Can You See My Smile from Where You Are?

Every Muslimgauze release, all the lost RootBoy Slim, the entire Around the World Project & so, so  unbelievably muchly missed more has been resurrected. I am forever in debt to Wallace C., a follower of this here blog & interweb friend (who, don’t let anyone try to convince you differently, can be as true a friend as your face-to-face, flesh-to-flesh friends though you've never met) volunteered to try & work his Dada Data Recovery magick on my long dead Iomega.

Today I received the results of that magick by UPS.  



This boy's got his shit back!

Weird shit stirring in my brain. The last thing I uploaded to the external HD before it died was David Bowie - Blackstar September 11, 2016 at 21:20.

On a post called Alzheimers, Osteoporosis, & Incontinence I posted up in February 2013. It was a band called Common Ailments of Maturity, hence the post name. About that post, I received a comment in July 2017 from Unknown: "Hello, please can you re-up this one? :-D   Thanks a lot! I've only found the None Whatsover comp and 'Stake' sounds so rad...so curious to listen the whole album." This is the oldest request I have not been able to address until today. The only copy I had was a digital rip of the vinyl on the cursed external.

Common Ailments of Maturity - Smoldering Lunchbox, 

Extremely High Quality Records EHQ 12001, 1987.

here or at original post elsewhere (see link above)

all decryption codes, as always, in comments

It is now re-uploaded. I  may never know, but, Unknown, if you somehow find that I honored your request...eventually, leave a comment. I love shit like that.


So the first song I wanted to hear was "Jawani Zindabad" by Musilgauze. Here it is to share with you all, along with its sibling songs...

Muslimgauze - A Putrid Oasis, Vinyl-on-Demand VOD 121, 2014.

Gold Kalpakcilar Dome - Part 1/2
A Putrid Oasis    
How Rustem, The Thief, Moves Through Fire    
Memsahib of Gub & Ghee    
Bilechik Mule    
Untitled    
Suttee    
Jawani Zindabad    
Sapere Aude    
Saladin Mercy    
Sulaymaniyah    
Palestine is Our Izlamic Land - Part 1    
Marseille - Part 2    
Sadaambush

Track 1 from "Alms For Iraq". Recorded in 1995, released in 2003.
Track 2 from "Galilee Stone". Recorded in 1994, previously unreleased.
Track 3 from "Sufiq". Recorded in 1997, released in 2000.
Track 4 from "Fakir Sind". Recorded in 1998, released in 1999.
Track 5 from "Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass". Recorded in 1998, released in 1999.
Track 6 from "Remixs Vol. 2". Recorded and released in 1997.
Track 7 from "Farouk Enjineer", recorded and released in 1997.
Track 8 from "Vote Hezbollah", recorded in 1992, released in 1993.
Track 9 from "Abu Nidal". Recording date unknown. Released in 1987.
Track 10 from "Gun Aramaic". Recorded in 1994/1995, released in 1995.
Track 11 from "Mazar-i-Sharif". Recorded in 1997 and released in 1998.
Track 12 from "Arab Quarter", Recorded in 1995/1996, and released in 1996.
Track 13 from "Lahore & Marseille". Recorded in 1997, released in 1998.
Track 14 from "Arabbox". Recorded in 1993, released in 2003.

CD comes with the biography, Muslimgauze: Chasing The Shadow Of Bryn Jones by Ibrahim Khider. Limited edition of 400 copies. I was on the list for Khider's opus long before it ever saw the light of day.

Miss ya, Bryn
NØ

Alzheimer's & Osteoporosis & Incontinence, Oh My

Re-Upload: This delight has been re-upped on August 31, 2020 from files rescued from the apocalypse. Enjoy, NØ

Common Ailments of Maturity formed in Boston in1985 with Lawrence Dersch, Dennis Plinn, & Timothy (Ratdiet) Robert. They are most noted for their live shows which featured new member John Breglia who took over as keyboards, bass, & melody on his Chapman Stick. The Stick was popularized by Tony Levine in King Crimson.

     “Imagine creating music on a stringed instrument that is simultaneously a guitar,

       a bass, a piano, & percussion. Add unlimited electronic capabilities & forward-    

       thinking playing techniques for ultimate expression. Now, design a tuning to

       make navigation of the instrument amazingly simple, streamline the look &

       feel for optimal accessibility. This instrument already exists as the

       Chapman Stick.”

CAM released three LPs & two singles in their short life-span. The band was active until about 1992 when they released their final work, the single “Machinery Turning b/w Erosion”. They were praised by the music press, played with the best of the Boston underground, but reached a relatively small audience. This could be caused by the fact that they played a noisy, difficult, uncompromising music which was hard to pigeon-holed. It’s funk-jazz fusion blended with punk, creating a highly personal disharmonic rock ‘n’ roll.

Smoldering Lunchbox released in 1987 by Common Ailments of Maturity themselves, on their label Extremely High Quality Records (EHQ 12001). On this recording, CAM was: Timothy Ratdiet – guitar & vocals; Dennis Plinn - synthesizer; & Lawrence Dersch - drums.

The following pseudo-biography is from the records insert:

“April 30 1987
Fed up with hearing "Proud Mary" and "We've Only Just Begun" every night for twelve consecutive years, Dennis Plinn abandons his lucrative position as musical director of a Caribbean cruise ship. He moves to Boston, taking a job as piano accompanist for a strip tease act at the Naked I Cabaret in the city's notorious combat zone. Although the money isn't good, Plinn finds his new occupation spiritually uplifting.

October 1 1987
Lawrence Dersch is financially ruined, alcoholic and homeless. Once a well respected radio and television technician, his skill have become obsolete with the advent of the microchip. Desperate, Dersch turns to panhandling in Boston's subway corridors. On this evening, though, his fortune takes a turn for the better...Dersch discovers he can triple his income by beating out rhythms on the foreheads of passing commuters. Dersch becomes a local celebrity overnight.

October 21, 1987 5:45 PM
Timothy Ratdiet, importer of counterfeit Fender Stratocasters, locks up his office on the tenth floor of a dingy warehouse in Boston's Chinatown section. In a dark mood after making a hush money payment to a U.S. Department of Commerce official, Ratdiet drives his '83 Porsche 911 two blocks to the Naked I for a stiff drink and a new attitude.

October 22, 1987 2:35 AM
After a massive barroom brawl at the Naked I, Ratdiet, Plinn and Dersch find themselves sharing a cell in Boston Police District Four Headquarters. Discovering a common interest, the three while away the hours waiting for a bail bondsman by singing Lithuanian folk songs of the 18th century. Common Ailments of Maturity is born.”

Common Ailments of Maturity ‎– Smoldering Lunchbox, 

Extremely High Quality Records ‎– EHQ 12001, 1987. 

decryption code in comments

Side One –

Smoldering Lunchbox

Carpet Bag

Mental Block

Wetness

Side Two –

Drop Dead

Stake

Trudge

Restless Hunger/ Trench

Acid Mix

Enjoy,

NØ