gleur' McBurney...

2/5ths not pictured 

Richard 'Frankie Ennui' Whitney & Charles 'Chuck Roast' Rodriguez

Suburban Lawns – Gidget Goes to Hell 7", Suburban Industrial, 1979.

Suburban Lawns - Suburban Lawns, I.R.S. Records IRS SP70024, 1981.
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Side A –

Flying Saucer Safari

Pioneers

Not Allowed

Gossip

Intellectual Rock

Protection

Anything

Side B –

Janitor

Computer Date

Mom & Dad & God

Unable

When in the World

Green Eyes

Jam the Controls

Suburban Lawns – Baby 12" EP, I.R.S. Records SP70603, 1983.

Side One –

Flavor Crystals

Enjoy

Hug You

Side Two –

Baby

Cowboy

Enjoy.

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1st Gen Punk Rawk from Ozone City

Previously I posted up some old-school punk from Texas. One of the things was the Cottage Cheese From the Lips of Death compilation. One of the songs was "Soldiers of a Pure War" by Mydolls.

Mydolls formed around 1978 in Houston, Texas under the creative wings of Dianna Ray & Trish Herrera, soon joined by Linda (Bond) Younger. After several attempts working with various auditioning drummers failed, Trish's cousin George (Jorge) Reyes joined the band.

After the 1981 release of their first 7'' Nova Grows Up, Mydolls went to England, met Mayo Thompson & Red Krayola, hung out at Rough Trade Records, & did a BBC Radio on-air interview with John Peel.

Mydolls appear in the 1984 Wim Wenders' movie Paris, Texas as the band in the bar scene shot in Beaumont, Texas, with Nastassja Kinski & Harry Dean Stanton. The band traveled to New York City to attend the U.S. premiere at the N.Y. Film Festival. They played the after-party at the Danceteria.

They have performed shows with bands such as Minor Threat, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Poison 13, Big Boys, Ragged Bags, The Cramps,  & Stickmen with Rayguns. In 1985, Mydolls played their farewell gig. Recently they have regrouped & play shows & benefits around Houston.

Mydolls - Nova Grows Up & The/Rapist b/w In Technicolor 7”, 

C.I.A. Records 005, 1981.

Side 1 -
Nova Grows Up
The/Rapist

Side a -
In Technicolor

Mydolls - Imposter b/w Exorcism 7”, C.I.A. Records 008, 1982.

 side a -

Imposter

side one - 

Exorcism

Mydolls - Speak Softly & Carry a Big Stick 12” mini-album,
C.I.A. Records 014, 1983.
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Side Speak Softly –

Please No Mercy

As Strange as Mine

A World of Her Own

Side Big Stick –

Christmas Day (live)

21^st Century Compliments (live)

Rape of a Culture (live)

Enjoy,

NØ

Essential

 Various - Thursday's Essential Dub mix

Tracklist -

Selector Dub Narcotic pt. 1 - Dub Narcotic Sound System

Waiting in Vain (Dub version) - Bob Marley & the Wailers

London Calling - Dub Spencer & Trance Hill

Jail House Version - Sly & the Revolutionaries

Them Belly Full (but We Hungry) - Bill Laswell

Meltdown - Prince Fatty

Selector Dub Narcotic pt. 2 - Dub Narcotic Sound System

Screaming Target - Big Youth

A Crazy Version - King Dubby

Sun is Shining Dub - The Agrovators

God Smiled - Lee Perry vs. The Moody Boyz

The Dope - Creation Rebel

Selector Dub Narcotic pt. 3 - Dub Narcotic Sound System

Waiting in Vain - Bill Laswell

Magnificent Seven - Dub Spencer & Trance Hill

Behind Bars Dub - Israel Vibration

Crazy Baldhead (Dub version) - Bob Marley & the Wailers

And the Beat Goes On Dub - Holly Cook 

Sources:

Dub Narcotic Sound System – Selector Dub Narcotic

K Records KLP82, 1998 (CD)

Bob Marley in Dub Vol. 1

Tuff Gong B0017007-01, 2012 (vinyl)

Dub Spencer & Trance Hill – The Clashification of Dub

Echo Beach EB081, 2011 (CD)

