29 August 2023

Trying to Be More Lucid - Getting Lost in the Music

Knowing that I'm a sucker for unique sexy female vocalists, my friend Matt turned me on to Ambar Lucid's Garden of Lucid when it came out in 2020. I was instantly hooked on her folk-tinged, trippy psych-rock, bilingual indie pop R&B style. I started collecting all the disparate tracks she released. I realized a while back that I had quite a few. Decided I needed to share them but never got around to it until now. 

 



Ambar is the daughter of a Dominican mother & Mexican father. She grew up in the quiet suburbia of Little Ferry, NJ, day-dreaming of the bright future as children of a happy family are wont to do..

That all changed after watching her dad get deported to Mexico when she was just a young girl. The traumatic experience cast a shadow over her childhood. That led to her discovery & escape into the world of music. She realized even at that young age that she wanted to make music professionally someday.

& so she did...

Before Garden of Lucid, Ambar released a soft-psych R&B offering for her debut, Dreaming Lucid, which skewed more toward singer-songwriter introspection than pop. 

 

Ambar Lucid - Dreaming Lucid, Ambar Lucid self-released, 2019.
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Dreaming Lucid
Pineapple Death
Eyes
Somewhere in Between
A Letter to My Younger Self
LeTTiNg Go
I Hope You
Painted Red
 
 
 
 

Here's something inspired by Ambar's transformative trip to the desert...the arc of her artistic ascent has been rapid & stellar.
 
Ambar Lucid - Get Lost in the Music EP, Ambar Lucid self-released, 2021.

Space Cowgirl
Get Lost in the Music
Un Animal (Divina Existencia)
Lizard
The Door

Enjoy
(& remember...only 1 days 'til Dubtember),

27 August 2023

Fazal Paying His Dues

     In June I shared some Fazal Prendergast.
Let me tell you a bit about his untimely passing & share some of his early collaborations. 

 



On April 1, 2005 Fazal Prendergast, a well-loved Jamaican-born guitarist who toured & recorded with many reggae legends drowned after his car veered off Highway 101 & plunged into the Eel River. Prendergast was driving alone on his way to a gig in Arcata,CA with reggae singer Don Carlos. The previous night, Prendergast had played at a reggae bash at SoMa Arts in San Francisco with Carlos & dance-hall singer Sister I-Live. The accident occurred at about 1:30 p.m. in Piercy at the Humboldt County line. It is unclear what caused his 1991 Mercedes Benz to swerve off the road before a bridge & fall 150 feet into the river. The car immediately sank. Prendergast managed to surface with his prized Fender Stratocaster. He struggled to swim to shore. Bystanders rushed to the banks of the river (one person even went into the icy water in a rescue attempt). But the current swept Prendergast downstream, eventually pulling him & his guitar under. Prendergast's guitar resurfaced. His body was found two hours later a quarter-mile downstream.

Prendergast's career began in 1974 when he worked as a session musician with composer Augustus Pablo & his Rockers International record label in Kingston. 

 


Side A -
Hammer Dub
Fire Dub
Firm Dub
Children Dub
H.I.M. Dub

Side B -
Clean Sweep
Jah Dub
Money Dub
Santic Dub
Equal Rights Dub
 
 
 
 
 

In 1983, Prendergast joined Earl "Chinna" Smith's High Times Label & toured with Jamaican poet Mutabaruka with the High Times Players. Prendergast played rhythm guitar on Mutabaruka's albums Dub Poets Dub & Outcry.

I’ve previously shared Dub Poets Dub here. So here’s Outcry.
 
Mutabaruka - Outcry, Shanachie 43023, 1984,

Side A -
Prisoner
Outcry
Rememberance
Canaan Lan'
Any Means Necessary
Free Up de Lan'

Side B -
Blacks in Amerika
Sistas Poem
Black Queen
Nursery Rhyme Lament
Saga of "Too Kool"

Enjoy,

25 August 2023

The Coalition

Next, from New Jersey, is Rye Coalition. 
 



Merel were near legendary in the New Jersey area in the early 90s. I've shared them before here. The band was: Jose Juan Ruiz - vocal; Jon Ariz & Mike Solski - guitars; the Leto brothers David - bass; & Gregg - drums.

