26 April 2020

It’s a No Beach day, Boy




Woke up from a crazy dream.

Seconds after I awoke I could still hear notes wafting in my room from the soundtrack of interrupted dreamland. Pandemic specter code stuck on my lips...Will you come now?

The Cock of God...Phallus Dei



Originally from A Day in the Life of Brian Wilson with vocals by the incomparable John Walker (R.I.P.).





Here are more than a few seconds (spoiler alert:312.6MB)





Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (original mix)
Will You Come Now? - Der Blutharsch
Will You Come Now? - Blackhouse (short remix)
Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (Vapour remix featuring Bart Maris)
Will You Come Now? - Wicked Messenger
Will You Come Now? - Dyane Donck
Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (featuring Aidan Casserly remix)
Will You Come Now? - Burial Hex (Angelic Conversation remix)
Will You Come Now? - Throbbing Wafle
Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (Love, with the Tiniest Red Torch remix)
Will You Come Now? - Bohren & der Club of Gore
Will You Come Now? - Blackhouse (longer remix)
Will You Come Now? - Birdmachine
Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (another remix)
Will You Come Now? - Strange Attractor
Will You Come Now? - Dissecting Table
Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (original remix)

Please, anyone, will you come now?,

23 April 2020

They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar


"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." – William Gibson, Neuromancer.

"Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of four paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collector's item in its own way—not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, suspended in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare." Rod Serling



Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw - Night Gallery, Thrill Jockey XQJH-1008, 2011.
decryption code in comments

Night Gallery I
Night Gallery II
Night Gallery III
Night Gallery IV

Cool air,

18 April 2020

I Might Be Slow, but not Forgetful



On October 14, 2015 (yes, 2015...you remember back then in the old days), an Unknown (aka Jack Bone) visitor to NSS queried in the comments to a Nash the Slash post Soixant-Neuf:
     "Hey buddy (I guess that's me???) you wouldn't happen to have Nash's soundtrack to Nosferatu?"

Well, I didn't, but I've been looking ever since & finally got a copy. Don't know if Unknown Jack Bone is still looking or will find out that I (finally) replied, but as I love all things NtSlash, here it is.

Released on Nash's own label, Cut-Throat Records ( "Music in a particular vein"), Nosferatu is Nash the Slash's soundtrack recording to the 1922 German silent expresionist horror film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; also known as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror or simply Nosferatu) directed by F. W. Murnau & starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.

Nash vividly enhances the dramatic building of suspense & impending doom inherent within Murnau's reinterpretation of the Count Dracula story, capturing the romantic & tragic essence of the tale. Nash primarily uses synthesisers, drum machines, & samplers on this project (along with a haunting Romanian choir) to match the graininess of the deteriorated visuals & the feel of the time period. He superbly spotlights the recurrent themes & motifs within the film, revisiting them in various iterations to develop narrative continuity (particularly for  Nina, variations on Gabriel Urbain Fauré's Requiem [tracks 2, 4, 18, & 30] & Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre [tracks 19 & 23]). The soundtrack never overpowers or draws attention away from the screen, but instead moodily adds to the total experience.

Nosferatu has almost certainly had more restored releases than any other silent film. Including all the illegitimate copies of the Atlas version, there are a vast number, likely in excess of a thousand, of cheap home video editions. The original film was 63 minutes, which matches Nash's soundtrack. If you want to try watching the movie sync'd to the music, there are basically five versions:
the 1965 Atlas Film version based on MoMA's print;
Elite version January 2000;
Diamond Entertainment version July 2002 with replacement pipe organ score;
& Madacy versions March 2003
& August 2004.

The Atlas version is a copy of the most complete copy extant, which was obtained by New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1947. That copy is derived from a French print from the late 1930s/early 1940s, in very good condition overall. The French version is a copy of a Czechoslovakian export print from the 1920s that was seized by the Nazis, now lost. The background story of this print has only been unravelled in recent years so many sources still refer to it as a 1926/27  "second French version".  The Czech version had been shipped to the Cinémathèque Française. At the French archive the German intertitles were replaced with French ones, after which the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) got a copy that had been preserved at the Cinémathèque Suisse.

