Friday 11 November 2011

Before the Spring pt V

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Tracklisting
1 - 2. Intro - Main Theme (Carter Takes a Train) - Roy Budd
3. Jungle Fever - The Tornados
4. Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson
5. Dubbing My Wab - King Tubby
6. Boo Boo Stick Beat - Chet Atkins
7. Fugitive Dub - The Skatalites
8. Poor Moon - Canned Heat
9. Dry Bones - Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians
10. Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton
11. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - Bongwater
12. Sundown, Sundown - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
13. Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes
14. Hallucinations - Roy Budd
15. Promise Me - The Gun Club
16. Man Taken from Guts (Thee Mighty Caesars) - Billy Childish
17. Jungle Fever - Charlie Feathers
18. Children Crying - The Congos
19. The Slab - Public Image Ltd.
20. Thief - Can
21. Sand and Foam - Donovan
22. The Bublight - Joe Meek
23. Return of Carter - The Sabres of Paradise
24. Corn Fish Dub - The Upsetters
25. Tedious - Junior Murvin
26. Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
27. Babylon (live) - Don McLean 

hither

http://www.mediafire.com/?x4537gxd94sxk31


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Saturday 13 August 2011

Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out

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This one is a very old favourite. It was played around the house a lot when I was very young and evokes memories of Robin of Sherwood on the TV, Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal, and running around in fields avoiding cow pats.

It's got it all, Uillean Pipes, Fairlight CMI, vocoder, Maggie Reilly and that's just the first track. I don't know a whole lot about what Mike Oldfield did after this album, but I think this is a definite high point from his first flurry of releases.

http://www.mediafire.com/?vcyul2lz68fy40u




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Thursday 4 August 2011

Daniel Patrick Quinn - The Winter Hills *** Daniel Patrick Quinn with Beano Jameson - Suilven 7 (ep)

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This is the first Daniel Patrick Quinn album, released on his own record label, Suilven Records in 2003. Released as a two disc set, there is a split between vocal and instrumental numbers. All of the lyrical and musical themes Daniel developed throughout his solo recordings and his work with One More Grain are present in an embryonic form here. I try to avoid the music reviewers algebra, but in this case good points of reference are Brian Eno, Robert Wyatt and Mark E. Smith.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?vif26m04v4qln82

tracklist

1. The Winter Hills
2. Pathways
3. Of Things to Come
4. Pilgrim's Way
5. For Her Atoms
6. Towards the Sun
7. The Stonecutter
8. Red Roads
9. A Coastal Journey

If anyone out there has any of Daniel Patrick Quinn's solo work, please do get in touch. The albums he released through Suilven were limited editions and since the dissoulution of the label and Daniel's move to Jakarta they are increasingly difficult to find. This is the only album I have managed to buy and I can't find any more through all the usual channels (amazon/ebay/itunes/spotify/blogs etc etc etc). The guy is a really rare talent and I think it would be good thing if more people could hear his music.

***Update 13/08/11***

Thanks to another friendly soul for passing this one on. It's an ep colloboration between Daniel Patrick Quinn and Beano Jameson. I can't tell you anything about Beano. Soz like.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?b9xsl26g47c7nak

Saturday 23 July 2011

theillalogicalspoon - experiment 3 - Remember your Creator in the Days of your Youth

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Featuring ex-members of Psalters and sounding like the Trees Community fed on a diet of Modest Mouse and Neutral Milk Hotel with the occasional guttaral crust bellow. This album takes it's lyrical inspiration from the Book of Ecclesiastes, the writings of Jacques Ellul, William Blake and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man.

tracklisting

1. The Hours
2. Moonlight and Fog 1
3. Grasping the Wind
4. Who's the Cowboy Now
5. New Moon
6. When the Rain Comes
7. Wild Fire
8. Moonlight and Fog 2
9. Dare!
10. Moon and Fire
11. Fields of Green
12. Come Thou Warrior In Soul Thou Poet In Deed At 12:17 We Shall Believe
13. In The Moonlight and Fog/Amidst This Apocalyptic Twilight

and track 14 is a bonus Untitled track from another session.

http://www.mediafire.com/?k17rf2h5vpb74bh


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Sunday 17 July 2011

Planxty - The Well Below the Valley

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Planxty is an Irish folk music band formed in the 1970s, consisting of Christy Moore (vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhrán), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki, guitars), Andy Irvine (mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica), and Liam O’Flynn (uilleann pipes, tin whistle).