After the demise of Merel, David & Gregg would both soon wind up in Rye Coalition.

Rye Coalition began from the desire Jersey City high school friends Jon Gonnelli - guitar & Ralph Cuseglio - vocals had to form a band. They found their drummer in David Leto (ex-Merel) & Leto's childhood friend, Justin Angelo Morey - bass.

Their first full-length Hee Saw Duh Kaet found Leto once again teamed up with Merel/Gern cohort Alap Momin. The album was released by Gern Blandsten Records.

 

Rye Coalition - Hee Saw Duh Kaet, Gern Blandsten, GERN029, 1997.
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The Higher the Hair, The Closer to God
300 Foxes
Nothing like a Clean Ashtray
Dressing up for the Indictment
White Jesus of 114 St.
The Buzzard
Fucking with Beautiful Posture
We Ride
Iron Fist in Velvet Glove
 
 
 
 

At this point Dave Leto moved to bass & recruited his brother, Gregg (also ex-Merel) to take over the drums. The new lineup began work on their next album, entitled The Lipstick Game. Two years in the making, the album was again engineered by Alap Momin. It contains some of Rye Coalition's most powerfully experimental songwriting.
 
Rye Coalition - The Lipstick Game, Gern Blandsten GERN40, 1999.

The Prosthetic Aesthetic
Thanksgiving Day for Cats
Baby's Got New Flame
The Dirty Aristocrat
Amplification of the Queen Bee
The Lipstick Game
Tangiers
Digital Crucifix
Busted Bride's Last Ride
Through the Years

Enjoy,

22 August 2023

Just Got Back from a Very Cool Road Trip

An old friend of mine reached out to me from out of the blue last week. We were tight back in the EAT POOP! San Jose 80s-90s but had kinda lost touch after I relocated to Sacramento. Now that I'm living in Penns Woods I figured we'd never really get together.

Turns out he's now living in East Orange, New Jersey. That's about 400 miles from my new abode. I just got back from a few day visit with him. It was extremely kool. Traveling to New Jersey stirred up a lot of old good memories. I decided to showcaes a few of the bands from the New York City / New Jersey area that I listened to a great deal back in the 90s with said old friend. 

 



Decided to start with Born Against.

Side-story: I mentioned Born Against's Nine Patrioric Hymns for Children in a comment over at my friend Jonder's blog. It turned out that neither he nor his cohort Stinky were all that familiar with Born Against. Jonder is a fount of musical knowledge & is someone I usually turn to for obscure musicalia. If he wasn't that familiar with Born Against, then I guess there are many others out in the blogshere that are not, as well. Sam McPheeters & Born Against were deeply influencial to my EAT POOP! days mindset. I have decided to start with them. It just so happens that one of the pivotal shows in their early career was at WFMU Studios which is located in, you guessed it, East Orange, New Jersey.




In every social movement there is always a contrarian within the counterculture; a dissident amongst the naysayers & a critical rebel inside the rebellion. Born Against played this role to the hilt during the early '90s hardcore scene, leaving behind a trail of righteous indignation, visceral protest, & bruised egos. It certainly helped matters that their music was on par with anything the originators of this genre ever produced, simultaneously echoing while updating the sonic fury of their forebears. Their artfully constructed, acerbic visual missives, in the guise of show flyers went against the grain in a supposedly non-conformist subculture. Some of these flyers drew the ire of people within the scene, based solely on the images & accompanying text, so much so that one needn't have heard a single note from the band in order to be in favor or against the band.
 
 


Born Against was an American hardcore punk band from New York City, active between 1989–1993. In addition to their radical leftist politics, the group espoused a do-it-yourself message while contantly challenging the in-fighting they perceived as problematic within the underground hardcore punk community of their time.

The group was founded in early 1989 by guitarist Adam Nathanson & bassist Neil Burke (both formerly of the New York hardcore band Life's Blood) along with vocalist Sam McPheeters & drummer John Guzman, who was replaced in early rehearsals by a drummer named George. George's tenure was also brief. He was replaced after a single show by drummer Nigel Schreiber in July 1989. This lineup recorded a demo cassette as well as a track for the Murderers Among Us 7" compilation released on McPheeters' Vermiform Records label before Burke & Schreiber departed. The band would continue to be plagued by rhythm section fluctuation throughout its career.
 