Sly & The Revolutionaries – Channel One: Maxfield Avenue Dub

Pressure Sounds PSLP031, 2001 (vinyl)

Bill Laswell – Dreams of Freedom

Axiom 314-524 419-2, 1997 (CD)

Prince Fatty – Survival of the Fattest

Rasā Music RS3186-2, 2008 (CD)

Big Youth – Screaming Target

Jaguar Records Gussie0001, 1972 (vinyl)

King Dubby – First Dubs

Jamendo a2931, 2006 (mp3)

The Agrovators – Kaya Dub

Attack – ATTACK LP037, 2007 (vinyl)

Lee Perry vs The Moody Boyz - "God Smiled" b/w "Dub Take" 12" 45

On-U Sound ONU DP50, 2008 (vinyl)

Creation Rebel – Psychotic Jonkanoo

On-U Sound ONU CD0004, 1998 (CD)

Israel Vibration – Dub Vibration: Israel Vibration in Dub

RAS Records Inc. RAS CD3055, 1990 (CD)

Holly Cook - Prince Fatty presents Holly Cook in Dub

Mr Bongo MRBCD098, 2012 (CD)

Dubwise is best wise,
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Chance Encounters

Damn, I'm ecstatic to have my turntable back. All I can add to the following is, I performed a Ritual to "Evocation of a Radiant Childhood". It went swimmingly, so…hey, practioners, you might try starting there. Now I'll leave it to a real expert…the artist...Bill Nelson.

According to Sir William hisself:

"The music presented on these two albums marks the consolidation of several years of musickal & philosophical practice. Almost every piece was conceived during moments of intense stillness or 'magickal vacuity'.

For this I acknowledge the influence of the late Austin Osman Spare, whose techniques for creating 'automatic drawing' has found a sympathetic resonance in my own work.

Of all the music I have made, this is, perhaps, the most personal & yet the least demonstrative. Attempting nothing & existing purely for itself, it is, nevertheless, a practical music, ideally suited to the occultist in search of ritual atmosphere or serene meditation.

With such a purpose in mind I offer this work to my fellow initiates as a testament to the Gnosis & a confirmation of The World Within."

Bill Nelson – Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights 2xLP, Enigma Records D1-73337, 1988.

 Album One: The Angel at the Western Window

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Side 1 –

West Deep
The Spirit Cannot Fail (listed as The Spirit Cannot Fall on the disc)
Pilots of Kite
Seventh Circle
Phantom Gardens
The Angel of Hearth & Home
Villefranche Interior
Night Tides
First Memory
Azure Extension
Radiant Spires
The Evening Peal

Side 2 –

Threnodia
A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Body of Light
At the Centre
Self-Initiation
The Word that Became Flesh
The Hermetic Garden
Revolving Globes
The Four Square Citadel
Little Daughters of Light
Orient of Memphis
The Angel at the Western Window

Album Two: The Book of Inward Conversation

Side 3 –

My Dark Daemon
The Dove Consumed (The Serpent Slumbers)
Calling Heaven, Calling Heaven, Over
Path of Return
Theurgia
Staircase to No Place
Evocation of a Radiant Childhood
The Kingdom of Consequence

Side 4 -

The Divine Raptures of Sisterhood
Bright Star (Moonlight over Ocean Blue)
A Bird of the Air Shall Carry My Voice
Clothed in Light Amongst the Stars
Gnosis
Bringers of Light to the Feast
Hastening the Chariot of My Heart's Desire
Transcendant
Consolamentum

Art is Love,

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What an ASS

Just got my copy of Armand Schaubroeck Steals – God Made the Blues to Kill Me! (#248 / 750) 10″ single. The package includes the 10″ single (Side 1 featuring the “Strat mix” of the title song, Side B the "330 mix" of the title song, both 13:11 minutes long) plus a signed CD with the bonus song "Slip Away", a postcard of the famous 'holding switchblade' photo, & a limited edition ASS God Made the Blues guitar pick.

It is the first release from Armand Schaubroeck Steals in over 30 years. The single is a teaser for the upcoming full length LP.

The title song is a thirteen-minute blues opera about a guy going to & returning from Vietnam.

