Tuesday 20 September 2016
Alan Moore knows the score
If you believe in democracy as something other than a vending machine dispensing several slightly different flavours of privilege, then you should put all of your mind and all of your muscle into supporting someone who offers a future that ordinary people could actually live in
Monday 19 September 2016
bvdub - Yours are Stories of Sadness
True story...
In 2012, I was singing karaoke in the lavish VIP suite of the most opulent bar of Shaoxing. Hours in, at the height of drunken revelry, suddenly, literally out of nowhere, one of the hired girls walked over to me from the other end of the room, and whispered in my ear:
"When I saw you walk in, I knew yours was a story of sadness."
These are flashes of memories from that time... broken fragments, and spaces in-between... each a portrait of instances I have remembered that moment, each its own place and time. Every time I remembered that moment in the years that followed, I made a brief tribute to the beginnings of that realization, and the starting point for my mental wanderings that followed... putting that initial realization to sound, before going the rest of the journey in my own head.
Unlike all my other works which are meant to be in the foreground, these are meant to stay in the shadows... to be the quiet and subconscious soundtrack... each not a story, but just a moment... that moment you realize. Unlike the norm, when I elucidate every second to near unbearable levels ;), this time how that moment materializes or continues is up to you...
As a result, they are, for the first time, unnamed... to let each take on its own meaning, and its own fabric in both my story and yours...
4 years later, these were the 19 times I remembered that moment... they will surely not be the last
Sunday 18 September 2016
Saturday 17 September 2016
Friday 16 September 2016
Material - Live in Italy (July 1983)
Bill Laswell - bass
Michael Beinhorn - synth, drum machine
Grandmixer DST - turntable, voice, synth
Sonny Sharrock - guitar
Henry Kaiser - guitar
JT Lewis - drums
Thanks Stylo
Thursday 15 September 2016
Wednesday 14 September 2016
Great Australian Albums: The Saints - (I'm) Stranded -
(I'm) Stranded turns 40: remembering the Saints and the sound that changed Brisbane
As Ed Kuepper pointed out on facebook: In the interests of strict historical accuracy the single was actually released late July 76 with the first reviews coming in Sept...also the Saints referred playing in Melbourne at the bottom of the article aren't really the same as the one featured in the article...and no I'm not involved in the latter outfit
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