01.Cunla
02.Pat Reilly
03.The Kid On On The Mountain, An Phis Fhliuch
04.As I Roved Out (Andy Irvine)
05.The Dogs Among The Bushes, Jenny's Wedding
06.The Well Below The Valley
07.Hewlett
08.Bean Phaidin
09.Fisherman's Lilt, Cronin's Hornpipe
10.As I Roved Out (Christy Moore)
11.Humours Of Ballyloughlin

http://www.mediafire.com/?0vbmsiqntvng725

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"The Maid and the Palmer" or "The Well Below The Valley" is Child ballad 21 and a murder ballad. Because of its dark and sinister lyrics (implying murder and, in some versions, incest), the song was often avoided by folk singers. It is claimed that Tom Munnelly was largely responsible for preserving the song. Munnelly heard it sung by a member of the travelling community named John Reilly in County Roscommon in 1963.

A palmer begs a cup from a maid who is washing at the well, so that he could drink from. She says she has none. He says that she would have, if her lover came. She swore she had never had a lover. He says that she has borne nine babies and tells her where she buried the bodies. She begs some penance from him. He tells her that she will be transformed into a stepping-stone for seven years, a bell-clapper for seven, and spend seven years in hell.

In some variants, the children were incestously conceived.

This ballad combines themes from the Biblical stories of the Samaritan woman at the well, and Mary Magdalene.In several foreign variants, the palmer is in fact Jesus.

The ballad "The Cruel Mother", Child ballad 20, exists in a number of variants; one contains a number of verses that appear to stem from this one.



A gentleman was passing by
He asked for a drink as he got dry
At the well below below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

Me cup is full up to the brim
If I were to stoop I might fall in
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

If your true love was passing by
You'd fill him a drink as he got dry
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

She swore by grass, she swore by corn
That her true love had never been born
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

He said, Young maid, you're swearing wrong
For six fine children you had born
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

If you be a man of noble fame
You'll tell to me the father o' them
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

There's two of them by your Uncle Dan
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

Another two by your brother John
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

Another two by your Father dear
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

If you be a man of noble esteem
You'll tell to me what has happened to them
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

There's two buried 'neath the stable door
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

Another two near the kitchen door
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

Another two buried beneath the well
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

If you be a man of noble fame
You'll tell to me what'll happen mesel'
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

You'll be seven years a-ringing the bell
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

You'll be seven more a-portin' in Hell
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o

I'll be seven years a-ringing the bell
But the Lord above may save me soul
From portin' in Hell
At the well below the valley o
Green grows the lily o
Right among the bushes o.

The Anomoanon - The Derby Ram

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I can't tell you a lot about The Anomoanon, aside from they are fronted by Ned Oldham (Will's brother) and that they play a folksie brand of psychedlia and that they play it beautifully. Most of the lyrics on this album are traditional English and American folk standards but the musical compositions are entirely original.

http://www.mediafire.com/?lrvor6pi43l23xy

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The Derby Ram

As I went out to Derby, upon a market day
I spied the biggest ram, sir, that ever was fed on hay

The horns upon this ram, sir, they reached up to the moon
A lad went up in April and didn't get down 'til June

The fleece upon this ram, sir, it reached up to the sky
The eagles made their nests there, you could hear the young 'uns cry

And all the boys of Derby come begging for his eyes
To kick around the streets, sir, 'cause they was football size

And all the women of Derby come begging for his ears
To make 'em leather aprons to last 'em forty years

And all the men of Derby come begging for his tail
To ring St. George's passing bell from the top of Derby jail

It took all the boys of Derby to carry away his bones
Took all the maids of Derby to roll away his stones

Now the butcher that killed this ram, sir, he was up to his thighs in blood
The boy that held the basin was washed away in the flood

And now my song is over, I've got no more to say
Just give us eggs and brandy and we'll be on our way

Sunday 10 July 2011

Folk songs from Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales

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I'm really pleased to offer this short compilation from Pasolini's Canterbury Tales. As a film it is not highly rated by aficionados of Chaucer or Pasolini, but it remains one of my favourite ever movies. Bawdy, earthy, sacred and profane.