On acquisition, MoMA (in all probability through their then film curator Iris Barry) replaced the latest French intertitles with English ones in anachronistic 1927 Futura font &, as per Nosferatu's first US screenings in 1929, all the character names were reverted to the ones of the original novel: Count Orlok becomes Count Dracula; Ellen & Hutter become Nina & Jonathon Harker; Knock becomes Renfield; etc.

So the intertitles have been translated from the original German into Czech, back into German, then into French, & then finally into English… Yet somehow they still make sense!

So turn down the movie volume (it's a Silent Film, fer Satan's sake), crank up the soundtrack volume, kick back, light up, & enjoy.

Nash's world premiere performance was on Thursday July 13, 2000 at the Grand Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The male choir was recorded live in Brasov Orthodox Cathedral, Romania by Dmitri Vole.



Nash the Slash - Nosferatu, Cut-Throat Records CUT5CD, 2001.

 tracklist -

Murnau's Vision
Nina & Jonathon
Renfield's Scheme
"Don't Worry Nina"
Foreboding Journey
Jonathon Awakes
The Land of Phantoms
"You are Late"
Blood
Letter to Nina
"What a Lovely Throat"
Fear & Premonition
Sense of Menace
The Crypt
Dracula Packs
Rats
Venus Flytraps & Other Vampires
Nina Among the Dunes
Fatal Breath
Renfield's Master
Dracula Unpacks
Nosferatu
The Ship of Horrors
Drum Alarm
The Book of Vampires
Plague
Renfield's Revenge
Nina's Trance
Sacrificing Nina
The Morning Sun

Enjoy,

12 April 2020

I Was Bored...so I Put a Record On



Programmed, performed, produced, written, & mixed by Gudrun Gut with a little help from her friends: Rock Bottom Riser written by Smog & additional vocals by Uta Heller & Matt Elliott; Pleasuretrain & The Wheel co-written by & with additional vocals by Manon P. Duursma; Lsat Night guitar by Dirk Markham; & Last Night, Sweet, & Pleasuretrain re-mixed by Thomas Fehlmann.



Gudrun Gut - I Put a Record On, Monika Enterprise monika 55, 2007.
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side 1 -
Move Me - inspired by Buenos Aires
Rock Bottom Riser - inspired by Smog
The Land - inspired by the Field
Cry Easy - inspired by ESG
Girlboogie 6 - inspired by the Boogie
Blätterwald - inspired by New Order

side 2 -
Last Night - inspired by Last Night
Sweet - inspired by Dabrye
Pleasuretrain - inspired by the Blues
The Wheel - inspired by Clouddead
Tip Tip - inspired by Loops

& everything was tip top,

11 April 2020

Remember, It is the Law...the Law of Fives




Been reReading the Illuminatus Trilogy

RAWilson states:
     "I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another Captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23."


#23

SKIDOO

What man is at ease in his Inn?
Get out.
Wide is the world and cold.
Get out.
Thou hast become an in-itiate.
Get out.
But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest in. The Way out is THE WAY.
Get out.
For OUT is Love and Wisdom and Power.
Get OUT.
If thou hast T already, first get UT.
Then get O.
And so at last get OUT.
                                                                         from The Book of Lies - Aleister Crowley (1912/13)




23 Skidoo - The Gospel Comes to New Guinea 12“ 45 single, Fetish Records FE11, 1981.

The Gospel Comes to New Guinea
Last Words

Alex & Johnny Turnbull, Sam Mills, Fritz Catlin, & Tom Heslop

Now it’s coming to your house,

04 April 2020

M to the A to the S to the K


Put the mask upon the face just to make the next day
Feds be hawkin me
Jokers be stalking me
I walk the streets and camouflage my identity
My posse in the Brooklyn wear the mask
My crew in the Jersey wear the mask
Stick up kids doing boogie woogie wear the mask
Yeah everybody wear the mask but how long will it last