Rev. Norb sez:  
"This is some genius, epic shit…It’s sort of like if …Eugene Chadbourne could have a long, coherent, musical thought, or if the Last Poets were white or if Zoogz Rift got electroshock therapy or something. The ending finds the protagonist opting for 'Needle Park' as opposed to the way of his other contemporaries, who 'eat the shotgun'."

I’m posting up the bonus track "Slip Away" for your listening pleasure. If you like it or already know ASS, then Armand Schaubroeck Steals - God Made The Blues To Kill Me!  10"/CD single ia available for $15.98 plus $6 s/h. Contact ASS at their facebook page or Mirror Records (Armand’s record label he runs out of the basement of his Rochester, NY House of Guitars).

Enjoy,

NØ

Let's Have a Barbq Cutie

Sparks – This Town Ain’t Big Enough b/w Barbecutie 7”, Island is001, 1974.

Side A –

This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us

Side B –

Barbecutie

Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You,

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Shakespeare (& Dunbar)'s Second Act

Sly & Robbie – Rhythm Killers, Island Records 90585-1, 1987.
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Side One –

Fire (Ohio Players tune)

Boops (Here to Go) [featuring Shinehead – vocals]

Let’s Rock

Side Two –

Yes We Can Can (Pointer Sisters / Allen Toussaint tune)

Rhythm Killer [featuring Shinehead – vocals]

Bank Job [featuring Rammellzee – vocals]

The Rhythm Killers are: Sly Dunbar – drums & percussion; Robbie Shakespeare – bass; Bootsy Collins – vocals & guitar; Gary "Mudbone" Cooper, Bernard Fowler; Shinehead; & Rammellzee – vocals; Pat Thrall – guitar; Nicky Skopelitis – guitar & programming; Bernie Worrell – piano; Karl Berger – vibes & melodica; Henry Threadgill – saxophones & flute; D.ST. – turntable; Daniel Ponce – bells & bata; & Aiyb Dieng – congas, bells, & percussion.

Enjoy,

NØ

Nothin' is True...

Re-uploaded by request 09/03/2024

 

On numerous occasions I’ve featured other of bassist Bill Laswell’s projects here. His efforts range from avant-garde to punk jazz, art rock to industrial hip-hop, Dub to electronica.

Although there is fantastic instrumentation on Hashisheen, this opus centers around the spoken-word stylings, recounting the story of Hassan-i Sabbah, founder of the Hashshashin (Hashshisheen), a legendary group of middle-eastern assassins.

Hashisheen features readings by Iggy Pop, William S. Burroughs, Anne Clark, Hakim Bey, Ira Cohen & others. Guest producers include Jah Wobble, Techno Animal, & Eyeless in Gaza.

Hashisheen is the story of Hassan-i Sabbah & his Hashshashin's journey from Persia to the mountains of Northern Iran, his conquest of the fortress Alamut, his extensive studies & philosophies, his isolation, & eventual death.

Bill Laswell – Hashisheen: The End of Law, Sub Rosa SR154CD, 1999.
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Tracklist –

First Reading (vocal – Sussan Deyhim)

The Old Man of the Mountain (vocals – Genesis P-Orridge & Percy Howard)

The Western Lands (featuring Techno Animal w/ vocals by Iggy Pop & W.S.Burroughs)

The Spilled Cup (vocal – Sussan Deyhim)

Marco Polo’s Tale (featuring Nicky Skopelitis w/ vocal – Hakim Bey)

Pilgrimage to Cairo (vocal – Hakim Bey)

Freya Stark at Alamut (featuring Anton Fier w/ vocal – Nicole Blackman)

Castles (featuring Anton Fier w/ vocal – Percy Howard)

Hashish Poem (vocal – Nicole Blackman)

Sinan’s Boat (vocal – Ira Cohen)

Assassinations (featuring Anton Fier w/ vocal – Nicole Blackman)

The Mongols Destroy Alamut (featuring Paul Schütze w/vocal – Percy Howard)

The Divine Self (Jah Wobble)

Morning High (featuring Nicky Skopelitis w/ vocals Lizzy Mercier Descioux & Patti Smith)

A Quick Trip to Alamut (featuring Paul Schütze w/vocal – Iggy Pop)

Slogans (featuring Helios Creed w/ vocal – Genesis P-Orridge)