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What we have here is a labour of love. It's taken me a long time to find all the information for the soundtrack, finding the songs themselves hasn't been so difficult and this is due to some generous folks who run blogs and frequent forums. No soundtrack was released for the film, despite it's utilising substantial portions of authentic English folk song, a couple of Medieval dance tunes composed by Ennio Morricone performed on authentic instruments and some fine liturgical music. I am still attempting to track down some of the religious music from the film, but what I offer today is the majority of English folk tunes as they appear, presented in sequential order.

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here is the tracklisting


1. Ould Piper - Frank McPeak (from Jack of all Trades)
2. Jug of Punch - Edward Quinn (from Jack of all Trades)
3. Paddy West - Timothy Walsh (Songs of Sailormen and Serving Maids)
4. The Coolin - Paddy Taylor (Songs of Courtship)
5. Dairy Maid - John Maguire (Jack of all Trades)
6. Bundle and Go - John Doherty (Jack of all Trades)
7. The Wind Blew the Bonnies Lassie's Plaidie Awa' - Jimmy McBeath, Duncan Burker, Jeannie Robertson (Songs of Seduction)
8. The Wee Weaver - John Doherty (Jack of all Trades)
9. Behind the Bush in the Garden - Seamus Ennis (Songs of Seduction)
10. Merry Haymakers - Bob & Ron Copper (Jack of all Trades)
11. Torna Ma Goon - Jimmy McBeath (Songs of Seduction)
12. The Liverpool Packet - Billy Barber (Songs of Sailormen and Serving Maids)
13. Gower Wassail - Phil Tanner *
14. Oxford City - Mary Doran (Fair Game and Foul)
15. Newlyn Town - (Fair Game and Foul)
16. The Brown Thorn - Seamus Ennis (Songs of Seduction)
17. Our Wedding Day - Francis McPeake (Songs of Courtship)
18. Hal An Tow - The Watersons *
19. Campanero - Bill Cameron (Songs of Sailormen and Serving Maids)
20. The Roving Journey Man - Blanche Wood (Jack of all Trades)
21. Our Gallant Ship - William Howell (Songs of Sailormen and Serving Maids)
22. Napolean Bonaparte - Robert Cinnamond (A Soldier's Life for Me)

* I am not certain who performs the versions in the film, so have substituted Phil Tanner's and The Watersons' versions of these songs, respectively.

Massive thanks to the Gonzo archive (http://gonzo-archive.blogspot.com/) for making available restoring and sharing the out of print "Topic Folk Songs of Britian" archive. If you like what you hear here, you should check out Topic Records (http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/) "Voice of the People series" which is an absolute treasure trove of authentic folk music from the British Isles.

http://www.mediafire.com/?82odfkf7ck596k3

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Friday 1 July 2011

Before the Spring pt IV

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Here is part 4 and it's heavy on the hurdy gurdy and the choral. Also, it appears that a couple of the tracks are downloading out of sequence. Valle Me Gajde by Folk Shqiptar should be track 5 and Kanasztancok Ket Hegedun by Hala Strana should be track 11. If these tracks turn up at the end of the playlist then switch them around.