Six months later, the band re-emerged with bassist Javier Villegas & drummer Darryl Kahan, the latter from the popular New York hardcore band Citizen's Arrest. This incarnation of the band released the Eulogy single (whose anti-religious title track was controversially dedicated to Steve Reddy of Equal Vision Records upon his conversion to a Hare Krishna lifestyle), & a self-titled 7" EP, along with several compilation tracks. 
 


Late in 1990, Kahan was replaced by drummer John Hiltz, ushering in the longest lasting incarnation of the band. The group toured extensively. They released a debut LP, 1991s Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children, on Vermiform. Bassist Javier Villegas left the group in late 1991 & was replaced by Bret Blue.
 


With Hiltz & Blue on board, Born Against continued its extensive touring, including a trip to Europe. By this point, the band's political message, sometimes seen as overly aggressive & critique of their contemporaries had sparked much controversy within the hardcore scene. They began work on a new record, which was stalled in July 1992 when Hiltz left the group. The final sessions that produced the resultant 10" record, Battle Hymns of the Race War, featured Melissa York (later in Team Dresch) on drums, although York never performed live with the group.

By early 1993, Nathanson & McPheeters had relocated to Jersey City, New Jersey. There they begun a new version of the band with bassist Tonie Joy & drummer Brooks Headley (of Universal Order of Armageddon). Born Against's radical leftist stance became increasingly drenched in cynicism, which slowly threatened to overtake their message. The group played its final show in July 1993.

After the group's demise, members would continue to collaborate in future bands. Men's Recovery Project, McPheeters & Burke's absurdist noise rock outfit, featured occasional guest appearances by Headley, Joy, & Nathanson. Young Pioneers, Nathanson's proto-folk punk band, also saw membership from Headley & Burke. Joy's group The Great Unraveling contained Headley in its final incarnation. McPheeters & Headley reunited in the Wrangler Brutes.
 

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I'll start with the November 11, 1990 WFMU sessions. The first nine tracks were aired on WFMU. The rest of the tracks were recorded at WFMU Studios May 16, 1991. All tracks were recorded live on Pat Duncan's show for WFMU. This is not released on any label.
 
Born Against - WFMU Sessions, not on a label.
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Nine Years Later
Xmas Eve
Good Father
Halfmast
Born Again
Witness to a Rape
Mary & Child
Eulogy
Organ of Hope
    
Test Pattern
Jock Gestapo
Shroud
Xmas Eve
Alive with Pleasure
Mary & Child
Witness to a Rape
Born Again
Well Fed Fuck

 
 
 
 
Nine Patriotic Hymns was recorded in Wharton Tiers' basement facilities, New York City, the last week in March 1991.
 

Side A -
Mount the Pavement
Shroud
By the Throat
Nine Years Later
Test Pattern

Side B -
Mary & Child
Jock Gestapo
Organ of Hope
Well Fed Fuck
 
 
 
 

Battle Hymn was recorded between July & December 1992 at Fun City, NYC.
 
Born Against - Battle Hymn of the Race War 10", Vermiform VMFM 12, 1993.

Side 1 -
Murder the Sons of Bitches
Mt. Dew
Footbound & Hobbled
This Trash Should've Been Free
Poland

Side 2 -
Sendero
Set Your AM Dial for White Empowerment
The Intermission
Born Against are Fucking Dead
A Whopper of a Tale 


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Sam "Bland" McPheeters & Neil Burke went on to form Men's Recovery Project. They released the Frank Talk 45 track CD in 1995, Resist in 1999, & the album Bolides Over Basra with the help of Rick Pelletier & John Ryan of Six Finger Satellite in 2000.
 
Men's Recovery Project - Frank Talk about Humans, Vinyl Communications VC 070, 1995.