Book of the Highest Initiation (featuring Helios Creed w/ vocal – Genesis P-Orridge)

The Lord of the Resurrection (vocal – Umar Bin Hassan)

Assassinations 2 (featuring Anton Fier w/ vocal – Nicole Blackman)

Tale of the Caliph Hakem (Eyeless in Gaza w/ vocals – Anne Clark & Genesis P-Orridge)

The Assassins (vocal – Hakim Bey)

Last Reading (vocal – Sussan Deyhim)

Nothin’ is true, everything is permitted,

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The Titanic of Funk

George Clinton & Bill Laswell – Get Yo Ass in the Water & Swim like Me CD single, 

Douglas Music ADC16, 1997.

Tracklist –

Get Yo Ass in the Water & Swim like Me

Iceberg Dead Ahead (GYAitW&SlM dub)

Get Yo Ass in the Water & Swim like Me (extended vocal)

Get Yo Ass in the Water & Swim like Me (instrumental)

Enjoy,

NØ

Hot Hot Love

T. Rex – Hot Love 7”, EMI – Stateside 4E006-92387M, 1971.

Side A –

Hot Love

Side B –

Woodland Rock

The King of the Mountain Cometh

Enjoy,

NØ

RACΞЭAЯ

Loop – Wolf Flow (The John Peel Sessions 1987-90) 2x12” 45s,
Reactor  REACTORLP3, 1991.
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Side A –

Soundhead

Straight to Your Heart

Side B –

Rocket USA (Suicide cover)

Pulse

This is Where You End

Side C –

Collision

From Centre to Wave

Side D –

Afterglow

Sunburst

tracks A1 – B1 from August 19, 1987 Peel Session

            B2 – C1 from June 14, 1988

            C2 – D2 from January 21, 1990

Enjoy, NØ

Another Loop in the Whirl

BY REQUEST(S)

Loop – Black Sun 12” EP, Chapter 22  12CHAP32, 1988.

Side A –

Black Sun

Circle Grave

Side B –

Mother Sky

Enjoy,

NØ

Care Package from the Vinyl Bardo

Today was just one of those days.

Yesterday’s rain scrubbed the sky, today was crystal clear & Cali sunny.

I had just returned from Turntables Unlimited
 

with my turntable all tuned up (cleaned, belt adjusted to perfect rpms, new Audio Technica AT-95e Special Edition cartridge) & took advantage of the sunny weather. I sat out in the back yard & partook of some solar puffing (using only a magnifying glass & star Sol power…no flame…nature’s perfect vaporizer). Shortly after my mid-day meditation session, a package of vinyl arrives on my doorstep. Providence was being ever-so-smiling. 

Inside was:

a copy of 1985 Mute Records STUMM 24 Mark Stewart – As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade vinyl that I picked up for a friend (I am, however, going to compare the two copies I now have & keep the best…after all, he hasn’t paid me yet).

1985 Mute 12Mute037 Mark Stewart – Hypnotized 12" single pour moi.

1985 Upside Records UP60005-1 Mark Stewart & Maffia self-titled vinyl, ditto.

1990 Mute STUMM 62 Mark Stewart – Metatron vinyl, ditto.

1988 Enigma Records Bill Nelson – Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights 2xLP, you get it by now.

& almost lost amongst the 12"  monsters was this succulent little 7" (much love Abraham)…

Bill Nelson – Eros Arriving b/w Haunting in My Head 7", Mercury WILL 4, 1982.

Side A –

Eros Arriving

Bill Nelson vocals & all instruments except –

Merrick – drums.

Side B –

Haunting in My Head

Bill Nelson – vocals & all instruments except –

Bogdan Wiczling

The single version of "Eros" appears on The Two-fold Aspect of Everything, disc Eaux d'Artifice Side A track 5 (the version of "Haunting" that follows – track 6 – is a remix of this version) & also on The Love That Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart) disc Whirl 1 track 5.

I don’t believe the single version of "Haunted" appears anywhere else than this 7". As noted above, the TTfAoE version is a remix & I believe the version added as a bonus track to the 2005 Mercury TLTW(DoaTH) re-release CD is another version or at least the remix remastered???

More later,

NØ