I need to give a shout out to Bluesmen's World blog, which is put together by someone who really knows their stuff. If you like the tracks by Kalyi Jag, Zurgo and Magyar Dudazenekar this blog is where I found them. It's an incredibley generous resource http://bluesmen-worldmusic.blogspot.com/

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1. Earth - Third Ear Band
2. The Zither Player - Dirty Three
3. Tuke Bahh - Kalyi Jag
4. Juhajgatás - Zurgó
5. Valle Me Gajde - Folk Shqiptar
6. Delya Became a Haidouk - Valva Balkanska
7. Wave - Angelite & Huun-Huur-Tu
8. Improv: Trio - King Crimson
9. Kontilies - Psarantonis
10. Táncolj Kecske - Magyar Dudazenekar
11. Kanasztancok Ket Hegedun - Hala Strana
12. Palots Regional Duet For Bagpipe And Hurdy-Gurdy - Mandel Quartet
13. Highland Tune - Huun-Huur-Tu
14. The Ace and the Deuce of Pipering - The Chieftains
15. Danse real (anon. French 13th century) - David Munrow
16. Tale III (Lento Arabesco) - Goran Bregović
17. Tsintskaro [Nosferatu. Phantom Der Nacht] - Gordela Ensemble
18. Plaine De Duel - Josquin des Pres
19. A Silence Song - Current 93
20. Gesualdo : Miserere [Psalm 50] - A Sei Voci

http://www.mediafire.com/?yogx1c8wuoraz9b

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Sunday 22 May 2011

The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children

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This is the remaster of the 4th Moody Blues album to feature the post "Magnificent" line-up. I think it's their best, although it takes a couple of tracks to really warm up and out of the twee psychedelia, tracks 5 through to 13 are golden. A really lush sounding album, featuring only a couple of tracks (namely Higher and Higher and Gypsy) which they were able to recreate live. Mellotron features heavily throughout, spacey, choral and symphonic. There are a few alternate mixes and live tracks at the end of the album, but I recommend concetrating on the first 13 tracks which really hang together as a whole piece.

tracklisting

1. Higher and Higher (4:07)
2. Eyes of A Child - Part 1 (3:24)
3. Floating (2:59)
4. Eyes of A Child - Part 2 (1:24)
5. I Never Thought I'd Live To Be A Hundred (1:06)
6. Beyond (2:58)
7. Out And In (3:50)
8. Gypsy (3:33)
9. Eternity Road (4:19)
10. Candle of Life (4:15)
11. Sun Is Still Shining (3:40)
12. I Never Thought I'd Live To Be A Million (0:34)
13. Watching and Waiting (4:21)

bonus tracks


14. Gypsy (alternate version) (4:19)
15. Candle of Life (alternate version) (4:59)
16. Sun Is Still Shining (extended version) (4:06)
17. Have You Heard / The Voyage / Have You Heard - Part 2 (Live) (5:51)
18. Legend of A Mind (Live) (4:33)


http://www.mediafire.com/?kyc2py12aczdy
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Wednesday 18 May 2011

Valentin Clastrier - Heresie

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French musician Valentin Clastrier (born 1947) is one of the few performers in the world specializing in contemporary music for the hurdy-gurdy; before Clastrier, the instrument was used primarily in the performance of European Medieval and folk musics.

He began his career as a guitarist, and was introduced to the hurdy-gurdy in 1970. His instrument has 27 strings rather than the conventional six.

Clastrier’s strikingly original compositions for the instrument (in both acoustic and electroacoustic versions) have been recorded, in collaboration with other creative European musicians (including tubist and serpent player Michel Godard, accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier, saxophonist/clarinetists Michaël Riessler and Louis Sclavis, and percussionists Gérard Siracusa and Carlo Rizzo).

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from the liner notes by Valentin Clastrier

Heresy

My guiding purpose has been to make music inspired by the heresy of the Cathars, and which would allow every possible shift in time, place and language.

By coincidence the wheel vielle (hurdy gurdie) appeared at the same time as the Cathar heresy in Occitana, in about the year one thousand.

Accordingly the vielle is omnipresent in this music, originally meant for it and enhanced by the timbres offered by the musicians.

With its archaic and modern features, its gusty shriek, its boundless drone bowed out from a raw wound, is not the vielle itself a heresy?

http://www.mediafire.com/?eyp8q7s1my11i

Saturday 14 May 2011

Before the Spring mix tape pt III

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Here is a third playlist, it's got wooden trumpets, choral treatments of Black Sabbath, polyphony, folk songs, prog, drones, yodelling and more! Enjoy...