Clark In My Car    
Homo?    
Slap on Some Pants
They Found My Naked Body by the River
All Music is Shit to God    
Frank Talk about Mutants    
Problem?    
Domestic Phone Call    
Explanation of Head Troubles    
Smokin' That Magic Rock    
Eating Contest    
Ugly Interracial Couple
Frank Talk about Mutants, Also    
Frank Talk about Mutants (Carl Cullins remix)    
Smokin' That Magic Rock (Zionist remix)    
Explanation of Head Troubles (Empirically Verifiable Science remix)    
All Music is Shit to God (Ed Powers Tribal remix)    
Homo? (Neighborhood Plumbing remix)    
Domestic Phone Call (Exhausted Engineer remix)    
Explanation of Head Troubles (Children's Problem remix)    
Eating Contest (Parisian remix)    
Domestic Phone Call (Plastic Fruit Cups remix)    
Problem? (Owner's remix)    
Slap on Some Pants (Trail Mix remix)    
Domestic Phone Call (Special remix)    
All Music is Shit to God (Fuck You remix)
Domestic Phone Call (Artificial Leg remix)    
Frank Talk about Mutants (Marshall Glickman remix)    
Smokin' That Magic Rock (John Wilcox remix)    
All Music is Shit to God (DNA Sequencer Failure remix)    
Domestic Phone Call (Inflatable remix)    
Slap on Some Pants (Halftime remix)    
Eating Contest (Emergency remix)    
Explanation of Head Troubles (Empowerment Pants remix)    
Encompass    
Slap on Some Pants (Trouble remix)    
Domestic Phone Call (Cookout Fluid remix)    
Homo? ("They ain't Suing Nobody" remix)
Domestic Phone Call (Negro remix)    
Frank Talk about Mutants (Arnold Clausen remix)    
Domestic Phone Call (Wankle-Rotary Engine remix)    
All Music is Shit to God (Monoroid remix)    
Explanation of Head Troubles (Malfunction remix)    
Slap on Some Pants (Waste of Resources remix)    
Older Men 
 
 
 
 

Side A -
Frank & Judy
Vote Fraud on the Moon Base
New Men
New Tubes
400 Story Building
Driving by Smell
Oops

Side B -
The New Way
Resist the New Way
Unknown Object
New Talking Sausage
The Awful People in the Empty City
 
 
 
 
Men's Recovery Project - Bolides over Bosra, Load Records Load 020, 2000.

Working for the Mossad    
In the Eunich's Wine Cellar    
In Khartoum    
New Year's Party in a Sweltering Apartment    
The Olive Salesman    
Boums to Zanzibar    
Wreckage in the Empty Quarter    
Egyptian Assassin    
Black Albino    
Sephardic Secrets    
Aboard a Doomed Tunisian Frigate    
Joy of the Drunk Tank    
Rabble, Wretches & Lepers    
3am on the Sunken Highway To Riyadh

Next will be Jersey City's Rye Coalition.

Enjoy,

20 August 2023

George Jr.

 

Parliament/Funkadelic co-founder, Bill Laswell associate, & all-round One-Crazee-DUDE, Bernie Worrell dealt out some High-Weirdness in his all too short life. His 1993 release Blactronic Science is my favorite in the HiWeird category. I know you cunnysewers will lap it up. 

 



Here joined with the likes of Maceo, Laswell, Bootsy, Mudbone, Clinton...the usual suspects (but also the unexpected Tony Williams, Sly Dunbar, Aiyb Dieng... 

 

Bernie Worrell - Blacktronic Science, Gramavision R2 79474, 1993.
decryption code in comments

Revelation in Black Light
Flex
Time Was
Blood Secrets
Dissinfordollars
The Vision
Won't Go Away
X-factor
Disappearance

Enjoy, you weirdos...

17 August 2023

That’s the Spirit...

      "If I had one wish, I'd bring my dear friend Jimi back. We'd reminisce about days gone by. Tears of joy we would not cry & one good thing about it is...
we'd start all over again."

                                                                                     from 'Jimi's Back" by Randy Wolfe 

 



Did you ever wonder what would have happened if after Jimmy James & the Blue Flames, Randy (from California) had gone along with Jimi to England? Well, I have. The Hendrix - California Experience (Jimi Hendrix, Randy California, Noel Redding, & Mitch Mitchell).