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^ this lady is Lemmie Brazil

Tracklisting

1. Dou de büchel (wooden trumpets duet—Central Switzerland) - Moritz & Christian Trütsch
2. Herz Aus Glas Opening Yodel - from Werner Herzog's Heart of Glass, recorded from a TV
3. Solitudo (Solitude) - Rondellus
4. Bibit (with Philip Thorby) - Horses Brawl
5. When Falling - Ilk
6. Riverchrist - The Cloisters
7. Stroudwater - Donald MacLeod & Congregation
8. The Lord Will Provide - Peter Bellamy
9. God Killed the Devil - Lemmie Brazil
10. White Horse - Spiridon Shishigin
11. Marseille Tape - Daniel Padden
12. Figure of Eight - One More Grain
13. Of Souls (A Pantomine) - Ilk
14. Gloria Laus - The Young Tradition
15. Trotto / Salterello - John Renbourn
16. Psalter - Faust
17. C'est La Fin/Pour Mon Cuer - Shirley & Dolly Collins
18. Sonnerie glorieuse des armées du Pape - Valentin Clastrier
19. Chickadees' roar pt. 2 - Efrim Manuel Menuck
20. I'm Going In a Field - Ivor Cutler
21. Martyrs - Alasdair Graham & Congregation
22. Iligai - Folk Ensemble Of The Presidential Orchestra
23. Der Fryburger Chuehreihe (Western Switzerland)- Alphorn Quartet from Guin


http://www.mediafire.com/?nuybj815o1gpb
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One More Grain - Pigeon English & Isle of Grain

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One More Grain were a short lived outfit formed around Daniel Patrick Quinn's (founder of Suilven records) Mark E. Smith-esque spoken word monologues focussing on the British landscape and city living, the sound of the hurdy gurdie, harmonium and guitar, offset with Andrew Blick's trumpet-playing and skill as a sound manipulator, all of this is played over a solid rhythm section reminiscent of kraut-rock and afro-beat. They released 2 mini-lps (posted here) and a 7" single before disbanding due to financial difficulties, which is a shame as these guys were one of the more distinct and unique outfits in recent years. Quinn then moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, and oversaw In Nem, a New York minimalist-inspired gamelan recording project in Central Java as well as writing liner notes for Trance Gamelan in Bali. He is now writer and editor for an Indonesian volcano website Gunung Bagging detailing all peaks in the country with 1000 metres topographic prominence known as the Ribus.) and the remaining members continue on under the name Gyratory System.

One More Grain - Pigeon English

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http://www.mediafire.com/?j1pbz85z1qhzh

Pigeon English - tracklisting

1. A Shout in the Street
2. Tropical Mother in Law
3. Against King Moron
4. Northern
5. I'm On My Way
6. Down Roman Road
7. Won't Get Fooled Again


One More Grain - Isle of Grain

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http://www.mediafire.com/?krw44ad0uuo0r

Isle of Grain - tracklisting

1. Confession Time
2. A Town is what you Make it
3. John Hasselhoff
4. Lad with a Balloon
5. Under Night Streets
6. Having a Ball
7. Figure of Eight
8. Walking off the Map

Sunday 8 May 2011

Peter Bellamy - Oak, Ash & Thorn

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Peter Bellamy, formerly one third of the excellent Young Tradition sets poems from Rudyard Kipling's "Pook of Pook's Hill" and "Rewards and Fairies" in folk song. English folk doesn't get better than this. Mostly voice, with touches of concertina, fiddle, lute, flute organ and guitar.

Peter Bellamy - Oak, Ash & Thorn
http://www.mediafire.com/?r34taa19du6wm2p

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Saturday 30 April 2011

Kenneth Patchen reads with Jazz in Canada

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"Writing is a difficult job. There is no trouble at all in knowing what you want to say; the trouble begins in keeping out the rest of it. I'd like to talk about God all the time. I know less about this than anything else. I know that you encourage me to show my heart. I have never belonged to a political party. Please tell all your friends to read my journal. I have spent many lives learning to write."


(Kenneth Patchen, "The Journal of Albion Moonlight")

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What Is the Beautiful?