So Randy didn't write tunes as great as Jimi (well, we all know the "Taurus" / “Stairway” thing, right?), but "boy, could he play guitar". The thirteen plus minute "All Along the Watchtower" brings tears to my eyes every time. Or the seven-plus "Red House". Come on. But most of all, he would have always been there for Jimi. We know he would have given his own life to save Jimi from the rip-tide of notoriety & drugs that pulled him down just as he did in the rip-tide of the Pacific to save his son. 

 



Enough of that, though. Spirit was an equally legendary band. When I first saw them at the Fox Theater in San Jose I was hooked. Then Sardonicus came out. ..hell, yeah...

Here are a couple live sets & one post-Randy double discs of greatness... 

 

Spirit - Live at the Fillmore West, May 16,1970, Esoteric Recordings, 2022.
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Sweet Stella Baby
1984
Country Echo
Jealous
All the Same
Fresh Garbage
It Shall Be
Nothing to Hide (no Prelude)
Ice
Mr. Skin
Animal Zoo
I'm Truckin'
So Little Time to Fly
Fog
Dark Eyed Woman
Uncle Jack
Nature's Way

bonus cuts -    
Mechanical World (live, Boston Tea Party, October 11, 1969)
Walking on My Feet
When I Touch You
Street Worm (live backing track)
Love Has Found a Way (backing track) 

 

 

 

 

Spirit - Live from the Time Coast 2xCD, Acadia ACAD 8073, 2004.

Disc One -
Soldier
Mike & Bob's Party    
Rapture in the Chambers    
Love Tonight    
Tent of Miracles    
All Along the Watchtower    
Ship of Fools    
Golden Jam    
Dark Eyed Woman    
I Got a Line on You    
Jam Free
Downer

Disc Two - 
In a Young Man's Eyes, 
Life has Just Begun    
Future in My Hands    
Victim of Society    
Holy Man    
Love from Here
Fresh Garbage
Taurus    
Darlin' If    
Burning Love    
Logical Answers    
Blues for a Nation    
Old Black Magic    
Animal Zoo    
Deep in this Land    
Zandu    
Turn to the Right    
Working in New York
 
 
 
 
Spirit - Blues from the Soul 2xCD, Acadia ACAD 8047, 2003.

Disc One -

Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond    
Wagon of Wood    
Tell Me (Didn't Mean No Harm to You)    
Key to the Highway    
When You're Smilin'    
Pawnshop Blues    
Ever Since You Left Me    
Kansas City    
Fixing to Die (Shake My Ego Down)    
Pick a Bale of Cotton    
Run Sinner Run    
Cosmic Smile (aka the Other Song)    
Charlie James / Miss this Train    
Jimi's Back    
Red House    
Kokomo    
Devine Love    
When the Saints Go Marchin' In    
Like a Dog    
Lord I'll Be with You Always    
I had a Dream

Disc Two -
The Letter    
Ain't Superstitious
Ever Since You Left Me (Maui Wowie)    
Poor Boy
Cold Rainy Night    
California Blues    
Sugar Mama    
Charlie James    
Shattered Dreams    
Kokocass Jam    
Dreamy Eyes    
Miss this Train
Down & Dirty Blues
Last Night I had the Strangest Dream

Enjoy,

15 August 2023

Intro Dub

Here's the Intro from Bukowski in Dub that I've leaked a few tracks of before... 
 
 
Charles Bukowski - Introduction, Bukowski in Dub, EP Records EP909.

Hank sez: "Dub Onward",

13 August 2023

Stereophonic Sound

I've made my love of trip-hop well known here many times in the past. 
 



One of the trip-hop bands that I've always enjoyed is Hooverphonic. I shared a compilation of their material that I created to spotlight the various iterations & styles of their lengthy career (covering the years 1995 - 2010), called Suck it Up.

Here's the band's debut that never fails to please me. It starts right off with "Inhaler", so... 

 

Hooverphonic - A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular, Epic EK 68010, 1996.
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Inhaler    
2Wicky    
Wardrope    
Plus Profond    
Barabas    
Cinderella    
Nr 9    
Sarangi    
Someone    
Revolver    
Innervoice

Enjoy,

11 August 2023

Time for a Punky Party

 

Tim Wells (front), Paul 'Madhatter' Wellings (left), & Mark ?WellIdon'tknow? (right) are Anti Social Workers.

Anti Social Workers were three punks from the London Overspill suburb of Wapping. Here they meet the Mad Professor & his Ariwa posse.

Anti Social Workers & the Mad Professor - Punky Reggae Party, Ariwa ARI008 LP, 1983.
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Side 1 -
Every Dog Has its Day
Who's Watching You?
Democracy is....
Waiting for the Crackdown
Shit for Brains

Side 2 -
Pagan Man
Great Romance Rip-Off
Vandalise the Vatican
Simon Sez
Red Rap
England (is a Name for a Piece of Land & a Football Team)

Enjoy,

09 August 2023

NEW SERIES!!! The Naterock Album Dump Part 1

Back in December 2021 I launched a series called Naterock Samplers 
that touched on musick that personally steered my growth 
for the years 1965 - 1987. 
 



This new Album Dump series will span the next year. 

Once each month (with the exception of Dub September & Whatever February) I will give a link & decryption code to the source material for December 2021 Naterock Sampler seven-part series (three sections contain two parts each for a total of 10 dumps) . 

If you like the artists in any particular years, keep posted, for surely your time will come. 

A .zip file marked simply Albums List will be included in each dump, so you can decide from that what you want or simply reference the list below (& with each posting).

Starting out with 1965 - 1967, this was the music that influenced me during these times & spaces.

Naterock Album Dump Part 1
decryption code in the usual place


1965 -
01 - The Four Tops -Second Album
02 - The Pretty Things - self-titled 7“
03 - The Zombies - self-titled
04 - Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour

1966 -
05 - ? & the Mysterions - 96 Tears
06 - Love - self-titled
07 - Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
08 - The Seeds - self-titled
09 - The Troggs - Wild Thing
10 - The Standells - Dirty Water
11 - The Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
12 - 13th Floor Elevator - The Psychedelic Sounds of...
13 - The Fugs - self-titled
14 - The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!

1967 -
15 - Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Safe as Milk
16 - The Chambers Brothers - The Time has Come
17 - Ten Years After - self-titled
18 - Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold as Love
19 - The Velvet Underground & Nico - self-titled

Enjoy,

07 August 2023

Houston...This is Neil & Buzz...Reporting in from Tranquility Base...The Bird has Flipped...

Tranquiity Bass...what can I say? 
 



Tranquility Bass started life as the duo of Michael Kandel & Tom Chasteen They originally released material on their Exist Dance label. 

 

Tranquility Bass - They Came in Peace (from They Came in Peace 12")
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Tranquility Bass - Cantamilla (from California Dreaming Sampler 12") 



These early 90s sounds are some of the finest encapsulations of a music scene where thousands of contrary yet interconnected ideas straight out of the minds & off the pages of Mondo 2000, science / fiction authors Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, cybernetic systems analysts, techno-utopians, or hardcore ecologists were surge-blended into an amalgam of the times.

If that's not enough of a Mindfuck, here's a few more...
 
 

Side A -
Battle on the Tundra (The Initial Citrus Earthquake Confrontation)
The Mindfuck Introspective Ancestral Channeling Pilgrimage

Side B -
Allied Against Nivar the Floor Killer
 
 
 
 
 
Captain Mindfuck - Whiskey & Blood (from Commander Mindfuck/ The What of Sane split, 1997).




Commander Mindfuck - Hodah (from Isotope 217 mixed by Commander Mindfuck, 1999).
(note: Matthew Lux is the bass player for Isotope 217 & was Tranquility Bass touring bassist) 


 
 
 
Since his death in May 2015, Michael Kandel has been heralded for his work in the early American rave scene & as the unheralded founding father of Trip-hop.

However, that's not what I get when I touch down at Tranquility Bass. Nothing of the Exist Dance tracks hinted at what I'm getting. In 1994 Chasteen moved to Tuscon, Arizona where his Skull Valley project was born. Kandel joined up withTyler Vlaovich to record an album on Lopez Island, Washington. In 1997 the album was released as Let the Freak Flag Fly on Astralwerks Records.