The narrowing line.
Walking on the burning ground.
The ledges of stone.
Owlfish wading near the horizon.
Unrest in the outer districts.

Pause.

And begin again.
Needles through the eye.
Bodies cracked open like nuts.
Must have a place.
Dog has a place.

Pause.

And begin again.
Tents in the sultry weather.
Rifles hate holds.
Who is right?
Was Christ?
Is it wrong to love all men?

Pause.

And begin again.
Contagion of murder.
But the small whip hits back.
This is my life, Caesar.
I think it is good to live.

Pause.

And begin again.
Perhaps the shapes will open.
Will flying fly?
Will singing have a song?
Will the shapes of evil fall?
Will the lives of men grow clean?
Will the power be for good?
Will the power of man find its sun?
Will the power of man flame as a sun?
Will the power of man turn against death?
Who is right?
Is war?

Pause.

And begin again.
A narrow line.
Walking on the beautiful ground.
A ledge of fire.
It would take little to be free.
That no man hate another man,
Because he is black;
Because he is yellow;
Because he is white;
Because he is English;
Or German;
Or rich;
Or poor;
Because we are everyman.

Pause.

And begin again.
It would take little to be free.
That no man live at the expense of another.
Because no man can own what belongs to all.
Because no man can kill when all must live.
Because no man can lie when all are betrayed.
Because no man can hate when all are hated.

And begin again.
I know that the shapes will open.
Flying will fly and singing will sing.
Because the only power of man is in good.
And all evil shall fail.
Because evil does not work,
Because the white man and the black man,
The Englishman and the German,
Are not real things.
They are only pictures of things.
Their shapes, like the shapes of the tree
And the flower, have no lives in names or signs;
They are their lives, and the real is in them.
And what is real shall have life always.

Pause.

I believe in the truth.
I believe that every good thought I have,
All men shall have.
I believe that what is best in me,
Shall be found in every man.
I believe that only the beautiful
Shall survive on the earth.
I believe that the perfect shape of everything
Has been prepared;
And, that we do not fit our own.
Is of little consequence.
Man beckons to man on this terrible road.
I believe that we are going into the darkness now;
Hundreds of years will pass before the light
Shines over the world of all men...
And I am blinded by its spendor.

Pause.

And begin again.

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Kenneth Patchen and the Alan Neil Quartet recorded in Vancouver in 1958.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8qfccj4guqgxx


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Saturday 9 April 2011

Lungfish

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What can be said about Lungfish that hasn't been said before? Words like minimal, meditative and monolithic are frequently mentioned and much is made of Daniel Higgs' poetry. The case I would make is that they are a true American folk band.

Their are two collections here, the first covers the period from '91-'98 which covers their debut album "Talking Songs for Walking" through to "Artificial Horizon" and concludes with a 10 minute live version of Armageddon, which has never been recorded or released by the band.

The second covers the period '99-'05, The Unanimous Hour through to Feral Hymns, taking in some live unreleased tracks from the Necrophones sessions.

Lungfish 1

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tracklist

1. Descender
2. Animal Man
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Creation Story
5. Savings
6. Cleaner Than Your Surroundings
7. At Liberty to Say
8. Gorilla Monsoon
9. Solid State
10. Signpost
11. Sphere of Influence
12. You Did Not Exist
13. e=fu
14. Urania
15. Organ Harvest
16. Ann the Word
17. Love Will Ruin Your Mind
18. Black Helicopters
19. Armageddon (live in Philadelphia 98)