My freak flag for music flies free as any of you muthas out here, but this really did me righteous. To this day, every time I listen to this beloved disc, it checks all the boxes for me, musically, yet I have no idea why. It's a beautiful mystery, this recording. There's a sappy cover of a Jimmie Rodgers 1927 World War I ballad & a serious-as-a-fart-attack Western prairie anthem about fungus & yet I love every second of it. It's been described as "a grand journey through nearly a century of recorded music, a densely layered montage of electronic manipulations & live instruments".

Performed by the Insatiably Eclectic Hippy Freeform Freakout Band.
 
Tranquility Bass - Let the Freak Flag Fly, Astralwerks ASW 6200, 1997.

Five Miles High
La La La
The Bird
Soldier's Sweetheart
We All Want to be Free
Never Gonna End
I'll be Here
Let the Freak Flag Fly
Lichen Me to Wyomin'

Enigma me this,

05 August 2023

What the Bloody ‘L? Part 3 & Out!

Last of the reworked 'Ls 
 

 

Hemp is Here was originally released in a run of 300 copies with an over-sized silk-screened poster sleeve. This copy is from the 2013 reissue on US based Digitalis Recordings. Reissued again in Belgium on Futura Resistenza in 2021.

 

All instruments, artwork, & tape editing by Peter Karkut. Vocals by Peter Karkut & Maggie Turner. 

 

Leven Signs - Hemp is Here, Digitalis Recordings - DIGIV050, 2013..
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Side One -
Our Position Vanishes
Prague Spring
Iraj 11
La Luna
Sedes Sapientiae

Side 2 -
Carry the Torch
Morse Message
This Inner Space
Rumi
Das Seal
Held in Arms

Later,

03 August 2023

What the Bloody ‘L?...part 2

I see that this idea took off quite well. 
15 of the top 20 posts visited are direct links from What the Bloody 'L. 
( the Sinéad O'Connor Collaborations post is by far & away the most visited...Thank you all)

 

Here's the next set of Music that Needs Work - L

 



La Luz is a band from Seattle, WA, started in the summer of 2012 by Shana Cleveland - guitar, Alice Sandahl - keyboard, Lena Simon - bass, & Marian Li Pino - drums. Everyone sings. All songs by Shana & La Luz.

 

La Luz - It's Alive, Hardly Art HAR-076, 2013.
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Sure as Spring
All the Time
Morning High
What Good am I?
Sunstroke
It's Alive
Big Big Blood
Call Me in the Day
Pink Slime
Phantom Feelings
You can Never Know
 
 
 
 

Let's Bomb the Hell are from Prague. 
 
LBTH features Tomáš Hricišák - guitar & vocals, Jan Faix (Unifiction) - keyboards,. Josef Zelo Zeleňák - bass, Bob Saint-Claire - various intruments, & Matěj - drums. Their music is loaded with lush layers of disturbing dark atmospherics.
 
Let's Bomb the Hell - Chapter 1 EP, Soundevice Studio, 2014.

Glooming Star
I, the Murder if All
Loose My Head
Sheol
 
 
 
 

1996s Volume 3 of Loop Guru's Catalogue of Desires is the first of the Catalogue seies available commercially. Volume 1 (1993) & Volume 2 (1994) were described in a Loop Guru newsletter discography from 1995 as "official bootleg, mail order & gig sales only, tape cassette only". 
 
Loop Guru here are Ja Muud Guru, Salamander 'Salman Gita' Gheetar, & Speechless with various freinds or guest musicians.
North South GURU 300 CD, 1996.

Ritual Cluster   
Catalyst   
The Garden of Unearthly Delight   
Can of Ghosts   
Stone River Reckoning   
Almost   
Deep Crescent   
After Dark with the Reel Tones   
Mountain of Waterglass   
Chukachuka Geledag-Geledug   
Saboda   
Rite Number Three   
Buruk Burang   
Nature of the Whole   
Susleone   
Enlightened Jewels, Mourned Opportunity   
Red Crown   
The Pear-tree Illusion
Out of the Dark Room   
The Dream-Vendor's Sunday

Lust for Life,