http://www.mediafire.com/?233d3ws04bc91dz

Paranoia warped into a gravity
which spread a smothering blanket—
an evolutionary launch pad
vision was tested on blank sky
and a voice said
let me tell you about the time
that something occurred
medication caused an ear to hear
and a conflict of interpretation arose
landscapes were drawn from a plague of particles
and the burden was distributed
the law would return
as inflated skins
while music initiated architecture
animals, living through a velocity of fear
began to modify their behavior
to comply with human observation
thus dropping the keystone
into the eggshell honeycomb
of anthrocentric history sense
as for the plants
they had been with the music
science procured a steepled shell
dressed for immortality
a hollow to hold the music
the motion repelled all opinion
and refused to consider it's origins
apples happened
bringing acids and enzymes
the spinning recorder
disguised an an endless bouquet
things became erotic at the drop of a hat
a tyrant placed an apple on a table
and lorded over it
as a fish realized it held a monkey
inside itself
and expelled it on the beach
in a larval salamander form
the voters clamored for more circles
and the whole rig began to rotate
books were used for fuel and money
and everybody was writing them
the planets turned inside out
to expose their freight
no charges were pressed
because all involved agreed
that they could die
these are the secrets the world sung to me
truer than the truth
a young order of birds
that eats the eyes of believers
science predicted forms of worship
and reveled in them
an orgy of mutation took place
for many years
between stones
near water
inside clouds
the peoples bound their feet
with the skins of animals
to trample their own cities
and each other
they developed external organs
like guns and television sets
they believed that they owned things
one mind in a generation
will hear the eternal broadcast
the voice saying
let me tell you about the time
something occurred
that mind's body will be strapped down
and that body's mind will be subject
to testing or electrical currents
rippled through the brain
but the music pervades
it was music that gave the shove
and resolved in music
we shall breathe
it was children
that crafted a parent
and resolved in children
we shall live



Lungfish pt 2

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Tracklist

1. Space Orgy
2. God's Will
3. Hallucinatorium
4. Symbioses [live from Brownies NY 12.11.99]
5. Screams of Joy [live from Brownies NY 12.11.99]
6. Between You [live from Brownies NY 12.11.99]
7. Sex War
8. Cross Road
9. Hanging Bird
10. Love is Love
11. This World
12. Hear the Children Sing
13. No False Suns
14. All Creation Bows
15. Sing
16. Way Out Is The Way Out

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(art by Ernst Haeckel)

Wednesday 6 April 2011

Before the Spring mix pt II

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Tracklisting

1. Sundog Ash - Shalabi Effect
2. Tree Trail - Moondog
3. Stone Circle - Third Ear Band
4. Travellers 4; Churchyard Entertainment - Meredith Monk
5. Big Science - Laurie Anderson
6. Daydreaming - Dark Dark Dark
7. Devotion - Evolutionary Jass Band
8. Flight Song - Fire On Fire
9. Eywat Setenafegagn - Getatchew Merkuria + The Ex + Guests
10. Ratsekr Grec - Black Ox Orkestar
11. Smok - The One Ensemble
12. Haneros Halelu - Muzsikás
13. King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Chubby Parker & His Old Time Banjo
14. I Was a Young Man - Albion Country Band
15. La Blanche Biche - Malicorne
16. Puit D'Amour/Tiennet - Whirling Pope Joan
17. Fear of the Unknown and the Blazing Sun - Colin Stetson
18. On a Beautiful Day (Keep the Flies off the Butter) - Scott Tuma
19. Bright Phoebus - Lal & Mike Waterson


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The Lament of The White Hind

Those who go to the forest are a mother and her daughter,
The mother goes singing but the daughter sighs.
"Why do you have to sigh, my white Marguerite?"
"I have a great curse on me, and I don't dare tell you.
I'm a girl by day and by night, a white hind,
The barons and the prince hunted me there,
And my brother Renaud, who is worst of all.
Go, my mother, go right soon and tell him
To hold back his dogs until tomorrow morning."
"Where are your dogs, Renaud, and the noble hunt?"
"They have gone to the forest to chase the white hind."
"Hold them back, Renaud, hold them back, I pray you!"

Three times he blew his copper horn,
And at the third time the white hind was caught.
"Let us call the skinner that he skin the hind!"
He who skinned her said, "I don't know what to say!
She has the golden hair and the breasts of a girl!"
He drew his knife and cut her in quarters.
"Let us call for a dinner for the barons and the prince!
Look, we're all seated except my sister Marguerite."

"You only have to eat until the first course,
My head on the plate and my heart on the butcher's hook,
My blood is spilled all through the kitchen
And over your black coals my poor bones are roasting."

Those who go to the forest…



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